A Letter to the Future

Corbett ReportApr 11, 2020, 4:50:23 PM

more_vert
repeat20
thumb_up123thumb_down

by James Corbett

corbettreport.com

April 11, 2020

“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit

again in our life-time.”

—WWI conspirator Edward Grey

I do not write these words for my contemporaries. We are the

damned. It is our lot now to watch as the lamp of liberty is

extinguished, our burden to bear witness to the final flickering of

the flame of freedom.

No, I don’t write these words for my peers; I write them for those

yet to come. The inhabitants of that future dystopia whose birth

pangs we are experiencing. The remnant of once-free humanity

who might—through some miracle I can’t even imagine—come

across this electronic message in a bottle.

I know that it’s almost hopeless. That the chance of these words

surviving the coming internet purge are slim at best. That even if—

against all odds—this message does wash up on your digital

shores, that the chance of these words being understood by you is

even slimmer. Not because you don’t understand English, but

because you no longer use these words I’m writing: Freedom.

Humanity. Individual.

Still, I am here to record the end of an era. So I will press on in the

hope against hope that someone, somewhere in that future Digital

Dark Age will have eyes to see and ears to hear.

The darkness is descending.

Let there be no mistake: We all know this.

We know what it means when 17 million Americans—a full 10% of

the workforce—are added to the unemployment rolls in a mere

three weeks. When they are joined by millions more newly

unemployed ex-workers all around the globe. When modern-day

bread lines stretch for miles in the heart of America’s once-proud

cities. When the phony baloney fiat funny money debt rises over

$24 trillion and the Fed’s Sovietization of the economy is

complete.

We know what it means when police start shooting people

dead for not wearing a mask. When drones police

quarantines from the sky and robots police lockdowns on the

ground. When governments admit to tracking every movement of

every citizen and begin internal checkpoints where digital

immunity passports determine who may pass and who must stay

in their home.

We know what it means when billionaires start telling us that only

their new experimental mRNA vaccines will be able to release us

from this nightmare. When they threaten to mark us with invisible

ink tattoos to ID the vaccinated. When they tell us that we will not
be able to buy or sell or participate in the economy until we

can prove our “immunity”.

It means that the Corona World Order has arrived.

Oh, sure, some still deny it. But they are only fooling themselves.

They’re afraid to admit that it’s true. Many are still under the old

conditioning that told them to bleat “conspiracy theorist” at

anyone questioning authority.

We have a name for that kind: “sheep.” Or, sometimes, “sheeple.”

The masses in our day are kept in the pen by the jackbooted

sheepdogs of the police state and led along by the political

puppets who act as their shepherds. Occasionally a wise old-timer

in the flock cottons on to the game, but the shepherd has only

ever fleeced the flock before, so he resigns himself to his fate.

Why struggle? It’s mostly painless.

Never did the sheeple suspect that some day the shepherds

would lead them to the slaughter.

It is a term of derision, of course. “Sheeple.” But I like to think that

it doesn’t just speak to our stupidity. It speaks to a naivety, an

innocence. We are trusting and gentle creatures by nature.

Peaceable. Cooperative. That is nothing to be scorned. If it weren’t

for the predators in our midst, our failings could even be counted

as virtues.

But I am not here to say that. I am here to say this: Resist!

Struggle! Fight!

You are not cogs in a machine, despite what the shepherds of

your day may be telling you. You are free and beautiful human

beings. You are not born under the authority of

another. You choose how you live your life, not some

bureaucrat, not some police robot, not some “immunity

checkpoint” algorithm or QR code.

You do not need permission to buy or to sell or to assemble or to

speak your mind or to leave your house. You are not an

“asymptomatic carrier” of whatever virus your misleaders are

telling you to be afraid of. You do not have to shelter in place

because someone in a white lab coat told you to.

I want you to understand that, once upon a time, the government

didn’t have the right to know where you were, who you were

meeting with, what you were buying and what you were doing

24/7. Hell, the government didn’t even have the ability to do that.

I need you to know that there was a time when you could leave

your house when you wanted. Travel where you wanted. Buy and

sell as you saw fit. Meet your neighbors. Rally. Protest. Party.

Live. As free human beings are meant to live.

Oh, what am I saying? These words. This language. It makes no

sense to you anymore, does it? These concepts don’t exist in your

time, do they?
You go where you are told to go. You stay home when you are told

to stay home. You shut up when you are told to shut up. You think

what you are told to think.

I can’t blame you, after all. You’re trusting and naive and peaceful.

Like a sheep.

But oh how I weep for what you have become. I tried to avert it.

Please believe me. I really tried.

But the lamp of liberty is being extinguished. And I am bearing

witness.

I don’t know if history is something you study anymore, but UK

Foreign Secretary “Sir” Edward Grey made his observation about

the lamps “going out all over Europe” at the end of the so-called

“Twelve Days,” the period during the summer of 1914 in which the

mainstream history books tell us that the British government was

trying to avoid a World War. We are asked to believe that this

prescient remark proved Grey to be a sage diplomat, wracked with

grief over the pain and suffering that was about to be unleashed

upon the world.

But this is history-by-the-winners of the worst kind. In truth, Grey

was himself one of the conspirators that was actively working to

bring the First World War about. What’s more, the source of this

quotation is in fact Grey himself; it was first recorded in Grey’s

own post-war memoir. Any tears shed by Grey over the

extinguishing of those lamps were crocodile tears, to be sure.

One can well imagine that we will be told some years hence that

Bill Gates made a similarly portentous remark at the onset of this

corona crisis. Gazing out the window of his $147.5 million dollar,

66,000 square foot “Xanada 2.0” mansion at the then-epicenter of

the US outbreak in Washington State, Gates’ post-coronavirus

memoir will no doubt tell us that he remarked to an underling that

“The lights are going out all across the globe, we shall not see

them lit again in our lifetime.”

But his memoir will no doubt fail to inform us that he was smirking

as he said it.
 To my children, or my children’s children, or whatever remnant of

once-free humanity happens to unearth these words in that God-

forsaken future we are goose-stepping into: I’m sorry. I failed you.

We all failed you.

But remember this: As long as the blood of your forebears flow

through your veins, the lamp of human freedom shall not be

extinguished forever.

Let it shine, dear sheep. Let it shine

by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
February 29, 2020
It's spreading. It's mutating. It's going viral.
Am I talking about coronavirus? No! I'm talking about
theories about coronavirus.
It's a natural virus. / No, it's a manmade bioweapon!
It's less deadly than the regular flu. / It's worse than the Spanish Flu! / It's flying
bat AIDS!!
The numbers are being underreported. / The numbers are being inflated!
It was patented in 2015! / No, it really wasn't.
It was unleashed by accident. / It was unleashed on purpose. / It doesn't even
exist!
Yes, there are as many theories about coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19)
as there are people talking about it. The reality is that I don't know the
truth about what this virus really is or where it came from and neither do
you.
But there's something that we do know for sure regardless of where this
virus came from or whether it even really exists. The hype and fear and
panic and pandemonium surrounding this (supposed) outbreak is going to
be far worse than the disease could ever be. Because, as I've been
screaming about for over a decade now, a bioweapon attack (real or
manmade, false flag or otherwise) is the perfect cover for a slew of agenda
items on the globalist checklist. And the more the population panics, the
more they play into the globalists' hands.
Here are five items on The Powers That Shouldn't Be's wishlist that are
being delivered on a silver platter as people scurry around panicking
about coronavirus.
1) Unprecedented surveillance and control of population
As Corbett Reporteers will know by now, China is in many ways the model
for the technocratic Brave New World of the 21st century. Social credit
scores and facial recognition CCTV networks and government-controlled
internet are just the most obvious examples of how governments will seek
to surveil and control their populations in the future. So it shouldn't be
surprising that China, as the epicenter of this new coronavirus outbreak,
is pioneering new and hitherto undreamt of ways to keep their population
in line during the crisis.
The first thing to note is the sheer scale of what the Chinese government is
attempting here. The quarantine imposed in Wuhan last month,
encompassing a city of 11 million people, was already the largest quarantine
in human history. But when that quarantine expanded to include the entire
province of Hubei—a population of 57 million people—the scope of the
lockdown became nearly unimaginable. How can such a quarantine
possibly be maintained?
Well, as we've all seen, it can be done by good old-fashioned brute force.
When in doubt, just weld the sick person's door shut so they can't leave their
room!
But to really manage millions of people, you need technological help. And
so the Chinese government has been deploying every tool in its arsenal to
monitor and maintain restrictions on citizens and their movements.
Flying drones to harass anyone walking around without a mask? Check.
A nationwide video surveillance system called—you can't make this up—
Skynet to help spot quarantine evaders? Check.
A color-coded rating on a smartphone payment app to identify people as
low or high-risk for carrying the virus based on their payment and travel
history? Check.
If you can think of a creepy and invasive way of tracking and controlling
the population, you can bet your bottom dollar that the Chinese
government has already thought of it (and is likely already using it).
But here's the real question: When this is all over, do you think the
government will simply shelve these technologies and systems? Or do you
think that once this level of control becomes normalized that the
authoritarians in the Chinese Communist Party will continue using it?
And here's the even realer question: Do you think there's a government
anywhere around the world that wouldn't use this technology on its own
population if given a convenient excuse (like, say, a freakout over a novel
coronavirus)?
The answers to these questions are obvious, but just look at the prisoner
conditioning that has been taking place at the airports for the past two
decades. Even people like myself who grew up pre-9/11 can scarcely
believe there was a time where you could hop on a plane with little more
than a step through a metal detector. What? You want to bring a water bottle
through security!? What are you, crazy? In just two decades, the entire
experience of air travel has been utterly transformed, and no declaration
of victory in the so-called "War on Terror" will ever bring back the old
security screening practices. For the average American, the TSA if just a
fact of life now.
And for those who live for long enough in a quarantine crackdown,
complete government surveillance of every citizens movements,
purchases and interactions will just be a fact of life. These tools of control
are here to stay, and the longer these quarantines last and the greater the
areas effected, the further it will go in conditioning the public to accept it.
2) A blank check for Big Pharma and the WHO
When a detective is looking to solve a crime, it's important to ask cui bono.
Although it may be circumstantial, establishing who benefits from a crime
at least points you to some suspects.
In this case, though, the question of who benefits has a simple answer:
WHO benefits, of course. The World Health Organization, that is. As the
United Nations body tasked with directing international health and
leading the response to global health concerns, the WHO always grows in
power in the wake of every crisis.
During the swine flu non-crisis and the ebola non-crisis and the zika non-
crisis the WHO was led by Director-General Margaret Chan. It was under
Chan's watch, remember, that the WHO declared the 2009 swine flu
outbreak a "global pandemic," a move that automatically triggered billions
of dollars of vaccine purchases by various governments. This was a blatant
cash grab, of course, and even the Council of Europe was compelled to
note that the members of the WHO council that made the pandemic
declaration were also sitting on the boards of the vaccine manufacturers
who stood to benefit from that decision.
With the Covid-19 outbreak, too, the WHO is playing a game with the
pandemic declaration, only this time its motivation is precisely the
opposite. In 2017, the World Bank issued a $425 billion bond in support of its
Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility. Investors in that bond issue will
lose everything if a global pandemic is declared before July . . . a key
reason, some suggest, why the WHO is refusing to call coronavirus a
pandemic despite it quite clearly meeting the criteria.
So who is heading the WHO this time around? Well, it's not Margaret Chan
anymore. She stepped down in 2017 and was replaced by Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, an Ethiopian politician and academic who, William
Engdahl notes, is the first WHO director-general who isn't even a medical
doctor. Instead, after earning his degree in biology at the University of
Asmara in Eritrea and serving in a junior position at the Ministry of Health
under the Marxist dictatorship of Mengistu, he:
"[. . .] then went on to become Minister of Health from 2005 to 2012 under

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. There he met former President Bill Clinton

and began a close collaboration with Clinton and the Clinton Foundation

and its Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI). He also developed a close

relation with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As health minister,

Tedros would also chair the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and

Malaria that was co-founded by the Gates Foundation. The Global Fund

has been riddled with fraud and corruption scandals."

Oh, you mean the Gates Foundation and their GAVI Alliance for
vaccination that are the WHO's biggest donors? The Gates Foundation that
helped host the Event 201 "high-level pandemic exercise" in New York last
October that war gamed out the entire coronavirus scenario we're
currently living through? Right.
And how are WHO going to save the day? With Big Pharma drugs,
naturally! Governments are already lining up to pledge tens of millions of
dollars to fund the effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine. And that's just
the funding to develop the vaccine. There are many more billions waiting
for the big pharma manufacturers who can deliver the first vaccine to
market.
Yes, coronavirus is going to be a big payday for some rich and well-
connected people in the international medical mafia. But don't worry, the
politicians are going to get in on the fun, too . . .
3) An excuse to implement medical martial law
A decade ago, in the midst of the swine flu hype, I released an episode of
The Corbett Report podcast on medical martial law. In that episode I laid out
the various ways that governments around the world (including, of course,
the US government) have been quietly passing legislation that would
enable them to implement martial law in the event of a global pandemic.
This would allow them to quarantine and incarcerate citizens suspected of
infection, and would allow the government to administer whatever
medications (including vaccinations) it deemed necessary to stop the
spread of the infection.
In the US specifically, this legislation took the form of The Model State
Emergency Health Power Act, a piece of legislation that was drafted by the
Center for Disease Creation (CDC). The act grants government the power
to quarantine, force vaccinate, and mobilize the military to help
implement emergency procedures as deemed necessary to contain the
outbreak. It is designed to be forwarded in each state legislature so that
the states could harmonize their emergency pandemic plans, essentially
creating a federal system enabling medical martial law. As the ACLU notes:
"The Act lets a governor declare a state of emergency unilaterally and

without judicial oversight, fails to provide modern due process procedures

for quarantine and other emergency powers, it lacks adequate

compensation for seizure of assets, and contains no checks on the power

to order forced treatment and vaccination."

Regardless, at last count the act has been the basis for 133 pieces of
legislation in 33 different states.
And, sure enough, the citizens of the developed, Western world who
thought that martial law was only for banana republics and exotic Eastern
countries are about to get a taste of this bitter medicine on the back of the
coronavirus hype.
Australia just activated its emergency pandemic plan despite not having a
reported case of human-to-human transmission of Covid-19. The plan
grants the government the power to cancel public events, force people to
work from home, close childcare centers and otherwise impose mandates
and restrictions on the daily lives of its citizens as it sees fit.
Not to be outdone, the Swiss Federal Council has just declared a "special
situation" which allows the council to issue emergency police ordinances
"without a basis in federal law." Some of the powers explicitly assumed by
the council include the power to mandate vaccinations, order quarantines
and ban events or close institutions.
Now Britain, the US, and other countries are dusting off their own
emergency plans and preparing to get in on the martial law bonanza.
Of course, this is not only the perfectly predictable response to the current
outbreak hype, it was the predicted response. That's right, as noted above,
the high-level exercise dubbed Event 201 that was held last October and
which simulated a global coronavirus pandemic featured extensive
discussion about the need to implement medical martial law in order to
bring the virus in check.
Thus we saw Stephen Redd of the CDC opining during the exercise that
"governments need to be willing to do things that are out of their historical
perspective [sic] . . . It's really a war footing that we need to be on."
Likewise, Brad Connett of medical supply manufacturer Henry Schein Inc
declared that "it can happen quickly. A martial [law]-type plan--they may
not say that, exactly--but a martial [law]-type plan can go into effect and
stimulate change very quickly."
It certainly can. And what room do you believe the governments that
implement martial law are going to leave for dissent on the issue? Why,
none, of course. But how are they going to stop the spread of information
in this age of 24/7 always-connected social media?
Funny you should ask, because that leads us to our next New World Order
agenda item.
4) An excuse to crack down on the internet
In New World Next Year 2020—the annual year-end New World Next Week
wrap up episode—I predicted that 2020 was going to be The End of the
Internet As We've Known It! At the time I formulated that prediction, the
2020 (s)election circus and the inevitable wave of censorship that it would
bring about weighed heavily on my mind. As it is, it's quite possible that
coronavirus will be the convenient excuse for governments to flex their
internet censorship muscles.
Zero Hedge has already had its Twitter account suspended for posting the
details of a particular Chinese scientist working in the Wuhan bio lab that
some suspect was the origin of the outbreak. This was done in the name of
Twitter's policy about "abuse and harassment," but given that the website
did nothing more than post the already publicly available contact
information for the scientist, it seems more likely that this is part of a
campaign to control the narrative on coronavirus from the get go.
As I write this editorial, the front page of Google News (which I strongly
advise against using as a source of information, for the record) is filled
with "Fact Checks" about various coronavirus theories that are floating
around the internet.
Given the current state of online censorship, can there be any doubt that
governments around the world will jump at the excuse to scrub dissenting
voices from the internet? As alternative information about the virus, its
origins, and the vaccines that are intended to "cure it" flood the net, a
propaganda campaign unlike any we have seen before will be waged to
portray the purveyors of this information as a threat to public order. They
will be purged from the internet accordingly, with (no doubt) the approval
of a large proportion of the population. And with that precedent set, it will
only be a matter of time before any information that challenges the ruling
power is deemed a "threat to public order" and wiped from the internet.
Lest there be any doubt that the online purge is an aspect of the pandemic
scenario that is particularly important to TPTSB, it should be noted that
Event 201 dwelled extensively on how to "stop the spread of
misinformation." Their answer: Internet shutdowns and censorship, of
course!
5) Precipitating economic crisis
Given that I make my living online, the prospect of internet shutdowns
and censorship crackdowns are worrying to me. But before you become
too distraught over the plight of the poor podcaster, let's put this crisis into
perspective: Assuming that the virus does go pandemic, it is quite likely
that this will be the largest economic disruption of our lifetime.
This is the point where I would put forward some facts to back up such a
bold statement, but given that we just saw the worst week in the
markets since the financial crisis, including the worst two day point drop in
Dow Jones history, I doubt that it's really necessary to elaborate.
As mass quarantines expand, public events are canceled, businesses are
shuttered, and economic activity generally grinds to a halt, it doesn't take a
genius to deduce that we are in for a global economic crisis of nearly
unthinkable proportions. But the real disruptions are going to start long
before we get to that point.
Given that the mass quarantines have started in China, a.k.a. the most
important link in the global just-in-time supply chain, we are going to see
significant difficulties for many manufacturers producing basic consumer
goods in the very near future. Smartphones. Cars. Even, in a perverse bit of
irony, medical supplies. So much of the global economy that depends on
Chinese manufacturing is already experiencing shutdowns and shortages.
And this is only the razor thin edge of what promises to be a gigantic
wedge.
Here's the worst part: These disruptions are already baked into the cake.
Even if everyone on the planet was suddenly cured of their disease
overnight and all quarantines were lifted, the effects of these last few
weeks of lockdowns and closures would still continue to ripple their way
through the global economy for months. But as the fear and hype spreads
from continent to continent and the mass disruptions expand, these
effects will get worse and worse.
I would expand on this point, but I have a feeling this is going to become a
dominant and recurring topic of review in these editorials in the future.
Let me just say this for now: Regardless of whether coronavirus is natural
or manmade or even whether it exists at all, the economic effects of this
event are going to be very real and very profound. Given that I write for
the International Forecaster and have been documenting the Ponzi
scheme that is the modern global economy for over a decade now, I'm
often asked when the scam will collapse and the long-predicted global
financial crisis will hit. Well, it's very possible that the crisis has now
officially hit and the decades of pie-in-the-sky negative-interest-rate
helicopter-funny-money insanity that has papered over our grim
economic reality is about to come crashing down all at once.
Conclusion: Coronavirus panic is a giant boost for the globalist agenda
I recently heard a suggestion that if this does eventuate into a global
pandemic then it will set the globalist agenda back by decades. After all,
an event like this will surely teach us all a hard lesson in national self-
sufficiency and the inherent danger of an overextended, just-in-time
global supply chain, right?
Of course not. No, that's the conclusion that a rational person thinking
about the crisis in a rational way would come to. So of course the globalists
are going to force feed us the exact opposite idea: That a crisis like this will
demonstrate how we need even more global integration amongst all levels
of public and private society.
Don't believe me? Just read the press release that Johns Hopkins and the
Event 201 participants put out last month just before "Wuhan" and
"coronavirus" became topics of daily conversation:
"The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life

but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal

consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering.

Efforts to prevent such consequences or respond to them as they unfold

will require unprecedented levels of collaboration between governments,

international organizations, and the private sector."

Oh, that's right. This is another chance to "fail forward." After all, as that
great globalist soothsayer Rahm Emanuel told us during the last financial
catastrophe, the global elitists' mantra is to "never let a good crisis go to
waste." Do you really think this “crisis” (whether real or imaginary) would
be any exception?