Shanghaied And Locked Down

A naval analogy shows where we are headed - one-way if we don't stop it

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Food shortages escalate. Fertilizer is in short supply. Farmers are paid not to sow.
Agencies give PCR tests to livestock then cull them. The UN warns of famine.
Millions in China locked down, freezing supply chains; Canadians forbidden to flee.
It’s like a “Shanghai” when sailors were kidnapped and forced aboard merchant ships.
Except this time they don’t want our labour — we’re about to be cast adrift.

World Health Organization plans a “Pandemic Treaty” shoving governments aside.
Populations are to be held hostage, ransomed by medical tyranny.
Bill Gates’ Gavi is the cuckoo in the nest beside the WHO headquarters in Geneva.
Philanthropy is a Greek word, like euthanasia and eugenics.
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See also: Moneycircus, Jan 2022 — The Great Reset As Subversion: A KGB defector warned us about crisis tactics decades ago

Moneycircus, Jan 2022 — Crisis Update - Reset In Trouble: War talk and Omicron downgrade distract the public from economic mayhem

Moneycircus, Nov 2021 — The Great Reset Is Complete: A future retrospective

May 7, 2022

For several hundred years men would be seized in the street, drugged, tricked or kidnapped, and pressed into the service of the British navy or merchant fleets.

From the 1600s there was often a labour shortage of people to feed the economic boom of the day — the trading ships or slavers — and it was a brutal solution.

To be Shanghaied or press-ganged got its name from a frequent destinations of these unwilling sailors.

In China’s largest city today there is no end in sight to the imprisonment of millions in their apartments. Lockdown is, of course, a prison term. Canadians can’t fly out of their country without submitting to jabs and Australian ports have been opened to citizens but for how long? [1]

Now a sort of reverse Shanghai is taking place. The same financial and business class that profited from international trade — the slavers and the merchant ships — tell us we are the "useless classes." Shanghai has gone into backward gear. [2]

In Shanghai you may be beaten or seized in the street but this time confined to your home or thrown into quarantine camp (the regulations of the biosurveillance state have been eased but not removed).

The shipping that made the Western rulers rich — from the City of London to America’s Forbes, Delano, Astor, Weld, Cabot, Cushing, Lowell, Kirkland, Perkins, Coolidge, Jefferson, Russell, Green and Kerry and many more besides — lies stranded off Shanghai.

The premier of Victoria, Dan Andrews is a caricature of a crimp if ever there was one. Crimps, originally British slang for “agent,” used trickery, intimidation, or violence to put an unwilling sailor on a ship, for which they were paid up to three months of the man's salary. Some enterprising crimps also became suppliers of naval clothing and equipment — and were paid a second time to kit out their unwilling recruit. [3]

Andrews pushed through new pandemic laws that make permanent the emergency power, criticised by lawyers as limitless, undemocratic and unchecked. [4]

These are not the only parallels. China is where they manufacture the equipment for the smart cities programme. It is the primary testing ground for the financial, digital, pharma business class, who by some accounts helped Mao Zedong’s communists take power.

See Moneycircus, Apr 14, 2022 — Eurasia note #43 - China and Israel, The New Silk Road about Anna-Louise Strong, a communist who guided Mao and who was the cousin of the Rockefeller-linked oil man and environmentalist Maurice Strong, architect of the UN biodiversity programmes and climate schemes.

Great leap forward

The reason why we are being Shanghaied may be that the owners no longer have use for us; or that we have no place in their new social and economic campaign, which is more ambitious than China’s Great Leap Forward of the 1950s and 60s. Perhaps the consumer economy no longer benefits them and they desire a new model.

The past two years show us how powerful people use crises to drive change they want to see. It may be that, left unchecked, carbon dioxide will extinguish life (some say CO2 does the opposite and it is oxygen that oxidises us). [5]

Even if true, apocalypse — carbon, climate or plague — is a pretext for bigger agendas and the motives lie elsewhere. There is good reason not to listen to a word from Bill Gates, the billionaire foundations or their puppet politicians: watch their actions. [6]

A shortage of food and fuel is about to turn the world upside down and it did not happen by accident. Populations were made dependent on supply chains reaching from the other side of the world. It has left them vulnerable and now, it seems, they are being held to ransom. [7]

Whodunit

The threat to world trade was traditionally thought to come from economic nationalism. Protectionism versus globalization, in the polarized view of the press — their audience of middle-class consumers making an easy win for team global.

The weaponization of the dollar by the United States certainly meets the definition of economic nationalism. With war in Ukraine, the European Commission has raised the question of “strategic autonomy.” China has imposed tariffs and restrictions on foreign companies operating on its territory, while favouring home-grown innovators.

Food and fuel shortages may further distort markets, inflaming the centralizing instincts of bureaucrats to set price controls and rationing, while plying opportunists and the politically-connected with subsidies.

Protectionism is not the main disruptor of trade however. It was the lock down of the economy in March 2020 by roughly 160 out of about 190 countries, a step that made no sense as a health measure — a study by Johns Hopkins University suggests lockdowns only reduced deaths attributed to Covid by 0.2 per cent. [8]

According to the International Monetary Fund this produced the biggest contraction since the Great Depression — “the magnitude and speed of collapse in activity that has followed is unlike anything experienced in our lifetimes.”

Yet the World Health Organization’s “Covid envoy” Dr David Nabarro had said in Oct 2020 that the WHO did not advise lockdowns as a primary measure — so who did? And why, a year later were 109 countries still partially locked down? [9]

Politicians and state governors from the UK to the U.S. to Australia claimed they continued lockdowns to delay a “second wave” as long as possible — a theory as dubious as lockdown itself, which they all seemed to adopt simultaneously and clung to despite advice to the contrary. [10]

As Vern Hughes wrote in the Spectator in Sep 2020, Covid was mild; the political and media response like nothing in four or five generations:

“In modern times, we’ve only seen two or three political eras like this – the 1840s was one, when liberals, secularists and socialists combined to end the ancien régime in Europe; the 1890s was another, when socialists broke with liberals to go their own way and set forth a socialism versus capitalism paradigm.” [11]

Pincer movement

To follow these plans and the syndicates behind them is difficult. There are many related causes and campaigns, tangential and deceptive political and military operations, misinformation and censorship, and above all a hierarchy of interest groups often with hidden intent.

One reaches for the novelist’s pen; the technique of the fiction writer. The magnate wealthy beyond measure, and at leisure, needs more than a complex plot to entertain him. He needs an intricate web of intrigue, an inter-dimensional, multi-layered timeline that lets him play not just with the lives of millions but to contest the very forces of Earth.

The mogul is better placed than the common person to survey the landscape: to witness the interconnected, convoluted, entanglement of life in all its squalor and beauty (he is not necessarily able to appreciate its purpose; for he seeks to use his influence to change it).

Miserly with his wealth he seeks to hoard this knowledge; wielding his power he stamps his authority by denying others. We the people are presented with a kaleidoscope, a phantasmagoria, a constantly-changing light show.

What is happening in Shanghai is further evidence of seemingly unrelated issues coinciding in unrelated countries. Food and fuel shortages meet medical and state surveillance weaponized against the people to the point where they cannot comply even if they try.

It is a pincer movement that is operating globally. If you survive the experimental jab (and every booster), you may not survive the loss of your job or livelihood. If you don’t fall victim to substance abuse or depression, or to the increasingly violent streets, then you may fall victim to cold next winter as fuel becomes scarce. The World Food Programme is now warning of widespread famine. [12]

In Shanghai children are being taken from their parents on the basis of PCR tests. Britain is just one of many Western countries that have passed laws allowing the same. [13]

The population is being stripped of its defences — of:

• rights that it recently took for granted

• access to food and fuel

• safe streets (Defund The Police)

• access to public health services

• bodily autonomy

That last point is telling. The leaking of a discussion document from the U.S. Supreme Court on the Roe vs. Wade abortion decision seems to be a set up. Lawyers in the know say it's impossible for such a transcript to be released. Court clerks effectively have to shred everything vertically, horizontally and then vaporize it.

Either an activist within the court is seeking to pre-empt a decision, or this is another ploy to keep the people distracted and divided.

Now there are two camps shouting “my body, my choice” largely divided on political lines — one using the slogan to defend abortion; the other using the same slogan to fight vaccine mandates. As a technique of social division, it doesn’t get much better than that.

The pandemic treaty

The World Health Organization Pandemic Treaty would give it, and Gavi “the vaccine alliance”, which sits like Bill Gates’ bulbous cuckoo in the nest, in a building right next door in Geneva, unprecedented powers to coordinate mass vaccination.

The justification is a “predictive mechanism for assessing preparedness” that would identify pathogens and create a team of 3,000 people to take control of the response of every country, worldwide.

You may believe the human population, having survived hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years, is suddenly vulnerable to wipe out by plague.

That still makes the pandemic treaty a business mechanism, a way to create a customer base, to satisfy the pharmaceutical industry’s dream of bringing novel vaccines to market in 100 days. It monetizes mRNA gene therapies.

The scientific objection is that the treaty removes the competitive environment that produces safe medicines, according to Dr Michael Yeadon, former Pfizer chief scientific officer. He warns that centralized decision making tends to produce the worst outcomes. [14]

The political objection is that what is being sold as a medical necessity comes with a surprising array of military intervention and state security appendages:

• Surveillance systems (track and trace)

• Digital certificates (aka internal passports)

• Militarized police

• Quarantine camps

• Censorship bills (Online Hate Bill)

• Police-military censors (Department of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board)

• Weaponizing of social media to silence dissent [15]

• Weaponizing of banks to cut off dissenters

Revolutions, political or economic, don’t always come from the ground, up. Throughout history they have been triggered more by financial crises than “events” such as pandemics — with one exception: the Black Death. We discuss below the crises and revolutions with the closest parallel to today: those of the 1840s and 1890s.

The folkloric resonance of the Great Plague is used by the powerful, like religion, to manipulate the masses with fear. And to recreate or simulate events, from the “Spanish flu” to the Book of Revelations.