MANY have asked themselves how policies so
ineffective and yet
damaging to so many people's lives and
liberties could have been put in place so quickly, and seemingly almost on a global basis, in response to the Covid crisis.
Part of the answer has been provided by an investigation by German journalist and author Paul Schreyer. In an hour-long
video, he tracks a series of pandemic simulation exercises conducted at the highest level over many years among the most influential industrial nations of the West.
Top officials were 'primed' to respond as they did, once the World Health Organisation declared the pandemic spread of a new coronavirus, SARS-COV-2, almost regardless of the nature of the virus or the degree of harm it was likely to cause.
This weakness can be seen as a huge obstacle to rational decision-making. It helps to explain how the views of thousands of doctors, scientists and others who have challenged the official, fear-based approach to the pandemic came to be ignored.
Schreyer maintains that political decisions during the crisis did not come out of the blue, but stemmed from a 'war on viruses' begun back in the 1990s, alongside the 'war on terror'.
It was as though a fresh enemy had to be brought into being, following the end of the Cold War era in which the superpowers Russia and America confronted each other with immense and potentially suicidal armaments and military budgets.
Comment: This, despite the fact that the US' star witness 'Siggy' Thorendenson has branded his previous testimony as lies. So much for the British judicial system. It can be bent any way its master requires. Both judges handling Assange's case have many shady political connections which appear to have been exploited to gain the outcomes the U.S.desires.