{"id":159960,"date":"2020-05-04T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=159960"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T09:00:48","slug":"covid-19-breaking-the-lockdown-defeating-the-coup-averting-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/05\/covid-19-breaking-the-lockdown-defeating-the-coup-averting-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Breaking the Lockdown, Defeating the Coup, Averting Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using its fora such as the World Economic Forum \u2013 see \u2018Strategic Intelligence\u2019<\/a> \u2013 and its agents (particularly the World Health Organization, the pharmaceutical industry, governments, the medical industry and corporate media) the global elite continues to tighten its grip on the human population, bombarding us with COVID-19 propaganda to heighten people\u2019s fear while introducing new and\/or extending existing restrictions to conceal the many measures being taken to execute their ongoing coup against humanity. See \u2018The Elite\u2019s COVID-19 Coup Against a Terrified Humanity: Resisting Powerfully\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Simultaneously, the lengthy list of honest health professionals explaining the truth about COVID-19\u2019s threat to our health \u2013 \u2018the lethality of Covid19 is between 0.1% and 0.37%, which is in the range of a severe influenza (flu)\u2019 \u2013 and the modest measures that should have been taken, and might still be taken, to deal with it are given no exposure in the \u2018occupied\u2019 public space controlled by the corporate media. See, for example, \u2018A Swiss Doctor on Covid-19\u2019<\/a>, \u2018Global Covid-19 Case Fatality Rates\u2019<\/a>, \u201812 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic\u2019<\/a>, \u2018Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy\u2019<\/a>, \u2018Censored Doc Doubles Down\u2019<\/a> and \u2018Top Italian Researcher Reveals the Global Fraud of COVID-19\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And those analysts describing the ongoing encroachments on our rights, freedoms, political participation and economic security (with the adverse impacts on the latter now imminently threatening the death of millions of people in the global south due to the collapse in the global economy), and what we can do about these encroachments, are similarly excluded. After all, the corporate media serves its master, the global elite, not those who consume its propaganda presented as \u2018news\u2019. See, for example, \u2018COVID-19 Civic Freedom Tracker\u2019<\/a>, \u2018Coronavirus \u2013 The Aftermath. A Coming Mega-Depression\u2026\u2019<\/a>, \u2018Video: COVID-19: Closing Down the Economy Is Not the Solution\u2019<\/a>, \u2018The COVID-19 \u201cEconomic Holocaust\u201d\u2026 Bankrupting the Nation. \u201cThe Shut-In Economy\u201d\u2019<\/a> and \u2018WFP chief warns of \u201chunger pandemic\u201d as Global Food Crises Report launched\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among the elite measures taken, the lockdowns have been the most damaging with far-reaching adverse psychological, social, political and economic consequences including rapid rises in the incidence of anxiety, depression, alcoholism, violence against children and women in the home, unemployment, poverty and many thousands more deaths, not<\/em> from COVID-19, than would have otherwise occurred. For thoughtful consideration of the issues in relation to the Lockdowns that questions the official narrative and response, and explains the excess death rate precipitated among vulnerable people that they are causing, see \u2018Coronavirus Lockdown and What You Are Not Being Told \u2013 Part 1\u2019<\/a>, \u2018Coronavirus Lockdown and What You Are Not Being Told \u2013 Part 2\u2019<\/a> and \u2018LOKIN-20: The Lockdown Regime Causes Increasing Health Concerns\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More importantly, the lockdowns have provided exceptional \u2018cover\u2019 to conceal the many measures being taken to advance the elite coup, which I have summarized previously \u2013 see \u2018The Elite\u2019s COVID-19 Coup Against a Terrified Humanity: Resisting Powerfully\u2019<\/a> and \u2018The Psychology of the COVID-19 Coup: The Elite, their Victims and those who Resist\u2019<\/a> \u2013 and for which the evidence simply continues to accumulate. See, for example, \u2018Criminal Big-Pharma Put in Charge of Covid-19 \u201cVaccine\u201d\u2019<\/a>, \u2018PM says COVIDSafe app is Australia\u2019s \u201cticket\u201d to ending virus rules\u2019<\/a> and \u2018Coronavirus tracing app COVIDSafe released by Government to halt spread of COVID-19 in Australia\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition, the lockdowns have interrupted a vast range of ongoing nonviolent resistance campaigns directed at tackling one or more aspects of the interrelated threats to human survival. See \u2018Human Extinction Now Imminent and Inevitable? A Report on the State of Planet Earth\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tragically, too, these threats have been inadvertently exacerbated by COVID-19. But it is not the virus itself that has exacerbated the threat. It has been the ill-advised responses to COVID-19 that have resulted in a sudden and dramatic reduction in industrial activity. As Professor Guy McPherson explains in his just-published peer-reviewed paper \u2018Will COVID-19 Trigger Extinction of All Life on Earth?\u2019<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Coincident with industrial activity adding to greenhouse gases that warm the planet, industrial activity simultaneously <\/em><\/strong>cools the planet by adding aerosols to the atmosphere. These aerosols block incoming sunlight, thereby keeping cool our pale blue dot. Reducing industrial activity by as little as 35 percent is expected to cause a global-average temperature rise of 1 degree Celsius within a few weeks, according to research on the aerosol masking effect\u2026. The ongoing reduction in industrial activity as a result of COVID-19 almost certainly leads to loss of habitat for human animals, hence putting us on the fast track to human extinction.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Responding Powerfully<\/h3>\n

Given this triple-fronted assault \u2013 the lockdowns (and associated measures), the coup and the sudden and dramatic reduction of industrial activity coupled with the interruption of activist campaigns to address the imminent threats to human survival \u2013 let me now identify how people are increasingly resisting and how we can make this resistance more strategically effective, with any outcome subject to one enormous proviso.<\/p>\n

Whether or not we have enough time is now certainly beyond our control.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

One response has been to gather the evidence of what is happening in relation to COVID-19 and to present this in various (mainstream and progressive) news fora so that the evidence can be more widely shared, even if sometimes these articles and videos are removed by the elite\u2019s censoring agents such as Youtube. For just one example of this, see \u2018Censored Doc Doubles Down\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another response has been to compile some of the carefully researched evidence of what form an appropriate response to COVID-19 should take and to present this to governments. See the UK Free People Alliance\u2019s \u2018An open letter to the Prime Minister\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A third response has been to take nonviolent action to resist the lockdown and act out some of those rights and freedoms \u2013 such as the rights to freedom of assembly and movement \u2013 that we previously took for granted.<\/p>\n

While there has already been considerable nonviolent resistance to some COVID-19 measures taken by governments, particularly in relation to the national lockdowns \u2013 see \u2018Protesting the Lockdowns is Getting Going \u2013 #endthelockdown\u2019<\/a>, \u2018Lockdown Protest in North Carolina Called \u201cnon-essential activity\u201d by Raleigh Police\u2019<\/a> in which it is recorded that the \u2018ReopenNC\u2019s Facebook group is now approaching 40,000 members\u2019 and \u2018Protest or Silence of the Lambs \u2013 Protest Update for May 2, 2020\u2019<\/a> \u2013 many of these actions have been categorized and documented by Professor Erica Chenoweth and her colleagues. See \u2018The global pandemic has spawned new forms of activism \u2013 and they\u2019re flourishing\u2019<\/a>, \u2018Methods of Dissent & Collective Action Under COVID \u2013 A Crowdsourced List\u2019<\/a> and \u2018Collective Action & Dissent under COVID\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While I am fully supportive of these efforts to resist, I would like to enhance them by adding three related dimensions for consideration by those activists planning what to do.<\/p>\n

First<\/em>, when tactical choices are made, I would focus them on undermining the elite coup, not just features of it, such as \u2018social distancing\u2019 or the lockdowns. At its most basic, this can be achieved by using tactical choices that mobilize people to act initially, as is happening, but then inviting them to consider taking further, more focused, action as well. This is important because existing actions will have little impact on key underlying measures, such as those to advance the fourth industrial revolution \u2013 see, for example, \u2018Meet The Companies Poised To Build The Kushner-Backed \u201cCoronavirus Surveillance System\u201d\u2019<\/a> and \u2018Techno-Tyranny: How The US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision\u2019<\/a> \u2013 being taken by the elite.<\/p>\n

Second<\/em>, I would choose\/design tactics that have strategic impact, that is, they fundamentally and permanently alter, in our favor, the power relationship between the elite and us.<\/p>\n

Third<\/em>, I would choose\/design tactics that also have strategic impact on the greatest threats to human survival, including the collapsing biodiversity on Earth, the threat of nuclear war, the climate catastrophe and the deployment of 5G. Given the incredibly short timeframe in which we are now working to avert human extinction, even if we trust that we have more time than Professor McPherson and his colleagues suggest, while people are mobilizing it is important to use this opportunity to give them the chance to perceive the \u2018big picture\u2019 of what is taking place \u2013 beyond lockdowns and other measures seemingly being used to tackle COVID-19 \u2013 and to act powerfully in response.<\/p>\n

To that end, I have identified the appropriate political purpose \u2013 obviously \u2018To defend humanity against a political\/military coup conducted by the global elite\u2019<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 and set out a basic list of 26 strategic goals for achieving this purpose (which will also play a vital role in tackling key threats to human survival). The first eleven of these strategic goals are as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. To cause people and groups all around the world to join the resistance strategy by wearing a global symbol of human solidarity, such as an image of several people of different genders\/races\/religions\/abilities\/classes holding hands.<\/li>\n
  2. To cause people and groups all around the world to join the resistance strategy by boycotting all corporate media outlets (television, radio, newspapers, Google, Facebook, Twitter\u2026) and by seeking news from progressive news outlets committed to telling the truth.<\/li>\n
  3. To cause people and groups all around the world to join the resistance strategy by withdrawing all funds from the corporate banks that are supporting the coup and to deposit their money in local community banks or credit unions.<\/li>\n
  4. To cause people and groups all around the world to join the resistance strategy by boycotting the medical and pharmaceutical industries \u2013 including by conscientiously refusing to submit to vaccination \u2013 and by seeking health advice and treatment from natural therapists. (If you are unfamiliar with the different philosophies underpinning these approaches, and hence why many natural therapies are so much more effective, there is a straightforward explanation here: \u2018Pasteur vs. Bechamp: An Alternative View of Infectious Disease\u2019<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  5. To cause people and groups all around the world to join the resistance strategy by boycotting corporate supermarkets and by supporting small and family businesses, and local markets.<\/li>\n
  6. To cause people and groups all around the world to join the resistance strategy by participating in other locally relevant nonviolent action(s)\/campaign(s) and\/or constructive program activities. For this item and many subsequent, see the list of possible nonviolent actions in the document \u2018198 Tactics of Nonviolent Action\u2019<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  7. To cause the workers [in trade unions or labor organizations T1, T2, T\u2026] all around the world to join the resistance strategy by participating in locally relevant nonviolent action(s)\/campaign(s) and\/or constructive program activities. For example, this might include withdrawing labor from an elite-controlled bank, media, pharmaceutical or other corporation operating in your country.<\/li>\n
  8. To cause the small farmers and farmworkers [in organizations F1, F2, F\u2026] all around the world to join the resistance strategy by participating in locally relevant nonviolent action(s)\/campaign(s) and\/or constructive program activities. For example, this might include distributing farm produce through (existing or created) grassroots networks to small and family businesses as well as local markets rather than through corporate supply chains.<\/li>\n
  9. To cause the indigenous peoples [in organizations IP1,IP2, IP\u2026] all around the world to join the resistance strategy by participating in locally relevant nonviolent action(s)\/campaign(s) and\/or constructive program activities. For example, this might include utilizing indigenous knowledge to improve local self-reliance in food production and in other ways.<\/li>\n
  10. To cause the soldiers and military police [in army units AU1, AU2, AU\u2026 and MP1, MP2, MP\u2026], wherever stationed around the world, to refuse to obey orders from the global elite and its agents to arrest, assault, torture and shoot nonviolent activists and the other citizens of [your country].<\/li>\n
  11. To cause the police [in police units P1, P2, P\u2026], wherever stationed around the world, to refuse to obey orders from the global elite and its agents to arrest, assault, torture and shoot nonviolent activists and the other citizens of [your country].<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can read all 26 of the \u2018Strategic goals for defeating a political\/military coup conducted by the global elite against humanity\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by scrolling down the page at \u2018Strategic Aims\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Remaining pages on the website fully explain the twelve components of the strategy, as illustrated by the Nonviolent Strategy Wheel<\/a>, as well as articles and videos explaining all of the vital points of strategy and tactics, such as those to help you understand \u2018Nonviolent Action: Why and How it Works\u2019<\/a> and how to prepare, frame and conduct any nonviolent action to minimize the risk of violent repression. See \u2018Nonviolent Action: Minimizing the Risk of Violent Repression\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Importantly, too, as more people become aware of the deeper strands of what is taking place, such as the more intrusive surveillance that is already occurring under the guise of keeping us \u2018safe\u2019 from COVID-19 \u2013 see, for example, \u2018PM says COVIDSafe app is Australia\u2019s \u201cticket\u201d to ending virus rules\u2019<\/a> and \u2018Coronavirus tracing app COVIDSafe released by Government to halt spread of COVID-19 in Australia\u2019<\/a> \u2013 the energy to break the lockdowns and resist the coup will gather pace. As I have previously outlined, using a locally relevant focus, or perhaps several, for which many people would traditionally be together \u2013 a cultural or sporting event, a community activity such as working to establish a community garden to increase local self-reliance, a birthday celebration and\/or a return to work \u2013 we can mobilize people to collectively<\/em><\/strong> resist.<\/p>\n

    Equally importantly however, as I mentioned above, given the pressing (and, possibly, now uncontainable) threat of human extinction but also because becoming more self-reliant is vital to our ongoing capacity to resist elite encroachments on our rights, freedom and economic security<\/em><\/strong>, consider accelerated participation in \u2018The Flame Tree Project to Save Life on Earth\u2019<\/a>. This project also explains how to take full advantage of non-monetary forms of community where goods and services are exchanged directly, without money as a medium of exchange. Money only has value in certain types of economy and these types of economy must be superseded if humans are to survive.<\/p>\n

    In addition, for those nonviolent activists concerned about tackling the climate and\/or other threats to human survival \u2013 including those in relation to the environment and war \u2013 you can read about nonviolent strategy, including strategic goals to focus your campaigns, from here: Strategic Aims<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Or, if you want something simpler, consider committing to:<\/p>\n

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    The Earth Pledge<\/h3>\n

    Out of love for the Earth and all of its creatures, and my respect for their needs, from this day onwards I pledge that:<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    1. I will listen deeply to children.<\/em><\/strong> See <\/em>\u2018Nisteling: The Art of Deep Listening\u2019<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n
    2. I will not travel by plane<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
    3. I will not travel by car<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
    4. I will not eat meat and fish<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
    5. I will only eat organically\/biodynamically grown food<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
    6. I will minimize the amount of fresh water I use, including by minimizing my ownership and use of electronic devices<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
    7. I will not buy rainforest timber<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
    8. I will not buy or use single-use plastic, such as bags, bottles, containers, cups and straws<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
    9. I will not use banks, superannuation (pension) funds or insurance companies that provide any service to corporations involved in fossil fuels, nuclear power and\/or weapons<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
    10. I will not accept employment from, or invest in, any organization that supports or participates in the exploitation of fellow human beings or profits from killing and\/or destruction of the biosphere<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
    11. I will not get news from the corporate media (mainstream newspapers, television, radio, Google, Facebook, Twitter\u2026)<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
    12. I will make the effort to learn a skill, such as food gardening or sewing, that makes me more self-reliant<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
    13. I will gently encourage my family and friends to consider signing this pledge.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Conclusion<\/h3>\n

      Humanity has reached the most critical point in its history. Using COVID-19 as \u2018cover\u2019, the global elite is conducting a coup to take vastly greater control of our lives.<\/p>\n

      However, because the global elite is insane, it cannot perceive, in any meaningful way, the extent of the damage it is inflicting on us but also the Earth (which, of course, has equally profound consequences for them). See \u2018The Global Elite is Insane Revisited\u2019<\/a> and, for more detail, \u2018Why Violence?\u2019<\/a> and \u2018Fearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology: Principles and Practice\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      It has done this, at phenomenal cost \u2013 in lost rights, freedoms and economic security \u2013 to people all over the world. And it has done it precisely at the time when humanity faces the gravest series of interrelated threats to its survival which will drive us to extinction, absent a powerful response (and possibly even with one), very soon now.<\/p>\n

      Perhaps, as some highly respected commentators have suggested, the coup has been conducted now because the elite expects to survive on a heavily degraded but substantially depopulated Earth. See, for example, \u2018Bill Gates talks about \u201cvaccines to reduce population\u201d\u2019<\/a> and \u2018Coronavirus \u2013 The Aftermath. A Coming Mega-Depression\u2026\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      As Peter Koenig reports it: \u2018Population reduction is among the goals of the elite within the WEF, the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Morgans \u2013 and a few more. The objective: fewer people (a small elite) can live longer and better with the reduced and limited resources Mother Earth is generously offering.<\/em>\u2019 See \u2018The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is \u201cAgenda ID2020\u201d\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      However, if those scientists who are concerned about the diminished aerosol masking effect caused by the global industrial shutdown are right, the coup is also triggering a rapid increase in global temperature (which, among other adverse outcomes, will accelerate the release of methane from the Arctic) and even the elite will have no habitable Earth on which to survive.<\/p>\n

      The fight for human survival has entered its final stage.<\/p>\n

      ______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

      \"\"<\/a><\/em>Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a> and has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of <\/em>Why Violence?<\/a> Websites: (Charter<\/a>)\u00a0 (Flame Tree Project<\/a>)\u00a0 (Songs of Nonviolence<\/a>) (<\/em>Nonviolent Campaign Strategy<\/em><\/a>) (Nonviolent Defense\/Liberation Strategy<\/em><\/a>) (<\/em>Robert J. Burrowes<\/a><\/em>) (<\/em>Feelings First<\/em><\/a>)\u00a0Email: flametree@riseup.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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