{"id":140843,"date":"2021-04-28T14:27:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=115939"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:27:13","slug":"the-global-deep-state-a-new-world-order-brought-to-you-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/28\/the-global-deep-state-a-new-world-order-brought-to-you-by-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The Global Deep State: A New World Order Brought to You by COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.
\n\u2015 Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle,<\/em> October 1962
\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>For good or bad, COVID-19 has changed the way we navigate the world.<\/p>\n

It is also redrawing the boundaries of our world (and our freedoms) and altering the playing field faster than we can keep up.<\/p>\n

Owing in large part to the U.S. government\u2019s deep-seated and, in many cases, top-secret alliances with foreign nations and global corporations, it has become increasingly obvious that we have entered into a new world order\u2014a global world order\u2014made up of international government agencies and corporations.<\/p>\n

This powerful international cabal, let\u2019s call it the Global Deep State, is just as real as the corporatized, militarized, industrialized American Deep State, and it poses just as great a threat to our rights as individuals under the U.S. Constitution, if not greater.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been inching closer to this global world order for the past several decades, but COVID-19, which has seen governmental and corporate interests become even more closely intertwined, has shifted this transformation into high gear.<\/p>\n

Fascism has become a global menace.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear whether the American Deep State (\u201ca national-security apparatus that holds sway even over the elected leaders notionally in charge of it<\/a>\u201d) answers to the Global Deep State, or whether the Global Deep State merely empowers the American Deep State. However, there is no denying the extent to which they are intricately and symbiotically enmeshed and interlocked.<\/p>\n

Consider the extent to which our lives and liberties are impacted by this international convergence of governmental and profit-driven corporate interests in the surveillance state, the military industrial complex, the private prison industry, the intelligence sector, the security sector, the technology sector, the telecommunications sector, the transportation sector, the pharmaceutical industry and, most recently, by the pharmaceutical-health sector.<\/p>\n

All of these sectors are dominated by mega-corporations operating on a global scale and working through government channels to increase their profit margins. The profit-driven policies of these global corporate giants influence everything from legislative policies to economics to environmental issues to medical care.<\/p>\n

Global Disease<\/strong><\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled us into a whole new global frontier. Those hoping to navigate this interconnected and highly technological world of contact tracing, vaccine passports and digital passes will find themselves grappling with issues that touch on deep-seated moral, political, religious and personal questions for which there may be no clear-cut answers.<\/p>\n

We are about to find our ability to access, engage and move about in the world dependent on which camp we fall into: those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and those who have not.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the latest status symbol<\/a>. Flash it at the people, and you can get access to concerts, sports arenas or long-forbidden restaurant tables. Some day, it may even help you cross a border without having to quarantine,\u201d writes Heather Murphy for the New York Times<\/em>. \u201cThe new platinum card of the Covid age is the vaccine certificate.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is what M.I.T. professor Ramesh Raskar refers to as the new \u201ccurrency for health<\/a>,\u201d an apt moniker given the potentially lucrative role that Big Business (Big Pharma and Big Tech, especially) will play in establishing this pay-to-play marketplace. The airline industry has been working on a Travel Pass. IBM is developing a Digital Health Pass. And the U.S. government has been all-too-happy to allow the corporate sector to take the lead.<\/p>\n

Global Surveillance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spearheaded by the National Security Agency (NSA), which has shown itself to care little for constitutional limits or privacy, the surveillance state has come to dominate our government and our lives.<\/p>\n

Yet the government does not operate alone. It cannot. It requires an accomplice.<\/p>\n

Thus, the increasingly complex security needs of our massive federal government, especially in the areas of defense, surveillance and data management, have been met within the corporate sector, which has shown itself to be a powerful ally that both depends on and feeds the growth of governmental bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

Take AT&T, for instance. Through its vast telecommunications network that crisscrosses the globe, AT&T provides the U.S. government with the complex infrastructure it needs for its mass surveillance programs. According to The Intercept<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company\u2019s \u2018extreme willingness to help.\u2019 It is a collaboration that dates back decades.<\/a> Little known, however, is that its scope is not restricted to AT&T\u2019s customers. According to the NSA\u2019s documents, it values AT&T not only because it \u2018has access to information that transits the nation,\u2019 but also because it maintains unique relationships with other phone and internet providers. The NSA exploits these relationships for surveillance purposes, commandeering AT&T\u2019s massive infrastructure and using it as a platform to covertly tap into communications processed by other companies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now magnify what the U.S. government is doing through AT&T on a global scale, and you have the \u201c14 Eyes Program<\/a>,\u201d also referred to as the \u201cSIGINT Seniors.\u201d This global spy agency is made up of members from around the world<\/a> (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, India and all British Overseas Territories).<\/p>\n

Surveillance is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to these global alliances, however.<\/p>\n

Global War Profiteering<\/strong><\/p>\n

War has become a huge money-making venture, and America, with its vast military empire and its incestuous relationship with a host of international defense contractors, is one of its biggest buyers<\/a> and sellers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The American military-industrial complex has erected an empire unsurpassed in history in its breadth and scope, one dedicated to conducting perpetual warfare throughout the earth. For example, while erecting a security surveillance state in the U.S., the military-industrial complex has perpetuated a worldwide military empire with American troops stationed in 177 countries (over 70% of the countries worldwide).<\/p>\n

Although the federal government obscures so much about its defense spending that accurate figures are difficult to procure, we do know that since 2001, the U.S. government has spent more than $1.8 trillion in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (that\u2019s $8.3 million per hour<\/em><\/a>). That doesn\u2019t include wars and military exercises waged around the globe, which are expected to push the total bill upwards of $12 trillion by 2053<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The illicit merger of the global armaments industry and the Pentagon that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us against more than 50 years ago<\/a> has come to represent perhaps the greatest threat to the nation\u2019s fragile infrastructure today. America\u2019s expanding military empire is bleeding the country dry at a rate of more than $15 billion a month<\/a> (or $20 million an hour)\u2014and that\u2019s just what the government spends on foreign wars. That does not include the cost of maintaining and staffing the 1000-plus U.S. military bases spread around the globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, although the U.S. constitutes only 5% of the world’s population, America boasts almost 50% of the world’s total military expenditure<\/a>, \u00a0spending more<\/a> on the military than the next 19 biggest spending nations combined. In fact, the Pentagon spends more on war than all 50 states combined<\/a> spend on health, education, welfare, and safety. There\u2019s a good reason why “bloated,\u201d \u201ccorrupt\u201d and \u201cinefficient<\/a>” are among the words most commonly applied to the government, especially the Department of Defense and its contractors. Price gouging<\/a> has become an accepted form of corruption within the American military empire.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the American economy that is being gouged, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

Driven by a greedy defense sector, the American homeland has been transformed into a battlefield with militarized police and weapons better suited to a war zone. President Biden, marching in lockstep with his predecessors, has continued to expand America\u2019s military empire abroad and domestically in a clear bid to pander to the powerful money interests (military, corporate and security) that run the Deep State and hold the government in its clutches.<\/p>\n

Global Policing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Glance at pictures of international police forces and you will have a hard time distinguishing between American police and those belonging to other nations. There\u2019s a reason they all look alike, garbed in the militarized, weaponized uniform of a standing army.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason why they act alike, too, and speak a common language of force: they belong to a global police force.<\/p>\n

For example, Israel\u2014one of America\u2019s closest international allies and one of the primary yearly recipients of more than $3 billion in U.S. foreign military aid<\/a>\u2014has been at the forefront of a little-publicized exchange program aimed at training American police to act as occupying forces in their communities. As The Intercept<\/em> sums it up, American police are \u201cessentially taking lessons from agencies that enforce military rule rather than civil law<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This idea of global policing is reinforced by the Strong Cities Network program<\/a>, which trains local police agencies across America in how to identify, fight and prevent extremism, as well as address intolerance<\/a> within their communities, using all of the resources at their disposal. The cities included in the global network<\/a> include New York City, Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis, Paris, London, Montreal, Beirut and Oslo.<\/p>\n

The objective is to prevent violent extremism by targeting its source: racism, bigotry, hatred, intolerance, etc. In other words, police\u2014acting as extensions of the United Nations\u2014will identify, monitor and deter individuals who exhibit, express or engage in anything that could be construed as extremist.<\/p>\n

Of course, the concern with the government\u2019s anti-extremism program is that it will, in many cases, be utilized to render otherwise lawful, nonviolent activities as potentially extremist.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that the government agencies involved in ferreting out American \u201cextremists\u201d will carry out their objectives\u2014to identify and deter potential extremists\u2014in concert with fusion centers<\/a> (of which there are 78 nationwide, with partners in the private sector and globally), data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition, predictive policing<\/a>, biometrics, and behavioral epigenetics<\/a> (in which life experiences alter one\u2019s genetic makeup).<\/p>\n

This is pre-crime on an ideological scale and it\u2019s been a long time coming.<\/p>\n

Are you starting to get the picture now?<\/p>\n

On almost every front, whether it\u2019s the war on drugs, or the sale of weapons, or regulating immigration, or establishing prisons, or advancing technology, or fighting a pandemic, if there is a profit to be made and power to be amassed, you can bet that the government and its global partners have already struck a deal that puts the American people on the losing end of the bargain.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long\u2014sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs\u2014that it\u2019s hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we\u2019re certainly on that downward trajectory now, and things are moving fast.<\/p>\n

The \u201cgovernment of the people, by the people, for the people\u201d has perished.<\/p>\n

In its place is a shadow government\u2014a corporatized, militarized, entrenched global<\/em> bureaucracy\u2014that is fully operational and running the country.<\/p>\n

Given the trajectory and dramatic expansion, globalization and merger of governmental and corporate powers, we\u2019re not going to recognize this country 20 years from now.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s taken less than a generation for our freedoms to be eroded and the Global Deep State\u2019s structure to be erected, expanded and entrenched.<\/p>\n

Mark my words: the U.S. government will not save us from the chains of the Global Deep State.<\/p>\n

Now there are those who will tell you that any mention of a New World Order government\u2014a power elite conspiring to rule the world\u2014is the stuff of conspiracy theories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am not one of those skeptics.<\/p>\n

I wholeheartedly believe that one should always mistrust those in power, take alarm at the first encroachment on one\u2019s liberties, and establish powerful constitutional checks against government mischief and abuse.<\/p>\n

I can also attest to the fact that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.<\/p>\n

I have studied enough of this country\u2019s history\u2014and world history\u2014to know that governments (the U.S. government being no exception) are at times indistinguishable from the evil they claim to be fighting, whether that evil takes the form of terrorism<\/a>, torture, drug trafficking<\/a>, sex trafficking<\/a>, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations<\/a> or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity.<\/p>\n

And I have lived long enough to see many so-called conspiracy theories turn into cold, hard fact.<\/p>\n

Remember, people used to scoff at the notion of a Deep State<\/a> (a.k.a. Shadow Government). They used to doubt that fascism could ever take hold in America<\/a>, and sneer at any suggestion that the United States was starting to resemble Nazi Germany in the years leading up to Hitler\u2019s rise to power.<\/p>\n

As I detail in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People<\/em><\/a>, we\u2019re beginning to know better, aren\u2019t we?<\/p>The post The Global Deep State: A New World Order Brought to You by COVID-19<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.\n

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A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. \u2015 Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, October 1962 For good or bad, COVID-19 has changed the way we navigate the world. It is also redrawing the boundaries of our world (and our freedoms) and altering the playing field faster than [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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