Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
There are reports of riots beginning in China. In Thailand, one of the most peaceful communities, there was an armed robbery of a 7/11. You cannot shut down the world economy like this. People will begin to riot after 10 days and we will see a sharp rise in property crimes. People are being deprived of employment and no level of government hand-outs will suffice.
The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is best known for his political thought, where he argued that society has a drive towards chaos and destruction. His vision of the world in his Leviathan (1651) was strikingly original and it is perhaps even very relevant to contemporary politics. Hobbes’ main concern was the problem of social and political order. This was the time of the English Civil War which concluded with beheading the King. His opponent was Oliver Cromwell which promptly replaced the king’s portrait on the coins with his own. He called himself – Lord Protector while pretending he was not a king.
Hobbes argued that human beings can live together in peace and avoid the danger and fear of civil conflict. He argued that we should give our obedience to an unaccountable sovereign (a person or group empowered to decide every social and political issue). Otherwise what awaits us is a “state of nature” that closely resembles civil war – a situation of universal insecurity, where all have reason to fear violent death and where rewarding human cooperation is all but impossible.
Those in power cannot contemplate a world where they have lost all power. Yet they refuse to reform and honor the Social Contract of which Hobbes saw as their part of the bargain. The condition in which people give up some individual liberty in exchange for some common security is the Social Contract. Hobbes defines a contract as “the mutual transferring of right.” In the state of nature, everyone has the right to everything – there are no limits to the right of natural liberty.
The false promises of the Marxist socialist era where they merely bribed people for votes but never actually created a system that would deliver on those promises are now coming undone. They have adopted the Modern Monetary Theory behind the curtain and seek to just print money to cover their promises but at the same time, they seek to control society to prevent civil unrest. I fear for the future for this is unraveling with our War Model and the civil unrest is rising into the end of this year rather intensely on a global scale.
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“Those in power cannot contemplate a world where they have lost all power.”
those out of power cannot comprehend a world where everyone not like them is equally empowered.
“There are reports of riots beginning in China. In Thailand, one of the most peaceful communities, there was an armed robbery of a 7/11. ”
Bed Stuy on a Sunday morning.
Susan Rice reports the disease was released by rogue Chinese terrorists after watching a video mocking Chinese medical procedures. She promises to apprehend the videos creator.
Is Info Wars eating into her Netflix kickbacks by taking away her audience? /s
When I lived in Bed Stuy Sunday mornings were the quietest hours of the week.
That is quiet. No homicides. And after church.
And it’s only going to get worse, once the reality of food shortages (caused by “virus” – bullshit) leaves the shelves empty:
After reading virtue signaling posts on Facebook and all the thumbs ups for the statement:: By staying inside the quicker this thing will be over. I’ve given up trying to explain heard immunity and the purpose of vaccines.
Talking is over. Bloodshed is the only way forward at this point.
WTF?
The purpose of vaccines is to make you immuno-compromised, auto-immune, autistic, or impotent. Fuck. That. Shit.
Never heard about herd immunity.
Herd immunity: everyone takes the vaccine. Those who dont can somehow infect the rest.
Ass backwards as all fuck. Got a bettrr explanation, i wanna hear it. Because if herd immunity actually worked, after a generation you wouldnt need vaccines.
Get over it Martin. Buy a fucking gun you fucking wussy.
There was an article about 21 million cell phone accounts in China going dark,
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/03/24/21-million-chinese-cellphone-users-disappear-in-three-months-of-pandemic/
Some of them are probably dead, but my guess is that the vast majority of those people couldn’t pay their phone bill, or at least were prioritizing food and so on over their phone bill.
So what happens when they can’t afford food?
Interesting times return to China,
Someone posted this earlier, but it is a riot:
“Hang Fire” is one of the very rare times the Rolling Stones ventured into politics.
Composed by Jagger & Richards in 1981 & released on the 1982 “Tattoo You” album, the song is a swipe at the British government in general, and the Thatcher administration specifically, for failing to take action to stimulate the sluggish British economy of the 70’s & early 80’s.
In a 1981 Rolling Stone magazine interview, Richards acknowledged the song was aimed at “ugly politicians” who had caused the country to decline when the “money got tight”.
The song depicts idle workers as follows:
“In the sweet old country where I come from
Nobody ever works
Yeah nothing gets done
We hang fire, we hang fire
We’ve got nothing to eat
We got nowhere to work
Nothing to drink
We just lost our shirts
I’m on the dole
We ain’t for hire
Say what the hell
Say what the hell, hang fire”
If I’m reading Jagger & Richards right, the reference to this specific firearms malfunction suggests a situation that could “go off” unexpectedly if not fixed.
Is the American, and perhaps the world, economy currently in a Hang Fire???