“展望2021:拜登时代 美中关系如何走?” 贝一明 采访

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2020年 12月 31日

“展望2021:拜登时代 美中关系如何走?”

贝一明 采访

经历新冠肺炎疫情危机的2020年,2021中美关系走势仍为全球热点议题之一。侨报记者专访美国亚洲研究所所长贝一明(EmanuelPastreich),解读两国关系最新情况,展望新的一年两国在政治和外交,经济和贸易、文化交流以及应对全球危机四方面的发展趋势。

侨报记者:在特朗普政府即将卸任之际,您如何评价特朗普政府的对华政策?特朗普政府对华战略将如何影响新一届政府的行动?

贝一明:特朗普政府对中国的政策是目光短浅的,是不必要的对抗。特朗普还依赖一些持极端观点的人提供建议,这些人希望将全球经济和美国经济的矛盾归咎于中国,比如史蒂夫·班农(SteveBannon)和彼得·纳瓦罗(PeterNavarro)。

我个人并不责怪特朗普。这种将美国制定的政策归咎于中国,并忽视跨国公司如何剥削美国和中国的工人的倾向,是美国政治的一种趋势,随着其政治话语质量的下降,这种趋势变得更加糟糕。

侨报记者:拜登政府就职后,美国的对华政策将如何发展?您期待在政策上会有什么差异或调整?

贝一明:我们可以肯定的是,在拜登政府领导下,我们将拥有更多的专业声音,并填补在特朗普领导下空缺的与中国有关的政府职位,这将在许多方面改善两国关系。拜登曾试图从右派攻击特朗普,暗示特朗普和中国走得太近。这种愤世嫉俗的政治手段表明,即使极端的思想家不再访问白宫,谴责中国的大趋势仍将继续。

侨报记者:您如何看待美中关系的现状?您认为在拜登政府的领导下会有所缓解或改善吗?

贝一明:美中关系越来越不是由这些国家的公民或这些国家的政府决定,而是由全球投资银行决定的。他们对利润的残酷追求损害了美国和中国的工人,他们希望美国人和中国人互相生气,而不是着眼于经济体系中的问题。

这种情况很危险,孤立主义者试图切断一切文化和教育联系的行为令人担忧。最好是减少破坏性的贸易,而增加教育、文学、艺术、哲学和国际关系等方面的交流。到目前为止,我还没有看到拜登政府表现出任何愿景或领导迹象,尽管这当然是有可能的。我担心政府仍将成为游说者、企业智库和投资银行的囚徒,并且没有能力做必要的事情,即增进两国公民和公民社会之间的深刻联系。

经济和贸易

侨报记者:从经济角度看,美中之间的贸易摩擦是否会导致国家之间的经济脱钩?如果我们看到真正的经济脱钩,这将可能产生什么影响?这两个经济大国之间的经济和贸易交流是否真正脱钩?

贝一明:我并不擅长谈论贸易问题,因为我是一个国际主义者,而不是一个全球主义者。我认为,美中两国必须在各个层面共同努力,为人类创造一个健康的文明,去应对气候变化和财富积累,并为我们地球的未来创造一个典范。我不认为增加贸易是当务之急,我认为中国应提高其在农业上的独立性,美国也应增加国内制造业,但只能扩大由公民经营的地方制造业,而不是由公司控制的制造业。因此,我们需要多一些健康的合作,少一些不健康的勾结。

我并不认为所有领域的脱钩都对中国不利。至于完全脱钩,我确实认为有可能再次将贸易降至最低水平,就像上世纪60年代那样,但可能性不大。国际贸易、技术整合,并不是一个由自然决定的自然过程。这是一个政治过程,必须始终对其进行仔细评估,以确保它是健康和可持续的。

侨报记者:今年年初,美中签署了第一阶段经贸协议。拜登政府上台后,该协议未来将如何发展?

贝一明:很难知道拜登政府将会做的与特朗普政府做的有何不同。然而,他们很可能会遵循贸易和安全政策的大多数一般趋势,但会避免过度耸人听闻的言辞。措辞会更友好。政策将基本不变。问题的一部分将是拜登政府是否能够重启政府——启用政府中有能力承担复杂任务的人——而不是把一切都外包给咨询公司。对于他们能否做到这一点,我并不是很乐观,因此两国关系将受到限制。

侨报记者:2021年美中两国在经贸方面有哪些可能性的合作和潜在的共同利益?

贝一明:我不确定会发生什么,但是我肯定希望两国将重点放在关注气候变化和经济以及财富的集中。这两个矛盾已达到了严重的危机程度,但政府之间的会议甚至没有讨论过这些问题。

文化交流

侨报记者:美中两国是否有机会保持或加强教育和研究方面的交流?

贝一明:世界与美国之间在教育和科研方面的密切合作极其重要,这是建立紧密联系的最好方式。可悲的是,教育和科研如今已经牺牲为反华政治的一部分,这种政治将现实中的经济问题归咎于想象中的“中国威胁”,这是关于种族和文化(而非经济和政治)的本质主义论。我不确定在拜登政府的领导下会怎样发展。

侨报记者:中国赴美留学人数去年降至最低点。您预计明年对中国学生和学者的签证政策是否会有所调整?

贝一明:当务之急是要增加在美的中国学者和学生数量,同时增加在 华工 作的美国学者和学生数量。我认为拜登政府对这种变化的态度会更加开放。但我不确定他们是否有足够的勇气阻止对中国和全世界的“新冠肺炎”限制措施。我很担心,他们现在采取的隔离措施比特朗普政府更加严格。

侨报记者:您认为美中两国大学和学术机构应如何加强和改进各自的研究和教育交流方式?

贝一明:加强美中两国在教育和科研方面合作的举措有很多,我不想一一列举。我只想说,首先,不要再把教育和科研当成一笔生意。教育不是为了挣钱,而是为了把两国最优秀、最聪明的人聚集在一起,为我们现在所面临的可怕威胁提出解决方案。美中两国应携手共建一个更美好的世界,而不是为了挣钱。如果技术有助于创造一个更好的世界,那么我们应该推动技术进步。如果技术会破坏环境,那么我们必须摒弃它。我们需要有职业操守的美中专家联手,共同做出这些艰难的决策。

应对全球危机

侨报记者:美中两国之间会在哪些方面携手共同应对全球公共危机,尤其是新冠肺炎疫情?

贝一明:围绕新冠肺炎疫情的恐惧和恐慌是我们今天面临的最大威胁。科学和长期的计划已经被抛到了一边。我们受到美国有关新冠肺炎疫情的可怕报告的影响,这些报告并没有科学依据。我希望美中两国能够重新回到起点,共同就新冠肺炎疫情等疾病开展真正的科学研究,客观地表明这是否是一种严重的威胁并且采取什么应对措施是恰当的。这种对新冠肺炎疫情目光短浅地关注导致对其他更重要领域的忽视,这场危机必须立即得到纠正。我希望中国能发挥领导作用。

侨报记者:我们能预期北京和华盛顿之间在解决“疫情”问题上的摩擦会有所改善?您对两国在应对这一大流行病以及未来的大流行病方面开展新的合作有何建议?

贝一明:疫情被非理性地用来制造摩擦,破坏两国之间的一切往来和交流。那些说这种疾病并不那么严重的美国专家同时试图将这种疾病归咎于中国。

只有一种解决方案,回归基础,并由中国和美国(及其他国家)的科学家们客观、科学地开展调查,致力于寻找真相,这不包括与制药公司、投资银行和散布恐慌的腐败企业媒体有关的任何人。一旦有了这样一个由真正的科学家组成的团队,我们才将看到一些真正的进展。

侨报记者:新冠肺炎疫情被认为是拜登政府在美中两国之间可能进行更紧密合作的领域。您是否看到(两国)全面合作的潜力,还是您认为政治和情绪会限制这种潜力?您对美中之间疫苗合作的可能性有何看法?

贝一明:我希望新冠肺炎疫情是美中之间科学合作的重点。我希望这种合作是科学的,而不是为了利益或政治利益。同样,此类研究也不应仅限于新冠肺炎,研究应扩展到所有领域,让我们能够以科学的方式评估什么是真正的威胁。如果美中研究小组的科学家们认定新冠肺炎不是那么严重的威胁,那么我们应该关注其他真正的威胁。

关于疫苗的开发,我们今天面临着巨大的危机。跨国公司正在推进他们的大规模疫苗接种计划,尽管人们对这种疫苗将如何用于人们尚未完全了解的疾病存有极大疑惑。大多数科学家都表示“等待”。如果我们不停下来,并回归到科学中,我们将损害公民对政府的信任,并使今后所有全球合作都变得困难。因此,美中医药合作必须是科学和透明的。(完)

“Our Commitment to the Constitution and to the Truth” Address to United States Forces Korea by Emanuel Pastreich

Dear Members of the United States Forces Korea

I wish to speak to you today frankly as an independent candidate for President of the United States, and as the only politician actually committed to you, the only one who refuses to flatter you with gaudy terms to cover up the corrupt and decadent culture in which you have been forced to work.

I take you, and your families, seriously, as someone who has himself been unemployed for a large part of 2020 and who has fought together with those in the military and intelligence committed to opposing tyranny and rule by the rich and powerful at home and abroad.

No, we do not have to go far away to find the enemy. The enemy has set up his camp right there inside the beltway.

I want to talk with you today about the efforts to slowly, and sneakily, force you, and all your family members, and then all Americans, to take the COVID-19 vaccine. This operation, which started yesterday and which will be sped up “warp speed” from January 1 is a dangerous one.

This is one of the most dangerous moments in American history and we must stand together as Americans and follow the Constitution, and our moral compass, in our response. We must serve our country, which means defending our families and the families of our colleagues.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say we must serve billionaires and the parasites that they cultivate.

The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine contains gene-altering RNA, a dangerous experimental drug that is not meant to cure you, or to prevent anything. COVID-19 itself is a dubious disease cooked up by investment banks, the super-rich and other shadowy characters who have taken over much of our government.

This dangerous COVID-19 vaccine is being distributed through the Brian D. Allgood Army Community Hospital at United States Army Garrison at Camp Humphreys, the 51st Medical Group at Osan Air Base and the 8th Medical Group at Kunsan Air Base.

These vaccines are supposedly approved by the FDA, but the FDA itself has been taken over by hostile corporate forces more dangerous than anything you will find in Pyongyang.

I feel great sympathy for those who have been compelled to tell you that this COVID-19 vaccine will help to support a “Fight Tonight” readiness strategy.

But I must tell you, verily, that, yes! We must “fight tonight” but that the “fight” “tonight” will not be against tanks coming down over the DMZ. No, fellow soldiers, that fight tonight will be right here, right now, right in those hospitals that were established to cure and to heal, not to weaken and destroy.

You have sworn to defend the United States against enemies foreign and domestic, seen and unseen. Your bravery and your commitment is deeply appreciated by me, by us.

You may have taken this position to feed yourself and your families, and not because of any desire to fight or to sacrifice. I fully understand. We do not chose our times or our roles in history.

I pledge that I will not ask you to take any risk or suffer any injury, that I would not take or suffer myself—God help me.

I say to you as presidential candidate, as the candidate who disputes this election, and who challenges this pernicious and false choice of corporate PAC Biden or TV personality Trump, that the orders to slowly force you and your family to take this bogus vaccine are not legitimate; are not orders.

Those orders labeled as “voluntary” are not being given to you by the government, or by our military, but by dangerous forces who only follow their master’s orders, forces that have infiltrated our government at every level.

And who are these “masters” that have set up this shadow government here in Korea, and in Washington D.C., over the last year?

They are the super-rich, the powerful who wish to overwhelm you with a trashy, soulless, unthinking popular culture of consumption, immediate satisfaction and waste so that you become their slaves, become passive cattle led to slaughter.

Soldiers! You are not slaves and you do not work for these dark masters. They claim to own the Federal Government and to run the military. But they are imposters. The generals that they have bought off have no authority to tell you to do anything.

You must follow the Constitution. You must follow your conscience and you must protect your bodies and your health so that you can fight on another day for freedom, for the truth, for a sustainable United States of America for our children and for our grandchildren.

I have as much authority as either of those candidates, men bankrolled by Goldman Sachs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, and I tell you here and now to follow the Constitution, to follow your conscience and to follow the moral authority vested in you by God almighty.

Do what you must do. Do what is right.

God does not need a security clearance to know all things. You do not need authorization from those who have no legitimacy in their heart and in their souls.

Go forward today. The truth goes marching on.

The gaudy high priests who pray to the false gods, who worship stock markets and derivatives, have no power over you.

God bless you and God bless your families.

The best for a glorious new year of truth and justice.

“A fabulous show, but most certainly not an election” Emanuel’s speech, December 25, 2020

A fabulous show, but most certainly not an election

Emanuel Pastreich

December 25, 2020

By now you have heard a hundred times from the corporate media that the 2020 presidential election is over, that everyone accepts that Joseph Biden won in a fair and open election and that any comments from a peevish Donald Trump and his foolish followers about a “stolen election” are about to be swept away as a progressive and scientific new administration, with support across party lines, takes control from the chaos again, and brings us to the Kingdom Come.

But there is another candidate who refuses to recognize this corrupt and fixed election besides Donald Trump and who says that although Donald Trump’s statements about election fraud are not 100% accurate, they are also not entirely false.

That candidate is me, Emanuel Pastreich, the only qualified candidate for president whom you are not supposed to know exists.

We must have another election, and this time a fair and meaningful election in which big money, corporate power, the corrupt media and the various parasites that feed on them (whether they are colored red or blue, conservative or progressive) will not play a role.

We also have no choice but to clean house this time. There are always little lies in politics. We cannot expect too much from a sinful creature like man. But we can still hold up an ideal for what is possible, for what to strive for.

But the 9.11 incident was not something you can just sweep under the carpet. That incident, a horrific crime in our midst which we still cannot bare to look on, was like gangrene. We should have had the stamina and the determination to lop off that infected limb twenty years ago. But, instead, we just piled bandages on the wound, put blinders on our eyes, and, now, don masks on our mouths.

The rot spread through the blood until it reached every corner of the body politic, leaving a living corpse where once stood a government.  

That disease of the spirit has metastasized into COVID19, the fatal virus of spiritual blindness that will lay low not only the most powerful nation, but an entire global system. Yes, even as we sip lattes on the Upper West Side, we can sense that the Titanic is beginning to tilt.

The COVID19 offensive is at the heart of this post-election hangover. NO! I will not allow you to enjoy these few weeks of multicultural performance art and progressive rhetoric.

As Moderna and other corporate criminal syndicates prepare to employ the military in a campaign led by a multi-ethnic “COVID19 Task force” that empowers the US military to make every American receive this vaccine, we need to ask ourselves whether this is the enemy, and not the ballyhooed cyber-hacking by “Russia” or by “China.”   

Developing this vaccine “warp speed” has been a tremendous challenge that kept scientists up late at night.

How do you develop a vaccine for a bogus virus? It is like landing a man on the moon. An impossible task beyond any mortal man. Certainly Moderna has done well to develop vaccine mRNA-1273 that introduces gene-altering RNA into the human body and will leave you forever changed.

And the corrupt media, in bed with the corporations developing these vaccines, tells us that although they were developed overnight for a non-existent disease, that they are 95% effective, or 97% effective, and that the only thing to worry about is whether poor people, or those in the “Global South” will have access to this elixir of immortality.

Oh, how delightful!

Why don’t they just say the vaccine, the golden calf, is 100% effective? Or maybe 150% effective. The figures for the infected, the ill, the dead, for everything are made up. At this point, the sky is the limit. Verily, the Fauci Foundation has opened up the Gates of Hell.

I am not sure what word best describes the events of recent, but the word “election” is most certainly not one of them.

We can be sure of one thing, however: No one has a mandate after this election, and no one who has closed his or her eyes to this corrupt process deserves a mandate.

Let us start with Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the candidates forced on us by the Republican and Democratic parties. My heart went out for these two men as I watched them give endless speeches in the days leading up to the election.

Two worn-out, old hollow men, repeating hollow words for empty rooms, speeches that were broadcast to the world, over and over, until we were begging for this election to end.

We saw how Biden and Trump had their chains yanked and we saw how they suffered.

Now is the moment of truth that we have waited for.

We need to focus on reality. We need to focus, and to act, because the chaos that has been intentionally set off by the promotion of “civil war” scenarios by the super-rich ― abetted by the moral corruption that destroyed the government’s role as a moderator, as a regulator, and as an arbiter ― could set off a chain of crises in the following weeks, or days, that will spiral out of control locally, nationally and globally.

There are those, in their comfortable homes, behind tall gates, who ― shame on them! ― are hoping, foolishly, for exactly that outcome.

Trump and Biden talked a lot about issues at a terrible distance from what concerns you, or from the true threats to our country.

Neither candidate demanded an international investigation of the 9.11 incident.  


Neither candidate has demanded that the public know where those $10 trillion, or more, paid out by the Federal Government to bail out banks, to buy worthless stocks and bonds, and to help Wall Street out of the mess it intentionally created, have gone.

Neither of the candidates has demanded that the money be returned, that the internal documents related to those payments be declassified, or that those involved should be sent to jail for their felony crimes.

Both candidates blamed our financial woes on “COVID-19.” Such a response is not just bankrupt and irresponsible. It is, legally, malfeasance in public office to cover up a criminal conspiracy—a felony.

Neither of the candidates has made climate change the central issue for security or even touched on the catastrophic collapse of biodiversity.  


Neither candidate demanded that that the Department of Defense budget be subject to an audit, or that the efforts in the military and in intelligence to run domestic propaganda campaigns be stopped.


Both candidates set their agendas on the basis of what the corporate (bank-controlled) media will tolerate, and in many cases on what was dictated to them by political consulting firms that worship at the cruel feet of Mammon.


Our demand of Trump and Biden is simple. Both of them must pull out as candidates.


So, you ask, what do we do next?

Well, we already know what the powerful want: they want this election to slide into a massive division, much like the election of 1860. They are hoping to use their commercial media to pit the white man against the black man, the rural woman against the urban woman. They want to create as much chaos and confusion, to stir up enough muck, that they can distract us from the rape of our country by Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Bank of America and a host of the rich who hide behind those marble facades. Those rich see you, and your families, as a banquet waiting to be devoured.

 
First, we must have a legitimate election in which everyone is allowed to vote and in which none of these stunts are permitted that stop people from voting, invalidate their votes, or limit the opportunities for the citizen to vote.

When we do have a legitimate election next year, in accordance with the Constitution, we must make sure that anyone qualified to run is not blocked out of the media, or marginalized by the criminal corporations and their pawns in the political parties.

We must also make sure that every American has access to journalism that is objective and based on the scientific method, and is not subject to interference from the rich and the powerful. We must make sure that our precious citizens are not blinded to, or distracted from, how our country has been placed on the chopping block like a slab of meat.

I do not want to say what the process must be for establishing a fair and open election next year, or how I think the government should be administered until then. I am hesitant to make any declarations, not because I do not have any ideas, but rather because I want you, the citizen, to be involved in the process, to start to organize yourselves without any help from the rich and the powerful, to create institutions that will demand that the Constitution be adhered to, and to create truly independent media that addresses real issues.

We need to rip the masks off the politicians and to reveal that behind every virus lurks a parasite.

Let us come together now and work with each other to make this crisis into an opportunity, to make America great for the first time.

为了更正确的外交安保 韩国应该再次重拾“实学”传统

为了更正确的外交安保 韩国应该再次重拾“实学”传统

贝一明

(Emanuel Pastreich)

韩国民众根本无法理解,他们曾经熟悉的各种美国政治与学术机构为何会变得面目全非。

哈佛大学的教授公然就新冠疫情发表荒谬观点,华府最高层政客贪赃枉法、无所不用其极……这一切都令韩国民众大惑不解。

许多韩国政客还心怀眷恋地记得在20世纪80、90年代于美国的顶级高校求学时,他们容身其中的知识圈是何样貌。如今他们仍然同曾经教导过自己、已经退休的各位教授保持着紧密的联系。

然而,现在美国文化正在加速崩溃,此情此景一定让韩国知识阶层愈发地难以接受。

他们接触到了源自于《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》、随后经韩国媒体搬运的资讯。在目睹自己曾经敬重有加的美国人发布荒唐至极的言论时,他们要尽力克制当即喷涌而出的负面情绪。

一种以怀旧和抗拒为主调的文化席卷了首尔。就美国以及韩国的社会、政策等方面弊端展开讨论已经变成了几乎不可能之事。

昔日信赖的盟友发生道德体系崩溃,导致韩国国家管理与社会基本观念的核心受到撼动,大规模文化与政治危机因此而发——这在韩国并非首次。

早在17世纪,受万人称颂的大明王朝(1368——1644)开始衰落时,类似的文化乱象便曾在朝鲜半岛盛行。朝鲜无所适从,愈发地僵化孤立,失去了为自己未来的发展绘制愿景的能力。

当时朝鲜与明朝过从甚密,后者也曾于16世纪早期派遣军队保护朝鲜免遭日本的侵袭——正如今日美国庇护韩国一样。两国结成了血盟。

大明律与明朝的哲学思想、外交理念、知识和文化准则在朝鲜拥有绝对的权威性。

因此17世纪上半叶,大明王朝迅速土崩瓦解,陷入政治内斗的困局,一落千丈,财政破产时,朝鲜的知识阶层才会不知所措。

1644年,明朝被满族人推翻。之所以有此结果,并非因为满人兵强马壮,而是由于国内起义事件频发,国家四分五裂。而朝鲜人的反应甚为奇怪。他们非但没有重新评估本国文化与地缘政治地位,从而制订自己的策略,反而对不复存在的大明王朝念念不忘,无法自拔。

尽管大获全胜的满人让朝鲜不得不面对全新的王朝——清朝,但在明朝末代皇帝崇祯帝驾崩后,朝鲜人仍将其年号沿用了几个世纪之久。现在韩国的某些书院依然在使用崇桢年号纪年。

朝鲜人不思改革,而是自诩为“小中华”,以作为继承了“高贵”传统的唯一国家为荣。这一思潮的合法性,源自于其对已然失落的明朝传统的坚守。

尽管朝鲜人的这种做法情有可原,但其结果却是灾难性的:朝鲜就此同外界的影响隔绝,科技远远落后于他国。

如今,在韩国与美国大家交往中,同样的心态也有迹可循。

国务院等机构将专家驱逐出门外,被阿谀奉承之人占领;哈佛大学日渐成为跨国银行和制药公司的公共关系代理,研究水平却一路下滑;美国的政治自由度有减无增,经济被被超级富豪所把持——目睹这一切,韩国民众却只是愈发地怀念早已化为乌有的那个美国。

明末清初时,朝鲜的政坛人士也是如此。即使明朝已一去不返,朝鲜的政治与学术人物仍然对其推崇备至,用其传统来为狭隘短视的国内政策议程辩护。

“实学”模式

18世纪,曾有几位朝鲜知识分子为向民众提出了名为“实学”的愿景,立志通过“实学”遏制裹挟全国、了无活力、阻碍国内改革与国外创新成果传入的怀旧思潮。

洪大容、朴趾源、朴齐家, 等无畏的学者主张朝鲜人拥护自己的文化与知识机构,以自己的标准来评估当代外来文化的价值。

这些学者认为,倘若大清有朝鲜可以借鉴的技术、政策与体系,那么即使大清由满人统治、不再奉行明朝的传统,朝鲜也应当予以效仿;朝鲜人不应该被怀旧情绪蒙蔽双眼,拒绝面对技术与地缘政治方面的现实。

他们提出,至于清朝社会的弊端和不足之处,朝鲜则应弃而远之。他们对日本和西方国家也持同样态度。

今日韩国所需要的,正是这种精神。的确,美国在文化、技术、政策和公共机构等方面仍有别具价值、可供韩国利用的地方,美国的创新成果也不可小觑。一味反美、无视美国的优势并不明智。

然而,与此同时,美国显然已经辉煌不再,其国家管理水平与文化质量也每况愈下。

包括我在内的美国人都已接受这一现实。

韩国人要以自己的眼光来对美国社会的方方面面加以客观评估,取其精华,去其糟粕。

对于日本、德国、中国等国家也是如此。包括它们在内的许多国家都为韩国树立了榜样,但它们的传统之中也有不适于韩国学习之处。

至于要效仿他国的哪些方面,韩国人要自行决策,不能依赖于外国专家的建议。

韩国不仅需要对美国的体制展开客观评估,更要在重要问题上为自己提出明确而坚定的立场,不再对美国唯命是从。

可悲的是,如今针对政府政策的反对建议都是由推崇美国、在大多数情况下无法对美国的问题进行批判性评估的保守派团体提出的。同时韩国的进步势力也在同美国的权势阶层合作,往往针对美国的方方面面展开笼统批评,并不会考虑韩国是否能从美国获益。

此时此刻,韩国人必须重新发掘“实学”的真正意义:由韩国人自己根据科学原则对外国提供的各种范式进行客观的评估。

“The COVID19 pathology: An intersection of class and information warfare”

“The COVID19 pathology: An intersection of class and information warfare”

Speech

Emanuel Pastreich

Independent Candidate
President of the United States

(Part 1)

The COVID19 pathology: An intersection of class and information warfare

December 16, 2020

Emanuel Pastreich

Independent Candidate for President

USA

COVID19 is a cultural and institutional virus that eats away at the foundations of organized human action. The COVID19 campaign is best seen as a horrific coupling of two linked, but distinct, phenomenon: the emergence of full-scale class warfare as a result of the rapid concentration of wealth over the past ten years and the transformation of artificial intelligence  (which lurks behind automation, drones, media and the internet) into the primary weapon in the ruthless battle of the super-rich against the vast majority of humanity.

A critical factor in the effectiveness of this combination of class warfare and information warfare has been the willingness of the vast majority of public intellectuals and other authority figures to go along with the current false narrative, actively misleading and distracting the general public. As a result, few people understand what is going on in the United States behind the fear-mongering false reports in the news, with the exception of those at a high level who handle the classified planning, promulgation and enforcement of the COVID19 “great reset.”

An increasing number of people, however, are aware that something is profoundly wrong with the United States. Abandoned by a decadent establishment, they are forced to search for the truth in the trash produced by the corporate media, limited in their understanding by the primitive schemata for understanding economics and politics produced by consulting firms whose primary task is to frustrate understanding.

Class Warfare

A shift has taken place in American society over the last two years. The manipulation of digital currencies, bonds, derivatives and other financial products, combined with the radical privatization of the banking system has made it possible for a tiny handful of the super-rich, and the swarms of CEOs who buzz around them like flies, to create money out of nothing and to use that money to bribe everyone in a position of authority—or to threaten them.

This radical class fragmentation in American society has been festering for years, but it was only when the COVID19 crisis was hyped up as a means of calling attention away from the destruction of the economy resulting from the theft by super-rich of between 5 and 12 trillion dollars from the United States government through a series of loans to buy up stock, refinance and to transfer cash was successful. The rich decided that the time had come to implement their plan. .

The operation included a series of classified directives that forced all government officials, and many in media and academia, to lay all blame for the economic and political disruption on COVID19 and that prohibited the mention of this massive theft. This theft was the most important event of 2020 but was never mentioned in the US election.

Although this massive transfer of wealth dwarfed the quantitative easing scams of the last decade, and empowered a handful of multi-billionaires to run the economy without interference, their advisors warned them that the such a move was extremely dangerous and that they must take ruthless measures to destroy all opposition before a truly revolutionary movement could get off the ground.  

The term “class warfare” was popular in Marxist discourse and formed a central pillar of mass mobilization in the 1930s by communist movements. The term is not communist by nature, however. Today “class warfare” is not treated in a serious manner by the toothless left (who use the term as a colorful expression and not to describe this literal war). It is rather the far right that identifies the threat of class warfare, and describes it graphically, although not always in an accurate manner. 

It is clear that the current plan, well underway, is intended to reduce the entire population to slavery under the control of the 0.01%. The the progressives and the flaccid left, however, refuse to grapple with this reality, and, with rare exceptions, they refuse to speak honestly about COVID19.  

The best-known right-wing figure to describe class warfare was Alex Jones whose website Info Wars and news broadcast “Prison Planet” provided valuable analysis 15 years ago. Jones combined a systematic release of information about massive corporate and government conspiracies with trivia and some misleading material in a manner that allowed informed viewers to learn quite a bit. I suspect that he was forced to mix garbage in his reports because many of the materials he used were classified.

Today, Alex Jones has become a popular media figure in the Republican Party interested only in select crimes of the Democratic Party. There remain, however, plenty of other far right sources that are willing to take on the topic of class warfare.  

The progressives, however, are allergic to any serious consideration of class warfare. Bernie Sanders will talk about the unfair or selfish actions of the 1% but he refuses to mention the systematic efforts of the 0.01% to destroy the economic, educational and cultural foundations of life for the majority of Americans. He never mentions the criminal actions of Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Warren Buffet “progressive”-branded billionaires who are actively destroying the lives of citizens.

There are two critical components to the current strategy of class warfare.

First, the attacks are purposely audacious and extreme because it is assumed that this “shock and awe” approach will inhibit most intellectuals from engaging in a serious discussion or or engaging in political organization.

The “big lie” strategy is a core element in this campaign. This ancient political ruse, best known by Adolf Hitler’s characterization of a fiction “so colossal that no one can believe that someone would be so imprudent as to distort the truth so infamously” has played a critical role in the first stage of class warfare. Forcing government officials, academics and journalists to repeat obvious lies and to bombard the public with such lies quickly reduces the intellectual capacity of citizens to reflect on current events, and impedes collective action.

The scale of lie, of the deceipt, is so massive that is seems like an unbelievable fairytale.

There have been any number of lies perpetrated by the super-rich since the Kennedy assassination, but the two big lies that form the core of the current ideological preparation for class warfare are the 9.11 incident and COVID19. It is likely that the same groups were involved in organizing and implementing both and that the key planners came from around the world, not simply from the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

The best analogy for the planning of these two big lies is Agatha Christie’s detective novel “Murder on the Orient Express.” In that novel, the American gangster Cassetti is murdered on a train by a group of his rivals who agree in advance to sedate him and then each of them, in turn, stabs him once. The manner in which the implementation of the crime is shared makes the case difficult to crack. Because all the major players are involved at some level in the crime, they all are driven to support the false narrative and they all stand to face persecution, and a  loss of face, if that narrative is not maintained.

The manner in which America’s most famous public intellectuals stick to the 9.11 and COVID19 narratives, even in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, suggests that a similar process is at work.

Those few stupid enough to demand an investigation of the facts in these cases have been punished. Those who have displayed leadership skills have been isolated or destroyed. The rest have been bought off with ego-flattering media coverage, with funds for superficial research, or with “entrepreneurial” business opportunities. All these rewards come with strings that render potential leaders harmless.  

The other critical point to this preparation for full-spectrum class warfare can be found in the remarkable silence and calm before the storm. The media, academic experts, NGOs and global organizations like the United Nations, even the so-called radical left, give the public the impression that although there are serious problems in the United States, and the country is not as free as it could be, that, basically, things are normal.

Even as private militias roam the country, engaging in mayhem and killing, public intellectuals refuse to address the question of how Goldman Sachs and BlackRock manipulate the political process, or engage in domestic terrorism. The message repeated is that the situation will return to normal, perhaps under a Biden administration, is repeated ad nauseum until citizens have no choice but to embrace the fiction or lose the ability to interact with friends and family.

Citizens are encouraged by the media to take up meditation, spend time with family and read a book at a café. The implication of such advice, fed to us by corporate-sponsored self-help mavens, is that any tension our lives is the result of internal emotions, not of external forces.

There is a tendency in social animals like humans to try to define reality in response to social consensus, and to seek out traces of the normal in daily life, and to latch on to them as a means of avoiding the painful reality of radical political and economic shifts. The super-rich exploit this human weakness.

Thus, citizens are slowly dragged into a new reality of techno-totalitarian rule through a subtle dance, a gradual alternation between punctuated moments in which a feelings of danger and panic are encouraged cultivated and periods when citizens are told that things are slowly going back to normal. This melody that weaves between panic and relaxation without reflection means that citizens are convinced that they live in a normal society with occasional disruptions when in fact politics is becoming radically repressive with occasional moments of release.

This process is aided by efforts to frustrate understanding of who responsible for the crime.

The far left, groups like Socialist Equality Party (that run the WSWS report) or the Green Party, avoid any serious analysis of who owns what and how they own it. They speak of social justice, but they are silent (for the most part) about the specific machinations of Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and George Soros.

The far right, by contrast, is willing to go after certain billionaires like Bill Gates and George Soros with the appropriate seriousness, but turns a blind eye to the billionaires Shelden Adelson, Robert Mercer and Charles Koch, the players who created the Trump phenomenon and have pushed for climate catastrophe and for a pro-Zionist policy.

The citizen is offered a baited gambit, a choice between 1) a right wing that addresses real class issues and describes massive conspiracies like the murderous vaccine regime that is being planned, but that is silent on climate change, and wants to end all government, and that does not provide a systemic analysis of the manner in which the Zionist and imperialist billionaires play a role in the destruction of our society, on the one hand and, on the other hand, 2) a “progressive” movement that promotes racial and ethnic diversity, talks about a more egalitarian society, makes plans for the response to climate change, but is silent on the crimes of Bill Gates and friends (even praising him for his takeover of the United Nations) and turns a blind eye to the COVID19 scam.

The unsavory choice is not an accident. It is forced on us by the super-rich who have been advised that their only hope for survival is to use their extreme wealth to fool us into fighting each other rather than confronting them.   

The advisors to the super-rich know that the concentration of wealth, and intentional impoverishment of the population, will reach a breaking point and citizens will start to organize. Their supercomputers have already presented them with detailed models for how revolutionary actions will unfold.

The super-rich want to steer those who see the criminal conspiracy, and the threat of world government for the few, towards the right which lacks the analytical framework to address class issues in a rigorous manner. That right wing is telling the truth, but the explanations for why do not include a systematic plan for reform. Instead, the right’s arguments fall back on simplistic narratives about threats from the Chinese Communist Party or from Jewish capital. Although there are, of course, serious financial conspiracies linked directly to China and to Israel, they are only part of the global integration of finance driven by AI that includes multiple players.

On the other hand, the super-rich want to steer those concerned with inequity and racism in society towards ineffective multiculturalism and feel-good ethnic identity rituals. The multiethnic new team of the Biden administration is typical of such identity politics. The ritual of appointing women, African Americans, Asians and Indians to prominent positions in government, business, the military, intelligence and academics signifies “progress” even if they are products of corporate finance and have deep stakes in private equity, or in the promotion of weapons systems.

The argument advanced by progressives is that there is no conspiracy but rather that the inequity we face is the product of a bad apples, of greedy and thoughtless men, who can be brought to their senses if they only have their photograph taken with Greta Thunberg.

Goldman Sachs could not be happier with the result.

As they say on the Upper Westside, “I like my fascism with a shot of progressive rhetoric and a thin layer of multicultural performance art on top.”

Consider how when Drew Faust retired as president of Harvard in 2018 she immediately joined the board of Goldman Sachs. There was total silence on the left concerning this blatant conflict of interest. Harvard, once famous for the quality its research, is now valued primarily for its 50 Billion USD endowment, and not for its academic achievements. The endowment, and increasingly the faculty (who chase after corporate funding) have been reduced to the toys of investment banks.

Intellectuals who might serve as leaders are marginalized by policies that force them to write tedious papers for obscure journals. Those in the NGO world are forced to run around begging for donations from the rich and powerful and are therefore incapable of articulating a message with broad appeal. None of this is an accident.