So Covid is here, and as such I’ve been spending a lot more time indoors. I briefly thought about starting a podcast, just kidding. I’ve actually been reading a lot of the conspiracy theories online about the virus, from the “it’s all coming through the 5G towers” to the “it’s Gatesy trying to put microchips in the vaccines maaaan” crowd.
I’ll put my hand up here and say that as a teenager I loved conspiracy theories. I loved the ones that were ludicrously unbelievable like the Hollow Earth theory or Catholicism, and I also loved and hated the ones that were probably real, like global elites hiding their money in tax havens, and governments building huge databases and surveilling anyone who disagreed with them. The problem with getting older in this case was two fold.
Firstly I did a psych degree, which involved studying a lot of statistics, human nature, and the scientific method. This killed a lot of conspiracy theories, as much simpler explanations and more rational ideas became the obvious reasoning behind things. Sadly, the reverse occurred as well, in that some conspiracy theories became much more likely, such as organised groups and governments having an almost inbuilt mechanism for controlling populations. I don’t mean drugs in the water supply or 5g towers putting our brains into a trance. I mean much more mundane things like marginalising groups that wanted to prioritise human rights over economic growth, or building a media network that pushed the narrative that foreigners/poor people/muslims/millenials were threatening our livelihoods – and only by voting conservative would we be safe in our beds.
The second horrifying part of the whole thing, is that as I got older some of the conspiracy theories my friends mocked when we were dumb teenagers turned out to be true. No lizard men (yet, but 2020 is only half way done) but the Panama Papers gave us literal hard evidence of wide spread offshore tax evasion – including by government leaders. Australia’s PM at the time had an account with millions of dollars in it, and backdoor investments in 7-11 through an offshore company. The 7-11’s in Australia at the time were being investigated for hiring and not paying (appropriately, or at all) foreign workers. The government body setup to investigate this eventually ruled that 7-11 broke the law. Their punishment was that they had to repay the money and they were allowed to manage and oversee this themselves, during which time more workers came forward saying they were paid and then immediately told to give the money back to 7-11 or face loss of work.
Beyond that, the entire Epstein saga was massively eye opening in the range and spread of operations that the man was able to run. Essentially becoming a large scale virtually sanctioned human trafficking operation. Even if we argue he wasn’t officially sanctioned, it’s certain that no government or law enforcement group really spent the time or effort to investigate it properly. At one stage when he was arrested, he was given prison leave to continue working from an office nearby – an office where another set of women alleged he assaulted them whilst on prison leave.
The worst part really of all these conspiracy theories that eventually became factually proven, so conspiracy facts? I’m not sure what they’d be called. Anyway the worst part of them is that virtually no one cared. Icelands PM stood down over the money laundering, but huge banks, governments, and entire financial systems basically stood up and said what are you going to do about it? People did nothing. Some time later, one of the journalists who exposed the operations in Panama was killed by a car bomb. Completely coincidentally I’m sure. Epstein dies in a cell, well that’s not unusual his entire life was collapsing as he finally looked to be being charged with the crimes he’d committed and many prisoners suicide at that stage. However the two guards watching him were both away from their station, and the cameras in his cell failed. I mean, a betting man would say that is super convenient. A little too convenient.
But think of what these two deaths imply. And very strongly imply. They imply that somewhere out there, someone very very wealthy put together an idea and contracted someone to kill another person over money and power. Someone was able to bribe/buy/trick their way into Epstein’s prison and silence two guards and destroy cell recordings – whilst also killing a prisoner. When Galizia had her car blow up, again we see someone with money or bomb making skills involved in killing someone to protect their financial interests and the power they have to move their money without scrutiny.
But lets move back to Covid. A lot of the conspiracy theories floating around at the moment are based loosely on the idea that covid is being used to create police states. Some theorise it’s going further, trying to destroy the upcoming middle classes around the world to further entrench the wealthy as the leaders with a poor class desperate for work for survival.
I’ll post next time the reasons why this idea is complete rubbish, and if the world leaders wanted to do this, they wouldn’t need covid and certainly don’t want covid around.
(unless I never post again, in which case I got too close to the truth right guys)
— Brett Cravaliat
Brett Cravaliat 