{"id":4299,"date":"2020-07-18T12:55:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T11:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biggeesblog.cymru\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2020-07-18T12:55:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T11:55:23","slug":"the-covid-19-lockdown-economic-social-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biggeesblog.cymru\/index.php\/2020\/07\/18\/the-covid-19-lockdown-economic-social-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"The COVID-19 Lockdown: Economic &#038; Social Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Interviews Economist and Geopolitical Analyst Peter Koenig<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Be afraid &#8211; be VERY afraid!<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What we have experienced is nothing in comparison to what is yet to come. Whilst people still live under the illusion that this &#8216;pandemic&#8217; hysteria will soon die down and they can start to get back to normal (or the &#8216;new normal&#8217; as the gullible people are being groomed\/ conditioned to believe), these two foremost economists lay out the land of what we can expect. The true realisation of what the plan is for the World has not yet dawned on many of us, with the exception of those who are awake, and are critical thinkers. As a tsunami causes the water to recede on a beach and people just stand there in amazement, what comes next is a giant wave that washes them away. We are at the sea receding stage &#8211; the catastrophic wave will soon be here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to trigger the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quote:<br \/>\nImagine, you are living in a world that you are told is a democracy \u2013 and you may even believe it \u2013 but in fact your life and fate is in the hands of a few ultra-rich, ultra-powerful and ultra-inhuman oligarchs. They may be called Deep State, or simply the Beast, or anything else obscure or untraceable \u2013 it doesn\u2019t matter. They are less than the 0.0001% (Peter Koenig, July 2020)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>The Interview:<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/embed\/3a8pTNCMZkc8\/\" width=\"750\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Backgrounds<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michel Chossudovsky<\/span><\/strong> is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global Research. He has taught as visiting professor in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Latin America. He has served as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has acted as a consultant for several international organizations. He is the author of eleven books including The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003), America\u2019s \u201cWar on Terrorism\u201d (2005), The Global Economic Crisis, The Great Depression of the Twenty-first Century (2009) (Editor), Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011), The Globalization of War, America&#8217;s Long War against Humanity (2015). He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His writings have been published in more than twenty languages. In 2014, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit of the Republic of Serbia for his writings on NATO&#8217;s war of aggression against Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peter Koenig<\/span><\/strong> is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion \u2013 An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed \u2013 fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! \u2013 Essays from the Resistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are truly &#8216;Big Beasts&#8217; in the world of economics. We would do well to heed what they have to say.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Have you enjoyed this article? 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