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You're listening to the Corbett Report, corbettreport.com. Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, welcome back, to the Corbett Report podcast. I'm your host as always James Corbett of corbettreport.com coming to you from the sunny climes of western Japan here in March of 2020 with episode 373 of the Corbett Report podcast – ‘Medical Martial Law 2020’.
Now if you follow the feeds at corbettreport.com you will know that last week I re-released a section of an old podcast specifically Episode 86 of the Corporate Report podcast on Medical Martial Law which was released in 2009 at the height of the swine flu pandemic pandemonium that was sweeping the globe at that time. And just last week Corbett Report video editor Brock West revivified a section of that podcast in video format for release as a video to bring people up to speed on what I was talking about 11 years ago - in regards to the laying of the infrastructure and legislative framework for the implementation of medical martial law in any declared public health emergency. And there are many different pieces - different cookie crumbs - along that trail leading towards that medical martial law conclusion. So I exhort you if you have not yet done so to go back and not just watch that video section of the podcast, but listen to the entire podcast which lays it out in a great degree of detail, and I will be taking that information for granted - that you are familiar with the steps that have already been put in place that I was outlining in episode 86.
The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act
For example, the
Model State Emergency Health Powers Act which was drafted in the wake of the 2001 anthrax bio-terror false flag event which was subsequently adopted by over 40 states and allows for quarantines and
mandated vaccinations in the event of any declared public health emergency. It is that
Model State Emergency Health Powers Act which gave rise to legislation in numerous different state legislators’ that is now being implemented as I speak in various states declaring public health emergencies.
So, it is important to have that background - that legislative framework in place in your mind - so once again I will exhort you to go back and re-familiarize yourself with material in that previous podcast.
But as you might guess from the title of today's podcast I'm going to be updating the 11 years of information that has taken place between then and now to move us a little further along that road towards what we are seeing right now - which is the flicking of the switch and the turning on of the apparatus for medical martial law. It is happening and it is important to understand how we got to where we are today in order to better understand what is likely to happen in the near future, and what we can actually do about this.
So roll up your sleeves - get a pen and paper; there's going to be a data dump of information today, but don't worry - as always - all of the links to all of the documents and videos and everything that we go through today will be in the show notes for today's episode at corbettreport.com. If you are watching this on some variant of social media the link to the show notes will be in the description for this video.
So that being said, let's get straight into it and actually we're going to start with a document that was originally drafted and put on the books in 2007 but actually was not released to the public at that time. We're just finding out about it now in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic freak-out.
So we're getting this information from The Nation which on March 12th 2020 reported on:
An Internal Pandemic Document Shows the Coronavirus Gives Trump Extraordinary Powers
… specifically, they are talking about a document called
Operations Plan for PANDEMIC RESPONSE which was drafted for the CBP - the US Customs and Border Protection agency - and that complete document is in this article, so you can read through it.
Operations Plan for Pandemic Response
Full confession; I haven't had time to read through the entire document yet but I have skimmed through important passages of it, and The Nation frames this story this way. They say:
On Wednesday, (JC: that was previous Wednesday now) the World Health
Organization designated the coronavirus a pandemic, meaning that the disease is now considered to a spread worldwide.
But pandemics also confer extraordinary privileges on US authorities. Last night Trump announced a ban for the next 30 days on travellers flying from Europe to the United States.
Well already things have progressed much further than that as you know but this was the information at the time this article was drafted:
And an internal CBP pandemic response plan obtained by the nation outlines the immigration and border agency's ability to actively, survail and detain individuals suspected of carrying the illness. Titled “Operations Plan for Pandemic Response” and marked for official use only the document was drafted during the avian flu pandemic of 2007.
It's a blunt statement of authority, describing Customs and Border Patrol overseeing potential tent cities of quarantined detainees at the border and coordinating with unspecified intelligence agencies - both foreign and domestic - as well as the Pentagon.
Now, as I say, I will invite you to go and read the document for yourself - and read the article from The Nation that frames that document - but it does frame it in a highly partisan way, talking about the ‘evil’ trump administration and their war on immigrants - as if this pandemic response plan that is in place, and as they stated in this article, is the current on the record CBP Pandemic Response Plan that is being used as the guidebook for what is happening right
now, as if all of this
only applies to immigrants or people from the third world or something; this applies to everyone! Including of course even American citizens attempting to return to the United States and does make them subject to the whims of CBP officials, such that in coming into contact or exposure with this virus or exhibiting any symptoms of what could be COVID-19, is enough for the CBP to flex its muscle and authority granted through this document to put people in quarantine in tent cities. And if there actually is - or in any future case was - some sort of actually infectious by a weapon or whatever that's spreading through the population, a great way to make sure someone catches it is to lock them in a tent city with a lot of other people who presumably do have it!
But that being said the document is and just another glimpse into the types of powers that are on the books and have been laid out for years in the event of what we're seeing today. And it is important to keep this in mind; we're looking at a lot of documents from the United States context today but this applies to countries all around the world.
Trudeau announces restrictions on entry into Canada
I know my home and native land of Canada is even at the current moment refusing entry even to Canadian citizens who are exhibiting any signs or symptoms of COVID-19 - they will not even be allowed to board a plane to come to Canada at this current time. Even Canadian citizens; there are people living abroad with permanent residences or visas that are about to expire that are going to come home to Canada - or we're going to come home to Canada - they cannot do so, because they are not allowed to and are in a legal limbo.
Now, this sort of thing is exactly what was planned out in these pandemic response plans including this particular document from the CBP - so take a look at that.
But let's move ahead in the timeline from 2007 to
2010 where we encounter
Lock Step. Lock Step comes from a series of scenarios that were laid out by
the Rockefeller Foundation in conjunction with the Global Business Network and that were described in a document called
Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development.
Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development
(My note: ‘Lock Step’ smacks of ‘Lock Stock and Barrel’!)
This document starts by noting that:
The Rockefeller Foundation believes that in order to understand the many ways in which technology will impact international development in the future, we must first broaden and deepen our individual and collective understanding of the range of possibilities. This report and the project upon which it is based is one attempt to do that.
In it we share the outputs and insights from a year-long project undertaken by the Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network, designed to explore the role of technology in international development through scenario planning, a methodology in which GBN is a long-time leader.
It goes on to describe more about why it's choosing these various scenarios and why it's focusing on technology. But long story short there are a number of different scenarios that they envision of what could happen in a more technologically dependent world in the future and what must happen as a result of that. And one of these scenarios that they were planning again - on the record - in 2010 was called
Lock Step, and let me know if this sounds familiar to you. The document starts by noting that Lock Step is a scenario which involves:
A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.
And it starts by the scenario by noting:
In 2012 the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit. Unlike 2009’s H1N1 (swine flu), this new influenza strain - originating from wild geese - was extremely virulent and deadly.10:00
Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world, infecting nearly 20% of the global population and killing 8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults.
The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains.
Hmmm! Sounds familiar…
Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings set empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers.
The pandemic blanketed the planet - though disproportionate numbers died in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, where the virus spread like wildfire in the absence of official containment protocols.
But even in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States initial policy of “strongly discouraging” citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the US but across borders.
However a few countries did fare better - China in particular. The Chinese government's quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near hermetic sealing off of all borders saved millions of lives stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swift post-pandemic recovery.
China's government was not the only one that took extreme measures to protect its citizens from risk and exposure. During the pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets.
Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems - from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty - leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power.
You can continue reading through this scenario and the way it played out in the scenario planners fevered imagination. But later on it notes in a sidebar for example the role of philanthropy in Lock Step talking about those wonderful philanthropic organizations like one would presume the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, (which I'm not sure was in operation in 2010 - at any rate probably wasn't as big an influence in pandemic response back in 2010 - but anyway that type of organization), which as you know from previous Corbett Report episodes, is
always just a virtuous bounty of Plenty descended from the heavens by these virtuous philanthropists out of complete lack of self interest’. Right? No of course not!
But it does go on to talk about how philanthropic organizations will ‘face hard choices in the world of Lock Step and given the strong role of governments, they will require heightened diplomacy skills’ and they'll basically have to more closely ‘work with national official development assistance strategies to meet government objectives’.
But specifically in the part where they talk about technology in Lock Step they talk about some of the things that were implemented in this scenario in order to crack down on the pandemic, including:
Technology trends and applications we might see:
Scanners using advanced functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology become the norm at airports and other public areas to detect abnormal behaviour that may indicate “antisocial intent”.
i.e. brain reading scanning cameras and other technologies to basically read your mind and see if you're a secret terrorist.
Technology trends and applications we might see:
In the aftermath of pandemic scares, smarter packaging for food and beverages is applied to by big companies and producers in business-to-business environment, and then adopted for individual and consumers.
New Diagnostics are developed to detect communicable diseases
Tele-presence technologies respond to the demand for less expensive, lower bandwidth, sophisticated communication systems for populations whose travel is restricted.
Driven by protectionism national security concerns, nations create their own independent, regionally defined IT networks, mimicking China's firewalls.
So the crackdown on the Internet!
Then it goes into an example of a personal story from this life in Lock Step - Manisha - living on the banks of the Ganges River, and it goes through her experience - and it's worth reading there are some interesting insights in there, including how the national Government of India saved the population during the quarantine period during the pandemic:
… and that experience, thought Manisha, had given the government the confidence to be strict about river usage now (several years after the pandemic): how else could they get millions of Indian citizens to completely shift their cultural practises in relationship to holy sites?
Well, good question! How else would you do that other than a very traumatic situation as envisioned by the Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network in 2010.
The Lock Step document; an important piece of this puzzle.
Let's move ahead in the timeline
to 2013. This being pointed out recently by Dr. Rudolf Hansel in an article titled the corona virus in the New World order war is in the air in which Dr. Hӓnsell, who writes on the 16th of March 2020 for Global Research in an article, entitled:
The Coronavirus and the New World Order. “War is in the Air”
“On 11th March 2020 the “Neue Rheinische Zeitung NRhZ” drew attention (in the article “Two Corona Mosaic Stones”) to a publication by the German government in January 2013: the “Information from the German government - Report on risk analysis in civil protection 2012” (printed matter 17/12051 of 3rd January 2013).”
Thus was released on the
3rd of January 2013.
“In it's frightening similarities with what is currently happening can be seen -in particular by explicitly mentioning the “SARS coronavirus (CoV)”. The scenario presented, in which the spread, course, duration, mortality, etc, are described, goes as far as to make a drastic restriction of fundamental rights necessary.
The scenario states in this respect:
The competent authorities, first of all the public health authorities and primarily the public health officers, must take measures to prevent communicable diseases. The ifSG (the relevant legislation) allows among other things, restrictions of basic rights, such as the right to the inviolability of the home.
Within the framework of necessary protective measures, the fundamental right of personal freedom and the freedom of assembly can also be restricted.
In addition to these measures to be ordered directly by the public health officer, the Federal Ministry of Health can order by statutory order that threatened sections of the population have to take part in protective vaccinations or other measures of specific prophylaxis, whereby the right to physical integrity can be restricted.
I would suggest to go back and read and re-read that passage several times until it sinks in - but yes in 2013 the German government was already drafting scenarios that envisioned mandatory vaccinations or specific prophylaxis in the event of a spreading communicable disease. And oh yeah, restrictions on the right of a personal freedom and freedom of assembly, which is particularly convenient in a period where – as I’ve had cause to note in recent times - this is a period in which a lot of protest is happening all around the globe, all at the same time, and the globalists are on the run, right? What could they possibly do to avoid the big people's uprising that's coming? Oh, that's right! A nationally, globally declared public health emergency that will restrict freedom of assembly and freedom of travel, freedom to gather in groups of more than ten people in country after country.
Bye-bye Yellow Vests! I guess it was it was fun while it lasted, huh? Bye-bye Hong Kong and everywhere else, I mean everywhere else that has any sort of protest movement - well not anymore! No one is going to be out assembling in protest of this! And if they do, well, medical martial law is already in place - that was laid out in a document in 2013 by the German government.
Fast forward in the timeline
to 2015 that is when the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation enters the picture in a big way, because that is specifically when Bill Gates set his sights on the pandemic panic. And we get this from basically a public relations campaign that he started engaging in that time frame, including a vox.com video where Ezra Klein interviews Bill Gates about:
What Bill Gates is afraid of
VOX – May 27, 2015
Spoiler alert! He's most afraid of a globally spreading pandemic like the 1918 Spanish flu. At the time he was also writing an op-ed in the New England Journal of Medicine about the Ebola scare of 2014 remember that? The big Ebola scare - you're gonna die of Ebola!!! Newsflash… I don't think many Americans did die of Ebola.
But it was the big pandemic scare of 2014, which I covered extensively at the time; I'll put links back to my work on that topic at the time. In the wake of that in April of 2015 Bill Gates wrote an op-ed essentially in the New England Journal of Medicine called:
The Next Epidemic — Lessons from Ebola by Bill Gates
April 15, 2015
Which was part of this pandemic panic freak-out, public relations campaign that he was on at the time. And that article includes a very telling paragraph:
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It's instructive to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for another sort of global threat – war. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has a mobile unit that is it is ready to deploy quickly.
Although the system is not perfect, NATO countries participate in joint exercises in which they work out logistics such as how fuel and food will be provided, what language they will speak, and what radio frequencies will be used.
Few, if any, such measures are in place for response to an epidemic. The world does not fund any organization to manage the broad set of coordinated activities required in an epidemic. The last serious simulation of an epidemic in the United States, the Dark Winter exercise, took place in 2001.
And few countries have met their commitments under the International Health Regulations, which were adopted by the United Nations after the 2002 2003 outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and were intended to improve the world's ability to prevent and contain outbreaks.
So, many important nuggets just in that paragraph alone, one of which is the
Dark Winter exercise which as Bill Gates notes, took place in 2001, and if you are unfamiliar with the Dark Winter exercise – boy, it is time to get up to speed on that!
Operation Dark Winter
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I have talked about it in the past but like a lot of this work many, many years in the past so you may not have seen it.
But that was a simulation of an anthrax bio-terror scare in the United States shortly before 9/11 and the anthrax attacks of October 2001. Almost as if they were live simulating something that they were about to do. Almost what an amazing coincidence! Extremely interesting and you should take a look at that exercise and the fact that it contained pho-news reports that were dressed up to look like real news reports about how they anthrax was spreading and how it was affecting two different populations. Again some of the very people responding to the October 2001 anthrax crisis sitting there at the tabletop exercise in early 2001.
Also of course wartime footing! We need a wartime footing for pandemic response and that is something that's popping up in the news as I speak:
Trump invokes rare powers to combat coronavirus outbreak he previously downplayed, calling it ‘war
WASHINGTON POST – March 19, 2020
Emergency war powers that have not been invoked since the Korean War, for example in the case of the United States, are being invoked, right now!
Because we are at war once again this time with a hidden enemy! (me: I.e. us!) Where have we heard that type of rhetoric before?
So a lot of things go back to this. It's an important article for people to read through to understand the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and their angle in this - the philanthropic organizations so we're going to help to coordinate the international global response that will be necessary. This is of course what it always comes back to because some people are saying ‘this is the end of globalization as we've known it - this is going to upend everything’ On the contrary;
this is a fail forward event in which the very globalist purveyors of the globalist ideology are going to push even further and even harder. We're going to need a global pandemic response agency that's going to be funded by all countries and it's going to be able to subsume the national sovereignty of any given country as a result of what's happening right now. And that was again laid out by Bill Gates five years ago.
Let's move forward to
2017 where the very parting shots of the Obama administration were in an interesting piece of legislation that, again, seems highly relevant to what's taking place today. We'll get this from NPR - National Petroleum Radio – as James Evan Pilato likes to call it - which are have an article in February 2017:
New CDC pandemic quarantine powers enacted
CDC Seeks Controversial New Quarantine Powers To Stop Outbreaks
NPR – Feb 2, 2017
Federal health officials may be about to get greatly enhanced powers to quarantine people, as part of an ongoing effort to stop outbreaks of dangerous contagious diseases.
The new powers are outlined in a set of regulations the Center of Disease Control and Prevention published last late last month to update the agency's quarantine authority for the first time since the 1940s.
The outline changes are being welcomed by many health lawyers, bioethicists and public health specialists as providing important tools for protecting the public. But the CDC's increased Authority is also raising fears that the rules could be misused in ways that violate civil liberties.
The update was finalized at the end of the Obama administration and was scheduled to go into effect Feb 21st. But the Trump administration is reviewing the changes as part of its review of new regulations. So the soon as that changes could go into effect has been pushed to the end of March.
Spoiler alert!
Yes, the changes went into effect! And there's obviously more ongoing right now with regards to the rules that are being written on the fly for a pandemic response to the latest coronavirus freak-out. But this was set into this books in 2017. Again please go to the article to read more about the ‘potential for violations of civil liberties’. Oh you don't say! Well you do say!
But of course all of that is just preparatory because all of that took place in the previous paradigm. Since 9/11 we have been living under the war of terror paradigm which has defined the economic and geopolitical and domestic political reality that we have been living in, one way or another. And that was palpable - absolutely inescapable after the first decade after 9/11, and was famously parodied in a number of places - Family Guy and elsewhere - simply saying 9/11 in a political speech was enough to get a round of applause! Terrorists, terrorists! 9/11 terrorists! That was the paradigm we were living under.
Obviously, that has frayed in recent years and doesn't quite have the same magical power to spell bind the public as it did just a few years ago and that paradigm is now being replaced - we are now in a new paradigm! And that paradigm did not start in March of 2020 with this current implementation of the coronavirus freak-out. No, it started before the coronavirus itself started transmitting amongst the human population (at least officially to the extent that we actually know anything about the real origins of what's happening right now). No, no, no, this started back in October of 2019 - specifically October 18th 2019 - and that new paradigm was announced in New York City by the Center for Health Security in
Event 201.
Prop Report special report Event 201 Agenda
Event 201 Call to Action (7 recommendations)
EVENT 201 – INTERNAL PROMO VIDEO
It began in healthy-looking pigs (my note: pigs have always been a symbol for humans in esoteric knowledge), months - perhaps years ago! A new corona virus spreads silently within herds. Gradually farmers started getting sick. Infected people got a respiratory illness with symptoms ranging from mild flu-like signs to severe pneumonia. The sickest required intensive care; many died.
EVENT 201 – FLOOR ANNOUNCER VO (Anita Cicero – John Hopkins Center for Health Security)
The mission of the Pandemic Emergency Board is to provide recommendations to deal with a major global challenges arising in response to an unfolding pandemic. The board is comprised of highly experienced leaders from business, public health and civil society.
EVENT 201 – PANEL CHAIR VO (Tom Inglesby – John Hopkins Center for Health Security)
We are at the start of what's looking like it will be a severe pandemic. And there are problems emerging that can only be solved by global business and governments working Together.
EVENT 201 – ‘GNN’ FAKE NEWS BROADCAST
Public health agencies have issued travel advisories. While some countries have banned travel from the worst affected areas. As a result the travel sector is taking a huge hit; travel bookings are down 45% and many flights have been cancelled.
EVENT 201 – PANEL DISCUSSION – Stephen Redd US CDC
Governments need to be willing to do things that are out of their historical perspective, for the most part …it's really a war footing that we need to be on.
EVENT 201 – PANEL DISCUSSION – Brad Connett, Henry Schein
…we shouldn't underestimate the power of entrepreneurship. We need to escalate that, whether it's through - you know - the governments helping with tax breaks or you know subsidies of that nature to increase manufacturing of those types of products. It can happen quickly. A Marshall type plan - you know, I don't mean to say that exactly - but a Marshall type plane they can go into effect can stimulate a change very quickly.
Now, as I'm sure you know, if you do follow alternative media much has been said already about Event 201 and what was taking place there. If you're completely new to it all, I will put links into the video, to the website, to the press release and other materials that will give you a better sense of what Event 201 was, and what it was attempting to do - at least officially speaking - and I will also provide links to the propaganda report the Prop Report.com which has done a special report about the event 201 agenda, highlighting the recommendations, the call to action that was issued as a result of this ‘tabletop exercise’ that was held in New York in October of 2019, involving some of the very players who are now in the frontlines of this fight against the corona virus pandemic that they themselves were simulating exactly like Dark Winter. And that includes the heads of the US CDC, and the Chinese CDC and others. The full list of participants will be linked in the show notes.
But, specifically, in this call to action they talk about the various things that the World Economic Forum, the Johns Hopkins center for health security and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, jointly proposed as a result of their findings, playing out this coronavirus pandemic scenario in October:
- Governments, international organizations, and businesses should plan NOW for how essential corporate capabilities will be utilized during a large-scale pandemic.
- Industry, national governments, and international organizations should work together to enhance internationally held stockpiles of medical countermeasures (MCMs) to enable rapid and equitable distribution during the severe pandemic.
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- Countries, international organizations, and global transportation companies should work together to maintain travel and trade during severe pandemics. Travel and trade are essential to the global economy as well as to national and even local economies, and they should be maintained even in the face of a pandemic.
- Government should provide more resources and support for the development and surge manufacturing of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics that will be needed during a severe pandemic
- Global business should recognize the economic burden of pandemics and fight for stronger preparedness.
- International organizations should prioritize reducing economic impacts of epidemics and pandemics.
- Governments in the private sector should assign a greater priority to developing methods to combat mis- and disinformation prior to the next pandemic response.
Please do go read through that full list. It's such reasonable things that in light of what has happened since October 2019, it's absolutely amazing that they were able to foresee what was coming and look! They had this perfectly amazing list of responses already waiting for something like this to come along so that they could shake their paper in the face of these world leaders and say, look we told you so now we have the plan for exactly what you should do about this, including as point number seven in that call to action makes very explicit, the crackdown on what is deemed to be mis- and disinformation by the authoritative sources in the fact-checking world no doubt about the pandemic outbreak.