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The Crumbling Global Tower
PJ Media ^ | 12 July 2021 | Richard Fernandez

Posted on 07/13/2021 5:35:30 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Although COVID deaths in Europe and North America are down, thanks to the availability of vaccines and growing herd immunity, the long shadow of the pandemic still hangs over the international order. The “fragile states” are reeling not only from the disease but from the lockdowns and fall in economic activity.

North Korea, the world’s only self-proclaimed coronavirus-free nation, said it was facing a “grave” viral incident and a “tense” food situation. This was seen by the BBC as an admission it is in real trouble.

Meanwhile, “Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, has earned another grim distinction: it’s the only one that hasn’t vaccinated a single resident against Covid-19,” writes Bloomberg. “Haiti was among the 92 poor and middle-income countries offered doses under the Covax Facility. But the government initially declined AstraZeneca PLC shots, citing side effects and widespread fears in the population.”

Already falling apart, it is now disintegrating. Haiti has no parliament, no president, a dispute over who is prime minister, a weak police force, and it’s full of looting gangs controlled by politicians. A prominent gang leader named Barbecue promises to launch a revolution to rid the island of the “stinking bourgeoisie.” But the bourgeoisie are also dying of COVID. Haiti’s chief justice recently died of it and former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has arrived in Cuba for medical treatment. Speaking of Cuba thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to complain about the economy, food, and the pandemic.

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The center cannot hold.....
1 posted on 07/13/2021 5:35:30 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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More likely this could be the end of the old global world, the vanished landscape of old norms that Joe Biden was supposed to restore. Neither social media nor Hollywood could save it. It died under the rise of China, the corruption of Washington, the stasis of Europe, and the madness of Woke culture. COVID, when it came, was simply the coup de grace for the whole teetering edifice.

We are emerging from the pandemic, not by the door through which we entered, but into an unfamiliar landscape.

2 posted on 07/13/2021 5:39:20 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Rummyfan

Where are the Clinton’s now?


3 posted on 07/13/2021 5:40:32 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (I got the shot. Not because I wanted to. Because I had to, in violation of my civil rights.)
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To: Rummyfan

All part of the plan.


4 posted on 07/13/2021 5:44:59 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: Rummyfan

The angle of death will come...

And will be called...

BARBECUE


5 posted on 07/13/2021 5:47:59 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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He’s square


6 posted on 07/13/2021 5:54:18 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“All part of the plan.”

Guaranteed !

And the real global governance plan will also fool, (or win over), many who call themselves “conservatives”.


7 posted on 07/13/2021 6:04:43 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Rummyfan

“The everyday order of our lives may seem to us natural and permanent, but it is in fact as fragile and illusory as the cardboard props on a theatrical stage: It can collapse in a flash and turn at once into black horror. Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.” -Soimon Leys


8 posted on 07/13/2021 6:13:11 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: Rummyfan

Haiti. North Korea. South Africa. The USA.

This is bad.


9 posted on 07/13/2021 6:37:05 PM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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O’Biden administration will implode before the end of the year.

May God expedite that and Bless the USA.


10 posted on 07/13/2021 6:59:54 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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