About the apparent distortion of Attali's article in the quotes given on the Armstrong site, you are absolutely right. I'll post my comment anyway, though you beat me to it:
The Salomon book is for real, though hard to find (second-hand prices start above $1500), and it does contain an interview with Attali. A Spanish translation is available for $125. The English translation (Future Life), though I don’t see it on bookfinder.com, is in the Internet Archive.
From looking at it there, I believe the most startling quotes provided above are not authentic. Some of the sentences taken from Armstrong’s site are in the book, but the ones which would make today’s readers think of Covid and the mRNA vaccines are *not* present in the text of the interview. I think this one of those vaticinia ex eventu that turn up readily on the Internet. But I can’t be sure without checking the original French — conceivably, an editor “toned down” the translation.
The Attali interview — minus what I judge to be Covid-inspired embellishments — is worth reading. He values freedom, and says a lot about how the medical profession gets corrupted. To make clear where his sympathies and values lie, he says, “I believe the world we are building will be so frightful that it will mean the death of humankind. So we have to be prepared to resist it […] the best way to do so is to understand and engage in the battle in order to avoid the worst . . .”
Re: Big Picture Questions
The Salomon book is for real, though hard to find (second-hand prices start above $1500), and it does contain an interview with Attali. A Spanish translation is available for $125. The English translation (Future Life), though I don’t see it on bookfinder.com, is in the Internet Archive.
From looking at it there, I believe the most startling quotes provided above are not authentic. Some of the sentences taken from Armstrong’s site are in the book, but the ones which would make today’s readers think of Covid and the mRNA vaccines are *not* present in the text of the interview. I think this one of those vaticinia ex eventu that turn up readily on the Internet. But I can’t be sure without checking the original French — conceivably, an editor “toned down” the translation.
The Attali interview — minus what I judge to be Covid-inspired embellishments — is worth reading. He values freedom, and says a lot about how the medical profession gets corrupted. To make clear where his sympathies and values lie, he says, “I believe the world we are building will be so frightful that it will mean the death of humankind. So we have to be prepared to resist it […] the best way to do so is to understand and engage in the battle in order to avoid the worst . . .”
Gray Hat