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So...

Somebody like me who's lived within their means and hasn't had debt for the last 15 years...

Do I get a huge bonus when everybody else gets all of the shit they didn't need paid for?

Somehow I doubt it very much.

Maybe I'll just run up the $100,000 worth of credit cards I've got if I see that future coming to life. Maybe I'll just buy my next house with credit cards.

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If the wealthy elite REALLY want to solve the world's problems, they would dissolve their system and then themselves, and let the world get on without their constant parasitism and interference. Instead, they'll springboard Covid-19 as an excuse to take even more control

Never let a good crisis go to waste"- Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's advisor

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Like Kiki said. All very eye opening.

I'm wondering now if you're starting to think that the crisis itself was manufactured in the first place. Make it look like it was about Trump, but then after Trump is out of the way make it dominate the headlines once again and hear about shutdowns all over coming back in style.

PA just passed a law mandating that everyone in your own house must wear masks if anybody is in your house that isn't a resident said house.

How do you enforce that? Military?





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Oh... and CNN did the literally unthinkable the other day and gave Trump credit for the Covid vaccine.

Seriously... WTF? Four years and not a single nice thing to say about Trump, but they're going to give him THAT one?



I'd be seriously hesitant to be one of the first people taking that shot if I were you. I wasn't going to take it regardless, but CNN praising Trump for this should give anybody in their right minds pause after their behavior for the last 4 years.

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Thanks for posting all this, Signy. As always, it's real world facts, in full and in context, that not only won't be bannered across CNN or the NYTimes, but won't be covered by them at all.

It's a fresh wind in the suffocating propagandistic miasma.

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John Kerry Says 'Great Reset' Is Needed To Stop Rise Of Populism
Says rejoining Paris Climate Agreement is “not enough.”

20 November, 2020

Former Secretary of State John Kerry attended a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum during which he asserted that a great reset was urgently needed to stop the rise of populism.

Kerry vowed that under a Biden administration, America would rejoin the job-killing Paris Climate Agreement but that this was “not enough.”

“The notion of a reset is more important than ever before,” Kerry said. “I personally believe … we’re at the dawn of an extremely exciting time.”

The former Senator made it clear that this “reset,” which is merely a re-branding of the same new world order that has faced stiff resistance for the past two decades, is necessary to extinguish populism.

“I think Europe has to look at that with Brexit and the rising national populism — nationalistic populism,” said Kerry. “Which is really one of the priorities that we all have to address. You can’t dismiss it.”

Speaking about how Trump increased his vote in 2020, Kerry noted, “What astounds me is that as many people still voted for the level of chaos and breach of law and order and breaking the standards and … I think that, the underlying reason for that is something that everybody has to examine.”

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also welcomed the prospect of Biden as a “friend in the White House” to the globalists and said the two entities would work on “a new rulebook for the digital economy and the digital society.”

“The need for global cooperation and this acceleration of change will both be drivers of the Great Reset. And I see this as an unprecedented opportunity,” said von der Leyen.

As we have exhaustively documented, “The Great Reset” is merely the latest incarnation of the agenda to centralize power into the hands of a tiny elite, disenfranchising Americans, lowering their living standards and forcing them to submit to a social credit score system that will eliminate all privacy and personal autonomy.

As we reported yesterday, legacy media outlets like the New York Times are still claiming the “Great Reset” is a “conspiracy theory” even as world leaders openly announce it.

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I will bet you dollars to donuts that NONE of the "solutions" that are proposed would in any way call for any sacrifice by the wealthy or by corporations, or any diminution of their power.

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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, BOOKS, CLIMATE CHANGE, COMMENTARY, COVID-19, ECONOMY, PROPAGANDA
DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Great Pretext … for Dystopia
November 24, 2020

In their World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret bring us the voice of would-be Global Governance.


Viewing the virtual-reality film “Collisions” at a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 2016

By titling their recently published World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, the authors link the pandemic to their futuristic proposals in ways bound to be met with a chorus of “Aha!”s. In the current atmosphere of confusion and distrust, the glee with which economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret greet the pandemic as harbinger of their proposed socioeconomic upheaval suggests that if Covid-19 hadn’t come along by accident, they would have created it (had they been able).

In fact, World Economic Forum founder Schwab was already energetically hyping the Great Reset, using climate change as the triggering crisis, before the latest coronavirus outbreak provided him with an even more immediate pretext for touting his plans to remake the world.

The authors start right in by proclaiming that “the world as we knew it in the early months of 2020 is no more,” that radical changes will shape a “new normal.” We ourselves will be transformed. “Many of our beliefs and assumptions about what the world could or should look like will be shattered in the process.”

Throughout the book, the authors seem to gloat over the presumed effects of widespread “fear” of the virus, which is supposed to condition people to desire the radical changes they envisage. They employ technocratic psychobabble to announce that the pandemic is already transforming the human mentality to conform to the new reality they consider inevitable.

“Our lingering and possibly lasting fear of being infected with a virus … will thus speed the relentless march of automation…” Really?

“The pandemic may increase our anxiety about sitting in an enclosed space with complete strangers, and many people may decide that staying home to watch the latest movie or opera is the wisest option.”

“There are other first round effects that are much easier to anticipate. Cleanliness is one of them. The pandemic will certainly heighten our focus on hygiene. A new obsession with cleanliness will particularly entail the creation of new forms of packaging. We will be encouraged not to touch the products we buy. Simple pleasures like smelling a melon or squeezing a fruit will be frowned upon and may even become a thing of the past.”

This is the voice of would-be Global Governance. From on high, experts decide what the masses ought to want, and twist the alleged popular wishes to fit the profit-making schemes they are peddling. Their schemes center on digital innovation, massive automation using “artificial intelligence,” finally even “improving” human beings by endowing them artificially with some of the attributes of robots: such as problem-solving devoid of ethical distractions.

A Powerful Lobby

What is it, exactly? I would describe the WEF as a combination capitalist consulting firm and gigantic lobby. The futuristic predictions are designed to guide investors into profitable areas in what Schwab calls “the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)” and then, as the areas are defined, to put pressure on governments to support such investments by way of subsidies, tax breaks, procurements, regulations and legislation. In short, the WEF is the lobby for new technologies, digital everything, artificial intelligence, transhumanism.

It is powerful today because it is operating in an environment of State Capitalism, where the role of the State (especially in the United States, less so in Europe) has been largely reduced to responding positively to the demands of such lobbies, especially the financial sector. Immunized by campaign donations from the obscure wishes of ordinary people, most of today’s politicians practically need the guidance of lobbies such as the WEF to tell them what to do.

In the 20th century, notably in the New Deal, the government was under pressure from conflicting interests. The economic success of the armaments industry during World War II gave birth to a Military-Industrial Complex, which has become a permanent structural factor in the U.S. economy.

It is the dominant role of the MIC and its resulting lobbies that have definitively transformed the nation into State Capitalism rather than a Republic.

The proof of this transformation is the unanimity with which Congress never balks at approving grotesquely inflated military budgets. The MIC has spawned media and Think Tanks which ceaselessly indoctrinate the public in the existential need to keep pouring the nation’s wealth into weapons of war. Insofar as voters do not agree, they can find no means of political expression with elections monopolized by two pro-MIC parties.

The WEF can be seen as analogous to the MIC. It intends to engage governments and opinion manufacturers in the promotion of a “4IR” which will dominate the civilian economy and civilian life itself.

The pandemic is a temporary pretext; the need to “protect the environment” will be the more sustainable pretext. Just as the MIC is presented as absolutely necessary to “protect our freedoms,” the 4IR will be hailed as absolutely necessary to “save the environment” – and in both cases, many of the measures advocated will have the opposite effect.

So far, the techno-tyranny of Schwab’s 4IR has not quite won its place in U.S. State Capitalism. But its prospects are looking good. Silicon Valley contributed heavily to the Joe Biden campaign, and Biden hastened to appoint its moguls to his transition team.

But the real danger of all power going to the Reset lies not with what is there, but with what is not there: any serious political opposition.

Can Democracy Be Restored?

The Great Reset has a boulevard open to it for the simple reason that there is nothing in its way. No widespread awareness of the issues, no effective popular political organization, nothing. Schwab’s dystopia is frightening simply for that reason.

The 2020 presidential election has just illustrated the almost total depoliticization of the American people. That may sound odd considering the violent partisan emotions displayed. But it was all much ado about nothing.

There were no real issues debated, no serious political questions raised either about war or about the directions of future economic development. The vicious quarrels were about persons, not policy. Bumbling Trump was accused of being “Hitler,” and Wall Street-beholden Democrat warhawks were described by Trumpists as “socialists.” Lies, insults and confusion prevailed.

A revival of democracy could stem from organized, concentrated study of the issues raised by the Davos planners, in order to arouse an informed public opinion to evaluate which technical innovations are socially acceptable and which are not.

Cries of alarm from the margins will not influence the intellectual relationship of forces. What is needed is for people to get together everywhere to study the issues and develop well-reasoned opinions on goals and methods of future development.

Unless faced with informed and precise critiques, Silicon Valley and its corporate and financial allies will simply proceed in doing whatever they imagine they can do, whatever the social effects.

Serious evaluation should draw distinctions between potentially beneficial and unwelcome innovations, to prevent popular notions from being used to gain acceptance of every “technological advance,” however ominous.

Redefining Issues

The political distinctions between left and right, between Republican and Democrat, have grown more impassioned just as they reveal themselves to be incoherent, distorted and irrelevant, based more on ideological bias than on facts. New and more fruitful political alignments could be built through confrontation with specific concrete issues.

We could take the proposals of the Great Reset one by one and examine them in both pragmatic and ethical terms

No. 1 – Thanks to the pandemic, there has been a great increase in the use of teleconferences, using Skype, Zoom or other new platforms. The WEF welcomes this as a trend. Is it bad for that reason? To be fair, this innovation is positive in enabling many people to attend conferences without the expense, trouble and environmental cost of air travel. It has the negative side of preventing direct human contact. This is a simple issue, where positive points seem to prevail.

No. 2 – Should higher education go online, with professors giving courses to students via internet? This is a vastly more complicated question, which should be thoroughly discussed by educational institutions themselves and the communities they serve, weighing the pros and cons, remembering that those who provide the technology want to sell it, and care little about the value of human contact in education – not only human contact between student and professor, but often life-determining contacts between students themselves. Online courses may benefit geographically isolated students, but breaking up the educational community would be a major step toward the destruction of human community altogether.

No. 3 – Health and “well-being”. Here is where the discussion should heat up considerably. According to Schwab and Malleret: “Three industries in particular will flourish (in the aggregate) in the post-pandemic era: big tech, health and wellness.” For the Davos planners, the three merge.

Those who think that well-being is largely self-generated, dependent on attitudes, activity and lifestyle choices, miss the point. “The combination of AI [artificial intelligence], the IoT [internet of things] and sensors and wearable technology will produce new insights into personal well-being. They will model how we are and feel […] precise information on our carbon footprints, our impact on biodiversity, on the toxicity of all the ingredients we consume and the environments or spatial contexts in which we evolve will generate significant progress in terms of our awareness of collective and individual well-being.”

Question: do we really want or need all this cybernetic narcissism? Can’t we just enjoy life by helping a friend, stroking a cat, reading a book, listening to Bach or watching a sunset? We better make up our minds before they make over our minds.

No. 4 – Food. In order not to spoil my healthy appetite, I’ll skip over this. The tech wizards would like to phase out farmers, with all their dirty soil and animals, and industrially manufacture enhanced artificial foods created in nice clean labs – out of what exactly?

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No. 5 – What about human work?

“In all likelihood, the recession induced by the pandemic will trigger a sharp increase in labor-substitution, meaning that physical labor will be replaced by robots and ‘intelligent’ machines, which will in turn provoke lasting and structural changes in the labor market.”

This replacement has already been underway for decades. Along with outsourcing and immigration, it has already weakened the collective power of labor. But clearly, the tech industries are poised to go much, much further and faster in throwing humans out of work.

The Covid-19 crisis and social distancing have “suddenly accelerated this process of innovation and technological change. Chatbots, which often use the same voice recognition technology behind Amazon’s Alexa, and other software that can replace tasks normally performed by human employees, are being rapidly introduced. These innovations provoked by necessity (i.e. sanitary measures) will soon result in hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of job losses.”

Cutting labor costs has long been the guiding motive of these innovations, along with the internal dynamic of technology industry to “do whatever it can do.” Then socially beneficial pretexts are devised in justification. Like this:

“As consumers may prefer automated services to face-to-face interactions for some time to come, what is currently happening with call centers will inevitably occur in other sectors as well.”

“Consumers may prefer…”! Everyone I know complains of the exasperation of trying to reach the bank or insurance company to explain an emergency, and instead to be confronted with a dead voice and a choice of irrelevant numbers to click. Perhaps I am underestimating the degree of hostility toward our fellow humans that now pervades society, but my impression is that there is a vast unexpressed public demand for LESS automated services and MORE contact with real persons who can think outside the algorithm and can actually UNDERSTAND the problem, not simply cough up preprogrammed fixes.

There is a potential movement out there. But we hear nothing of it, being persuaded by our media that the greatest problem facing people in their daily lives is to hear someone exhibit confusion over someone else’s confused gender.

In this, I maintain, consumer demand would merge with the desperate need of able-minded human beings to earn a living. The technocrats earn theirs handsomely by eliminating the means to earn a living of other people.

Here is one of their great ideas. “In cities as varied as Hangzhou, Washington DC and Tel Aviv, efforts are under way to move from pilot programs to large-scale operations capable of putting an army of delivery robots on the road and in the air.” What a great alternative to paying human deliverers a living wage!

And incidentally, a guy riding a delivery bicycle is using renewable energy. But all those robots and drones? Batteries, batteries and more batteries, made of what materials, coming from where and manufactured how? By more robots? Where is the energy coming from to replace not only fossil fuels, but also human physical effort?

At the last Davos meeting, Israeli intellectual Yuval Harari issued a dire warning that:

“Whereas in the past, humans had to struggle against exploitation, in the twenty-first century the really big struggle will be against irrelevance… Those who fail in the struggle against irrelevance would constitute a new ‘useless class’ – not from the viewpoint of their friends and family, but useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system. And this useless class will be separated by an ever-growing gap from the ever more powerful elite.”

No. 5 – And the military. Our capitalist prophets of doom foresee the semi-collapse of civil aviation and the aeronautical industry as people all decide to stay home glued to their screens. But not to worry!

“This makes the defense aerospace sector an exception and a relatively safe haven.” For capital investment, that is. Instead of vacations on sunny beaches, we can look forward to space wars. It may happen sooner rather than later, because, as the Brookings Institution concludes in a 2018 report on “How artificial intelligence is transforming the world,” everything is going faster, including war:

“The big data analytics associated with AI will profoundly affect intelligence analysis, as massive amounts of data are sifted in near real time … thereby providing commanders and their staffs a level of intelligence analysis and productivity heretofore unseen. Command and control will similarly be affected as human commanders delegate certain routine, and in special circumstances, key decisions to AI platforms, reducing dramatically the time associated with the decision and subsequent action.”

So, no danger that some soft-hearted officer will hesitate to start World War III because of a sentimental attachment to humanity. When the AI platform sees an opportunity, go for it!

“In the end, warfare is a time competitive process, where the side able to decide the fastest and move most quickly to execution will generally prevail. Indeed, artificially intelligent intelligence systems, tied to AI-assisted command and control systems, can move decision support and decision-making to a speed vastly superior to the speeds of the traditional means of waging war. So fast will be this process especially if coupled to automatic decisions to launch artificially intelligent autonomous weapons systems capable of lethal outcomes, that a new term has been coined specifically to embrace the speed at which war will be waged: hyperwar.”

Americans have a choice. Either continue to quarrel over trivialities or wake up, really wake up, to the reality being planned and do something about it.

The future is shaped by investment choices. Not by naughty speech, not even by elections, but by investment choices. For the people to regain power, they must reassert their command over how and for what purposes capital is invested.

And if private capital balks, it must be socialized. This is the only revolution – and it is also the only conservatism, the only way to conserve decent human life. It is what real politics is about.

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^ And good luck paying for any of your Socialist dreams if that happens.

Ask Venezuela how that's working out for them.

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That was a long post, way too long for me to reply to in full. But I do want to address this part.

They can't even get AI to do something simple like drive a car.

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^ And good luck paying for any of your Socialist dreams if that happens.

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Instead of Venezuela, try Finland as Trump's example of a Socialist shithole. As of March 2020, Finland was ranked the happiest country in the world three times in a row.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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That was a long post, way too long for me to reply to in full. But I do want to address this part.

They can't even get AI to do something simple like drive a car.

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On Thursday, AutoX, an Alibaba (BABA)-backed startup, announced it had rolled out fully driverless robotaxis on public roads in Shenzhen. The company said it had become the first player in China to do so, notching an important industry milestone. Previously, companies operating autonomous shuttles on public roads in the country were constrained by strict caveats, which required them to have a safety driver inside.
www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/tech/autox-robotaxi-china-intl-hnk/index.html


https://xkcd.com/652/
We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.


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We have the unfair burden as the American Taxpayer to be the World Police. Most of us don't want to fund that.

Team Biden* does. He's putting all the GWB friendlies back in.

We'd have a lot more money if we weren't doing that shit.

Assuming that the rest of the world didn't just straight up come at us for revenge after we did so. We've fucked with a lot of people over the last century.

If we always did our best to maintain the moral high ground and actually do right, at least we'd have that to stand on. But we didn't.

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Read the rest of my post.

Because this is one of the very rare times where you've posted something that we're in agreement on.

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NOBODY is capable of doing that job. Not Americans, not anybody else.

It's a HUMAN problem.

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So...

Somebody like me who's lived within their means and hasn't had debt for the last 15 years...

Do I get a huge bonus when everybody else gets all of the shit they didn't need paid for?

Somehow I doubt it very much.

Maybe I'll just run up the $100,000 worth of credit cards I've got if I see that future coming to life. Maybe I'll just buy my next house with credit cards.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Exactly. It will all be taken away from the (former) middle class to pay off the (former) factory workers.

"Nobody* will own anything, and you will be happy".

*Except the very wealthiest, who will own everything.

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Does nobody see the contradiction in all of that?

If the wealthiest automate everything, why would they want to maintain seven billion plus "useless eaters"? Why go through all the trouble and expense and headache of robbing from some to keep the peace with others, and enforcing a monoculture on everyone so we can all live in perfectly equal squalor? All they REALLY would need would be maybe a few million people to make, staff, repair, and program the machines to make anything they might possibly want, plus a few million or so living human beings as toys, for those who so desire to toy with livig flesh.

All of this twaddle about "caring" about "solving" the world's problems of extreme inequality of wealth (which they caused), global climate change, and all of that, can be more simply solved (from the POV of the extremely wealthy) by simply getting rid of a whole bunch of people.

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John Kerry Says 'Great Reset' Is Needed To Stop Rise Of Populism
Says rejoining Paris Climate Agreement is “not enough.”

20 November, 2020

Former Secretary of State John Kerry attended a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum during which he asserted that a great reset was urgently needed to stop the rise of populism.

Kerry vowed that under a Biden administration, America would rejoin the job-killing Paris Climate Agreement but that this was “not enough.”

“The notion of a reset is more important than ever before,” Kerry said. “I personally believe … we’re at the dawn of an extremely exciting time.”

The former Senator made it clear that this “reset,” which is merely a re-branding of the same new world order that has faced stiff resistance for the past two decades, is necessary to extinguish populism.

“I think Europe has to look at that with Brexit and the rising national populism — nationalistic populism,” said Kerry. “Which is really one of the priorities that we all have to address. You can’t dismiss it.”

Speaking about how Trump increased his vote in 2020, Kerry noted, “What astounds me is that as many people still voted for the level of chaos and breach of law and order and breaking the standards and … I think that, the underlying reason for that is something that everybody has to examine.”

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also welcomed the prospect of Biden as a “friend in the White House” to the globalists and said the two entities would work on “a new rulebook for the digital economy and the digital society.”

“The need for global cooperation and this acceleration of change will both be drivers of the Great Reset. And I see this as an unprecedented opportunity,” said von der Leyen.

As we have exhaustively documented, “The Great Reset” is merely the latest incarnation of the agenda to centralize power into the hands of a tiny elite, disenfranchising Americans, lowering their living standards and forcing them to submit to a social credit score system that will eliminate all privacy and personal autonomy.

As we reported yesterday, legacy media outlets like the New York Times are still claiming the “Great Reset” is a “conspiracy theory” even as world leaders openly announce it.

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https://summit.news/2020/11/20/john-kerry-says-great-reset-is-needed-t
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/great-reset-social-contract-joh
n-kerry-phillip-goff/

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Much like the USA's and NATO's "humanitarian wars" that began with hand-wringing "concern" for the "freedom" of the nations that we attacked, but ended in great smoking ruins crawling with jihadists, the Great Reset will be announced with blaring fanfare as "the solution" to the economic and personal distress caused by Covid-19, the unsustainable wealth gap, and unsustainable environmental policies, but implemented as yet another power-grab by the elite.

The SOLUTION to Covid-19 would be simply to make effective respirators available to everyone who needs and/or wants them, plus repeated instructions on how to use them effectively. And special precautions for large groups of vulnerable people, such as the elderly in care facilities. But that would be too easy.

I will bet you dollars to donuts that NONE of the "solutions" that are proposed would in any way call for any sacrifice by the wealthy or by corporations, or any diminution of their power.

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So...

Somebody like me who's lived within their means and hasn't had debt for the last 15 years...

Do I get a huge bonus when everybody else gets all of the shit they didn't need paid for?

Somehow I doubt it very much.

Maybe I'll just run up the $100,000 worth of credit cards I've got if I see that future coming to life. Maybe I'll just buy my next house with credit cards.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Exactly. It will all be taken away from the (former) middle class to pay off the (former) factory workers.

"Nobody* will own anything, and you will be happy".

*Except the very wealthiest, who will own everything.

*****

Does nobody see the contradiction in all of that?

If the wealthiest automate everything, why would they want to maintain seven billion plus "useless eaters"? Why go through all the trouble and expense and headache of robbing from some to keep the peace with others, and enforcing a monoculture on everyone so we can all live in perfectly equal squalor? All they REALLY would need would be maybe a few million people to make, staff, repair, and program the machines to make anything they might possibly want, plus a few million or so living human beings as toys, for those who so desire to toy with livig flesh.

All of this twaddle about "caring" about "solving" the world's problems of extreme inequality of wealth (which they caused), global climate change, and all of that, can be more simply solved (from the POV of the extremely wealthy) by simply getting rid of a whole bunch of people.

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Thorner: Global Currency Reset on the Horizon

By Nancy Thorner -

(Ms. Thorner expresses her opinions in her editorials, not necessarily those of Illinois Review)

The theory behind the Global Currency Reset is that the US Dollar (USD) would lose its position as a reserve currency because the US is overly leveraged and becoming less competitive compared to resource-rich emerging economies.

After all, the value of a currency is a barometer of people’s trust in the government and its ability to repay debts. If there is no trust, then you don’t have money. What you have instead is a collection of portraits of long-dead presidents.

According to James Rickard , via the Daily Reckoning in his article of 2/26/21, The Great Reset Is Here.

Rickards goes on to explain:

The Bretton Woods conference of 1944 set the global financial system that still prevails today.

The period 1969-1971 can be regarded as the First Reset, which involved the creation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR, ticker:XDR), the devaluation of the dollar and the end of the gold standard.

For years, commentators have discussed the next global monetary realignment, which is sometimes called The Big Reset or The Great Reset. [..]

You cannot put negative interest rates on consumers until you eliminate cash. Otherwise, savers would just withdraw cash from the banks and stuff it in mattresses to avoid the negative rates. Implicitly, the European Central Bank [ECB] seems to agree.

One of the ECB Board members says that negative rates (really confiscation) will be applied as a “penalty” against “hoarding” cash. In plain English, that means they will create digital money, force you to spend it, and if you don’t spend it, they will take it away as a “negative rate.

Now all of the pieces of the global elite plan are converging. The International Monetary Fund [IMF] Special Drawing Rights [ SDR] issuance will reliquify global central banks that cannot print dollars. Then Central Bank Digital Currencies [CBDC] will be used to eliminate cash.

More here

Is something really afoot?

On Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2020, the Feds systems, Fedwire and Fed ACH that allows banks to send money back and forth between banks in the U.S., went down for several hours but came back on online later in the afternoon.

The Federal Reserve outage occurred the same week Fed. Chairman Jerome Powell spoke to Capitol Hill legislators about other progress the central bank has made on its consumer-focused payments system and efforts to develop a "digital dollar." Powell said this will be "an important year for the program's development.

“The "operational error," as the Fed described it, impacted, multiple services, including its pivotal automated clearing house system, which connects depository and related institutions sending electronic credit and debt transfers. There were no initial indications that foul play was suspected.”

Credit card outages follow

Two days after the Federal Reserve closed for a few hours, on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, on Friday, February 26, 2021 there was a global outage affecting Visa and Mastercard ?, which lasted for most of the morning for anyone trying to use one of the cards to purchase anything, anywhere.

Following reports of credit cards not working, KELOLAND News looked into reported issues with Visa, Discover and Mastercard. All three services had seen spikes in reported issues throughout the morning according to downdetector.com.

Visa customers reported issues, primarily in the area of payment processing, with apparent spikes in Atlanta, New York and central Kansas, with 911 issues reported by 12:30 p.m.

Mastercard customers also reported an influx of payment issues, with reported spikes in the Dallas and central Kansas area. Customers had reported 184 issues by 12:30 p.m.

Discover customers had reported far fewer issues to the site, mostly revolving around their mobile app, but there has been a slight increase in issues over their baseline.

No longer speculation

It seems clear that something is wrong in the global financial system, even though the Visa and Mastercard outages were brief. As Stefan Gleason, President of Money Metals Exchange set forth in his article of March 2, 2021, The Great Reset Is Coming for the Currency. Excerpts follow


Plans that might once have been dismissed as pure speculation or conspiracy theories are now being openly pushed by people who occupy the highest levels of power.

Biden’s agenda for the economy is now being spearheaded by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. The former Federal Reserve chair has taken a particular interest in stamping out cryptocurrencies and expanding the reach of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – which could ultimately be the issuer of a new global digital currency.


Yellen at the G7 Sumit of a few weeks ago, urged G7 finance leaders to “go big” with additional fiscal stimulus to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and told them that the Biden administration was committed to multilateral engagement and fighting climate change.


In principle, Yellen and her global central planning cohorts support the digitization of money. In fact, they are enthusiastic about the prospects for replacing circulating paper cash with digital tokens.

They just want to make sure those digits are issued and controlled by governments and central banks.

Treasury Secretary Yellen recently told the New York Times, “Too many Americans really don’t have access to easy payment systems and to banking accounts, and I think this is something that a digital dollar — a central bank digital currency — could help with. I think it could result in faster, safer and cheaper payments.”

“A central bank digital currency might also result in the imposition of negative interest rates or the automatic deduction of taxes with no way for holders to escape… except by exiting the dollar-denominated financial system entirely."

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell also told Congress that the Fed is indeed “looking carefully” at issuing a digital dollar, calling it “a high priority project for us."

One world currency on the horizon

It is a given that our nation is in the process of eliminating cash and the dominant dollar for a one world currency, just like the Biden administration is trying to take total control of information and every other human activity.

Rough times are ahead for our nation in so many ways.

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Never been a big fan of cryptocurrency. If you store your wealth on your smartphone or computer disk, what happens if it crashes? If you exchange electronically, what happens when the electricity fails or internet goes down?

I think it's a stupid system. But maybe that's what 5G is all about.





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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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World Economic Forum's Predictions for 2030 Include No Property Ownership, Diminished US

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'What To Do With All of These Useless People?'


Davos Elite and people like Yuval Noah Harari and Klaus Schwab

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/may/25/in-davos-global-elite
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