The Great Reset

[Michael B-C]

I don't really want to post this, but as its going to be an ever present narrative - plus likely that the DAVOS / WEF cabal - continues to piggyback the COVID scamdemic as an opportunity not to be missed, we should probably track this hubristic beast as it tries to hold onto and build momentum under the guise of 'inclusiveness'.

There is of course cross over to the COVID thread and to the BIDEN presidency but its a big enough topic to earn its own place at the table with the WEF 'Great Reset' umbrella certainly seeing itself as the full spectrum eye of Sauron with the ambition, as witnessed by this now infamous schema below, is to wind and bind every aspect of life into a singularity of control and interdependence. And they clearly believe - rightly or wrongly - that the tech advances (and probably many we do not yet know of ) as well as political, social, and ecologicial momentum gives them ample opportunity to finally achieve this. A Technocrat eugenicist's wet dream in other words!



If you read your way around this monster Oroboros you will see just about every conceivable 'issue' included and thus the coming together of dozens of agendas - with Agenda 2030 as the mop up tool - is what's driving the piggy back ride via COVID medical martial law.

The article below (from which the thread title aptly comes) gives a good enough overview at this stage but particular focus on the food issues which I think are really being pushed right now - with some serious signs that there may be some kind of 2021 'event' around global food supplies (possibly cyber related) that will enable them to break and then remake the global structure (particularly degrading access to healthy meat based diet). If you think about the degrading impact of COVID hysteria upon immune systems and now being furthered by the vaccine push, that detrimental dietary impact would be a logical next step (in their twisted minds). Here in Ireland it is no mistake that Meat Processing plants have been particularly targeted as centres for COVID outbreaks (utter nonsense of course) as Amazon Warehouses appear completely immune to 'infection'!


After COVID, Davos Moves to The “Great Reset”

By F. William Engdahl

Global Research, January 26, 2021

With the USA Biden Presidency, Washington has rejoined the Global Warming agenda of the Paris Accords.

With China making loud pledges about meeting strict CO2 emission standards by 2060, now the World Economic Forum is about to unveil what will transform the way we all live in what WEF head Klaus Schwab calls the Great Reset.

Make no mistake. This all fits into an agenda that has been planned for decades by old wealth families such as Rockefeller and Rothschild. Brzezinski called it the end of the sovereign nation state.

David Rockefeller called it “one world government.”

George H.W. Bush in 1990 called it the New World Order. Now we can better see what they plan to impose if we allow.

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The Great Reset of the World Economic Forum is a 21st Century rollout for a new form of global total control.

“We only have one planet and we know that climate change could be the next global disaster with even more dramatic consequences for humankind. We have to decarbonise the economy in the short window still remaining and bring our thinking and behaviour once more into harmony with nature,”

declared WEF founder Schwab about the January 2021 agenda.

The last time these actors did something at all similar in scope was in 1939 on the very eve of World War II.

War & Peace Studies
At that time the Rockefeller Foundation financed a top secret strategy group working out of the New York Council on Foreign Relations. It was known as the War and Peace Studies and headed by ‘America’s Haushofer,’ geographer Isaiah Bowman of Johns Hopkins University. Before German Panzer tanks had even rolled into Poland, they were planning a postwar world where the United States would emerge as the sole victor and replace the British as the global hegemonic power.

Formulation of a US-dominated United Nations and Bretton Woods monetary order based on the dollar was part of their project. In 1941 as America formally entered the war, the CFR group sent a memo to the US State Department:

“If war aims are stated which seem to be solely concerned with Anglo-American imperialism, they will offer little to people in the rest of the world. The interests of other peoples should be stressed. This would have a better propaganda effect.”

That successful project has been the framework of what Henry Luce in 1941 called the American Century, and lasted until quite recently.

Now those same families, again including the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rothschilds in the person of Lynn de Rothschild’s “Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican,” are moving to create the next generation in their pursuit of global domination. It’s being called the Great Reset. It requires global government, a plank significantly endorsed by the Jesuit Pope Francis. Its PR man, Klaus Schwab, is a self-admitted protégé of Rockefeller insider Henry Kissinger, from their days 50 years ago at Harvard.

‘Build Back Better’
In May, 2020 as the coronavirus had caused global panic lockdowns far beyond the initial outbreak in Wuhan, the British Crown Prince Charles, together with the World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, unveiled what they gleefully named the Great Reset. Increasingly world political and business leaders are using terms such as “the Great Reset,” or “the Fourth Industrial Revolution” and the call to “Build Back Better” which the Biden Administration prefers. They all are anchored on the same set of dramatic global changes. The US Green New Deal and the EU European Green Deal are all part of it.

The most striking fact about the agenda of the Great Reset is that it is being advanced by the same giga-rich plutocrat families responsible for the flaws of the present world economic model. They, not we, have created ruin of organic fields and nature with their Roundup glyphosate and toxic pesticides. They have ruined the air quality in our cities by the transportation models they force on us. They created the “free market” model of globalization that has ruined the industrial base of the United States and the industrial EU nations. Now, as they blame us for an alleged catastrophic emission of CO2, we’re being conditioned to accept guilt and be punished in order to “save the next generation” for Greta and friends.

The 4th Industrial Revolution
Behind the seductive rhetoric of the Powers That Be on creating a “sustainable” world, lies an agenda of raw eugenics, depopulation on a scale never before tried. It is not human, in fact, some call it “transhuman.”

In 2016 WEF head Schwab wrote a book titled Shaping the Future of The Fourth Industrial Revolution. In it, he describes the technological changes coming with the 4th Industrial Revolution of 5G smart phones, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence that link everything to everything to make the most banal decisions for us such as buying more milk or turning down the stove. At the same time data is centralized in private corporations such as Google or Facebook to monitor every breath we take.

Schwab describes how new generation technologies, already being rolled out by Google, Huawei, Facebook and countless others, will allow governments to “intrude into the hitherto private space of our minds, reading our thoughts and influencing our behavior…Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will not stop at becoming part of the physical world around us — they will become part of us,” said Schwab. “Today’s external devices — from wearable computers to virtual reality headsets — will almost certainly become implantable in our bodies and brains.”

Schwab adds, “What the fourth industrial revolution will lead to is a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identity.” Among those fusion technologies are, “active implantable microchips that break the skin barrier of our bodies,” Schwab explained. These:

“implantable devices will likely also help to communicate thoughts normally expressed verbally, through a ‘built-in’ smartphone, and potentially unexpressed thoughts or moods by reading brain waves and other signals.”

I don’t know about you but I am not eager to have the state or Google read my brainwaves.

Control Our Food
The confusing aspect for many is the plethora of front groups, NGOs and programs which all lead to the same goal: the drastic control over every member of society in the name of sustainability - UN Agenda 2030. Nowhere is it more ominous than in their plans for the future of our food. After creating the present system of globalized industrial agriculture, agribusiness, a project begun in the 1950s by the Rockefeller Foundation, the same circles now advocate “sustainable” agriculture which will mean a shift to genetically edited fake foods, lab-made synthetic meats and such, even including worms and weeds as new food sources.

The WEF’S Schwab has partnered with something called EAT Forum, which describes itself as a “Davos for food” that plans to “set the political agenda.” EAT was created in Sweden in 2016 with support from the UK Wellcome Trust (established with funds from GlaxoSmithKline), and the German Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Lab-grown synthetic gene-edited meats are being supported among others by Bill Gates, the same one backing Moderna and other genetically edited vaccines. EAT works among others with Impossible Foods and other biotech companies. Impossible Foods was initially co-funded by Google, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Recent lab results showed the company’s imitation meat contained toxic glyphosate levels 11 times higher than its closest competitor.

In 2017 EAT launched FReSH (Food Reform for Sustainability and Health) with the backing of Bayer AG, one of the world’s most toxic pesticide and GMO producers that now owns Monsanto; the China-owned GMO and pesticide giant Syngenta, Cargill, Unilever, DuPont and even Google. This is the planned food future under the Great Reset. Forget the traditional family farmer.

In his 2020 book on The Great Reset, Schwab argues that biotechnology and genetically modified food should become a central pillar to global food scarcity issues, issues which COVID has exacerbated. He is pushing GMO and especially the controversial gene-editing. He writes:

“...global food security will only be achieved if regulations on genetically modified foods are adapted to reflect the reality that gene editing offers a precise, efficient and safe method of improving crops.”

Gates, a project partner with Schwab since years, has argued the same.

EAT has developed what it refers to as “the planetary health diet”, which the WEF champions as the “sustainable dietary solution of the future.” But according to Federic Leroy, a food science and biotechnology professor at University of Brussels,

“The diet aims to cut the meat and dairy intake of the global population by as much as 90% in some cases and replaces it with lab-made foods, cereals and oil.”

Like everything else with the Great Reset, we will not be given a real choice in food. EAT notes it will be forced on us by, “hard policy interventions that include laws, fiscal measures, subsidies and penalties, trade reconfiguration and other economic and structural measures.” We will all be forced to eat the same synthetic diet or starve.

This is just a hint of what is being prepared under the guise of COVID-19 lockdowns and economic collapse, and 2021 will be a decisive year for this anti-human agenda. The introduction of AI, robots, and other digital technologies will enable the Powers That Be to dispose of hundreds of millions of workplaces. Contrary to their propaganda, new jobs will not be sufficient. We will become increasingly “redundant.”

This all seems too surreal until you read from their own descriptions. The fact that the cabal of the world’s most influential corporations and billionaires sit on the board of WEF with Kissinger’s student, Klaus Schwab, along with the head of the UN and of the IMF, with the CEOs of the world’s largest financial giants including Blackrock, BlackStone, Christine Lagarde of the European Central Bank, David Rubenstein of Carlyle group, Jack Ma, richest billionaire in China, is proof enough this Great Reset is not being done with our true interests at heart, despite their silky words. This dystopian agenda is 1984 on steroids. COVID-19 was merely the prelude.

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook” where this article was originally published.

He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.

I have been skeptical of their clout (bark greater than bite) but post the BIDEN coup now I'm not so sure. Plus when one digs below the surface narrative of the US v China debate you do find globalism all the way down to the bottom. I was actually quite struck by the absolutely on message tone and content of President Xi Jinping's Key Note Address to the Davos on 21.01.2021 - his first appearance there in the 4 years of phony war with Trump. And though Biden is staying away I suspect this is as much to avoid all those who want to call him China-Joe from seeing him line up with Xi Jinping during his honeymoon whilst not having him embarrassed by being there and having to listen to Xi Jinping's thinly disguised attack on US policy during Trump's 4 years.


Davos: China's Xi urges cooperation to reboot global economy

Date 25.01.2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping last took part at Davos four years ago before the Trump administration levied huge tariffs on its products. Beijing is now calling for a return to multilateralism.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday said that governments worldwide must do more to work together and put the global economy back on track.

Speaking at a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Xi said the global recovery from the coronavirus pandemic was "rather shaky" and the outlook remained uncertain.

"To build small cliques or start a new Cold War, to reject, threaten or intimidate others ... will only push the world into division," said Xi, adding that confrontation would lead to a "dead end."

The WEF is an annual talking shop for the global business and political elite held in the Swiss ski resort Davos. It is being held online this year due to the pandemic.

World faces 'existential threats'

In a speech to leaders later Monday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world was not only facing a pandemic and economic crisis, but also "existential threats" to the climate and biodiversity. H pointed to geopolitical division and the growing risks of nuclear and chemical proliferation.

"We have reached a moment of truth. In 2021 we must address these fragilities and put the world on track," Guterres said.

"We count on businesses to play an important role by themselves and to put pressure on governments to do the right thing," he said. "We need you more than ever to help us change course, end fragility, avert climate catastrophe and build the equitable and sustainable future we want and we need."

Germany wants Europe to up its game

German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) noted that many European start-ups ended up becoming American. To prevent this from happening, "we have to make sure that the European model looks more attractive," he said.

Green technologies could help realize both climate and economic ambitions, Altmaier said, appealing for increased cooperation between the developed and developing world on innovations such as tapping hydrogen as an energy source.

VW: China still vital

Herbert Diess, the chief executive of Volkswagen, said European manufacturers stood to profit from sourcing parts from all over the world, not just from Europe, adding that Chinese engineers play a vital role for the German car maker's technologies.

Although trade talks with Beijing remained tough and the country's democracy had not been developing fast enough, Diess said that "trade, communicating, being there, participating is much better" than moving away from China.

US President Joe Biden will not appear at the one-week online gathering in the week following his inauguration.

The Kremlin on Monday announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin would address the conference, according to Interfax. Putin, who has not appeared at the forum since 2009, was not on the list of participants published prior to the event. His planned appearance, expected on Wednesday, comes at a moment when the West is weighing new sanctions against Russia for its treatment of Alexei Navalny.

WEF and the COVID pandemic

The January 2020 WEF, which took place in its usual Swiss Alpine resort of Davos, saw the global elite just starting to worry about a pandemic that surfaced in China a month earlier.

A year on, the coronavirus is leaving a mounting death toll, upending economies and depriving millions of people of work.

And initial optimism about a swift, smooth vaccine rollout ending the pandemic has ebbed in the face of distribution hiccups and new virus variants.

But China and Asian countries in 2021 are making a strong comeback from the virus that hit them first.

Dave Cullen - albeit frothing somewhat at the mouth - does a pretty good job of analyzing Xi Kingping's speech. Whilst one could argue the Chinese President is simply mouthing platitudes to seduce western members into thinking he's in line, I don't think that withstands reason. He is too well versed in the double-speak and the globalist mantra's for that to be a viable reading - I think he's saying what he means and means what he says (whilst of course not because that's the point of double-speak).

The Davos Agenda and The Rise of China​

And as Cullen shows at 11:00 mins into the video, the UN seems to be waiting silently in the wings to get back on track - or rather was always there in the background but using the WHO as its mouthpiece for now - as the preferred means of propagating this to the masses. The military parade at a stadium in Wuhan (with all the Chinese soldiers taking part in UN uniforms) on the very day that Event 201 was taking place in the US really does beggar belief as as cult event that could not be more symbolic of what was/is to happen. I advise watching this and really taking in what you are viewing (e.g here's a screen grab of a single moment in this highly ritualized event).




And remember that the WEF and UN quietly signed up to a strategic partnership framework back in 2019.

So.... this game is no mere PR stunt and the hound is clearly up and running...

 

[Ina]

I don't really want to open this, but as its going to be an ever present narrative - plus likely that the DAVOS / WEF cabal - continues to piggyback the COVID scamdemic as an opportunity not to be missed, we shouldprobably track this hubristic beast on a separate thread as it tries to hold onto and build momentum under the guise of 'inclusiveness'.

There is of course cross over to the COVID thread and to the BIDEN presidency but its a big enough topic to earn its own place at the table with the WEF 'Great Reset' umbrella certainly seeing itself as the full spectrum eye of Sauron with the ambition, as witnessed by this now infamous schema below, is to wind and bind every aspect of life into a singularity of control and interdependence. And they clearly believe - rightly or wrongly - that the tech advances (and probably many we do not yet know of ) as well as political, social, and ecologicial momentum gives them ample opportunity to finally achieve this. A Technocrat eugenicist's wet dream in other words!

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If you read your way around this monster Oroboros you will see just about every conceivable 'issue' included and thus the coming together of dozens of agendas - with Agenda 2030 as the mop up tool - is what's driving the piggy back ride via COVID medical martial law.

The article below (from which the thread title aptly comes) gives a good enough overview at this stage but particular focus on the food issues which I think are really being pushed right now - with some serious signs that there may be some kind of 2021 'event' around global food supplies (possibly cyber related) that will enable them to break and then remake the global structure (particularly degrading access to healthy meat based diet). If you think about the degrading impact of COVID hysteria upon immune systems and now being furthered by the vaccine push, that detrimental dietary impact would be a logical next step (in their twisted minds). Here in Ireland it is no mistake that Meat Processing plants have been particularly targeted as centres for COVID outbreaks (utter nonsense of course) as Amazon Warehouses appear completely immune to 'infection'!


After COVID, Davos Moves to The “Great Reset”

By F. William Engdahl

Global Research, January 26, 2021

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I have been skeptical of their clout (bark greater than bite) but post the BIDEN coup now I'm not so sure. Plus when one digs below the surface narrative of the US v China debate you do find globalism all the way down to the bottom. I was actually quite struck by the absolutely on message tone and content of President Xi Jinping's Key Note Address to the Davos on 21.01.2021 - his first appearance there in the 4 years of phony war with Trump. And though Biden is staying away I suspect this is as much to avoid all those who want to call him China-Joe from seeing him line up with Xi Jinping during his honeymoon whilst not having him embarrassed by being there and having to listen to Xi Jinping's thinly disguised attack on US policy during Trump's 4 years.


Davos: China's Xi urges cooperation to reboot global economy

Date 25.01.2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping last took part at Davos four years ago before the Trump administration levied huge tariffs on its products. Beijing is now calling for a return to multilateralism.

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Dave Cullen - albeit frothing somewhat at the mouth - does a pretty good job of analyzing Xi Kingping's speech. Whilst one could argue the Chinese President is simply mouthing platitudes to seduce western members into thinking he's in line, I don't think that withstands reason. He is too well versed in the double-speak and the globalist mantra's for that to be a viable reading - I think he's saying what he means and means what he says (whilst of course not because that's the point of double-speak).

The Davos Agenda and The Rise of China​

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And as Cullen shows at 11:00 mins into the video, the UN seems to be waiting silently in the wings to get back on track - or rather was always there in the background but using the WHO as its mouthpiece for now - as the preferred means of propagating this to the masses. The military parade at a stadium in Wuhan (with all the Chinese soldiers taking part in UN uniforms) on the very day that Event 201 was taking place in the US really does beggar belief as as cult event that could not be more symbolic of what was/is to happen. I advise watching this and really taking in what you are viewing (e.g here's a screen grab of a single moment in this highly ritualized event).


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And remember that the WEF and UN quietly signed up to a strategic partnership framework back in 2019.

So.... this game is no mere PR stunt and the hound is clearly up and running...

Thank you Michael B-C! A lot of info to digest, here. One thing that I found intriguing. If one believes that infographics have some resemblance to what is being modelled, then there is a problem with the first graph as Taxation has a one-to-one connection line to the inner dashed circle, and actualy, it is the only item of the outer circle of domains of social activity that is ‘graphed’ as such. That is the anomaly that makes me believe the graph is just a pretty picture, as Taxation will be present at all levels and spheres as a built in factor or as an automatic deduction.

 

[psychegram]

Thought this was amusing: a slick promo video for the Great Reset Davos meeting happening right now is getting lots of pushback on YouTube.

As of now, the dislike:like ratio is over 10:1 and the comments are uniformly hostile.

 

[Charade]

Thought this was amusing: a slick promo video for the Great Reset Davos meeting happening right now is getting lots of pushback on YouTube.

As of now, the dislike:like ratio is over 10:1 and the comments are uniformly hostile.

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That was a nice powerpoint of cognitive dissonance. Nauseating.

 

[Anthony]

The oligarchs that got us into the present mess are also trying to sell us 'solutions' like the "Great Reset". The losses to human life, creativity, freedom and so on, are not accounted for in these alleged solutions, but ignored and swept under the rug. All of which points to the fact that these utopian projects are a mask under which psychopathic individuals operate in order to try and force their twisted way of being to become the norm. It is a recipe for disaster, and bound to fail eventually.

 

[Persephone]

The Great Reset will be tested in Oregon

Oregon Considering Bill for Emergency Seizure of Private Property

The Oregon state legislature is currently considering a bill which would allow for the Governor to seize, use, or possess

rfangle.com

The Oregon state legislature is currently considering a bill which would allow for the Governor to seize, use, or possess any private property during a state of emergency.

HB-2238 is supposedly meant to clarify the “Governor’s authority to use property during an emergency.” There are already provisions in place to allow for limited use of private property by the state government, but this bill seeks to drastically expand these. As proposed in HB-2238,

“Whenever the Governor has declared a state of emergency, the Governor may issue, amend and enforce rules and orders to:

1) Control, restrict and regulate by rationing, freezing, use of quotas, prohibitions on shipments, price fixing, allocation or other means, the use, sale or distribution of food, feed, fuel, clothing and other commodities, materials, goods and services;

2) Prescribe and direct activities in connection with use, conservation, salvage and prevention of waste of materials, services and facilities, including, but not limited to, production, transportation, power and communication facilities training, and supply of labor, utilization of industrial plants, health and medical care, nutrition, housing, rehabilitation, education, welfare, child care, recreation, consumer protection and other essential civil needs; and

3) Take any other action, including through the seizure, use or possession of any real or personal property…”

The Oregon governor would be allowed to take part in “rationing, freezing, use of quotas, prohibition on shipments, price fixing, allocation…” She would also be allowed to “Prescribe and direct activities in connection with… supply of labor, utilization of industrial plants, health and medical care, nutrition, housing, rehabilitation, education, welfare, child care, recreation, consumer protection and other essential civil needs.” When it comes down to it, this bill would allow the Governor broad discretion in what to seize, when to seize it, and how to use it.

Governor Brown has continually declared a State of Emergency in order to justify her use of executive orders. In fact, she recently extended the State of Emergency again, through March of 2021. Governor Brown has also allegedly used mob-like strongarm tactics on businesses that don’t comply with her orders. Given this history, one finds it entirely possible for her to declare a state of emergency in order to take control of any private property she wishes. Potential targets could include hospitals, housing, non-compliant businesses, and perhaps even privately-owned firearms.

The very thought that the government could unilaterally seize one’s property ought terrify every American. The United States of America was founded upon the protection of life, liberty, and property. Whenever a government becomes hostile to these ends, it is no longer a legitimate government, but a despotism.

 

[Jo Bugman]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this. I'm beginning to think this gamestop stock nonsense is happening at a very convenient time for our Great Reset pushers at the WEF.

 

[Persephone]

Vladimir Putin's speech at the Davos Forum 2021 - Man should not be a means, but an end of the economy

Discours de Vladimir Poutine au Forum de Davos 2021 – L’homme ne doit pas être un moyen, mais un but de l’économie - Strategika

Lemonde ne peut pas s’engager sur la voie de la construction d’une économie qui fonctionne pour un million de personnes. C’es une position destructrice. Un tel modèle est par définition non viable.

strategika.fr

Russian President Vladimir Putin participated from a distance in the annual Davos Forum, which this year takes place from 25 to 29 January 2021. The main topic of discussion this year was the new global situation following the coronavirus pandemic. Vladimir Putin reiterated his already numerous calls for international cooperation to solve the most serious problems, but also to solve the problem of growing social inequalities in the world, so that the tensions created by these inequalities do not end up leading to global instability and conflict. He also discusses the dangers that the transition to robotics and computerisation and the excessive weight of certain digital societies in the political life of States can represent.

"It is absolutely clear that the world cannot go down the road of building an economy that works for a million people or even a 'golden billion'. This is simply a destructive position. Such a model is by definition unsustainable".
"Clearly, the era associated with attempts to build a centralised and unipolar world order is over. In fact, it has not even begun yet. Only one attempt has been made in this direction. But that, too, has passed. Such a monopoly was simply intrinsically contrary to the cultural and historical diversity of our civilisation."

Some extracts (translated with DeepL) :

"Let me note here that the social and value crisis is already turning into negative demographic consequences, as a result of which humanity risks losing entire civilisational and cultural continents.

Our common responsibility today is to avoid such a prospect, similar to a sinister dystopia, to ensure development on a different, positive, harmonious and creative trajectory.

In this regard, I will dwell on the main challenges that I believe the world community is currently facing.

The first is socio-economic.

Yes, judging by the statistics, even in spite of the deep crises of 2008 and 2020, the last forty years can be described as a success or even a super success for the world economy. World GDP at purchasing power parity has doubled in real per capita terms since 1980. This is certainly a positive development.

(...)

Nevertheless, the main question, the answer to which goes a long way towards understanding the current problems, is what was the nature of this global growth, who benefited most from it.

Of course, as I said earlier, in many ways developing countries have benefited from the growing demand for their traditional products and even for new products. However, this integration into the global economy has not only resulted in jobs and export earnings. But also social costs. Including a large gap in citizens' incomes.

What about the developed economies, where the average level of wealth is much higher? Paradoxical as it may seem, the problems of stratification here in the developed world have been even more profound. The World Bank estimates that while 3.6 million people were living on less than $5.50 a day in the United States in 2000, by 2016 there will be 5.6 million.

Over the same period, globalisation has led to a significant increase in the profits of large multinationals, mainly American and European companies.

Moreover, as far as citizens are concerned, the trend in Europe's developed economies is the same as in the United States.

But again, when it comes to corporate profits, who benefits? The answer is known, it is obvious - one percent of the population.

And what has happened in the lives of the rest of the people? Over the last 30 years, in some developed countries, the income of more than half of the citizens in real terms has stagnated, has not increased. But the cost of education and health services has risen. And do you know by how much? Three times.

International institutions are weakening, regional conflicts are multiplying and this means that millions of people, even in rich countries, have not seen the prospect of an increase in their income. And they face many problems, how to keep themselves and their parents healthy, how to provide children with a quality education.

(...)

These distortions in global socio-economic development are the direct result of policies pursued in the 1980s, often in a crude and dogmatic manner. These policies were based on the so-called "Washington consensus". With its unwritten rules, giving priority to economic growth based on private debt with deregulation and low taxes on the rich and corporations.

As I said, the coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated these problems. Last year, the fall of the world economy was the biggest since the Second World War.

(...)

All this makes it virtually impossible to stimulate the economy using traditional tools at the expense of increasing private lending. So-called quantitative easing, which only increases, inflates the "bubble" in the value of financial assets and leads to a further stratification of society. And the widening gap between the "real" and "virtual" economy (indeed, I often hear about it from representatives of the real economy in many countries, and I think that today's meeting participants from the business community will also agree with me) is a real threat, bringing serious and unpredictable shocks.

Some hopes of being able to "restart" the old growth model are linked to the speed of technological development. Indeed, the last 20 years have laid the foundations for the so-called fourth industrial revolution, which is based on the widespread use of artificial intelligence, automated solutions and robotics. The coronavirus pandemic has considerably accelerated these developments and their implementation.

However, this process is generating new structural changes, I am thinking first of all of the labour market. This means that without effective government action, many people run the risk of becoming unemployed. And this is often referred to as the middle class. This is the basis of any modern society.

And this is linked to the second fundamental challenge of the coming decade - the socio-political challenge. Growing economic problems and inequalities divide society, generate social, racial and ethnic intolerance, and this tension erupts even in countries with seemingly well-established civil and democratic institutions designed to smooth out and repress these phenomena and excesses.

Systemic socio-economic problems generate such public discontent that they require special attention, requiring that these problems be resolved in a concrete manner. The dangerous illusion that they can be ignored, neglected, sidelined is fraught with consequences. In this case, society will always be divided, both politically and socially. Because for people, the reasons for their dissatisfaction are in fact not speculation, but real problems that concern everyone, regardless of the opinions, including political ones, to which they subscribe. Or that you think you care about. And it is the real problems that generate discontent.

I would like to stress another fundamental point. Modern technological and, above all, digital giants have begun to play an increasingly important role in society. There is a lot of talk about this today, especially in relation to the events that took place in the United States during the election campaign. And they are no longer just economic giants; in some areas they are in de facto competition with the states. Their audience numbers in the billions of users who spend a significant part of their lives within these ecosystems.

From the point of view of the companies themselves, their monopoly position is optimal for organising technological and commercial processes. This may be right, but the public is asking the question: to what extent does such a monopoly correspond exactly to the public interest? Where is the line between the success of global corporations, the services and benefits demanded, the consolidation of personal data and attempts to crudely manage society as it pleases, to substitute for legitimate democratic institutions, in effect to usurp or limit people's natural right to decide for themselves how to live, what to choose, what position to express freely? We've all seen it recently in the United States, and everyone understands what I'm talking about now. I am sure that the vast majority of people share this position, including those who are participating in the conference with us today.

Finally, the third challenge, or more precisely the obvious threat that we may face in the next decade, is a further aggravation of the overall international problems. After all, unresolved and growing domestic socio-economic problems can make us look for someone to blame for all the problems and redirect the irritation and discontent of our citizens. And we can already see, we can feel that the level of foreign policy, of propaganda rhetoric is rising. We can expect the nature of concrete actions to become more aggressive, including pressure on countries that disagree with the role of obedient and directed satellites, the use of trade barriers, illegitimate sanctions and restrictions in the financial, technological and information spheres.

This game without rules critically increases the risks of the unilateral use of military force - that is, the danger of using force under any preposterous pretext. It increases the likelihood of new "hot spots" on our planet. It is a whole that can only give us cause for concern.

(...)

It is absolutely clear that the world cannot go down the road of building an economy that works for a million people or even a "golden billion". This is simply a destructive position. Such a model is by definition unsustainable. Recent events, notably the migration crises, have confirmed this once again.

It is now important to move from a general declaration to action, to direct resources and real efforts to achieve both the reduction of social inequalities within individual countries and the gradual convergence of the level of economic development of the different countries and regions of the world. There will then be no migration crisis.

The meaning and importance of such a policy, which is intended to ensure sustainable and harmonious development, is obvious. What is it? It is the creation of new opportunities for everyone, conditions for the development and realisation of human potential, regardless of where they are born and live.

(...)

Our priorities (in Russia) focus on the individual and his or her family, and are aimed at demographic development and the preservation of the nation, the improvement of people's well-being and the protection of their health. We strive to create the conditions for dignified and efficient work and successful entrepreneurship, in order to ensure digital transformation as the basis for the technological mode of the future of the entire country, rather than a narrow group of companies.

(...)

Clearly, the era associated with attempts to build a centralised and unipolar world order is over. In fact, it has not even begun yet. Only one attempt has been made in this direction. But that, too, has passed. Such a monopoly was simply intrinsically contrary to the cultural and historical diversity of our civilisation.

The reality is that different poles of development with their own original models, political systems and social institutions have emerged in the world and made themselves known. And today, it is extremely important to build mechanisms to coordinate their interests, so that the diversity and natural competition of the poles of development do not turn into anarchy and a series of protracted conflicts.

(...)

It is very important to assess the situation honestly, to focus not on imaginary but real global problems, to eliminate imbalances that are of paramount importance for the whole international community. And then, I am sure, we will be able to succeed, to meet the challenges of the third decade of the 21st century with dignity."


About Covid pandemic and climate problems, Poutine complied with the mainstream narrative

 

[michaelrc]

India will propose a law banning private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin

Jon Fingas

Updated

January 31, 2021, 1:15 pm



India rejected cryptocurrency as legal tender in 2018 and recommended banning existing digital cash with prison sentences up to 10 years for violators.

India will propose a law banning private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin

India is planning to introduce a law that would ban private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and help set up an official currency instead.

www.engadget.com

Did FDR confiscate Americans’ gold in 1933?




E.O. 6102 was issued in extremis within a month of FDR’s inauguration, and after three years of devastating economic dislocation. There was deep concern even for the survival of our democracy. Few Americans today appreciate how desperate those days were.

But did these conditions justify the confiscation of Americans’ gold?

First, “confiscation” implies seizure without compensation. While E.O. 6102 required much of the gold held by Americans to be surrendered to the government, it also provided for owners to be compensated. One might argue the price paid by the government was too low. Owners were paid $20.67 per troy ounce. Immediately following the surrender period, the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 raised the price of gold to $35.00 per ounce effectively declaring an immediate government profit of $14.33 for each ounce of gold collected. Nevertheless, sellers were compensated at the official price under the gold standard. The vast majority of the gold obtained by the government was voluntarily surrendered by the public, not confiscated.

Did FDR confiscate Americans’ gold in 1933? - U.S. Money Reserve

Did Franklin D. Roosevelt confiscate gold from citizens in 1933? Is that gold held in the Fort Knox gold vault? Read the article to learn the answers.

www.usmoneyreserve.com

 

[N1mTzo]

The article below (from which the thread title aptly comes) gives a good enough overview at this stage but particular focus on the food issues which I think are really being pushed right now - with some serious signs that there may be some kind of 2021 'event' around global food supplies (possibly cyber related)

Quite an interesting piece of news to support your thoughts on food:

The UN announced a record increase in food prices since 2014
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, world food prices have been rising for the eighth month in a row. Cereals, vegetable oils and sugar rose the most in January.

В ООН заявили о рекордном с 2014 года росте цен на продовольствие

По данным Продовольственной и сельскохозяйственной организации ООН, мировые цены на продукты растут восьмой месяц подряд. В январе больше всего подорожали зерновые, растительные масла и сахар

www.rbc.ru

In addition, since I am engaged in agriculture, I follow world news and forecasts in this sector of the economy. Recently there were preliminary long-term weather forecasts for the Americas - they are negative:

By May 2021, over 60% of the U.S. will be affected by dry conditions

“The violent La Niña phenomenon is usually not a farmer's best friend in the United States, Brazil or Argentina. La Niña creates sinking air over the Americas, provoking heat and drought, while rising air in the Southwest Pacific and Southeast Asia is responsible for very humid conditions.

This cycle is expected to be a major challenge throughout the 2021 growing season in both the United States and throughout South America.

Новости сельского хозяйства на агропромышленном портале

Свежие агроновости по отраслям АПК: животноводство, растениеводство, наука и технологии АПК, сельхозтехника.

www.agroxxi.ru

We can also recall the recent frosts in January in Spain, which ruined vegetable harvests. China also had freezing temperatures in January, as in many parts of Southeast Asia (even Singapore!). Recent frosts in Mexico and Argentina!
So Europe, Asia and Russia will face a very difficult year in terms of climate in 2021.
Perhaps the "bad guys" don't even have to artificially create a food shortage in the world - all this can be done by the weather on Earth.
I also call on people who in a neighboring topic (GameStop Rebellion) happily wrote that they bought silver bars in the wake of the "war with hedge funds":
buy seeds and a shovel, as well as a plot of land - this is probably the best investment at a given time.

 

[Arne]

Taxation has a one-to-one connection line to the inner dashed circle, and actualy, it is the only item of the outer circle of domains of social activity that is ‘graphed’ as such. That is the anomaly that makes me believe the graph is just a pretty picture, as Taxation will be present at all levels and spheres as a built in factor or as an automatic deduction.

This could make sense in the long run if the centralbanks plan to reset with a central bank digital currency. Centralplanning into microdetail backed på green(CO2) sertificates and AI-algoritms?

BISIH to focus on six themes: suptech and regtech; next-generation financial market infrastructures; central bank digital currencies; open finance; green finance; and cyber security.

Patrick Heningsen at UKcolumn sums it up here.

 

[Arne]

But rest assured there is nothing sinister about this at all. All for the people and a green planet.

This is NOT satire, folks. They are talking to grownups like they where children.

 

[Arne]

Mattew Ehret have a interesting and well-informed analysis here. Basicly multipolar nations VS unipolar global empire. I tend to agree with him on this.

"In this episode of Geopolitics and Empire, Matthew Ehret discusses the causes, history and purpose of the world government agenda which has poisoned so much of recent history. We also contrast this depopulation-oriented agenda with the higher open system pro-growth paradigm being led by China, Russia and the Multipolar Alliance."

 

[mamibio74]

When I listen to Poutin addressing the oligarchs of the world, I can't help but find it amusing because it's like he's asking all the mafia bosses in the world to stop their crime against the peoples, when they only live for that. Obviously there are warnings and innuendo from Putin that these thugs have heard, but they will impose their Grand Reset even if Putin does not enter their game. Putin's speech show once again which side he is on, which is why we love him.

 

[Jones]

In regards to a technocratic government there's this:

Bill would allow tech companies to create local governments​

CARSON CITY — If you’ve got enough money, acres upon acres of undeveloped land and an “innovative technology,” you soon could form a new local government in Nevada.

When Gov. Steve Sisolak last month announced his plan to launch Innovation Zones in Nevada to jump-start the state’s economy by attracting new tech companies, the details of how those zones would operate proved scarce.

According to a draft of the proposed legislation, obtained by the Review-Journal but not yet introduced in the Legislature, Innovation Zones would allow tech companies like Blockchains, LLC to effectively form separate local governments in Nevada, governments that would carry the same authority as a county, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and justice courts and provide government services, to name a few duties.

Sisolak pitched the concept in his State of the State address as his plan to bring in new companies that are at the forefront of “groundbreaking technologies,” all without the use of tax abatements or other publicly funded incentive packages that had previously helped Nevada bring companies like Tesla to the state.

During his speech last month, Sisolak specifically named Blockchains, LLC as a company that had committed to developing a “smart city” in the area east of Reno that would run entirely on blockchain technology, once the legislation passes.

The draft, which could change before it’s unveiled as a formal bill, provides the first look into the details behind the concept.

Local governments ‘inadequate’

The draft language of the proposal says that the traditional local government model is “inadequate alone to provide the flexibility and resources conducive to making the State a leader in attracting and retaining new forms and types of businesses and fostering economic development in emerging technologies and innovative industries.”

It adds that this “alternative form of local government” is needed to aid economic development within the state.

The Governor’s Office of Economic Development would handle the applications for the Innovation Zones. Those zones would be limited to specific “innovative technology,” which includes blockchain, autonomous technology, the internet of things, robotics, artificial intelligence, wireless technology, biometrics and renewable resource technology.

A spokeswoman for Sisolak’s office said in a statement Wednesday that the governor “looks forward to rolling out more information on Innovation Zones and other items from his State of the State speech in the future.”

“The Governor’s Office has not submitted a bill draft request related to this initiative so we will not be commenting on any language at this time,” the statement said.

GOED did not respond to questions about the zones Wednesday.

The zones would initially operate within the local county where they are located but would eventually be able to take over the duties of those counties and become an independent governmental body.

The zones would have a three-member board of supervisors that would carry the same powers as a board of county commissioners. And the company or firm applying for the zone would have significant say over who would sit on that board.

The apparent economic benefit, besides the potential to lure more tech businesses to the state, would be an “industry-specific tax that will be imposed upon the innovative technology or activity related to the innovative technology,” within the zone.

Requirements: Land, money

The draft proposal lays out the requirements for the zone, including the applicant owning 50,000 acres of undeveloped land, all within a single county but separate of any city, town or tax increment area. And the area would have to be uninhabited. The company would also need to have $250 million, and a plan to invest an additional $1 billion over 10 years into the zone.

The zone would be required to report to the Legislature during the biennial session to detail its capital investments, physical progress on developing infrastructure, an estimate of the number of people employed in the zone and the economic impact from the zone itself.

In 2018, Blockchains, LLC, the tech firm owned by lawyer and cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns, purchased roughly 67,000 acres — about the same size as the city of Henderson — of undeveloped, uninhabited land in Storey County at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center for $170 million.

Since then, the firm has given heavily to political candidates and PACs.

Blockchains, LLC gave $50,000 to a Home Means Nevada PAC, which managed Sisolak’s transition into office, in January 2019, according to campaign finance records. The company also donated $10,000 to Sisolak’s campaign in the 2018 election cycle. Sisolak’s opponent, Republican Adam Laxalt, also received $10,000 from the firm that year.

Berns himself gave $50,000 to the state Democratic Party in 2019, and various donations ranging between $1,000 and $5,000 to various state lawmakers from both parties.

Blockchains, LLC did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday.

‘Jury still out’

Storey County Commissioner Lance Gilman, one of the industrial center’s developers, said that the Blockchains Innovation Zone is “going to have an impact on Storey County, and the jury is still out on whether that will be positive or negative.”

Gilman said that the county is staying open-minded about the idea, but there needs to be some sort of incentive to compensate for ceding the land to the zone itself.

“We’re going to want to know that Storey County gets the benefit of the bargain,” he said.

Gilman said that if that isn’t the case, and the negative consequences outweigh the positives for Storey County, then he doubts the legislation would move forward.

Senate Minority Leader James Settelmeyer, R-Minden, whose district includes Storey County, echoed Gilman’s thoughts when reached by phone Wednesday evening, saying that it could be “fantastic” for the state and especially Northern Nevada. But he said he’s concerned that it leaves Storey County high and dry.

“The legislation seems to be rather one-sided, that the Innovation Zones get to make determinations and the county has to go along with them,” Settelmeyer said.

Settelmeyer added that he was “not impressed” about finding out the details of a bill that would affect part of his district “so far into the process.”

“It is disrespectful,” he said.

In the above they mention 'innovation zones' and I'm pretty sure that Catherine Austin Fitts used a similar term when she found that area's that were trashed during riots corresponded to these zones. It may not have been the term that she used though the meaning seems to be heading in the same direction.

Since Bill Gates is apparently investing in fake food production and there are recent stories of him holding a huge farmland property portfolio:

Gates, whose net worth of nearly $US121 billion makes him the world’s fourth-richest person, and his wife, Melinda Gates, hold an extensive farmland portfolio stretching over 18 states, according to The Land Report.

The Gates family’s biggest holdings are in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres), and Nebraska (20,588 acres), the report said.

Their farmland is held both directly and through Cascade Investment, a firm controlled by Gates to manage his investments, according to The Land Report.

Bill Gates is America's biggest owner of private farmland, and his 242,000 acres could be split in his divorce

Bill Gates owns farmland in 18 states from Washington to Florida. His divorce means he may not be the largest private-farmland owner for much longer.

www.businessinsider.com.au

- maybe Gates is looking to set up his own government.