The Great Reset And A World In Denial
Global Financial Capitalists, Governments, And Newly Crowned Kings Are Making Their Final Moves To Control Global Resources. Unfortunately, You and I Are Not Part Of The Plan.
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In case you haven’t noticed, the world has now reached a catastrophic, irreversible, turning point in History.
The confusion and dystopia are as thick as London Fog.
Part of it is a result of the consequences of recent global government action, (and inaction) part of it has to have been years in the making.
The Great Economic Reset, as it has been called by the principles in the World Economic Forum, including the new British monarch King Charles III, seems to be a final grab of land and resources by the world’s most powerful and wealthy people and corporations. Of course, that’s not the way it was initially sold. It was sold, if we are to believe the original video, as a compassionate global response to the COVID-19 health crisis, and “realigning” corporate and government priorities.
These powerful people suddenly seem converted from pure profiting from economic goals and corporate dominance, to morally motivated champions of goodwill and benevolence saving the planet. They offered a vision of a new world run by “clean energy” with a sustainable balance of limited food and energy resources. Utopia.
Current reality disagrees vehemently. The original pretense has vanished entirely if it ever existed at all.
The original plan, drafted as a result of the 2008 economic crisis, was called, more ominously, the “Global Redesign Initiative.” It redefined, without consent or a vote of any kind individually or collectively, the role of corporations and government. Specifically, corporations were literally promoted to being co-equals with elected governments in the critical decisions impacting people’s lives. It's anti-democratic by its very nature. What they are saying is that, while the average person without money and power may be a “stakeholder” in the world’s future, the minority, not the majority will ultimately have the say.
This new authority was granted to a powerful few that optimistically touted the “opportunity” the COVID-19 crisis provided to redesign world systems.
The flowery language and optimism, in the midst of a fearful and terrifying challenge to life and health, flowed like fine wine:
“But, more broadly, the Great Reset is a commitment to jointly and urgently build the foundations of our economic and social system for a more fair, sustainable and resilient post-COVID future.”
Flash forward, and that “future” seems to consist of Western governments recklessly expanding global war and hegemony, the suppression of public health measures and data concerning the long-term, lethal effects of COVID, forced austerity for the average citizen in the European Union, and a future that puts millions of lives, both here and abroad, at risk. If Klaus Schwab, just as a visual, represents “hope for the future”, you might want to have your eyes examined.
Here in the United States, acrimony, division, and rancor are at an all-time high. Distraction from the true state of affairs concerning the domestic and global economy is essential to keep money flowing to a dying corporate news industry. Melodrama and distraction are critical. There has been no better reward for corporate news than the rating bonanza provided by the never-ending Donald Trump saga.
Trump remains the sole focus of elite Democratic centrists, and at this point, it would be fair to say it’s an obsession. They have thrown the book at him, from impeachment to FBI raids, and weirdly, like Ronald Reagan, he seems to be made of Teflon. Nothing sticks, at least, so far. Not that a trial or criminal liability wouldn’t be a great relief from the nightmare of existence in a Trump-centric Universe. It’s critical we move on to actual issues in our common dialog, unlikely, but one can hope.
Whether treason or espionage is the next try as they spin the wheel of criminal charges remains to be seen.
These people can afford to spend their time imagining a perfect world of moral absolutes with no gray areas, a world where Trump and his MAGA followers are rounded up by cops in riot gear, and unceremoniously frog marched to the public square to be tarred and feathered before being sentenced to a lifetime in prison. They scream loudly about Trump having made us all ”unsafe and less secure,” giving away our “nuclear secrets,” as if spies were infiltrating Mar-A-Lago daily to take advantage of Trump’s stupidity and recklessness, and as if real life were James Bond novel plot. It’s a sophomoric response to a world full of complexities. They turn a blind eye, ironically, to the very actions of a militant Democratic party approving the outflow of national wealth to purchase weapons for endless war, and provoking a potential existential crisis.
The regular “folks,” as Biden is fond of referring to the masses with his faux populism, don’t have the same luxury. The sanctions generated inflation has spread like the monetary disease it is. They are dealing with eviction, low-paying jobs, the abdication of public health by Biden, and economic malaise. Biden, as US spokesperson for the Great Economic Reset, brags about a new era of microchip manufacturing, literally bribing corporations to abandon their long tradition of exploiting labor abroad, in order to move back to America and do the same here.
Ironically, this is occurring while The Democrats, allegedly the party of the working class under Joe Biden, have bled off multi-billions of hard-earned US taxpayer dollars for global war, with no democratic input or debate allowed from the masses, while a servile and compliant Congress simply rubber stamps each massive monetary drawdown without debate or comment. This aligns, unsurprisingly, with the new model of global decision-making where corporations are “co-equals” with the government as described above.
After all, who benefits more from the “investment” in war than the corporations that make up the Military Industrial Complex?
The Democrats have largely spent their time in power in unprecedented moves that bring deliberate, real pain at a global level: Starvation for innocents in Afghanistan, bleeding the US taxpayer to fund a revival of Nazism in Ukraine to fight Russia by proxy, openly funding bellicose militarism that might provoke Taiwanese confrontation with China, sparking deliberate new confrontations with Iran, the list grows daily. They pretend to care, yet continue policies that ensure climate devastation, war, and global economic destruction without batting an eye.
Side deals and personal wealth enhancement, are all allowed in the climate of the Great Economic Reset.
The Democrats have literally morphed into the crazed, militant fascists they allegedly revile. The irony of all the weird, ominous blood symbolism of Biden’s recent speech, squinting, ranting, and screaming about democracy in words, while serving the ultimate goals of The Great Reset in deed, has been lost on loyalists. This is the antidote to similar divisive speeches and rallies by Trump?
It’s uncanny and frustrating how Democratic party loyalists fail to see how the US is literally part of the rise in fascism and the financial capitalist’s global reorder.
“It’s the other side” arguments lack credibility and become moot when, as Max Blumenthal notes to Katie Halper in this interview, the true, actual uni party, stripped of its fake “divisions,” defines what “normal” is: an era prior to the advent of Donald Trump as President where unfettered neoliberalism, privatization, and militarism is allowed to flourish, in an environment with heavy restrictions on Civil liberties. Fascism Lite.
If ever there were a “stars aligned” ominous moment for not only Britain, but the entire world, it has to be the intersection of the end of the 70-year monarchy under Queen Elizabeth, coinciding with the rise of the new monarchy under King Charles III. This moment fits hand in glove with the appointment of the ultra-militant Prime Minister Liz Truss.
For students of History, there is an eerie sense of Deja Vu, as this moment resembles the reincarnation of the political love affair between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, in the contemporary guise of a Joe Biden and Liz Truss alliance. Especially considering the bellicose rhetoric against Russia and Putin emanating from the official statements of both Biden and Truss, and the fact that Trusss is a proponent of Thatcher-era austerity. The worst political horrors of the past rising from the grave.
Truss is a career politician allegedly chosen by her fellow Conservative party members to provide competence in the wake of what is perceived as incompetence under the tenure of the inept and oafish Boris Johnson. Truss’s leadership, in comparison to Johnson’s dubious legacy, remains to be seen, but the early reviews are not promising:
“Truss’s response to questions from Keir Starmer at her first prime minister’s questions had the virtue of directness, but her answers seemed wooden and dull. She could not summon up one memorable phrase in her initial message on the Queen’s passing. She does not do rhetoric, only cliche – “from thick and thin” she said, in a brisk and cursory speech at Downing Street. She might have been reading out a shopping list.”
Britain’s loyal servants of the King (regular folks here in America) are broken financially, as the cost of Britain’s subservience to NATO’s sanctions against Russia has resulted in impossible, unaffordable energy costs. 10,000-pound utility bills for both small and large homes, pubs, and small businesses are the rule, not the exception. A recent televised morning news show offered paid utility bills as a sort of dystopian “Hunger Games” type “Spin To Win” prize.
If nothing else, Truss is the perfect spokesperson for the muscle behind The Great Reset: global militarism, and hegemony. Like Boris Johnson, Truss believes in the complete avoidance of any diplomatic or peaceful measures to end the war in Ukraine. More disturbingly, she seems more than willing to press the button and unleash the force of Britain’s nuclear arsenal without guilt, remorse or empathy. As with every military advancement announced by Adolf Hitler which was greeted with mindless “Heil Victory!” salutes with raised arms, this British studio audience mindlessly cheers on global nuclear (and presumably their own) destruction.
When these comments were issued by Truss, Vladimir Putin responded by putting Russian nuclear forces on high alert. No one blinked. In the world before The Great Reset, reckless language like this would have brought near Universal condemnation, now it elicits cheers and shrugs. At least, an equally militant and bellicose Joe Biden might say to his base, we are working on a saner world free from the reckless incompetence of Donald Trump spilling nuclear secrets, and his semi-fascist MAGA followers “overthrowing democratic institutions” right? The level of irony and hypocrisy is off the scale.
There is no possible way that humanity can continue to survive without sustenance, and large segments of populations are being intentionally, and systematically starved as noted in the example of Afghanistan above.
Unfortunately part of the agenda of the great economic reset appears to be systematic attacks on farming, both individually and collectively.
That is, with the “blessings” of the United Nations, corporations, as co-equals, can make decisions affecting millions of people, specifically attacking the right of the individual to feed themselves and their families. All to ensure dependence on a larger corporate model of farming.
Perhaps no better example of the nefarious cruelty of the Great Economic Reset than in the country of Sri Lanka, whose population is at the mercy of the International Monetary Fund due to corrupt leadership. The country defaulted on debt in May of 2022 and corrupt President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was driven out of a position of power and authority after massive protests. The new government, according to Human Rights Watch, is subservient to the corporate stakeholders, and the newly installed President has chosen to suppress democracy and public dissent:
“Despite the many challenges facing the country, the new government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe seems more focused on suppressing dissent than on solving the economic crisis, even as it negotiates a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The conditions the IMF places on this loan could either exacerbate the political and economic hardship or provide desperately needed relief while addressing underlying causes. The IMF should make clear to President Wickremesinghe that he needs to engage with the public, not silence them.
The program is expected to cap public spending, including public-sector wages, despite the IMF’s own guidance acknowledging that public-sector wage cuts disproportionately harm women and encouraging alternative policies. It may also remove fuel and electricity subsidies and increase value-added or consumption taxes, which would drive up prices when millions are already struggling.
The IMF should use its leverage to ensure funding provides broad relief to Sri Lankans in a way that is transparent and accountable.”
Add a simultaneous agricultural crisis, and you have a microcosm of the great global humanitarian crisis expanding across the world.
No one in America should presume that we are in any way insulated from the suffering our politicians, hand in glove, with larger global entities and corporations, are inflicting on the world.
Food shortages could just as easily be part of a dystopian American future, in no small part because of rail corporations’ abuse of rail workers, who are currently being forced to work 80-hour weeks and 16-hour days. Like frontline and healthcare workers during the worst of COVID-19 spread, they are overworked and underpaid.
Tensions are running high, and it’s likely no coincidence that Biden and the Dems saw this coming. Corporate participation in democracy is unsustainable if a fair and equitable outcome is to be achieved. The subtext of messaging in the corporate media, of course, is to cast the rail workers as “threats to the economy” which Biden and the government likely equate to “domestic extremism”. These workers, exhausted and abused, are simply are asking for fair pay and hours that are reasonable.
Despite the constant stream of Union-friendly propaganda from the Biden administration, make no mistake that they are happy to impose themselves with force, as final arbiters in favor of the corporations, for the “sake of the domestic economy.”
This strike is even more divisive in the sense that truckers depend on rail, and a shutdown threatens their livelihoods and the final distribution of goods to destinations for consumer purchase.
One thing is for certain, you and I are just passengers on this runaway train.
Stay aware and stay safe.
Update (09/20/2022) Excellent quote (and article) by Joseph Scalise at WSWS which is relevant to the topics discussed here. “
“American capitalism is at war with reality, and nowhere is this more openly embodied than in its President Joe Biden. He acknowledged the gravity of the situation declaring, “This is a really difficult time. We’re at an inflection point in the history of this country.” At the same time, and without any justification, Biden announced, “I’m more optimistic than I’ve been in a long time.”
Mass inflation has gripped the globe. The prices of basic necessities have soared beyond the reach of the working class. Workers in Europe face the prospect of a freezing winter, unable to afford heat; workers in the United States struggle to pay rent. The stock market is turbulent, and its future looks grim. Most significantly, the struggles of the working class against capitalism are coming into the open, are growing rapidly and are taking an increasingly political form.”