— The Path Forward—Act Now & Act #Together, opening address to the 2011 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the #WorldBank Group & the #IMF, Christine Lagarde, managing director, International Monetary Fund
2012 "The Great Transformations: Reshaping the World"
p 294
In a session on the future of #capitalism, Sharan Burrow, Gen. Sec. of the International Trade #Union Confederation: "We must redesign the model. We must #reset it..."
2016: In a keynote address, US VP #Biden took up the potential for the #4IR to pull down the middle class: "When the middle class does well, the wealthy do very well & the poor have a ladder up…The #4IR has the potential to further #hollow out the middle class." [p. 331]
2017: "We are at a point where it is possible that technological development can accelerate & increase #digital#refugees"
"Each country will have to set out its action plan to prepare for the wrenching transformations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution."
"#Inequality & a sense among the middle class that governing elites do not represent them have led to growing
popular #discontent & political movements aimed at tapping that resentment. '#Populism scares me,' #Dalio declared [] calling [it] "the #1 issue for #market participants"
#DavosDelusions: ">>>The international order that has promoted peace, security and prosperity in the world since World War II<<<has come under severe stress, with mounting doubts about its integrity & viability going forward."
Short article: "Lipid #nanoparticles are the fatty molecular envelopes that help strands of #mRNA — the genetic messenger for making #DNA code into proteins — evade the body's biological gatekeepers & reach their target cell..."
"#nanomaterials may have a wide range of effects... Experiments so far have also shown possible harmful effects on #invertebrates & #fish, including effects on behaviour, #reproduction & development."
"There is less research to date on #soil systems and #terrestrial species, and it is not clear whether laboratory results relate to what may happen out in the real world." [source document, 2009]
Dec 8 2020: "In launching this new initiative, the #Hewlett Foundation is mindful of how an earlier generation of #funders helped create, nurture, and promote #neoliberalism."
"Just as philanthropy effectively spurred the development & ascendance of #neoliberalism, the Hewlett Foundation will support an ideologically diverse set of ideas and thinkers capable of leading a shift every bit as widespread and profound."
Led by Jennifer Harris, director of the Economy & Society Initiative, "the Hewlett Foundation is joined by a growing group of #funders interested in nurturing a #movement to supersede #neoliberalism."
"The Initiative will fund thinkers and organizations in the US & abroad."
"If you go to, say, Amazon and under books type in #Philosophy, or Philosophy/Truth…you will get a litany of books with the phrase “post #truth” in the title. It is, apparently, a #posttruth world now."
"This is related to what I experience as absent in daily life. Post truth is post experience in some sense. As Cory Morningstar put it in our podcast (#25); 'we are being reprogrammed'."
"Of course the more profound elements of the #reprogramming are to be found in the #digital revolution. There is no way to overemphasize the impact of the internet & its various platforms....
Societies of the west are increasingly demoralized...."
Dec 9, 2020: "Human-made materials now outweigh Earth's entire biomass... human-made mass – driven mostly by enhanced consumption & urban development – exceeds the overall living biomass on Earth."
"On average, every person in the world is responsible for the creation of human-made matter equal to more than their bodyweight each week, the paper published in Nature says."
This is poor (perhaps deliberate) framing.
Remember:
Corbyn: "The Climate Change Committee's report shows the scale of transformation & investment that is needed to tackle the climate emergency. We need a #netzero strategy w/ social justice at its heart."
There is no justice in destroying what remains to "save" climate. #Language
An avalanche of corporate marketing attempts to lay siege to the collective psyche. They seek to maintain the #sociallicense in order to secure/continue their plunder within a new global architecture.
Presenting the "guardians" & "stewards" as deemed by the #Pope & #Vatican.
Abracadabra. The devils we know, that have poisoned/ plundered/exploited the planet & all life it sustains - appointed as new "stewards" & "guardians". The magic of bullshit & storytelling.
"'The Devil We Know:' How DuPont Poisoned the World w/ Teflon"
This is a #rebrand of the Coalition for Inclusive #Capitalism conceptualized in [May] 2012 by Lynn Forester de #Rothschild; "Founder, Managing Partner, & member of the Management Committee of Inclusive Capital Partners, member of the Council on Foreign Relations & Chatham House.
Klein: "It is, first & foremost, about blocking a real #GreenNewDeal, which most assuredly would not have the support of BP, Mastercard, the #Prince of #Wales, & all of the other #GreatReset partners."
Guess again. We mean Business/ Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group. 👇