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COVID-19: THE GREAT RESET
Book Review, Part 2 of 3.

Klaus & Co. are back with their campaign for:

→ Centralization
→ Global Governance
→ Public-Private Partnerships

Can they make a case?

Let's find out... Image
COVID-19: The Great Reset
by Klaus Schwab & Thierry Malaret.

It's not a conspiracy theory. It's a book.

→ Klaus is founder & exec. chair of the WEF

→ Nobody's ever heard of Malaret, but he's from the WEF too

Chapter 1 - Pandemic Severity (ICYMI) 👇
Chapter 2 (right here & now) is all about centralization.

Following are some ideas from Klaus & Co. that focus on:

→ Increasing the role of government
→ Centralizing decision making
→ Interfering with markets

You will probably be able to sense my disdain.
If you read the first instalment of the series, you already know Klaus & Co. don't set the bar all that high.

In any case, this rare and brilliant insight will give you a feel for the tone...

Apparently, everything is connected to everything else. Image
Then this one...

(stay with me a moment, I’m building up to a point here) Image
Ok, I agree with Klaus & Co. on some things:

→ We have complex interactions to consider

→ Those interactions cut across various spheres of expertise

→ Experts find it difficult or impossible to work outside of their own disciplines

So what are we to make of this???
I would describe that as a conclusive list of reasons NOT to centralize decision-making.

Klaus & Co. see it as a great opportunity TO centralize decision-making.

Just like the aftermath of WW2: Image
Couple of thoughts on that:

1. The inference here is that the aftermath of COVID-19 is similar to the aftermath of WW2.

QUICK STATS...

COVID-19 → 6.5 Million deaths*
WW2 → 40 to 50 Million deaths

*Without discussing "died of" vs "died with".
2. Entire books have been written about the institutions Klaus & Co. chose to mention as examples.

I'll ask you this:

How well are those institutions doing vs their original purpose?

Bretton Woods → Economic Stability
The UN → World Peace
The EU → Peace & Prosperity
Klaus & Co. move on to tell us about the future role of government in society: Image
Look, I’m a free market, libertarian-leaning kind of guy.

Klaus and I were never going to see eye-to-eye on this.

For the record, I think increasing the role of government is a terrible idea.

That might be in the interests of a select few people, but not the rest of us.
Next, we read about private companies becoming more involved in the mitigation of global risks.

Or, said another way - governments becoming more involved in the affairs of private, profit-making enterprises.

What could go wrong? Image
Klaus & Co. say that the WTO and WHO are underfunded.

I say underfunded is not as good as defunded, but you have to start somewhere. Image
Oh, BTW...

The WHO budget for the 2022/2023 biennium is $6.72 Billion.

Whether that could reasonably be described as “underfunded” is a subjective judgement, I suppose.

You can guess my opinion on the matter.
Of course, you can't talk about the WHO without talking about Bill Gates...

I'm not sure why Klaus & Co. find this comment from Bill "compelling".

Apart from the fact that he said it.

And I mean, he’s kind of invested… he would say this, wouldn’t he? Image
Guess what else Klaus & Co. predict will become the subject of centralized, top-down control?

→ Minimum wages

Via increased regulation. Image
I predict that would be a net negative.

I'm not going to try and explain why in a tweet.

Richard Ebeling, via the Mises Institute, does a far better job of it than I could anyway:

mises.org/wire/freedom-a…
One final contradiction - just in case Klaus & Co. haven't done enough of that yet...

We went from this:

“The shock that the pandemic has inflicted on the global economy has been MORE SEVERE and has occurred MUCH FASTER than ANYTHING ELSE in RECORDED HISTORY.”

To this: Image
And finally...

If there is ANY doubt left in your mind that Klaus Schwab thinks we should have global governance...

This quote should settle it: Image
Klaus & Co. clearly like the idea of centralized powers who can rule over the world.

I don’t.
Excessive concentration of power is a recipe for disaster, no matter who wields it.

Eventually, someone with genuinely evil intent seizes control.

That is inevitable.

And, in 2022, it might have already happened.
That's it for Chapter 2.

Thanks for reading and I hope you'll be back to check out the final installment.
In 48 hours I'll post the last part of this series.

Chapter 3 is all about the societal changes foretold by Klaus & Co.

In the meantime, if you'd like to re-tweet, here's the link right back to the first post.

Appreciate your support 🤝
P.S.

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Sep 9
COVID-19: THE GREAT RESET
Book Review, Part 3 of 3

Klaus & Co. return for the series finale - with the spotlight on societal shifts.

Let's see how we would live in a WEF-inspired future... Image
The bad ideas in this chapter stand on their own, so don't worry if you haven't read the first two.

That said, here are the links if you want to start from the start...

Chapter 1 - Pandemic Severity
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COVID-19: The Great Reset

Klaus & Co. have sold 250,000+ copies of this book.

It would shock me if 250+ people have actually finished it.

I'm one of those people and frankly, I can understand if you don't want to be next.

Let me help...
Some claim the whole "Great Reset" idea is nothing more than a conspiracy theory.

That's rubbish.

Let's consult the facts → The actual book.

COVID-19: The Great Reset, by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malaret
COVID-19: The Great Reset is 281 jumbled pages of...

→ Half-truths
→ Contradictions
→ Bad predictions
→ Run on sentences
→ Anti-freedom bullsh*t

This review won't convince you to read the book.

It won't convince you that Klaus is an evil genius either.
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Aug 14
Our friends at the WEF have posted this opinion piece, penned by Inbal Goldberger (I've never heard of her either).

She is spruiking about the future promise of AI systems to combat misinformation.

weforum.org/agenda/2022/08…
You know what is a bad idea?

Taking the already dubious activity of policing "misinformation" (read, dissenting opinion) and obfuscating it behind an algorithm.

Genuine offences against morality get reported.

This type of dystopian control is not required.
Not surprisingly, as the VP of Trust and Safety at ActiveFence she has a product to sell...

weforum.org/agenda/authors…
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Aug 10
I might have titled this thread:
"Bill Gates can do backflips."

Alternatively, it could have been:
"Not even Bill Gates believes Bill Gates."

Either way, here's one on “clean” energy, solar panels, and skullduggery. Image
To start us off:
3 x Quotes from Bill Gates
(Source below)

*It's clear Bill has a low opinion of solar tech at this stage...

1/3
”Whenever we came up with this term ‘clean energy’ I think it screwed up people’s minds…”
2/3
”How you gonna make steel? Do you guys on wall street have something in your desks that makes steel?"

3/3
"Where’s the fertilizer, cement, plastic, where’s it going to come from?”

Source video from 2019, but it's probably quite a bit older than that
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Aug 5
The WHO have a new campaign to #EndExploitativeMarketing

The same folks who...

→ Support the interests of big-pharma
→ Take gob-loads of money from the Gates Foundation and GAVI
→ Fund a group solely dedicated to "behavioural insights"

No joke 👇

100% serious:

The WHO has a "Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health."

They even shamelessly publish their work.

For example, this document all about manipulating people into taking COVID-19 shots.

who.int/publications/i…
In case you don't feel like subjecting yourself to the whole publication...

Here's a couple of little manipulative nuggets 👇
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Jul 31
Quick and dirty perspective checker.

6 Tweets, mostly photos, 1-minute max.

The climate hysteria test 👇
Here's my dead-simple method:

→ Go to Google Images
→ Search for "Cattle Farming"
→ Search for "Silica Mining"
→ Search for "Lithium Mining"

Screenshot the first few results for each and post.

Let's go 👇
CATTLE FARMING → Beef, Milk, Etc.
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