22AR27-(unpublished)
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AR 27: -- "The Great Reset," credible threat or too far-fetched?
In this issue:
CONSPIRACY THEORIES - "World's largest" asset manager's implicit threat: "be woke or else"
Apologia Report (unpublished draft)
March 2022
CONSPIRACY THEORIES
The main feature of the December 2021 issue (50:12) of Hillsdale College's monthly Imprimis amounts to the first truly valuable response we've seen regarding a world domination strategy that apparently few have taken seriously. <www.bit.ly/3s9C7KS>
In July 2021, Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), <weforum.org> that meets annually in Davos, Switzerland - and Thierry Malleret, co-founder and main author <www.bit.ly/3h1oOWk> of the Monthly Barometer, published a book called COVID-19: The Great Reset. <www.bit.ly/3BFzraN> In it they define the Great Reset as a means of addressing the 'weaknesses of capitalism' that were purportedly exposed by the COVID pandemic. ...
POSTSCRIPT, Jan 20 '24: Schwab says there is no need for elections. <www.tinyurl.com/dzfa85sx>
"In May 2018, the WEF collaborated with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to conduct 'CLADE X,' a simulation of a national pandemic response. <www.bit.ly/3JZeIC3> ...
"In October 2019, the WEF collaborated with Johns Hopkins and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on another pandemic exercise, 'Event 201,' <www.bit.ly/3JWgyUh> which simulated an international response to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus. This was two months before the COVID outbreak in China became news and five months before the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic, and it closely resembled the future COVID scenario, including incorporating the idea of asymptomatic spread." (*Note: This is the most important paragraph of Rectenwald's piece. His discussion, before and after, is essential to appreciating the complex issues involved.*)
"In addition to being promoted as a response to COVID, the Great Reset is promoted as a response to climate change. In 2017, the WEF published a paper entitled, 'We Need to Reset the Global Operating System to Achieve the [United Nations Sustainable Development Goals].' <www.bit.ly/3IZfXzU> ...
"In June 2020, at its 50th annual meeting, the WEF announced the Great Reset's official launch.... <www.bit.ly/3NyhwIG>
"The Great Reset aims to usher in a bewildering economic amalgam - Schwab's stakeholder capitalism - which I have called 'corporate socialism' and Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has called 'communist capitalism.' ...
"One of the WEF's many powerful 'strategic partners,' BlackRock, Inc., the world's largest <www.bit.ly/3peyiC7> asset manager, is solidly behind the stakeholder model. In a 2021 letter to CEOs, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink declared that 'climate risk is investment risk,' and 'the creation of sustainable index investments has enabled a massive acceleration of capital towards companies better prepared to address climate risk.' ...
"Fink's letter is more than a report to CEOs. It is an implicit threat: be woke or else. ...
"To bring this reset about, Schwab writes, 'Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed.'"
Rectenwald details China's economic connection: "The Great Reset represents the development of the Chinese system in the West, but in reverse. Whereas the Chinese political class began with a socialist political system and then introduced privately held for-profit production, the West began with capitalism and is now [via the Great Reset] implementing a Chinese-style political system. ...
"Schwab and Malleret write that if 'the past five centuries in Europe and America' have taught us anything, it is that 'acute crises contribute to boosting the power of the state.'"
"The draconian lockdown measures employed by Western governments managed to accomplish goals of which corporate socialists in the WEF could only dream - above all, the destruction of small businesses, eliminating competitors for corporate monopolists favored by the state. ... Meanwhile companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google enjoyed record gains." Rectenwald also mentions "Other developments that advance the Great Reset agenda" and related policies.
"Such policies reflect the 'fairness' aspect of the Great Reset - fairness requires lowering the economic status of people in wealthier nations like the U.S. relative to that of people in poorer regions of the world." (Unless of course, certain elite people are more "fair" than the rest, i.e., in on the Great Reset. Then, they become the super-elite, or rather, as history has taught us, the uber-mensch of darkly faded Nazi glory.)
"Governance is not only increasingly privatized, but also and more importantly, corporations are deputized as major additions to governments and intergovernmental bodies. ...
"As if the economic and governmental resets were not dramatic enough, the technological reset reads like a dystopian science fiction novel. It is based on the Fourth Industrial Revolution - or 4-IR for short. <www.bit.ly/3Lvhv6x> [And it] marks the convergence of existing and emerging fields, including Big Data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing, genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. The foreseen result will be the merging of the physical, digital, and biological worlds, which presents a challenge to the ontologies by which we understand ourselves and the world, including the definition of a human being.
"There is nothing original about this. Transhumanists and Singularitarians (prophets of technological singularity) such as Ray Kurzweil forecasted <www.bit.ly/3h7hW9X> these and other revolutionary developments long ago. ...
"If already existing 4-IR developments are any indication of the future, then the claim that it will contribute to human happiness is false. ...
"In short, 4-IR technologies subject human beings to a kind of technological management that makes surveillance by the NSA look like child's play. ... If successful, this would constitute a technological mastery over decision-making that would threaten human autonomy and undermine free will. ...
"Unless taken out of the hands of corporate-socialist technocrats, the 4-IR will eventually lead to a virtual and inescapable prison of body and mind. ...
"In my recent book, Google Archipelago [telling title], I argued <www.bit.ly/3HcRLt8> that leftist authoritarianism is the political ideology and modus operandi of what I call Big Digital, which is on the leading edge of a nascent world system. ...
"Just as Schwab and the WEF predicted, the COVID crisis has accelerated the Great Reset. Monopolistic corporations have consolidated their grip on the economy from above, while socialism [i.e., wokeism] continues to advance for the rest of us below. In partnership with Big Digital, Big Pharma, the mainstream media, national and international health agencies, and compliant [i.e., suppressed] populations, hitherto democratic Western states - think especially of Australia, New Zealand, and Austria - are being transformed into totalitarian regimes modeled after China.
"But let me end on a note of hope. Because the goals of the Great Reset depend on the obliteration not only of free markets, but of individual liberty and free will, it is, perhaps ironically, unsustainable." He concludes that this "is all the more reason to oppose it now and with all our might." <www.bit.ly/3s9C7KS>
"How is all of this possible?" many will ask. Answer: Creeps are creeping. Saints are sleeping.
Conspiracy theory? "Time will tell" seems both too glib, and all too true ... for now.
For an example of how related global opposition is mounting, see Grand Jury (released Feb 5 '22), an independent public forum documentary effort presenting "criminal investigation modelled after the United States Grand Jury proceedings." It was created in part by the German international trial lawyer Reiner Fuellmich <www.bit.ly/36rzZ8B> (who "has successfully sued large fraudulent corporations like Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank") alleging that "the world’s governments have come under the controlling influence of corrupt and criminal power structures. They colluded to stage a pandemic that they had been planning for years." <www.bit.ly/3HcRLt8>
Also related, Klaus Schwab was recorded on video bragging that world leaders have been influenced by him/WEF - including half of Canada's cabinet: "What we’re really proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau ... that we penetrate the cabinets." See for yourself before it too is cancelled: <www.bit.ly/3LSsKHb>
The Canadian Parliament received a direct inquiry while in session from a fellow MP about this. The undated, but apparently recent (we learned of it on Feb 21st) video of the event is quite telling: <www.youtu.be/rFTVCJr8-qg> (another cancel candidate). It is also available on the Rumble alternative to YouTube here: <www.bit.ly/3LRpdsG>
Last, if you're curious why the title choice "Google Archipelago" was considered "telling" above, it wasn't because I (RP) know what Rectenwald necessarily means by it. Rather, it fits with what I know from reading the Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn <www.amzn.to/35q4Oue> - a record for all history. The archipelago in his case was and remains a long-lived hellish political prisoner death camp slave labor system. It constitutes a horrific number of slave labor prisons spread across the entire police state of the USSR landscape dating from the 1910s to the 1950s (from then on, the record becomes less clear). In those first decades roughly 60 million perished. The application of "Google" in Rectenwald's title may simply be a play on words, and/or symbolic of the widespread application of the archipelago and its influence. Gulags have served well to instill fear and compliance throughout modern Russian culture.
POSTSCRIPT, Nov 25 '22: Also see AR 27:1, <www.bit.ly/3U8mBcR>
See <www.bit.ly/holy-lightning-rod> for a *lessons to be learned* tool in response.
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