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In case you are in any doubt about what is planned for our future, or dismiss talk of a wholesale reordering of human society as 'conspiracy theory', this is from the introduction to "Covid-19- The Great Reset' by World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab and some WEF flunky called Thierry Malleret:

"Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is: never. Nothing will ever return to the “broken” sense of normalcy that prevailed prior to the crisis because the coronavirus pandemic marks a fundamental inflection point in our global trajectory. Some analysts call it a major bifurcation, others refer to a deep crisis of “biblical” proportions, but the essence remains the same: the world as we knew it in the early months of 2020 is no more, dissolved in the context of the pandemic. Radical changes of such consequence are coming that some pundits have referred to a “before coronavirus” (BC) and “after coronavirus” (AC) era. We will continue to be surprised by both the rapidity and unexpected nature of these changes – as they conflate with each other, they will provoke second-, third-, fourth- and more-order consequences, cascading effects and unforeseen outcomes. In so doing, they will shape a “new normal” radically different from the one we will be progressively leaving behind. Many of our beliefs and assumptions about what the world could or should look like will be shattered in the process"

The author then goes on to compare the effects of Covid-19- a virus with an IFR of 0.24% - with the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death.

It is hard to overstate how absurd these comparisons are historically, scientifically, economically or on a range of other bases.

These were plagues which brought 30-50% mortality across the societies they affected. For comparison, the UK mortality from Covid is 0.069%.

What we face is the plague of reaction - the plague brought by men like Schwab and the politicians, institutions and foundations they control.

People like Schwab have been planning this Reset for decades. They were using climate change as a catalyst, but despite the efforts of Greta, XR et all, it just wasn't selling it.

So now this...

Their arrogance is astounding. You can get a flavour of what they have in mind from the contents pages of this political/economic grimoire below.

It is up to us to determine whether they get what they want, or whether they get what they deserve.

The Clairvoyant Ruling Class [“Scenarios for the Future of Technology & International Development” 2010 Report]
Posted by Wrong Kind of Green

March 25, 2020

By Cory Morningstar

LOCK STEP – A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian eadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback ....


Scenario #1: LOCK STEP

“In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit. Unlike 2009’s H1N1, this new influenza strain — originating from wild geese — was extremely virulent and deadly. Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world, infecting nearly 20 percent of the global population and killing 8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults. The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers.” [p 18]



“The pandemic blanketed the planet — though disproportionate numbers died in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, where the virus spread like wildfire in the absence of official containment protocols. But even in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States’s initial policy of “strongly discouraging” citizens from flying
proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the U.S. but across borders. However, a few countries did fare better — China in particular. The Chinese government’s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swifter postpandemic
recovery. [p 18]




“China’s government was not the only one that took extreme measures to protect its citizens from risk and exposure. During the pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets. Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems — from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty — leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power.” [p 19]



“At first, the notion of a more controlled world gained wide acceptance and approval. Citizens willingly gave up some of their sovereignty — and their privacy — to more paternalistic states in exchange for greater safety and stability. Citizens were more tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight, and national leaders had more latitude to impose order in the ways they saw fit. In developed countries, this heightened oversight took many forms: biometric IDs for all citizens, for example, and tighter regulation of key industries whose stability was deemed vital to national interests. In many developed countries, enforced cooperation with a suite of new regulations and agreements slowly but steadily restored both order and, importantly, economic growth.” [p 19]



“By 2025, people seemed to be growing weary of so much top-down control and letting leaders and authorities make choices for them.” [p 21]



“Sporadic pushback became increasingly organized and coordinated, as disaffected youth and people who had seen their status and opportunities slip away — largely in developing countries — incited civil unrest.” [p 21]

Headlines in LOCK STEP:

“Italy Addresses ‘Immigrant Caregiver’ Gap with Robots (2017)” [p 22]

“African Leaders Fear Repeat of Nigeria’s 2026 Government Collapse (2028)” [p 22]



Technology in LOCK STEP:

“Technological innovation in “Lock Step” is largely driven by government & is focused on issues of national security & health & safety. Most technological improvements are created by & for developed countries, shaped by governments’ dual desire to control and to monitor their citizens.”[p 23]



“Technology trends and applications we might see: Scanners using advanced functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)technology become the norm at airports and other public areas to detect abnormal behavior that may indicate “antisocial intent.”” [p 23]

Life in LOCK STEP:

“Manisha gazed out on the Ganges River, mesmerized by what she saw… no one could deny that the Ganges was looking more beautiful and healthier than ever.” [p 25]

[March 18, 2020, ABC News: “Venice canals are clear enough to see fish as coronavirus halts tourism in the city Swans have returned to the canals and dolphins have been spotted in the port… cloudy canals have transformed into water crystal clear…”]

“Manisha was tempted to kick off her shoe and dip her toe in, but this was a restricted area now — and she, of all people, would never break that law.”[p 25] [emphasis added]

Let’s circle back to the beginning. Schwartz, report lead, is Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning for Salesforce. Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff serves as the inaugural Chair of the World Economics Forum’s Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. On June 13, 2019 the World Economic Forum partnered with the United Nations. On March 11, 2020 the World Economic Forum announced a partnership with the World Health Organization (a UN agency) to establish the COVID Action Platform For Business. This same day the World Health Organization officially characterized COVID-19 a pandemic. [Source] This is the consolidation of global power, happening in real time.

A Commenter wrote:

CV-19 is acting as the scapegoat for the collapse which would have happened anyways. Remember that the Fed started injecting hundreds of billions of $$ in Sept. 2019 and now doing so in a higher order of magnitude. Hence, the necessity for a "reset" of the system.

There is no other way out of this. Whether or not the virus is "nothing," big business is going to take every advantage of it. We have the tools to defeat them—stiff regulations & targeted taxes—if only we'd use them.

Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Émile Durkheim

Grizzly wrote:Sorry, but...

I realized last night it’s basically a new World War but it’s not a “war”. Not the kind we’ve had in the past. It’s a new attempt at dominating and changing the entire world and humanity, against the will of humanity.

Terrifying actually.

It’s not gonna end any time soon.

Grizzly » 13 Aug 2020 01:32 wrote:Small Businesses Are Dying by the Thousands — And No One Is Tracking the Carnage
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-11/small-firms-die-quietly-leaving-thousands-of-failures-uncounted

Our little town is being devastated by small business closures!

lucky » 13 Aug 2020 23:48 wrote:THe world as it was before this is gone never to be the same, the 'new normal' what ever that will be certainly won't be what I or most like minded folk would like. I truly am scared at what might come out of this, we really are talking about a NWO it's plain to see as the whole world is engaged in the massive supression of OUR rights.
Of course the obvious way of changing the course we're headed on is to stand up and say no- it will need the might of many but the problem here is why such a huge proportion of the population just follow the lead of whatever their countries politicos tell them to do and the more this goes on the more obvious (to me anyway) it is that there is a one world cabal that calls the shots - millions unemployed, businesses ruined,social life being destroyed, unprecedented economic collapse all because of a nasty virus that kills @1% of those unfortunate to catch it.

At the start of the lockdown i believed that it would allow people to think more clearly about the world and their place in it, politics, what is true/fact and what are the lies we're told and this did happen to a certain degree but it appears only to the ones that already had suspicions that all was not as it seemed.

Is it really going to be a fascistic world, no cash, no shops , no fun, no travel..and so much more, or less.

Please tell me everything is going to be alright..