GOV/MIL Main "Great Reset" Thread

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The Official Story
The official story is that we live in a free democracy where our teachers tell us the truth about our nation, our government and our world when we are children, and then the free press continue telling us the truth about our nation, government and world when we are grown, and then every few years we have free and fair elections in which we use this truthful information to make decisions about which politicians and policies to vote for, and it is only by pure coincidence that what we vote for just so happens to benefit the most wealthy and powerful people on the planet.
In the official story, the democratic process consistently fails to let us progress beyond a status quo of profound inequality, injustice, oppression, exploitation, war and ecocide because that’s simply how people are voting in their free and fair elections. The official story maintains that this occurs because the populations of all free democracies coincidentally happen to be organically divided into two ideologically opposed camps of equal size, creating a political deadlock which just so happens to benefit the people who profit from profound inequality, injustice, oppression, exploitation, war and ecocide.
Per the official story, society is driven by the majority, and it is only by an immensely widespread and startlingly consistent series of coincidences that society remains perpetually shaped in a way that benefits a small minority of rich and powerful individuals.
“These are some pretty strange coincidences,” you might find yourself thinking. “What are the odds that a society which is driven by the will of the people would so consistently benefit a small minority of rich and powerful individuals to the disadvantage of the voting majority, across so many separate nations, from generation to generation for many decades, without ever deviating from this pattern? Seems like the rich and powerful must be tipping the scales in their favor somehow.”
The official story holds that you are a crazy conspiracy theorist if you say this, and should be shunned and denied any platform from which to speak to a large number of people.
The official story is that this sort of society, which only serves the worst people in the world by pure coincidence, is so wonderful that it needs to be exported to every corner of the earth. Also by pure coincidence, all of the nations which most urgently need freedom and democracy always just so happen to occupy land of immense geostrategic importance for planetary domination and resource control.
In the official story, the United States and its allies are always on the right side of every international conflict, and it is only by a series of unfortunate accidents and intelligence blunders that this alliance is killing far more people with military violence and starvation sanctions than any other power structure in today’s world. The news media feed us accurate information about each and every one of those conflicts, explaining truthfully why each country’s government needs to be toppled to free the people of that nation, and it is only by coincidence that we suddenly stop getting news reports about how those people are doing once they have been liberated from their tyrannical oppressors.
The official story tells us that while the US might not always make perfect foreign policy decisions, it’s better to have them leading the free world than to risk some tyrannical regime like Russia or China taking over. If the US wasn’t constantly invading countries and dropping bombs and staging coups and starving civilians and fomenting unrest and arming terrorists and torturing people and escalating cold war aggressions against nuclear-armed nations, the world could find itself ruled by bad guys.
The official story protects the official story. Anyone who disputes any part of the official story is peddling misinformation, or is a Russian propagandist, or is an anti-semite, or is a dangerous extremist, or is mentally ill, or is whatever they need to be in order to ensure that they are never taken seriously by anyone and are silenced on social media and are never given a mainstream audience. Any dissent from the official story is evidence that you must be prevented from interfering in the official story, according to the official story.
In the official story, our world will be guided by this truth-based free and democratic status quo in a way which benefits all of humankind. If it seems like inequality is getting worse or governments are becoming more authoritarian or capitalism is becoming more exploitative or wars are getting out of control or the ecosystem is dying or we’re hurtling toward nuclear war on multiple fronts, that’s just your stupid brain trying to trick you, and you should stop listening to it immediately and re-acquaint yourself with the official story.
Here. Here’s some celebrity gossip. Did you see that Superbowl ad? Come watch a movie on this streaming service. Take some time off, calm down, have a beer, and then plug your mind back into the official story. Just ignore the parts of yourself which find it intolerable. Only the official story is trustworthy. Only the official story has the answers. Block out all the other noise, jack your mind firmly into the matrix, and be the loving loyal gear-turner you were born to be.

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The Official Story

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Why are we IGNORING 'threats' from Great Reset proponents?

Feb 16, 2022


Glenn Beck

It’s time we listen to the actual words coming from proponents of The Great Reset. Those global elite — like Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab — have told us exactly their desired goal: the end of free market capitalism. They’re threatening our way of life, so, why then do some continue to ignore them? Glenn reads quotes straight from the mouths of those in power, because we must understand The Great Reset before we can put a stop to it.

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10:47 min

3 terrifying stories show FASCISM is coming for us ALL

Feb 16, 2022


Glenn Beck

Glenn highlights 3 stories — happening NOW — that demonstrate the spread of fascism throughout our nation. From a recent insurance settlement, to PR companies in the oil & gas industry, and a block on avocado imports, these stories all have one thing in common: The Great Reset. Understanding what’s going on is the first step, Glenn explains, so you can recognize it in your life...because The Great Reset is the far-left’s “knockout punch,” and it IS coming for ALL of us.
 
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Is Salt Truly Bad for Your Heart?

Conventional wisdom states that a high-sodium diet will increase your blood pressure. But how much of this is accurate? What is the ideal intake for salt?
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This is a Mercola article and video that will become unavailable in a day or so. It is about a document that details the great reset connections that can be downloaded here:


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Whether blatantly visible or not, you can identify just about any network by connecting dots between individuals and organizations. Who’s working with whom, where, and why? Who’s paying whom? And once you’ve done that, you can more clearly identify the motivations behind various decisions
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As an interesting aside, the document was actually created using software that investigators and detectives use to help them identify hidden connections between potential suspects. All of the data points, documents, payment data and so on, are publicly available.
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[The Great Reset] is a vision for transferring the world into a totalitarian and authoritarian surveillance state manipulated by technocrats to manage traumatized populations, to shift wealth upward, and serve the interests of elite billionaire oligarchs. ~ The Defender
 
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Old Goat said:
The Official Story
The official story is that we live in a free democracy where our teachers tell us the truth about our nation, our government and our world when we are children, and then the free press continue telling us the truth about our nation, government and world when we are grown, and then every few years we have free and fair elections in which we use this truthful information to make decisions about which politicians and policies to vote for, and it is only by pure coincidence that what we vote for just so happens to benefit the most wealthy and powerful people on the planet.
In the official story, the democratic process consistently fails to let us progress beyond a status quo of profound inequality, injustice, oppression, exploitation, war and ecocide because that’s simply how people are voting in their free and fair elections. The official story maintains that this occurs because the populations of all free democracies coincidentally happen to be organically divided into two ideologically opposed camps of equal size, creating a political deadlock which just so happens to benefit the people who profit from profound inequality, injustice, oppression, exploitation, war and ecocide.
Per the official story, society is driven by the majority, and it is only by an immensely widespread and startlingly consistent series of coincidences that society remains perpetually shaped in a way that benefits a small minority of rich and powerful individuals.
“These are some pretty strange coincidences,” you might find yourself thinking. “What are the odds that a society which is driven by the will of the people would so consistently benefit a small minority of rich and powerful individuals to the disadvantage of the voting majority, across so many separate nations, from generation to generation for many decades, without ever deviating from this pattern? Seems like the rich and powerful must be tipping the scales in their favor somehow.”
The official story holds that you are a crazy conspiracy theorist if you say this, and should be shunned and denied any platform from which to speak to a large number of people.
The official story is that this sort of society, which only serves the worst people in the world by pure coincidence, is so wonderful that it needs to be exported to every corner of the earth. Also by pure coincidence, all of the nations which most urgently need freedom and democracy always just so happen to occupy land of immense geostrategic importance for planetary domination and resource control.
In the official story, the United States and its allies are always on the right side of every international conflict, and it is only by a series of unfortunate accidents and intelligence blunders that this alliance is killing far more people with military violence and starvation sanctions than any other power structure in today’s world. The news media feed us accurate information about each and every one of those conflicts, explaining truthfully why each country’s government needs to be toppled to free the people of that nation, and it is only by coincidence that we suddenly stop getting news reports about how those people are doing once they have been liberated from their tyrannical oppressors.
The official story tells us that while the US might not always make perfect foreign policy decisions, it’s better to have them leading the free world than to risk some tyrannical regime like Russia or China taking over. If the US wasn’t constantly invading countries and dropping bombs and staging coups and starving civilians and fomenting unrest and arming terrorists and torturing people and escalating cold war aggressions against nuclear-armed nations, the world could find itself ruled by bad guys.
The official story protects the official story. Anyone who disputes any part of the official story is peddling misinformation, or is a Russian propagandist, or is an anti-semite, or is a dangerous extremist, or is mentally ill, or is whatever they need to be in order to ensure that they are never taken seriously by anyone and are silenced on social media and are never given a mainstream audience. Any dissent from the official story is evidence that you must be prevented from interfering in the official story, according to the official story.
In the official story, our world will be guided by this truth-based free and democratic status quo in a way which benefits all of humankind. If it seems like inequality is getting worse or governments are becoming more authoritarian or capitalism is becoming more exploitative or wars are getting out of control or the ecosystem is dying or we’re hurtling toward nuclear war on multiple fronts, that’s just your stupid brain trying to trick you, and you should stop listening to it immediately and re-acquaint yourself with the official story.
Here. Here’s some celebrity gossip. Did you see that Superbowl ad? Come watch a movie on this streaming service. Take some time off, calm down, have a beer, and then plug your mind back into the official story. Just ignore the parts of yourself which find it intolerable. Only the official story is trustworthy. Only the official story has the answers. Block out all the other noise, jack your mind firmly into the matrix, and be the loving loyal gear-turner you were born to be.

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The Official Story

Listen to a reading of this article:
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The reason you cannot get out of the official story is that all along for decades the official story was voted for.

The most important thing in politics is to keep everything divide as close to 50/50 as possible and control both sides to shape the world to your goals.
 
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marsh said:
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Delingpole: The Green Agenda IS the Great Reset

The green agenda IS the Great Reset. One of the few political leaders who gets this is President Donald Trump.
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Delingpole: The Green Agenda IS the Great Reset

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Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a Build Back Better Clean Energy event on July 14, 2020 at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
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JAMES DELINGPOLE24 Nov 2020459

The green agenda IS the Great Reset.

One of the few political leaders who gets this is President Donald Trump.

On Sunday he warned in a video statement from the White House to the Group of 20 summit hosted by Saudi Arabia that the Paris Climate Agreement was ‘not designed to save the environment. It was designed to kill the economy.’

This is fair comment for reasons I have outlined many times before (eg here, here and here).

If the U.S. had remained a signatory it would have ceded huge competitive advantage to favoured economies like India and China to no useful purpose.

After all, as Bjorn Lomborg once calculated, even if every country in the world sticks to its carbon reduction targets agreed at Paris, the best-case scenario is that it might reduce global warming by the end of the century by 0.170 degrees C. This is a difference so small it will be barely measurable and certainly not noticeable – at a cost to the global economy of perhaps $1.5 trillion per year.

Yet Joe Biden — in the event that he becomes president — has promised that he will drag the U.S. back into this frivolous, destructive, eye-waveringly expensive deal.

Why?

One might well ask the same question of the policies recently announced by the government in my own country, the United Kingdom. Here Boris Johnson’s ‘Conservative’ administration has decreed that diesel- and petrol-powered cars must be phased out from 2030, as part of a 10-point plan for a ‘green industrial revolution‘ including more wind farms, more ‘green finance’, more money spent on public transport and cycle lanes, more ‘investment’ in dubious (and so far, highly unsuccessful) technologies like ‘Carbon Capture.’

Do these sound like ‘conservative’ policies to you?

Do you think all those working-class ‘Red Wall‘ voters in the Midlands and the North who lent their votes to the Conservatives in 2019, many for the first time, did so in the hope that Johnson would drive up their heating bills or confiscate their petrol cars and force them to buy electric ones they could never hope to afford?

Does this sound like a recipe for an economic revival — higher taxes, more government subsidies — after the slump caused by the government’s draconian lockdown policies?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions than I have a magnificent range of very competitively priced bridges I’d like to sell you.

As Matt Ridley cogently argues here, there could scarcely be a more effective way of killing Britain’s post-Brexit future than implementing Boris Johnson’s green revolution.




Indeed. One theory has it that it’s all down to the influence of Boris’s green activist girlfriend Carrie Symonds, her worryingly powerful chum in the House of Lords Zac Goldsmith, and to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove, who was memorably pictured last year with a bunch of fellow eco-loon MPs drooling over the Doom Goblin Greta Thunberg.

But it’s actually much more sinister – and global than that.

It’s not just in the U.S. and the UK that this embrace of the green agenda is taking place. It’s happening across Europe, and around the world from Australia to Canada.

In terms of saving the environment it makes no sense: why would you erect more bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes if you cared about wildlife and nature?

In terms of delivering a better world for voters it makes no sense either: it will just mean more restrictions, higher taxes, higher energy bills, less foreign travel, less freedom and so on.

What you need to understand is that the supposed ‘climate crisis’ we’ve been hearing about ad nauseam since at least the 1992 Rio Earth Summit was really just a pretext for the kind of globalist takeover now being conducted by our governments in lockstep with the World Economic Forum’s The Great Reset and the United Nations’ parallel Agenda 2030 (an update of its notorious Agenda 21).

Man-made global warming was never a plausible threat (existing only in the computer modelled projections of parti-pris activist scientists. And we know all about them don’t we, Neil Ferguson?). But it was, for decades, a handy pretext for concerted action by governments all over the world, under the auspices of organisations like the UN and its various COP climate summits, artificially to raise energy prices and increase state rules and regulations, and enrich crony corporatists, under the pretence that it was being done to save the planet.

But what is these globalists’ ultimate goal? And why is environmentalism such a key part of their plan?

For this, you’ll have to wait for my next piece, when I tell you about the most extraordinary and revealing interview I conducted with Patrick M Wood, who has been studying this phenomenon since it began in the early Seventies.

It’s so bizarre that it sounds like a dystopian fantasy – like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.

Unfortunately, the crazies backing this Great Reset are all too serious. They’ve got the money, they’ve got the power and with just a bit more time they’re going to get their way…

Unless, of course, we inform ourselves what they’re up to and take preventive measures before it’s too late.

Watch this space.
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With all that information you posted, is it possible that you have more docs somewhere with a timeline of the Reset? You know, something like this:
1. Internet goes down. Banks go down, ATM's run dry.
2. Phase 2 of pandemic hits. All cash is banned worldwide because the virus is transmitted through the trading of cash.
3. Worldwide lockdown.
4. Without cash, starvation is near.
5. New digital currency introduced.
6. Must be vaccinated to get the new QR code which is inside the body. Now you can access digital account to pay for groceries. (Only necessities available.)

All in the list above was made up by me and is not real.... that I know of.
Uhm.... don't worry.... it's good for you. You will take it, and you will like it. And we have ways of making you like it!
There has to be a list somewhere. Where are we on the list?
Thanks Marsh.
 
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How the Canadian truckers’ frozen bank accounts affect YOU

Feb 17, 2022


Glenn Beck

The Canadian government is going to new lengths to SQUASH the truckers’ freedom convoy. Now, some bank accounts of those involved in the protest have been frozen and those even just associated with the movement could be next. This is the Great Reset in action, Glenn explains...Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is just doing it under the guise of emergency powers. So, pay attention to what’s happening in the north, Glenn warns. Because it may be happening here, next.
 
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Selling the Metaverse

You are going to be pushed into virtual reality whether you like it or not.
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Selling The Metaverse

You are going to be pushed into virtual reality whether you like it or not.

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Marc Andreessen on a panel at the Fortune Global Forum at the Fairmont Hotel on November 3, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for Fortune)

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JAMES POGUE
Last Christmas Eve, I was driving with my 17-year-old nephew through an industrial part of northeast Portland, Oregon, when he pointed out some new graffiti on a wall near his house.

“How Does The Metaverse,” someone had written, in quite beautiful blue script, “Help Poor People?”

This struck me as a very poignant thing to spraypaint on a wall in a run-down section of a midsize American city, not far from a huge and heart-rendingly grim homeless encampment on Columbia Avenue. Whoever wrote it must have had a sense that a massive change in how humans live and interact was looming before us all. We can be sure that they didn’t know what this Metaverse would look like, since no one knows exactly. But they knew enough to be alarmed by it, and they must have had a sense that ordinary people wouldn’t have much say in how it shaped up and impacted their lives. They knew that there was no point in writing their congressman or the local newspaper to discuss whether or not Americans really want to live out their lives in a digital simulacrum of reality, or to question whether it makes sense for us to deploy massive portions of our nation’s capital and brainpower toward building this simulacrum. Those sorts of questions get answered by investors and tech executives, and almost no one in power in this country thinks they ought to fall under the purview of our democracy or public debate. So they were left to scrawl a plaintive little protest, on a wall between a weed dispensary and a Vietnamese grocery.

There are hardly any better ways in American life to express political objections to the tech- and capital-driven changes that have so reshaped our lives in the past decades—from the industrialization of American agriculture to mass adoption of the media technologies that have done so much to destroy our brains and public debate. One of our last vestiges of mainstream consensus is that we talk about these shifts as irresistible, not subject to serious objection. But something strange is happening with the idea of the Metaverse, a basket of consumer technologies that might someday add up to an immersive and interconnected virtual world— where many very powerful people hope we may soon be socializing, looking at art, buying property, and generally conducting our individual human lives through the prism of a mass-produced consumer headset. The systems that work to convince us that consumer technologies are inevitably a step forward in the march of human progress are fraying. No one was going around spraypainting anti-iPhone slogans on buildings back in 2009. The Metaverse is being planned, but it is going to take some effort to sell it.

Last spring, the early web pioneer, billionaire investor, and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen did an interview that got a lot of attention in the small world of people who theorize about tech, and almost none outside of it. It was with a pseudonymous figure who writes under the name Niccolo Soldo, who alternates between obviously satirical forays and genuinely weighty questions about how tech has reshaped human life in the past few years.

About halfway through, Soldo asked Andreessen a question about whether our world of constant screen-based communication was hurting our collective mental health.

“Your question is a great example of what I call Reality Privilege,” Andreessen answered, before going into a world-historical vision of what the Metaverse would offer to humanity. Reality Privilege was an idea he’d borrowed from the virtual reality developer Beau Cronin, who wrote way back in 2015 that physical reality, such as we experience as we go through the world in our human bodies, was a painful and unpleasant experience for many—maybe even most—of us.

So it was a mark of privilege, comfort and luck, to think of non-digital reality as being truer or more worthwhile than one experienced through a screen. “If it’s hard to imagine much about your life that could be improved by porting to a new platform,” Cronin wrote about virtual-reality worlds, “then maybe you’re not the target user here. Consider the possibility that a visceral defense of the physical, and an accompanying dismissal of the virtual as inferior or escapist, is a result of superuser privileges. You are one of the Verified Users of the real.

Congratulations for now, but beware the platform shift ahead.”

At the time, Cronin was struggling with addiction and mental health issues, which may have had something to do with the fact that he cited traveling for in-person meetings as one aspect of reality he personally found to be onerous. He offered a prediction that, at least with regard to those meetings, has already largely come true: “In ten years time,” he wrote, “we’ll find absurd many of the activities we waste our physical presence on today.”

But even Cronin seemed taken aback by Andreesen’s later elaboration of the Reality Privilege concept, and the intense discussion it produced in the tiny world of people who follow this sort of thing. “A small percent of people live in a real-world environment that is rich, even overflowing, with glorious substance,” Andreessen told Soldo. “Beautiful settings, plentiful stimulation, and many fascinating people to talk to, and to work with, and to date.” But these are just the lucky among us. “Everyone else,” he said, “the vast majority of humanity, lacks Reality Privilege—their online world is, or will be, immeasurably richer and more fulfilling than most of the physical and social environment around them in the quote-unquote real world.”

It turned out that Andreessen had a very direct answer to the question of how the Metaverse would help poor people. “The Reality Privileged,” he said, “call this conclusion dystopian, and demand that we prioritize improvements in reality over improvements in virtuality. To which I say: reality has had 5,000 years to get good, and is clearly still woefully lacking for most people; I don’t think we should wait another 5,000 years to see if it eventually closes the gap. We should build—and we are building—online worlds that make life and work and love wonderful for everyone, no matter what level of reality deprivation they find themselves in.”

So here’s an immensely influential billionaire, with a huge personal stake in the development of the Metaverse, leveraging the language of privilege to suggest that the opinions of people who protest that we’re being lead towards dystopia are definitionally invalid. And I’m going to offer a prediction: you will hear more arguments like this in the near future. But this is less of a new line of thinking than it may appear at first. Andreessen is just stating things more clearly than anyone had to back before we knew how ruinous the consumer technologies sold to us as social progress would be to our lives and society. Because if we can see how this Metaverse is being sold, maybe we might not end up buying it.

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This interview took place several months before Facebook announced, in late October 2021, that it was changing its name to Meta and reorienting the company around building this new Metaverse. I mention this because the timeline is important. It seems safe to assume that many people reading this had never even heard of the Metaverse before Facebook’s name-change produced a burst of coverage about the idea, almost all of it taking it as a given that this Metaverse would soon be a reality. They were right, in a way, to take it for granted. “We are building” this new world, Andreessen had said, and he meant it.

That morning in October, a host for NPR’s Morning Edition brought on a tech reporter for the Verge to talk about what the Metaverse would look like. The ground for this interview had obviously been laid far in advance, with select tech reporters briefed by Facebook with embargoed talking points so they’d be ready to spread the news once Meta was ready for its big unveiling. But the NPR host asked a question that the Verge reporter was quite obviously unprepared for. “So who wants this Metaverse?” he asked. “I mean, is this filling a demand?”

The reporter stammered audibly. The unspoken rule that we are supposed to uncritically embrace tech offerings like this had been violated. “Uh,” he said, “well, it’s not built yet.” He changed the subject.

But this was only partly true. Within days of the announcement, Nike filed a trademark application for “digital sneakers.” There was already a burgeoning market for virtual real estate in virtual worlds with names like The Sandbox and Decentraland. A subsidiary of Pricewaterhouse Coopers disclosed in December that it had been buying “land” in The Sandbox, a project of a Hong Kong–based company that has made prominent partnerships with Snoop Dogg and announced plans to build a virtual-reality “concert venue” in partnership with Warner Music. “It’s like buying land in Manhattan 250 years ago,” one investor told the Wall Street Journal. Facebook-now-Meta invested $10 billion last year in developing its own large corner of the Metaverse, with the idea that soon Metaverse worlds created by Apple and Google and various gaming companies could be integrated into a more or less seamless virtual reality experience. There was already an infrastructure in place to sell the world on a product most people didn’t yet even know existed.

But this world must exist, if you’re thinking about the needs of corporate America. Because almost all our major innovations in the past 50 years have been in the form communications technologies and financial tinkering. The Metaverse offers a vital new avenue for profits and growth, in an economy increasingly “decoupled,” as gentle phrasing has it, from material reality.

“People may spend their time hanging out on Twitter and Facebook,” as the tech writer and Twitter gadfly Noah Smith wrote recently, “but with a few exceptions, they still produce and sell stuff in the real world. The more complex and flexible of a virtual reality the Metaverse creates, the more humans will actually be able to innovate new goods and services within that reality.”

This gives you a more realistic picture of this Metaverse than what you usually get from slavish media reports about a beautiful, seamless new world. It’s a jumble of half-developed products and speculative corporate forays, more notable at this point for the strange and inventive ways that companies have planned to monetize every aspect of virtual-world life than for any immersive VR experiences. The closest thing we have to the Metaverse as planned by Andreessen are video games, and the most radical innovations in these game-worlds are decentralized currencies and the ability (limited as yet, but growing) for inhabitants to invest in things like land and houses that they would have no hope of affording in the physical reality as we know it. But with investors already moving into the market, it may soon be as difficult for a young person to imagine buying a house in Decentraland as in the real world.

This is where the selling comes in. The Metaverse on offer in the next few years is going to be like the internet we already have, only more so: more ways to consume time and attention, more ways to get you to spend money, more ways for corporations and brands to get involved in areas of life we once knew as profound and on some level private, like intimate communication or our experience of art. This internet we have today is a disaster. Everyone knows this, even the people responsible for creating it. Many of those very people now feel very defensive and concerned that our collective enchantment with their offerings may be wearing off.

I talked recently with Nir Eyal, who has made a career and personal brand for himself by founding a company selling ads for Facebook and then consulting for tech giants on how to harness compulsive behaviors for profit. We were talking about whether it’s actually possible for people to choose whether or not to adopt consumer technologies that are designed and sold on a mass scale. He laughed off our developing societal anxiety about the power of Facebook-now-Meta in shaping our world. “Look, how many more stories about how Facebook is hijacking our brain do we need?” he asked me. “My narrative is about personal empowerment, not of victimization.”

He meant that we all have a choice, as individual consumers, how much we engage with the products that these companies build, so it would be misplaced to question their right to build them or to blame them for the impact they’ve had on our own real world. “We’ve moved from skepticism to now cynicism,” he complained. “Now there’s nothing that tech can do right. It’s all about this cynical power struggle. The viewpoint is now that because these companies have power, they will abuse power.”

“Every new technology we kind of freak out,” he said later about the Metaverse. “So, on one hand, I’m not surprised that there’s a moral panic around the new technology revolution. But on the other hand, I am kind of surprised that we don’t learn the lesson—that how we get through this stuff is we adapt our behaviors, and by adopting new technologies to help us get through the last generation of technologies.”

This was an unintentionally revealing way of describing how consumer technology works today.

It seems strange to think that we have to get used to new modes of living—we must “get through” them, as Eyal says—in order to accommodate our lives to a new technology that does not actually fill any pre-existing human need. Most people don’t adopt these technologies because they consciously decide that they’re a valuable addition to their personal lives. We accept them in response to a complex of social and economic pressures that arise when a technology achieves mass adoption. Only a lucky few people in our society today have enough privilege to decide whether or not to use a smartphone. The same thing will have to come true for the Metaverse, if it’s going to work as planned.
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Shortly after the interview where Andreessen outlined the idea of Reality Privilege, the tech writer Nicholas Carr, a Pulitzer finalist for his book The Shallows, described Andreessen as the Metaverse’s “Statue of Liberty.”

“He stands just outside the virtual world’s golden door,” Carr put it, “illuminating the surrounding darkness with a holographic torch, welcoming the downtrodden to a new and better life.” It was a winkingly funny image for anyone who knows much about Andreessen, a stout figure with a famously large and eggish bald head.

But Carr understood the subtle ways that conversations among powerful people in tech can shape the way that the media talks about this sort of thing. That’s how the selling of something like the Metaverse really gets done.

He mentioned that Andreessen has been called the “Obi-Wan” to Mark Zuckerberg’s Luke Skywalker. “It’s tempting to dismiss all this as just more bad craziness from Big Tech’s fiercely adolescent mind,” he said. “But that would be a mistake.” Andreessen had been thinking about the concept of Reality Privilege since at least 2017, when he brought it up in a conversation with the tech journalist Kara Swisher at a Code conference forum. “Andreessen is revealing his worldview and his ultimate goals,” Carr said. “He has the influence and the resources to, if not create the future, at least push the future in the direction he prefers.”

You can already see this power at work. “Virtual worlds, immersive online experiences, digital economies—these concepts are new and different and often uncomfortable,” the investor and tech blogger Rex Woodbury wrote soon after Andreessen’s interview came out. “Even I occasionally find it all a little dystopian. But the concept of Reality Privilege resonates. Not everyone has the chance to live in Manhattan.” Who was he, with all his privilege, to argue against a chance for the reality-impoverished to live there virtually?

But he doesn’t have much of a choice either way. “This sexy VR future grows nearer with every advance in computer power,” an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times by Rob Brooks, an Australian biologist, stated recently. “With faster processors, better haptics, and teledildonic (look it up yourself!) sex toys that can be controlled remotely, two or more people will have the chance to participate in the same VR-enhanced, physically satisfying sex scene, while each remains in the comfort and safety of their own home.”

You may not have realized how highly planned the future of sex in the Metaverse already is. Be careful about objecting to it, or you may be accused of prudishness. “I side with the machines and against the puritans,” Brooks wrote. “I think artificial intimacy could deliver a more relaxed, inclusive, and humane sexuality, but only if societies have enough maturity to give it a chance.”

All of this is being designed, planned, and promulgated to the public as fait accompli, despite the fact that a vote on whether or not to move society into the Metaverse would fail badly.

“Analysts at Morgan Stanley said the metaverse could represent an $8 trillion opportunity,” Business Insider wrote recently in a piece outlining the large-scale plans and investments for the Metaverse of 14 major corporations. “But it would be a challenge to get people interested in using it.” A recent poll found that only 33 percent of Americans were interested in spending money on digital items in the Metaverse. “Generation Z,” Insider fretted, “needs more convincing that the Metaverse is the shape of things to come.”
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The way we talk about tech’s role in our lives has taken on a culture war tinge, which may be why I am writing this for a conservative magazine. Words like “empowerment,” “privilege,” and “puritan” are the basic stuff of the pro-Metaverse messaging. The insinuation is that it’s vaguely repressive and reactionary to question the advancing power of tech in our lives. But this dystopia, which will do more to disrupt life in this country than any of the social changes we fight our culture wars over, is an overtly top-down project of corporate force.

Corporations are the ones generating demand and creating narratives to spur the adoption of technologies they haven’t even built yet.

It’s too late to stop them from building them. But somehow I still think it may be possible to build a politics that resists the forces leading us into dystopia and continues the 5,000-year project of improving the reality we already have. Even tech executives are starting to sound worried about where this is all heading. “This metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else,” Tim Sweeney, the founder of Epic Games, said recently. “If one central company gains control of this, they will become more powerful than any government and be god on Earth.”

That’s not quite true. They won’t be god on Earth. They’ll be god in the Metaverse. Our only option now is to build an Earth that’s preferable to it.
 
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Apparently there is proof the Great Reset is already here and it may just be Canada. Glenn Beck joined Stu Burguiere for a discussion of the most important news in America... which of course starts with the political overreach by Canadian Prime Minister #JustinTrudeau. Glenn explains to TheBlaze's Stu Does America that when Trudeau invoked Canada’s #EmergenciesAct it wasn't about the "Freedom Convoy" truckers. Instead, Glenn details to Stu how due to the Prime Minister's actions, the banking situation in Canada shows that the Great Reset is arriving as predicted.
 
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The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence. Mass casualty attacks and other acts of targeted violence conducted by lone offenders and small groups acting in furtherance of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances pose an ongoing threat to the nation. While the conditions underlying the heightened threat landscape have not significantly changed over the last year, the convergence of the following factors has increased the volatility, unpredictability, and complexity of the threat environment: (1) the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions; (2) continued calls for violence directed at U.S. critical infrastructure; soft targets and mass gatherings; faith-based institutions, such as churches, synagogues, and mosques; institutions of higher education; racial and religious minorities; government facilities and personnel, including law enforcement and the military; the media; and perceived ideological opponents; and (3) calls by foreign terrorist organizations for attacks on the United States based on recent events.

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The mainstream news outlet the Associated Press (AP) reported on Tues. Feb. 16 that, thanks to more than $8 million in ph...
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The mainstream news outlet the Associated Press (AP) reported on Tues. Feb. 16 that, thanks to more than $8 million in philanthropic grants, it is assigning over two dozen journalists to cover climate issues around the world. The move is part of the AP’s expanding coverage of climate issues as part of a significant global endeavor to incorporate the climate into all aspects of news coverage. The announcement comes as the financial outlook of legacy media outlets is increasingly bleak, revealing how philanthropy funding “has swiftly become an important new funding source for journalism.”

In announcing the AP’s commitment to the climate change narrative—which is challenged by many—AP senior vice president and executive editor Julie Pace exclaimed:
“This far-reaching initiative will transform how we cover the climate story.”

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Integrating Climate Change Into Every News Story
Part of a “major global initiative,” the grant is for three years and launches the hiring of close to 20 additional “climate journalists.” Peter Prengaman is at the helm as the AP’s climate and environment news director. Describing Prengaman as “one of the most capable and imaginative journalists I know,” Brian Carovillano, AP’s head of investigations, enterprise, grants, and partnerships, added:

“Over many years [Peter] has chronicled the real-world impact of climate change on real people and places. All of that had led him to this critical new role driving our coverage of the most important issue of our time.”

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The AP’s sweeping climate journalism initiative announcement follows last fall’s International Climate Conference in Glasgow held by the United Nations (UN) and the January meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). WEF’s gathering—held online after COVID-19 concerns delayed its annual gathering in Davos—included a panel with US special envoy John Kerry and billionaire Bill Gates (who has funded solar geoengineering for years). Along with others, the two pushed the concept that innovations not yet invented or used widely would help drastically reduce emissions.

A Feb. 15 press release from the AP explained how its far-reaching initiative would transform coverage of climate change stories by thoroughly intersecting climate with the economy and state government, using locally relevant text, images, and video from large and small markets.

The release explains the mission will have “a climate data team that will help newsrooms localize stories; a collaborations editor who will develop outside projects and work with local journalists; an accountability editor; and more.” The announcement emphasized the all-encompassing intent of the project, adding:

“The new climate desk will leverage the expertise of AP’s global staff to infuse climate coverage in all aspects of the news report, including words, visuals, data-driven journalism, and graphics reaching over three billion people each day.”

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With five philanthropists contributing to the endeavor, funding for the climate change narrative is a “big boost” for the AP. The company noted it has been “frustrated that its ambitions were bigger than its capabilities to achieve them.” Besides backing for climate reporting, the AP’s current pandemic coverage has been supported by funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. Brian Carovillano, AP news vice president who supervises partnerships and grants, explained the company’s goals in such alliances, stating, “I want to go as big as we can possibly go, and I think that should always be the AP’s ambition.”

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The five organizations fostering the AP’s relevance are The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Walton Family Foundation, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Quadrivium, and The Rockefeller Foundation. Either tied to Bill Gates in one way or another or funding existing climate change endeavors, many philanthropists in the US have played a behind-the-scenes role in framing climate change as a social problem for several decades. Yet, arguably they are part of the problem. Citing aviation sources, more than 400 private jets shuttled more than 1,000 billionaire VIPs and their staff to climate talks at the summit in Glasgow last year to “bring together world leaders to commit to urgent global climate action.”

Not impressed, the European advocacy group Transport and Environment noted in a May report that private planes were 5 to 14 times as polluting as commercial planes on a per passenger basis and 50 times as polluting as trains. The group’s UK policy manager told the Sunday Mail:

“It can’t be stressed enough how bad private jets are for the environment—it is the worst way to travel by miles. Private jets are very prestigious, but it is difficult to avoid the hypocrisy of using one while claiming to be fighting climate change.”

Besides the hypocrisy of the billionaire elites, many frustratingly assert that objective reporting on climate issues is hard to come by. For example, a Nov. 4, 2021 opinion article in The New York Times claims polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba, are “in trouble” due to climate change.

The article—which attempted to tie its claims to the United Nations’ annual climate meeting—declares it is now “too late” to save them. The piece begged the UN to take drastic and immediate climate change action to save the polar bears. However, according to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the NYT article is inaccurate—polar bear numbers are soaring, with polar bears doing exceptionally well in Churchill and elsewhere. The group asserts there is no polar bear extinction crisis requiring UN action.

Furthermore, despite mainstream media’s growing focus on global warming and climate change, one of the warmest days on record in the United States occurred in March 1910, leading to some of the deadliest fires in US and Canadian history. Known as the “Big Blowup,” a devastating series of forest fires swept over Idaho, Montana, and Washington, culminating on Aug. 20–21.

Interestingly, there is data manipulation as well. According to Climate Realism, the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) has been “the keeper of US wildfire data for decades,” tracking both the number of wildfires and acreage burned dating back to 1926. Last spring, “in a blatant act of cherry-picking,” the NIFC “disappeared” a portion of the data and now only shares information from 1983 and up.

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Screenshot / Climate Realism: A comparison of the before and after erasure NIFC dataset showing acres burned. Note the blue trend line goes from a negative trend to a positive one when cherry-picked data is used.

By disappearing all data before 1983—which happens to be the lowest point in the data set for the number of fires—NIFC data now indicate “a positive slope of worsening wildfire aligning with increased global temperature.” As Climate Realism points out, this truncated data set is ideal for asserting “climate change is making wildfire worse.” Still, it is ultimately flawed because it lacks the context of the complete data set.

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As reported by Real Clear Energy, A recent report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) claims there has been a dramatic increase in the number of natural disasters over the last 50 years. According to the WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate, and Water Extremes (1970 – 2019), more than 11,000 reported disasters were attributed to these hazards globally, with just over 2 million deaths and $3.64 trillion in losses in the US.

However, as outlined in great detail by Real Clear Energy, the WMO’s “study” claiming climate disasters increased was based on numbers that the authors knew were misleading at best. The actual numbers of disasters since accurate reporting has been in place show a decline in disasters over the last twenty years—precisely opposite the hyperbolic claims of the WMO.

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I saw a commercial for this tonight. “I Am Greta”

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We have to thank God no other CHILD like her has risen up to address ADULT PROBLEMS!

Could't you just see her stumping for Covid lockdowns and internment camps?

Actually, we have a big problem, and it is that we have given MORE THAN a too big of a soapbox to CHILDREN, TO THE CLINICALLY INSANE, TO PROFOUNDLY IGNORANT PEOPLE, TO CELEBRITIES, TO SIMPLE MINDED PEOPLE, TO OUTRIGHT EVIL PEOPLE, TO THE PERVERTS TO THE CORRUPT PEOPLE OF THIS WORLD, NOT ONLY ALLOWING THEM A VOICE, but a platform totally incongruous with the person, their knowledge and the validity of their words. We have gone so far in "equality" we have the bizzare notion now that everyone's opinion should be equally respected, and honored. That's pure bullsh*t. We have made fools of ourselves
 
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The Great Reset, part two: the World Economic Forum’s Great Narrative Project

Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum is plotting their next big move.
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The Great Reset, part two: the World Economic Forum’s Great Narrative Project

Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum are plotting their next big move.
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Time is of the essence, and Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum are here to save you from yourself. The “climate emergency” has arrived and “we” have no time to waste, “the environment is on the brink of disaster and climate change is an existential threat.”

Klaus Schwab, the head of the infamous World Economic Forum, hammers home the aforementioned call to action on virtually every page of his latest manifesto: “The Great Narrative,” which acts as a part two of his The Great Reset book series.

In recognizing the end of COVID Mania, The Great Narrative is an attempted reminder to keep us on edge. It is a grand call to take sweeping action to fight the “climate emergency,” via Klaus Schwab’s credentialed elite. It relentlessly hammers home the apparent necessity of taking dramatic tyrannical measures to intervene in the climate. And by intervening in the climate, he means radically reorienting every nation on earth by imposing a totalitarian global governance order.

According to Schwab, the world must be rapidly transformed according to the designs of a technocratic elite, and “we” must adopt the ideas and policy preferences of 50 hand-picked “narrators” interviewed for the book, who he describes as “global thinkers and public intellectuals.”

Schwab describes The Great Narrative as a book that goes “beyond the realm of theory,” serving as a “call to action.”

“We adopt the view that, as they recover from the pandemic and embark on a path to radical and accelerated change, our societies and economies should be … attuned to the needs of our global commons,” the author says.

While Schwab entertains a variety of ideologies and political perspectives, there is one group of people who are to be dismissed whole cloth. That group, of course, is individuals and groups that do not buy into his climate narrative. Schwab cannot hide his disdain for these rogue actors, who he notes, with disgust, are largely located in the United States. According to Schwab, the enemies of his kumbaya world include nationalists, populists, individualists, and those who support free markets.

Schwab describes this cohort of supposed evildoers as conspiracy theorists who are responsible for all of the world’s ills. These individuals prop up “anti-science movements” that “prolong the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Schwab writes, adding that this group is “hindering both public health, and more fundamentally, our ability to move forward in unison.”

Anyway, enough of those evildoers who draw the ire of the author. Schwab has his eyes on the prize, and there is no time to waste.

“Climate action, sustainability, inclusivity, global cooperation, health, and well being,” are the most important issues to address in our times, he writes.

“Not moving right away and decisively would render our biosphere so hostile as to derail global economic growth and … further endangering political and social stability,” Schwab adds.

In one page after another, the World Economic Forum chief showcases his ideological commitment to the climate agenda. Climate change is the “greatest collective action problem we’ve ever been confronted with,” he says, adding that “humanity has never faced an endeavor more complex, ambitious, and far reaching than arresting the collapse of our ecosystem and stabilizing the climate.”

Klaus Schwab has an unbelievable God complex, and he frequently reminds the reader of his apparently unlimited technocratic faculties. He routinely reveals that he believes his group of colleagues have deity-like powers, and that once they unite their overall expertise, these technocrats, once in charge of all of us, can bring about unprecedented happiness and order.

Schwab considers “inequality,” particularly on the financial side, to be of utmost importance.

But rather than create opportunity for the masses, he prefers a system of state control, which, in his view, would reduce “demonstrations and social unrest.”

Schwab and his co author advocate for a “a new social contract,” and proposes a variety of solutions that will help bring the climate agenda forward.

He advocates for the consolidating of global central banks around climate action.

Acknowledging that this “transition” period may be brutal to some, they advocate for the harnessing of economic productivity through “nature based solutions”

Schwab and his cohorts also discuss the advent of the “bioeconomy” or the targeted destruction of reliable energy, while forcing people to eat “alternative food protein sources” like beans and bugs.

Another solution is that of ”climate engineering,” such as blocking out the sun to attempt to manipulate global temperatures.

Klaus Schwab is a comic book villain, and in The Great Narrative, he exposes the truly insane, extremist agenda of The World Economic Forum, which, through its Davos forum, acts as the go-to policy and ideas shop of the ruling class. It’s important to read this book so that you are aware of the “great narratives” that will soon emerge from the global elites. Rarely do you find such genuine, overt evil in this world. Klaus and the World Economic Forum, through the attempted Trojan horse hijacking of our freedoms via the “climate emergency,” fit the bill.

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The Great Reset Sequel: Davos-based World Economic Forum Kicks Off 'Great Narrative' Initiative The architect of the Great Reset, WEF head Klaus Schwab, has launched his latest “Great” plan, gathering bigwigs to “co-create a narrative” to guide the world’s future.
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