Klaus Schwab on the Great Reset: Fusion of our Physical, Digital, & Biological Identity
Posted by margo on November 22, 2020, 3:28 pm
Anyone read 'World Economic Forum' Klaus Schwab's book yet? Parts of it are summarised/referenced in the November 'Reset' special edition of TIME. The magazine was bought in 2018 by Schwab's WEF board member, software billionaire Marc Benioff
Two videos explain: from Schwab and Prince Charles.
Klaus Schwab on the Great Reset: Fusion of our Physical, Digital, & Biological Identity
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September 2019: Prince Charles on Reset and Marshall Plan, with comment from Schwab
BBC's "fact-checkers" now say that the phrase ´The Great Reset´ is 'baseless conspiracy theory’ when, in fact, this exact phrase was coined by the WEF chairman, appears on the WEF website and front cover of Time Magazine and is referred to by leaders, from Trudeau to Biden.
Problem here is that the Fact Checkers have conflated a number of different elements - a horrible virus, a WEF project and a strawman "New World Order" red herring - which fails to ask a more important question of the Great Reset: sounds like a good idea, but could we please have more transparency and democratic input, rather than being delivered a pre-cooked plan out of Davos in the midst of an economic meltdown?
Of course the WEF is not 'co-ordinating a secret cabal of world leaders'. The WEF group is all in plain site, featuring faces across their own website, from Prince Charles to Amal Clooney to various top bankers and policy makers.
Also the BBC FactCheckers appear to have failed to fact-check this assertion: "The plan explores how countries might recover from the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic.(sic)"
Was the economic damage (in its totality) directly "caused by" the pandemic ... or were the seeds of the damage not already well underway beforehand, caused by reckless economic policies?
The Great Reset (WEF version) was floated last year. Proof will be in the pudding. Best we familiarise ourselves with Schwab's book (just ordered it on Kindle)
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BBC Fact Checkers -- We start with the revival of the baseless conspiracy theory, known as the 'Great Reset', which claims a group of world leaders orchestrated the pandemic to take control of the global economy.
The conspiracy theory has its origins in a genuine plan entitled 'The Great Reset', drawn up by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the organisers of an annual conference for high-profile figures from politics and business, The plan explores how countries might recover from the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Screenshot of a tweet that says "The Great Reset = The New World Order..." BBC added a "no evidence" label.
The WEF recovery plan has been interpreted as sinister, first by fringe conspiracy theory groups on social media, and then by prominent conservative commentators - prompting tens of thousands of interactions across Facebook and Twitter.
It started trending globally on Twitter last week, when a video of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a UN meeting, saying the pandemic provided an opportunity for a "reset", went viral.
This sparked fresh claims from people, within Canada and further afield, that a cabal of global leaders is using the pandemic to introduce a range of damaging socialist and environmental policies.
When asked about conspiracy theories at the end of the week, Mr Trudeau said: "I think we're in a time of anxiety, where people are looking for reasons for things that are happening to them... we're seeing a lot of people fall prey to disinformation."
A video from August, which now has close to three million views on YouTube, believes only Donald Trump can thwart this secret plot, which uses Covid-19 to bring the US economy to its knees so the "reset" can begin and people will be "begging" for vaccines.
But the suggestion that politicians planned the virus, or are using it to destroy capitalism is wholly without evidence.
So too is the notion that the World Economic Forum has the authority to tell other countries what to do, or that it is coordinating a secret cabal of world leaders.BBC LINK
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Was the economic damage (in its totality) directly "caused by" the pandemic ... or were the seeds of the damage not already well underway beforehand, caused by reckless economic policies?
Yes indeed. And further, how much was caused by the measures taken to (supposedly) save lots of lives? And as I asked Dan earlier, why does the World Bank have as a pre-condition for loans to Belarus that they implement the covid measures as in other countries? Since when are the World Bank interested in people's health?? (see https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/05/26/belarus-economic-update-spring-2020 ). And how many other loans are given out with the same conditions?
The Great Reset is happening right in front of our eyes.
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"Scaling up social protection: The Bank Group is leveraging countries’ existing social protection systems to help families and businesses restore income, preserve livelihoods, and compensate for increasing prices and unexpected medical expenses. These safety nets will need to be augmented with safe, direct food distribution, accompanied by key information on nutrition, social distancing, and hygiene."
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The bit about "creative, empathetic and interactive jobs" does sound good, in theory, though. What could go wrong?
I'm wondering how The Great Reset compares to The Green New Deal: what are the material differences or do they overlap? Naomi Klein has been pushing the Green New Deal at The Intercept: she acknowledges that, at this stage, much of the projections are "a fairy tale" or imagined utopias, until someone grabs the steering wheel and starts driving the project. The narratives serve as a set of policy levers.
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Stories generating since 2016. From the WEF Contributor : Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better
World Economic Forum Contributor Leadership Strategy Ida Auken / November 2016
WELCOME to the year 2030. Welcome to my city – or should I say, “our city.” I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes.
It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.
First communication became digitized and free to everyone. Then, when clean energy became free, things started to move quickly. Transportation dropped dramatically in price. It made no sense for us to own cars anymore, because we could call a driverless vehicle or a flying car for longer journeys within minutes. We started transporting ourselves in a much more organized and coordinated way when public transport became easier, quicker and more convenient than the car. Now I can hardly believe that we accepted congestion and traffic jams, not to mention the air pollution from combustion engines. What were we thinking?
Sometimes I use my bike when I go to see some of my friends. I enjoy the exercise and the ride. It kind of gets the soul to come along on the journey. Funny how some things seem never seem to lose their excitement: walking, biking, cooking, drawing and growing plants. It makes perfect sense and reminds us of how our culture emerged out of a close relationship with nature.
In our city we don’t pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.
Once in a while, I will choose to cook for myself. It is easy – the necessary kitchen equipment is delivered at my door within minutes. Since transport became free, we stopped having all those things stuffed into our home. Why keep a pasta-maker and a crepe cooker crammed into our cupboards? We can just order them when we need them.
This also made the breakthrough of the circular economy easier. When products are turned into services, no one has an interest in things with a short life span. Everything is designed for durability, repairability and recyclability. The materials are flowing more quickly in our economy and can be transformed to new products pretty easily. Environmental problems seem far away, since we only use clean energy and clean production methods. The air is clean, the water is clean and nobody would dare to touch the protected areas of nature because they constitute such value to our well-being. In the cities we have plenty of green space and plants and trees all over. I still do not understand why in the past we filled all free spots in the city with concrete.
Shopping? I can’t really remember what that is. For most of us, it has been turned into choosing things to use. Sometimes I find this fun, and sometimes I just want the algorithm to do it for me. It knows my taste better than I do by now.
When AI and robots took over so much of our work, we suddenly had time to eat well, sleep well and spend time with other people. The concept of rush hour makes no sense anymore, since the work that we do can be done at any time. I don’t really know if I would call it work anymore. It is more like thinking-time, creation-time and development-time.
For a while, everything was turned into entertainment and people did not want to bother themselves with difficult issues. It was only at the last minute that we found out how to use all these new technologies for better purposes than just killing time.
My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city. Those we lost on the way. Those who decided that it became too much, all this technology. Those who felt obsolete and useless when robots and AI took over big parts of our jobs. Those who got upset with the political system and turned against it. They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some have formed little self-supplying communities. Others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages.
Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.
All in all, it is a good life. Much better than the path we were on, where it became so clear that we could not continue with the same model of growth. We had all these terrible things happening: lifestyle diseases, climate change, the refugee crisis, environmental degradation, completely congested cities, water pollution, air pollution, social unrest and unemployment. We lost way too many people before we realized that we could do things differently.
This blog was written ahead of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils, 2016.
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Wonderful..." I don’t own anything... " to which the question remains unanswered: then who owns it?
Here's the earlier version:
One evening as the sun went down And the jungle fire was burning Down the track came a hobo hiking And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning" "I'm headed for a land that's far away Besides the crystal fountains So come with me, we'll go and see The Big Rock Candy Mountains"
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains There's a land that's fair and bright Where the handouts grow on bushes And you sleep out every night Where the boxcars all are empty And the sun shines every day And the birds and the bees And the cigarette trees The lemonade springs Where the bluebird sings In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains All the cops have wooden legs And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs The farmers' trees are full of fruit And the barns are full of hay Oh, I'm bound to go Where there ain't no snow Where the rain don't fall The winds don't blow In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains You never change your socks And the little streams of alcohol Come trickling down the rocks The brakemen have to tip their hats And the railway bulls are blind There's a lake of stew And of whiskey too You can paddle all around it In a big canoe In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains The jails are made of tin And you can walk right out again As soon as you are in There ain't no short-handled shovels No axes, saws nor picks I'm goin' to stay Where you sleep all day Where they hung the jerk That invented work In the Big Rock Candy Mountains I'll see you all this coming fall In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
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Yes. Ive seen many versions. You can trace its roots a long way back to the medieval "Land of Cockaygne" :
"...a place where no one has to work and where the drinks flow free. There is an abbey in that land whose walls are formed out of pies, meat and fish, with shingles made of flour cakes, and nails formed from fat sausages. The monks can eat their fill without fear of recrimination. The wellsprings flow with wine, and the ground is made of gold and precious stones. The geese are roasted on a spit and then fly into the abbey crying out to be eaten. The monks themselves are able to fly, and wouldn’t come to evensong at all if the abbot did not call them by spanking a young maiden’s white buttocks like a drum to call them to prayers. The nuns from the convent near the monastery like to swim naked in the river of milk, and the young monks fly over them and pick out the ones with whom they want to have sex—they will have 12 different “wives” a year..."
-As the 1330 Kildare manuscript has it.
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The song is one of my favourites, I've heard extra verses but this is the version I play myself (and therefore memorised). Tried once finding a comprehensive list of all the different versions and verses but didn't get anywhere.
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on November 22, 2020, 3:28 pm
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