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The Great Reset: If Only It Were Just a Conspiracy
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Writing for The Spectator US, Ben Sixsmith gets to grips with “the Great Reset” now being proposed by the World Economic Forum (“Davos”).
And yes, despite a name that sounds as if it were conjured up in some of conspiracism’s danker fever swamps, the Great Reset really exists:
“The World Economic Forum, which organizes the annual conference Davos, has launched an initiative called, yes, ‘the Great Reset’. It has its own website.”
Indeed it does.
But, after noting the involvement of “partners” such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, IKEA, Lockheed Martin, Ericsson and Deloitte, Sixsmith doubts whether the Great Reset can be seen, as some like to suggest (even allowing for a bit of hype) as “socialist Left Marxist” or a “global communist takeover plan.”
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Fair enough, not least because the Great Reset is, in essence, corporatist, not communist. The participation of companies of the type that Sixsmith mentions is, in reality, the participation of certain members of their senior management, using shareholder funds for purposes that have nothing to do with the bottom line and everything to do with the wielding of power within a system akin to a concert, with the state — if not necessarily the government — acting as the conductor.
In the course of an article on the Great Reset I wrote last month, I described corporatism as:
[A] hydra-headed ideology with origins in the premodern, and a very mixed past — sometimes benignly (it influenced the formation of West Germany’s social market economy) and sometimes not (it was an important element in pre-war fascist theory.) The different forms corporatism has taken make it tricky to define with precision, but they share a common core: the conviction that society should be organized by and for its principal interest groups — let’s call them “stakeholders” — intermediated by, and ultimately subordinate to, the state. The individual does not get a look in.
Recently, one expression of corporatism, “stakeholder capitalism,” has won strong support on both sides of the Atlantic. This might be expected in Europe, but that it has been taken up by the Business Roundtable and many leading firms in the U.S. — allegedly a bastion of both free enterprise and democracy — is depressing. Looked at optimistically, the BRT and its C-suite cheerleaders are useful idiots. Looked at realistically, they are part of a managerial class grubbing for the power that flows from other people’s money.
Stakeholder capitalism rests on the notion that a company’s management owes a duty to more than its shareholders. It’s something that Klaus Schwab, the WEF’s founder and executive chairman, has been advocating for a long time. A key feature of the Great Reset is the idea that stakeholder capitalism should, one way or another, be adopted.
That would reduce a company’s shareholders to just another category of “stakeholder,” effectively transferring the power that capital should confer away from its owners and into the hands of those who administer it. They are then accountable to, well, it’s not quite clear whom. It’s not difficult to grasp why so many corporate bosses are enthused by stakeholder capitalism.
But stakeholder capitalism is a betrayal of democracy as well as of shareholders. The power it gives to managers is increasingly being used to support an agenda influenced by a cabal of activists, NGOs, representatives of the “international community,” and politicians too arrogant to go through the usual legislative process.
Sixsmith takes, in my view, too relaxed a view of what stakeholder capitalism is him. To him, it is “a concept so vague that Facebook, IBM, Lockheed Martin et cetera are free to interpret it quite as they wish.”
Approvingly, he cites Steve Dunning, writing for Forbes: “Firms can go on privately shoveling money to their shareholders and executives, while maintaining a public front of exquisite social sensitivity and exemplary altruism.”
But while removing one possible obstacle to shoveling money to executives (shareholders are a different matter) is a part of stakeholder capitalism’s appeal to managements (bonuses are easier to justify when targets are to grow, say, diversity rather than the share price), it is only one part of its attraction. Much of stakeholder capitalism’s appeal lies elsewhere, whether it is from the social approval that it can generate for a manager who uses his or her role in such a positive way, or in its ability to hand executives power, which they can wield, as noted above, with relatively little accountability now that their responsibility to shareholders has been so diluted.
I don’t disagree with the argument used by Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase — an extremely capable businessman, but also a corporatist’s corporatist — that there is need for a stimulus, and sooner rather than later, but there was something disconcerting about the language he used in a recent discussion on this topic:
U.S. politicians are behaving like children by not passing a new stimulus bill that could help Americans whose income has been wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic, JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said on Wednesday at a New York Times conference.
“This is childish behavior on the part of our politicians,” Dimon said about an impasse between Democrats and Republicans over how much additional spending should be authorized.
The two parties should split the difference between the amounts they want to devote to coronavirus relief, he said.
Dimon is entitled to give his opinion, but his tone was not that of a constituent or even a businessman battling for his shareholders, but of an oligarch.
Writing for Time in (checks notes) an issue “produced in partnership with the World Economic Forum,” Dimon argued this:
Capitalism must be modified to do a better job of creating a healthier society, one that is more inclusive and creates more opportunity for more people. That means meaningful changes like rebuilding our education system and providing skills training, affordable health care policies, substantial infrastructure investment, and sensible immigration reform and climate policies. That’s just a start.
I am optimistic that this is possible as we enter a new decade. In August, more than 180 CEOs of leading U.S. companies signed the Business Roundtable’s new statement of corporate purpose, committing to creating economic opportunity for all of their stakeholders: customers, employees, suppliers, communities and shareholders. It’s a call to action to do more for everyone who works for us, and society in general.
Many businesses are rethinking their role in society…
Well, the managers of many businesses may be rethinking what role ‘their’ businesses should play, but whether the shareholders, who own those businesses are doing the same thing may be a different question. What, for example, do the shareholders of JPMorgan Chase, who have, largely unwittingly, given Dimon a platform to undermine their rights, think of his pronouncements? And for someone who, on that occasion anyway, rather relished attacking (elected) politicians, Dimon sounded distinctly political, and in a way that suggested that he expected people to pay attention. Yet he has not been elected to any political office, and, as I far as I know, has no plans to be.
With the switch to a corporatist regime well under way, it’s easy to understand why he’d rather not run for office. In many respects it would not only be a demotion, but an undignified one. It’s a messy business, scrabbling around for votes. The politicians Dimon describes as “childish” are nothing of the sort. He may not like how they are behaving, but they are doing what they do because of their analysis of how various constituencies will react to the decisions they make, an analysis that the (unelected) Dimon has the luxury of not having to make. The conclusion they draw may lead to those politicians taking a stance with which Dimon (not unreasonably in this case) disagrees, but the disdain in which he appears to hold them can easily slide into a technocrat’s impatience with the inefficiency of democracy, an impatience felt by quite a few of those who have, over the course of history, succumbed to the corporatist temptation.
Sixsmith has read the dreary and appallingly-written COVID-19: The Great Reset (the book). Schwab is co-author along with Thierry Malleret, an economist and a member of the WEF team. Sixsmith notes, correctly at several levels, that “this is no Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto was a bracing read.” Indeed, I can confirm that The Great Reset is not that.
Sixsmith explains that The Great Reset “considers a world after the pandemic,” a conceit he finds “audacious given that it was written less than six months after the virus had even appeared.” That is to be too easily impressed. Schwab has been peddling his stakeholder prescriptions for half a century. The pandemic is just the latest crisis on which he has hung them. Some of the book does indeed consist of predictions, but for the most part, these forecasts are just an updated, even more ambitious version of Schwab’s perennial wish list.
“If you read The Great Reset in anticipation of some kind of baroque manifesto for world tyranny,” warns Sixsmith, you will be disappointed. “There are no elaborate schemes for globe-spanning coup d’états and techtalitarianism.” The former is true, the latter somewhat less so. Glimpses of dystopia occasionally — or not so occasionally — break through the leaden prose:
In the post-COVID 19 world, precise information on our carbon footprints, our impact on biodiversity, on the toxicity of all the ingredients we consume and the environments or spatial contexts in which we evolve will generate significant progress in terms of our awareness of collective and individual well-being. Industries will have to take note.
However much it is concealed within language that reads as if it had escaped from a PowerPoint presentation for a dismal corporate retreat, The Great Reset is a book with an undeniably authoritarian subtext: “Industries will have to take note.” The book is not without moments of accidental humor, such as when “leaders” (a favorite term, unsurprisingly, in Schwabspeak) ranging from Andrew Cuomo to, uh, “HRH the Prince of Wales” (a duo few should emulate) are praised for their calls to “build it back better” after the pandemic.
To be fair, the shout-out to Prince Charles comes as no great surprise. While Schwab’s career appears to have been based, in no small part, on an entrepreneurial mix of self-aggrandizement and entertainingly unconvincing humility, one constant has been his obsequious attachment to royalty, a mark of his fondness for hierarchy (“leaders”) as well, I suspect, as a sign of his snobbery. The heir to the British throne, a petulant prince whose intelligence is comfortably exceeded by his arrogance, also makes an appearance in the WEF’s self-published account of its first fifty years, the modestly-titled The World Economic Forum: Partner in Shaping History, although in a startlingly atypical instance of lèse-majesté the authors of this grim little booklet manage to confuse him with the possibly even more petulant Prince William in one photo caption. Also featured are HRH King Abdullah II of Jordan, HRH Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan (a member of the WEF’s Board of Trustees, no less), and HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud.
Half-blinded by the glitter of all that monarchical splendor, I returned to The Great Reset to learn that “the deep disruption caused by COVID-19…has offered societies an enforced pause to reflect on what is truly of value.”
The reflection, it seems, does not have to last for long. The next sentence reads:
With the economic emergency responses to the pandemic now in place, the opportunity can be seized to make the kind of institutional changes and policy choices that will put economies towards a fairer, greener future.
To their credit, Messrs. Schwab and Malleret are not shy about using variations of that infamous phrase about never letting a crisis go to waste. It pops up at least four times.
Naturally, COVID-19 is “likely to sound the death knell of neoliberalism.” That Schwab and Malleret even use that basically meaningless word reveals both the staleness of their ideas and the nature of the snake-oil they are preparing to apply (sell would imply the consent of the buyer) to a public being informed that it will have to make do with so much less. GDP is unforgivably crude, you see.
Here and there, scattered amid the bromides, are clearer indications of what that fairer, greener future will look like. Helped by “public-sector direction-setting” and “better alignment between public policy and corporate planning,” we ought to expect a future of controls and constraints, where “planetary care will be as important as personal care.” To take a few examples, there will be limits on material consumption, an emphasis on “responsible eating,” on “vacationing nearer to home,” and on “disregard[ing] everything that we do not really need.” It is a picture of a suffocating, joyless society where enterprise is harnessed, the talk is all of “solidarity” and — this will sound familiar — the individual does not get much of a look in.
But then corporatism, which is often framed to look like cooperation, but is all too frequently underpinned by coercion, is like that: “To varying degrees, business executives in all industries and all countries and all countries will have to adapt to greater government intervention.”
And dissenters simply do not exist:
Nobody would now deny that companies’ fundamental purpose can no longer simply be the unbridle[d] pursuit of financial profit; it is no simply incumbent upon them to serve all their stakeholders, not only those who hold shares.
Nobody.
Leaving aside the fact that, few, if any had argued for (let alone adopted) the “unbridled” pursuit of profit (that is not what shareholder primacy either means or implies), the idea that there is no opposition to stakeholder capitalism stands out, even in a book showing evident traces of the delusional, in its absurdity. Yes, yes, stakeholder capitalism is on the march and Dimon’s on the team, but not everyone has signed up for the assault on property and democratic rights that this doctrine represents.
Equally, to claim that the “pandemic leaves no doubt in boardrooms that the absence of ESG considerations (the vaguely-defined environmental, social and governance criteria that have become the yardstick of “socially responsible” investing, and, by extension, stakeholder capitalism) has the potential to destroy substantial value and even threaten the viability of a business” is nonsense.
Some boards may feel that way, others may not. If the pandemic has changed their minds, it is evidence only of their lack of fitness for the job. There is also the argument that the ‘G’ in ESG is at odds with the ‘E’ and the ‘S’, in that it replaces the objective of a clear, measurable line of accountability to shareholders with a hazy duty to hazily defined stakeholders. On top of this, there is some evidence (a 2016 survey that predates our current era of stakeholder capitalism) that it is the G that adds to performance while the E and the S detract from it.
Oh.
Schwab and Malleret quote some early data showing that the “sustainability sector” outperformed the market in the first quarter of 2020, but concede that some analysts have argued that this may merely have reflected reduced exposure to fossil fuels (the oil price took a hit in the early weeks of the pandemic). Others have maintained that the reason for the outperformance was investors’ rotation into tech stocks — stocks typically with a fairly light environmental impact, as conventionally measured — for “defensive” reasons.
Stakeholder capitalism may be making a nonsense of ‘G”, but, in an article in May, Bloomberg’s John Authers (a writer generally supportive of ESG investing) referred to some research demonstrating, in effect, that some of the companies being sought by “socially responsible” investors contained contradictions between the ‘E’ and the ‘S’:
It is possible that ESG is undermining itself — or at least that the E and the S are in conflict with each other. Vincent Deluard, of INTL FCStone Inc., suggests that ESG funds are people-unfriendly. Tech and pharma companies tend to look good by ESG criteria, but they tend to be virtual as well as virtuous. These are the kind of companies that need relatively few workers and which churn out hefty profit margins. When Deluard looked at how the big ETFs’ portfolios varied from the Russell 3000, the results were spectacular. They are full of very profitable companies with very few employees… A further look at companies’ market cap per employee showed that investing in the current stock market darlings who are making their shareholders rich is a very inefficient way to invest in boosting employment. They include hot names like Netflix Inc., Nvidia Corp., MasterCard Inc. and Facebook Inc….
The problem, Deluard suggests, is that ESG investing, intentionally or otherwise, rewards exactly the corporate behavior that is creating alarm. Companies with few buildings, few formal employees and a light carbon footprint tend to show up well on ESG screens. But allocating capital to them leads to a deepening of inequality, and intensifying the problem of under-unemployment. On the face of it, they aren’t the companies that should be receiving capital if employment is to recover swiftly. If investors want to behave with the interests of “stakeholders” rather than “shareholders” in mind, and that is surely central to the ESG philosophy, then their current approach is directly counter-productive…
Oh.
Schwab and Malleret may see themselves as prophets of a sort, but perhaps they should not be blamed (too much) for failing to anticipate the awkward findings in a paper produced for New York University’s Stern School of Business, which was first posted after the publication date of their book.
The abstract alone raises some difficult questions (my emphasis added):
Environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) scores have been widely touted as indicators of share price resilience during the COVID-19 humanitarian crisis. We undertake extensive analyses to investigate this claim and present robust evidence that, once the firm’s industry affiliation and accounting- and market-based measures of risk have been properly controlled for, ESG scores offer no such positive explanatory power for returns during COVID-19. Specifically, ESG is insignificant in fully specified returns regressions for the first quarter of 2020 COVID crisis period, and it is negatively associated with returns during the market’s “recovery” period in the second quarter of 2020. Industry affiliation, market-based measures of risk, and accounting-based variables that capture the firm’s financial flexibility (liquidity and leverage) and their investments in internally-developed intangible assets together dominate the explanatory power of the COVID returns models….We conclude that celebrations of ESG as an important resilience factor in times of crisis are, at best, premature.
Oh.
The measurement of relative stock market performance is not an exact science. Different surveys can suggest different conclusions. Nevertheless, if there are companies where, as Schwab and Malleret assert, the directors have decided that there is “no doubt” about the importance of ESG, their shareholders should be consulting their lawyers as well as their stockbrokers.
As would be expected, the Great Reset has, as Sixsmith relates, brought conspiracists out of the woodwork: “The phrase has shot throughout the fringes of Right-Wing Twitter like a virus through a karaoke bar.”
There’s the phrase itself, both presumptuous and menacing. There’s the notoriety of Davos, and there’s Schwab himself, in Sixsmith’s view, “an Ernst Stavro Blofeld lookalike” although to me he bears more of a resemblance to an unctuous, condescending, and scheming prelate.
Writing for CapX, Oliver Kamm is unimpressed by all the conspiracy talk, blaming it on a “loose assemblage of anti-vaccine campaigners and conspiracy theorists, and given a platform by Russian state propaganda.” Up to a point, maybe, but given the contents of the Great Reset, its source, and how it is being sold, it is a surprise that the conspiracy theories that surround it have not found an even greater audience among the crazies than they have.
The Spectator’s Sixsmith warns, rightly, that:
[W]e should always be careful before writing theories off as nuts. It matters that some of the world’s richest and most powerful people are so interested in ‘resetting’ the way we live. You can think what you like about their ideas and activities. It would be foolish to deny their significance.
Indeed. He doesn’t believe that there is any sort of conspiracy and neither do I. The Great Reset is being orchestrated in plain sight, and not by a shadowy group of plotters. But to accept that is not to deny that it may be consequential. As I wrote in my earlier article:
So, the WEF matters, and so will its Great Reset. If a recital of some of what the forum has achieved or enabled is not proof enough of that, the list of politicians, businesspeople, and other prominenti who attend its conferences, sign up for its partnerships, and subscribe to its initiatives ought, surely, to do the trick. But the WEF is not at the center of some vast conspiracy. Dr. Schwab is Dr. Disturbingly Influential, not Dr. Evil.
What is striking about the Great Reset is not the scale of its vision, but how often and for how long we have already been hearing, in one form of another, variants of its main themes — the need for drastic action on climate change, “stakeholder capitalism,” definancialization, moving away from the “Anglo-Saxon” model, thinking of “the planet” before we travel, shop or even eat — themes that, in many cases, have emerged from the fringes to take center stage, and not only in front of the Davos crowd.
To Sixsmith, “the elite consensus on ‘the way ahead’ is disturbing.” And so it is. He observes:
[O]ne critic has called Davos an ‘ideological synchronization environment for individuals, corporations, and governments to keep on the same page.’ That is different from conspiracy — but not that different. When bad ideas are adopted internationally by some of the richest and most powerful people in the world, the effect can be the same. The Great Reset might be all the more terrifying for not being a sinister plot.
And even more so as it may well represent too much our future for comfort. It’s long past time to push back. One (very) small step could be for shareholders to insist that their companies’ executives travel to Davos on their own time — and on their own dime.
49 Comments on "The Great Reset: If Only It Were Just a Conspiracy"
The Nationalist on Fri, 27th Nov 2020 7:19 pm
We are witnessing the natural limit of self obsessed financial elites. Now all the non oligarchs are deplorable and live in fly over country.
FamousDrScanlon on Fri, 27th Nov 2020 9:19 pm
The ‘elite’ vs the laws of physics, chemistry & biology. Place you bets.
They’re a one trick pony. None of them are equipped to deal with Overshoot. To admit it is to admit they were wrong (neo liberal capitalist dogma) & failed.
Power doesn’t delegitimize itself. Look for the scapegoating to get jacked up to the next level – China, Russia-Putin, Iran, Iraq, non existent eco terrorists, deplorables, antifa, millennials, non breeders, doomers, etc. Any scapegoats will do – 31 flavors, so there’s a scapegoat for all tastes. All that matters is to relentlessly bombard the public and direct their anger anywhere & everywhere except on the elites.
My favourite is when they try & get you to blame yourself because you didn’t learn to code.
Dooma on Fri, 27th Nov 2020 9:20 pm
Combining a company that knows every intimate detail of your life (Facebook) – with a powerful defence company (Lockheed Martin).
Where are the protests? Maybe there is something on Netflix that is more important.
makati1 on Fri, 27th Nov 2020 9:29 pm
More unicorn farts and tree hugging dreams of humans suddenly realizing that they are being sucked dry by the vampire elite and therefore, getting off their lazy-ass couches and taking the heads of their vampire masters. Nothing less will end the RESET.
Not going to happen. The serfs are being paid (free money) to be docile sheep, waiting to be sheered and, eventually, slaughtered. No? What is in the “vaccine” being forced on them? Keep in mind that Bill Gates sponsors this event and wants billions of us to dies soon. Hmm…
dratrepus tak muzz-19 will cause so many to croak and it will be blamed on convict-19 this is how the muzz-17 worked for spanish convict on Fri, 27th Nov 2020 9:45 pm
muzz-19 has semen from dropout-19
FamousDrScanlon on Fri, 27th Nov 2020 10:07 pm
2014
Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we’re nearing collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits-to-growth-was-right-new-research-shows-were-nearing-collapse
The Great Reset is just the latest in denial from consevatard cancer apes who, as a cornerstone of their dogma, have had blind faith in eternal economic growth.
Party’s over bitches. If the GFC of 2008-09 did not clue you in nothing will.
Y’all was wrong about pretty much everything – limits to growth, overpopulation, climate change, peak oil, etc.
Where’s all the climate deniers now?
Where’s all the fracking-American Energy Independence/Superpower cheerleaders now?
Hiding & making up grand conspiracies to try & cover up your embarrassing failures. Wrong on all counts. Failed ideology. It was the unprecedented cheap & abundant oil that was GREAT!, not you or your nation or your white skin or your fake gods – it was the Oil.
Within a couple of decades of declining net energy the west folds like a cheap suit.
2-3 generations of having wide spread abundance (spoiled) & all our (west) resilience & useful creativity went POOF!
Like Neil Postman predicted, we’ve amused ourselves to death.
The west, lead by the Anglo nations, stands for nothing. We’re vapid decadent consumers. Phony’s. Our only value is MOAR. Weak, divided, unaccountable, self absorbed demi gods.
https://youtu.be/bDwsOrK0snI
zero juan on Fri, 27th Nov 2020 10:29 pm
juanPpee, you stupid fuck, you are not famous, you are stupid. Your comments ramble
mindlessly, lunatic
FamousDrScanlon said 2014 Limits to Growth was right. New research show…
dratrepus tak muzz-19 will cause so many to croak and it will be blamed on convict-19 this is how the muzz-17 worked for spanish convict said muzz-19 has semen from dropout-19
FamousDrScanlon said The ‘elite’ vs the laws of physics, ch…
FamousDrScanlon said For scientists studying ‘disaster fatigue,’ this h…
FamousDrScanlon said Unsafe to drink: Wildfires threaten rural towns wi…
FamousDrScanlon said ‘One more hour and we’d all be dead&#…
The Nationalist said We are witnessing the natural limit of self obsess…
FamousDrScanlon said ‘It’s within every single basin.’…
FamousDrScanlon said Facing Extinction “… it is through cul…
FamousDrScanlon on Fri, 27th Nov 2020 10:39 pm
mak, what vaccine? Y’all have been crying ‘forced vaccination’ since pandemic day 1.
Have you been strapped to a chair & poked with a needle?
Is there a name for this alternate reality you live in?
Show me the evidence of all these forced covid vaccinations.
Where did you hear it from? Unnamed sources close to Alex (steroids) Jones?
I hope any & all potential covid vaccinations fail & you stupids attend many crowded social gatherings – no masks.
FamousDrScanlon on Fri, 27th Nov 2020 11:05 pm
Mak, You are correct the virus is a hoax just as I am a hoax.
makati1 on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 1:59 am
The C19 flu is only marginally worse than the normal flu we experience every year. It has been blown up by the media and the power grabbing elite to make it seem worse. We can only hope that it will prove a terrible mistake by them and a lash-back will topple their empire. We shall see.
makati1 on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 2:06 am
You should be concerned about forced vaccinations, not me. Your life will be very restricted if you do not submit. Wait and see.
As for me. I doubt it will be mandatory here. The health system is not big enough to handle 105,000,000+ vaccinations in less than 2-3 years.
Do the math: 100,000 vaccinations per day, divided into 105,000,000+ people = 3 years+.
This flu bullshit will be over before that time can pass, one way or another.
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 3:16 am
We are absolutely going to witness a Great Reset, but not the one the globalist Davos and Silicon Valley people would love to imagine.
The real Great Reset will be a geopolitical one. The US empire and its deep state of Davos people will vanish. The official battle cry of the US empire… “Racism!”… will evaporate and be replaced by a new battle cry… “Identity!”.
“This flu bullshit will be over before that time can pass, one way or another.”
Covid is absolutely no BS, but, like the Spanish flue, eventually will vanish. I’m guessing ca. 18 months, again. That is summer 2021. Vaccines, cheap testing and Corona passports will make the difference to keep R permanently under 1, leading with mathematical certainty for Covid to disappear for good.
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 3:38 am
Talking about a Great Reset:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/scottish-independence-nicola-sturgeon-snp-b1763022.html
“Scotland ‘on cusp of history’ with independence ‘in clear sight’, Sturgeon to declare”
MEGA! – Make Europe Great Again!
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/3dszz0/the_full_extent_of_the_european_empires_1357x617oc/
America, a good second. Nothing wrong with earning a silver medal, respect!
https://tinyurl.com/y4eqpxc7
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 3:53 am
We have a new Covid hypothesis:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8993667/Now-Chinese-scientists-claim-coronavirus-originated-INDIA-summer-2019.html
“Now Chinese scientists claim coronavirus originated in INDIA in summer 2019 amid heatwave ‘that forced humans and animals to drink the same water'”
I humbly add my own: the EU did it to throw a monkey wrench in the global capitalist machine for environmental reasons.
Candidates:
– Wuhan wet market
– Virus escaped from Wuhan laboratory
– CIA released virus in Wuhan during military games
– Virus originates from India
– Virus originates from Italy, thanks to the EU
– Some pharmaceutical company released it to make big bucks with a vaccine
Usually I have an opinion about almost everything, but this time I pass. I have really no idea. The US or Chinese governments can’t be relied upon to come up with the truth.
Eventually they will find out. The WHO has just started an international campaign to find out the origin:
https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/artikel/5197417/onderzoek-oorsprong-coronavirus-who-wuhan
makati1 on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 4:19 am
abe, did the US brainwashing hurt? LOL
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 5:16 am
“abe, did the US brainwashing hurt? LOL”
???
English Airways:
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/international/british-airways-england-wales-tweet-sponsor-b1763153.html
“‘Absolutely shameful’: British Airways criticised after wishing England ‘good luck’ against Wales”
https://parisberlinmoscow.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/towards-a-celtic-union/
“Towards a Celtic Union?”
https://parisberlinmoscow.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/brexit-support-collapsing-in-the-uk/
“Brexit Support Collapsing in the UK”
Scottish independence, Irish unification, England and Wales going at a distance of each other, America and Canada falling apart, Down Under absorbed by China… everything points at Brexit being the blunder that it was. Never, ever leave geopolitical decisions with majestic implications to obese commoners.
Nigel Farage: 350 million feathers and a barrel of tar.
https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iMunmIVn87tA/v0/-1x-1.jpg
Here a Dutch news flash about British companies “hamsteren” (hoarding) goods in anticipation of Brexit. Read the 250+ Dutch reader comments. The vast majority is sympathetic to the British people (Dutch historically ARE Anglos-1.0 themselves [*]), but the same vast majority rejects Brexit as an example to follow. It is economic stupidity to break with the #1 trading block in the world, situated at your doorstep.
[*] – https://parisberlinmoscow.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/what-comes-after-the-three-anglo-empires/
“What Comes After the Three Anglo Empires?”
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 5:18 am
Forgot the hamsteren link:
https://www.nu.nl/economie/6092965/britse-bedrijven-hamsteren-volop-in-aanloop-naar-brexit.html#coral_talk_wrapper
“Britse bedrijven hamsteren volop in aanloop naar Brexit”
China Virus on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 6:19 am
“We have a new Covid hypothesis”
It is a product of the global biological industry of academia, governments, and industry. The virus got away in sloppy China and then there was the lying coverup. Mostly it is a product of the US and China in a partnership with some French influence. The US and France offshored their research to China becuase the virus became too dangerous to experiment on.
Great Reset on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 6:42 am
The real reason the election had to be stolen. This is also the reason media is corrupt. Science and academia at many levels are behind this but mostly it is the super trans-border rich who see a future as the uber-elites with techno control of all vital global nodes. This will likley be a multilateral effort becuase there are indications Asia under China and the west will pursue similar but culturally differentiated efforts. The Chinese already are far along in their effort of population control. The big question is how will the Sino American cold war be resolved to allow this WEF vision?
“A Horrifying Future” – WEF’s Vision For A Post-COVID World
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/horrifying-future-wefs-vision-post-covid-world
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_NES_Resetting_FOW_Agenda_2020.pdf
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 8:55 am
“While media exult in Pennsylvania federal appeals court loss for Trump lawyers, a big victory in state court halts certification of presidential vote”
American Thinker: https://tinyurl.com/y4a56hc2
“VIDEO: Pennsylvania Poll Watcher Claims 47 Missing USB Drives Uploaded Up To 120,000 Illegal Votes”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/video-pennsylvania-poll-watcher-claims-47-missing-usb-drives-uploaded-up-to-120000-illegal-votes/
“The ‘smartest man in the room’ has joined Sidney Powell’s team”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/the_smartest_man_in_the_room_has_joined_sidney_powells_team.html
While the western media pretend that Biden has won the election, new facts are being created.
Anonymouse on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 9:14 am
The stupid jew believes ‘Covid’ is real mak, and not only that, it seems to ‘think’ that it is somehow on par, with the amerikan flu of 1918.
Not,’Spanish’ flu. The simpleton cloggjude doesn’t even know ‘Spain’ had nothing whatsoever to do with that REAL pandemic. The whole ‘Spanish Flu ‘fable’ is well on its way to being a discredited meme.
Meanwhile, here in the ultra-liberal, ‘Freedom-loving’ Canada (not), the regime is tightening the screws with each passing day. As of a few days, ago, we are being ordered to wear face-diapers even in COMMON areas of my building. Nor are we ‘allowed’ to have quests in our own homes. The govt is out of control here mak. If I had the means, I would leave this shithole country in a heartbeat.
Meanwhile, the local Idiot-in-Chief, Justin True-dough, announced vaccines for all who ‘want’ them are on the way.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7467464/coronavirus-trudeau-tough-winter-spring-vaccine/
The bullshit has been piled on so deep and thick on this one you’d need a front a front end loaded to get even 1/2 way through it.
Now, true-dough in one of his statement said the fake vaccines are for all who ‘want’ them. How long will it take for ‘want’ to morph into, MUST take? Canada is busy imposing more restrictions, not less.
The biggest hoax since 9-11 is putting it mildly.
For a dose a sanity.
https://www.eastonspectator.com/2020/10/24/open-letter-to-dr-bonnie-henry-from-dr-stephen-malthouse/
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 9:29 am
The demolition of a Dutch populist:
https://www.geenstijl.nl/5156539/het-onverholen-antisemitisme-van-thierry-baudet-een-tijdlijn-van-getuigenissen/
All of a sudden political correct Dutch “patriots” remember all sorts of quotes from Baudet from his student (!) years. A disgusting competition in virtue signaling has just started in the Netherlands. Quotes like:
“WW2 was a war between the Germans and jews and the latter won”.
The correct interpretation, but pretty advanced for a student. I personally didn’t discover the JQ before 2000 (mid forties). In 2020 you can’t say these things in the Netherlands without becoming a pariah.
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 10:06 am
“Not,’Spanish’ flu. The simpleton cloggjude doesn’t even know ‘Spain’ had nothing whatsoever to do with that REAL pandemic. The whole ‘Spanish Flu ‘fable’ is well on its way to being a discredited meme.”
I am very well aware of that American lie, you idiot, but that flue is still known under that name, hence I use that name. Got it, low-IQ jungle bunny?
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 10:39 am
“No matter how many pork rinds Democrats eat or how many animals they kill or how many times they throw their arms around white policemen and kiss them on the lips — the right wingers will not change their minds because they will not even know about it”
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 11:11 am
#DiaperDon Goes on Anti-Twitter Tangent after Users Mock Him for Thanksgiving Temper Tantrum at ‘Kids Table’
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/meaghan-ellis/94088/diaperdon-goes-on-anti-twitter-tangent-after-users-mock-him-for-thanksgiving-temper-tantrum-at-kids-t
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 11:16 am
“Hillary Clinton has been much maligned, right and left, with all manner of sins and crimes laid at her door. She killed Vince Foster. She’s a blood thirsty war monger. She oversees a global network of sex traffickers and pedophiles. And, of course, her greatest offense was staying married to that insatiable pussy hound, her husband Bill, who also stripped away nearly everything that was ever thought to be liberal about liberals, or progressive about Democrats.
But for all those and innumerable other offenses, she did do a damn good thing when she labeled Trump supporters so precisely when she referred to them as a “basket of deplorables.” The only thing wrong with that choice of words was that it was far too understated. They started out deplorable, those Trump worshippers, then took it down, notch after notch, shredding ever more decency as they descended.”
Yep
dratrepus tak Anonymouse The stupid jew believes ‘Covid’ is real mak, and not only that, it seems to ‘think’ that it is somehow on par, with the amerikan flu of 1918. on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 11:46 am
supertard:
I was the first to call for amputation of whitey supertard atheistic scientific supremacist thunderf00t.
when this supertard went on self imposed qurantine during the first week of convict-19 back in march, i said it smells.
ask urself if someone who speak high british english exclusively does it he love muzzkaren’s milk? of course he does.
don’t inject muzz-19. it has semen from dropout-19
Anonymouse on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 9:14 am
The stupid jew believes ‘Covid’ is real mak, and not only that, it seems to ‘think’ that it is somehow on par, with the amerikan flu of 1918.
dratrepus tak Anonymouse The stupid jew believes ‘Covid’ is real mak, and not only that, it seems to ‘think’ that it is somehow on par, with the amerikan flu of 1918 on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 11:50 am
supertard:
working backward and aided by the real life moving convict-19 hoax i conclude that all past plandemics are hoaxes such as smallpox, polio, spanish flu, H1N1, foot and mouth, prion diseases, aids/hiv, bird flu, avian flu.
i did not speak out much against 9/11 and the result is we have convict-19. whitey supertard present professor steven jones found elemental constituents of thermate in the WTC compound.
as you knwo thermate reaction is chemical class and therefore does not alter elemental components. if such elements are found as results of explosion then thermate was used.
dratrepus tak Anonymouse The stupid jew believes ‘Covid’ is real mak, and not only that, it seems to ‘think’ that it is somehow on par, with the amerikan flu of 1918 on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 12:13 pm
supertard:
for a bunch of people who reject the invisible (((supremetard))) they certainly go all in for the invisible convict-19
r u sayin convict-19 is the new (((supremetard)))
please expalin, thank you supertard
FamousDrScanlon on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 12:44 pm
The young die as well from COVID-19, even as many engage in denial
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/11/28/fighting-dangerous-myth-covid-only-threatens-old-ill/6440182002/
U.S. hospitalizations top 90,000 for the first time
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-hospitalizations-top-90000-united-states/
Good. I guess covid deniers don’t care since in their alternate reality all the dead & sick are ‘crisis actors’.
How many people is that who’ve died or lied to fool you special ones?
COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
Last updated: November 28, 2020, 18:23 GMT
Graphs – Countries – Death Rate – Symptoms – Incubation – Transmission – News
Coronavirus Cases:
62,329,847
view by country
Deaths:
1,455,028
Recovered:
43,030,441
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Must be a few billion people in on it & a couple trillion$ in expenses to pull this mother of all hoaxes off.
HOW FLATTERED YOU MUST FEEL. Obviously you are all important for the evil doers to go to that much effort.
Where are the ones who’ve faked their deaths trying to fool you hiding?
Are they in that secret bunker with the not dead kids from Sandy Hook?
When all your conspiracies crumble & you can’t handle the reality & consequences of human Overshoot, remember, a measly $10 flap of heroin cut with fentanyl will make it all go away…………forever.
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 1:07 pm
A Global Police State Is Emerging as World Capitalism Descends Into Crisis
https://truthout.org/articles/a-global-police-state-is-emerging-as-world-capitalism-descends-into-crisis/
At least the US is first with something—
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 1:12 pm
I won by a lot!
https://images.dailykos.com/images/887143/story_image/FatBabySingsWEB.JPG?1606250241
zero juan on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 1:55 pm
Oh boy, already a full day of dumbass from juanPpee!
FamousDrScanlon said The young die as well from COVID-19, even as many…
dratrepus tak Anonymouse The stupid jew believes ‘Covid’ is real mak, and not only that, it seems to ‘think’ that it is somehow on par, with the amerikan flu of 1918 said supertard: for a bunch of people who reject the in…
FamousDrScanlon said Joe Biden 2021-2024 Clog-N-fagboy buddies will hav…
dratrepus tak Anonymouse The stupid jew believes ‘Covid’ is real mak, and not only that, it seems to ‘think’ that it is somehow on par, with the amerikan flu of 1918 said supertard: working backward and aided by the real…
dratrepus tak Anonymouse The stupid jew believes ‘Covid’ is real mak, and not only that, it seems to ‘think’ that it is somehow on par, with the amerikan flu of 1918. said supertard: I was the first to call for amputation…
FamousDrScanlon said Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 6:46 am…
The Nationalist said Meanwhile in the 3 ring circus There is Joe Biden,…
The Nationalist said Only when they have been infested with Zionism!
Ministry of truth said Do Americans like bombing things as children or do…
Board moderator said Right that’s it! No more haggis jokes from d…
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duncan donuts on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 2:31 pm
“Saturday’s Fun Fraud Facts: Seven Unexplainable Results that Reveal Democrats Didn’t Even Try to Hide Their Fraud”
https://tinyurl.com/yyeg3cgq
“1) Biden won a record low 16.7% of counties in the US but had the most votes of any presidential candidate ever. 10 million more than Obama. 2) Voter turnout for every election in the past 100 years fell within 2 standard deviations but 2020 was above 3 standard deviations. This should happen roughly 1 in every 2,666 elections and is 99.7% indicative of voter fraud. As we reported earlier — In the last 100 years every election fell within 2 standard deviations. The 2020 election scores above 3 standard deviations. That is to say, statistically speaking, we have 99.7% certainty on the November 3 that turnout would be between the two dashed green lines. But it wasn’t. And not only had this NEVER happened before in US history, but we have also NEVER been outside 2 standard deviations before! Look at the voter turnout for Barack Obama. It was above average. But Basement Joe HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK! You can only expect to be outside of 3 Sigma, .3% of the time. That means 3 times in ever 1,000 elections or roughly once every 1,333 years! 3) Republicans won all 27 “contested” House seats but lost the presidency? The last election where that happened with even 10 seats was the heavily fraud riddled election of 1960. 4) The winner has always carried 15 or more of the 17 Bellwether counties but Biden won just 1 of them. 5) Trump had the highest % of non-white votes of any Republican in history. 6) Biden was down more than 10% in NY but up huge in very specific large cities –but only in the big cities in battleground states. 7) 450,000+ ballots in battleground cities had a vote for only Biden. No down ballot votes cast, no independents, green party or write in candidates voted for on those ballots. The Democrat elites want you to believe this election was free and fair. Don’t believe them. YOU BE THE OBJECTIVE JUDGE!”
FamousDrScanlon on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 7:01 pm
SINNERS!!!!
Pope Blasts Those Who Criticize COVID Restrictions in the Name of “Personal Freedom”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/pope-francis-blasts-critics-covid-restrictions-personal-freedom.html?via=recirc_recent
The Pope also said God fixed things so Trump would lose no matter what…Bahaha
FamousDrScanlon on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 7:23 pm
More folks joined the NWO-Deep-State-Anti-Trump-Covid-Great-Reset-Jews-Iz-Evil-Conspiracy-Team.
U.S. tops 13 million COVID-19 cases as experts fear holiday “surge upon surge upon surge”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-cases-13-million-united-states-health-experts-fear-surge-holiday-season/
Coronavirus updates: US surpasses record 200K daily cases; virus numbers could be erratic after Thanksgiving, experts warn
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/11/28/covid-news-los-angeles-county-stay-home-order-us-cases/6444208002/
Just wait til next week when the thanks giving morons start dropping like flies & totally overwhelming the system.
Drive safe. You don’t want to end up in the emergency room next week for any reason.
FamousDrScanlon on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 7:32 pm
Duh..it was too late 20 years ago.
‘Past a point of no return,’ according to British Journal Scientific Study on climate change; Reducing greenhouse gas emission to zero still will not stop global warming; Scientists see ‘an acceleration of Pandemics’
“Humanity may as well be on the brink of some devastating climate adversities.
According to a scientific study recently published, it has mentioned that Humanity is beyond the point of no return when it comes to greenhouse emission of gas and will not be able to halt the melting of permafrost ( it is the ground that continuously remains below 0 degrees Celsius for two or more years)”
https://www.inventiva.co.in/stories/past-a-point-of-no-return-according-to-british-journal-scientific-study-on-climate-change-reducing-greenhouse-gas-emission-to-zero-still-will-not-stop-global-warming-scientists-se/
Inertia is a real bitch & she’s coming for you.
makati1 on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 8:00 pm
The end was decreed when the first coal fired machines came into being. After that, the monkey greed took over. The cliff was always there, but now it is in sight. I may live to see the final event. I hope so.
makati1 on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 8:01 pm
What end? The end of the US as a world power. Soon, I hope!
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 8:34 pm
How About Spreading Some Coyote Urine Around the White House?
https://buzzflash.com/articles/michael-winship-shoving-donald-trump-out-the-oval-office-door-how-about-spreading-some-coyote-urine-around-the-white-house
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 8:37 pm
“Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it’s your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.”
FamousDrScanlon on Sat, 28th Nov 2020 9:41 pm
Who’s better at admitting they’re wrong — conservative or liberal extremists?
Researchers looked at whether people who hold stringent views were willing to admit they were wrong
“Very liberal and conservative people find it much harder to admit they’re wrong about anything, even when it’s got nothing to do with politics, a new study has found.
Those with radical or more extreme political views resisted admitting they were wrong or changing their minds even during experiments where they counted the number of flashing dots on a computer screen, according to two studies recently conducted by scientists from University College at London University.
Extreme conservatives were just as likely as extreme liberals to think they were right when they were actually wrong.
Extreme conservatives were just as likely as extreme liberals to think they were right when they were actually wrong, researchers found. And both groups were about the same when it came to refusing to admit new evidence or change their minds.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/who-are-more-likely-to-change-their-minds-conservatives-or-liberals-2018-12-19
The more extreme they become the more alike they are.
Except for a few tribal signalling phrases, I can’t see any difference between them.
An extremist is an extremist is an extremist.
Their barking dogma all sounds the same to me.
The last gasps of, has been, exceptional empire babies who can’t deal.
zero juan on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 9:29 pm
Davy’s pissed Cus he can’t make you fuck him up his bum FamousDrScanlon.
dratrepus tak supertard kat how did u get so smart u r the only one being consistent u dont believe in invisible (((supremetard))) and u dont believe in invisible (((convict-19))) either smart and logical consistent i respect that on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 9:39 pm
please supertards change ur undies after 5 days
gracias
Diaper Don on Sun, 29th Nov 2020 9:57 pm
Too funny finally worked out what tRump always sits at the end of a chair and leans forward he wears adult diapers there a numerous youtube videos on it and plenty of insiders that work close to him also verify it. It’s also number 1 trend on twitter he has been exposed . Big tough guy needs diapers
ROTFLMAO
dratrepus tak supertard kat how did u get so smart u r the only one being consistent u dont believe in invisible (((supremetard))) and u dont believe in invisible (((convict-19))) either smart and logical consistent i respect that on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 5:57 am
please supertards change ur undies after 5 days
gracias
muzznews
Farm Massacre Death Toll Rises to 110: “Ruthlessly Killed”…
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 30th Nov 2020 8:12 pm
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
U.S. Billionaires Gained $1 Trillion Since The Pandemic Started
‘American billionaires haven’t been just immune to the pandemic, they have been thriving in it, drastically increasing their collective wealth. An analysis by Chuck Collins at the Institute for Policy Studies found that American billionaires have been their wealth grow by $1 trillion since March of this year – more than 34 percent. That was not the case during the 2008 financial crisis when it took Forbes’ 400 richest people three years to recoup their losses from the Great Recession. Collins’ findings highlight a wealth gain by a mere 650 individuals that seems obscene at a time when nearly 7 million Americans are at risk of eviction when moratoriums expire at the end of the year.’
https://www.statista.com/chart/22068/change-in-wealth-of-billionaires-during-pandemic/
Yabut it has to be only libtard billionaires cuz conservative billionaires are warm-N-fuzzy & care about all the little people & they would never never partake in cut throat Disaster Capitalism. Like conservative politicians, conservative billionaires are pure as the driven snow. 110% of American decline iz da libtards fault.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 1st Dec 2020 12:45 pm
“Breaking: Attorney Lin Wood Suggests Trump Declare Martial Law, Hold New Election”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-attorney-lin-wood-suggests-trump-declare-martial-law-hold-new-election/
Trump attorney Lin Wood tweeted a declaration calling for the president to implement Martial Law and hold a new, safe and fair election if lawmakers fail to protect the Constitution.
Wood wrote, “Good morning. Our country is headed to civil war. A war created by 3rd party bad actors for their benefit – not for We The People. Communist China is leading the nefarious efforts to take away our freedom. @realDonaldTrump should declare martial law.”
Why is everybody all of a sudden talking about civil war. Did I miss something?
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 1st Dec 2020 12:50 pm
The Proof Is In: The Election Was Stolen
By Paul Craig Roberts
December 1, 2020
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/paul-craig-roberts/the-proof-is-in-the-election-was-stolen/