@on the cusp

There was a huge push and continues to be a huge push to get UBER into every city and country globally. The company has experienced phenomenal growth since its inception. UBER is funded by Blackrock, Google, Bezos, Gates and other WEF partners.
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They are also supported by the WEF politicians ( as we have seen). The goal of the WEF is to destroy private car ownership and small taxi businesses. They tried to do this by buying the market fraudulently.

But how else would the World Economic Forum try to achieve this ?

Enter “The Shared Economy”

What exactly is the sharing economy? According to Google it is

Larry Fink who runs blackrock:

It would seem pretty obvious what the end goal is here. He spells it out in no uncertain terms when he says

“In another 5 years, car-sharing technologies could be replacing car ownership at a meaningful scale”

and

“Take driverless cars, for example: While it’s true that they will eliminate congestion and accidents, over time, they will also eliminate jobs for people like taxi and truck drivers”

Gee why would our government work with those who want to eliminate jobs? Oops I forgot they already voted for NAFTA that eliminated jobs here and sent them overseas. Silly me.

Biden is a long time member of WEF and has conflicting views on what is good for America and the WEF. It’s like the congress members who have dual citizenship with Israel. Where do their loyalty go?

More…

The real WEF Agenda is spelt out in a little watched WEF video from 2018 which has only been viewed 65,000 times. It is 6 minutes long but essential viewing. It’s called

What’s Next for the Sharing Economy?

It’s really hard to do justice to the video without watching it.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNBY8yNXGoA]

This sharing economy the WEF are so fond of doesn't work without a social credit score. The dark side of the sharing economy which the WEF neglect to mention is that if they get their way we will end up heading towards a world in which people have fewer assets and lower savings therefore we are actually decreasing our resilience as a society.

From the comments:

Patricia10 hr ago

I wonder if the lack of vehicles to purchase currently isn’t just a consequence of Covid, but also and maybe more importantly, the WEF’s plan to implement the shared economy, if there’s no cars to purchase, used or new, we are forced to “ride share.” Hmmm.

connects Uber to the WEF, exposes the pressure Uber has placed on world leaders, including macron, and Biden, among others.
The discussion of a shared economy now being pushed to be the world's economy by 2030, leads me to conclude a "shared economy", one where you own nothing, will only apply to anyone but that handful of the WEF elites. They won't be sharing. They will be owning it all.
No homes or cars for us!
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/the-uber-files-and-their...

@earthling1

Of course, removing mankind from the environment completely would allow mother nature to rebound and return to the garden it once was.

Another 1,000 species are going to go extinct and that’s on top of the thousands that have already perished from this one planet that we can live on. Plus there are many thousands of people who go extinct every year from lack of…..food, money, health care, shelter and gawd only knows how many other things that should be plentiful in this day and age. All the things that once used to kill us have been conquered, but because of greed and psychopaths that have taken control over many governments those things are once again killing us.

WEF and the companies that own it such as Blackrock and the banks are making it impossible for people to live with their heads above water and many aren’t able to do that anymore. Just so they can have more of everything. IMO our government has committed treason against we the people by selling themselves out to the parasite class just so they can too can live in luxury. Obama and Biden and every member of congress ho were on board with the plans to give away our national sovereignty should be arrested, given a trial and if found guilty should be either locked up or executed for their crimes against us. Congress refusing to give us health care and other benefits that they have given themselves is another crime against humanity. Letting corporations write legislation that keeps people poor and living on the streets and oh so many, many other things is another crime against us. We watched them do it for over 5 decades if not longer and what did we do? We continued to vote them back in office so they could keep doing more heinous things against us.

I feel bad for the younger generations because what do they have to look forward to? Priced out of home ownership, ever increasing costs for health insurance, rents, food and just about everything else that once just one person could buy for their families whilst moms stayed home and raised the kids. And now they are dealing with decaying infrastructure and everything related to climate change. Wildfires are now a regular year long occurrences in many states instead of something unusual that only happened with weird weather events. Thousands of homes burn every year and where do people live while sorting out their insurance? Lack of water in the western states was a known problem for well over a decade, but nothing was done about it. The Great Salt Lake is setting new records monthly for its lowest levels. Vegas is living on borrowed time and yet the party keeps going on and on instead of planning for the day that the water runs out. And with Mead and Hoover dams at their lowest levels ever it’s not going to be much longer until that party is over.

I’m pissed about where we are heading because IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. Who doesn’t remember the Jackson’s living in a great future? Instead of using money to invest in life our country has spent ungawdly amounts of money on death and destruction so a few companies can steal other country’s resources making them and defense industries very fcking rich. And in a few months we’re all going to go through the motion of voting for people who promise that if we just give them our trust and vote they will turn everything around and we can all then finally be happy and secure. Bullshit. Anyone who believes that has lost their minds. I’ll stop here…but of course there is plenty more to be said.

the reptilians posing as TPTB are here to make sure home sapiens don't escape the planet.
Scorched earth is their last tool available.
It will probably be invoked before China colonizes the far side of the moon.
Their red line.
Of course, removing mankind from the environment completely would allow mother nature to rebound and return to the garden it once was.
Probably in as little as 500 years. When you stop and think about it, in the years since the industrial revolution began, when the destruction began in earnest, healing the blight could take such a short time.

@fire with fire Khrushchev never visited the US when JFK was in office. They met only once in Vienna in 1961. NK made his only visit to the US in 1959 during Ike, the famous visit where he was not allowed to go to Disneyland due to supposed security concerns.

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Of all the wonders I yet have seen, it seems to me most strange that men should fear seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.
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Always look at the bright side of life . . .

Life's a piece of shit (hoo-hoo)
When you look at it (hoo-hoo)
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true (hoo-hoo-hoo)
You'll see it's all a show (hoo-hoo)
Keep 'em laughin' as you go (hoo-hoo)
Just remember that the last laugh is on you (hoo-hoo-hoo)
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I had cancer surgery to remove a tumor from my colon in 2004. I confess that I had a bad night the first evening after I heard the dreaded C word, but between the wisdom of Shakespeare and Monty Python and what can only be described as blind luck, I am still kicking 18 years later. I appreciate the luck but I do not denigrate the power of positive thinking and the role it played in my experience.

I can now say along with a sizable chunk of humanity that I did look DEATH in the eye and can still breathe air.

My fear never was the end of my life -- it remains a fear of the miserable experience in life leading up to the Final Curtain. We are programmed to want to continue living and as the End approaches, I am not looking forward to the collision between that will to live and the inevitable. But like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, I don't worry about it. Much.

I am afraid of spending my last weeks, months or years with an array of tubes and wires and random gizmos attached to my dying body. My father addressed that problem by taking his own life in 1989, cheating his stroke from making himself an object rather than a person.

I disagreed with his decision, and he could have conceivably had an interesting life while paralyzed and unable to speak normally or walk or use his right hand. But I respected his decision.

I always knew that my "senior" years would be a social catastrophe. As a career union representative, I was there at the bargaining table when the idea of a pension was denigrated and eventually destroyed. The reason was simple math. Baby boomers would start to be a financial burden around the year 2020, so as of 1980 the employers and their bankers replaced the pension (defined benefit) with the lump sum (defined contribution). As the decades rolled by, the absurdity of this social strategy of protecting money from longevity became the unquestioned status quo. This meant that any Boomer who lives past 80 had better figure out some way to supplement their "income" or else starve.

But I did not expect THIS.

In order to go down swinging or, what an optimistic thought, actually take part in successful resistance to THIS, we have to answer the question of the hour, what the fuck is THIS?

Is it the random yet inevitable result of monopoly capitalism? The pandemic was yet another opportunity for profit a la disaster capitalism? The trade war against Russia is the floundering madness of capitalist ownership of government trying to subjugate the former Communist states of Russia and China?

If this take is accurate, there is an obvious focus for resistance -- induce the American government to re-assert its sovereignty over the corporate power bloc.

But if this take is not accurate, and we are not looking at greed inducing stupidity and then running amok, what the fuck is going on? Here is my speculation:
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Long before I became a Lunatic Conspiracy Theorist, I came to agree with the folk wisdom I heard from several mid-level government bureaucrats I did business with at the Local, State and Federal levels over the four decades of my career: "Politicians Don't Run the Government."

That is pretty much the first premise of revolutionary socialism as well.

It is now archived behind a paywall, but there was a classic John Kenneth Galbraith article in Harper's Magazine many decades ago, called "The Day Khrushchev Visited The Establishment."

Galbraith had been given a semi-clandestine task by the [Edited to replace JFK with:] "IKE" White House. On a visit to the US, Khrushchev wanted to meet with the people who really run America. He had scoffed at the idea of parleying with the temporary crew in Washington reporting to President Kennedy. Ditto for anybody in Congress. They were all just the Executive Committee of the State -- serving at the behest of capitalists.

It was the capitalists who hired and fired those front men for Monopoly Capital that he wanted to meet.

Galbraith tells the hilarious tale of the ticklish and satire-worthy aspects of the effort to line up a room full of what would today be called, "Billionaires." Of course, they all scoffed right back at the Ruskie's premise about their own supposed Power. Several professed their own "fear" of the Federal Government. But Galbraith gleefully describes the unmistakable pride these pricks were taking at making the invite list.

Nobody involved in setting the meeting up even thought of using the term, Oligarch, in those more innocent times. There was a minimum boodle requirement -- some number of hundreds of millions of dollars. I don't recall how many.

The climax of the story is the badinage between our Zillionaires and Marx's Last Shot. He was not to last much longer as the head of the Communist Executive Committee, but at that stage of his career he cut quite a jolly figure and his sarcastic but truly funny answers to the questions from Stuffed Shirts like David Sarnoff are recounted with Galbraith's fine touch. I was really sorry to see the pay wall show up the last time I looked it up.

For now, I share Nikita's disdain for the current executive committee in Washington.

Meanwhile, in Russia and China. They ain't Red no more. Capitalists rule everywhere now.
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I do not necessarily believe this interpretation. It is an hypothesis that truly deserves consideration and debunking, if it can be debunked.

That would be comforting at this point -- knowing for sure that all the capitalists of the world were still at each other's throats fighting over the planet. My fear is that the guys running nuclear armed societies are at least as smart as Tony Soprano. "There's enough garbage for everybody."
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A message board operates on enemy territory, the internet. To the internet, THIS is the new normal. If that doesn't scare you, it should.

@fire with fire

Another I just found tonight …. at The Saker:

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

– Buddha –

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Of all the wonders I yet have seen, it seems to me most strange that men should fear seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.
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Always look at the bright side of life . . .

Life's a piece of shit (hoo-hoo)
When you look at it (hoo-hoo)
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true (hoo-hoo-hoo)
You'll see it's all a show (hoo-hoo)
Keep 'em laughin' as you go (hoo-hoo)
Just remember that the last laugh is on you (hoo-hoo-hoo)
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I had cancer surgery to remove a tumor from my colon in 2004. I confess that I had a bad night the first evening after I heard the dreaded C word, but between the wisdom of Shakespeare and Monty Python and what can only be described as blind luck, I am still kicking 18 years later. I appreciate the luck but I do not denigrate the power of positive thinking and the role it played in my experience.

I can now say along with a sizable chunk of humanity that I did look DEATH in the eye and can still breathe air.

My fear never was the end of my life -- it remains a fear of the miserable experience in life leading up to the Final Curtain. We are programmed to want to continue living and as the End approaches, I am not looking forward to the collision between that will to live and the inevitable. But like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, I don't worry about it. Much.

I am afraid of spending my last weeks, months or years with an array of tubes and wires and random gizmos attached to my dying body. My father addressed that problem by taking his own life in 1989, cheating his stroke from making himself an object rather than a person.

I disagreed with his decision, and he could have conceivably had an interesting life while paralyzed and unable to speak normally or walk or use his right hand. But I respected his decision.

I always knew that my "senior" years would be a social catastrophe. As a career union representative, I was there at the bargaining table when the idea of a pension was denigrated and eventually destroyed. The reason was simple math. Baby boomers would start to be a financial burden around the year 2020, so as of 1980 the employers and their bankers replaced the pension (defined benefit) with the lump sum (defined contribution). As the decades rolled by, the absurdity of this social strategy of protecting money from longevity became the unquestioned status quo. This meant that any Boomer who lives past 80 had better figure out some way to supplement their "income" or else starve.

But I did not expect THIS.

In order to go down swinging or, what an optimistic thought, actually take part in successful resistance to THIS, we have to answer the question of the hour, what the fuck is THIS?

Is it the random yet inevitable result of monopoly capitalism? The pandemic was yet another opportunity for profit a la disaster capitalism? The trade war against Russia is the floundering madness of capitalist ownership of government trying to subjugate the former Communist states of Russia and China?

If this take is accurate, there is an obvious focus for resistance -- induce the American government to re-assert its sovereignty over the corporate power bloc.

But if this take is not accurate, and we are not looking at greed inducing stupidity and then running amok, what the fuck is going on? Here is my speculation:
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.
Long before I became a Lunatic Conspiracy Theorist, I came to agree with the folk wisdom I heard from several mid-level government bureaucrats I did business with at the Local, State and Federal levels over the four decades of my career: "Politicians Don't Run the Government."

That is pretty much the first premise of revolutionary socialism as well.

It is now archived behind a paywall, but there was a classic John Kenneth Galbraith article in Harper's Magazine many decades ago, called "The Day Khrushchev Visited The Establishment."

Galbraith had been given a semi-clandestine task by the [Edited to replace JFK with:] "IKE" White House. On a visit to the US, Khrushchev wanted to meet with the people who really run America. He had scoffed at the idea of parleying with the temporary crew in Washington reporting to President Kennedy. Ditto for anybody in Congress. They were all just the Executive Committee of the State -- serving at the behest of capitalists.

It was the capitalists who hired and fired those front men for Monopoly Capital that he wanted to meet.

Galbraith tells the hilarious tale of the ticklish and satire-worthy aspects of the effort to line up a room full of what would today be called, "Billionaires." Of course, they all scoffed right back at the Ruskie's premise about their own supposed Power. Several professed their own "fear" of the Federal Government. But Galbraith gleefully describes the unmistakable pride these pricks were taking at making the invite list.

Nobody involved in setting the meeting up even thought of using the term, Oligarch, in those more innocent times. There was a minimum boodle requirement -- some number of hundreds of millions of dollars. I don't recall how many.

The climax of the story is the badinage between our Zillionaires and Marx's Last Shot. He was not to last much longer as the head of the Communist Executive Committee, but at that stage of his career he cut quite a jolly figure and his sarcastic but truly funny answers to the questions from Stuffed Shirts like David Sarnoff are recounted with Galbraith's fine touch. I was really sorry to see the pay wall show up the last time I looked it up.

For now, I share Nikita's disdain for the current executive committee in Washington.

Meanwhile, in Russia and China. They ain't Red no more. Capitalists rule everywhere now.
.

I do not necessarily believe this interpretation. It is an hypothesis that truly deserves consideration and debunking, if it can be debunked.

That would be comforting at this point -- knowing for sure that all the capitalists of the world were still at each other's throats fighting over the planet. My fear is that the guys running nuclear armed societies are at least as smart as Tony Soprano. "There's enough garbage for everybody."
.

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A message board operates on enemy territory, the internet. To the internet, THIS is the new normal. If that doesn't scare you, it should.