"Never let a good crisis go to waste," said President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel about the Great Recession of 2008. He said it again in 2020 about the Covid-19 Pandemic. He's not alone.
Some group calling itself “The World Economic Forum” ( https://www.weforum.org/) recently called the pandemic a "unique window of opportunity" on their website. They have come up with a plan for how the world needs to take advantage of this "opportunity" that’s been created by COVID-19. They call this plan, the "Great Reset". As if the economy is just a screwed up computer and that all you need to do to fix it is to just hit a reset button and Voila! No matter how much damage has been done to the computer/economy, it magically resets to factory settings and starts working again! Global economic catastrophe averted!
The World Economic Forum, by the way, is an organization that holds meetings where some of the wealthiest people on the planet and representatives from the most successful corporations in the world meet and have talks with all sorts of political people about what *they* want to do to the world. I know that sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory, eh? Read their website. (weforum.org/great-reset/)
Opportunists like the ones at the World Economic Forum are pushing long-held and previously rejected political proposals that have been in the hustings for years. They are reminiscent of circling vultures. Or of hyenas who suddenly notice a limping wildebeest in the Serengeti and start creeping closer, hoping to sink their teeth into its still-living flesh.
As of the writing of this article, over 800,000 people have died of Covid-19 worldwide and over 20 million have fallen sick. The global economy has been devastated by efforts to halt the disease. Fewer than 3,000 people died in the 9/11 attacks and that was a big enough crisis to let these same sorts of hyenas shred the Geneva Convention and the US Constitution and institute a policy of torturing people on mere suspicions without any kind of trial. And, incidentally, to rake in literally trillions of dollars from increased spending on defense, intelligence and "homeland security".
9/11 compared to Covid-19 is like a six pack of beer compared to an entire beer-soaked Oktoberfest!
So, naturally, with the whole economy resembling a smoking crater, it's a grand old time for think tanks, lobbyists and political activists. For public policy pimps/predators it's the world's biggest party. The biggest in their lifetimes. They can get anything and everything they want. It's like Christmas with a mountain of gifts taller than the tree.
With the voters in distress with some dying in droves and the media pre-occupied with the crisis, almost any idea, no matter how ridiculous, can become government policy. It doesn't even have to be related to the crisis in some instances.
So what do the hyenas want for Covid Christmas? Here's what's some people are asking Santa Virus to give them:
1) Abolishing cash
2) Stopping international trade
3) Shutting down the oil industry
4) Universal Basic Income
5) New taxes
6) Negative interest rates
7) Totalitarian surveillance
8) Whatever else they think of next
Some or all of these sound good to a lot of people at first glance, but they're not. Let's take them one at a time.
1) Abolishing cash. Money would only exist in bank computers. Fees, taxes, negative interest rates and more taxes -- all can be automatically subtracted from your account and there will be absolutely no way to stop it or slow it down or even talk to a live person to complain. You can argue with a bank website about where all your money went and it will assure you that they take your concerns very seriously.
For the banks, credit card companies and government tax collectors, this will definitely be better than cash. For everyone else, not so much. In fact, a lot of people depend on cash because they don't have bank accounts or credit cards. Poor people, Indigenous people on Indian Reserves, immigrants and so on. Credit unions will not open an account for you if you don't have good enough credit -- in their opinion based on whatever data is in the computers, correct or incorrect.
Even now, people who don't have bank accounts face serious problems. Like how to cash a paycheque. They resort to going to those payday loan places. How do they help? Well, they'll cash your paycheques in exchange for keeping 10% of every paycheque. That really adds up fast. After 10 months, it's exactly the same as working one entire month and getting paid nothing whatsoever, just letting the cheque cashing place keep all your pay for a whole month. They will also loan you money. Sort of like a credit card but without the convenience and with a 600% interest rate. There is a reason these places are called "the banks of the damned."
2) Stopping international trade and shattering the global economy. Local economies can be just as good, really. We'll design our own computer chips locally. How hard can it be?
3) Shutting down the oil industry. This was too economically disruptive before the pandemic. We're much better able to handle financial stress now that millions more people are unemployed and countless businesses are going under.
4) Universal Basic Income. This idea of the government just sending everyone a CERB cheque is working. Let's put an end to the entire concept of work and production altogether and just live off cheques from the government.
If you do even the most basic math to analyze what it means from the other side, the picture is very different. Take the amount of UBI you hope to receive. Multiply it by the population of your country. That's how much it would cost. Compare that to the total budget for the government of your country. If the amount of UBI is enough to live on, even at a poverty-level existence, then the cost of UBI would be greater than the cost of everything government does now. Everything. The combined total of all taxes in most industrialized countries are already running at around half of all income. How would government pay for doubling that? Take the other half of all income? How is that going to play out?
5) A tax on top earners/wealthiest Canadians. Can we pay for all this by just taking their money? They're billionaires, right? Isn't billion another word for infinite? Actually, a billion dollars divided among everyone in Canada is only 26 dollars per person. We don't have all that many billionaires and they'll move to other countries if we tax them too much. Just like they are already doing.
6) Negative interest rates. The idea is that you would deposit your money to the bank and they would charge you interest as if they had loaned you money even though they are the ones borrowing money from you. Of course, nobody would want to make a loan at negative interest.
This is where the cashless society comes in. If there is no cash and your money can only exist in a bank account, then you cannot escape negative interest rates. The reason they want to create this nightmare is just because the governments of the world try to manage the economy by changing interest rates, but they ran into a problem because they want to keep lowering interest rates, but the main interest rate they manipulate is already almost zero. Negative numbers are less than zero so someone suggested negative interest rates. There's more than just math involved. Nobody wants to pay interest to loan the banks money. Trying to fix that by abolishing cash would just make things a lot worse. Negative interest rates is just a really stupid idea.
7) Totalitarian surveillance. Maybe it's good that governments have used cell phones to track who has been near whom to quarantine people expoed to the virus. But it's not so good that the governments of the world have that kind of tracking capability.
Every day surveillence grows more intrusive. Everything you do on the internet is spied on. Every email, every website you visit, every search, every "like" you click. Every phone call you make is spied on. Tag readers are tracking where cars go. Video feeds from millions of security cameras are being sent to national spy agencies and analyzed by artificial intelligence. China already claims their computers can automatically identify and track over a billion people at the same time. The US has already implemented a similar system that may not work as well yet. Every single cell phone is a spy device with a camera and a microphone that can be activated secretly by whoever can get software onto the phone. A study showed that most cell phones had multiple programs spying on the user without their knowledge and sending the data to other parties.
You may trust your government and think it will only ever do good things. What about foreign governments? Not just governments. A gang of Neo-Nazis recently managed to get personal data from a police database in Germany and used it to compile names and addresses of people they planned to murder? How about organized crime? Would you be comfortable with them getting access to every detail of your life and exactly how much money you have and where it is stored? Small time criminals buy lists of credit card numbers from each other over the internet and use them to commit fraud. Want your credit card numbers on those lists? You do have something to hide, from people like that.
8) Whatever else they think of next. The tyranny-builders, the special interest robbers, and the just plain idiots are swarming into government offices to take advantage of the twin crises of Covid-19 and the economic recession. Somewhere out there maybe someone is proposing something good, but they are likely to be run over by the stampede of lobbyists for an epidemic of astoundingly poor policy proposals.
Having trouble figuring out why Biden's regime does what it does?
Maybe it's bcuz you believe the regime is working in the interest of the USA like all POTUS admins before it
Sorry, afraid not
For a moment imagine that Biden's Woke regime hates USA and is working to collapse the US nation state for the benefit of a globalist order
Does it make more sense now?
A Woke Maoist Cultural Revolution rioted on US streets all of 2020
That's a real insurrection against the US Government
Jan 6th is used as misdirection to prevent you from noticing that Woke Maoists have breached the gates, corrupted our youth and usurped control of many US institutions and even the US government Exec Branch
Have they already won?
That's up to you
James