What is "The Great Reset"?
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electric vehicle tax subsidies coming?
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What is the Great Reset - and how did it get hijacked …
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-57532368
Great Reset Initiative is an economic recovery plan drawn up by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in response to the Global Virus Outbreak?
Great Reset conspiracy theories increased in intensity when leaders such as U.S. president Joe Biden, New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau incorporated ideas of a post-COVID-19 "reset" in their speeches.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201120171259/https://ici.radio-canada.ca
/nouvelle/1750586/great-reset-grande-reinitialisation-forum-economique-mondial-davos-complot-communisme#:~:text=%C2%AB%20La%20Grande%20R%C3%A9initialisation%20%C2%BB%20%E2%80%93%20ou,meilleur%20apr%C3%A8s%20la%20crise%20sanitaire.
The conspiracy theory has also been disseminated by Russian propaganda outlets. According to Oliver Kamm, in a 2020 article for the CapX website: "The propaganda apparatus of the Putin regime has for many months published wild allegations from obscure bloggers that the Great Reset is code for oligarchs to amass wealth and control populations."
https://capx.co/the-great-reset-is-the-latest-conspiracy-fantasy-it-wi
ll-not-be-the-last/
Darya Dugina was a Russian journalist, political scientist and activist.She was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a far-right political philosopher, whose political views and support for Vladimir Putin she shared.
She was killed in August 2022 in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220821014552/https://www.bbc.com/news/wo
rld-europe-62621509
Aleksandr Dugin had a vision between East and West known as the Eurasia power, he is called by news media as a war monger, a political philosopher, analyst, and strategist, known for views widely characterized as fascist or imperialist?
https://web.archive.org/web/20200918015508/https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac
.uk/russian/nationalism/shekhovtsov1.html
Talk wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Great_Reset
old 2014 article
Putin's Russia Reset - The Globalist
https://www.theglobalist.com/putins-russia-reset
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The WEF has been trying to figure out How To Control The World for decades. The WTO, CFR, IMF/World Bank are all organizations with the same goal.
The Great Reset is just another "never let a good crisis go to waste" rationalization to accomplish the same goal.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
electric vehicle tax subsidies coming?
Why does that even matter? As soon as Biden* announced them, both Ford and Chevy raised the average price of their EV's $6,500 to $7,000.
All that bill was is a giveaway to the auto industry on our dime.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Thanks to a discussion about China, http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65541 I think I finally figured out the reason for the great reset- what it is and why the elites are pushing it.
And the idea came specifically from this part of the discussion;
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SIGNY: So I would put China in the rival/competitor class.
SIX: If anything, that's probably even a more scary scenario. What do competitors do?
Adapt or die...
SIGNY: And this is where our elites are stuck- they will have a hard time adapting and they surely don't want to die.
The Chinese govt is tolerated bc it has materially raised almost a billion people out of poverty. Same with the Russian govt, which has raised the Russian living conditions substantially since 2000.
Until a few decades ago, Americans turned a blind eye to whatever we did abroad bc the middle class was robust and pretty comfortable.
Compare that to our elites now, who can only improve their standing by grinding down most of the people. How do THEY get people to bow down? Well, they can try more propaganda and censorship, and they can weaponize the so-called justice dept and persecute some and post their heads at the city gates, and they can impose digital currencies and toss up whatever "enemy du jour"/interesectional identity as distractions, they can guilt-trip people for just being alive and emitting CO2, and they can in essence allow widespread drug use, but the one thing they CAN'T do is improve the living standards of most people. In the face of hunger it becomes difficult to control strictly through coercion
So, what is The Great Reset supposed to be doing?
Why, Solving the World's Problems with One World Government, of course!
We can stop climate extinction, if only "we" stop eating meat and eat bugs and de-industrialize and give up ownership and reduce our expectations and standard of living to that of Useless Eaters!
We can solve Global Pandemics if only we submit to government movement restrictions and mandated vaccines.
We can ensure global peace if only we give up national sovereignty and national identity... and any form of democratic control and governmental accountability.
We can ensure equal outcomes if we place economic and political control in the hands of faceless unreachable bureaucrats and technocrats.
We can reduce crime by taking away guns, knives, forks and spoons, and ensure diversity by forbidding thoughts and by restricting speech bc somebody somewhere might find something offensive, no matter how reality-basrd it might be.
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Now, does any of this make sense?
Are we really going to "save the planet" by de-industrilsizing Europe and the USA if Asia, Africa and South America go full steam ahead, as some are doing already?
Can we save the world if we starve ourselves if non-western nations discover the joy of full bellies and meat with meals?
Can we stop pandemics if 90% of the world refuses our mandates?
Can we force everyone to comply?
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So, if these plans are pointless, why are they being bannered by TPTB?
Because the Great Reset is nothing but a Great Reource Grab. But like all resource grabs, it's destined to meet resistance unless it's dressed up as a Good Deed.
Freedom! Human rights! R2P! Women's rights! Save the whales! Save the Planet!
There's nothing wrong with those goals, but they're often used to disguise nefarious plans. And we need to distinguish between genuine efforts to solve a real problem, and conspiracies to rob people of their agency, wealth, and lives.
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Given that their plans look blatantly ineffective to anyone who gives them a moment's thought, who do TPTB think they're fooling? Certainly not Chinese and Russian officials who realize that they're in power only bc they raised the standar
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It's only in the last few years that I haven't had a job that I've been the most productive. Not just for me, but for my circle. In the 27 years I've been in the work force, the only time I ever felt like I actually accomplished anything at the end of the day was when I was building garages or rehabbing homes. The highest paying jobs in my life were ranked high among the least fulfilling.
We need to go back to the trades. Teach our kids hands on skills that can't be shipped to India.
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Being a man of many talents and useful skills, with a lot of energy and good contacts with your neighbors and family is an excellent survival strategy. Not sure how that applies to old, tired retirees like me.
But the fact that people have to find or make little jobs for themselves means the shit is already hitting the fan. You see people tapping out belt buckles from tin cans on street corners because there are not enough Big Jobs in the economy: no steel mill jobs, no auto manufacturing or assembly, no punch press operator, meatpacking, etc positions to be had. The Big Economy has wound down.
That retirees lunch that I went to was a lot of fun. But aside from our collective health problems and family doings, it was all about hobbies: pickleball, going back to flying private planes, learning winemaking etc. Only one person seemed a bit clued in to how things might fall apart, but that wasn't a topic if discussion.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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If you know how to actually do things there's always a job for you out there. Even if its low paying or bartering, you can always take something in trade.
If you're a master at something like welding or car repair, you can write your own ticket.
Don't go to college. All that does is leave you a life-long wage slave with no actual skills that mean anything and a head full of propaganda.
Computers used to be the exception, but again, if you're not going to be a master at coding and/or networking don't bother. Robots will be doing your job soon.
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Obama brought false hope, but America was in big trouble before Trump
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/obama-brought-false-hope
-but-america-was-in-big-trouble-before-trump-20230324-p5cuzh.html
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This is the linked article
Obama brought false hope, but America was in big trouble before Trump
Nick Bryant
Journalist and author
March 27, 2023 — 5.00am
To be in America the night Barack Obama won the presidency was to be reminded of why I had fallen in love with the country in the first place. The dynamism. The ambition. The audacity of hope. That restless spirit encapsulated by his electrifying mantra: “Yes we can.”
Here was a once-in-a-generation leader who embodied the ideal of American exceptionalism. Obama knew that himself, as he delivered the opening line of his victory speech at Grant Park in Chicago: “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.”
Barack Obama at his inaugural address in Washington on January 20, 2009.
Though it was heady to report on the country’s first black president, I was not completely intoxicated. Given how polarised Washington had become since the end of the Cold War, I did not think he could bring about a post-partisan country, still less a post-racial society. The breach between black and white America was already too wide and deep for that. But even if he might struggle to become truly transformational, I still thought he would be a transitional figure: someone who could smooth the path as the country moved by mid-century towards becoming a majority-minority nation in which non-whites outnumbered whites.
For a superpower in decline after the attacks of September 11 and its needless war in Iraq, Obama was the rejoinder. Not since John F. Kennedy had a US leader so captivated the world.
America’s 44th president is in Australia this week, and will doubtless exhibit the attributes that made him such a political superstar. His lyricism. His grace. His cool. All the character traits that differentiate him from the grotesqueries of his successor, the anti-Obama and anti-president Donald Trump, who warned over the weekend of “potential death and destruction” if he is indicted. After four years of Trumpism, countries now try to inoculate themselves from the American strain of democracy, with its polarisation, dysfunction and violent extremism. The sight of a Trump flag being brandished is often the first sign of contamination.
Yet the sad truth is that American exceptionalism was flatlining long before the New York tycoon descended his golden escalator in 2015 to announce his bid for the White House. The dissolution of the United States accelerated under Obama.
Barack Obama’s successor, Donald Trump.
Even though his economic stimulus package helped save American capitalism after the Great Recession of 2008, it became hard to find parents who thought their children would lead more prosperous lives, the essence of the American dream.
Even though he withdrew US forces from Iraq and did much to restore America’s international standing, his failure to enforce a red line over the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime undercut US global leadership. Vladimir Putin was given a green light to escalate Russia’s involvement in Syria, which emboldened him first in Crimea and then the rest of Ukraine.
The massacre at Sandy Hook in 2012 showed that even the murder of 26 people, including 20 children aged between six and seven, could not persuade a Republican-dominated Congress to enact gun controls, Obama’s biggest regret as president. Nothing better illustrates the country’s chronic dysfunction than the failure to ameliorate its mass shootings epidemic; or how American exceptionalism has come to be associated with violence rather than virtue.
From the outset, Obama faced a wall of Republican opposition. On the night of his inauguration in 2009, a cabal of hardline conservatives, including the present House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, gathered at a restaurant in Washington and vowed to destroy his presidency. The Tea Party, which began as a reaction to the Bush administ
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