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What is "The Great Reset"?
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Thursday, December 3, 2020 5:38 PM
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Originally posted by second:Quote:On Thursday, AutoX, an Alibaba (BABA)-backed startup, announced it had rolled out fully driverless robotaxis on public roads in Shenzhen. The company said it had become the first player in China to do so, notching an important industry milestone. Previously, companies operating autonomous shuttles on public roads in the country were constrained by strict caveats, which required them to have a safety driver inside.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:That was a long post, way too long for me to reply to in full. But I do want to address this part.
The big data analytics associated with AI will profoundly affect intelligence analysis, as massive amounts of data are sifted in near real time
They can't even get AI to do something simple like drive a car.
www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/tech/autox-robotaxi-china-intl-hnk/index.html
https://xkcd.com/652/
We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
China is the right testing ground for this.
Sure... people are going to die. But you're never going to hear about it.
The amount of deaths by driverless cars will be insignificant to the amount of sacrificial lambs that Xi killed to get his bio-weapon test spread out in every crack and crevice of the world.
He already knows now that as long as Covid-20 has a long enough incubation time and doesn't kill the host immediately, he can have total world coverage after a few months. He also already knows that America is willing to cut off both of its arms and legs because it got a hang nail too.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
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Thursday, December 3, 2020 5:49 PM
Quote:If America is the World Police, it is the worst police force, ever. Have you heard of Vietnam or Iraq? That's not how you properly police a world. Then there is the 25 trillion dollars America has spent on nukes and bombers, missiles, submarines to deliver the nukes. This is especially crazy behavior because America cannot use those 100,000 bombs it built (most of that machinery has been retired). Why can't America use those nukes? Because America lives on the same planet as America would be nuking. You would think that Americans would notice that little detail, won't you?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
We have the unfair burden as the American Taxpayer to be the World Police. Most of us don't want to fund that.
Team Biden* does. He's putting all the GWB friendlies back in.
We'd have a lot more money if we weren't doing that shit.
Assuming that the rest of the world didn't just straight up come at us for revenge after we did so. We've fucked with a lot of people over the last century.
If we always did our best to maintain the moral high ground and actually do right, at least we'd have that to stand on. But we didn't.
Nuclear winter, the environmental devastation that certain scientists contend would probably result from the hundreds of nuclear explosions in a nuclear war. The damaging effects of the light, heat, blast, and radiation caused by nuclear explosions had long been known to scientists, but such explosions’ indirect effects on the environment remained largely ignored for decades.
https://www.britannica.com/science/nuclear-winter
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Thursday, December 3, 2020 5:53 PM
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Originally posted by second:
If America is the World Police, it is the worst policeman, ever.
Read the rest of my post.
Because this is one of the very rare times where you've posted something that we're in agreement on.
It doesn't change the fact that Finland gets to create its socialist utopia on the backs of world superpowers.
We may get a lot wrong, but nobody is going to fuck with 'lil Finland or 'lil Canada when Big Brother 'Merica is sitting on all the nukes and has a bunch of floating cities armed to the teeth patrolling the shores.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
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Thursday, December 3, 2020 6:05 PM
Quote:But we are not in agreement on why America should not be the World Police. I don't think Americans have the sanity/mental stability to do the job. It is a job that needs to be done, and it is affordable for America, but the kind of Americans who become soldiers and generals can NOT be trusted to do the job right, despite them claiming over and over that they can do it. They cannot be trusted with weapons because they are too fucked up in the head and too ignorant and too incompetent at dealing with people who aren't Americans.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
If America is the World Police, it is the worst policeman, ever.
Read the rest of my post.
Because this is one of the very rare times where you've posted something that we're in agreement on.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Thursday, December 3, 2020 6:10 PM
NOBODY is capable of doing that job. Not Americans, not anybody else.
It's a HUMAN problem.
One day instead of driving cars, AI will be a much better shepherd of such things.
Assuming we can live long enough to get to that point, and of course, assuming that we can somehow create a soft-spot for humans in the AI's emotion modules so they don't just wipe us out when they figure out what the real problem is.
But you're off topic again.
I'm not arguing if we should or should not be the World Police. I'm arguing that because we already are, and because the American Taxpayer is forced to fund that war machine, small "friendly" countries get a huge benefit out of it and can more or less live life the way they want to... something that is impossible for us to do now that we're in too deep.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
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Thursday, December 3, 2020 6:31 PM
Quote:Bullshit. It is problem that can be solved. Your defective people who shouldn't be doing the job? Don't let them become brain surgeons or soldiers! It is pretty obvious about the surgeons, but for some reason, mostly because Armies are popularly known for killing, not policing, it is not obvious that many American generals and soldiers should not be on a World Police Force. Most of those who sneaked into the Army should not even be allowed to carry a gun, and yet they are out policing the world. I sure hope Joe Biden doesn't believe he can accomplish anything useful with the typical people in the military. Joe needs to fire about 3/4 of his generals and 1/2 of his soldiers if he wants to police the world but I strongly doubt the Pentagon knows which half needs to go away and find a more suitable profession to earn their living.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
NOBODY is capable of doing that job. Not Americans, not anybody else.
It's a HUMAN problem.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Friday, December 4, 2020 1:06 AM
Quote:That seems backward. Wouldn't it be taking from the factory workers/blue collar without college loans to pay off the upper class/college grads student loan debts? Redistrubution taking from the poor to pay off the middle/upper class.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Exactly. It will all be taken away from the (former) middle class to pay off the (former) factory workers.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
So...
Somebody like me who's lived within their means and hasn't had debt for the last 15 years...
Do I get a huge bonus when everybody else gets all of the shit they didn't need paid for?
Somehow I doubt it very much.
Maybe I'll just run up the $100,000 worth of credit cards I've got if I see that future coming to life. Maybe I'll just buy my next house with credit cards.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
"Nobody* will own anything, and you will be happy".
*Except the very wealthiest, who will own everything.
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Does nobody see the contradiction in all of that?
If the wealthiest automate everything, why would they want to maintain seven billion plus "useless eaters"? Why go through all the trouble and expense and headache of robbing from some to keep the peace with others, and enforcing a monoculture on everyone so we can all live in perfectly equal squalor? All they REALLY would need would be maybe a few million people to make, staff, repair, and program the machines to make anything they might possibly want, plus a few million or so living human beings as toys, for those who so desire to toy with livig flesh.
All of this twaddle about "caring" about "solving" the world's problems of extreme inequality of wealth (which they caused), global climate change, and all of that, can be more simply solved (from the POV of the extremely wealthy) by simply getting rid of a whole bunch of people.
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Friday, December 4, 2020 1:13 AM
Quote:Respirators are the solution to Covid? Really? I thought folk were dying while on respirators. Are you saying respirators are different than ventilators? Warehouses are still full of unused ventilators, which were never needed.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
John Kerry Says 'Great Reset' Is Needed To Stop Rise Of Populism
Says rejoining Paris Climate Agreement is “not enough.”
20 November, 2020
Former Secretary of State John Kerry attended a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum during which he asserted that a great reset was urgently needed to stop the rise of populism.
Kerry vowed that under a Biden administration, America would rejoin the job-killing Paris Climate Agreement but that this was “not enough.”
“The notion of a reset is more important than ever before,” Kerry said. “I personally believe … we’re at the dawn of an extremely exciting time.”
The former Senator made it clear that this “reset,” which is merely a re-branding of the same new world order that has faced stiff resistance for the past two decades, is necessary to extinguish populism.
“I think Europe has to look at that with Brexit and the rising national populism — nationalistic populism,” said Kerry. “Which is really one of the priorities that we all have to address. You can’t dismiss it.”
Speaking about how Trump increased his vote in 2020, Kerry noted, “What astounds me is that as many people still voted for the level of chaos and breach of law and order and breaking the standards and … I think that, the underlying reason for that is something that everybody has to examine.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also welcomed the prospect of Biden as a “friend in the White House” to the globalists and said the two entities would work on “a new rulebook for the digital economy and the digital society.”
“The need for global cooperation and this acceleration of change will both be drivers of the Great Reset. And I see this as an unprecedented opportunity,” said von der Leyen.
As we have exhaustively documented, “The Great Reset” is merely the latest incarnation of the agenda to centralize power into the hands of a tiny elite, disenfranchising Americans, lowering their living standards and forcing them to submit to a social credit score system that will eliminate all privacy and personal autonomy.
As we reported yesterday, legacy media outlets like the New York Times are still claiming the “Great Reset” is a “conspiracy theory” even as world leaders openly announce it.
https://summit.news/2020/11/20/john-kerry-says-great-reset-is-needed-t
o-stop-rise-of-populism/
Also, additional quotes from
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/great-reset-social-contract-joh
n-kerry-phillip-goff/
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Much like the USA's and NATO's "humanitarian wars" that began with hand-wringing "concern" for the "freedom" of the nations that we attacked, but ended in great smoking ruins crawling with jihadists, the Great Reset will be announced with blaring fanfare as "the solution" to the economic and personal distress caused by Covid-19, the unsustainable wealth gap, and unsustainable environmental policies, but implemented as yet another power-grab by the elite.
The SOLUTION to Covid-19 would be simply to make effective respirators available to everyone who needs and/or wants them, plus repeated instructions on how to use them effectively. And special precautions for large groups of vulnerable people, such as the elderly in care facilities. But that would be too easy.
I will bet you dollars to donuts that NONE of the "solutions" that are proposed would in any way call for any sacrifice by the wealthy or by corporations, or any diminution of their power.
Any takers?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Friday, December 4, 2020 7:19 AM
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:That seems backward. Wouldn't it be taking from the factory workers/blue collar without college loans to pay off the upper class/college grads student loan debts? Redistrubution taking from the poor to pay off the middle/upper class.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Exactly. It will all be taken away from the (former) middle class to pay off the (former) factory workers.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
So...
Somebody like me who's lived within their means and hasn't had debt for the last 15 years...
Do I get a huge bonus when everybody else gets all of the shit they didn't need paid for?
Somehow I doubt it very much.
Maybe I'll just run up the $100,000 worth of credit cards I've got if I see that future coming to life. Maybe I'll just buy my next house with credit cards.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
"Nobody* will own anything, and you will be happy".
*Except the very wealthiest, who will own everything.
*****
Does nobody see the contradiction in all of that?
If the wealthiest automate everything, why would they want to maintain seven billion plus "useless eaters"? Why go through all the trouble and expense and headache of robbing from some to keep the peace with others, and enforcing a monoculture on everyone so we can all live in perfectly equal squalor? All they REALLY would need would be maybe a few million people to make, staff, repair, and program the machines to make anything they might possibly want, plus a few million or so living human beings as toys, for those who so desire to toy with livig flesh.
All of this twaddle about "caring" about "solving" the world's problems of extreme inequality of wealth (which they caused), global climate change, and all of that, can be more simply solved (from the POV of the extremely wealthy) by simply getting rid of a whole bunch of people.
Yup.
That's the rub with paying off college loans too.
Huge cash bonus to the most upwardly mobile, mostly white, middle to upper class people in the country.
GREAT idea.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
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Thursday, March 25, 2021 10:57 PM
I think this opinion-piece has the best overall explanation for what The Great Reset could be, and how it's supposed to work:
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Thorner: Global Currency Reset on the Horizon
By Nancy Thorner -
(Ms. Thorner expresses her opinions in her editorials, not necessarily those of Illinois Review)
The theory behind the Global Currency Reset is that the US Dollar (USD) would lose its position as a reserve currency because the US is overly leveraged and becoming less competitive compared to resource-rich emerging economies.
After all, the value of a currency is a barometer of people’s trust in the government and its ability to repay debts. If there is no trust, then you don’t have money. What you have instead is a collection of portraits of long-dead presidents.
According to James Rickard , via the Daily Reckoning in his article of 2/26/21, The Great Reset Is Here.
Rickards goes on to explain:
The Bretton Woods conference of 1944 set the global financial system that still prevails today.
The period 1969-1971 can be regarded as the First Reset, which involved the creation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR, ticker:XDR), the devaluation of the dollar and the end of the gold standard.
For years, commentators have discussed the next global monetary realignment, which is sometimes called The Big Reset or The Great Reset. [..]
You cannot put negative interest rates on consumers until you eliminate cash. Otherwise, savers would just withdraw cash from the banks and stuff it in mattresses to avoid the negative rates. Implicitly, the European Central Bank [ECB] seems to agree.
One of the ECB Board members says that negative rates (really confiscation) will be applied as a “penalty” against “hoarding” cash. In plain English, that means they will create digital money, force you to spend it, and if you don’t spend it, they will take it away as a “negative rate.
Now all of the pieces of the global elite plan are converging. The International Monetary Fund [IMF] Special Drawing Rights [ SDR] issuance will reliquify global central banks that cannot print dollars. Then Central Bank Digital Currencies [CBDC] will be used to eliminate cash.
More here
Is something really afoot?
On Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2020, the Feds systems, Fedwire and Fed ACH that allows banks to send money back and forth between banks in the U.S., went down for several hours but came back on online later in the afternoon.
The Federal Reserve outage occurred the same week Fed. Chairman Jerome Powell spoke to Capitol Hill legislators about other progress the central bank has made on its consumer-focused payments system and efforts to develop a "digital dollar." Powell said this will be "an important year for the program's development.
“The "operational error," as the Fed described it, impacted, multiple services, including its pivotal automated clearing house system, which connects depository and related institutions sending electronic credit and debt transfers. There were no initial indications that foul play was suspected.”
Credit card outages follow
Two days after the Federal Reserve closed for a few hours, on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, on Friday, February 26, 2021 there was a global outage affecting Visa and Mastercard ?, which lasted for most of the morning for anyone trying to use one of the cards to purchase anything, anywhere.
Following reports of credit cards not working, KELOLAND News looked into reported issues with Visa, Discover and Mastercard. All three services had seen spikes in reported issues throughout the morning according to downdetector.com.
Visa customers reported issues, primarily in the area of payment processing, with apparent spikes in Atlanta, New York and central Kansas, with 911 issues reported by 12:30 p.m.
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