Seeing roughly 4,000 references a day to Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, it occurred to me late last week that I’d never gone to the source — I’ve never read a book by Klaus Schwab. So I set out to read the one the Dutch parliamentarian asked his prime minister about
Why do this rich globalist ass-holes want to tell everyone else what to do aka govern? Why don’t they just buy an island somewhere, drink martinis all day and leave the the folks who actually do stuff the hell alone?
It’s often occurred to me that one of the many perverse things in this world is that the people who would know how to spend massive amounts of money wisely are the people who never get massive amounts of money.
I'd buy an island and have weed tincture "à volonté".
Nothing stupidly strong - just enough kick do that a couple of drops sublingually would make Ryan Reynolds movies 12% more entertaining.
All the fun, and none of the metabolic damage, of alcohol. (It goes without saying that I am not stupid enough to deliberately inhale the fumes from burning leaves - of weed, tobacco or a forest fire - never have, never will).
That's like asking why Karen from HR has absorbed every piece of pop-psych bullshit imaginable.
For one: they're not as rich as is made out.
Most of their "wealth" is tied to the price of stock where only some small proportion (~25% or less) of the float is traded - if it's traded at all. If they tried to realise their 'wealth' they would soon find it's 90% lower than they thought. Most of their ***lifestyle*** is funded by borrowing against that stock.
Look at what happened to all the Russian oligarchs when Putin told them to straighten up (he did this 6 weeks after becoming President). Everyone listed their wealth as if the piffling (0.5%, 1%) stakes they sold EACH OTHER at absurd valuations, were realistic... when they tried to cut'n'run, they discovered that the people who gave them a leg up the oligarch ladder were trying to cut'n'run at the same time. Crowded lifeboats.
Western oligarchs have the same scam going.
If I found a company and I know someone who is prepared to claim that 2% of the equity is worth $200m, then as the owner of the other 98% I'm 'worth' $9.8b.
At that stage, I know that if I try to realise any of that, it all collapses in a heap... so that's not what I do. Instead... I BORROW AGAINST MY STOCK. The person over-valuing my stock gets a 'contra' for the $200m the moment I can borrow against the $9.8b.
That's how WeWork "worked". Literally, exactly how it worked.
Remember WeWork? That's only 2 or 3 "disappearing fake fortunes" ago.
For the early days of this sort of grift, read up on George Herscu. He claimed to be worth $300million back when $300million was genuine 'fuck you' money ... 2 years after that, he was found to be $1.2b in debt, and on his way to jail.
Because they realize 2 weeks in that humans get bored sitting around doing nothing all day, all they know how to do though is wreck stuff other people made. It explains a lot about the current state of our culture.
You know those committee-derived "mission statements" that are always full of meaningless word-salad jargon? This appears to be a book-length mission statement.
And thank you and your feline confederate for taking on this loathsome task and reporting back from the frontlines. This corroborates my suspicions regarding Klaus based on his fawning flattery of mentors like Kissinger and guests like Bourla 🤮
Yes, what we need is more insane, demented people in bigger government. More, "I'm so much better than you, because I work for the government!", people. 🙄 God help us!
And here we have the essence of the WEFites' failed attempt at a Great Narrative with which to inspire the poors: it's all nonsense we've all heard before, for our entire lives. It's saccharine nonsense and everyone knows it.
The Great Reset won't be defeated by the Great Awakening. It will be stillborn in the Great Cringe.
Regarding the Kamala interview excerpt: the only thing worse than how she talks is that the interviewer never calls her out on it. I wish he’d say to her, “what did you just say? That was just a bunch of words, saying nothing.” But, they never do. I miss ‘real’ interviews.
"Transformation" was the bullshit word used everywhere in federal government in years between 2002 and 2007 when I left. It meant nothing but everything had to be rewritten to embrace it.
I don't have that word in my post sadly. Mmm, let's see, using your description...
"Transformation - Government term meaning to change something that worked relatively well into something that doesn't so that government employees can have something to do when they have to change it back again in the future.
Schwab’s prescriptions for a better society are compelling to our leaders because they are based on empowering people who don’t know how to do anything to tell everyone else how to do everything. What could go wrong?
LOL, thanks for the review; you've saved me some time and sanity. I just finished "The Fourth Industrial Revolution," and wondered how in the WORLD this joker got to be so important. You have explained it to me: He talks like all the wannabe masters of the whole wide world.
Note: The only thing I took away from TFIR was that Schwab is an idiot. And that he likes the phrase "the fourth industrial revolution," for it turned up in virtually each and every paragraph. Eesh.
Vapid european elites who pontificate how to fix the world (make more money) over their winter skiing holidays. The only remarkable thing is how the rest of the world is taken in by the insipid prose.
Re: New Zealand has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Currently Auckland is experiencing a stabbing a day, one recent month Auckland had around 42 shootings.
Between 1938 - 1975 New Zealand had an 'insulated economy'. Having a job was basically considered a human right and everyone was considered of value. We had on average less than 500 people unemployed any year. It was a policy that worker should not pay the cost of capitalism missteps and failures - so important businesses that collapsed were taken over and run by the state. this had some issues but also allowed a robust working and middle class. When Britain joined the EU, New Zealands insulated economy faulted. A deal to export to the middle east was blocked by the USA, and in 1984, Ardern predecessor introduced neo-liberalism, known as Rogernomics here. Both main political parties have denounced Rogernomics - but still practice his policy.( This is why NZ switched from first past the post to MMP voting - but we cannot shift the economic policy embedding in our political parties, institutions and bureaucrats)
NZ unemployment rate went to over 82,000 in 1984 and grows. Neo-liberalism tries to maintain 5% unemployment to keep labour market weak. Unsurprisingly social ills began to rise with unemployment. Taxation increased for less and less services and the bureaucratic state is suffocating. Studies from the seventies onward indicates a 1% increase in unemployment leads after a time lag to a 4.1% increase in suicides, 3.4% increase in admission to mental hospitals, 4% increase in prison admissions and 5.7% rise in murders.
Yet Ardern has put more people out of work, basic surgeries cannot be carried out because heath funding is diverted to vaccine + propaganda. NZ has stayed afloat because of farming, NZ farmers do not have the subsidies of Europe or UK (world bank has eliminated this in the global south - so global south farmers compete in an unfair 'free' market) Ardern has passed 3 farming bills - similar to what we see by Dutch + Ski Lanka, foot and mouth is on our doorstep and Ardern is looking like Dutch to destroy pastural farming, which has the highest potential for carbon storage (4p1000) and penalise planting native trees - by land subjecting to seizure without compensation if a private company (a PPP) called Landcare research declares your tree planted property of significance. NZ is more divided than it has ever been, and the leader of the opposition is a radical as Ardern, with worse connections - except he really dislikes the poor.
Ardern's governance promised a break with neo-liberal policies, she rose through the party ranks with her advocacy for small, local business. But whether she is bad or just surrounded herself with the establishment cadre, and prevents real change and restoration returning to our shores. While I don't think we can return to the past, the neo-liberal economic, bureaucratic system imposed is anti-kiwi and we cannot function as a society, community or individual under it, it brings out our worst and represses our best.
Sorry for the long comment, a wonderful article and that Ardern is held up to be a positive example is irksome, and she will fail upward being appointed to some international organisation, her mentor former PM Helen Clark nearly was in charge of UN.
When NZ is AoTeoRoa again, the only thing that will save Ardern is that she would taste as bitter as fuck.
She's what my great-grandad would have referred to as "toenga kāinga" (literally 'remains of the feast", but as an insult it means "not worth eating").
I think you need to charge hazard pay for this one.
And the comment about him and Harris in a room was gold. As I'm reading your excerpt, my only thought is we have *got* to get him and VP Cackles together, and there you were with perfect dramatic timing.
Klausschwabian: Substack word of the day!
Is he Darth Vader, Wayne Newton or Colonel Klink?
D. All the above
'Is he Darth Vader, Wayne Newton or Colonel Klink?'
Yes.
If you have the chance, tour Wayne Newton’s home in Vegas: Never has so much been spent on so many poor decisions. Just amazing.
Embrace the healing power of "and".
"Rogaaaaaan!"
Why do this rich globalist ass-holes want to tell everyone else what to do aka govern? Why don’t they just buy an island somewhere, drink martinis all day and leave the the folks who actually do stuff the hell alone?
I'd buy an island and drink martinis all day. This probably explains why I'm not rich and powerful.
It’s often occurred to me that one of the many perverse things in this world is that the people who would know how to spend massive amounts of money wisely are the people who never get massive amounts of money.
Pass the gin bottle my way when you’re done.
They want us dead because they can’t deal with people-
I'd buy an island and have weed tincture "à volonté".
Nothing stupidly strong - just enough kick do that a couple of drops sublingually would make Ryan Reynolds movies 12% more entertaining.
All the fun, and none of the metabolic damage, of alcohol. (It goes without saying that I am not stupid enough to deliberately inhale the fumes from burning leaves - of weed, tobacco or a forest fire - never have, never will).
Because they’re megalomaniacs.
Underneath it all they want us gone. They will leave us alone when we’re dead.
This leave us alone...forgive my bluntness it is blood dripping to these vampires. Its their nectar, ambrosia- the food of they the living gods.
Everyone kindly consider- they will not leave us alone.
Because their only joy in life is demeaning others.
That's like asking why Karen from HR has absorbed every piece of pop-psych bullshit imaginable.
For one: they're not as rich as is made out.
Most of their "wealth" is tied to the price of stock where only some small proportion (~25% or less) of the float is traded - if it's traded at all. If they tried to realise their 'wealth' they would soon find it's 90% lower than they thought. Most of their ***lifestyle*** is funded by borrowing against that stock.
Look at what happened to all the Russian oligarchs when Putin told them to straighten up (he did this 6 weeks after becoming President). Everyone listed their wealth as if the piffling (0.5%, 1%) stakes they sold EACH OTHER at absurd valuations, were realistic... when they tried to cut'n'run, they discovered that the people who gave them a leg up the oligarch ladder were trying to cut'n'run at the same time. Crowded lifeboats.
Western oligarchs have the same scam going.
If I found a company and I know someone who is prepared to claim that 2% of the equity is worth $200m, then as the owner of the other 98% I'm 'worth' $9.8b.
At that stage, I know that if I try to realise any of that, it all collapses in a heap... so that's not what I do. Instead... I BORROW AGAINST MY STOCK. The person over-valuing my stock gets a 'contra' for the $200m the moment I can borrow against the $9.8b.
That's how WeWork "worked". Literally, exactly how it worked.
Remember WeWork? That's only 2 or 3 "disappearing fake fortunes" ago.
For the early days of this sort of grift, read up on George Herscu. He claimed to be worth $300million back when $300million was genuine 'fuck you' money ... 2 years after that, he was found to be $1.2b in debt, and on his way to jail.
Because they realize 2 weeks in that humans get bored sitting around doing nothing all day, all they know how to do though is wreck stuff other people made. It explains a lot about the current state of our culture.
You know those committee-derived "mission statements" that are always full of meaningless word-salad jargon? This appears to be a book-length mission statement.
Thank you for spotlighting rockstar Dutch MP Gideon van Meijeren, whom I applauded for his kickass performance in this piece:
• “Letter to Governor Ron DeSantis” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-governor-ron-desantis)
And thank you and your feline confederate for taking on this loathsome task and reporting back from the frontlines. This corroborates my suspicions regarding Klaus based on his fawning flattery of mentors like Kissinger and guests like Bourla 🤮
Yes, what we need is more insane, demented people in bigger government. More, "I'm so much better than you, because I work for the government!", people. 🙄 God help us!
And here we have the essence of the WEFites' failed attempt at a Great Narrative with which to inspire the poors: it's all nonsense we've all heard before, for our entire lives. It's saccharine nonsense and everyone knows it.
The Great Reset won't be defeated by the Great Awakening. It will be stillborn in the Great Cringe.
Ever read Bill Gates‘s inane books? Remember the first edition of “The Road Ahead” in which he failed to mention the internet?
He’s another “code talker” mouthing banal bromides right out of a McKinsey training manual in bureaucratese as though he’s Zoroaster.
💯💯💯
Regarding the Kamala interview excerpt: the only thing worse than how she talks is that the interviewer never calls her out on it. I wish he’d say to her, “what did you just say? That was just a bunch of words, saying nothing.” But, they never do. I miss ‘real’ interviews.
"Transformation" was the bullshit word used everywhere in federal government in years between 2002 and 2007 when I left. It meant nothing but everything had to be rewritten to embrace it.
I don't have that word in my post sadly. Mmm, let's see, using your description...
"Transformation - Government term meaning to change something that worked relatively well into something that doesn't so that government employees can have something to do when they have to change it back again in the future.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/transgender-and-other-trans-words-definitions/
Schwab’s prescriptions for a better society are compelling to our leaders because they are based on empowering people who don’t know how to do anything to tell everyone else how to do everything. What could go wrong?
It appears everything!
LOL, thanks for the review; you've saved me some time and sanity. I just finished "The Fourth Industrial Revolution," and wondered how in the WORLD this joker got to be so important. You have explained it to me: He talks like all the wannabe masters of the whole wide world.
Note: The only thing I took away from TFIR was that Schwab is an idiot. And that he likes the phrase "the fourth industrial revolution," for it turned up in virtually each and every paragraph. Eesh.
I likewise thank you for reading "The Fourth Industrial Revolution" and telling me it's more of the same crap, saving me those hours.
You are most welcome. Now if I could just get all that sick phraseology out of my brain...
Stop abusing your cats.
Vapid european elites who pontificate how to fix the world (make more money) over their winter skiing holidays. The only remarkable thing is how the rest of the world is taken in by the insipid prose.
Re: New Zealand has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Currently Auckland is experiencing a stabbing a day, one recent month Auckland had around 42 shootings.
Between 1938 - 1975 New Zealand had an 'insulated economy'. Having a job was basically considered a human right and everyone was considered of value. We had on average less than 500 people unemployed any year. It was a policy that worker should not pay the cost of capitalism missteps and failures - so important businesses that collapsed were taken over and run by the state. this had some issues but also allowed a robust working and middle class. When Britain joined the EU, New Zealands insulated economy faulted. A deal to export to the middle east was blocked by the USA, and in 1984, Ardern predecessor introduced neo-liberalism, known as Rogernomics here. Both main political parties have denounced Rogernomics - but still practice his policy.( This is why NZ switched from first past the post to MMP voting - but we cannot shift the economic policy embedding in our political parties, institutions and bureaucrats)
NZ unemployment rate went to over 82,000 in 1984 and grows. Neo-liberalism tries to maintain 5% unemployment to keep labour market weak. Unsurprisingly social ills began to rise with unemployment. Taxation increased for less and less services and the bureaucratic state is suffocating. Studies from the seventies onward indicates a 1% increase in unemployment leads after a time lag to a 4.1% increase in suicides, 3.4% increase in admission to mental hospitals, 4% increase in prison admissions and 5.7% rise in murders.
Yet Ardern has put more people out of work, basic surgeries cannot be carried out because heath funding is diverted to vaccine + propaganda. NZ has stayed afloat because of farming, NZ farmers do not have the subsidies of Europe or UK (world bank has eliminated this in the global south - so global south farmers compete in an unfair 'free' market) Ardern has passed 3 farming bills - similar to what we see by Dutch + Ski Lanka, foot and mouth is on our doorstep and Ardern is looking like Dutch to destroy pastural farming, which has the highest potential for carbon storage (4p1000) and penalise planting native trees - by land subjecting to seizure without compensation if a private company (a PPP) called Landcare research declares your tree planted property of significance. NZ is more divided than it has ever been, and the leader of the opposition is a radical as Ardern, with worse connections - except he really dislikes the poor.
Ardern's governance promised a break with neo-liberal policies, she rose through the party ranks with her advocacy for small, local business. But whether she is bad or just surrounded herself with the establishment cadre, and prevents real change and restoration returning to our shores. While I don't think we can return to the past, the neo-liberal economic, bureaucratic system imposed is anti-kiwi and we cannot function as a society, community or individual under it, it brings out our worst and represses our best.
Sorry for the long comment, a wonderful article and that Ardern is held up to be a positive example is irksome, and she will fail upward being appointed to some international organisation, her mentor former PM Helen Clark nearly was in charge of UN.
Welcome to the Global Rust Belt.
When NZ is AoTeoRoa again, the only thing that will save Ardern is that she would taste as bitter as fuck.
She's what my great-grandad would have referred to as "toenga kāinga" (literally 'remains of the feast", but as an insult it means "not worth eating").
Pokokohua, you horse-faced WEF stooge bitch.
I think you need to charge hazard pay for this one.
And the comment about him and Harris in a room was gold. As I'm reading your excerpt, my only thought is we have *got* to get him and VP Cackles together, and there you were with perfect dramatic timing.
"Supervillain Thomas Friedman" is the type of burn you don't recover from
Omg your kitty is so cute!! Also the post was hilarious!
Our other cat is arguably even cuter, but let's pretend I didn't say that.
The cats are definitely the high point here.
Too late... It's out of the bag.
They are not trying to fool the smart ones. They want to lead the sheep.