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Klausschwabian: Substack word of the day!

Is he Darth Vader, Wayne Newton or Colonel Klink?

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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

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?

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Aug 3, 2022·edited Aug 3, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

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.

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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 🤮

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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

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!

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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.

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Aug 3, 2022·edited Aug 3, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

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.

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"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.

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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

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?

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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

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.

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Stop abusing your cats.

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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

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.

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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.

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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

"Supervillain Thomas Friedman" is the type of burn you don't recover from

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Omg your kitty is so cute!! Also the post was hilarious!

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They are not trying to fool the smart ones. They want to lead the sheep.

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