WEF say World’s greatest threat is “Misinformation” — (The biggest threat to experts and billionaires is free speech)

Klaus-Schwab, WEF

By Jo Nova

Finally, they admit that Free Speech is more scary than climate change

The WEF, being the billionaire’s ski club — are of course, talking about the worlds greatest threat to them, not to you.

In the WEF Global Risks Report they asked 1,490 experts and leaders and their the list of biggest risks in the next two years was misinformation and disinformation. Forget bioweapons, nuclear bombs, wars, corruption, asteroids, inflation and global boiling — the thing that keeps the favored “experts” awake at night is whether people will point out their flaws and expose the rorts* that put them at the top of the pile.

The “Misinformation and Disinformation” line is dressed up as a concern that AI generated or false information is the problem, but note the giveaway — those in authority are most worried about public opinion shifting to distrust those in authority — as if “authority” could never be wrong.

Blind trust is how you build nations right?

Persistent false information (deliberate or otherwise) widely spread through media networks, shifting public opinion in a significant way towards distrust in facts and authority. Includes, but is not limited to: false, imposter, manipulated and fabricated content.

Fake news has been around since the StoneAge, and the only way to deal with it is to correct it with better information, not with gatekeepers of truth or government rules. Free speech works because anyone caught spreading lies got a bad reputation, and everyone else was free to repeat that.

How is it that those who control the research grants, the media licenses, and one third of the whole economy could be unable to defend themselves?  Do they lack a thousand paid agents with supercomputers, guns and security passes to find out the truth? Nay, these are the poor poppets who only have whole institutions, ministries, and public broadcasters with budgets of billions to tell their side of the story. The problem is they have everything on their side except the truth.

Their greatest fear is that you might hear the other side

Imagine the billionaires have puppets and allies among politics and bureaucrats, and have set up a system of grift and graft where they creamed off nice profits for fixing the weather, say, while they flew on their jets and cruised on their yachts. Imagine the plumbers and truckies found out that the medicines they were forced to take were contaminated, the climate was controlled by sun, not their car, and their children were being taught to hate the country the plumbers and truckies had built.

The WEF want to stop the workers getting angry, not by fixing the problem but by keeping the workers in the dark:

Misinformation and disinformation may radically disrupt electoral processes in several economies over the next two years.
A growing distrust of information, as well as media and governments as sources, will deepen polarized views – a vicious cycle that could trigger civil unrest and possibly confrontation.
– There is a risk of repression and erosion of rights as authorities seek to crack down on the proliferation of false information – as well as risks arising from inaction.

All around the world political puppets are saying the same things about the “dangers of misinformation”.

Although, Javier Milei, the new President of Argentina, was not. He warned that the Western world was in danger, and that the socialists changed their agenda and instead of dividing us by class, they created other social divisions instead — like women against men, (and presumably race against race). Collectivism and socialism, he said, were the path to poverty. And Argentina, with all it’s riches and skills lost the free market and still ended up poor.

His speech was a call to arms of the businessmen to stand up to the political class:

Do not be intimidated, either by the political caste or by parasites who live off the state. Do not surrender to a political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges. Do not surrender to the advance of the state. The state is not the solution. The state is the problem itself. You are the true protagonists of this story and rest assured that as from today, Argentina is your staunch, unconditional ally.

He warns of tyranny:

Today, states don’t need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the lives of individuals, with tools such as printing money, debt, subsidies, controlling the interest rate, price controls, and regulations to correct so-called market failures. They can control the lives and fates of millions of individuals….

UPDATE: From a better translation

Socialism shrinks the pie:

11: “They say that capitalism is evil because it’s individualistic and that collectivism is good because it’s altruistic, of course with the money of others.”

12: “Those who promote social justice, they advocate the idea that the whole economy is a pie that can be shared in better ways, but that pie is not a fixed given, it’s wealth that get generated in what Israel Kirzner for instance calls a Market Discovery Process.”

13: “If the state punishes the capitalists when they are successful, and gets in the way of the (Market) Discovery Process, they will destroy their incentives and the consequence is that they will produce less, and the pie will be smaller, and this will harm society as a whole.”

14: “Collectivism, by inhibiting the (Market) Discovery Process and hindering the appropriation of discoveries, ends up binding the hands of entrepreneurs and preventing them to provide better goods and services at a better price.”

The whole speech is at Chiefios, but also published at RealClearPolitics, Washington Examiner.

H/t Another Ian and Kim. Thanks also to Ross, and John Connor II

*For foreign readers — a rort is a  “a fraudulent scheme or a trick”.

Photo of Klaus Schwab by Evangeline Shaw on Unsplash

 

 

 

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127 comments to WEF say World’s greatest threat is “Misinformation” — (The biggest threat to experts and billionaires is free speech)

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    Penguinite

    NWO/WEF fanatics are auditioning in Davos and are proposing to make a new film “Blah Blah Land” starring Albo Sleasy and BOB. It will be filmed in glorious Marxist Red and Teal Green.

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      Curious George

      Who else would be uniquely qualified to separate information from misinformation, than a billionaire ski club? Formerly the Club of Rome, but now a more democratically sounding World Economic Forum (for invited members only). They use computers to reliably predict future, read their classic book The Limits To Growth.

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        cohenite

        And who was the first VIP Albo had as a guest: WEF legend, Bill Gates. The ALP/Greens are one with the WEF. This is one of the weirdest (big call) WEF attendees at the current love-in at Davos: Jojo Mehta. Jojo is the founder of Stop Ecocide International.

        Jojo wants to criminalize any interference with nature which includes all production of food and energy. Basically she is a misanthrope who wants 99% of humanity to starve and disappear. Like the rest of these ratbags she justifies her madness with reference to saving the planet from AGW.

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      Graham Richards

      Albo is such an amazing leader that the WEF is copying & following his policies.😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😂😂.
      ALP presence at WEF conferences is obvious. Similarly the presence of LNP members.
      It actually confirms my suspicion about ALP presence in WEF conspiracies & attempting to kill off western Democracy in favour of Marxism!

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    Peter Fitzroy

    Of course you would have to say that, given the majority of the content posted here

    [Of course you would go for the defacto ad hom, since you don’t have any evidence or arguments – Jo]

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      peter fitzroy

      your are kidding!
      the post is about how free speech is being limited, yet this site is a prime example of the hypocrisy when stating such an opinion, and then censoring posters who point that out

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        And I’ve published 5,688 of your comments, and been asking you not to post obvious logical fallacies for a decade. You are incapable of meeting the site guidelines of posting here, yet I still publish you. Who is the hypocrite? – Jo

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        Graham Richards

        Hoping against your return from your , too short, holiday. Oh well, maybe your next holiday will be a really extended one!

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          Kalm Keith

          Can’t be away too long; think of the koalas.

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          Jonesy

          Wow…cannot even reply to PF. Maybe Mr Fitzroy should holiday around St Lawrence and get a first hand glimpse of the destruction of inaccessible forest in his name hell bent on climate salvation…shame about all the wildlife. Developers are given a 00 class licence to kill.

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        pcourtney

        Mr. Fitzroy: How nice of you to recognize our host’s fight against censors is still on! Have you told you billionaire pals at the WEF to lay off this site, so you can continue your soft gig as a paid troll?

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      Boambee John

      Back from holidays at last? When do your two assistants return?

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      James Reid

      Oops, that second green tick was mine. Stupid iPad it’s all your fault 🥴

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    ColA

    This is exactly what they need to be told, I wish it had actually happened!

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1747388354587463766

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      David Maddison

      I saw that and it’s wonderful and the comments are completely valid, but I wondered if it was real or a Deepfake. Thanks for confirming it was not real CoIA, I just wish it was.

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        Bushkid

        Even if it is deepfake, the response to is should send a shudder down what passes for the spines of the WEF mob.

        Perhaps the WEF mocked it up themselves as an attempt at parody, to garner sympathy? If so, it’s a giant fail.

        When the response to someone handing the WEF their backsides on a platter is a resounding cheer from the peasants, rather than the shock and horror they think such an address (if it had really happened) ought to elicit, any sensible person would realise that the “masses” are not with them. We are, however, not dealing with sensible or decent folk at the WEF.

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      another ian

      They also got this

      ““Long Live Freedom” — Argentinian President Javier Milei Trashes Socialism and Calls Out Elites at WEF (VIDEO)”

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/long-live-freedom-argentinian-president-javier-milei-trashes/

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        RickWill

        It is worth looking at his speech in detail. The following is with noting:

        Quite on the contrary, it’s an intrinsically unfair idea because it’s violent. It’s unjust because the state is financed through tax and taxes are collected coercively. Or can any one of us say that we voluntarily pay taxes? This means that the state is financed through coercion and that the higher the tax burden, the higher the coercion and the lower the freedom.

        Those who promote social justice start with the idea that the whole economy is a pie that can be shared differently. But that pie is not a given. It’s wealth that is generated in what Israel Kirzner, for instance, calls a market discovery process.

        If the goods or services offered by a business are not wanted, the business will fail unless it adapts to what the market is demanding. They will do well and produce more if they make a good quality product at an attractive price. So the market is a discovery process in which the capitalists will find the right path as they move forward.

        Who would actually pay for their ABC if it was pay for service? Who would pay for the CSIRO if it was pay for service. Who would pay for the BoM if it was pay for service.

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          Hugh

          I’m trying to think of the last state leader who, whilst in office, quoted Israel Kirzner.

          Blank.

          I have his book “Competition and Entrepreneurship”, well thumbed and pencilled, on my shelf.

          Magnificent! Go, Javier! And when you’re in Rome this week, tell my Pope, with respect, to p*** off.

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      John Connor II

      I didn’t get any likes when I posted that days ago. Sob sob. Miserable lot.😄

      Maybe this one?
      Anyone not prepared to take away the power of unelected bureaucrats and give it back to the American people is unprepared to be part of the next conservative administration.

      https://twitter.com/KevinRobertsTX/status/1748008071073313262

      No likes and I won’t tell you about Disease-X. So there! 🤭

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    David Maddison

    The terror of the truth is why the Australian Government Uniparty, first under the fake conservative faction of the Uniparty, the Liberals, then under the socialist Green/Labor faction are fanatically committed to censorship legislation, despite tens of thousands of written objections, 23,000 I seem to recall.

    The Australian Government Uniparty is one of the world’s most loyal and faithful followers of the WEF. Even the former “health” minister, under the Libs, who did so much harm banning HCQ and IVM and other policies, was a former(?) WEF employee.

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      ianl

      … the former “health” minister

      Hunt didn’t only damage the Health Departments, his pattern throughout his various Ministries was (and is) very clear – when he left a portfolio to move onto the next one, he left the bureaucracy there in tighter, more pervasive control than ever it had been previously.

      When he was given to the Resources/Mining portfolio (which affected me directly), we expected deleterious changes – of course that fear turned out accurately. Since not even Hunt the wunderkid could alter the geology by fiat, he simply piled up bureaucratic controls to dampen the entreprenerial spirit.

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    Pauly B

    “The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.”

    Orwell

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    David Maddison

    If you want to understand the true evil of the WEF, they opened the proceedings with an actual witch invoking who knows what deities and casting a spell on the leaders.

    SEE the first few minutes of the following video:

    https://youtu.be/TAsRQ9mU170

    You can be certain that these evil-doers are not on the same side as we, the people.

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      Neville

      David, Andrew Bolt showed that video last night and you couldn’t make this up.
      This is the solid proof that we’re watching a barking mad group of delusional idiots and yet the loony left will think a Witch blowing in the faces of WEF delegates is a highlight of the meeting.

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        MP

        The veil is lifting, they are showing you who they worship.

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          Curious George

          I just saw a very nice lady in Davos berating farmers for tilling the land – just to make money! They don’t even see the environmental damage they cause!

          I love it when billionaires blame poor people for trying to make money.

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            David Maddison

            I love it when billionaires blame poor people for trying to make money.

            Or, indeed, wanting to eat.

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    Just+Thinkin'

    Well, we KNOW where the misinformation/disinformation is coming from.

    They have a meeting in Davos every January.

    And then pass it on to OUR “corrupt” Grubbnmnts for implementation..

    Fortunately, more people are waking up and going outside to see for
    themselves how the WEATHER is going.

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    Neville

    Never forget that we are a long way from any sensible resolution, unless we actually get people to change their vote, like in the Netherlands or Argentina or Sweden or Italy etc.
    It could happen here but I’m amazed that so many people still want to BELIEVE in the BS and FRAUD about so called dangerous CC and couldn’t care less about proper data, but follow donkeys like the UN Sec Gen or Albo or BO Bowen or the Teals or Twiggy or the Greens loonies or Flannery or their ABC or Biden etc.
    I’ll still vote for a sensible science based party or an Independent first and then the Coalition, but Labor and then the Greens will go to the last two places on the ballot paper.
    The best sources about Weather or Climate are blogs like Jo Nova or the co2 Coalition, or the Clintel group or the Friends of Science or the UK’s GWPF or co2 Science, or Dr Roy Spencer or Dr Pielke jnr etc.

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      David Maddison

      Australia has three conservative parties we can support.

      – United Australia Party

      – Liberal Democrats or now known as the Libertarian Party since the Liberal Party took legal action against them. The Liberals didn’t want to be confused with a pro-freedom party.

      – One Nation

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        Just+Thinkin'

        And Great Australia Party.

        The only one that isn’t under Maritime Law.

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        John Connor II

        Well, One Nation is looking way better than it used to eh?
        Look after your own before the freeloaders from abroad.

        Look at the EU and USA now. Collapsing under the weight of the illegals and those chasing government (taxpayer) handouts of every kind, while their own citizens live on the streets.

        Denver hospital system may collapse due to migrant crisis: ‘We are turning down patients’

        Denver’s primary public hospital is grappling with a financial crisis as it provided $136 million worth of treatments to around 8,000 migrants from Central America. With 20,000 visits for services ranging from dental emergencies to mental health counseling, Denver Health is facing a critical stage, having incurred a $2 million loss in 2022. Despite a $20 million injection from the state, the hospital system warns of dire consequences if the trend persists, emphasizing the strain caused by the ongoing migrant crisis on healthcare resources.

        Wait until Disease-X hits. Healthcare will TOTALLY collapse.

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        Neville

        Of course you’re correct Krishna, but I just take them for granted and I’m sure there are many more I could’ve listed.

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    John Hultquist

    WEF(misinformation) = truth

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    David Maddison

    “Control of misinformation” is just the PC term for censorship.

    In Australia, the legislation the Labor Uniparty faction is trying to introduce was first introduced by the Liberal Uniparty faction, under Paul Fletcher, who bizarrely actually seems proud of his “achievement”.

    https://www.paulfletcher.com.au/media-releases/new-disinformation-laws

    And also in that link:

    Minister Fletcher said the Government welcomed all five of the recommendations made in ACMA’s report.

    Gosh, that’s a sign of a Deep Thinker and not a “yes” man isn’t it….?

    If we let them get away with it, Australia will be the first Western country with a Ministry of Truth.

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    Richard Ilfeld

    So has everyone bought Jo her Chocolate this year?

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    Ronin

    Curious, what is the difference between grift and graft.

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    Ross

    Summary of Javier Milei’s ( new Argentinian president) speech from the WEF, Davis 2024. Pretty stirring stuff.
    (in 20 quotes)

    1: “Today I am here to tell you that the western world is in danger, and it’s in danger because those who are supposed to defend the values of the west are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism, and thereby to poverty.”

    2: “Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by some well meaning individuals willing to help others, and others motivated by the desire to belong to a privileged class, the main leaders of the western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism.”

    3: “We are here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world, rather they are the root cause.”

    4: “The problem with neoclassical (economists) is the model they love so much does not match reality, so they attribute their own mistakes to the supposed market failure, rather than reviewing the premises of their model.”

    5: “On the pretext of the supposed market failures, regulations are introduced, which only create distortions in the price system, preventing economic calculation, and therefore, also prevent savings, investment, and growth.”.

    6: “Not even supposedly libertarian economists understand what the market is, because if they did understand it, they would quickly see that it’s impossible for something alone the lines of market failure to exist.”

    7: “Talking about market failure is an oxymoron, there are no market failures, if transaction are voluntary the only context where it can be a market failure is coercion, and the only one that is able to coerce is the state.”

    8: “Faced with the theoretical demonstration that state intervention is harmful, and the empirical evidence that it has failed, the solution proposed by the collectivists is not greater freedom but rather greater regulation. Greater regulation which creates a downwards spiral until we are all poor, and the life of all of us depend on a bureaucrat sitting somewhere in a luxury office.”

    9: “Given the dismal failure of collectivist models, and the undeniable advances in the free world, socialists were lead to change their agenda. They left behind the class struggle based on the economic system, and replaced it with other supposed social conflicts, which are just as harmful to life as a community, and to economic growth.”

    10: “Today’s states don’t need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the life of individuals. With tools like printing money, debt, subsidies, control of the interest rate, price controls, and regulations to correct the so called market failures, they can control the lives and fates of millions of individuals.”

    11: “They say that capitalism is evil because it’s individualistic and that collectivism is good because it’s altruistic, of course with the money of others.”

    12: “Those who promote social justice, they advocate the idea that the whole economy is a pie that can be shared in better ways, but that pie is not a fixed given, it’s wealth that get generated in what Israel Kirzner for instance calls a Market Discovery Process.”

    13: “If the state punishes the capitalists when they are successful, and gets in the way of the (Market) Discovery Process, they will destroy their incentives and the consequence is that they will produce less, and the pie will be smaller, and this will harm society as a whole.”

    14: “Collectivism, by inhibiting the (Market) Discovery Process and hindering the appropriation of discoveries, ends up binding the hands of entrepreneurs and preventing them to provide better goods and services at a better price.”

    15: “Thanks to free enterprise capitalism, the world is now living its best moment, never in all of mankind’s or humanity’s history there has been a time of more prosperity than today. Today’s world is more free, more rich, more peaceful, and more prosperous than in any other time of human history. And this is particularly true for those countries that respect economic freedom and the property rights of individuals.”

    16: “The capitalist, the successful entrepreneur, is a social benefactor, who far from appropriating the wealth of others, contributes to the general well-being of all. Ultimately, a successful entrepreneur is a hero.”

    17: “Libertarianism is the unrestricted respect for the project of life of others, based on the non-aggression principle, in defense of the right to life, to liberty, and to property. With its fundamental institutions being: Private property, markets free from state intervention, free competition, the division of labor, and social cooperation. Where you can only be successful by serving others with goods of better quality at a best price.”

    18: “The impoverishment produced by collectivism is no fantasy, nor it is fatalism, it’s a reality that we in Argentina have known very well for at least 100 years.” “We have lived through it, and we are here to warn you about what can happen if the countries in the western world -that became rich through the model of freedom-, stay on this road to serfdom.”

    19: “We come here today to invite other countries in the western world to return to the path of prosperity. Economic freedom, limited government, and the unrestricted respect for private property, are essential elements for economic growth.”

    20: “In concluding, I would like to leave a message for all entrepreneurs and business people here, and for those who are not here in person but are following from around the world:
    Do not be intimidated either by the political caste nor by parasites who live off the state. Do not surrender yourself to a political class that only wants to perpetuate itself in power and keep their privileges.

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    Honk R Smith

    Weird part is that they present as a bad movie parody of self absorbed elitists.
    The casting director should be fired.
    That, or the simulation needs a serious software update.

    Did Bono show up?

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      Honk R Smith

      Hmm … they are more afraid of ‘misinformation’ casting doubt on Climate Change than they are Climate Change.
      The boy crying wolf is more afraid of being ignored than he is of the wolf.
      Curious.

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        Bruce

        BINGO!

        Furthermore the “contraction” of the time-line appears to be accelerating. What or who is driving this?

        Churnalists GLOBALLY are a key part of this operation. They chose their side DECADES ago. The opinion-shapers can burn in their own special part of whatever Hell finally arrives The REAL PEOPLE left standing, both of them, will do a brief golf clap and turn away.

        The road to Hell is, indeed, paved with “good” intentions, or an old H. L. Mencken put it:

        “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”

        Also Mencken:

        The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

        Mencken appears to have been an incurable optimist.

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          CO2 Lover

          Do not forget that Joseph Goebbels held the position of “Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda”.

          Herr Hilter was way ahead of his times.

          Professor Klaus Schwab was born in Ravensburg, Germany in 1938.

          His parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich in order for his father to assume the role of director at Escher Wyss AG, an industrial company and contractor for the Nazi regime.

          Is the WEF a front for the Fourh Reich? Or would this just be another conspiracy theory and so be “Disinformation”?

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            John Connor II

            Interesting how the WEF has the sheer arrogance to claim that journalists aren’t asking the tough questions re misinformation, when they effectively own the media.
            Journo: “Hey boss! You’re a lying totalitarian scumbag!”
            WEF: ” You’re fired!”
            Can’t work that one out.

            CO2 Lover – check out the World History and Descent into Darkness channels on youtube for some extremely interesting and detailed WW2 (and other) history, covering key figures in great detail.
            As for Schwab, do some research into his family and you’ll understand the Fourth Re#ich connection so much better.

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              CO2 Lover

              Good to hear that I am onto something with the “Fourth Reich” sympathies of Professor Evil.

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                John Connor II

                It’s been clear for years, but the mere mention of the 4th R would have earned you tinfoil hat status until now…
                The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and the WEF’s shiny rhetoric and prose doesn’t mask their real intents for those who’ve already done the deep dives.
                Watch the youtube doco channels I mentioned and you’ll understand human nature, power and propaganda like you never have.😉

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    David Maddison

    Herr Kommandant Klaus Schwab is about as close to a real life James Bond villain who wants to control the world, as it is possible get.

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      David Maddison

      One thing the Bond movies didn’t get right was the vast slave army of useful idiots of the Left that would support the characters like Schwab who want to take over the world.

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        CO2 Lover

        TRIGGER WARNING: THE FOLLLOWING IS DISINFOMATION OR MISINFORATION ACCORDING TO WEF GUIDELINES

        What are the disadvantages of eating insects?

        Biological: Many different kinds of bacteria that are known to make people sick have been found in insects including E. coli and Campylobacter. In addition to these bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi are also possible forms of biological contamination.

        Chemical: Because many insects are eaten whole or after being ground into a powder, they are especially vulnerable to chemical contamination. Pesticides, toxic metals and dioxins are some chemicals that are of concern with insect consumption.

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      CO2 Lover

      Fact is always stranger than Fiction

      “Ve have vays und means of making you eat ze Bugs”

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      CO2 Lover

      “Ve have vays und means of making you eat ze Bugs”

      Snacks containing bugs have been introduced to 1000 school canteens across the nation by a Western Sydney company that says its products can help save the planet from global warming. Kids around the nation are now munching on chips laced with eco-friendly cricket protein made by Circle Harvest.

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    They all are machiavellist, psychopath, narzissist – as science found out

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    David Maddison

    I am not an adrenochrome conspiracy theorist but nevertheless, I do wonder how some of the world’s most evil people continue to function in leadership positions at a fairly advanced age, beyond when most people have retired e.g. Kommandant Schwab is 85, Fauci was 81 when he retired.

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    Maptram

    There’s misinformation and misinformation by omission. Last night on the TV news there was a story that the world’s largest iceberg is on the move. Apparently the iceberg has been floating around the Antarctic since the 80s. Now the iceberg is being pushed by wind into warmer waters where it will melt, and implied that all the resulting water will result in rising sea levels. Apart from there not being information about how long such an iceberg would take to reachy warmer waters and melt, the misinformation by omission is that, because the iceberg is floating, about 90% of the volume is already accounted for in the sea level.

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    MP

    Three Bills are being rammed through the Senate to create legislation that will transform the UN-WEF plans for surveillance and control into a dystopian reality in Australia.

    The first is the Identity Verification Services Bill 2023, which is designed to permit the use of biometric data to locate and track citizens and normalise it. The second, the Digital Identity Bill 2023, will ensure Australians have no choice but to succumb to setting up a digital ID.

    The third is the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill 2023. This is the censorship tool to make sure both the media and social media carries government sanctioned opinions only. The government in power is exempted and free to be the Ministry of Truth, spreading misinformation or disinformation. Remember how well that went during the COVID response?

    The Driver’s Licence database is being upgraded to become the repository of your master identification record, which is already being used to establish your identity with a paper check and now with a facial scan.

    I implored the Senate to vote against and to reject this Bill. This is the first of three Bills necessary to turn Australia into the world’s first World Economic Forum digital prison.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxgUTeo7Sio

    Transcript, http://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/a-triad-of-tyranny/

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      CO2 Lover

      These Bills we create a hackers Paradise.

      A Digital Currency Bill will not be far off.

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        ozfred

        The recent power outages in WA (Kalgoorlie) will delay the (electronic) digital currency for a while. Or at least I hope it will.

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          Bruce

          I have to reset several digital clocks in my house, at least once a week.. Stove and Microwave, for atarters.

          They go wonky because of interruptions to the mains supply.

          This is a recent phenomenon.

          Conditioning?

          Logging the phone numbers of complainants? Interesting also that now the NBN is THE carrier, ALL land-line services run via that system. Tough luck if granny falls over and the power is out; NO landline, NO internet. Tricky for those without shoe-phones. And if the outage is long enough, the repeater towers rub out of battery life and fuel for the backup generators that may or may nit be in place. NO margins, NO care. This is just the start of the boot stamping on the face of civilization.

          Water? In the last couple of decades, many underground “suburban” water mains have started failing, usually via catastrophic rupture of the 1940 / 50s Fibro pipes. Poor materials, poor engineering, poor “maintenance”; SOP.

          No electricity? Consider the electrically-powered pumps that litter a city sewerage system.

          Plan accordingly and discretely. Actual rebellion is NOT tolerated.

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            Tough luck if granny falls over and the power is out; NO landline, NO internet.
            Well at least traditionally the copper wire land lines were powered from the routing office which had battery back up and in the worst cases (or larger sizes) had generator back up for the batteries.
            Theoretically the cell phone towers have similar backups.

            Would the backups last 2 days or more? I suspect not.

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    Kim

    What Davos needs to understand is that they’re being Reset. Disney is being Reset. Butt Lite is being Reset. They’re all being Reset. Welcome to The Great Reset. 😎️

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    Newspeak by the WEF

    Newspeak, propagandistic language that is characterized by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings. The term was coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949).

    George has been proven right again.

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    el+gordo

    ‘Misinformation and disinformation may radically disrupt electoral processes in several economies over the next two years.’

    A third of UK teenagers believe that global warming is exaggerated, they pick it up on Utube.

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    CO2 Lover

    The current forecast at Davos is minus 4 C dropping to minus 17 next Friday

    So front of mind for the jet set at Davos before they set out to ski after the confernce is:

    With most of Northern Europe buried in snow it is “Misinfromation and Disinformation” to question “global boiling”.

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    STJOHNOFGRAFTON

    WEF say World’s greatest threat is “Misinformation”

    So, the WEF are really saying that they are the world’s greatest threat. QED amigos, QED.

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    Robber

    Nailed it – parasites who live off the state.

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    CO2 Lover

    On the topic of “Global Boiling” I wonder if Twiggy Forrest gave his speil on “Lethal Humidity” to an enraptured audience?

    Still, Davos has again attracted a roll-call of bosses of Wall Street banks, Silicon Valley tech firms and the big management consulting and accounting firms. They will be urged to talk about this year’s dominant themes: geopolitical instability, economic uncertainty, and – above all else – the conundrum of artificial intelligence.

    But it appears fewer of them are making appearances on any public panels. Instead, they seem more focused on the closed-door breakfasts, lunches, dinners and late-evening parties, where the turbo-charged networking really takes place.

    Aussie no-show

    Few Australians will be making the trip, particularly as Davos now takes place in mid-January rather than at the end of the month, when it was less likely to cut into the summer break.

    The big two are BHP boss Mike Henry and Rio Tinto chief Jakob Stausholm, who make the trip every year. They will be joined by South32’s Graham Kerr and, of course, indefatigable summiteer and Fortescue executive chairman Andrew Forrest.

    https://www.afr.com/world/europe/australia-s-business-elite-turns-its-back-on-davos-20240113-p5ewyc

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    peter fitzroy

    I see you practise censorship, you prohibit free speech, and you therefore disseminate lies

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      MP

      Yet here you are speaking your mind, which explains why you have so little to add.

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      el+gordo

      That is purely subjective, where is your evidence?

      More to the point what do you make of this: ‘There is a risk of repression and erosion of rights as authorities seek to crack down on the proliferation of false information – as well as risks arising from inaction.’

      Its alive and well in China today, however the Netizens are using satire to overcome interweb repression.

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    RossP

    The latest from Schwab –“voting will soon be a quaint thing of the past”. Is megalomaniac the right word to use to describe him?

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/leo-hohmann-elections-will-soon-be-quaint-relic/

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      Broadie

      “voting will soon be a quaint thing of the past”

      Too true! Already is.

      Will not be back until we return to pencil & paper votes counted and scrutineered in local schools and halls by local returning officers.

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        ozfred

        “voting will soon be a quaint thing of the past”
        Perhaps because only a small percentage of the voters will be able to read or calculate? How about a simple validation check when the voter registration is made or changed? From a set of 20 sports articles, one is picked randomly and the registering person is asked = Who won and my how much?

        votes counted and scrutineered in local schools and halls by local returning officers.
        And audited when they are received in the central electoral commission office.

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    John Connor II

    Vast Majority Believe Parents Should Be Able To Opt Out Of Objectionable Curriculum, Rejecting Left’s View

    A new poll finds that three out of every four Americans believe that parents should be able to opt their children out of public school subjects they deem immoral or objectionable.

    The Becket Fund for Religious Freedom surveyed 1,000 American adults between September 28 and October 5 as part of its annual Religious Freedom Index, and the results show that transgender advocacy in schools is a losing deal for Democrat politicians – At least if voters are paying attention.

    In a consensus that is rare for any political issue, 74% of respondents agreed that “Parents should be able to opt their children out of public school curriculum on gender and sexuality that violates their religious beliefs.” does or that they believe is not age appropriate.”

    That’s four percent more than when the question was raised at the height of the education culture war in 2021, suggesting the left has lost ground as more Americans hide radical ideas under the banner of social-emotional learning. We’ve seen examples of public schools having sex-ed, and so on.

    https://www.libraryhistt.com/2024/01/vast-majority-believe-parents-should-be.html

    The majority do not want leftist insanity forced on them, do not want to be controlled or have their kids lives destroyed.
    The vocal malcontent mrntally ill left is a minority and they’re all going to lose.
    The Fourth Re#ch figurehead Schwab has seriously misjudged his great plan and learned nothing from the failures of his own family in WW2. They’ll double down now and try and force compliance on the world this year.
    How much will the masses resist though? Not the 90% that’s for sure. It’s going to be one hell of a year, and the year from hell.

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    FrankH

    *For foreign readers — a rort is a “a fraudulent scheme or a trick”.

    Thanks for that. I’m English, I appear to be a foreigner in my own language. 😉

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    John Connor II

    Disease-X, IMHO

    I’m calling it Hyper-A, a hyper virulent Influenza A pandemic.
    Those with suboptimal immune systems are in serious trouble, vaxxed or not.
    It’ll be like the Spanish Flu all over again, but global.

    All my information and sources points to the above and I’ve rejected other possibilities like SARS, MERS, Marburg, H5N1 etc being the likely cause.
    So train that immune system, you’re going to need it!

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      MP

      I’ve rejected other possibilities like SARS, MERS, Marburg, H5N1 etc being the likely cause.

      What about the Salmon Mousse?

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    Asp

    Good to see that plandemics did not reach the top ten this time.

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      KP

      “Good to see that plandemics did not reach the top ten this time.”…. not until they have control of the internet and some solid backup censorship to stop a repeat of the Invermectin/PCR debacles that nearly undid them last time!

      I would imagine there is nothing more important to them than regaining control of the narrative, for without complete faith in Govt their rules are all open to question. They want the 1950s back, a few big newspapers safely behind the Govt, Govt radios stations and one TV station… No ‘citizen journalists, no platforms for dissent apart from Hyde Park speakers on soapboxes, no ‘common opinions’ spread around!

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    Anton

    “Ze greatest threat iss information telling zat ve are a bunch of megalomaniacs, nicht wahr?”

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    Jeremy Poynton

    There is an easy solution to the WEF. Find an insider. Worker who handles maintenance. Give them a vial of liquid you know what, to put in the water system. Live stream the aftermath…

    Sorted.

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    Phil O'Sophical

    Jo, you nailed it, possibly without realising it; which I have taken the liberty of amending slightly.
    “the billionaires [and globalists] have puppets and allies among politics and bureaucrats, and have set up a system of grift and graft where they creamed off nice profits [and untrammelled power].”

    Biden and the EU can and do, and with a straight face, call any opposition ‘anti-democratic’ (or, Heaven forbid, popular) – by which they mean anti-their-undemocratic-hegemony.

    The WEF axis has no, even pseudo-legitimacy to impose its policies; it has quietly assumed that role, through decades of planning, placements, bribery and coercion.
    So how should they characterise opposition to their illegitimate power grab?

    Their new, at least to me, slight of tongue, is to call any opposition to their policies, in Schwab’s words, “anti-ze-zystem.” So the nascent One World Government is now The System and woe betide anyone who gets in its way.

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    Gerry, England

    The real pearl at the Fascist Lovefest came from Der Fuehrer Charles Swab – son of a wartime Nazi and has obviously inherited the gene – when he said that in time elections will be replaced by AI. Tells you all you need to know about the Davos scum.

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    mwhite

    Yaval Noah Harari of the WEF
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6HABE2eDYk
    around 3min 50secs _ No such thing as human rights.

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      Anton

      First true thing he’s said! There are good reasons why people should treat each other well, but human rights are not the basis for societal relationships. Ivor Mullins means well but has failed to think it through.

      Jeremy Bentham made the core arguments against the notion of human rights in his 1796 work Anarchical Fallacies (subtitled “An examination of the Declaration of Rights issued during the French Revolution”), stating that “Natural rights is simple nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense – nonsense upon stilts.” Decades later, Auguste Comte, the founder of positivism, denied the existence of human rights in his last work, Catéchisme positiviste. So too did the Scottish philosopher David Ritchie in his book Natural rights: A criticism of some political and ethical conceptions (1895). Nicholas Wolterstorff of Yale argued the impossibility of deriving human rights on a secular basis at least in his book Justice: Rights and Wrongs (2008). The Oxford scholar Nigel Biggar published What’s Wrong with Rights? in 2020, pointing out that human rights come at the end of a chain of reasoning, not the beginning; that the idea cannot be sustained without the rest of that chain; and that human rights tend to expand in scope.

      When a State acknowledges human rights, it gains a responsibility to fulfil them, because people can tell the authorities, “You say I have this right and you have the ability and authority to fulfil it, so give it to me!” But if a government provides food and housing – and human rights are mainly social (in contrast to civil rights such as habeas corpus) – then what of the motive to provide these things for oneself? How will government find the resources to provide them for all? In one lifetime, the Jarrow marchers’ ‘right to work’ became the right to live on benefits. In practice, human rights are ranked by the power politics of rival interest groups. Jurisprudential literature on rights will proliferate but settle nothing, because there is no coherent or consensual way to rank clashing rights. Jonathan Sumption, a former Justice of the UK Supreme Court, wrote in the Foreword to his book Law in a Time of Crisis (2021) that “I doubt the value of multiplying rights, which often serve only to magnify and perpetuate grievances.” The barrister Michael Arnheim points out the exploitation of human rights law by interest groups in his book Fixing Human Rights Law (2023):

      https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/Fixing-Human-Rights-Law.pdf

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    OldOzzie

    Interesting detailed article of the attack on alternate speech

    Year of Troubles: The Hatchets Come Out for Substack and Simplicius

    SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
    19 JAN 2024

    Year of troubles, season of hatchetmen.

    As of several weeks back, Substack has been under a massive seemingly coordinated attack from subversive forces seeking to create a viral exodus from the site by reputationally damaging it. Unfortunately, it seems the program is of such wide scope as to even target individual high volume accounts, of which I appear to be one—as I too have now come under the hatchetmen’s blade of deplatformization.

    First, a brief background:

    Substack, as most people know, is a fairly young business. Though the company opened doors in 2017, it didn’t really begin gaining widespread appeal until around 2020, when a host of dissident voices found it to be the only non-censorial pulpit from which to shout the truth surrounding the unprecedented fraud of the 2020 election…

    As soon as that happened, Substack predictably became a target for all the most detestable hallmonitor organizations seeking to gatekeep the truth via their corporate brand of ‘fact-checking’ and censorship. It culminated in a high-visibility attack from the ADL itself early last year:

    This is the main reason I’m writing this piece: because there are so many other writers on here I respect for whom I want to leave this as public testament and instructive warning to know what we are dealing with. These ‘systems’ take us for granted and couldn’t care less about our [compulsory] ‘patronage’. In reality, Stripe makes money from us, not the other way around—yet they treated me like I was the unclean vagrant begging for table scraps. If only we had a choice, I would have long made the switch, but apparently Substack is locked into an exclusivity deal in the same way all the tech monopolies today force everyone into their digital ‘walled gardens’.

    Substack: if you’re listening, please consider alternative payment merchant options. I predict with this coming historical year, things will come to a head on this count. This may be just the beginning of a mass suppression campaign.
    [SNIP]

    [Username typo corrected, but be aware it slows comment approval down. –Jo]

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    OldOzzie

    Interesting detailed article of the attack on alternate speech

    Year of Troubles: The Hatchets Come Out for Substack and Simplicius

    SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
    19 JAN 2024

    Year of troubles, season of hatchetmen.

    As of several weeks back, Substack has been under a massive seemingly coordinated attack from subversive forces seeking to create a viral exodus from the site by reputationally damaging it. Unfortunately, it seems the program is of such wide scope as to even target individual high volume accounts, of which I appear to be one—as I too have now come under the hatchetmen’s blade of deplatformization.

    First, a brief background:

    Substack, as most people know, is a fairly young business. Though the company opened doors in 2017, it didn’t really begin gaining widespread appeal until around 2020, when a host of dissident voices found it to be the only non-censorial pulpit from which to shout the truth surrounding the unprecedented fraud of the 2020 election:

    I remember myself first hearing of it somewhere around that time, from the likes of big-reach Twitter influencers like Mike Cernovich and his conservative milieu. After that, and the subsequent Covid “pandemic”, Substack naturally took its place as an oasis from the censorship and deplatformization found virtually everywhere else, rising to new heights in the process.

    As soon as that happened, Substack predictably became a target for all the most detestable hallmonitor organizations seeking to gatekeep the truth via their corporate brand of ‘fact-checking’ and censorship. It culminated in a high-visibility attack from the ADL itself early last year:

    This is the main reason I’m writing this piece: because there are so many other writers on here I respect for whom I want to leave this as public testament and instructive warning to know what we are dealing with. These ‘systems’ take us for granted and couldn’t care less about our [compulsory] ‘patronage’. In reality, Stripe makes money from us, not the other way around—yet they treated me like I was the unclean vagrant begging for table scraps. If only we had a choice, I would have long made the switch, but apparently Substack is locked into an exclusivity deal in the same way all the tech monopolies today force everyone into their digital ‘walled gardens’.

    Substack: if you’re listening, please consider alternative payment merchant options. I predict with this coming historical year, things will come to a head on this count. This may be just the beginning of a mass suppression campaign.

    For the record, Substack was the only service to even respond semi-reassuringly to my urgent alert about a mass attack on my accounts. They at least offered a customer-forward and friendly reassurance that the matter had been escalated to appropriate channels, who would be watching for future attacks.

    Twitter on the other hand found “no violations” with the mass open-call to attack me:

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    John Culhane

    The biggest shakeup is one the WEF don’t list. It will be sovereign debt collapse. I have vague notions of how that will pan out, we will muddle through it, not unscathed and it will take down a lot of safety nets and force a reordering of priorities among the new politicians.

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      Anton

      It won’t happen. Central banks can always print more money. Hyperinflation might happen though. And in the USA, it might be fuelled by repatriation of all those dollars stored overseas when people realise that it isn’t a safe reserve currency any more.

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    Ossqss

    Jo, I had to post this interpretation.

    Just sayin>

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2i113vSdwI

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    Kim

    FYI: Cyber Attacks – I run several websites. I keep a close eye on the logs so can detect cyber intrusions and attacks. Almost all of them come from America. There has been a massive uptick in recent weeks. I have had to put in a lot of code (as of 18 months ago) to prevent unauthorised access. And with what has happened in the last few days will probably have to put even more on.

    Basically any email that goes through big tech servers is data mined. Links are extracted. Bots then use those links to try to access restricted areas. robots.txt is ignored and may even be mined. noindex and nofollow meta & rel directives are ignored.

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    ExWarmist

    So, the #1 threat the WEF sees is the child who points out, “Look, the Emperor has no clothes!”

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