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Previews of Coming Attractions

  Previews of Coming Attractions James Howard Kunstler How reassured were you by Joe Biden’s speech to the nation Thursday night? The more his managers pretend that he’s in charge of anything, the more unlikely it actually seems. So, they wound him up — Adderall would be my guess, to fortify the attention span — and rolled him out like the mummy of Amenhotep III, and one could just imagine the leaders of this-and-that foreign nation cringing (or cackling) in their seats to see this embodiment of collapsing America go through his spiritless ritual motions. Mostly what did not fly is the idea that the Covid-19 virus can still be used as a cattle-prod for herding citizens into feedlots of compliance — Americans are buffalos, not steers. They are determined now to take care of business, and the main business of people with any initiative will be to rig up some sort of gainful occupation while the lumbering old systems break down. They will do it despite orders to operate at fifty percent c

The Great Reset: Corporate Socialism, or 'Capitalism' with Chinese Characteristics

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  The Great Reset: Corporate Socialism, or 'Capitalism' with Chinese Characteristics       Michael Rectenwald Welcome to my city - or should I say, "our city." I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I don't own a house. I don't own any appliances or any clothes. It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much. 1 This is the vision of a blogger for the World Economic Forum (WEF). This report from the future to the past, our present, is not “a utopia or dream of the future,” we are told. Yet the future just so happens to meet all the criteria of the Great Reset: low to no carbon emissions, nearly 100% reusable products, “sustainability,” a happy, compliant population. We shal

(Headline) "On The Psychology Of The Conspiracy Denier" (Lede) "A closer look at the class that mocks" by Tim Foyle, originally published at OffGuardian on 12 March 2021

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  W hy is it that otherwise perfectly intelligent, thoughtful and rationally minded people baulk at the suggestion that sociopaths are conspiring to manipulate and deceive them? And why will they defend this ill-founded position with such vehemence? History catalogues the machinations of liars, thieves, bullies and narcissists and their devastating effects. In modern times too, evidence of corruption and extraordinary deceptions abound. We know, without question, that politicians lie and hide their connections and that corporations routinely display utter contempt for moral norms – that corruption surrounds us. We know that revolving doors between the corporate and political spheres, the lobbying system, corrupt regulators, the media and judiciary mean that wrongdoing is practically never brought to any semblance of genuine justice. We know that the press makes noise about these matters occasionally but never pursues them with true vigour. We know that in the intelligence services and

"Naomi Klein, Conspiracy Theorist" by Lorenzo Raymond, originally published on OpEd News on 9 March 2021 and re-posted on Wrong Kind Of Green on 11 March 2021

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  NAOMI KLEIN, CONSPIRACY THEORIST Wrong Kind of Green   Mar 11, 2021   Ford Foundation ,  Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism ,  Rockefeller Brothers Fund OpEd News March 9, 2021 By Lorenzo Raymond   Author Naomi Klein, and Klaus Shwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, endorse “The Future We Choose”, authored by  Christiana Figueres  and  Tom Rivett-Carnac . [Source:  Amazon ] When it comes to the “Great Reset,” Naomi Klein is offended. Her intelligence is insulted. Her legacy is tarnished. And she is here to correct the record. This is more truth than we generally get from the progressive establishment in the US. But if it is possible to “damn with faint praise,” then it’s also possible to support with moderate criticism. The fact that this is all that Klein wrote about digital re-education through three entire seasons of lockdowns is an indictment. One would think from this report that  Gates  and Google have to be invited  publicly  by state officials in order to manip