That’s not a very optimistic title, is it?
Leftists like me are supposed to be filled with naive hope and tell you how we fight back against the oligarchs who think we have too much democracy, but what exactly would that optimism be built on? We’ve been fighting for a long time and the working class never moves forward, not really…
If you hate that first paragraph, if it made you recoil, if you can feel anger simmering inside of you, good, because we sure as hell need some of that energy right now. Just ensure you channel it in the right direction, i.e., not at me!
The ruling class is becoming brazen in its efforts to control the narrative, but the public only gets mad when China behaves this way. TikTok (which is now US-controlled) recently banned a Jeremy Corbyn video for daring to discuss the CIA-backed coup in Chile because historically-recognised facts are “misinformation” if they undermine western imperialism.
At the same time, the ruling class is rewriting history so you believe that people who dropped 7,700 bombs on Libya deeply care about the 20,000 victims of drowning and have no idea why Libya’s infrastructure is so bad. The NATO coup has been memory-holed because their “democracy” that’s run by warlords and has open slave markets is a bit of an embarrassment. Personally, I can’t believe NATO’s intervention failed, that’s gotta be a first.
Western failures don’t matter, of course, because the people who control information, control not just the present, but the past and future too. We live in a post-truth era where anyone who questions their reality is de-platformed because you’re only allowed to be mad at foreigners and people on the other side of the culture war.
The Digital Services Act is giving the EU carte blanche to censor social media and the UK’s Online Safety Bill could be even worse, undermining the security of every website on Earth to give the UK government backdoor access. In case you didn’t know, Big Brother was an instruction manual and the Ministry of Truth is an actual thing because the ruling class has stopped pretending it gives a shit about privacy and free speech.
They are frustrated that we’ve not been as obedient as they would like, but they’re growing confident too. They’re telling us in broad daylight what they think of us and what they would like to do, yet it’s almost impossible to repeat most of this without hearing a chorus of “Conspiracy theorist!”
Do a quick Google search to see all the batshit things Klaus “We don’t need elections” Schwab wants to do in his Fourth Industrial Revolution fantasy and then get back to me.
WARNING: This gets much weirder than it initially seems and you won’t believe it unless you see for yourself!
You might be forgiven for thinking the WEF chief is just one random nutter who will be carted off to a retirement home soon (fingers crossed) so we don’t have to worry too much, but that’s not the case.
EC President Ursula von der Leyen is pushing for global digital IDs controlled by the UN, insisting, “The future is digital” at the latest G20 meeting. The EU’s digital wallet is being trialled in France and could launch across Europe by 2025. The UK looks likely to follow with a similar plan, whether the public likes it or not.
The future is digital. I passed two messages to the G20:
→ We should establish a framework for safe, responsible AI, with a similar body as the IPCC for climate
→ Digital public infrastructures are an accelerator of growth. They must be trusted, interoperable & open to all
Ursula von der Leyen on Twitter
While this is dressed up in nice language, one fear is those who fail to adopt digital IDs will become outcasts, given they could replace bank cards, passports, and even the keys to your home. Another fear is they will make mass surveillance possible on a level we’ve never seen, given they would contain every piece of information about your life.
You will have to carry your data around, whether you like it or not, and if you’re concerned you could be cut off at the push of a button, tough shit.
If the ruling class were interested in democracy, they would give the public a referendum on a technology that could hand unimaginable power to bureaucrats and represent one of the biggest changes to societies in human history, but that won’t happen. I suspect if there were a public debate, people would get extremely concerned, so the solution is to have no public debate.
Sure, von der Leyen says she would like to introduce digital IDs in an ethical way that mitigates the risks, but you fail to be ethical the moment you impose this technology on people without their consent. Let’s not forget the EU plans to ban large cash transactions because they’re untraceable, so why should we trust them when they say this is “not a Big Brother project”?
Europeans are going to be forced to upgrade their homes to meet energy efficiency standards by 2030 (an idea that seems on its way to the UK), and the next step is a carbon credit system, at least if the WEF gets its way. They’ve recently been talking about how the rich will be able to buy carbon credits from the poor because, of course!
"If I want to fly, I buy some carbon emission rights from someone who can't afford to fly, for example… Or if someone lives in a small house, he can sell his carbon emission rights to someone who lives in a big house. This way, poor people can benefit from the green economy.”
World Economic Forum agenda contributor, Barbara Baarsma
In other words, the rich will continue as normal as the planet burns, and ordinary people will be so poor, they will have to sell their meat allowance so they can afford to eat vegetables. This might not be an exaggeration either.
The carbon credit system really does seem like a strong possibility, but there is no reason for this to happen and certainly no guarantee it will. The reason I’m so pessimistic is because I’m seeing nowhere near the level of concern we need, especially when the Tories’ Energy Bill would make such a system possible.
The carbon credit system is perfect if you want to cement your wealth and power while controlling the working class and manufacturing consent by pretending your system is ethical.
Ethical would mean taking on the biggest polluters like the military industrial complex, and switching to clean, renewable energy, but meaningful solutions are not as appealing as absolute control.
If you doubt control is the motivation, ask yourself why we’re even talking about a carbon credit system in a world where sustainable aviation fuels are just around the corner, wind and solar power already exist, electric vehicles are taking over, and carbon capture technologies are in development.
What possible motivation could the ruling class have to impose these new systems, if they’re not going to solve any problems, and there are already solutions to our problems that they’re not prioritising? If you don’t smell a scam here, I don’t know what to say to you.
The mainstream media has been known to mock the WEF for “thinking they rule the world”, but they are far more influential than they should be. I’m not sure occasional ridicule is enough to stop them advancing their agenda, unless we can stigmatise them until governments cut them off. This seems unlikely because money talks.
The WEF wanted digital currencies and they’re getting them. They wanted digital IDs and they’re getting them. They want carbon credits and they’ll probably get them too.
Schwab laments that the working class is rejecting the elite across the world and insists “stakeholder capitalism” (neo-fedualism) is the only system that can meet the challenges of the 21st century. He wants to cement the power of the ruling class, but the ruling class is the cause of our challenges.
Just look at the rich Australian weirdo who went mask off recently:
“We need to see pain in the economy. Unemployment needs to jump 40-50%. Employees think employers should be thankful for them, we need to kill that.”
Those are the words of a CEO called Tim Gurner who made his money from real estate, i.e. not real work. He’s one of those build-to-rent corporate landlords who leach from the working class and call themselves “wealth creators” and real workers “lazy”.
No wonder Gurner thinks we need to know our place, his business model is dependent on our exploitation! A well-paid working class would buy their own homes and not be trapped in tenancy hell.
We are told that capitalism creates employment and increases wages and now capitalists are letting slip the opposite is true, that they deliberately keep both artificially low. This doesn’t sound very much like a free market, does it?
Gurner is basically talking about rigging the system so the employer sets the price of labour at less than what the worker needs to live. Imagine forcing a manufacturer to sell an item at less than what it costs to produce. No one would say it’s reasonable for them not to meet their costs, so why should it be different for a worker selling their labour?
The very existence of people like Gurner is why we have a system that’s rigged against the working class. The problem is most people shrug and accept people like Gurner, even if they don’t like them. They get so mad at the elite when talking in general terms, but as soon as one goes mask off, it’s just: “Meh, they’re all like this. What are we going to do about it?”
I remember when Boris Johnson was openly saying that inequality, greed and envy are good for the economy and people voted for him anyway. This type of nonsense is almost considered a pragmatic thing to say.
I just see so much apathy, or at the very least, lack of direction. You could argue trade unions have been taking strike action to fight back, but in reality, the union response has been piss weak. We’ve seen the biggest assault on our civil liberties in a long time and union leaders seem terrified of being branded “militant”.
While strikes have forced compromises from bosses, most workers are no better off, thanks to inflation, and behind the scenes, corporations have been manoeuvring to wrestle back control.
The best we get from union leaders is a request for Labour to be more radical, failing to grasp Labour is never representing unions again. Union leaders seem out of ideas as though nothing else can be done. If you can hear a sound from above, that’s the ghost of Keir Hardie banging his head against a wall.
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