W³P Open Thread: We talk about Stonks and how much Joe Xiden Sucks Edition

It's everybody's favorite weekly series that gets posted randomly on a semi-monthly-ish basis. On this week's show, we watch Sam cook some cheesesteaks with beef that doesn't exist where I live; A cat makes a bad decision; we make fun of the Chinese President of the U.S. Joe Xiden; we take a serious look at this weeks stock market action; and finally we end with some tunes mostly from bands that I don't even listen to. It's an action packed episode, so let's get this show on the road.

We open up with Sam's Cheesesteak Battle. Both look good, but I can't get the wagyu beef or the shiitake mushrooms where I live, so I'd have to substitute. Has anyone tried wagyu? Is it as good as they say or is it overrated. Let me know down in the comments.

Uh Oh. Mr. Cat thought he was making the galaxy brain play, but he was wrong! 😮😮🤣🤣

Puppy attack from r/aww

It's common knowledge at this point that China took the election away from United States citizens in November. Joe Xiden is their very own puppet president. Although, it's up for debate whether or not he actually knows what is going on ... I mean let's be real folks, he probably doesn't even know where he is. Anyways, let's make fun of this loser.

And how about retail investors sticking it to the billionaire hedge fund guys. That's been pretty entertaining. We'll dive deep into the technical analysis of what has transpired in our new segment titled Stonks-N-Shiz®.

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 https://mises.org/power-market/clown-world-finance

Clown World Finance

The recent blowup of GameStop shares has revealed, if anyone was still doubting, that the center of clown world is not Washington, DC, nor Silicon Valley—but Wall Street. To be clear, this is not meant to refer to the gallant band of redditors from r/wallstreetbets—those few, those happy few, that band of brothers who, as of this writing, may very well be poised to force several hedge funds into bankruptcy. Rather, the clowns are those hedge funds and all those other institutional investors who have been propped up by central bank intervention for decades while congratulating themselves that their seven-figure earnings were all due to their own financial brilliance.

What Happened?

The story of what happened (so far) is briefly told. It was revealed that GameStop was one of the most shorted shares in Wall Street, with the fund Melvin Capital taking the lead in shorting it. While this may or may not be a sound position based on market fundamentals—I have not investigated and think it’s a mug’s game to waste time on fundamentals these days—people did not take kindly to the revelation. Specifically, redditors at the subreddit Wallstreetbets saw that the short sellers were vulnerable, and they organized a campaign to drive them into the ground. Suddenly, retail investors flooded the market, bought up shares and drove GameStop shares, which had been trading below $20, into the stratosphere, topping $365 Wednesday morning (January 27). Melvin Capital suffered huge losses, up to 30 percent, and had to be saved by an infusion of $2.75 billion Tuesday afternoon.

That’s Not the Whole Story, Though…

In a sane market, where market fundamentals actually determine prices, this would not have happened. Short selling would simply be a way of quickly and efficiently determining the market price of stocks, and there would be no special profit to be had from this practice, beyond the arbitrage gain (in the case that the short sellers were correct). Similarly, investors angry at the short sellers could not have driven stock prices sky-high in defiance of reality. Both practices are only possible in a market flooded with ever-increasing amounts of new money freshly printed by the Federal Reserve.

For decades the central banks of the world—chief among them the US Federal Reserve—have had really only one mission: interest rates cannot ever be allowed to rise and everything must be done to prevent even the mildest of corrections in financial markets. They were able to get away with it clandestinely, so to speak—who now remembers the good ol’ days of the Greenspan put?—but after the financial crisis of ‘08 they had to come out into the open. Interest rates were forced lower and lower and markets were flooded with a tsunami of credit. Stocks and bonds responded, as could be expected, by reaching new all-time highs year after year. Of course, there were always economists ready with ever more whacky theories as to why this bare-faced inflationism was really sound policy dictated by the science of modern economics, but the result for anyone to see is financial markets that are completely divorced from reality and whose only purpose seems to be securing cheap funding for the US government and enormous earnings for the financial elites.

Then, of course, came corona, and the government, in its wisdom, chose to destroy the economy. To placate the plebs they offered them a few handouts—first $1,200, then $600—all financed by that incredible machine, the central bank printing press. According to Keynesian orthodoxy, this should have stimulated the economy to no end, ensuring a rapid recovery. Unfortunately, since most of the world was shut down, there were precious few opportunities for people to actually spend their money, and since the man in the street is wiser than most government-employed economists, he probably understood that an unprecedented shutdown of all society is not the best time to engage in a bonanza of consumer spending. So, he saved and invested his money, which thanks to the advances in modern technology he could now do directly, without going through savings banks or brokers.

Yet inflation is still inflation, even if it does not show up in government statistics, and the infusion of such an ocean of liquidity naturally drove stocks, bonds, bitcoin, and now GameStop sky-high. The beneficiaries this time were not the banks or Wall Street investors, however, but the many retail investors who now ganged up on Melvin Capital and the other “sharks” of Wall Street. It is all animal spirits, or rather, it is driven by the desire of those who feel themselves shortchanged to see the high lords of finance come crashing down. This latest round of inflation gave them the means to bring about just that.

Is This the End?

It’s impossible to tell what will happen next. Maybe the flood of liquidity is spent and Wall Street will weather the storm; maybe the Fed will again step in with new credit lines to save them, which seems most likely—again, the prime directive of the Fed has always been to save the big shots in finance. It is possible that financial markets are now so broken, central bank officials so worried about the effects of their money printing, that nothing will be done and we are now seeing the beginning of the end of the Big Bubble of 1980–2020. However, if recent history and mainstream economic orthodoxy are any guide, the Fed will stop at literally nothing to “save” the markets.

As Zero Hedge remarked on Twitter, “What is remarkable is how many people are “surprised” by what is going on in the “market” You throw $20 trillion stimulus at it, you nationalize the bond market, you break all links between price and fundamentals…what do you think happens.” Indeed. It would be wholly fitting in clown world, however, if the Great Stock Market Crash of 2021 were begun by day-trading teenagers, flush with helicopter money (thanks, Uncle Milty!) and with nothing else to do, forming a mob on reddit in order to break a hedge fund.

Austrian man leaves 'large amount' to village that saved family from Nazis

 

An Austrian man has left a bequest to a French village as a gesture of gratitude decades after residents took in his family during World War Two.

Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, in south-east France, protected thousands of Jews and has a long-standing reputation for shielding people from persecution.

Eric Schwam, who died last month at 90, arrived there with his family in 1943.

The town's mayor says he left the village a "large amount" in his will, without confirming a figure.

But his mayoral predecessor told local media Mr Schwam had enquired with officials years ago and the total is thought to be about €2m (£1.7m; $2.4m).

 

 

Denise Vallat, culture and communication assistant at Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, said the town was contacted by a notary about three weeks ago to discuss the donation.

"He was a very discreet gentleman and he didn't want a lot of publicity about his gesture," she was quoted by France 3 as saying. "Little is known about the donor but we did some research."

According to that research, Mr Schwam's family were originally from Vienna, where his father was a doctor.

He arrived in the town in 1943 with his parents and a grandmother. It is not known how the refugee family got there, but they had previously been held at Rivesaltes camp, a military facility in southern France used to intern civilians, before its closure in 1942.

 

 

Records suggest Mr Schwam's parents returned to Austria after the war but he moved to Lyon in 1950 to study pharmacy.

It was there he met, married and lived with his future wife. According to local reports, the couple did not have children and he was a widower before his death on 25 December.

Mayor Jean-Michel Eyraud told AFP that Mr Schwam's fortune would be used to fund education and youth initiatives.

 

 

Le Chambon-sur-Lignon has a population of only about 2,500 people but has a reputation as a place of refuge dating back to the French Protestant Huguenots who fled religious persecution during the 17th Century.

During WW2, a local pastor and his wife led calls to protect Jewish refugees from the occupying Nazis and Vichy French collaborators. Word spread through human rights groups and word of mouth and the village became a hub of the resistance movement, with ordinary residents taking in and hiding those who fled.

Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was later recognised by Israel for its extraordinary effort.

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55863061 

 

 

 

The post election TWITTER purge.....BOTs or NOT?

 

The post election TWITTER purge.....BOTs or NOT?

 We have all been affected by thousands upon thousands or our followers, seemingly overnight,.... poof...gone....

Many of us have no clue, not even a guess ...but....I recall listening to Rush Limbaugh

Here's what he said about the "Stop Rush" movement..

And I’m looking at this story, and I’m literally having conniptions, because this has been a practice on Twitter for at least 50 — well, 10 years. I’ve told you about the Stop Rush movement. We identified it. You know, I say something controversial here and all of a sudden there’s this massive sponsor boycott underway. Well, rather than sit there and deal with it, we wanted to find out where this was coming from because we’re talking to advertisers and they are being flooded with emails from people claiming they’re never gonna patronize the business ever again, and they’re scared to death.

So we found out the Stop Rush movement — I’m gonna spare you six months of investigation time — we found out that this movement was 10 people. Many of them were retired university professors. They span the country. They’re from Camarillo, California, all the way to Boston. They were working with Twitter. And the upshot of it was is that they were able to make themselves appear to be hundreds of thousands of people by creating bots that would then generate what was in effect a form email that was sent to any business plugged into the algorithm by these people.

And we looked at it, we studied it, and we found out who the 10 people were and what their animus toward me was. And we then took the evidence to advertisers. And I remember telling people, “Why would you do that, wuh wuh?” Well, because, we’re trying to educate them that what they’re hearing isn’t true. There aren’t hundreds of thousands of people offended. There aren’t millions of people outraged. There’s 10! And they’re making it up and they’re creating it. It’s all phony!

 

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/02/25/what-it-took-for-politico-to-discover-twitter-bots/

Senate Dems Wonder: Say, where is..

 Senate Dems wonder: 

Say, where is John Roberts in this impeachment trial, anyway?

Ed Morrissey for Hot Air

Nowhere, that’s where — and now members of both parties want to know why. We have already heard Senate Republicans such as Rand Paul and John Cornyn point to the refusal of Chief Justice John Roberts as a signal that he thinks the process is unconstitutional. Now Democrats in the upper chamber have begun asking why Roberts won’t preside over the trial, the New York Post noted last night:

Chief Justice John Roberts’ refusal to preside over former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial is raising questions about whether he views the first-of-its-kind proceedings as constitutional. …

Speaking to MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Monday evening, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed that Roberts “did not want” to take part in the trial.

“The Constitution says the chief justice presides for a sitting president,” the top-ranking senator said. “So it was up to John Roberts whether he wanted to preside with a president who is no longer sitting, Trump, and he doesn’t want to do it.”

Well, that much is obvious. The question is why Roberts has demurred from presiding. Both Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal are suggesting that Roberts is shirking, even if he’s not explicitly required to preside:

Even Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) voiced objection to Roberts sitting out the trial last week amid concerns that he would do so.

“That is his constitutional duty. I can’t imagine why a Supreme Court justice would not do his duty,” the liberal pol said.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which plays a critical role in the impeachment process, also hoped Roberts would attend.

“I think he should because it will be a straightforward, simple trial. I would think that the chief justice lends the dignity and seriousness it requires,” he said, noting that he was “not required by law to do it.”

Gee, why wouldn’t Roberts volunteer for this duty? Maybe it’s because Warren used the last one to grandstand at Roberts’ expense. Remember this episode?

Democrats didn’t treat the last impeachment trial with “the dignity and seriousness it requires,” especially in regard to Roberts, whose role is mainly ceremonial anyway. Why would Roberts volunteer to become Warren’s piñata all over again? Or anyone else’s? Roberts got an up-close look at the Senate Democrats’ idea of “dignity and seriousness” a year ago, and doesn’t need another.

That’s why tea-leaves reading over constitutionality probably isn’t worth much in sussing out any signals from Roberts. The Constitution only requires him to preside over the trial of a sitting president; otherwise, that duty falls to the president pro tempore of the Senate or the Vice President. If the Senate wants to hold a trial for someone no longer in office, Roberts has better things to do with his life than assist Warren in self-promotion, and that’s likely the only signal Roberts intends to send.

The Right-Wing Witch Hunt Makes It A Good Time To Keep Your Well-Stocked Pantry A Secret

More and more, people taking common-sense steps to incorporate resiliency into their lives are being labeled ‘insurrectionists’ and incriminated in the latest right-wing witch hunt.

by Dan Carpenter for The Federalist

Most “preppers” don’t dress in camouflage and live in underground bunkers, waiting for zombies. Nor do they sit in front of a conspiracy board plotting a government overthrow.

Today’s preppers come in all flavors. They’re Prius-driving data analysts who convert their homes to solar energy. They’re soccer moms who keep the spare room stocked with canned produce from last year’s garden. They’re outdoorsmen who know how to filter water in the backcountry. 

Simply put, a “prepper” is someone who takes common-sense measures to prepare for future disasters. They do sensible things like storing food and water for potential supply chain interruptions, or having a generator to provide electricity in the wake of a devastating natural disaster. They shoulder the responsibility for their own wellbeing in the face of potential misfortunes.

Yet more and more, people taking common-sense steps to incorporate resiliency into their lives are being labeled “insurrectionists” and incriminated in the latest right-wing witch hunt. As the grip of fear tightens, the mainstream-media-consuming majority is quick to accuse people who have done no wrong.

Being Understood Is for Your Therapist

In reality, many preppers spend as much time, if not more, reading homesteading sites and basic DIY building sites as they do on tactical or Second Amendment sites. To a majority of preppers, buying the most “tacticool” firearm isn’t as important as knowing how to keep our chickens healthy or keep aphids off the peach trees!

The nature of preparedness, self-reliance, and independence is such that it puts you in direct opposition with much of what government often represents. Plenty that happened under Donald Trump made the prepper community bristle. But right now, lots of people with lots of power really don’t care about nuance, and they have a lot of snitchy helpers all over the country. 

Because of this, it behooves every preparedness-minded individual to take a few careful precautions. Rather than struggle to be accepted and understood, you should focus more on operational security, also called “OPSEC” by people who love acronyms. The idea behind OPSEC principles is simple: your preps are your business.

If you have a “survival garden“ and some hens clucking in the background, that doesn’t tell the whole story. If you have a room in the house that is stacked to the roof with five-gallon buckets of long-term food storage, well, keep that room to yourself. Your bug-out plan is your business. While it might be alluring to tell people about your “new thing,” there is a time and place, but it’s not right now.

You Are Being Tracked and Generalized All the Time

Big tech and big brother are always watching. Your data is constantly being collected, and your internet footprints are always being followed. There is great value in knowing the things you like and the types of places you like to visit.

Billions of dollars are being made by understanding which advertising to push into people’s faces. Of course, this sort of destruction of privacy also lends itself to even more nefarious uses. With all that data stored up on sites you visit and purchases you make, it’s extremely easy for someone surveiling to hammer down just who and what you are. 

Whether the online community knows you are a prepper or the local community does, this knowledge may present challenges. So take reasonable precautions.

4 Ways  to Maximize Operational Security

OPSEC is simply a matter of understanding what other people perceive when they see you and yours. If you had a visitor, right now, what would he see in your home, in plain sight, that might clue him in that you’re a prepper?

Here are four ways that you can upgrade your operation security.

Hide preps. If you consider it a prep or you think visitors may ask questions, then simply hide it. It doesn’t have to be hidden in a vault, and some things can be hidden in plain sight. However, you have to be aware of what people see when they walk by your home or enter it. 

Be Aware of Your Kids. Children, although precious, are great at spilling the beans! “My daddy has lots of guns in his big safe.” They aren’t trying to out you—they probably think you are cool and want to tell their friends and their friend’s parents or even teachers. But public school is a field of landmines lately and the less teachers know about your personal life the better.

Modify Your Online Presence. One of the most important steps you can take is to modify your online presence by jumping out of Google, Facebook, and iChat and into technologies that are less intrusive. Here are a few to use:

• Web search: Duck Duck Go
• Email: Proton Mail
• Texting: Signal
• Group and video chat: Element

These are all examples of ways that you can search and communicate on the internet without having intrusive data collectors follow you around the whole time!

Know Your Suppliers: It’s easy to realize you need something and buy it off Amazon. You get it the next day and that prep is handled. However, that means you have left a data trail, and that could affect your operational security.

Now, you would really have to work hard to buy all of your preps with cash from different and smaller suppliers. It can be done, but will it? Most likely no. So, instead, just break up your buying patterns. Use trustworthy suppliers online, buy some from Amazon, and then buy some preps in person using cash (your credit card often knows what you’ve bought at a retailer).

It’s easy to tap that online buying vein over and over, but you just create a massive blueprint of your preparedness actions and purchases. Mix things up a bit.

Through censorship and pressure, we are going to see many voices silenced in 2021, and many other people harassed. If you can execute on operational security, you will have much less to worry about. 

Dan Carpenter is a proponent of preparedness, homesteads, and modern self sufficiency. He is the founder and principal of Homestead Launch and SCP Survival. Contact him at Dan@HomesteadLaunch.com.

DeceptiCon Maneuvers, Don’t Forget Who Owns The New York Stock Exchange

posted by Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse

With the elite financial class being increasingly exposed over the past 72 hours; and with the collusion between Big Tech and Wall Street in the public spotlight; and knowing the elite Washington DC establishment is a part of that entire corrupt system; and with millions of Americans more able to accept the scale of the issues; perhaps this is a moment to remind ourselves how the BIG CLUB works to deceive under false pretense.

Washington DC is part of the corrupt Wall Street, K-Street, Big Bank, and BIG TECH system. Everything within that system is self-serving and done deliberately with the intent to maintain a particular status for the people within it.  This is the moment of opportunity to expose just how the DeceptiCons trick us… this is information and dot-connecting that created The Last Refuge.  This is the bitter pill that needs to be swallowed.

Everything from within the DC system is designed to lie to you.  Accept that and you begin to realize how events are NEVER what they appear on the surface.

The owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is Jeffrey Sprecher.  Remember the position of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in regards to Senator Loeffler?  Well, Mr. Sprecher is the husband of former Senator Kelly Loeffler.

Kelly Loeffler’s seat was purchased by their elite status and position.  Why would a billionaire run for an elected office paying a few hundred thousand?

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell positioned Loeffler with committee assignments based on that status of influence and affluence.

Jeffrey Sprecher and Kelly Loeffler entered politics for their elite interests.

The ruse of the DecptiCons is always that a motive to the benefit of the republic lies behind their candidacy. This is the same ruse that lay behind Mitt Romney, another DeceptiCon.  There are no purely altruistic motives behind these politicians, particularly in the Senate.

Their motives are all about status, power and greed.  They are not representatives of the people; they are representative of their own elite fellowship and interests, and this crosses both parties.  Everything else is chaff and countermeasures to ensure their position.

That is the brutal and uncomfortable reality to accept.  The entire system is corrupt.

The swamp is deep and filled with DeceptiCons who will strike at any given moment once they attain a useful position. President Trump went to Georgia to campaign for Senator Kelly Loeffler. Simultaneous to President Trump’s visible support, Loeffler’s husband Jeffrey Sprecher, owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), announced the NYSE will not blacklist Chinese telecommunications firms outlined in Trump’s executive order.

Background: On November 12, 2020, President Trump signed an executive order prohibiting American companies and individuals from owning shares in any of the 31 Chinese companies previously listed as enabling the People’s Liberation Army, effective Jan 11, 2021. Three telecommunications companies China Mobile Ltd., China Telecom Corp Ltd., China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd., were targeted.

Literally as President Trump was traveling to Georgia to rally in support of Senator Loeffler, the NYSE –owned by Loeffler’s husband– announced they would not delist the Chinese companies:

CNBC – The New York Stock Exchange said it no longer plans to delist three Chinese telecommunications giants.

In a late Monday statement, the NYSE said it dropped the plans after “further consultation with relevant regulatory authorities in connection with Office of Foreign Assets Control.”

[…] The exchange had originally planned to drop those listings in order to comply with an executive order that President Donald Trump signed in November. That order sought to bar American companies and individuals from investing in firms that the Trump administration alleged aid the Chinese military.

That ban is set to take effect Monday, a little more than a week before President-elect Joe Biden is set to to be inaugurated. (link)

Via Axios: “NYSE spokesperson Farrell Kramer declined to comment on what had changed in relation to compliance with the executive order. But Kramer referred Axios to a stock exchange statement saying that “in light of further consultation” it no longer intends to move forward with the delisting action.” (link)

Senator Kelly Loeffler and husband Jeffrey Sprecher, owner of NYSE

Kelly Loeffler was appointed by Georgia Governor Kemp because Loeffler is married to Jeffrey Sprecher; a GOPe party insider, mega-donor, and multi-millionaire CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).

Jeffrey Sprecher is the founder and CEO of ICE, which now owns the New York Stock Exchange. Kelly Loeffler’s company, the financial platform Bakkt, is a subsidiary of the Intercontinental Exchange.

Corrupt as hell. All of it. Insider party schemes, combined with Deep Swamp politics and personal influence peddling for financial interests. The familiar network of personal financial benefit. In 2012 Mrs Loeffler donated $750,000 to Mitt Romney’s Super PAC.

Political connections is why Kelly Loeffler was selected by Governor Kemp, and that same pay-to-play political network is exactly why Nikki Haley originally endorsed her and campaigned for her in the 2020 election.

I have ZERO doubt Loeffler’s husband will be providing considerable financial payments to Nikki Haley in her run for the presidency. Transparent swamp dealing.

Yes, Jeffrey Sprecher owns the largest stock exchange in the world: the New York Stock Exchange with more than 2,400 listed companies and a market capitalization of about $22.9 trillion….. There are Always Trillions at Stake.

Biden Regime Embraces ‘Great Reset’ Plan to Destroy Capitalism

by Debra Heine for American Greatness

The Biden regime is fully embracing a radical globalist plan that seeks to destroy capitalism and replace it with a socialist system.

“The Great Reset” was unveiled at the World Economic Forum (WEC) in Davos, Switzerland last June, using the coronavirus pandemic and “global warming” as pretexts to impose on the world far-left social programs like government-provided basic income, the Green New Deal, universal healthcare, and of course, massive tax increases.

In one week, Joe Biden has signed over 30 executive actions, a far-left wish list dealing with race issues, the Covid-19 pandemic, illegal immigration, “gender identity,” and the climate. Meanwhile, his Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security have been focusing on punishing political enemies under the guise of combatting “violent extremism.”

“The Great Reset,” a totalitarian project of economic and social engineering, appears to be high on the Biden administration’s agenda.

The theme of the WEC 2020 meeting was “rebuilding society and the economy in a more sustainable way following the COVID-19 pandemic,” and the Great Reset’s supporters have been open about using it to fundamentally transform societies.

As World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab wrote back in June, “the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.”

“What’s unusual about this global communist takeover plan is that it originates not from some meeting of hair-shirt sociology students at Berkeley but from the World Economic Forum, which hosts the annual meeting at Davos where billionaires lecture millionaires on how ordinary people live,” wrote Breitbart  contributor James Delingpole on Nov. 1, a couple days before the election.

Delingpole noted that Schwab has written several books on his masterplan to “reset capitalism.”

His latest, called Covid-19: The Great Reset, makes no bones about the fact that the chaos of the Coronavirus pandemic represents the perfect opportunity to accelerate the entire world towards a ‘new normal’.

At the time of writing (June 2020), the pandemic continues to worsen globally. Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is: never. Nothing will ever return to the ‘broken’ sense of normalcy that prevailed prior to the crisis because the coronavirus pandemic marks a fundamental inflection point in our global trajectory.

Got that? As far as your new globalist overlords are concerned, you are NEVER going to get your old life back, however much you might wish it. Also, be clear: this is being done for your own good because your old way of life was based on a ‘broken’ model.

Such is the author’s conviction that the new normal is what we need and should want, he scarcely bothers to pretend that Chinese coronavirus is anything other than a handy pretext.

Unlike certain past epidemics, COVID-19 doesn’t pose a new existential threat.

Schwab is clear in his book that coronavirus is not so much a crisis as an opportunity to be exploited – a chance to accelerate the birth of the New World Order he calls The Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Radical changes of such consequence are coming that some pundits have referred to a ‘before coronavirus’ (BC) and ‘after coronavirus’ (AC) era. We will continue to be surprised by both the rapidity and unexpected nature of these changes – as they conflate with each other, they will provoke second-, third-, fourth- and more-order consequences, cascading effects and unforeseen outcomes.

This might all seem pie in the sky — the demented ravings of a German so sinister-looking and sounding that he would have made an excellent Blofeld in the Bond movies — were it not for one major problem: lots of world leaders, billionaire businessmen and other masters of the universe are totally onboard with the project.

This includes, if we’re very unlucky, possible future President Joe Biden.

In three open letters to President Trump last year, Vatican whistleblower Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former papal nuncio to the United States, warned that The Great Reset would usher in a “one world government,” eliminating the sovereignty of nations, and crushing religious freedom.

In his October letter, Vigano wrote that the global élite were trying to “subdue all of humanity, imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations.”

In several nations this plan has already been approved and financed; in others it is still in an early stage. Behind the world leaders who are the accomplices and executors of this infernal project, there are unscrupulous characters who finance the World Economic Forum and Event 201, promoting their agenda.

The purpose of the Great Reset, Vigano argued, was to usher in “a health dictatorship” using “tempting promises” such as a guaranteed universal income and the canceling of individual debt.

Until a few months ago, it was easy to smear as “conspiracy theorists” those who denounced these terrible plans, which we now see being carried out down to the smallest detail. No one, up until last February, would ever have thought that, in all of our cities, citizens would be arrested simply for wanting to walk down the street, to breathe, to want to keep their business open, to want to go to church on Sunday.

Yet now it is happening all over the world, even in picture-postcard Italy that many Americans consider to be a small enchanted country, with its ancient monuments, its churches, its charming cities, its characteristic villages. And while the politicians are barricaded inside their palaces promulgating decrees like Persian satraps, businesses are failing, shops are closing, and people are prevented from living, traveling, working and praying. The disastrous psychological consequences of this operation are already being seen, beginning with the suicides of desperate entrepreneurs and of our children, segregated from friends and classmates, told to follow their classes while sitting at home alone in front of a computer.

During an interview earlier this month with Steve Bannon, the host of the “Bannon’s War Room,” the archbishop said he was troubled by the power of the mainstream media to suppress legitimate questions about the 2020 presidential election.

The rest of the world is watching to see if America and its democratic system will hold up, he said. “If it allows the idea to spread among the masses that the electoral choice of the citizens – the first expression of democracy – can be manipulated and thwarted, it will be complicit in the fraud, and will certainly deserve the execration of the entire world, which looks to America as a nation which has fought for and defended its freedom.”

Although Biden took no position on the Great Reset during the 2020 election campaign, former Secretary of State John Kerry admitted in mid-November that the Biden Administration would enthusiastically support the globalist scheme.

At a panel discussion about the Great Reset hosted by the World Economic Forum, Kerry, Biden’s special envoy for climate, declared that the Biden administration not only supported a great global reset, but that it “will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine.”

The host of the panel, Borge Brende, asked Kerry whether the World Economic Forum and other Great Reset supporters were “expecting too much too soon from the new president, or is he going to deliver first day on this [sic] topics?,” Kerry responded, “The answer to your question is, no, you’re not expecting too much.”

“And yes, it [the Great Reset] will happen,” Kerry continued. “And I think it will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine. In effect, the citizens of the United States have just done a Great Reset. We’ve done a Great Reset. And it was a record level of voting.”

Kerry later argued that the Great Reset is necessary to slow the “climate crisis” and that “I know Joe Biden believes … it’s not enough just to rejoin Paris [the Paris Climate Accords] for the United States. It’s not enough for us to just do the minimum of what Paris requires.”

Kerry also said that because of the Great Reset movement, he believes “we’re at the dawn of an extremely exciting time” and that “the greatest opportunity we have” to address social and economic problems is “dealing with the climate crisis.”

While  concerns about The Great Reset have been labeled a conspiracy theory, everything we know about the socialist scheme comes from the global elites themselves.

“This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a well-documented movement among many of the world’s most powerful people,” says Justin Haskins, the Editorial Director at The Heartland Institute and a leading authority on the Great Reset, “Fundamentally, this is a radical and complete transformation of everything that we do in our society,” Haskins adds, ‘It will change the way businesses are evaluated, it will coerce businesses to pursue left-wing causes.”

The Great Reset has the support of world leaders, global elites, and corporations that think they know what’s best for you.

According to Haskins, “The elites, the technocrats in society, the most educated people,” see the chance to “control and manipulate society, pull the levers in society so that it’s in their minds, perfect.”

Not surprisingly, the World Economic Forum’s slogan “Build Back Better” was also the Biden Campaign’s slogan. The slogan has also reportedly been used by Justin Trudeau, the Pope, the Prince of Wales, and other leaders around the world.

Delingpole, who has been writing about the coming New World Order for nearly 50 years, is justifiably alarmed. “You’d be amazed by how many world leaders are on board with this globalist plan,” Delingpole said recently. “Even people that claim to be conservatives, but are clearly not. This is worse than Naziism. This is worse than communism. And this is worse than fascism. These guys are planning on taking over the whole world.”

The WEF promotional video below attempts to put a positive spin on the global elites’ attempt to crush small businesses, bolster large corporations, and force ordinary people into a state of dependency on government.

Even so, the video has garnered over 10,000 thumbs down, and only 743 thumbs up.