The Truth Is Out: World Economic Forum Futurist: ‘We Just Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’

 via Zero Hedge:

by Ben Bartee via The Daily Bell

Here’s a thought experiment: you own a factory, which you operate for the sole purpose of enriching yourself.

What do you do with old equipment after its usefulness expires, when you purchase new, more efficient tech? Do you cling to it with a sentimental attachment?

Or, out of practicality, do you ship it off to the proverbial glue factory, like the ruling pigs in Animal Farm literally did to Boxer the horse when he became too old to work – even after all he had done for the farm?

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Klaus Schwab’s eugenicist lieutenant, Yuval Noah Harari – the Himmler to his Hitler – said the quiet part out loud in a recent TED interview.

“People realize — and they’re correct in thinking that — that, ‘The future doesn’t need me. You have all these smart people in California and in New York and in Beijing, and they are planning this amazing future with artificial intelligence and bio-engineering and in global connectivity and whatnot, and they don’t need me.'”

Listen to the interview in its entirety and note how often Harari, unprompted, compares humans to animals – monkeys, cows, etc.

The elites view us as an industrial resource, not peer citizens

Harari continues:

“If you go back to the middle of the 20th century — and it doesn’t matter if you’re in the United States with Roosevelt, or if you’re in Germany with Hitler, or even in the USSR with Stalin — and you think about building the future, then your building materials are those millions of people who are working hard in the factories, in the farms, the soldiers. You need them. You don’t have any kind of future without them.”

And here we arrive at the crux of the issue: we’re outdated machinery in their eyes.

“Now, fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don’t need the vast majority of the population because the future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence [and] bioengineering.”

Harari explains that your only utility to the technocracy now is as a data reservoir:

“Most people don’t contribute anything to [artificial intelligence and bioengineering], except perhaps for their data, and whatever people are still doing which is useful, these technologies increasingly will make redundant and will make it possible to replace the people.”

The elites view themselves as Gods, bestowing and extinguishing life at will

The unelected WEF technocrats have anointed themselves transhuman demigods and bestowed upon themselves the concomitant ultimate power:

“Science is replacing evolution by natural selection with evolution by intelligent design, not the intelligent design of some god in the clouds, [but] OUR intelligent design, and the design of our ‘clouds’. These are the new driving forces of evolution.”
-Nuval Noah Harari

This is the megalomaniacal God Complex come to full fruition. This is unchecked ego, free of the constraints of the superego.

Wounded Ukrainian soldiers reveal steep toll of Kherson offensive - Washington Post

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By John Hudson, of the Washington Post

September 7, 2022 

 

 

 

 
A Ukrainian soldier wounded during early fighting in the new offensive in the Kherson region is cared for at a medical facility in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian forces are pushing to retake territory occupied by Russia. (Photo for The Washington Post)

 

SOUTHERN UKRAINE — In dimly lit hospital rooms in southern Ukraine, soldiers with severed limbs, shrapnel wounds, mangled hands and shattered joints recounted the lopsided disadvantages their units faced in the early days of a new offensive to expel Russian forces from the strategic city of Kherson.

The soldiers said they lacked the artillery needed to dislodge Russia’s entrenched forces and described a yawning technology gap with their better-equipped adversaries. The interviews provided some of the first direct accounts of a push to retake captured territory that is so sensitive, Ukrainian military commanders have barred reporters from visiting the front lines.

“They used everything on us,” said Denys, a 33-year-old Ukrainian soldier whose unit fell back from a Russian-held village after a lengthy barrage of cluster bombs, phosphorous munitions and mortars. “Who can survive an attack for five hours like that?” he said.

Denys and eight other Ukrainian soldiers from seven different units provided rare descriptions of the Kherson counteroffensive in the south, the most ambitious military operation by Kyiv since the expulsion of Russian forces at the perimeter of the capital in the spring. As in the battle for Kyiv, Ukraine’s success is hardly assured and the soldiers’ accounts signaled that a long fight, and many more casualties, lie ahead.

 

“We lost five people for every one they did,” said Ihor, a 30-year-old platoon commander who injured his back when the tank he was riding in crashed into a ditch.

Ihor had no military experience before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. He made a living selling animal feed to pig and cow farms. His replacement as platoon commander also has no previous military experience, he said.

The soldiers were interviewed on gurneys and in wheelchairs as they recovered from injuries sustained in the offensive. Some spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid disciplinary action. Others, like Denys and Ihor, agreed to reveal only their first names. But most spoke plainly about the disadvantages they faced.

Russia’s Orlan drones exposed Ukrainian positions from more than a kilometer above their heads, they said, an altitude that meant they never heard the buzz of the aircraft tracking their movements.

Russian tanks emerged from newly built cement fortifications to blast infantry with large-caliber artillery, the wounded Ukrainian soldiers said. The vehicles would then shrink back beneath the concrete shelters, shielded from mortar and rocket fire.

Counter-battery radar systems automatically detected and located Ukrainians who were targeting the Russians with projectiles, unleashing a barrage of artillery fire in response.

Russian hacking tools hijacked the drones of Ukrainian operators, who saw their aircraft drift away helplessly behind enemy lines.

Ukraine has discouraged coverage of the offensive, resulting in an information lag on a potentially pivotal inflection point in the nearly seven-month conflict.

Battle for Kyiv: Ukrainian valor, Russian blunders combined to save the capital

When Ihor fired on Russian soldiers with his Kalashnikov rifle this week, he said, it was his first time shooting at a human being. “You don’t think about anything,” he said. “You understand, if you don’t do it, they will do it.”

Despite the challenges, Ihor said he is eager to return to the front line as soon as he heals. “My people are there. How can I leave them?” he said.

Other soldiers won’t be returning to the battlefield.

Oleksandr, a 28-year-old former construction worker, lost his arm in a mortar blast during the counteroffensive last week. He winced with phantom pain in his hospital bed on Sunday, saying he felt a sting from the fingers and hand that were no longer connected to his body.

Oleksandr said the Russian artillery fire was relentless. “They were just hitting us all the time,” he said. “If we fire three mortars, they fire 20 in return.”

The Ukrainian soldiers said they had to carefully ration their use of munitions but even when they did fire, they had trouble hitting targets. “When you give the coordinates, it’s supposed to be accurate, but it’s not,” he said, noting that his equipment dated back to 1989.

Oleksandr had never traveled to Kherson before the war, but he said the goal of expelling Russian invaders was worth sacrificing a limb. “It’s our country,” he said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine’s forces retook two villages in the Kherson region, and one of his aides posted an image of the Ukrainian flag being hoisted over the village of Vysokopillya over the weekend.

“Ukrainian flags are returning to the places where they should be,” Zelensky said in a video address. But it was impossible to gauge what progress Ukrainian forces have made in their push to expel the Russian invaders from Kherson.

The region, which was captured by Russia earlier in the war, forms a crucial part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s coveted “land bridge” to Crimea, the peninsula that Russia invaded and annexed in violation of international law in 2014.

Russian electronic warfare also posed a constant threat. Soldiers described ending their shifts and turning on their phones to call or text family members — a decision that immediately drew Russian artillery fire.

“When we turn on mobile phones or radio, they can recognize our presence immediately,” said Denys. “And then the shooting starts.”

Despite the ban on media visits to the front line, there were signs that Russia’s grip on Kherson might be loosening.

In fiercely contested Kherson, Ukraine pushes to retake occupied lands

In a statement on Monday, a Kremlin-backed occupation authority said that plans for a staged referendum in the Kherson region, a precursor to Russian annexation, were put on hold due to security issues. The Russian statement was later walked back, but it gave the Ukrainians optimism and suggested that, at the least, the counteroffensive was causing some disarray for the Russians.

 

 

 

 

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Europe Suffers In Biden's Proxy War

by Phil T. Looker, 3 September 2022

We are in a game of chicken with Russia , while the proxy war with Russia the hawks in Washington DChave yearned for these past twenty years is being fought in Ukraine, to the immense cost in cash of taxpayers in the USA and NATO member states and in lives for the citizens of Ukraine, Russia, aided by China, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Iran, Turkey and many other large population nations that have not joined in the western sanctions, is desroying the pro - Ukraine alliance economically.

Our leaders are all totally insulated from the consequences of getting involved, even indirectly, in this conflict, they have no skin in the game, until the next round of elections

Biden (or his administration) has been responsible to a large degree in encouraging Putin to invade Ukraine, because shutting off the XL pipeline caused the recent oil price surge. The late Senator John McCain said this of Russia: “Russia is an old gas station, masquerading as a country”. All Russia does is oil and gas , plus some raw materials too.That somewhat understates the range of the Russian economy but there is some truth in it. Russia exports raw materials and grain.

The way to undermine Putin’s ambitions is to open up the oilfields and gas fields so eagerly abandoned by the west in our leaders eagerness to earn green kudos from the tree huggers. Drill for oil, frack for oil and gas, recommission wells closed and capped because in the face of cheap Russian imports they were unprofitable. Get the oil  and gas prices down and ensure energy stability with controls in place to ensure that spinless politicians, fearful of upsetting the noisy but numerically insignificant eco - warrior contingent can never again make us dependent on a potentially hostile power for the means to keep ourselves warm and well fed. This is where demented Joe Biden and cunt - struck Boris Johnson have made a series of enormous mistakes, and Biden in particular has handed Putin on a platter a lot of financial power.

When oil prices got to U$150 a barrel in 2008, Putin took Georgia. Oil prices settled but then in 2014 the price went to U$100, and Putin annexed Crimea. With the fracking revolution under first Barack Obama (in betrayal of the idealogues who voted for him,) and then  Donald Trump led to the USA being self sufficient in oil and natural gas, the oil price dropped to between U$25 to U$45 a barrel. You never heard from Putin.

In the past year the oil price has jumped from U$50 to U$100 and Putin made around U$85bn in profit from that. He is using that money to finance his war in Ukraine. The lesson is ‘crank uo the oil pumps and open the gas taps.' 

Biden and Boris Johnson have been doing exactly the reverse in pursuit of unrealistic 'net zero' policies. Johnson refused to issue more oil and gas licences in the North Sea, fracking is still in limbo, and the enormous reserves around the Outer Hebrides are untapped. Johnson (or whoever suceeds him now he has been disgraced,) and Biden by keeping oil and gas in short supply and price high, are helping Putin.

America could produce 15m barrels of oil a day, but currently is only pumping 11.5m Why? More oil in the market and the price goes down and Putin is stuck in Ukraine.The North Sea, with 24 billion barrels of oil left in known reserves and estimates of another 40 billion yet to be exploited,  could make Britain self sufficient in oil and gas for at leasy half a century, and our islands still stand on a foundation of high quality coal 

The answer to thwart Putin is to get the oil price down. Reinstate the Keystone pipeline, get drilling in Alaska, the North Sea and Outer Hebrides. 

However none of this will be allowed in 'woke' world. The people acting as puppeteers of poor demented Joe Biden are intent on humiliating Russia, wrecking the Russian economy and engineering the overthrow of Vladimir Putin, with the added bonus that once these goals are achieved their corporate, globalist cronies will be able to step in and 'annexe' Russia's massive mineral, hydrocarbon and metal resources. 

Putin's regime may be odious but he is popular in Russia and the economy is doing just fine. A large and increasing balance of payment surplus, strongest currency bar none this year, declining inflation, massive gold reserves and an absence of sovereign debt combines with those natural resources and a well organised agricultural sector make Russia virtually unassailable to external actions such as economic sanctions and trade embargos. The Kremlin circumvents NATO / EU sanctions by selling petrocarbons to India and China for much more than before the war; (some of which is then resold to Europe for a healthy profit for the counties!). 

 Meanwhile our sanctions on Russia have created huge hikes in energy inflation threatening the shut down of the UK/European countries creating mass unemployment and poverty. Meanwhile Putin works closely with China and other BRICS countries to work on a new payment system bypassing SWIFT sanctions - oh and now Saudi is flirting with joining the BRICS club. Putin is a very capable opponent, and our policies are harming us much worse than it is harming him.

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Vladimir Putin enjoying jerking Europe's srings over gas supply (Picture: Telegraph)

Today's news informed us that leaders of the 'G7' nations (a group which likes to think of itself as made up of the world's most economically powerful nations although China (2) and India (5) are not members while Canada (9) and Italy (10) are) have agreed to  impose a price cap for purchases of Russian oil in a bid to slash Putin’s energy revenues and ease the global energy crunch.

In a joint statement G7 finance ministers announced the goal was to block the transportation of all Russian oil sold above a certain price. The ministers said the plan would be implemented  in line with EU sanctions on Russian oil set to take effect on December 5.

The statement, which notes that all EU nations will have to sign off on any sanctions changes, did not specify a level  at which the cap will be set.

The G7 plan, the latest, and likely to be the most ineffectual to date in the US / NATO / EU attempts to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, would allow buyers of Russian oil under the agreed cap to continue getting crucial services like financing and insurance for tankers. Unfortunately the people who dreamed up this idiocy overlook the fact that sipping capacity, trans - ship transfer facilities and insurance are all available from finance centres in Dubai, Singapore, Mumbai, Shanghai, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, all of which are outside the jurisdiction of the USA, NATO and the EU.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen doubled down on the EU's shooting itself in the foot, shooting herself in  both feet by saying the bloc should impose a price cap on Russian pipeline gas to foil what she described as Putin's attempts to manipulate the energy market.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow would turn off gas supply to Europe if Brussels pushed ahead with a price cap which aptly illustrates the desperate mess the western economies have got themselves into.

Recent trade statistics show Russia was selling more than 40% of their oil to China and India, a lot more than before the war. India and China are then selling it on at an eye watering profit to commodity traders who disguise its origins and sell it into western commodity markets. Thus the price cap will only result in consumers in the nations that have imposed sanctions on Russia paying much more for everything because energy costs have a knock on effect right through the supply chain.

A couple of days ago Moscow agreed a deal with the Japanese and Hungary, and in today's papers it's reported that Austria is toying with buying gas from Russia - and on Russian terms. Putin's regime is odious, but Putin is playing his hand well. 

Sanctions already imposed aren't working, Russia sells oil to China/India and what is now called the global south at reduced rates. There is zero reason for them to follow the 'west'. Indeed, even straight after the invasion, it was clear that most of the world was not following the west's sanctions. Meanwhile EU member states and the UK, USA and Canada, Australia and Japan, thanks to their governments complete mismanagement of the Russia / Ukraine crisis, are already facing three domestic crises, food shortages, energy shortages and an inflationary spiral which is driving millions of families into poverty.

As for the non sanctioning nations, the  BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa,) is set to be made infinitely more powerful by the addition of oil - rich Saudi Arabia. In real time we are witnessing the dividing of the world into 2 blocks, and I fear that we are in the block that will become considerably poorer, and won't even succeed in its goal of winning the USA's proxy war with Russia currently being fought in Ukraine.

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7 of the wealthiest, whitest countries in the world with a combined population of less than one third of the planet believe they are capable of dictating to the 6 billion or so on the rest of the planet when those G7 nations are dependent on BRICS members for energy, staple foods, raw materials and manufacturing capacity

The unintended consequences of this ill thought - out move are beyond imagination

Over the medium term it’s likely to give impetus to moves  already under way by China, Russia, India, Turkey and a number of Middle East and African nations to set up alternative financial structures and governance structures, which will have huge international ramifications led by the USA.

It won’t work out well and predictably so because the people who formulated it obviously do not understand how the business they want to manipulate actually works 

 The international oil trade does not work by shipping lorry loads of oil overland. Commodity dealers make contracts for quantities of oil at agreed prices. So a million barrels of Russian oil sold to a commodity trader in India, China, Singapore or Dubai need not go anywhere near the country where the buyer is based.

Evidence has been widely published in mainstream media revealing that Russian oil is being mixed with Syrian oil, Quatari oil and oil from other sources and sold in the spot markets of the west with the country of origin shown as that from which it was last exported.

This latest idiocy is just more theatrical posing from clueless western leaders. Had these clowns not embraced green and 'net zero' lunacy over the past decade or two we might not now be in the situation of depending on Russia for energy supplies.

Picture Credit: REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo

The Americans are in cahoots with Zelensky and have really suckered the EU and U.K. into taking the pain over Biden’s proxy war with Russia. This war has made almost all USA energy sources profitable and Biden immediately ordered the frackers to frack despite signing up to net zero.He has also made the US fertiliser industry profitable and filled the order books of the US weapons industry and its supply chain. And his next move is likely to be authorising oil extraction in Alaska's arctic regions.

What is Europe and the U.K. getting in return?