Morano: The modus operandi of the Great Reset (AKA Build Back Better) is to intentionally collapse the current system with policies designed to create a crisis, havoc, and shortages. … Once the inevitable societal chaos ensues, a huge coordinated push to promote nationalization or government takeover of the impacted industries ensues. It is always claimed that the “free market” failed, and now only government can come in and clean up the mess. The advocates of nationalization usually bill it as a “temporary” nationalization of the industries, much like “15 days to slow the spread” or “2 weeks to flatten the curve” were billed as temporary measures. …
Stuart Chase, a key advisor to former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, envisioned an early version of the Great Reset in the 1930s and 1940s, complete with calls for government “control of energy sources—hydroelectric power, coal, petroleum, natural gas.; The control of transportation—railway, highway, airway, waterway; and the control of agricultural production.” Chase loved the idea of managing all aspects of society. He asked at the end of his 1932 book, A New Deal, “Why should the Soviets have all the fun remaking the world?” Chase’s lust for Soviet ideology could be updated to 2022 by replacing the “Soviets” for “China”.
Here is Chase’s 2022 proposed updated motto: “Why should China have all the fun remaking the world?”
By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot
Climate Depot Special Report
The continuing fallout from COVID lockdown policies — from the economic collapse to the supply chain issues, to energy, transportation, and food shortages — is reigniting calls and prompting the nationalization of industries in Europe, the U.S, Canada, and Australia.
The modus operandi of the Great Reset (AKA Build Back Better) is to intentionally collapse the current system with policies designed to create a crisis, havoc, and shortages. And the world has descended into chaos since the COVID lockdowns of March of 2020.
NYT: ‘Crippling’ energy bills force Europe’s factories to go dark
The Great Food Reset has arrived: Expect ‘real’ food shortages, Biden declares
WHY IT IS FINALLY TIME TO NATIONALIZE AMERICA’S FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY TO END OUR SPIRALING ENERGY WAR
Once the inevitable societal chaos ensues, a huge coordinated push to promote nationalization or government takeover of the impacted industries ensues. It is always claimed that the “free market” failed, and now only government can come in and clean up the mess. The advocates of nationalization usually bill it as a “temporary” nationalization of the industries, much like “15 days to slow the spread” or “2 weeks to flatten the curve” were billed as temporary measures. See: Salon mag in 2022 noted “the long American history of taking over industries during a time of national crisis” and claimed that “temporary nationalization helped get America through the crisis” of World War II.
Stuart Chase, a key advisor to former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, envisioned an early version of the Great Reset in the 1930s and 1940s, complete with calls for government “control of energy sources—hydroelectric power, coal, petroleum, natural gas.; The control of transportation—railway, highway, airway, waterway; and the control of agricultural production.”
Chase loved the idea of managing all aspects of society. He asked at the end of his 1932 book, A New Deal, “Why should the Soviets have all the fun remaking the world?” Chase’s lust for Soviet ideology could be updated to 2022 by replacing the “Soviets” for “China”.
Here is Chase’s 2022 proposed updated motto:
“Why should China have all the fun remaking the world?”
That updated motto could describe any number of current Chinese social credit style policies emanating from the World Economic Forum, Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau, or from Australia, New Zealand, or U.S. COVID lockdown policies, particularly from blue states and cities.
Chase’s depression-era political vision now appears to be coming to fruition in 2022. Chase, a socialist economist, wrote the 1932 book A New Deal , which was the inspiration for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. Chase was a member of FDR’s “kitchen cabinet.” He promoted the “managerial revolution,” which he referred to as “System X” in his 1942 book, When the War Ends: The Road We Are Traveling 1914–1942.
Chase’s vision of the world sounded an awful lot like the WEF’s Great Reset. In his 1942 book When the War Ends, Chase outlined the key components of transforming “Free Enterprise into ‘X’”:
A strong, centralized government.
An executive arm growing at the expense of the legislative and judicial arms. . . .
The control of banking, credit and security exchanges by the government. . . .
The abandonment of gold in favor of managed currencies. . . .
The control of energy sources—hydroelectric power, coal, petroleum, natural gas.
The control of transportation—railway, highway, airway, waterway.
The control of agricultural production. . . .
Not much “taking over” of property or industries in the old socialistic sense. The formula appears to be control without ownership . . .
The state control of communications and propaganda.
Chase loved the idea of managing all aspects of society. As he asked at the end of A New Deal, “Why should the Soviets have all the fun remaking the world?”
Source: The Great Reset: Global Elites & The Permanent Lockdown – By Marc Morano
Fast forward to 2022, and the Great Reset is happening here and now. This is not circa 1990 when we were talking about a shadowy secretive vision of a New World Order. This is 2022 now, and we are seeing a ‘new normal’ being imposed upon the world.
1) Our current energy system is being intentionally collapsed ;
2) Our transportation system is being intentionally collapsed; (and our freedom of movement is being stripped away)
3) Our First Amendment free speech rights are being collapsed by government & corporate collusion;
4) Our high-yield agricultural system is being intentionally collapsed to create man-made food shortages and chaos; and
5) The ability to eat meat is being banned to compel us to eat ‘lab-grown’ fake meat and eat insects. Artificially caused food shortages will create demand for insect eating. And our betters are using our children as hand-picked little ministers of propaganda to promote insect eating and ‘pester’ adults to comply with the agenda. (See:The Great Food Reset has arrived: Expect ‘real’ food shortages, Biden declares – Meanwhile, Bill Gates & China buy up U.S. farmland &Great Reset By Marc Morano – Chapter 12 Excerpt: ‘COVID Lockdowns Morph to Climate Lockdowns’
Via Page 32 of The Great Reset By Marc Morano:
All of this chaos is music to the ears of those who don’t like the messiness of human freedom. The WEF’s vision is to crowd us all into urban areas. They want us to own nothing. They want to regulate literally every aspect of our lives. Bedlam is a useful way to collapse the current system and install a Great Reset.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin used the simple phrase “worse is better” or “the worse, the better” as his slogan in Czarist Russia to cheer on chaos and the destruction of the existing order to impose his brand of socialism. Sources here & here
It is all part of the plan: destroy the old order and make the population so desperate that you can impose policies that make them weaker and more dependent on the government.
And, right on cue, the implementation of nationalization and the calls for it grow. Here is a small sampling of how chaos is being used to impose nationalization of key industries since COVID lockdowns crushed societies:
The Hill OPED: ‘Why we must nationalize Big Oil’
Germany nationalizes energy giant Uniper as Russia squeezes gas supplies
The American Prospect: Nationalize the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry to Save the Planet: “Turning the biggest oil companies over to public ownership would serve several goals at once, including climate resilience.”
WHY IT IS FINALLY TIME TO NATIONALIZE AMERICA’S FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY TO END OUR SPIRALING ENERGY WAR
Canada: Should We Nationalize the Oil Sands?
AP: Canada effectively nationalizing private payrolls amid virus
Australia’s Devastating Fires Make an Urgent Case for Nationalizing Fossil Fuels
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The following is an excerpt from Chapter 12 of The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown – By Marc Morano
“Executive Arm Growing”
Socialist economist Stuart Chase’s 1932 book A New Deal was the inspiration for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. Chase was a member of FDR’s “kitchen cabinet.”3 He promoted the “managerial revolution,” which he referred to as “System X” in his 1942 book, When the War Ends: The Road We Are Traveling 1914–1942.
Chase’s vision of the world sounds an awful lot like the WEF’s Great Reset. In When the War Ends, Chase outlined the key components of transforming “Free Enterprise into ‘X’”:
A strong, centralized government.
An executive arm growing at the expense of the legislative and judicial arms. . . .
The control of banking, credit and security exchanges by the government. . . .
The abandonment of gold in favor of managed currencies. . . .
The control of energy sources—hydroelectric power, coal, petroleum, natural gas.
The control of transportation—railway, highway, airway, waterway.
The control of agricultural production. . . .
Not much “taking over” of property or industries in the old social- istic sense. The formula appears to be control without ownership . . .
The state control of communications and propaganda.
Chase loved the idea of managing all aspects of society. As he asked at the end of A New Deal, “Why should the Soviets have all the fun remaking the world?”
I guess it also depends on who collapses first in the order of things.
WSJ
High Natural-Gas Prices Push European Manufacturers to Shift to the U.S.The Ukraine war is driving up energy costs in Europe, while relatively stable prices and green-energy incentives are luring companies to the U.S.
and…
Ford warns investors of an extra $1B in supply chain costs during Q3 (cnbc.com)
To see this happening now look no further than the FED raising interest rates to “stem inflation”. The result so far is significantly higher interest and a DJIA that has dropped from a high of 36,799 down to 30,180 since Jan 4 2022. This has effectively wiped out 16% of market value and almost 20% of my 401k value. They are actively destroying people’s futures
It also makes people not spend money. Which results in less people shopping, and less money for businesses and their employees. Which is less people working and more people needing handouts. Nothing good can come of this.
Am I the only one who is tired of listening to the richest people in the world cry about how bad it is?
If your future depends on the stock market, you are an idiot. My house, vacation property, car, boat, and RV are all paid for. My rollover has much less cash than is recommended but since my ‘future’ does not depend on it, I take the risk.
Just for the record, ‘big’ oil is owned by the public. Stock holders like me. Also coal, gas, and electric utilties. I did not expect it to go up the way it was the last 2 years but 6% roi is not a 20% loss.
Someone who thinks his vacation property, car, boat and RV will provide food and shelter forever seems like the one who should be rethinking their strategy. You didn’t mention it, but if you don’t have a fixed pension I don’t see your financial future being that rosy. The car, boat and RV are all money sinks, are going down in value and will not provide income in the future. And where did you get 6% ROI without losing principle?
But that stock market value was all hot air caused by QE 1–4.
Anyone with half a brain knew what the Fed was doing with the money supply in 2020 & 2021 was insanely inflationary.
As someone who was around in the 70–80s, inflation is the worst thing, they should not have caused it, now they MUST stop it.
Just saw this topical vid @ur momisugly SDA. Lot’s of wisdom from Charlie Munger.
Marc Morano gets it – consistent with the paper that I published in 2019 that I know is legitimate:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/01/the-liberals-covert-green-plan-for-canada-poverty-and-dictatorship/
Nothing about our governments’ woke programs for Climate or Covid made any sense from the start – everything they did made things worse. There is a powerful logic that says no rational person or group could be this wrong for this long.
IT’S NOT AN ERROR, IT’S THE PLAN – THE ROADMAP TO VENEZUELA – POVERTY AND DICTATORSHIP
… and it is happening in Canada, the USA, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany and many other countries all over the world.
Their Plan is simple: “The Road to Venezuela.” Take major steps to destroy energy, agriculture, and the economy so that people are cold, starving and easily manipulated. Blame capitalism for the destruction of the economy and institute socialism or fascism. Then live like kings, looking down on all the poor peasants.
Look at all the money that has been needlessly squandered on the Climate scam, and more recently on the Covid-19 scam. See CorrectPredicitoins.ca for what really happened here – neither situation was a real crisis – both were false crises concocted by wolves to stampede the sheep.
Here is the USA equivalent of the Canadian paper I cited above.
AT THE GREEN NEW DEAL IS REALLY ABOUT — AND IT’S NOT THE CLIMATE July 19, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/20/what-the-green-new-deal-is-really-about-and-its-not-the-climate/
“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,” – Democratic New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti.
Told you so, years ago.
What morons want, morons get
VERY-SCARY CLIMATE POLITICS EXPLAINED:
THE DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT
First, watch “The Best of Jaywalking” to understand the intellect of the general populace. 🙂
THE DUNNING–KRUGER EFFECT – DEFINED
In Layman’s Terms:
“Stupid people are too stupid to know that they are stupid.”
“You know how stupid the average person is, right? Well, half of them are stupider than that!”
– George Carlin
Here is the acid test:
WHEN ANYONE BLEATS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CRISIS, CLIMATE ARMAGEDDON, ETC.:
JUST WRITE THEM OFF AS TOO STUPID FOR FURTHER CONVERSATION – MOVE ALONG – THERE’S NOTHING GOING ON BEHIND THEIR EYES.
Typo: CorrectPredictions.ca
Thanks for linking to that. A real piece of wisdom from a man old enough to know.
We have enjoyed a 10% investment gain in a 2% inflation world for long enough to imagine it was always that way.
Today we are staring at a 2% investment return in a 10% inflation period. The naked bathers are being exposed by the falling tide
Reality is what always happens….in real life.
In reality there is no free lunch.
My retirement fund has lost big time. But my financial advisor has prepared us for this for the past 20 years. It’s not the first time its happened, it won’t be the last.
2008 was the last big drop in the market. I’ve been through a few of these over the years and the market always comes back up.
Unless government uses the panic to justify nationalizing everything.
The only people who lose money in times like these are those who panic and sell at the bottom. The trick is to ride out the panic and if you have any spare cash, buy from those who are panicking.
Not necessarily. Look at 1929. Yes, it came back, but the question is whether it comes back in time for you. It doesn’t always.
The bottom is when people who have been holding on because they think they will be selling at the bottom and think they will ride out the panic finally say to themselves, this one is different, I have to get out now while I still have something.
That is the bottom. We are a long way off that right now. There are still most people buying or holding the dip, because they think this is like the other bear markets. What they are in denial about is the chance, low but very high in cost if it happens, that this could be a rogue wave.
But… your 401k value wasn’t going to stay at those levels, regardless. Those levels were not normal and reasonable absent Fed action. Those levels were themselves the result of a Fed created bubble.
So yes, Fed tightening has indeed caused a market fall. But from absurdly inflated levels which were the result of their inflationary loosening.
Its no consolation of course – you are, many of us are, significantly poorer now than we were six months ago. But its a mistake to think there was some way of staying at the levels of six months ago. There really was not, we should never have been at that level to start with.
In the UK at the moment there seems to be a general error of the same sort going on. You hear people in various businesses explaining how they need more ‘support’. And there is a mini-budget coming up designed to give some. That is, sell bonds and hand out cash.
The assumption seems to be that the previous state of business and economy was normal and fine, and that nothing has happened to oblige anyone to change, if only we can get over this little local difficulty of a cash flow problem, which surely the government can borrow enough to get us over.
Wrong. We cannot continue as we were. Something fundamental has changed. There has been a huge loss of wealth, and not just wealth, income and prospects. We are all a lot poorer now than we were in January. Printing money is not going to change that. We are going to have to live with less. Those businesses are not viable, and handing them state subsidies is not going to make them viable. The customers don’t have the money. The revenues are not coming back, the costs are not going to fall. We are heading, while refusing to admit it, into a considerable restructuring of the economy, and that is going to have considerable social implications too.
I had the feeling I read this article about four times over. The world is full of cranks and dangerous fools. It always has been.
Yep. And they have f*cked up everything they have touched.
We have a lot in common with the Uyghurs.
Too many articles here repeat sections of text several times. It is very tiring and obnoxious. Are the originals from which stories are taken this way or it is just a WUWT policy to make articles longer for some obscure reason (but not a very bright reason, for my vote).
Agreed.
This is where I intended to comment.
On the other hand, as Willis likes to say, you need to quote the portion you are commenting on.
You mean use up a whole page repeating what has already been repeated three times in the article? ridiculous!.
Yep. That post needed some serious editing. Other than that though it makes good points.
But of course it’s coming. It’s been the plan since the U.N. created the 351-page Agenda 21 document in 1992. Here’s a 5-minute summary … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkM0W1401dg
John,
The UN was on this for years before 1992!
For instance, the story below from 1989 shows the same false narratives, using junk science that have continually failed, that we hear today.
When you go to the1st link of this story, you will note the headline/title (that I pasted below) is gone. Several years ago, they deleted it so that it wouldn’t show up in searches.
U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked
PETER JAMES SPIELMANN Associated Press June 29, 1989:
https://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
2nd link with the title:
https://imageholder.org/apnews-1989-jun-29-page-united-nations-predicts-disaster-if-global-warming-not-checked/#:~:text=United%20Nations%20Predicts%20Disaster%20if%20Global%20Warming%20Not,trend%20is%20not%20reversed%20by%20the%20year%202000.
The United Nations created the IPCC(InterGOVERNMENTAL Panel on Climate Change) as the world’s authority on man made climate change………so that they could hijack climate science to accomplish their agenda.
Their regular reports are used for believers of climate crisis religion, similar to how Christians use the New Testament (-:
Many climate scientists work for the government and most of the grant money to fund climate research targets climate change PROBLEMS. When applying for a grant, guess who will get funded first
One of the first things that the IPCC did was REWRITE CLIMATE HISTORY.
On face value, this sounds delusional/impossible but some of us watched them do it.
They did it to wipe out the Medieval Warm Period that was this warm 1,000 years ago and eliminate consideration of the 100+ previous studies that showed that this warming is NOT completely unprecedented and has to be caused by humans burning fossil fuels.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/88287/#88297
We now call the building block for all life, CO2 (a beneficial gas which is greening the planet, with it’s booming biosphere and increasing food for most creatures) ……pollution.
You are absolutely correct. The New World Order has been a dream by tyrants for eons. I only focused on UN Agenda 21 because many still think it’s a conspiracy. Unfortunately, the EPA just made things worse with it’s Endangerment Finding … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYhfrgRAbH4
The architect of the climate based attack on the capitalist (free enterprise, free market) system was the late Maurice Strong, close associate of George Soros, Al Gore, Klaus Schwab and many others, Strong became a multi-billionaire starting from employment with the UN in an executive position.
A citizen of Canada, Strong was granted asylum in Communist China when he was wanted by the Environmental Protection Agency of Canada for illegally pumping water from an aquifer under land he owned in Canada. His cousin had been a close girlfriend of Chairman Mao Zedong. I believe that the model to replace capitalism as the world knows it is what the CCP permit in China, controlled and managed participation.
The Marxist UK Fabian Society founded in the late 1800s started the “new world order” agenda campaigns, the Fabian Society is still operating in various nations today, here it is The Australian Fabian Society and most Labor MPs are members.
‘Not much “taking over” of property or industries in the old social- istic sense. The formula appears to be control without ownership . . .‘
Aka ‘fascism’ in the vernacular, or ‘progressivism’ in polite company.
“Once the inevitable societal chaos ensues, a huge coordinated push to promote nationalization or government takeover of the impacted industries ensues.”
That worked well in Venezuela, didn’t it?
“Not much “taking over” of property or industries in the old social- istic sense. The formula appears to be control without ownership . . .”
It’s called Fascism. Both Fascist Germany under Hitler and Fascist Italy under Mussolini implemented this. They both realized that control without ownership provided them the very same power without the actual responsibility for failure. What’s the term? “Plausible deniability”?
You want to turn liberal progressives into a fascists – just give them overweaning political power over other peoples lives and freedoms and its’ near instantaneous.
Ken,
You are spot on with that. Back at the start of the ‘Covid era’ we had a nobody politician that no one had previously heard of called Matt Hancock he was immediately put in charge and from being a nobody he was ordering everyone about He was on every TV broadcast every news paper headline and boy did he milk his moment.
He only fell from power when a Chinese CCTV camera caught him snogging his female aid in his office. What else was on the CCTV we can only guess. His wife felt that was taking authoritarian liberties too far…
He has now again disappeared back into obscurity, thankfully.
Haha. According to Wikipedia, his real crime was violating COVID social distancing restrictions:
“In June 2021, after it was shown he had breached COVID-19 social distancing restrictions by kissing and embracing an aide, Gina Coladangelo, in his Whitehall office, Hancock resigned in disgrace as Health Secretary and was succeeded by Sajid Javid.”
I still want to know who knew enough to turn that surveillance camera round to look in exactly the opposite direction at exactly the right time and place to catch them in the act?
I’m sure most of the people in the office were aware as to what was going on. Very few office “romances” are as secret as those involved want to believe.
Stalinism Part II. As the proposed “solutions” will make matters worse, double down on failure, and blame “wreckers” for the central planning being a failure.
Force on doubters will not make wind and solar reliable, or economic. But force would shut up those inconvenient doubters.
Socialism requires force when taken to a certain point, and they are approaching it.
People seem completely ignorant of history and the five year plans in the USSR and similar plans in other Communist countries. How well did these work out? Ask anyone who was a young man or woman living in a country like Poland before 1989 about the rationing and bread lines and whether they would like to return to this idylic era.
‘People seem completely ignorant of history and the five year plans in the USSR and similar plans in other Communist countries.’
It’s not that it just isn’t taught in schools, it’s actually suppressed. After all, if you’re an ‘economics’ professor, it would be kinda pointless to tell the kiddies that it’s bad for politicians to manage the economy, when that’s basically the entire premise behind Keynesianism / Progressivism.
Even Keynes recognized that continued spending deficits would break the economy. His view was for government stimulus to lessen recession impacts followed by balanced budgets.
The Democrats of today have totally perverted Keynes theories. In their view continued deficits *causing* recessions rather than as temporary crutches is the way forward to a “better tomorrow”.
‘Even Keynes recognized that continued spending deficits would break the economy.’
True – Something Paul Samuelson forgot to emphasize in his text book that was foisted on a gazillion undergrads.
The biggest problem is that despite almost 100 years of trying, deficit spending has never boosted an economy.
As Churchill said, “raising taxes and increasing deficits to improve the economy is like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself by the handle. “
The key to defeating this is international disunity.
“The rise and fall of the great powers” explains the reason Europe created the modern world instead of China or Persia or the Incas, is since Roman times, there was never a single ruler, a single point of failure.
Again and again China approached modernity, only to have centuries of progress crushed by a single bad emperor.
In Europe by contrast there was always a place to flee, to escape tyranny. No bad ruler ever had the power to undo progress. So Europe created the modern world.
One day America will fail, as all nations fail. But the idea of America will survive, so long as there is somewhere people can be free.
where?
Look for countries which are rarely in the news. It’s a moving target. In any case things would have to get a lot worse before it’s worth cutting and running
Byzantium lasted a thousand years after the fall of Rome. I expect America, in some form, will persist for a good while yet.
under different ownership?
Under the current conditions, the US will fail by splitting apart like the USSR. A great may states both blue and red would be very happy to form unions with specific other states and be rid of the rest.
Eric, I suppose we must theorise that “one day America will fail, as all nations fail” – but it won’t be for a good while yet! All the dire forebodings expressed in this article simply will not happen – once Republicans are in full control of Senate and House of Representatives. Trump will probably not be a President again – but all his nominees will be elected. And does it then matter one hoot whether possibly a Democrat becomes President??
“The Great Reset” cannot be physically implemented without legislation changes (or by revolution by force – equally incredible and equally impossible). And if it cannot happen it will not happen! – Period!.
So relax!! Don’t panic!! Don’t worry!!
I wish I shared your optimism, Andy.
It seems that the long, slow march through the institutions has made so many people oblivious to what’s happening.
In most western countries, one seems to get to vote for two sides of a uniparty – however one votes, the bloody Government always gets in. Much of it WEF-influenced…
It’s interesting that Sweden, however, has voted-in a ‘right-wing’ coalition, so there is pushback and that’s encouraging.
Also, Eastern Europeans seem to have a spidey-sense for BS – I suppose if one wants to create a raving libertarian, bring them up under a communist regime.
But I fear it’s all going to get horrible before it gets better.
BTW – there are rumours that Earth might be hit by (rather attract) a CME this weekend and it will be used as an excuse to trigger something. Do any of the many intelligent critical-thinkers here have any more solid information?
once Republicans are in full control of Senate and House of Representatives
That assumes that they will actually do something for a change instead of going along with the status quo as they have for so long. The party leadership, which is still the old guard, is already working hard to dissuade such action (i.e. McConnell talking about “bad candidates” and pushing candidates to NOT sign on to any sort of agreement to do anything specific)
Trust God and not anything else; trust Him who He has sent.
The Spector of global communism in the raw; into which the West is sleepwalking.
To me, as an oldie at 86 I recall those sayings of yesteryear: “The Reds under the Bed” and “The Yellow Peril”.
Its seems that the two sayings have now amalgamated.
What is it that makes humanity try to return back to its failures in the past? Are we destined to to repeat our mistakes continuously, throughout history ?
I believe an analogy will be found in nature. If left untended, nature will surely reclaim everything. Whether a farm field, a city or a whole society, all will return to its basic existence
What’s the old saying? Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it? True history is no longer taught in our education system, only progressive propaganda. College grads today know nothing of Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, and Castro except for them being Marxist hero’s – not thugs who killed millions of innocents on their path to power.
Even while the Marxist Democrats are running out economy and society into the ground today these indoctrinated useful idiots still believe it is conservatives (be they GOP or Dem) that are doing this. Truly psychotic and scary.
In parts of Africa it was a communist behind every bush. It is quite stunning how many of the old comrades have later bragged about being communists while at the time the liberal media mocked the idea of a communist threat. However, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and opening of archives it was clearly revealed that there was far more communist schemes though a number of them failed.
All of them failed. Unfortunately a few of them resulted in communists taking power.
So, the stupid f*cking c*nts who are causing all this shit say they will “fix” it? Really?
Hegelian dialectic…
All they’ve got is a few F35s and money printing machines. I say let them try!
People like Robert Pollin who authored the American Prospect article proposing government takeover of our energy industries should find themselves with their backs against a stone wall awaiting their final reckoning. These people are unabashed communists and they are also extremely dangerous idiots. They need to be destroyed before they destroy all of us and our liberty.
The following shows a drunken employee going to work at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Imagine him going to work as a refinery operator.
Wasn’t the temporary “war tax” turned into (‘voluntary”) income tax? Just asking for nearly 350 million or so friends.
No, the US income tax system was created in 1913 in order to fund the debt being created by the creation of the Federal Reserve banking system.
I believe you are thinking of a “temporary” tax on telegraph services, that eventually turned into a tax on phone services and wasn’t eliminated until sometime in the 1980’s or 90’s.
Why are people who actively work to undermine and destroy the Constitution, and the republic embodied by it, not considered traitors?
Because their cronies are already in power.
Biden and the others are considered traitors by me. They should be considered traitors by everyone, because they are.
I can see nationalizing the railroads, but not the rolling stock, switching yards and employees. Just like the highway system, the rails and the roads that are government built and maintained via contracts with private companies.
Of rail, airports, roads and ports, are the railroads the only system that does it’s own maintenance? We all benefit from them, so whether you drive a car or not you benefit from the roads and the trucks that deliver your stuff. Same for ships and airplanes.
OK. someone can pipe up and tell me why I’m full of it on this one.
The first roads in this country were farm-to-market roads built with private funds, not government funds. As this network grew the maintenance and construction was pushed onto the county commissioners who many times just hired private contractors to do the work. The natural progression of government growth then subsumed this into the actual local governments.
It wasn’t until inter-city commerce became large enough that the states started to build roads and bridges between them. Same for federal highways. Whether this was a good thing or not is opinion and everyone has one.
Railroads are more like the telephone companies that grew during our growth in the 1800’s. They were classified as public utilities that were privately owned. The government controlled the fees they could charge as common carriers but never actually took them over, they just regulated the crap out of them.
If the government were to take over the railroads today every burg in the nation would be clamoring for a rail spur paid for by government money. (many of them had such spurs as recently as the 60’s but most are gone now and have been replaced by over-the-road trucks). A money pit for sure! Pray that never happens. Innovation would die. Efficiency would die (look at the money pit Amtrak is). It would be a huge step backwards – yet the Democrats would see it as an improvement!
Canal systems were entirely built using private money.
Our family’s home and farm date back to the mid-1700s with a warrant from the Penn brothers. In the actual deeds and warrants, a percentage of the land was to be set aside for roads, one of which still runs past the front of the house. No doubt the routes were the best for farm to market, and to the town for church (that is a pretty straight shot).
I am not entirely sure right now and do not have the deeds in front of me, but I believe the property goes out to the middle of the road, with the road being part of an easement to the state, which they maintain. Our use of the property pretty much goes right up to the road edge, although the township tries to exert control about 3-10 feet past the road edge.
Many of the roads in this area (central Pennsylvania) were at one time toll roads and each land owner collected money for maintenance; not sure when that task flipped to the state. It seems the system evolved over time, differently in different places, and can be rather messy.
where is the benefit?
where is the benefit?
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Drive around the south end of Lake Michigan sometime. There are way more 18 Wheeler Semi Truck Trailers than cars and every one has one two drivers and an 800 Horse Power engine. Trains have a small crew in the cab and pull an easy 100 cars twice the size of a semi trailer. The only reason the trucks compete with trains is because they don’t pay enough to maintain the roads. We help them with gas taxes and money from the general fund.
Simple answer is over the road trucking is inefficient compared to trains. Bulk goods should cost less by rail, and usually do but not all. Stock market reports tell you Yellow Corn by rail and truck, and my memory is that by truck was lower. Probably because you could cut out the elevator in all those little towns in the giant corn field in the Mid West.
Trucks are not inefficient. What’s inefficient is running a railroad line to every shop and grocery store.
Trains carry large loads between major hubs, trucks take individual loads from the major hubs to individual stores.
That’s the system we have now, and your proposed solution is much less efficient.
If there was a more efficient, cost efficient method of delivering goods, companies would be building it.
Trucking is inefficient from point to point compared to trains, but not multi-points to multi-points. Trains don’t deliver to the customer in the vast number of cases. There will be an economic point where the rail line ends and trucks fan out from there. That point will be different depending on the cost of extending the rail line further, and the quantity of goods being shipped.
Trucks are also a lot more flexible in that the truck can leave at any time and pick just about any route.
People who are spending their own money, will always try to find the best mix of convenience and low cost. I trust the individual to find this mix for themselves long before I would trust a government apparatchik to find it for them.
As to railroads, why fix something that isn’t broken and works better than the government owned road system?
Wasn’t there a book about government trying to fix railroads? 🙂
At least in my area, the airport itself is owned by the city. Maybe there are grants but the land is owned by the city and the city passed a huge bond initiative to fund a new airport which will be open next year. No doubt the government dictates a lot of how this is done, but if the feds own it and are building it, why is the city on the hook for the millions in bonds it issued to finance it?
A lot of airports started life as army air fields during the war. There are a few airports (Oklahoma City) that still serve both purposes.
Edit: I believe LA International was an Army airfield during the war.
How many of those do you suppose have been turned over to civilian use and authority? Just curious.
The airport i cited above is Kansas City International, which replaced the “Downtown” airport in 1973 as the major commercial airport in the region. I note that there is also a huge runway (747 capable) in Olathe Kansas at the former Olathe Naval Air Station (yes, navy in Kansas and not even near a river). The land around it has been sold to various businesses and local government uses–the county jail has a huge complex there. I think there is still a small Marine detachment in the area. Every so often you can actually see a plane there.
Few people noticed or if they did were not interested when UN developed member nations signed the Lima Protocol during 1975 agreeing to a gradual transfer of manufacturing industry businesses to developing nations identified by the UN, like China. And again around 1990 when UN Agenda 21 – Sustainability was signed targeting many areas including creation of UN registered National Parks (for future generations) from government public lands effectively locking away minerals and energy, sustainable logging, new dams and Marine Parks limiting commercial fishing activities or prohibiting fishing.
And then the emissions reduction conferences and agreements, developing nations exempted.
Lima was the start of the downhill slide and its getting faster now
If we are not going to be allowed to pump oil, how are we going to build roads without tar? Perhaps we will use cement? But wait that is as problematic. We will have to go back to Roman style roads but they will not be so good for heavy EVs and certainly not busses and trucks. Have the greenies even thought about these and a multitude of practical issues? It does not appear so.
Michel in Dublin: “Have the greenies even thought about these and a multitude of practical issues? It does not appear so.”
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They have, and to their view, freedom of movement and freedom of travel is a bug, not a feature.
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If you are going to control everyone and everything, you can’t have people just up and going wherever they want willy nilly.
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And if you are unhappy with every aspect of your life being controlled by the State, limited travel means people can’t get together to do sumpthin’ about it.
I have a more basic question. If we are not going to drill oil, what will we use to insulate electrical wiring? Cotton, silk? Plant-based insulation was tried. Rodents loved it.
Actually, it won’t get that far. No oil, no synthetic fertilizer. Starving people aren’t that concerned about a lack of power.
For those who say drill, just don’t use it for fuel, the question becomes, what do you do with all the unusable waste products, i.e., gasoline, kerosene, and diesel? Incinerate it? lol.
Coming to a neighborhood near you- digital currancy is how they can
monitor & control you just like the social credit system is already
being used by the ChiComms. That control was tested on protesting
Canadian truckers & it worked pretty well.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/09/16/the-eu-is-speeding-towards-digital-id-currency-and-biometric-systems-for-tracking-citizens/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/09/18/white-house-introduces-the-joe-biden-u-s-central-bank-digital-currency/
“It worked pretty well…” until there was bank run by people who were in no way associated with the Canadian truckers, but who realized the same thing could happen to them.
Oops! Came awfully close to crashing the whole Canadian banking system.
It silenced the truckers as well as revealed a bug they’ll have to fix
by the next time they eventually use it. Who knows, they may have
already checked it to see if there are other bugs in their plan.
Lot’s of smaller businesses here are starting to pass credit card charges (a form of digital currency) onto the customers. The wife and I are beginning to carry more cash than we used to. With the banks and credit card companies conspiring to track gun purchases it’s going to drive more cash purchases.
Maybe “cash is king” will be coming back?
until it is no longer legal to use it. Those who think bitcoin and other non government tender are something different than Fed notes will perhaps come to realize that the only difference is much government control of the individual vs little government control.
Simples really-
Certified ‘genius’ Saul Griffith has a plan to decarbonise Australia — and it will only take 101 million machines (msn.com)
“Unless we figure out how to bring everyone along, the political project fails,”
He’s certified.
Agreed.
The left:
Create problems,
Complain about problems created,
promise to fix things,
Make Matters MUCH worse.
Rinse
Repeat
i can tell you one thing that won’t happen – Trudeau nationalizing the oil sand industry in Alberta. His dad tried the same thing and he will get the same result.
These people make me sick, the government couldn’t successfully pull off a one car parade.
the government couldn’t successfully pull off a one car parade.
Reminds me of the legal brothel in Nevada that the government took over, that ended up failing. Only the government could accomplish that.
It brings to mind, Philip Dru: Administrator, the book by Edward Mandell House. It presented House’s vision of a utopian society ruled by a benevolent dictatorial bureaucrat. He intended it to influence the growing Progressive Movement, gifting a copy to Pres. Wilson for whom he served as an advisor and diplomatic negotiator.
Some have labeled it dystopian fiction. I guess it depends on one’s proclivities.
Wikipedia appears to be quite keen on it. No surprise there.
Maoism. Naziism. Stalinism. Fascism. Single/central/monopolistic solutions, often wicked, and final.
Such names are not very helpful, all based on historic context and individual leaders. e.g., Mao-ism, Hit1er-ism, Sta1in-ism, Mussolini-ism.
I guess the USA is the opposite of oppressive big government centralisation; except it’s not, oddly enough it’s come full circle to being indistinguishable from any of the above. What government is bigger than the US government? What corporations are bigger than US corporations? Same for social media giants. Now – put all those three together, add in the media, add in some free-lance billionaires also, all of them singing from the same Davos hymn-sheet. What you have is the most sublimely efficient dictatorship of all time.
Wicked? That’s just a synonym of human.
Sounds like the death penalty in CA. Democrats and their lawyers made sure to file appeal after appeal to delay for decades the carrying out of the penalty and then they wanted to ban it because it took too long to carry out the penalty and was thus cruel and unusual punishment.
What we are seeing has been in the works since at least the 30’s.
“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation… The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties, … and control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.” – New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, New York Times, March 26, 1922
“I am grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. ” David Rockefeller
“Some even believe we [Rockefeller family] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – One World, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” David Rockefeller
“We are grateful. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a World Government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries” David Rockefeller to Trilateral Commission in 1991
I call it the Bureaucratic Hegemony. From local to state to federal government we are ruled by a Bureaucratic Hegemony and it’s rules and regulations that control every aspect of our lives. Our elected representatives are increasingly powerless to control the Bureaucratic Hegemony.
The Bureaucratic Hegemony is a living thing and like a living thing it has two imperatives – survival and growth. It’s like a weed. Until the gardener (i.e. the people) root out the weed it will continue to survive and grow. If this isn’t done then sooner or later the weeds will totally take over the garden. It won’t be a pretty picture, think of some kind of melding of Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World.
We are overdue for the revolution Thomas Jefferson thought would be necessary every 200 years to weed out the excesses of government. Un-elected bureaucrats are making rules that have the force of law. This is a form of taxation without representation. The legislature is the only body authorized to make laws under the constitution. They have abdicated their obligations in favor of petty tyrants ruling fiefdoms for their own power rather than the public’s interest.
Bureaucracies get more funding by being as inefficient as possible. The more rules they can make the more power they have. Inefficiency is their most productive way to increase budgets. The waste of resources devoted to these meddling parasites diminishes human development and potential.
We need legislators who are willing to do their jobs and a GAO hit squad to take out the inefficient waste of our tax dollars.