Opinion by Kip Hansen — 14 January 2024
Statistica informs us that the wonderful World Economic Forum, whose billionaire members want total domination of everything on the planet, apparently have decided not to gain that domination through armed conflict.
The text reads:
“With inflation easing in most parts of the world, experts no longer consider the cost-of-living crisis the most pressing issue in the short-term. Instead, they think misinformation and disinformation will be the most severe risk over the next two years. In light of nearly three billion people heading to the polls in various major economies during that time, the widespread use of mis- or disinformation could “undermine the legitimacy of newly elected governments” and ultimately result in unrest in the form of violent protests, hate crimes or even terrorism. Looking at the 10-year horizon, misinformation is expected to remain a major threat, but the four most severe risks faced by the world are all predicted to be related to climate change.”
I’m not sure if they have decided to run even more mis- and disinformation campaigns in their effort to gain control over the next two years, but it certainly is possible. In the two-year time-frame, “interstate armed conflict”, despite two rather significant wars currently taking place, is down the list at #5, coming in below misinformation and disinformation, extreme weather events, societal polarization, and cyber security.
But, apparently these power-hungry plutocrats, have decided to let the wars fade away, and instead, over the next ten years, they plan to use the manufactured threats of climate change-related extreme weather, critical change to Earth systems, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, and natural resource shortages to create enough world-wide fear to allow them to grab even more power where ever and however they can.
Statistica seems to encourage them with the cute little melting Earth image.
War, interstate armed conflict, has been dropped from the top ten altogether.
Whoopee!
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They would have been much more honest had they said that the biggest risk in the future, would always come from politicians interfering in the energy supply of any country, also based on misinformation and disinformation.
Whatever happened to the infamous DEAGLE forecast? The UK was to be all but depopulated by 2025.
Allan ==> Apparently, not much other than they were grossly wrong. one can only find minimal information about DEAGLE.
The website deagle.com is still in operation, focusing on military weaponry.
What’s “involuntary migration”? Is that where people are forced to cross Africa, then forced to cross the Mediterranean Sea, then forced to cross Europe, then forced onto boats, then forced to cross the English Channel and then forced to stay in expensive hotels at taxpayer expense?
Well, it surely isn’t the people who voluntarily pay thousands to coyotes to get them across the US-Mexico border after they have walked hundreds of miles from home.
The solution is to only vote for politicians who will neuter WEF, UN, EU, World Bank and any other unelected group of shisters and liars who want to pick our pockets and leave us hungry in the dark and cold.
No more war would be more than an admirable goal, it will be critical to the survival of millions.
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By increasing our own capacity for annihilation we have, paradoxically, lessened our sense of horror. Here we are faced with one further result of modern technics: even our own forces no longer make visible contact with enemy. This process began with the invention of long range weapons long ago; but it has now reached its limit with stratosphere flying, the rocket bomb, and the atomic bomb. (And the drone) The ideological insulation of the technician from normal human considerations perhaps reaches its height in the training of military aviators.
The consequences of this insulation are extremely treacherous. . . Suppose our flyers had been compelled to check in each Japanese they killed at the door of an extermination chamber. Could they have killed as many as fifty visible civilians without suffering a mental breakdown?
Lewis Mumford, The Human Prospect, The Beacon Press, Boston, 1955, 243-244.
General ==> Yes, War is an abomination. Less and No War are better. If the plutocrats and their ilk would quit promoting wars and quit supplying weapons to mentally unhinged discontents and funding these wars (think Huthis), the world would b better.
The pilot of one of the other aircraft on the Hiroshima mission did have a mental breakdown not long afterwards.
In the future, WEF will be called Vaal and you will take all orders from it. Those who resist or get advice from the Old Man in the Cave will be punished.
RG ==> This Vaal?
The Serpent?
The old man in the cave didn’t punish anyone … just told it straight.
They didn’t listen and they died.
They must be using a Humpty Dumpty definition of ‘expert’.
I noticed that the the threat of “Misinformation and Disinformation” drops.
They claim because greater threats will arise.
I wonder if it’s because they expect to have more control over information they disagree with in 10 years?
Gyunga ==. I think that it means they will lay off their general mis- and disinformation campaigns and focus instead on driving fear of climate change through more dependence on targeted propaganda.
Or, they’re confident that “AI” will be able to eliminate anything they deem as mis/dis before it gets anywhere.
I think we both just said the same thing? Maybe.
From the article: “With inflation easing in most parts of the world, experts no longer consider the cost-of-living crisis the most pressing issue in the short-term.”
These experts don’t go shopping at the grocery store evidently. Nothing has eased the inflation that has taken place up to now. The higher prices haven’t dropped, they are just going up slower than they were in the recent past. High prices are still a problem for people. Elites don’t think high prices are a problem anymore.
We don’t need advice from people like this.
Tom ==> “We don’t need advice from people like this.” We never did and still don’t. I believe they want to control things — all things — at any cost.
Dropping prices is deflation.
That’s inflation easing, by definition.
Yep. That’s why high inflation is regarded as rather undesirable.
Deflation is a problem as well. The goal of keeping inflation in the 2 – 3% range is partially to provide a safety margin to avoid deflation.
“Dropping prices is deflation.”
Not necessarily.
I bought my first 1gb hard drive in the early 90s, $2500. I bought an identical one a year later, $1500. I recently bought two 16tb drives as a bundle for under $400. There has been low inflation the entire intervening period. Innovation causes drops in prices without deflation.
If you want to be pedantic, an overall decrease in the prices of the basket of goods used to measure the Consumer Price Index is deflation, just as an increase is inflation.
Individual items may decrease, as IT items have over decades, or increase as energy prices have done. The weighting of those individual items has an effect on the overall inflation/deflation rate.
Don’t expect the price of any individual item to decrease just because the overall rate of increase has reduced.
What a worthless piece of crap graph. I was going to say well at least they aren’t spending our money but there are likely many politicians, bureaucrats and administrators attending. Damn we just can’t win.
The more I see these lists of “greatest worries besetting mankind according to the experts”, the more I feel like I need to get out and get some air.
Rarely do such lists prioritize the broader economic, health and societal woes which beset most humans. Maybe the breakdown of American families (divorce now at nearly 50%) to be an example of a societal problem that should stand atop the experts’ list of concerns: education, social success, job security and personal wealth all linked to this. But let’s worry about misinformation.
The fear of disinformation is virtually disenfranchised by fears of “Extreme Weather” and other environmental non-issues ten years out. How come? Doesn’t AI just get more and more pernicious, mor successful at fooling us. Or is it just that the catastrophists felt it only fair and equitable to share the limelight with all those environmental non-issues that make their palms sweaty.
“Information” will always get spun in the telling. The job of filtering out the propaganda from the news and straight information is everybody’s personal responsibility – and always has been. Parents: teach your children well. Teach them to read everything. Insist that they read newspapers and ask what they think they’ve read. Asking questions is a dying art.
The Founders of U.S. editorialized the oppression of the English. God knows how many people they fooled into believing the Brits were a threat to their freedom and got their blood up to fight. At the same time, I would hazard that most of the colonists read the various gazettes and journals with skepticism, knowing full well that there was hog swill in the newspapers as well as useful information:
(See this front page from an issue of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”):
https://americanantiquarian.org/earlyamericannewsmedia/exhibits/show/news-in-colonial-america/item/111
Jefferson’s declaration that we need a free press to have other freedoms rings just as true today as it did then. And I would say people are just as skeptical as they were then.
I need to get out and shovel the walks. Again.
The millionaires and billionaires who own the media, press included, stand to make trillions in profit from climate change spending.
Nature may have other ideas.
People only spend about 5 percent of their time outdoors anyway.
Most of their time is either at home or in their car, office building, factory, restaurant, store, etc.
One or two degrees aren’t going to matter.
The cost is about $200 trillion which is about $1 million per household in the developed countries.
Most people would rather have the million in the bank and a degree or two of warming.
The Earth still is in a 2+ million-year ice age with 20 percent of the land frozen.
We live in the Fourth Reich.
It’s as simple as that.
Michael Shellenberger:
Imagine for a moment that you wanted to seize control over the Internet and put in place a system of mass censorship worldwide. How would you do it?
You wouldn’t advertise your intentions. You’d hide them. You’d claim there was a rise in hate speech and misinformation and that it was hurting vulnerable people.
You wouldn’t take on powerful interests. You’d pick on individual citizens. You’d say that they were on the verge of committing real-world violence.
And you wouldn’t start in a big nation. You’d find some small country to start. You’d get their politicians to go out on a limb for your agenda.
That’s precisely what’s happening. Politicians in Ireland are, at this moment, attempting to ram through legislation that would allow the police to invade the homes of ordinary citizens, search their phones and computers, and throw them in prison for “hate speech.”
It’s understandable that people find all of this hard to believe. I find it hard to believe. It sounds like a “Black Mirror” episode.
But it’s not a “Black Mirror” episode. It’s real life. And it’s unfolding in Ireland at this very moment…