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Wednesday, 13 January 2021

Shapers of Slavery: The Plan

By winter oak

January 9, 2021

“What we are watching is a change in control and an engineering of new control systems. So think of this as a coup d’état”.

So says Catherine Austin Fitts in an excellent recent video interview about what lies behind the Covid-19 agenda. It was removed by YouTube after 2.7 million views but at the time of writing was still available on vimeo.

The global ruling elite are trying to install “economic totalitarianism”, she warns, a new way of ordering the world based on technocracy, transhumanism and complete control over every aspect of our lives.

She declares: “I would describe this as a slavery system”.

When (Dr. Strangelove caricature) Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum initially announced his plan for a Great Reset, a New Normal or Fourth Industrial Revolution “unlike anything humankind has experienced before”, few of us understood quite what he had in mind.

(ED Noor: Some of us caught on within minutes of listening to his plan; those of us sensitive to the incremental losses of freedom over the years; we were all too aware already of what was going on around us.)

In recent months this has been changing, with more and more people doing research and realizing the alarming truth about what is currently being foisted on us.

The system’s gatekeepers have being doing their best to dismiss this awareness as mere “conspiracy theories”. Schwab’s views are just the words of one elderly German man, they argue, with a limited capacity for influencing the way the whole world is actually run.

But, in fact, Schwab’s Great Reset is not just rhetoric: he and his corporate accomplices have been busy, for many years, building up a massive network of collaborators to spring their heist.

One of these is the Global Shapers Community, set up by Schwab in 2011, registered in Geneva, Switzerland, and based at the World Economic Forum offices.

It describes itself on its website as “a network of young people driving dialogue, action and change”, representing “the power of youth in action”.

The site explains that the organization involves nearly 10,000 “Shapers” and 3,000 “Alumni”, organized in more than 400 hubs across 150 countries.

“Projects are wide-ranging ~ from responding to disasters and combating poverty, to fighting climate change and building inclusive communities. Shapers are diverse in expertise, education, income and race, but are united by their desire to bring about change”.

The “story” that the WEF tells us (to use its own term) is that the Global Shapers scheme is about “building a movement”.

It declares: “We believe in a world where young people are central to solution building, policy-making and lasting change.

“This generation has inherited enormous global challenges, but has the ability to confront the status quo and offer youth-led solutions for change”.

A “story” indeed. The Global Shapers are centrally run, from WEF HQ, and their “solutions” are far from “youth-led”.

As its 2019-2020 annual report makes clear, the project’s aim is to “mobilize” people to “influence policy and drive action”.

It is a sophisticated attempt

to use a phony worldwide “movement”

to push human society

into a direction

which will profit a tiny group of business sharks.

It is the negation of democracy, because the future they have in mind for us, their nightmarish system of slavery, is obviously not one which most people desire.
 
ED Noor: These young folk are all born after 9/11. Few if any remember true freedom of thought or life in the natural world. 

They can only get away with it by pulling the wool over our eyes, by dressing it up as an attempt to “fight Covid” or “save the planet” or increase “inclusivity”.

This deception at the heart of the Global Shapers scheme means that it can accurately be described as a conspiracy ~ a conspiracy by a self-interested elite launched against the vast majority of humankind.

Because the WEF’s “movement” is a sham, and is intended purely to advance the views and interests of the WEF and its backers, not just any young person is allowed to play a “central” role in the kind of “lasting change” the WEF has in mind.

A careful filtering and screening process has been set up to ensure that only the right kind of young person, aged between 18 and 27, is allowed into the “movement”.

The Brussels Global Shapers specify that they are looking for those who are “exceptional in their potential” and who have “the desire to create impact”.

The London Global Shapers explain: “Each application is assessed by at least four Shapers, based on a broad range of criteria and the mean score is taken”.

The listed criteria are:

~ “impact motivation”,

~ “commitment & community mindset”,

~ “achievement” (“we’re looking for candidates who have established a track record of leadership and demonstrated impact in their field, or who are firmly on a leadership trajectory”) and

~ “leadership potential”.

Would-be recruits are warned that they are expected to make an effort for the Shaping cause: “We require a minimum of 1–2 hours per week of time for the hub, additional commitment in terms of attending local and regional events, and active leadership and/or participation in hub projects.

“Every year we struggle with more amazing applicants than available spaces and it’s important that every hub member contributes to our community”.

And why should any young person want to be part of the Global Shapers?

“As Shapers, we have the unique opportunity to launch and participate in projects with support from the community and WEF.
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“Aside from projects, the extraordinary convening power of both WEF and our own members allows us access to organize and attend events with world-class speakers and other participants.

“Moreover, membership of the hub provides access to engage with the broader World Economic Forum community, including the opportunity to apply to attend the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos and other major events”.

The Global Shapers like to use the word “impact” a lot, even in their recruitment material.

They probably think they are being very clever, because some of the young people they are trying to attract, as well as the general public, will imagine that “impact” just means something about making a big difference to the world.

But, in fact, it is a blatant reference to social impact investment, one of the most insidious elements of the Great Reset agenda, in which people are reduced to the status of “human capital” for financial parasites.

Ed Noor: Do you remember a few decades ago when working people were changed from “personnel” to “human resources”?

Alison McDowell explains this rather well in this 10-minute illustrated video.

The Global Shapers even have a section of their website called Impact, presenting, under thematic headings, various projects from their hubs.

For a flavour of their thinking, let’s dip into one of these sub-sections, entitled ‘Shaping My City’s Future‘.

Note that the future for the Global Shapers can only be about cities, not small towns or villages or rural living.

This sterile metropolitan outlook is reflected in their logo, in which their world “community” is represented by a range of slightly-differently shaped office blocks.

No room for trees or animals or real people in the future they want…

The brave new tomorrow envisaged in these 55 Shaper projects is one of “inclusive entrepreneurship“, “storytelling“, and “smart mobility“, in which life will be focused on building “smart energy grids, e-governance devices, 3D printing to tackle homelessness” and on “tackling the digital gap” by working “to connect populations without internet access“.

There will be “digital tourism” for which it is hoped to “connect infrastructure electronically through an IoT network“, “smart road infrastructure“, “smart buildings“, “IoT technologies” and “responsible trash management” via “a mobile-app solution that gamifies the trash management of each citizen“.

And who could fail to look forward to the prospect of authorities being able to “use human emotional recognition technology by mapping the facial expressions of citizens during their interaction with a governmental service“?

All of this, of course, forms part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution as described at some length by Klaus Schwab in his various books.

It is hardly surprising that it is mentioned so often by the phony “community” he and his colleagues have manufactured.

Indeed, one of the Global Shapers’ official partners is cloud computing business Salesforce, headed by billionaire Marc Benioff, owner of Time magazine and inaugural chair of the WEF’s Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco.

Nevertheless, the sheer relentless insistence with which the term “Fourth Industrial Revolution” is pumped out in report after report in the ‘Shaping My City’s Future’ section is still quite astonishing!

“Companies and institutions must be able to anticipate the changes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and adapt quickly, and cities and communities must be able to do the same“.

“The key to thriving in the Fourth Industrial Revolution will be to lead the transformations it entails. This will require two elements of agile leadership: awareness of disruptive technologies and strategies to make the most of them“.

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution brings a lot of changes, opportunities and challenges that impact a vision of the cities and societies of the future“.

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution will have fundamental implications on how humans interact and how we define work“.

“Prepare for 4IR technologies and the future of work“.

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), driven by artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, will transform everyone’s lives“.

“The new narrative that respects opportunities and risks of the 4th Industrial Revolution“.

“Scales up efforts in creating more innovative business environment and helps young people to seize opportunities of the 4IR for employment and entrepreneurship“.

“Nurture communities that are skilled in proficiencies related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution“.

“A defining trait of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the speed of change“.

Just in case you were in any doubt as to what the Fourth Industrial Revolution involves, the Global Shapers provide a handy description in a corner of their website dedicated to that very theme.

Some may find their wording rather chilling:

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution represents a fundamental change in the way people live, work and relate to one another.

The speed, breadth and depth of this revolution is forcing us to rethink how countries develop, how organizations create value

and even what it means to be human”.

Even what it means to be human…

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The next report in this series focuses on the Global Shapers leadership.

Main image: Detail from Sheep, Shepherds, and a Goat by Jordan Henderson.

MORE READING:

Shapers of slavery: the leadership

Shapers of slavery: the empire

Shapers of slavery: the virus

Klaus Schwab and his great fascist reset

Great Reset page of resources

Monday, 7 December 2020

Climate Capitalists

‘Betrayal’ by Mario Sánchez Nevado

Source: Winter Oak

ED Noor: This is an awesome set of links. Please check them out and learn more than you ever wanted to know about these crimes against humanity. 

The global movement calling for action on climate change has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of thousands of people who care about the future of our world.

However, alarming evidence has emerged, suggesting that this movement is being manipulated by business interests who aim not to save the planet but to save capitalism, not to halt the environmental crisis but to profit from it, not to protect nature but to commodify it.

We don’t want the powerful positive energy of nature lovers and environmentalists to be shunted into the sterile dead end of “green capitalism”, used as a PR tool to make it easier for governments to raid our collective piggy banks and channel trillions of pounds and dollars into the pockets of venture capitalists who have leapt aboard the “climate justice” bandwagon in the hope of getting very rich.

For this reason we have put together this page of useful links, so people can study the evidence and come to their own conclusions.

See also our Great Reset page of links.

No Deal for Nature – Because Nature is not a Commodity. Campaign website.

No Deal for Nature- Because Nature is not a Commodity. Alternative website for above campaign.

Rebellion Extinction: a capitalist scam to hijack our resistance. An Acorn report.

Corporate-branded activism

So who exactly is Christiana Figueres? An Acorn report.

“The X Agenda”: what does XR actually stand for? An Acorn report.

Deepening our resistance, from Acorn 49.

Capitalist vultures target Jamaican sunshine, from Acorn 51.

Skin deep solutions & Greta and the story-tellers, from Acorn 52.

Greta Thunberg: the billionaires’ favourite, from Acorn 53.

Mobilising against the assault on nature, from Acorn 54.

X-axis: the money behind the greenwash, from Acorn 54.

When the state means business, from Acorn 55.

New Deal for Profits, from Acorn 55.

“The opposite of rebellion” – Paris activists slam XR leadership. An Acorn report.

Rob Hopkins: Transition to what?, by Paul Cudenec.

The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg for Consent, by Cory Morningstar.

Volume I

1. The Political Economy of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.
2. The Inconvenient Truth Behind Youth Co-optation.
3. The Most Inconvenient Truth: “Capitalism is in Danger of Falling Apart”.
4. The House is On Fire! & the 100 Trillion Dollar Rescue.
5. The New Green Deal is the Trojan Horse for the Financialization of Nature.
6. A Decade of Social Manipulation for the Corporate Capture of Nature.

Volume II

1. A Design to Win: A Multi-Billion Dollar Investment.
2. Controlling the Narrative.
3. To Plunder What Little Remains: It’s Going To Be Tremendous.
4. For Consent: They Mean Business.
5. The Behavioural Change Project – “To Change Everything”.
6. Natural Climate Manipulations.

La fabrication de Greta Thunberg – pour consentement, acte I : l’économie politique du complexe industriel à but non lucratif

La fabrication de Greta Thunberg – pour consentement, acte II : la vérité dérangeante derrière l’embrigadement des jeunes

La fabrication de Greta Thunberg – pour consentement, acte III : la vérité la plus dérangeante : « le capitalisme est en danger d’effondrement »

La fabrication de Greta Thunberg – pour consentement, acte IV : la maison est en feu ! & le sauvetage à 100 billions de dollars

La fabrication de Greta Thunberg – pour consentement, acte V : Le New Deal vert est le cheval de Troie de la financiarisation de la nature

La fabrication de Greta Thunberg, acte VI [crescendo] : une décennie de manipulation sociale pour la captation de la nature par les grandes entreprises

La fabbricazione di Greta Thunberg ai fini del consenso: la politica economica del complesso industriale non-profit. Atto I.

La fabbricazione di Greta Thunberg ai fini del consenso. Atto II

La fabbricazione di Greta Thunberg ai fini del consenso. Atto III

Die Erzeugung der Marke Greta Thunberg zur Erzielung von Zustimmung: Der Grüne New Deal ist das Trojanische Pferd für die Finanzialisierung der Natur, von Cory Morningstar

Extinction Rebellion training, or how to control radical resistance from the ‘obstructive left’, by Cory Morningstar.

Extinction Rebellion: Rebellion Against Whom?, by Benoît Tanguay.

The Devil is in the Details: A Closer Look at Extinction Rebellion, by Luke Dodson

In defense of Cory Morningstar’s Manufacturing For Consent Series, by Hiroyuki Hamada.

Cory Morningstar’s Manufacturing for Consent series in a nutshell. Twitter thread by Hiroyuki Hamada.

New Deal for Nature: Paying the Emperor to Fence the Wind, by Stephen Corry of Survival International.

Unpacking Extinction Rebellion — Part I: Net-zero Emissions, by Kim Hill.

Unpacking Extinction Rebellion — Part II: Goals and Tactics, by Kim Hill.

Unpacking Extinction Rebellion — Part III: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, by Kim Hill.

Unpacking Extinction Rebellion — Part IV: The Way Forward, by Kim Hill.

A Propos d’Extinction Rebellion — Partie I: zero emission nette, par Kim Hill.

A Propos d’Extinction Rebellion — Partie II: solutions et tactiques promues, par Kim Hill.

A Propos d’Extinction Rebellion — Partie III: La 4e révolution industrielle, par Kim Hill.

Lettre ouverte aux militant·e·s d’Extinction Rebellion, par collectif Désobéissance écolo Paris.

Extinction Rebellion : ni désobéissance, ni obéissance, mais servilité et crédulité – Paris Luttes.

Quelques heures sur le pont de la Concorde avec Extinction Rebellion – Paris Luttes.

Jutta Ditfurth zu Extinction Rebellion: „Irrationalismus einer Endzeit-Sekte“

Just Say No to Fake Action, by Art for Culture Change on Wrong Kind of Green.

Trees don’t grow on money – or why you don’t get to rebel against extinction, by Tim Hayward.

Extinction Rebellion: Socialist Revolution, by Simon Elmer, Architects for Social Housing.

Capitalising on Crisis: Extinction Rebellion and the Green New Deal for Capitalism, by Simon Elmer, Architects for Social Housing.

Empty Gestures, by the South Essex Heckler.

Greta Thunberg, PR and the “Climate Emergency”, by Brian Davey of The Foundation of the Economics of Sustainability.

Notes on the “Financialisation of Nature and Carbon Markets”, by Brian Davey.

Greta Thunberg, Green Barbarism and #ClimateStrike – Azhar Moideen on why “climate” activism is against the interests of the Indian working class.

Between the Devil and the Green New Deal, by Jasper Bernes in Commune magazine.

The Brutal Marriage of Capitalism and Conservation, by Jordan Lunness in The Commoner.

Entre le marteau et l’enclume du Green New Deal – French translation of Jasper Bernes article.

Entro o Diabo e o Green New Deal – Portuguese translation of Jasper Bernes article.

Entre la espada y el Green New Deal – Spanish translation of Jasper Bernes article.

Green New Deals – The Degrowth Perspective. Features links to some useful articles challenging “green growth”.

The climate movement: what next?, by Clive L. Spash, ecological economist.

Of ecosystems and economies: re-connecting economics with reality, by Clive L. Spash and Tone Smith.

Le mouvement climat, et après ?, par Clive L. Spash, économiste écologiste.

The Paris Agreement is a suicide pact – this is why, by Clive L. Spash.

Le capitalisme vert utilise Greta Thunberg, par Isabelle Attard.

Green capitalism is using Greta Thunberg, by Isabelle Attard (English translation)

‘Green growth’ won’t save the planet, by Oliver Taherzadeh and Benedict Probst in The Ecologist.

Towards a revolutionary ecology: an interview with Max Wilbert.

Wind energy development, conflict and resistance. Interview with Alexander Dunlap.

Monster megaprojects are consuming the world, by Alexander Dunlap.

Green capital and environmental “leaders” won’t save us, by Alexander Dunlap.

Surprise! Greta Thunberg BIOPIC reveals cameras were rolling from day one of her ‘viral’ rise, by Helen Buyniski

Sorpresa! La BioPic di Greta Thunberg rivela che le telecamere l’hanno ripresa fin dal primo giorno della sua ascesa “virale”. Italian translation of Helen Buyniski piece.

Android Wolves, Electric Sheep: Ecomodernism and The Rise of the Green Technocracy, by Symbiotic Culture.

Podcast. For Your Consent: Climate Activism and the Financialization of Nature. Last Born in the Wilderness interview with Cory Morningstar.

Podcast. Saving the Earth or Saving Capitalism? The Inconvenient Truth Behind Today’s Youth Climate Campaigns. Global Research interview with Cory Morningstar.

Podcast. The Green New Deal Will Not Save Us. Jasper Bernes of Commune magazine talks to This Is Hell!

Podcast. Between the Devil and New Green Deal. Last Born in the Wilderness interview with Jasper Bernes.

Podcast. Rainforests ‘Worth More Alive Than Dead’ on living on earth.

Podcast. Act I: “Don’t Take Movements at Face Value: Reading Cory Morningstar’s Research into Environmental Activist Greta Thunberg”, created by Ghion Journal.

Podcast. Act II: “What Do We See When We See Earth? Reading Act II of Cory Morningstar’s Research into the NGO Industrial Complex”, created by Ghion Journal.

Podcast. Act III: “Making Money Off of Green Debt: Cory Morningstar Finds Corporate Wolves Behind Environmental Sheep”, created by Ghion Journal.

Podcast. Act IV. “How to Sell a Pretend Climate Movement: Reading Act IV of Cory Morningstar’s Series on the NGO Industrial Complex”, created by Ghion Journal.

Podcast. Act V: “The Green New Deal & What it Leaves Out: Reading Act V of Cory Morningstar’s Research”, created by Ghion Journal.

Podcast. Act VI. “A Decade of Social Manipulation for the Corporate Capture of Nature, Cory Morningstar”,  created by Ghion Journal.

Podcast: Demystifying the 4th Industrial Revolution with Cory Morningstar

Video. Selling Extinction by Prolekult.

Video. Who runs Extinction Rebellion? Heiko Khoo reports.

Video. The truth about Extinction Rebellion, by 5G Awareness.

Video. Earth Trek: The Economics of the Future. On the commodification of life.

Video. A Message to Greta Thunberg and the Youth Climate Strikers from Charles Eisenstein.

Video. My alarm about Climate Change & Extinction Rebellion, by anarchist Andrew Flood on his new We Only Want the Earth YouTube channel.

Video. Andrew Flood: Violence, Non-violence and Extinction Rebellion.

Video. Ce qui cloche avec Greta Thunberg. Tatiana Ventôse sees through the hype.

Video. Indigenous leaders from Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, and Nigeria reject tropical forest offsets and climate capitalism.

Video. These Companies Are Making Profit From Saving The Planet. Banking Nature.

Video. On Impact Investing, Digital Identity and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, by Alison McDowell.

Video. Planet of the Humans, directed by Jeff Gibbs.