Yes, Klaus Schwab is at it again. Now wants “The Great Narrative”. Mahyar Tousi has a nice bit of coverage of it:
I especially enjoyed the lack of self awareness of the woman who complains that the Elite of the world are now aligned, but that the Peasants (“the majority of the people”) in EVERY country polled “trusted their elite less”. Well DUH! Y’all are a bunch of Greedy Globalist Evil Bastards. You expected us to swallow your swill and praise you for ripping us off?
Then the outing of “The European Chips Act” demands a big “Dig Here!”. Centralize chip design under GEB control? Like hell. OTOH, it is self described as something that sounds good. It has a goal of doubling European chip production and dragging some back to the EU (from Asia I suppose). In light of the global dependence on Taiwan for just about all significant chips,(soon to be integrated into the One Communist China…/snark;) it is very important to start breaking that dependency.
But frankly, ANYTHING, coming out of the WEF or EU “Leadership” must be viewed very skeptically.
[…]
The act, which will be proposed in early February, aims to increase microchip production across the continent in response to rising demand and to reduce dependency on suppliers from outside Europe.“The European need for chips will double in the next decade,” von der Leyen explained. “This is why we need to radically raise Europe’s game on the development, production and use of this key technology.”
[…]Progress in 5 key areas
Europe’s global semiconductor market share is only 10% today, President von der Leyen explained. Most supplies come from a handful of producers outside the continent, she said.“By 2030, 20% of the world’s microchips production should be in Europe,” von der Leyen said. “Keep in mind that the world’s production itself will double. This means quadrupling today’s European production.”
And this new act will enable progress in 5 key areas, she explained:
1. Strengthened research and innovation capacity in Europe
2. Ensure European leadership in design and manufacturing
3. Adaption of state aid rules to allow public support – for the first time – for European, first-of-a-kind production facilities.
4. Improved ability to anticipate and respond to shortages and supply issues in the area
5. Support for smaller, innovative companies.
Looks to me like a lot of “subsidy” and “protectionism” will be involved. How about you just cut taxes on industry and let market forces move production to your lands?
Wonder if their chips will be used in the New Improved EU “Digital ID” – so not “your papers please!” but “your CHIP please!”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2EVNIo78XOw/
https://www.weforum.org/events/the-great-narrative-2021
Looks like it got kicked off last November (details under “program” at the above link):
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
10—13 November 2021
The Great Narrative
[…]
06:00
Narrating the Future
Public Speakers: Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, Klaus SchwabWatch session
10:00
The Next 50 Years: Dialogue with UAE Officials
Public Speakers: Mina Al-Oraibi, Sarah Al Amiri, Shamma bint Suhail Faris Al Mazrui, Ohood Bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Omar bin Sultan Al Olama
Gee, a German Socialist Globalist planning our future with a load of Arabs… didn’t we see that in the 1930s to 1940s…
Those two session descriptions link to the video from the two sessions. I’m putting links here as their links are not so obviously links. I’ve not watched the second one through at the time of this posting, but will make a suitable beverage and steel myself for it a bit later…
34 minutes of plotting how to take over the world:
https://www.weforum.org/events/the-great-narrative-2021/sessions/a-call-for-the-great-narrative
Some notes as I watch it:
The Great Narrative is needed for “Climate Change” too, per the speaker “His Excellency” Al Gergawi. All about the need for central planning, like that’s worked so well…
Schwab then says 3 things are slowing them down:
1) People have become more self centered. (I think that means we’re not interested in following HIS plans for us, we want to follow our own…)
2) I think he says “hyper focus with the pandemic” but maybe it was “tighter focus”… His accent is a bit bizarre. I take this to mean “We tried the Plandemic, but it didn’t work as expected, so time to move on to the next plot.”
3) The world has become so complex that simple solutions to complex problems do not suffice anymore. I take that to mean “Our prior simple approach flopped so we need to hide it in more complexity so the rubes can’t see what we’re up to.” or perhaps “It’s hard to design the future as reality is way more complex than a single person can understand; but we will try anyway.”
Shades of Churchill… Al Gergawi does a “first second of first minute of…” bit about the 2nd wave of human history. The tech wave. So he thinks that in the next 15 years everything will change. It’s all going onto “one platform”, the computer. Um, no. They will assist, but my barber is still going to cut my hair, and I’m still going to talk to my friends in person and on secure telephone lines. I’m also keeping my non-computerized cars, BTW. But he thinks “Government is very important” and that “countries who have strong governments can evolve totally different”. So OK, all in on totalitarianism then…
The self deception is strong in these folks. Al Gergawi thinks the growth of Dubai is a great example for the world, but does not mention that an ocean of oil revenue can raise any country up. He also says “we are winning this war” on the pandemic. Riiiight…. Like Omicron is all gone now? Like the vexxine is not killing and maiming a lot of folks? What will end the pandemic is just letting folks get natural immunity and letting the virus take the normal path of evolution into just another head cold. All people have succeeded at is stretching it out for 2 years and killing a load of folks who didn’t need to die by withholding therapeutics that work (like zinc ionophores and ivermectin).
Klaus Schwab in profile reminds me of Elmer Fudd… so he’s prattling on about needs for “sustainable” and “inclusive” and the usual clap trap of the PC Left.
Al Gergawi then speculates on what Dubai will be like in 50 years (prompted by Schwab). Somehow doesn’t mention the possibility / probability that sometime in the next 50 years there might be another regional or global war. That his country can cease to exist overnight. All roses and unicorns.
The hubris is strong in these folks. Designing the world and all…
46 minutes closing session:
https://www.weforum.org/events/the-great-narrative-2021/sessions/closing-plenary-03768dee1f
Five panelists this time. Klaus leads in with a general disclaimer that amounts to “we’re not saying this is what will be ’cause predicting the future is hard”… but it will be “a NEW world”.
First panelist, Heijman, says this “NEW World” will be tech driven. Three techs in particular to be drivers.
1) “Digitalization”. She works in “quantum computing” that so far is useless, but is sure it will change the world. Thinks it is going to return us to exponential growth of compute power. But right now it is several orders of magnitude behind silicon, so don’t hold your breath waiting for it… Believes that “shorter term, artificial intelligence, that is already here, will grow enormously”. Uh Huh. Let me know when self driving Teslas stop running into things. Then we are all going to be happy living in the Metaverse / augmented reality. (So not just gamers, eh?) Finally, a “industrial digital revolution” of some ill defined sort. Frankly, IMHO, all the easy lifting in digitalization has already been done. From here on out it’s a lot harder and slower.
2) “The Energy Transition”. Thinks Fusion Power is going to do it. Hey, in the last 50 years while I’ve been watching them, Fusion has gone from “50 years away” to now only “30 years away”… “Mid Century” per her. Then “green hydrogen” (and here I thought it was a colorless gas that is a PITA to keep inside pipes ). “A.I. and digitalization will enable this transition” because, you know, cars run on digits… and Smart Grids will be needed to improve “our nets” so that will fix solar and wind being unreliable and sporadic.
3) Engineered Biology. This one has a potential, but also has some mighty high risks. Just look at the mRNA damage from the vexxine.
Moyo, the second panelist, is a NYTimes best seller list author, so you know where she is coming from. Looking at things from an Economic Point of view. Oh Gawd, starts off with a tautology. Our ability to create human progress depends on our ability to create economic progress. Gee, progress requires progress to happen (or alternatively, you need more money to do more). Who knew? Also sees 3 key trends:
1) Slowdown of economic growth is a concern. (Maybe don’t tax and regulate economies to death?)
2) Traditional “economic tool kits” centered on monetary policy and fiscal policy “have become impotent”. (Hint: It is called a Liquidity Trap and has been known since the time of Keynes. You end up there if you print too much money for too long. Then the world has gone into debt up the whazoo. Yeah, y’all have screwed the economic pooch considerable.
3) “Economic Headwinds”. See the economic pooch screwing of too much debt and too much money printing in #2 above… But no, she thinks it is due to “inequality” and “climate change”… Then the old “Natural Resource Scarcity” that the Club Of Rome has been pushing for about 1/2 century now with Fear Porn like “The Limits To Growth”. Did you know we ran completely out of Natural Gas in 1990? Yup. That’s what they said would happen in the mid ’70s and their computer model said so, so it must be true. There is no shortage of natural resources. The whole planet is a natural resource. Then the potential for technology to create an unemployed underclass. Something that we have only ever seen as industrial transitions from old ways to new ways.
Does make a valid point that problems are long term, but “Policy Makers” are very short term oriented. Now if only she would look at the actual problems and not fantasy ones endorsed by the P.C. crowd. And also realize that Screwed Up Policies being a big issue, maybe they ought not try to fix it by promoting more Screwed Up Policies mandated by “Policy Makers”.
The solution? “structured fundamental policy initiatives” like “Infrastructure build outs, Education, Health Care”. So, OK, a Big Government approach based on “Policies” ’cause that has worked so well in the past… /snark;
Ms. Cabalo (sp?) handles the “social dimension” and thinks we need to redefine the relationship between “people, progress, and planet”. Somehow I think I hear a “NEW new green new deal” coming… Wants to put peoples “Dignity, also well being, and the notion of regeneration” at the “center of all policies”. Oh, and it will “only” require a “rethink of the whole global economic system”. Nothing big… /sarc; Need to stop treating “climate change” and “inequality” as externalizes, but need to be “held accountable” for them. (watch your wallet folks…)
Ms Woods is a Government prof / dean at Oxford. OK, bet she wants a Big Government solution. “Can’t contain Covid, can’t contain climate change, without cooperation” – so look out for UN non-treaty treaties… So need to invest in “human capitol” by having firms give the “working conditions and pay that keeps them coming to work”. Like that $15/ hour California wage for burger flippers that has put a load of them out of work, eh? Seems to think wages have nothing to do with what the product of that work is worth. So why not just pay everyone $100 and hour, eh? Wants government tax incentives for “investment in human beings not just machines”. (How about just not taxing employment at 12% for Social Security and not taxing wages, eh?) Wants the “path of least resistance” to be education and work, not unemployment and sitting at home. (Then how about dumping the Vexxine Mandates and bundles of barrier to entry regulations on various trades.) Wants more investment in “social capital” because zoom doesn’t bond people. (How about dumping the ban on in person meeting and get rid of mask mandates that just make things worse, eh?) Likes “compulsory military service” as a bonding mechanism. Because, you know, you really bonded with Fat Slow Freddie before he got shot trying to cross a field…/sarc; Thinks the “fix” is for Government to have a “Positive mind set to get things done” and unify all those folks who her survey found didn’t trust government by, you know, just doing it to them… /snark; Thinks getting trust in Local Government can “percolate up” to the national level (and international?). You know, kind of like trust in your local police make you trust the EU Army they want to make… or how trust in Sheriff Grady in Florida makes you really want to trust the Federal Entrapment Political Police (aka FBI).
The stupid in these people is almost as immense as their egos.
Then the Japanese lady (who’s name I’ve not latched onto just yet) is about to talk about the Ecological Angle. But I have to go make dinner, so more in a bit. At this point I’m 17 minutes into a 46 minute video, so more to come.
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