https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec22/blowback12-22.html
The Blowback from Stripmining Labor for 45 Years Is Just Beginning
Economists and financial pundits tend to make a catastrophically flawed assumption. They tend to believe the
technocratic myth that all human behavior boils down to financial incentives, data and metrics, as if all people
make decisions based on interest rates, tax breaks and greed, the desire to maximize gains by any means available.
(Cough, FTX, cough...)
The only other source of decision-making that's recognized by the punditry is political / ideological squabbling:
people make decisions based on their self-interest as expressed through political / ideological positions.
But this doesn't exhaust the sources of human decisions and behaviors. People make life decisions for many other
reasons which cannot be quantified or linked to financial incentives, interest rates or ideological beliefs.
For example, people can become fed up and quit caring: as in we pretend to work and you pretend to pay us,
quiet quitting, opting out, laying flat and let it rot.
People get fed up with bogus propaganda designed to exploit them and with unfairness and corruption.
For example, consider the endless spew of employers' syrupy propaganda aimed at convincing their employees that the
corporation / institution / employer really, really cares--I mean really cares--about its (ruthlessly exploited)
employees.
If the employers actually cared about their employees and demonstrated it with loyalty and real-world behaviors,
they wouldn't need to slather on the phony propaganda. The employees would know the employers cared about them
and their work because it was being demonstrated day to day.
The ugly truth is corporate / institutional employers stopped caring about their employees decades ago. This is
the bitter fruit of hyper-financialization and hyper-globalization, which both reduce labor to a globally arbitraged
commodity and an input cost that had to be cut to the bone to maximize shareholder value, i.e. profits and
stock options that flow to the top management and top 5%.
This exploitation of labor resulted in the transfer of $50 trillion from labor to shareholders and management,
the owners and managers of concentrations of capital which capture and distort governance mechanisms to serve the
interests of capital to the exclusion of the common good and the workforce.
When employers stop caring about employees, employees stop caring about their work. No loyalty from employers is
repaid in kind: employees have no loyalty to employers.
Everybody now understands they're slaving away not for a piece of the ever-receding American Dream but to make
the already-rich even richer and to keep the workforce cowed, compliant and exploitable.
So people are fed up and choosing to exploit their employers if possible and if that's not possible, then
stop caring and do the minimum to get by. This might mean cutting work hours, switching to gig-economy informal
labor, retiring early, or switching jobs to get more for the same work.
In effect, people are choosing to reduce their dependence on exploitive structures by becoming more
self-reliant: need less, invest in yourself, your family
and community, shorten your personal supply chains, become productive on your own behalf rather than to
the benefit of distant shareholders.
It's called blowback, or karma if you prefer. What goes around comes around. The workforce has been
stripmined by the few at the top for 45 years, and now they're responding in kind: take this job and shove it,
I ain't working here no more. (Per Johnny Paycheck's timeless classic,
Take This Job And Shove It 2:31).
This blowback is just beginning and it's going to run farther and hotter than any of the clueless economists
and financial pundits can even imagine. The clueless technocrats are about to discover that
unfairness and exploitation can't be measured like revenues and profits, but that doesn't mean they're not real.
While Everyone Cheers Soaring "Wealth," America's Social Order Is Unraveling (October 1, 2021)
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/international-pandemic-treaty-world-health-organization-meets-to-impose-censorship-of-misinformation/5801719
International Pandemic Treaty: WHO Meets to Impose Censorship of “Misinformation”
The unelected health agency inches closer toward being granted unprecedented, legally-binding censorship powers.
Members of the World Health Organization (WHO), an unelected international public health agency, are meeting to consider a draft version of a proposed international pandemic treaty which will give the WHO new powers to “tackle false, misleading, misinformation or disinformation” and be legally binding under international law.
The draft treaty contains various provisions in Article 16 (“Strengthening pandemic and public health literacy”) that require the WHO’s 194 member states (which represent 98% of all the countries in the world) to target so-called misinformation.
Member states are told to “conduct regular social media analysis to identify and understand misinformation,” design their own messaging to “counteract misinformation, disinformation and false news,” and manage “infodemics” (a phrase that was created by the WHO and describes “too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak”).
While the provisions in Article 16 don’t directly call for member states to censor content that’s deemed to be misinformation, a provision in Article 14 (“Whole-of-government and other multisectoral actions”) paves the way for Big Tech to perform this censorship on the WHO’s behalf.
Under this provision, member states are required to collaborate with non-state actors and the private sector through an “all-encompassing whole-of-government, multistakeholder, multi-disciplinary and multi-level approach.”
Before this pandemic treaty existed, Big Tech willingly mass censored any content that it deemed to be “Covid misinformation,” even though there were no agreements or laws forcing them to do so. YouTube even introduced a far-reaching policy that made going against the WHO a violation of YouTube’s rules and deleted over 800,000 videos under this policy.
Under the pandemic treaty, the ties between governments and pro-censorship Big Tech companies will become even stronger and collaboration will be required.
We obtained a copy of the draft international pandemic treaty for you here.
Not only are these Big Tech-government ties being reinforced by the treaty but the WHO has also demonstrated its willingness to censor anything that it brands misinformation. Earlier this year, it called for Big Tech to work with it to censor monkeypox “misinformation.”
Additionally, the idea that the WHO should be acting as an arbiter of truth is especially ironic given that it was one of the most infamous producers of misleading information during the Covid pandemic. In a January 14, 2020 tweet, the organization stated that “preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission” of the coronavirus.
The meeting to discuss the draft treaty began on December 5 and will run till December 7. It’s being attended by members of an intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) that was established by the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the WHO, in December 2021.
The INB was tasked with drafting and negotiating a “global accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.” This global accord has become known as the international pandemic treaty.
Based on the current proposed timeline, the INB expects to finalize the international pandemic treaty by May 2024 and present a final report to the seventy-seventh WHA meeting.
We obtained a copy of the INB’s current proposed timeline for you here.
If passed, the international pandemic treaty will be adopted under Article 19 of the WHO Constitution. This article gives the WHA the power to impose legally binding conventions or agreements on WHO member states if two-thirds of the WHA vote in favor of them.
This process of lawmaking circumvents the usual process of elected officials voting on the laws that apply to their country by allowing a handful of global representatives to decide on the rules that apply to all countries. Even if representatives from a third of the WHO’s member states vote against the international pandemic treaty, it will still be applied to their country under international law.
Not only does this process limit the power of politicians to decide on the laws that apply to their specific country but it also limits the power of citizens to hold politicians accountable at the ballot box. Most of the representatives for member states are unelected diplomats who remain in their positions, even when new governments are elected. And most of the votes that determine whether an international law applies to a specific country are cast by representatives from other countries.
Despite this undemocratic process, the international pandemic treaty has the support of numerous democratic countries including the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the European Council (EC) (which represents 27 European Union (EU) member states).
Some politicians from these countries have opposed the treaty and several petitions, including those that can force a parliamentary debate on the treaty, have gained traction.
However, the international pandemic treaty is still very much on track to being finalized by May 2024 and the WHO has shown no intention of abandoning its far-reaching power grab.
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https://themostimportantnews.com/archives/climate-change-lockdowns-yup-they-are-actually-going-there
Climate Change Lockdowns? Yup, They Are Actually Going There…
I suppose that we should have known that this was inevitable. After establishing a precedent during the pandemic, now the elite apparently intend to impose lockdowns for other reasons as well. What I have detailed in this article is extremely alarming, and I hope that you will share it with everyone that you can. Climate change lockdowns are here, and if people don’t respond very strongly to this it is likely that we will soon see similar measures implemented all over the western world. The elite have always promised to do “whatever it takes” to fight climate change, and now we are finding out that they weren’t kidding.
Oxfordshire County Council yesterday approved plans to lock residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming. The latest stage in the ’15 minute city’ agenda is to place electronic gates on key roads in and out of the city, confining residents to their own neighbourhoods.
Under the new scheme if residents want to leave their zone they will need permission from the Council who gets to decide who is worthy of freedom and who isn’t. Under the new scheme residents will be allowed to leave their zone a maximum of 100 days per year, but in order to even gain this every resident will have to register their car details with the council who will then track their movements via smart cameras round the city.
Of course there are a few people that are loudly objecting to this new plan, but one Oxfordshire official is pledging that “the controversial plan would go ahead whether people liked it or not”.
Ouch.
Meanwhile, France has decided to completely ban certain short-haul flights in an attempt to reduce carbon emissions…
France can now make you train rather than plane.
The European Commission (EC) has given French officials the green light to ban select domestic flights if the route in question can be completed via train in under two and a half hours.
The plan was first proposed in 2021 as a means to reduce carbon emissions. It originally called for a ban on eight short-haul flights, but the EC has only agreed to nix three that have quick, easy rail alternatives with several direct connections each way every day.
This is nuts.
But if the French public accepts these new restrictions, similar bans will inevitably be coming to other EU nations.
In the Netherlands, the government is actually going to be buying and shutting down approximately 3,000 farms in order to “reduce its nitrogen pollution”…
Farmers in the Netherlands will be offered “well over” the worth of their farm in an effort to take up the offer voluntarily, The Telegraph reported. The country is attempting to reduce its nitrogen pollution and will make the purchases if not enough farmers accept buyouts.
“There is no better offer coming,” Christianne van der Wal, nitrogen minister, told the Dutch parliament on Friday.
This is literally suicidal.
We are in the beginning stages of an unprecedented global food crisis, and the Dutch government has decided that now is the time to shut down thousands of farms?
I don’t even have the words to describe how foolish this is.
Last year, more than 10,000 people in Canada – astonishingly that’s over three percent of all deaths there – ended their lives via euthanasia, an increase of a third on the previous year. And it’s likely to keep rising: next year, Canada is set to allow people to die exclusively for mental health reasons.
And if you are physically disabled, Canada has a solution for that too…
Only last week, a jaw-dropping story emerged of how, five years into an infuriating battle to obtain a stairlift for her home, Canadian army veteran and Paralympian Christine Gauthier was offered an extraordinary alternative.
A Canadian official told her in 2019 that if her life was so difficult and she so ‘desperate’, the government would help her to kill herself. ‘I have a letter saying that if you’re so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAiD, medical assistance in dying,’ the paraplegic ex-army corporal testified to Canadian MPs.
“Medical assistance in dying” sounds so clinical.
But ultimately it is the greatest lockdown of all.
Because once you stop breathing, you won’t be able to commit any more “climate sins”.
All over the western world, authoritarianism is growing at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking.
If they can severely restrict travel and shut down farms today, what sort of tyranny will we see in the future?
Sadly, most people in the general population still do not understand what is happening.
Hopefully they will wake up before it is too late.
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