No, Jimmy Dore Co-Host. The WEF Is NOT Responding to a Real Crisis; It Is Creating a Fake Crisis to Further Control and Oppress the Have-Nots
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Keaton Weiss, a co-host on the Jimmy Dore show, argues (wrongly!) that the fundamental reason why the WEF (World Economic Forum) is doing the evil stuff it is doing is because it is responding to a real crisis, namely that we are truly (supposedly) reaching the limit in terms of global human population and economic production of what the earth, with only its finite resources, can support.
Weiss says that until recently the capitalist rulers and Communist rulers both were ruling societies with rising levels of economic productivity and differed only on how to keep it rising. But now, Weiss says, rising productivity is no longer possible because we’re reaching the limits of growth on a finite planet, and this new reality is forcing the elites to respond to it by doing the nasty things they’re doing, such as the WEF tightening of power in the hands of a very few people who will be allowed to have comfortable (even “immortal”!) lives while the rest of us will “have nothing and be happy” and then have our numbers reduced drastically by one terrible means or another.
Well, I beg to disagree.
First of all, the WEF claim that economic productivity must be rolled back by halting the use of fossil fuels (“net zero by 2050” and all that) in order to avoid catastrophic global warming is BS, as I show here.
Secondly, the WEF’s old shop-worn Malthusian hysteria about world population growth is BS, as shown here. So also is the opposite hysteria about a falling world population, as discussed here.
Thirdly, the WEF’s claim that we must embrace nuclear energy in the fight against climate change is BS. It’s BS because there is no real catastrophic climate change caused by burning fossil fuel (as shown, again, here), and because there is a virtually inexhaustible amount of fossil fuel, as shown here, where it is also shown that using nuclear (fission) energy is unconscionable.
Fourthly, the WEF’s hysteria about the limits of growth due to the finite amount of resources on the planet is fear-mongering BS and not rational analysis, as shown here.
The actual aim of the WEF has nothing to do with responding to any real crisis of the planet; its aim is to strengthen the power of the rich and to control and oppress the have-nots, just as it has always been for oppressive ruling classes. It intends to accomplish this by promoting a new religion that says the great problem in the world is humanity itself!
Here is the evidence:
In 1991 the Club of Rome (pre-cursor to the WEF) published a report, titled The First Global Revolution, authored by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider. The authors write:
"There appears to be a general loss of the values which previously ensured the coherence of society and the conformity of its individuals. In some places this has been the result of a loss of faith in religion and the ethical values it promulgates. In other cases it stems from a loss of confidence in the political system and those who operate it." [pg. 41]
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap about which we have already warned, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself." [ pg. 115: This is the entire text of a sub-section titled "The Common Enemy of Humanity is Man" and it concludes the chapter it is in, titled "The Vacuum", my emphasis --J.S.]
In 1997 David Rockefeller's protégé, Zbigniew Brzezinski, published The Grand Chessboard. Brzezinski, with David Rockefeller, founded[61] (and Brzezinski, appointed by Rockefeller to be the Executive Director, ran) the Trilateral Commission[62], an organization[63] of the corporate and government elites in Europe, the United States and Japan; and Brzezinski was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977-81. (Just to remind us of what that means, recall that Carter increased military aid to Indonesia’s President Suharto who used it to occupy East Timor and to kill 200,000 East Timorese. Carter also backed Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines and the Shah of Iran, both notoriously anti-democratic and brutal rulers. Carter similarly backed the murderous Somoza regime in Nicaragua and had the U.S. Army School of the Americas train 250 Salvadoran officers and non-coms for El Salvador's brutal and violently repressive military that blew up every union meeting place and opposition newspaper as it killed opposition leaders.) In his book, Brzezinski writes:
"More generally, cultural change in America may also be uncongenial to the sustained exercise abroad of genuinely imperial power. That exercise requires a high degree of doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment, and patriotic gratification. Yet the dominant culture of the country has become increasingly fixated on mass entertainment that has been heavily dominated by personally hedonistic and socially escapist themes. The cumulative effect has made it increasingly difficult to mobilize the needed political consensus on behalf of sustained, and also occasionally costly, American leadership abroad...In addition, both America and Western Europe have been finding it difficult to cope with the cultural consequences of social hedonism and the dramatic decline in the centrality of religious-based values in society. [location 3225 in the kindle version]
"Unfortunately, to date, efforts to spell out a new central and worldwide objective for the United States, in the wake of the Cold War, have been one-dimensional. They have failed to link the need to improve the human condition with the imperative of preserving the centrality of American power in world affairs. Several such recent attempts can be identified." [location 3267 in the kindle version] [Brzezinski then cites the failure of the following: "the advocacy of 'assertive multilateralism' in the Clinton administration, the "notion that America should focus on global 'democratic enlargement'", the "elimination of the prevailing injustice in the global distribution of income," the "shaping a special 'mature strategic partnership' with Russia," "containing weapons proliferation," "safeguarding the environment," and "combating local wars."]
The theme here is clear: some new Big Idea (a veritable new religion) must be found with which to get the masses to follow the leadership of the upper class; it needs to restore "the coherence of society and the conformity of its individuals." The Big Idea is that "The real enemy, then, is humanity itself," that some humans are living too well materially (and the others dangerously want to live better materially than they do presently) and therefore, for the sake of protecting human civilization and "the planet" from "the spectre of an alarming and possibly catastrophic disaster to the biosphere we live in," people must obey the rich and powerful who will make the world safe by sharply limiting the amount of material comfort that the great masses of the world will be allowed to enjoy.
Economic production (including things like building dams to make us safe from flooding as well as to produce energy, and digging mines, and laying down gas pipes, etc.) must, according to the new Big Idea, be eliminated as much as possible; this is why the rich and powerful lately have been promoting the "Green" idea (a.k.a. "sustainability") that it is morally wrong for humans to have any impact on nature, that "pristine" nature must be left untouched because otherwise whatever humans do to it will upset the supposedly delicate balance of nature and cause catastrophe. We are told to forget that humans have always had to change nature in order to survive. Even beavers to it to survive!
The elite have been grappling with the problem of finding such a Big Idea. After 2001 it seems the elite decided to go with "The War on Terror" but apparently David Rockefeller and company thought and think something better is also required. (Brzezinski, for example, says in an online article[64], that the War on Terror is in many ways harmful and far too unsophisticated ideologically to be the basis of American power in the world for the long term, and (in another online article[65]) how he identifies the threat of Global Warming as the real threat.)
In the period of feudalism, the Big Idea that enabled the upper class to control the masses was the idea that if one did not obey the Church (and its anointed royalty and aristocracy) one would suffer hellfire and brimstone for an eternity. This was a powerful idea indeed! Even people (such as Pascal famously[66]), who were very skeptical of the "eternity in hell" threat, reasoned that if there were even the slightest chance that it were true then it's safer to assume it is true and obey the rulers than to disobey them and risk finding out the hard way that eternal hell is the consequence.
Today the upper class climate fear mongers argue that we must put aside fighting for economic equality and against environmental pollution caused by profit-driven capitalists (such as BP and its destruction of much life in the Gulf of Mexico just to make a buck) because the "real enemy" is human-caused catastrophic global warming that can only be defeated if we all unite behind people like the Rockefellers and Al Gore and Bill Gates and Prince [now King] Charles to reduce our CO2 "footprint"; furthermore, if we don't do what these people say we must do, then the consequence will be even WORSE than an eternity of personal suffering in hell--it will be the end of the human race entirely because of climate catastrophe. How convenient is the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming thesis! How much safer is the world for the likes of Rockefellers and royalty when the masses are persuaded that the enemy is not a small but extremely privileged upper class but rather that "The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
WEF and its Big $ elite have corrupted science and academia to the point that we cannot trust what the scientists and academics tell us, even when what they say might be true. The only way we can make social decisions about such things as finite resources and population levels and climate and so forth is to make an egalitarian revolution so that ordinary people who have no agenda to oppress others with lies are truly in power, and the academics and scientists are beholden to such people, not to an oppressor class as is the case today.
Overall a good article.
Where has this guy been the last few years--outer space? Can anybody associated with Jimmy Dore over the last few years believe the WEF has the best of intentions?!