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Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile

From the Kentucky coal mines to the California sun… [Start again.]
From the Mid-East to China and India, the world’s trade blocs see tectonic shift.
Wars in Ukraine, Yemen and Syria are linked by pipelines and power play.
U.S. imposes more sanctions, bans investment in Russia; more restrictions on banks.

Economic war is uppermost because this is a battle of investors and bankers.
The debate continues: is Putin on board with Build Back Better and The Great Reset?
Moneycircus: not partisan but perspicacious — not sooth-saying: exploring scenarios.
Opinions may change with new information or events may revise previous outlooks.
(4,000 words or 20 minutes’ read. Please forgive typos - sick at the moment.)

Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag

Apr 6, 2022

Two wars rage in Ukraine: one on the ground, another for hearts and minds. It may seem cruel to say, but the propaganda is worse than competing videos of casualties.

It’s about the management of perceptions of chaos.

In your mind you probably have a desire for order. You may put the past two years of Event Covid into one mental compartment, the war in another: money worries, disruption to work, and the kids’ broken education into one more; the relatives and family gatherings and funerals you missed, and the cancelled vacations; and all that murmuring about a new normal, green passports and surveillance in the furthest box.

The media makes it simple. You are asked to support the cause of Ukraine, to blame Russia for food and fuel disruptions, and to take the next booster.

This pretense of simplicity is the flip side of chaos, as each of these seemingly-discrete events is brought to you by the same people. They put the world in motion hoping you’ll get dizzy and submit, and they’ll be sitting on the chairs when the music stops.

A time for war

Russian’s intervention in Ukraine may have been inexcusable or inevitable but its timing proved convenient. It may even have been provoked, given that the civil war had been underway since 2014. Western Covid policy was in tatters, from revelations of malfeasance, accelerating sickness among the multi-jabbed, to growing dissent.

Then there’s The Great Reset, a concept so hydra-headed that even the World Economic Forum can only explain it using their interactive transformation wheels. [1]

These link information but still don’t explain it — they’re data not knowledge, any more than Klaus Schwab’s book Covid-19: The Great Reset.

Senior management across the world now spout the slogan “stakeholder capitalism” which is just corporatism by another name.

Andrew Stuttaford in the National Review noted that all forms of corporatism share “the conviction that society should be organized by and for its principal interest groups — let’s call them stakeholders — intermediated by, and ultimately subordinate to, the state. The individual does not get a look in.” [2]

Given that corporatism was the system of Mussolini’s Italy and the Third Reich, it’s not hyperbole to say that TGR might share commonalities with the functions of a wartime state.

Indeed, Event Covid was compared to a wartime economy from the start. In practical terms this was used to restrict fundamental freedoms, intrude on bodily integrity and habeas corpus, close businesses, transfer wealth and the elevate the community above the individual.

A duck writes: If it looks like a fascist…

An essential component of TGR, green passports or CommonPass had met popular resistance. Many, like Britain’s track and trace simply didn’t work — despite $45 billion/ £35 billion allocated. Digital identity is essential to another pillar of TGR, central bank digital currencies.

In the middle of war, on Mar 17, Ukraine rolled out a social credit app offering universal basic income to those with a vaccine passport. The Diia app claims 12 million users and, linked to 50 documents, it is the closest that Europe has to Chinese social credit.

Fakt Cheka were quick off the mark:
Full Fact — Ukraine is not enacting the ‘Great Reset’ with an app
USA Today — Fact check: No connection between Ukrainian app and World Economic Forum's 'Great Reset'

Despite their denials, president Volodymyr Zelenskiy had launched “the state on a smartphone” app in 2020, two weeks after he addressed the World Economic Forum. It is part of The Great Reset and it seems that war was the perfect time to roll it out. [3]

Austria is said to have a similar system once complete. China and Canada are piloting central bank digital currencies.

The mental block

War is clearly consonant with the acceleration of surveillance capitalism. Yet war is reckless and destructive. What do the perpetrators hope to gain by risking the ruination of Germany, the very integrity of Poland, even Europe?

Only a diabolical objective would justify such a gambit; an enterprise so ambitious that it might embrace several strategies, from reshaping trade alliances to starving rivals, or even culling them.

This is the mind block for many: is The Great Reset a universal project? And in that case who is beind it?

Unlike in Ukraine, no-one’s making you name the bad guys. Just accept that geopolitics is a fancy word for grabbing more than the next fellow, and rigging the “rules-based international order” to your benefit so the dispossessed can never get his stuff back.

This crisis is a great opportunity. Prince Charles said so in Jun 2020, when the Covid pandemic was not yet three months old. Klaus’s troupe chimed: “You will own nothing and you will be happy,” as the face of seemingly-stoned male slave broke into a demented grin.

Great powers are controlled by great wealth and their aim is always to secure their assets and gain more. In modern times the British Empire gave way to the United States but they continued to partition the world, using populations like so many computer digits to extract resources, and the bulk of the wealth still went to mostly the same families and stakeholders.

Take them seriously when they use that word — as when the Council for Inclusive Capitalism call themselves The Guardians. They stand above and outside the nation states, using countries in the same way as you might use a Bobcat excavator.

The elephant in the room

This Reset is a battle for ownership of resources, including human.

The central banks are largely privately owned. A CBDC would give economic control and thus ownership directly to those who own the central banks. If corporations and individuals are valued — not by productivity — by ESGs, energy consumed against some social measure of value, you will own nothing. You have been warned.

Where is the opposition voice? It's not in government or the media. The only explanation that makes sense is the media is backed by the banking cartel.

But there are resistant branches of society: finance, the law, insurance. Their interests would be crushed by the CBDC-Davos plan.

Ordo ab chao

At his inauguration, in Jan 2021, Joe Biden read: “We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era.” In Mar 2020: “(The last century saw) a lot of people dying, but nowhere near the chaos… there’s going to be a new world order.” [4]

Chaos is almost a come hither, beckoning us through a Scylla and Charybdis of danger. Those who summon us have a destination in mind. This is how you know all these monsters are linked, perhaps even choreographed by the same would-be gods.

This journey passes between the phantom of Covid and the vortex of the jab, but you should know what’s at stake for the stakeholders is different from the terminus they have in mind for you — and your only chance of avoiding it is to find out in time. Your perceptions will be managed if you allow.

If you insist, “My world must be simplified because I lack time. Someone just tell me who the good guy is”… Well, you wouldn’t have read this far.

The riches in this world lay scattered far and wide — for the good guys and the bad. They fight resource wars around the globe and there’s nothing they will not trade, from humans and organs to pestilential bugs. The only way you can protect yourself is to take an equally broad view.

What of the opposition? Why is the alt media so conflicted, after two years, over its definition of The Great Reset. One reason is that we reflect our provenance. Even as we struggle to think freely, we are rooted in our experience.

Market analyst Alex Krainer of Krainer Analytics, speaking to Tom Luongo said people are not reading this correctly because many of them are “culturally conditioned to expect that everything clever, sophisticated and wise, is coming from the West and that the Russians are these uncouth brutes who are reacting with force. They can’t bring themselves to consider that there’s a rhyme and a reason for what Russia is doing.” [5]

Group think

The blinkered view of the West has two causes. One is group think. When the chief of the German navy suggested the best way to contain competition from China is to work with Russia, he was forced to resign.

See Moneycircus, Jan 23, 2022 — Eurasia Note #18 - Dissent Rocks NATO: Russia, not China, aligns with Western interests, says Germany's (ex) naval chief

In recent weeks, Iran normalized relations with Saudi Arabia, then Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad visited the United Arab Emirates. It’s more than a case of my enemy’s enemy is my friend.

Now the Saudis are tightening ties with Beijing. Saudi Aramco is looking at several proposals with Sinopec, including a revived $10 billion refinery and petrochemical project in Panjin city that would process 300,000 barrels per day.

The Saudi kingdom has paused fighting in Yemen for the muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began on Apr 2. Brokered by the United Nations the truce may yet lead to a broader settlement but Houthi have demanded the Saudi coalition lift all blockades and release prisoners.

The Ukraine war is closely tied to wars in Syria and Yemen, and not just because oil and gas from those regions will be used to replace Russia’s. As well as trade blocs, new trade routes are being created as we discussed in Eurasia note #39.

In Yemen, outside forces set regional powers against each other: UAE, Qatar and Saudi as competitors, all with their eye Yemeni oil and gas, instead of exploring its economic potential by integrating with its neighbours on the Arabian peninsular.

The chief stirrer of the pot is Britain but this strategy of divide and conquer is reaching its end after more than 200 years, and one of the huge changes happened at the end of March, and was Russia’s link of its currency to gold.

Propaganda war is being driven by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, under Polish chairmanship, according to Russia’s representative Alexander Lukashevich. The OCSE runs numerous programs in which Western journalists train and identify journalist assets in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. These are now fighting for hearts and minds with a blend of fiction and reality, such as the now-infamous Ghost of Kyiv.

See Moneycircus, Apr 1, 2022 — Eurasia note #39 - What's Happening In Elsewhere: A series of cold wars spread frosty fingers, like parallel plots in a TV drama