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The Terrifying Vacuity of Klaus Schwab A review of COVID-19: The Great Reset, one of the dumbest, most tedious and utterly pointless books ever written. eugyppius Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret,  COVID-19: The Great Reset  (Forum Press: Cologny/Geneva, 2020). 280 pp. Like many bad books,  The Great Reset  lapses into occasional inadvertent autobiography. In the final pages especially, where Klaus Schwab writes of his hopes for a “Personal Reset” through state repression, we catch a glimpse of the man during the first-wave lockdown at  his house in Cologny . At first he enjoyed the break with routine and the opportunity to commune with nature, but before long he began to feel a nagging unease. He’d spent most of his years prior to 2020 flogging “stakeholder capitalism”, his umbrella term for various schemes to disarm criticism of the globalist corporate borg and co-opt leftist opposition. Schwab succeeded in parlaying his simplistic ideas into an international...

No wonder this is the outcome... Spending BILLIONS to destroy our organism... Only degenerate uman animals can pull this one off!

By  Haley Zaremba  - Sep 01, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT - America’s ailing power grid can’t support the country’s climate pledges. - While Texas and California are producing enough renewable energy to share with other regions, surplus clean power is doomed to languish on the grid because of the dated infrastructure.  - The U.S. desperately needs to invest into creating “smart grids” that are capable of measuring and regulating a constant in- and outflow of energy. The neglected domestic power grid is standing between the United States and its climate pledges. In many parts of the country, most notably Texas, California, and the Southwest, renewable energy plants are producing enough clean, emissions-free energy to share with other regions – but there’s no way to get it there. Instead, surplus clean energy is doomed to languish on the grid where it was produced instead of being sold to where there is demand. This phenomenon has led to the peculiar outcome of negative energy prices...

DEAR MARXISTS WELCOME TO THE NEW CLASS WAR The Evolved Psyche I’ve earlier made the case for not confusing the current context of runaway managerial liberalism as Marxism or communism (see,  here ). The argument there was that these were historically specific and situational phenomena. Assuming their particulars can be directly applied to the present moment was to miss the uniqueness of the moment and risk a dangerously miscalibrated strategy. Having said that, though, does not imply basic axioms of Marxism (sheered of their misguided Hegelian hagiography and teleology) do not remain valuable tools for social analysis (as I’ve also explained  elsewhere ). The core political concept of 19th century Marxism was the dialectic of class conflict. The idea was that two classes eventually would, and under capitalism had, come into a conflict which could not be resolved under the existing conditions. Given the context of the 19th century, it was understandable that Marxists would see ...