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Klaus Schwab, the Aspen Institute and others flip the meaning of a word that once meant the empowerment of populations against political elites.
These comics traffic in a self-defeating cynicism that eschews all critiques of the real configurations of power. Power only laughs at its own jokes.
How grifters in academia took over the grant system.
With the backing of our federal government, these agencies and their public and private partners intend to use the Hawaiian Islands as a testing site for experiments in synthetic biology. The natural world is at risk of being polluted and overtaken by lab-altered biotechnology.
This country can no longer boast of having anything like the world’s best educational outcomes, or healthcare system, or the most advanced and safest infrastructure, or the best democratic politics, so we better damn well be able to boast about having “the greatest fighting force” ever.
Instead of raising up a generation of civic-minded citizens with critical thinking skills, government officials are churning out compliant drones who know little to nothing about their history or their freedoms.
According to the UN Secretary General and blithering buffoon, António Guterres, we’ve entered the “era of global boiling.” Though not in the UK—or anywhere else for that matter.
Act like a loud jerk at a movie theater who keeps yelling “None of this is real! Those are actors on a movie set!”