The Sunday Times charts the rise and fall of Babylon Health, a U.K. tech startup that won NHS contracts with the support of the then Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, but ultimately crumbled due to overblown claims about its AI technology. Here’s an excerpt:
Babylon Health, a tech start-up championed by Matt Hancock and advised by Dominic Cummings, promised that its AI chatbot could keep patients who didn’t need to be seen by a health professional out of the overstretched NHS.
But the technology was not as sophisticated as the company claimed, with former staff now claiming that what began as a crude tool based on “decision trees written by doctors, put into an Excel spreadsheet” never realised its promised potential. Concerns – including the fact the app missed clear signs of a heart attack or dangerous blood clots – were raised with regulators, which failed to intervene or lacked powers to do so.
Babylon’s deals with the NHS, which saw it receive at least £22 million over the past three years alone and helped it to woo investors, were in part due its links with the Conservative Party and the backing of Hancock, the Health Secretary from 2018 to 2021.
The Tories received more than £250,000 in donations from individuals and companies with stakes in Babylon Healthcare, including Hancock, whose failed Tory leadership bid in 2019 received £10,000.
Between 2015 and 2022 the company’s executives had 17 separate meetings with a total of 19 ministers, including Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson, and Philip Hammond and Liz Truss during their time at the Treasury.
The promise of Babylon’s founder, Ali Parsa, to “revolutionise healthcare” was an intoxicating one. Holding forth to a rapt audience at the Royal College of Physicians, a 1970s concrete block near Regent’s Park, in Central London, he explained that his health-care start-up had developed an AI-based system, a “doctor in your pocket”, that was, he said, better than the real thing. …
Babylon, he said, was building a super-powered machine to diagnose conditions, manage health and suggest treatments for billions of people. Investors and influential names in and around the Conservative Party lapped it up. Between its founding in 2013 and its 2021 stock market float in New York, the company raised $1.2 billion, making it one of the most lavishly funded medical start-ups in the world. By comparison, Theranos, the fraudulent Silicon Valley blood-test firm founded by Elizabeth Holmes, raised $700 million. …
What has unfolded in the years since for Parsa, the company he started and his former Government cheerleader, Hancock, is a reversal of cinematic proportions. Hancock, who resigned as Health Secretary over an affair with his aide, Gina Coladangelo, now spends his days eating worms and getting punched in the face by footballers as a reality-TV contestant. Babylon, once valued at $4.2 billion, collapsed into administration in August.
Its British assets were sold for just £500,000 to a little-known U.S. rival, which picked up a ragbag of other assets sold for another £6.3 million. The U.S. operation has been put into a court-supervised liquidation. Parsa, once the standard-bearer for start-up Britain, moved to the U.S. and has disappeared from view; most of his £825 million fortune has evaporated.
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Bravo to anyone choosing to read more. More than I can take before gin o’clock.
It’s always interesting to learn how people regard themselves (or purport to). Schwab must have some duff image advisers if he really wants to be everyone’s cuddly uncle.
As for Gates, he should be working on a ‘vaccine’ that would shrink his moobs (at the same time as being safe and effective, of course).
Excellent idea; he could then offer it to Fatboy in No 10.
When are the posters going up around the county?
Well said. I might have read more, but my football team lost – so I’m not in the mood. There are only so many things a human being can take.
Touche AE. My team also lost tonight – but I doubt they are the same one. But I know how you feel!!
You have before an example of a Versailles-like reality where a clique becomes more and more removed from reality and it seems like they are inviting beheading when they are just being themselves. If you listen to the philosophy of the WEF it is infantile. Not just them though. These days it is difficult to find any adults in the room regardless of work environment. Babytalk gets the most points.
He denies supporting the maxim “You will own nothing and be happy”… But WEF did tweet this, post it on Facebook, have it on their website. (Essay and tweet now removed.. Not sure about Facebook.) So he’s not really being transparent about that.
More and more people noticing and talking about that got them rumbled.
They got themselves rumbled. They don’t exactly hide.
What motivates Schwab and Gates is the fear of becoming irrelevant, of not mattering. That’s why they obsess over fact checking. If they were confident they wouldn’t care.
You mean no-one’s told them?
Money buys a lot of favours.
I posted BTL the other day citing Marshall Mcluhan’s famous essay: ‘The Medium is the message’
This will be the problem for the “fact checkers” and totalitarian wielders of the online hate bill (unjustly), anyone with any sense recognises the tacit admission the censored content has veracity, and that will be their downfall, eventually.
post with links to the essay is here:
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/26/anatomy-of-a-scientific-witch-burning/#comment-810590
It’s not easy being transparent when you’re an evil genius.
LOL. I don’t think Blofeld wrote a book about his evil plans for the world. On the other hand, Hitler did.
But I don’t believe for a moment Klaus approaches the abilities of Hollywood scriptwriters or real life maniacal despots.
Yes. And there ‘main’ expensively made, organisations showcase, film they made says maxim as their pushed mantra. Did he know, crazy.
If he hasn’t even watched it ? that sort of detached attitude, makes him even more dangerous. By Setting up an organisation that irresponsibly takes away democratic accountability in nations and moves an unaccountable power to a global organisation should have his eye on this catastrophic idea, and close it down immediately.
All HIS young leaders are making a gigantic mess of the world, so big that OUR future generations to come will suffer as a consequence.
Daily Sceptic ATL seem to be unwittingly but not as an accomplice! endorsing this naive idea that he is some comic movie baddie, when in reality he has set in motion a negative ripple effect throughout the whole world that is evidentially catastrophic.
We can discuss whether he had done this on purpose or not but the main issue is that calamity KS and his gangsters are responsible!! We need more clued up journalists to report them to civilisation.
They are now spouting their innocence but sadly they are not.
A fundamental weakness of corporatism is averagism and the tyranny of numbers. Some smiling Brxailian guy in a grey hoodie just doesn’t cut it. anymore And nothing else will for them either because of the limitations of their system. The issue is the amount of damage they do before they are spotted.
Make no mistake about it, being a WEF Young Leader today (or even not so young) is akin to those post-graduates who sought and gained MBA’s in the 80’s and 90’s and the fast-track lifestyle selling your soul to the devil entails (and the same disastrous consequences to you and I for poor 1-dimensional cookie-cutter management style).
That is why so many of them are now in power or working behind the scenes of those in power currently. Secret special handshake ‘n all.
Probably still all lug around foot-long, eight-pound “mobile” phones, too, and think they’re Patrick Bateman.
Have you seen that photo of World leaders including Macron making a pyramid shape with their hands. Think it was a G7 meeting.
Having both an 80’s MBA and a ‘special handshake’ I’d like to say please don’t generalise. Now of course if I was a Guardian reader you’d have every right!
My old man was a Mason although he ‘quit’ (apparently you can’t) but I never knew until I found a very old apron, probably handed down to him over generations.
I worked with lots of Mason’s in the police. They were the guys who didn’t abuse the public. Again, it wasn’t until I was in the job for several years before I figured out who was what.
I was never invited to join, nor did I inquire, other than asking one of my colleagues what it was all about. He told me everything I could ever want to know about masons is in the library.
I suspect I wasn’t invited because my Dad was had quit the organisation so was considered a black sheep. The reality is, he was never a ‘club’ type of bloke, nor am I.
I was invited to join once by my brother in law, a senior Royal Navy Officer, who would happily have laid his life down for his country. His area of expertise was undersea bomb disposal so he flirted with doing so every time he was called to do his job.
I honestly don’t understand the hostility directed at an organisation anyone is free to join; whose presence has been with us since before organised law and order in the UK, indeed, stonemasons were the first form of street justice the country had.
Largely a God fearing organisation because their predominance was thanks to Cathedral building in the middle ages however, religious faith wasn’t a prerequisite for inclusion as far as I’m aware.
They were perceived by peasants as a collective of strong men who were turned to for help when highwaymen and vagabonds robbed and persecuted individuals and communities.
As I understand it, this is why there was such a close association with the modern day police force although, of course, they have been hounded out the job.
Perhaps we might reflect on that, and the parlous state of our current police ‘service’.
All common purpose and globalism these days. Foreign ideas rather than the homegrown ones you outline. Never a great idea, but endlessly fascinating to those who fancy themselves as our rulers.
We live in an era where the traditions that have emerged naturally from our shared experience on this island are viewed with contempt.
Somebody threw a rock and hit him on the head when he was a boy? That explains a lot.
By the way, the Great Reset could not possibly be a conspiracy theory when this megalomaniac and his operatives publish their plans for all to see.
If peopl like Klaus, Bill and their globalist chums all vanished never to be seen again this world would be a far better place.
When was the last time you heard reference to poetry from a potentate. Like JFK said, power corrupts, poetry cleanses. These guys don’t want a bath – it would reveal that there is nothing to them but filth.
He may be absolutely ridiculous, and come across as a pantomime villain. However, I don’t trust what he’s up to, as the proprietor of a nest of serpents. His hatchling vipers like Trudeau, Ardern, that silly Indian/American/quasi Scots woman, and the rest of the motley crew of “Young Leaders” are where the poisons and malevolence lie.
Can’t do better than quote Matthew 7.20:-
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Addendum to my earlier post…….
Now that Russia (officially), China, India, Brazil (unofficially), possibly Turkey soon, are not for globalisation, the Great Reset cannot happen or happen as easily as these dangerous clowns wanted. Maybe the great reset refers to tyranny by NATO on its own people?
So the question is, with the loss of original scope of a wet-tyrannical-dream of taking over the world from their secret den in Davos, how do we get rid of the implanted parasites who work for the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion in a town-hall near you?
People need to get angry first. We seem averse to that these days. We just watched tens of millions line up for an experimental biological agent still in trials.
I spoke to some, even as we watched. They wanted the BS to be true, so, to them, it was.
Yes, I agree.
Many are reluctant to admit they made a big mistake.
The queues for boosters dropped off rapidly, that said everything.
Now that Russia (officially), China, India, Brazil (unofficially), possibly Turkey soon, are not for globalisation
The Russian push for tyranny is if anything even stronger than in other countries. They’ve mass-vaxxed their population without any official pharmacovigilance system, WEF graduate Putin has personally promoted their vax, they love QR codes and vax passes, they are very keen to introduce central bank digital currency and they continue to support the WHO with enthusiasm despite rumours to the contrary. The WEF has dropped Russia for now but that is likely just theatre, the war is a wonderful opportunity for the WEF’s beloved digital ID, as we are seeing with Iran’s digital ration cards.
Rand Paul: This is the danger of a one-world government
Rand Paul on the right side of this.
“Look how bad your government is in a country where you get to vote for these people. This would be a government – a world government, where you don’t get to vote on anybody. This is everybody’s worst nightmare. The bureaucracy that we have trouble with in our United States because we don’t get to vote on them, we vote indirectly – can you imagine the one world bureaucracy of all these elitists in their private jets that would rule our country?”
Easy to laugh at the comedy evil genius act put on by the likes of Schwab, but this imo is the biggest issue: a near-global elite zealously imposing their fanatical collective delusions – covid, climate alarmism, normalisation of sexual deviance, BLM, Ukraine, and their obsessive need for control and for suppression of the slightest dissent, in a world in which there is no national sovereignty to protect different ideas and opinions, no outside to escape to, no alternative examples of how life could be lived better.
Schwab is a political lightweight, a fantasist and a con man. Simple as that.
As is pointed out, his membership is falling.
This is distraction tactics.
Schwab isn’t the issue, certainly. It’s the collective power getting together that’s the problem.
As Adam Smith put it in relation to tradesmen:
‘People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices‘
Same applies to those whose trade is government, imo.
Schwab has assembled the biggest bunch of over ambitious, narcissistic, backstabbing salesmen known to man. I suspect even Boris could run intellectual rings around them.
None of them have ever grown a grassroots social or political movement in their life because they are completely out their depth socially, politically and morally.
All they have ever done is sold people what they think they want. Too bad when they try to sell the public something they don’t think they want. That’s the job of a politician.
Which one of them will the others elect as leader?
As they clearly reject democracy, that’s going to be a really tough call.
Who will lead The Great Reset? It won’t be Schwab, that’s a racing certainty, he’s a pauper compared to the great and the good 1% of the wealthiest 1%.
Bill Gates is far too dumb, Jeff Bezos is a retail wizard, but neither appear leaders of men. Nor do the rest of these fascist clowns, which is the common attraction. They all think they are smarter than the next guy, but the smart guys are the ones who mobilise guys smarter than them.
The smartest man in the room appears to be Elon Musk and he doesn’t seem interested in a bunch of uber wealthy, intellectual pimples.
He’s sold something to people, who didn’t think they wanted it, which does more damage to the cause he assured them it would alleviate.
He would make a fine politician.
One of my favourite Smith quotes; along with (in our current situation): “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
Schwab is a Gates man through and through and he has his acolytes planted in governments as well as bureaucracies the world over. He is a conman, but dangerous and is certainly no political lightweight.
Mark, please read the comments BTL the article on Vaccine safety posted today.
I don’t think it will be a one world government but I do think it will be as it is now, potential laws are discussed with the frontmen politicians who go back and sell and then implement those laws. Look at the online harms bill, not just a UK idea but countries including France, canada, US, Australia etc etc are all discussing the same thing. It cannot be a coincidence. You dont need a visible one world government for many countries to march in the same direction as we have seen with the same response to the so called virus as well as the CDBC being talked about in many countries.
Yes, that’s what the US sphere elites are, or aspire to being: a de facto world government, before any de jure one can be set up.
Indeed – OWG in all but name with managers installed in each country – amounts to same thing in the end whatever you choose to call it.
Very glad to see you back, Mark – we’ve been worried about you!
a near-global elite zealously imposing their fanatical collective delusions
Sorry, I accidentally posted the above! Meant to say re your excellent line (a near-global elite zealously imposing their fanatical collective delusions):
And all the more likely to have fanatical collective delusions, because they are so far removed from those who suffer the consequences of their impositions.
I have come to believe that a vital component of power is the capacity to remove oneself, as much as possible, from the disaffection and dislike of those over whom one rules.
I think of all those hapless employees who cop the irritation that should rightly go to their bosses, who have insulated themselves so that they never have to listen to it.
In the world these people envisage, national governments will be reduced to local complaints departments issuing meaningless assurances that our concerns will be passed on.
Cheers AE. Nice to be missed, even if I didn’t think I was away for long.
We won’t have to get rid of them. The reality that is coming will mean that many of them will kill themselves and others will go isane. Just look at it month by month, in terms of what is being revealed. The revelation isn’t just about power relations. Look at the aknowledgement of the rejection of Wokeness, even by Black Rock. The time that we are movng into will see a complete rejection of all of these forces.
‘Trustwhoring‘
There – fixed it for ya, Klaus.
They have been on shaky ground since they were twelve years old and we haven’t. This will count for a lot. We never sold out birthright for a mess of pottage. We understood that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. They can’t win.
How can you adpot a conspiratorial world view when they not only confess to their plan but write their whole ideology into our education system. Conspiracy suggests secrecy but the sad reality is that secrecy isn’t neccesary because most people can’t even be arsed to check the official record. It is all there and glaringly so. If you’re a cleverdick and you went along with it for a while then you should ask yourself why you did.
Yup it is no conspiracy, just fact. The only thing to discuss further is how strong is their influence.
It is like a tide that we all are part of. It is a malaise of mind. Can we offer an antidote, that is the question
As long as the antidote doesn’t come out of a syringe labelled “Pfizer” (other poisons are available).
We have no antidote. We look at the maliaise and dismiss is as something beyond our ken.
It is worth remembering they may groom their WEF leader types, but we vote them in.
Trudeau recently in Canada, and Macron in France. You could argue the same for Sturgeon in Scotland and of course Boris.
We do have a democracy, however damaged. These people aren’t storming parliament to gain power.
I would argue focusing on the WEF is useful because it lets us off the hook. We are voting in parties who consistently break their manifesto promises on matters that actually resonate with people, like cutting mass immigration, clamping down on woke and protecting our heritage.
We need to look closer to home to solve these problems. The Schwabs are a distraction. We British need to toughen up and vote for parties who at least promise to tackle these issues.
If you look at them all they are all intellectual lightweisghts and they tend to be without children. All of this suggests not a presence but a coldness and vacuity. Maybe the job of the truly switched on is to point people in the direction of the fire, the spirit.
Trudeau, Macron and Sturgeon are homosexuals. Johnson is having enough kids to cover them all it would seem.
We forget only twenty years ago homosexuality was considered concerning precisely because it led to hedonism and it’s associated problems, vacuity being among them.
Not having a go at the gays but the historical view was to accept it happened and perhaps cut them some slack, but to recognize they were unsuited to positions of authority given their mental state.
Food for thought. But do it quick before the online harms bill has such wrongthink erased.
They have a revulsion about the life process. Try to think yourself into that frame of mind. It is easy for me I did science A Levels and it was construed at every juncuture. That’s why I moved elsewhere. We have in our islands a hige group to draw on should we need to,
We have pride month at school to look forward to !! I am not. On Friday in educational subjects other than RSE, highschool age students were asked to ‘design’ posters for Pride month and how it was important because this year was anniversary of Stonewall .
“Not having a go at the gays but the historical view was to accept it happened and perhaps cut them some slack, but to recognize they were unsuited to positions of authority given their mental state.”
That was when tolerance meant tolerance, rather than coerced approval, as it does now, in practice.
Here was what the Earl of Arran famously said after the decriminalisation of homosexual activity in 1967:
“I ask one thing and I ask it earnestly. I ask those who have, as it were, been in bondage and for whom the prison doors are now open to show their thanks by comporting themselves quietly and with dignity. This is no occasion for jubilation; certainly not for celebration. Any form of ostentatious behaviour; now or in the future, any form of public flaunting, would be utterly distasteful and would, I believe, make the sponsors of the Bill regret that they have done what they have done. Homosexuals must continue to remember that while there may be nothing bad in being a homosexual, there is certainly nothing good. Lest the opponents of the Bill think that a new freedom, a new privileged class, has been created, let me remind them that no amount of legislation will prevent homosexuals from being the subject of dislike and derision, or at best of pity. We shall always, I fear, resent the odd man out. That is their burden for all time, and they must shoulder it like men—for men they are..”
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1967/jul/21/sexual-offences-no-2-bill
Displays the kind of remarkable naivety often shown by moderates compromising with radicals in the belief that the slippery slope somehow won’t operate this time.
Though I would have made the same compromise at that time, it seeming only reasonable to exercise tolerance. In fairness, the identity lobbyist zealotry of the subsequent decades could not really be foreseen, I think.
“We forget only twenty years ago homosexuality was considered concerning precisely because it led to hedonism and it’s associated problems, vacuity being among them.”
While looking for a good link to the Arran quote, I went to the wikipedia page, and saw this:
“A 1965 opinion poll commissioned by the Daily Mail found that 63% of respondents did not believe that homosexuality should be a crime while only 36% agreed it should, even though 93% agreed that homosexual men were “in need of medical or psychiatric treatment.“”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967
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Again, those who vote for these nice, harmless sounding “reforms” pushed by radicals would simply call you a liar if you told them what their foolishness would lead to, and in just a few decades in this case.
When does homosexuality begin?
Why do you ask?
Just wondering.
Is it a peck on the cheek between mates? A kiss on the lips perhaps. Or is it just two guys sleeping side by side?
If buggery is the defining feature, then what about oral sex, is that OK?
How about holding hands in public, or owning a house and sharing a life together?
In other words, what is the defining characteristic of a gay man/woman?
“In other words, what is the defining characteristic of a gay man/woman?”
I don’t see it that way.
Just as a murderer is someone who engages in the act of murder, so a homosexual is someone who engages in homosexual activity (I don’t seek to imply that those are morally equivalent, just trying to explain the terminology).
Some people are not at all tempted to commit murder, others are to a greater or lesser degree, but we don’t call people murderers merely because they have a violent disposition.
I see the creation of a separate identity category, prior to any act, as “homosexual” or “gay” as being a large part of the problem we now face.
That is how the issue fell into the clutches of the identity lobbyists who have done so much harm to our culture and our society, whether race or sex based.
I guess what you’re saying is that buggery is the definition of homosexuality, as murder is the definition of a murderer.
Which I get, and that’s fair enough. I have no issue with that definition.
But if two blokes sleep together, or engage in oral sex together, that then isn’t homosexuality?
And if buggery is the only definition, what do we call men who are attracted to buggering women?
“I guess what you’re saying is that buggery is the definition of homosexuality, as murder is the definition of a murderer.”
A sexual act, in general.
Granted you can always find borderline cases for any such terms, but in the vast majority of cases we pretty much have no problem recognising it when we encounter it.
Great sources. Thanks for posting.
Like most people nowadays I’m relaxed about gays. But you are correct, traditional values often emerge for a reason and we ignore them at our peril.
I think the entire country was entirely relaxed about gays, until organisations like Stonewall pitched up and tried to ram the damn subject down everyone’s throat.
I don’t tell homosexuals how to live or who to accept, so why are a select minority group of gays, amongst gays, so influential in public life?
Trudeau is a homosexual? I thought he was being blackmailed for molesting a 14 year old female. Even less suited to a position of authority, given the control potential that crime might lead to.
The biggest obstacles are those exposed in the mirror. When exactly did we pull out of this scam? Was is okay thirty years ago when mining companies were raping Africa? The very underpinnings of our civilisation are very frought. What common ground do we have to stand on?
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How can mining companies ‘rape’ Africa?
They’d like to do secrecy, but then they wouldn’t be able to jet all over the place and be photographed as VIPs.
It’s a quandary.
I think the serious money does secrecy very well. The nouveau riche rather less so.
Ah!
We are of like mind. WEF is a bunch of intellectual and political lightweights being allowed to indulge their fantasy.
They are, in other words, a distraction.
I believe so. They are dangerous in that they have enough clout to elevate nonentities like the New Zealand woman and Trudeau. I strongly suspect there are less well known people they’ve placed too.
But will it amount to anything? I suspect not. The adverts they posted about us owning nothing and you’ll like it etc. met with immediate ridicule. Instant memefest.
Schwab literally looks like a science fiction B movie madman. He even has a costume, lol.
What they do well is a yearly conference with fancy videos and websites. They tend to invite people flattered by that kind of thing. But it is all at the Nicola Sturgeon level of sophistication. I suspect the real money doesn’t go within a hundred miles of Davos.
“Fortunately, we have more and more of these so-called fact-checkers, who can show that the spiteful insinuations against me are just false”
You mean the fact checkers that you fund & funded by BMGF.
On a serious note, in our times of electronic hallucio Believeations and flashes on phones. It is important that you put one or two hours a day aside just to read. The literacy will carry us forward believe me we will be under attack and we need to keep our culture alive. For me this is the most important thing possible. That we maintain a positive literate culture in Europe.We all need to become more humble and just be quiet.
It won’t be like his vision at all. Because the real longing is for the language of the spirit. That young men thousands of miles apart express the same yearning for freedom. And freedom is like walking into an independently owned corner shop and you speak with the cashier for hours.
Like MIlan Kundera said, the power of man over tyranny is the power of memory over forgetting.
I couldn’t take it. I had to stop reading. But, yes, this is one of the most powerful men on the planet. They ALL think this way. We’re sunk unless we expose ALL of these people.
I disagree. He is one of the men the media dote on. Which is not the same thing. The media treat Apple the same way. The media loves itself and endorses anyone who espouses the views they hold dear. All the pro gay rainbow unicorn climategeddon wokery.
Ordinary people pay no heed.
All it takes for evil to succeed is for Good Men to do nothing.
Oh I don’t know. All this propaganda is resource intensive. It ain’t cheap. Going against nature never is. They are swimming against strong currents. Multiculturalism, brainwashing people’s kids and mass injections of experimental biological agents all have consequences. The backlash will be entertaining.
Doesn’t matter we are moving into very different times. Where a man’s currency will be his word. It might seem a long way away but it isn’t at all.
I suspect a man’s currency will be programmable central bank digital currencies if we are not more careful.
That will be one option. But we will have another option – highwaymen who would never submit to that. If human freedom were to be reduced this way then life wouldn’t be living at all. I have faith in the human spirit,
A man after my own heart.
Mandela was a terrorist yet promoted a culture of social change.
A highwayman represents the freedom to steal from fools.
Whatever happens, there will be courageous people who will risk death for freedom.
These people exist even in deepest China and N. Korea.
World Government Summit?
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jennifer_Arcuri/status/1530326019810512896
National governments are incompetent. Can we even imagine the next-level incompetence a one world government would display?
For such an entity competence does not come into it. Look at their appointments: Johnson, Macron, Trudeau, Ardern etc. It’s about the survival of a tiny class.
How will they survive though? They ultimately rely on us.
We do need to assert some sort of reality because everyone else is out of control. Just saying.
“A media entrepreneur… once gave me some good advice, which I still take to heart today: He said the most I could achieve was that 30% of everyone think what I’m doing is great and another 30% are basically fine with it. Then 30% are rather sceptical, and 10% virulently against it. He advised me not to focus on these 10%, but to deal with the 60% in the middle. That is, the more positive and the more sceptical.”
This is not mangling “banal folk wisdom”, it’s a Machiavellian sociopath’s inversion of Professor Mattias Desmet’s elucidation of Mass formation psychosis, based on the works of Gustave Le Bon and others. This has obtained a wide audience since last year.
When a process of mass formation psychosis emerges in a society, 30% of the population is hypnotized. (Machiavellian sociopath inversion – “30% of everyone think what I’m doing is great.”)
40% of the population who go along with this first group are simply going along with the current, not because they wish to but because they feel that it is too difficult and too dangerous to go against it. (Machiavellian sociopath inversion – “another 30% are basically fine with it”)
The remaining 30% are not hypnotized, are resisting the narrative, and speaking out. (Machiavellian sociopath inversion – “Then 30% are rather sceptical, and 10% virulently against it.”)
He’s added “10% virulently against it”. Interestingly, 10% of a population are sociopaths. He’s implying that these few are sociopaths. Another inversion, sociopaths projecting their own behaviour onto others that challenge them. Those 10% will be in the top rungs of those hypnotized.
Schwab himself is one of those 10,000 high-functioning and obscenely rich sociopaths, the 0.000125% that Jacques Attali refers to as “the real bourgeoisie running the world.”
When Logic and Proportion have Fallen Sloppy Dead
https://hughboone.substack.com/p/covax-through-the-looking-glass-part?s=w
Excellent observation.
Schwab is a Walter Mitty con man. He’s no more “high-functioning” than some of the more intelligent street criminals I have dealt with in my life.
In terms of genuine wealth I would bet he’s a pauper compared to his uber wealthy overlords.
Please let’s not apportion anything other than narcissism to this self aggrandising, pompous arsehole.
Well his cons seem to be working on a sizeable portion of the world population, including those in key positions of power.
Intelligent street criminals are by definition, high-functioning sociopaths. He was just one born into a position of wealth and influence.
I’m sure there are more powerful sociopaths in the shadows behind him but he is still one of them.
They are all narcissistic, self-aggrandizing, pompous arseholes. So what? How does that make any of what I have said incorrect?
I don’t like him either but I will apportion whatever I see fit to anyone.
“Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith”
Sympathy For The Devil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnClrx8N2k&list=RD9_QGfzeiNb0&index=7
Narcissist; he’ll never see nor understand opposing views. He probably doesn’t even understand his own motivations and if people are killed through his and his friends actions he will probably, truly believe it was their own fault or necessary “for the greater good” and they are blameless.
Ming the Moron
Klaus is deranged, these ramblings prove it beyond doubt and megalomania does that to a chap. Our problem, is that some very low people and in some very high places, rich beyond even the dreams of Croesus play the wef game and their sole ambition to destroy the west. Deconstruction and the wef wrecking ball are succeeding, brick by brick the west is falling, the crusher comes next.
How would Bill gates make money if he destroyed the west?
The WEF’s grandiose idea is not to destroy the west, it’s to rule the west, like every child has once imagined being, King of the world.
But lock a bunch of the uber wealthy WEF supporters in a room together, tell them to pick a leader, and when you opened the door again they would all have stabbed each other to death, in the back.
These people are successful salesmen. They have never organised a grass roots social or political movement in their life. They have sold people what they think they want. They have never sold a person what they don’t want.
That’s the job of a politician.
Very true characterisation.
Unfortunately, they are capable of killing billions of us in their power struggle to be King of World. While they’re fighting Emperor Xi will take over. The idiots will be shocked thinking they controlled him.
My thinking is that they are waiting until after HMQ platinum jubilee to launch the wrecking ball.
I would guess many corporations are hedging.
The NAZI’s never went away did they?
They lurked in the shadows, and bided their time.
I thought they went to South America?
Let’s hope you don’t find yourself extradited to the Scottische Reich, if Toby grasses you up to the Scotch Secret Police.
Count Dankular awaits.
It’s a mindset or common insanity.
That awkward moment when you can’t tell which evil genius is real and which is a movie character.
Neil Oliver never fails on Saturday evenings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS2iU1cqqYU&t=6s
Why do you say ‘fails’….Is it because he was more positive than he usually is. The girl on there who went as a journalist there was saying many prime Ministers were not there, is that because the WEF is getting more tainted, if so that is good news. Rebel News and a few other independent outlets were not treated well there. Maybe his message was a false hope and we shouldn’t lower our guard to these people?
Fact-checkers, such as Reuters, who’s boss is on the board of Pfizer and is a member of the WEF…
The ‘banality of evil’ is an old, old expression and Schwab defines it…
I would not give this moron a minute of my time. Why would the daily sceptic write a whole article about such evil?
Because the BBC won’t.
An evil man, but I have a soft spot for him. A bog on Dartmoor!!