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I don’t know what else to say, other than this is fucking infuriating.

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Liz Ehrich

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Now that you are on to the WEF, maybe you will look at the power grab by The WHO that is underway. The WHO is on track to establish a technocratic totalitarian world government, based on constant surveillance and health passports. The model is China, where people were locked in their houses with no access even to food based on covid-19 contact tracing. Look up James Roguski's substack for all the details. I upgraded to paid so I could post this comment. you need to get beyond the left versus right viewpoint , and realize the real fight is Davos man vs. the rest of us, and huge amounts of censorship are used to hide the real agenda, such as this WHO power grab.

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Are you fully vaccinated/boosted against COVID-19? If not, I am not interested in anything you have to say.

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Instead of bringing together the best minds, this event bringing together the fabulously wealthy to inform them of the very events and trends that will decimate their wealth. It is very much worth it for them to listen so they know what and who will try to put a leash on them. Maybe one or two will be interested to doing something uplifting for the underdogs and ordinary, but the rest will know the playbook of their opponents.

At the rate we are going, the only thing that will stop this is a worldwide depression. Everybody suffers, but a lot of the rich will also be swept away because the money they have is only backed up by our heated up economy.

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Liz Ehrich

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Now that you are on to the WEF, maybe you will look at the power grab by The WHO that is underway. The WHO is on track to establish a technocratic totalitarian world government, based on constant surveillance and health passports. The model is China, where people were locked in their houses with no access even to food based on covid-19 contact tracing. Look up James Roguski's substack for all the details. I upgraded to paid so I could post this comment. you need to get beyond the left versus right viewpoint , and realize the real fight is Davos man vs. the rest of us, and huge amounts of censorship are used to hide the real agenda, such as this WHO power grab.

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You paid money in order to troll here? Not a great investment.

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Are the Illuminati involved? Just wondering.

Popular information has facts to back up its reporting. You appear to have paranoid fantasies. There is, in fact, a difference. But thanks for today's display of changing the subject.

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Wow! Just... wow! Thank you Judd. Nowhere else do I find this type of reporting and it cannot be stressed enough, that this is most important work that you all do Judd.

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I want to know just what kind of "Justice Studies" they teach at Arizona State, because somehow Sinema got a Phd in this, and acts like that. It makes no sense to me.

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One doesn't need a degree to be bought. Sinema learned a language that knows how to speak out of 6 sides of her face. Her goals are clear and she waits for the right moment, planning and executing this strategy. Then she makes some sort of "I'm standing for the people of Arizona" speech, after the damage is done.

Arizona is allowing Fondomante, a Saudi company, to pump thousands of gallons of groundwater without accountability, out of the ground in Arizona. This is so they can grow alfalfa to feed to their cattle that live in their desert. They can get 4 growing seasons here. In the meantime, Lake Mead in Az is dropping to record levels and Scottsdale has just shut off their water supply to surrounding areas, leaving others high and dry so those with the $ can water their lawns and golf courses. I don't know how much clearer the message has to be for people to wake up.

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So damned well said, Jeanie!

This water war is a tremendous issue and needs to be front page daily!!!

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thanks for this eye opener. Was Sinema involved in this treachery w Fondomante? Yes, she’s well-educated, and so are many other MOC who serve their donors. I can’t understand how the Democrats of Arizona put up with her.

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Glad to share. At this point, I do not know who arranged the deal. I do know the location (La Paz county and also Mohave county) resides within Rep. Paul Gosar's jurisdiction.

More infor can be found here: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/media-archive/a2019/water_azcentral_12.11.19.pdf and a google search will give you more info.

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Deeply saddened and horrified, George, by your summary.

How is it possible that the enormously wealthy can have so little regard for humans and all other beings on the planet and the planet herself?

The suffering already at hand is far too much and they could, if they still have hearts and souls, with a wave of the hand make it better.

Now, Sinema and Manchin are more incredibly awful to me and the image of them high fi-ing at Davos makes me want to puke...on them.

This, in conjunction with the news of WHO’s world order...

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How is it possible?

Perhaps it has to do with growing up in a situation where money and connections buy a lack of accountability. Perhaps it is living in, and competing only with the wealthiest, and the rest are meant to serve, be used or ignored. Those that serve directly are ordered to be "invisible". There are some families that earn pride as benefactors in a community, but they are fewer and fewer as these families grow older. Now they lie about the results of their donations, or blame the people whose cultures they never bothered to understand in the first place.

We can't just throw money and expect problems to disappear. What concerns me is the amount of wealth amassed by the appropriation of natural resources that should belong to everyone as a community. No amount of money in exchange can bring the health and well being that the natural world can. We are fast finding this out, aren't we? NO AMOUNT OF MONEY will bring water, clean air, ancient rainforests, wetlands, clean lakes, rivers and oceans, that which is necessary for all creatures to live and thrive in health.

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Ansolutely true, Jeanie!

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There is no WHO world order. That's conspiracy lunacy.

As for how this is possible, some reading in world history will demonstrate that. Pay particular attention to feudalism. Even when the aristos were brought into constant contact with the serfs, they still had no difficulty treating them like property. Now that the world's populations is several orders of magnitude greater than is was 1000 years ago and technology has enabled the very wealthy to live in insulated bubbles, the reduction of 99% of the world's population to the level of tools is that much easier.

The great irony, to me, is that the conspiracy nutters have been sufficiently brainwashed so that they attack the people who are actually trying to improve the situation while giving the actual elite a free pass. They'll work themselves up into a hysterical frenzy attacking doctors and epidemiologists while worshipping Elon Musk.

P.T. Barnum was right. Again.

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So there is no WHO World order? Conspiracy lunacy? Except perhaps for the Chinese way of having everyone’s face on camera wherever they go and their phones operating as tracking devices ,etc?

I feel creepy about the whole city of London full of surveillance cameras. Is this also in parts of Mew York City?

Is all that not true?

How do we know?

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Judd, this is extremely important information. It uncovers the truth of some of the reasons we can’t get real change implemented. I remember watching a group of billionaires talk on tv (years ago) about what they will do with generous donations from their vast wealth. A viewer asked if the decisions should be in their hands just because they have this massive wealth. I’ll never forget the question because it pointed out something very important…why should so few individuals have this power to decide? Warren Buffet was highly offended by the question and said something to the effect of the donations should be appreciated! They didn’t have to do this. They were trying to do good. I’m sure there was a lot of good intent but he missed the fact that, in that situation, money was still buying control!

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This is the sort of attention to detail necessary to effect change. You have isolated a reason why it is important to have wealth taxed and then shared with those that need in appropriate ways. You have provided a path of thoughtful language that can start a conversation with wealth that is looking to donate and with the receivers of the donation. In my mind, I see doors fly open, even if what you say only has the effect of becoming more apparent at first. Thank you for sharing your experience and thinking. I have been working and volunteering as an educator, getting glimpses of how diversity sees through a diverse lens. When I hear people of wealth that I know and care about, talk about their disappointment in donating and seeing their donations "go unappreciated" in their minds, or, seen as enabling, it's a struggle to know where to begin the conversation. I don't want to interpret, but rather facilitate. Your comment has given me wings. Thank you.

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For a supposedly advanced nation, we are distressingly backwards in terms of social policy.

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Manchin and Sinema are bad people. Greedy, bad people.

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Exactly. There is no conspiracy here just petty greed and contempt for society.

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It's not a conspiracy when it's happening in plain sight, in any case. And, yes, simple greed is always a reliable explanation. Manchin and Sinema no doubt fancy themselves part of the elite. The real elite, of course, know they are just highly-paid serfs.

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Rich people are going to get richer and poor people are going to get poorer and a lot of people are going to die. There are no single or overarching prescriptions. The world is now in uncharted territory and by now those who seek to understand have a pretty clear picture of what is happening. The challenge is reaching and motivating the other 90% (a guess at best)of humanity. I fear that only collapse in the broadest sense will reach a majority. But , collapse is really scary. To hope that after everything falls apart and people are starving or dying of thirst or dying of too much heat for too long or civil unrest and chaos , a group of solutions can be created and implemented is just so much to hope for. We need solutions now and we need a collective response to these existential problems. WEF is not the solution. WEF is the problem.

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Judd, you're preaching to the choir. Please write and submit op-eds to the Washington Post and New York Times, so those readers and reporters gain awareness of these trends. The Post's economics reporters are especially bad.

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As always, you are right on the money, Judd!

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First, the Manchin-Sinema spectacle was gross. I wonder if they paid their own attendance fees. Second, Semafor is on the ground in Davos and writing a daily newsletter. Other independent and MSM organizations may be as well, but if so coverage can’t get through the cacophony of House shenanigans and Biden outrage. Third, all conspiracies aside, if the WEF is a confab of the world’s wealthiest “conservatives,” then that’s really all we need to know.

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They only care about money. Period. Full Stop.

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As the Bible says (and I’m not religious), “The love of money is the root of all evil.” Hard to disagree with that.

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I don’t know much of what the Bible says but can certainly agree. And anywhere in the world, money is power.

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What do you do when party is a bunch of greedy corporatists... and the other party is even worse?

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Liz Ehrich

just now

Now that you are on to the WEF, maybe you will look at the power grab by The WHO that is underway. The WHO is on track to establish a technocratic totalitarian world government, based on constant surveillance and health passports. The model is China, where people were locked in their houses with no access even to food based on covid-19 contact tracing. Look up James Roguski's substack for all the details. I upgraded to paid so I could post this comment. you need to get beyond the left versus right viewpoint , and realize the real fight is Davos man vs. the rest of us, and huge amounts of censorship are used to hide the real agenda, such as this WHO power grab.

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You're just doing a copy and paste to every other comment with this nonsense. Bugger off.

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!!*#!$!@!!!

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Two words: Robber Barons.

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look up the movie titled "everything is a rich man's trick" on YouTube. definitely Robber Barons.

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It is interesting to read this analysis in light of recent reporting on Ron DeSantis. “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) moved to prohibit state-run fund managers from taking environmental, social or governance (ESG) factors into consideration when making investments.” DeSantis said, “Corporations across America continue to inject an ideological agenda through our economy rather than through the ballot box. Today’s actions reinforce that ESG considerations will not be tolerated here in Florida, and I look forward to extending these protections during this legislative session.” The governor and the trustees of the State Board of Administration said Tuesday they had mandated “that all investment decisions focus solely on maximizing the highest rate of return.” Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis added, “We need asset managers to be laser focused on returns and nothing more. Florida’s not going to subsidize the actions of a bunch of Leftist ideologues who hate America; we’re not going to let a bunch of rich people in Manhattan or Europe try to circumvent our democracy.”

When I read this, I interpreted “rich people in Europe” as the WEF, which I assumed was what prompted the latest announcement from Florida man.

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Jan 20, 2023·edited Jan 20, 2023

DeSantis is a moron in the long term to institute such things as he is governing a pretty much, over-developed wetland. But he is a perfect example of what makes short term sense, since investors are scared off from investing long term at this point. It looks to me like that he is responding to short term investment strategies. Could be just me, but here is some info on wetland : https://soils.ifas.ufl.edu/wetlandextension/threats.htm

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I live in Florida, would leave if not for the people I love here. I waffle between fury and despair w regard to desantis. Reading this quote brings me to tears and a little nausea.

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