That frightening Lagarde lady actually lists “privacy” as a problem along with money-laundering and financing of terrorism. She could mean that privacy needs to be protected, but from what is known of her I would guess she is against it.
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The box came up, I closed it, and I could read the intimidating information.
The first time I tried it, it just got stuck, wouldn’t scroll down for some mysterious reason that I ascribed to a paywall. Thanks, Chauncey.
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It is worth reading in full I think actually. Quote:
BlackRock owns about 10% of AstraZeneca
The UK govt. was pushing the AstraZeneca jab hard.
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What is the understanding you would like us to derive from the article?
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I was mainly just sharing that for information at the moment, but I have some growing concerns around the political influence of the largest corporations and around this corporation in particular, as do many. If the implementation of the Going Direct plan didn’t break any laws then there is something wrong with the legislation on lobbying influence. This FT article is behind a paywall, but the headline says it all I think:
“Fed’s big boost for BlackRock raises eyebrows on Wall Street”
https://www.ft.com/content/08b897a5-aadb-40d7-922c-431154ed968a
BlackRock also apparently won a legal battle that determined that “too big to fail” is a concept that only applies to banks, that was one of many important bits of info. in the article. I’ve been thinking quite a bit about anti-trust legislation lately, without having come to any firm conclusions yet. What does strike me quite forcefully however is that there is a huge problem now in that global corporations have become more powerful than national governments, and a de facto corporatist world government is emerging, with Klaus Schwab as the de facto unelected President of the World.
There are no allegations that can be made against Osborne himself, according to this BBC article anyway, and since he has ceased to be an MP (he is no longer editor of the Evening Standard either although he continued there until 2020 according to this):
The problem I see here though is that for high profile politicians leaving office there is a gravy train that they know they can just hop on to high-paying jobs in these global corporations and/or on to the high-paying lecture circuit. It could be that Osborne may have some useful knowledge that BlackRock can use, but it’s also very possible that they don’t really need him at all. If they know that jobs like these will be waiting for them when they leave, then politicians are likely to be influenced while in office to make decisions that they expect will please potential future employers. It could be that our politicians are being corrupted by this sort of influence without any words even needing to be said, i.e. without any crimes being committed that could be proven in a court of law. Quote from the BBC article:
In November, he defended earning £320,000 in speaking fees in a single month after leaving government.
Most of the top politicians in the UK today are obviously self-serving career politicians, that much is evident from their actions since the start of 2020. They implemented measures that they knew were not necessary (evidenced by Santagate), the “opposition” just complained they weren’t doing more of the same, and these measures have enriched the big pharmaceutical companies, endangered the lives of many children, and pushed us close to a financial crisis that is now starting to unfold. The trillion dollar question right now, is WHY have they been doing this?
A quote from the BBC article from Osborne himself claiming that:
“BlackRock wants better outcomes for pensioners and savers - and I want to help them deliver that.”
Well that’s a sick joke considering that they actually called for inflation as part of the Going Direct plan!
PM Johnson, supposedly against what Cameron described as “the green crap” before being elected, has also been pushing the climate change agenda that pushes poor pensioners towards fuel poverty. Is Johnson likewise pushing the right buttons that will make sure he is soon also on the gravy train?
“Boris Johnson used to mock ‘eco-doomsters.’ Now he’s a climate champion.”
Meanwhile BlackRock just grows and grows with each successive crisis. Isn’t it reasonable to ask questions about their political influence?
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I think your suspicions are right on the mark.
This is exactly what’s happening. As you say, “global corporations are becoming more powerful than national governments, and a de facto corporatist world government is emerging.”
It has corrupted our politicians, who see their chance to jump on the gravy train.
I’ve been hearing about the involvement in all of this by Blackrock (and many others) for years.
Now it emerges that Pfizer is doing the same thing.
So many politicians and bureaucrats are making money shilling for the vaccines and mandates that “conflict of interest” is no longer a problem.
It really is becoming a joke - a very sick joke.
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BlackRock owns shares in Pfizer as well apparently:
See also:
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I have to think about this. Ponder it. My immediate reaction is horror.
There are questions whose answers I need to be clear about. (I am putting them to myself, Chauncey, but answers and comments from you would be welcome):
And the rest of us are to own nothing?
What information we may have will be controlled by Them? Which means we will be fed only the lies and propaganda that the New York Times columns - and the social media monopolies - typically serve up now?
We will be treated - or not - with necessary medications according to decision-making panels consisting of drug company bosses and politicians? (Palin’s “death panels” come to mind.)
A world government, presided over by the (mad old overgrown-schoolboy?) Klaus Schwab - and his resembling successors - will distribute “the world’s wealth”, making its arbitrary decisions according to what most benefits itself?
This is coming about now as corporations wield power as great as governments? By entrenched olympians: the owners of the vast corporations and “elected” politicians, the two categories melding into one as the elected become executive officers of the corporations and the owners run for election aided by their information monopolies?
Is this the culmination of the public-private partnership much discussed on top of the magic mountain, the new Olympus, where the town of Davos stands on the alp to which the sick traditionally resort?
Is this the reconciliation of capitalism with socialism? The marriage of private enterprise and government? The vindication of Hegel, his dialectic of thesis and antithesis giving birth to a darling gurgling chubby little synthesis whose name shall be - Plutocracy. World domination by the Rich?
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That very accurately puts into words the exact questions I have, and the ominous conclusions it all seems to point to…
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I think that’s a pretty accurate summary, although in BlackRock’s case this particular corporation is already more powerful than most governments it seems.
The only thing that can save us is a great awakening of ordinary people, and all we can do to that end is to try and continue to provide the evidence of what is really happening to as many people as possible. Fortunately there are a growing number of popular commentators emerging who are speaking out, so I don’t think all is lost yet.
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Vladimir Putin speaks at the WEF making points that are straight out of the WEF songsheet.
He mentions Quantitative Easing in the speech, and the problem of zero interest rates, which seems to me to be another possible indication that the world leaders are pursuing a plan towards CBDCs together.
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That’s not him speaking English, that’s his translator, notice that he’s lip movement is not matching the person translating English.
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Thanks, you’re right it’s clearly the voice of the translator in a subsequent discussion.
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Another “song and dance” routine performed for the public in service of the globalist agenda.
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Steve Baker MP, one of the faint hopes in today’s Conservative Party in the UK:
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The Feds and the central banks can already do all that anyway, can’t they?
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They can freeze bank accounts apparently today, under various anti-terror laws I think in different countries including the UK. Whether the law enforcement agencies can intervene in individual transactions directly or not today I’m not sure, still less with cryptocurrencies probably.
What they definitely can’t do today is stop an individual transaction in cash, whereas if CBDCs come in they will be able to stop any individual transaction even before it’s made, and then there probably won’t be any cash at all anymore, I think that’s the big thing we need to emphasize.
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Of course! They want digital currency, and by George, they are going to get it, whatever the excuse may be.
Covid, war, digital hacking - take your pick - “Whatever your authoritarian designs may be - we’ve got the crisis for you!”
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“Great Reset: Crypto ‘Worth Nothing’ but Centralised Digital Currency is the Future – Central Bank Head”
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