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by Ourgon 1537 days ago
The "Free World" has become markedly less free since the fall of the Berlin wall. Part of this is just the result of the fact that was deemed no longer necessary by those in power to portray the image of being "The Free World" now that the cold war was over, part of it is due to the fact that the enemy-shaped hole left by the demise of the Evil Empire was filled by things like "globalism" and "climate disaster". Globalism created the conditions for the rise of China as the up-and-coming superpower, the climate scare created the conditions for the WEF "Build Back Better" [1] strategy which is to usher in that globalist world where "you will own nothing and you will be happy" [2]. Then the SARS2 pandemic hit - oddly enough just a few months after the WEF finished practising for just such a scenario in their "Event 201" program [3] - which severely restricted freedom all over the world, markedly so in states which were deemed to be the poster children of "The Free World". Many leaders started using the rhetoric of "The Great Reset" and "Build Back Better" [4], some leaders of "The Free World" openly proclaimed their admiration of the Chinese approach [5], many others were inspired by the Chinese "social credit score" system and forwarded plans to create similar systems in "The Free World" under the guise of "Pandemic preparedness". Many if not most of those schemes ended up being shot down in the parliamentary process but is has been made clear that the freedoms which were once seen as inviolable in "The Free World" - from ownership rights through freedom of speech to freedom of association and freedom of movement - are seen as a detriment to their ideas of how society is to progress by a number of influential people.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/to-build-back-better-...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...

[2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/8-predictions-for-the... - notice that the WEF removed the page related to this quote: '1. All products will have become services.' leads to 'Sorry, but we can’t find the page you were looking for' while other links still work

[3] https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

[4] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YkcaeaD45MY

[5] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=eqnmfNiaM-Y