I hope this helps.

Speaking as a "Mostly Libertarian" person who once was even a member of the
Libertarian Party of Canada, I'm pretty sure we aren't running the show. If we
were there wouldn't be a law on the books limiting how many hours a week I
can work for a single employer in the form of the "overtime law" that makes the
41st hour sufficiently more expensive than the first 40 that it is usually considered
uneconomical to pay us for that so my hours are capped and thus my earning
potential also is. (At least this is the case in any industry where the margins are
tight.)

If it were not for the overtime law there would be a portion of the lower middle
class that would be getting more hours in than currently, thus taking home more
money (at our regular hourly rate) and accumulating capital that we currently aren't.

This is literally low hanging fruit, you could leave every other labor regulation the
same and just repeal that one thing and it would open up a path to capital formation
by those who care enough to do so which would enhance social mobility. All with no
downside to anybody.

It's almost like this law was designed to keep people down.

My general experience speaking to the public is that the people that have no interest
in working more don't care that it's holding other people down and there is also a
small contingent that seems to think they are gaining something from it that they aren't.
Then there are the people who have been scared by the socialist parties that they need
them to keep (insert government benefit here) so they are willing to accept collateral
damage to the motivated to keep (insert government benefit here). So as a resultant
we can't seem to get any traction for Libertarian ideas. This was just one example,
there are many others.

How to survive under an oppression state when the majority don't feel like they're being oppressed? It's sure a lonely world right now.

This is a stupid comment, it’s a hospital, not a Tim Hortons. ICU capacity is about 70% as a baseline since people get really sick all the time. CoVID-19 admissions are typically in an ICU for a couple of weeks. That’s over 300 hours. You are trying to determine the difference of an admittance difference of 30% over 300 hours by watching the admittance levels of any random 2-3 hours. Plus you are not taking into account transferring of patients to load balance across the health care system. Hopefully I’ve shown what you are trying to figure out is more complicated than that.

But his life is driven by fear – he has formed a view that ALL elites are toxic, connected and intending on enslavement of the populace. He came up with ALL the proposals your friend suggested – the WEF, the "new World Order", the dissolution of private property, the UBI, we'll be all reduced to cows in a paddock waiting to be sliced and diced.

I pursued the obvious – in a world of competing elites, and now an obviously FRACTURING elite, how does one get ALL the world leaders, all the world's medical experts, ALL the worlds elites, all the universities and research facilities – to same exactly the same thing.

Well, of course, the answer is obvious – a conspiracy makes superb assumptions – like, "you don't know what they are doing". Logic makes no impression – the world's elites have struggled for decades to manage global warming, struggled to reduce conflict and warfare, struggled to reduce inequality, environmental debasement, y'know, all the "big ticket" issues we've faced for decades.

But suddenly – voila – they are integrated and connected and undercover – without a single 'leak' or disclosure or slip of the tongue – despite the entire global contrarian media salivating and digging.

And then we come to the 'frighteners" – who are the most consistent purveyors of this 'information" – none other than the Libertarians – The Belgium Letter, the Great Barrington Declaration, the AIER, all funded by Koch and other billionaire Libertarians, all disclosing a world where "sheeples" will be corralled into a drugged existence with now property rights and a UBI.

I laugh; uproariously -the Libertarians have been the dominant policy setters for the last 50 years – Monetarism and Neo-Liberalism are their inventions; designed to unwind Keynes and taxation, reduce taxes on the rich, unwind regulations and install privatisation, unwind unions and collective labor. And the economic lies – the "Laffer" curve, trickledown, the rich needed to be rich to invest, govt should be reduced, austerity produces stability, all governments are constrained by 'the household budget'.

And now – the intelligent ones – there are a few – can tell that the 'dream is over' – zero rates, zero inflation, massive debt and peak inequality are the fruits of their 'experiment'. Inequality was ALWAYS their intention; its hardly news that unfettered capitalism naturally tends towards concentration of wealth. But that's what they WANTED, back in the 70s-80s

Let me tell you about inequality – it is a self-correcting cancer, Usually the correction is done the hard way like the 1880 and 1930 Depressions. Inequality has two significant outcomes – it destroys an economy, and destroys a society.

It destroys an economy via the concentration of wealth; we all know capitalism relies on distributed consumption, and when you concentrate wealth, you remove the key pillar of growth, and social cohesion.

The entire episode of Trump is a result of inequality – the Trumpians are the lower educated 'losers' in inequality – their jobs have disappeared, savings evaporated, lives shortened, opioids and suicide are the key deaths, their REAL wages are the same as 1970.

They saw Trump as the 'disruptor' – because their narrative from birth has been "Demrats are evil" – the entire GOP strategy has been divide and rule as their voter base has shrunk, and their bahvior is about activating the Limbic mechanism of the brain into a combination of fear and rage.

And how to they do this? All about "freedom" and "Liberty" – the two words are synonymous, but meaningless – ask 100 people for their definitions, you end up with 200 meanings. But "freedom" and "liberty" are BAKED into the brains of American conservatives, and the perform the essential role of 'hot buttons' that can be pushed, hammered, twisted into every type of meaning – free speech, free enterprise, free markets, free religion – just stick "free" in front of any topic then tell people that the "other side" wants to remove their 'freedoms' – amorphous, vague, mist-like, it create fear because it sits in the brain in a part that logic doesn't reach.

So who is doing all this – of course, the Libertarians. Every time a Libertarian talks, the sentence is comprised of 90% "freedom" words – the sentences barely make sense, but the logic is unquestioned – freedom is "always good" so loss of freedom is "always bad".

And THAT – has been the focus of 2020 – the panic about the lockdowns revolves ENTIRELY around "loss of freedom" or "Liberty curtailed". But they need to move it further, into non-evidence (to remove it from history – we have ALWAYS have quarantine and lockdowns) and remove it from logic (how could all the worlds elite control all the world's politicans and all the worlds medical experts when – on any other issue – they can't decide what time to have lunch).

And so why is this all happening? Because neo-liberalism is dead, monetarism is dead, the entire economic paradigm of the last 50 years is dead. Zero rates, zero inflation and saturated debt COMPLETELY defeats the entire logic of Monetarism – without inflation, the debt mountain cannot be eroded, debt-driven growth ceases to exist, inflation cannot be initiated (because real wages are suppressed) and the entire structure of Western economics grinds to a halt.

So – we are waiting for the next paradigm, and you can bet it will be a drift towards that Libertarians hate – a reduction of inequality, higher taxes, more regulation, de-financialisation, re-organisation of labour to assist in pushing real wages.

Back in the 70s, unions were the main transmission agent for inflation ( as well as expectations) – and the Libertarians hated it; not because it created inflation, but because it allowed organised labor to constantly gain a share of productivity, and therefore, increases in national income. Now, it is the reverse – the Libertarians has deregulated, privatised, broken union and dismantled any ability of labor to force real wages up, but they created a financial system that quarentines increases in national income to the asset holders – 90% of all stimulus end up as asset inflation. SO we've swapped wages inflation for asset inflation.

The Central Banks know this – because they rely on inflation to erode the current debt and allow more – which is why we currently have zero rates – debt is saturated because inflation is zero because real wage rises are zero and demand has plateaued.

So where is this going? Inequality is self-correcting; either politically or via a Depression. Inequality converts an average 'recession' into a depression – you will notice increasing intensity of crisis as inequality increases – and it results in a Depression at SOME point simply because all wealth is concentrated; the top holders of assets will be evaporated – they have no one else to sell too, because asset ownership has shrunk from 60% in 1970 to just 16% in 2020. The top 10% own 80% of assets.

And the Libertarians dimly recognise this – they know their experiement is over – they have achieved peak inequality, peak deregulation and the narrative of 'too big to fail' ensures that the FED will pursue QE to inifinity.

Yes – there is going to be a reset, and the Libertarians know this – and they are frantic with fear – the pendulum will swing backwards – either politically or via a Depression – and their entire paradigm for self-enrichment has come to a shuddering stop.

THAT is what 2020 is about – the pandemic is a sideshow – a shouting match between nutters – but the economics are inviolate. Inequality will be removed, either the 'easy way' (Biden) or the 'hard way' (Depression).

Which one do you think is more likely?

both sides of politics are united in their

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rupa-subramanya-chrystia-freelands-side-gig-with-the-wef-is-endangering-canadian-democracy

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/canada/jason-kennedy-is-defending-career-politicians-v-his-own-people/

"Like its first cousin, “The Great Reset,” which bizarrely aims to bring in environmental considerations under the purview of central banks, the innocuous sounding stakeholder capitalism is committed to destroying the foundations of Anglo-American free market capitalism and replacing it with a system where governments and their cronies in Davos tell private businesses what they need to care about. The irony here is that all of those at Davos, including Freeland, got there because of the free market system and shareholder-driven capitalism, which they’re now bent on overthrowing in an unholy alliance of true believers and opportunists.
There’s no need to invent conspiracy theories. The attempt by global elites to subvert local democracy is fully on and in plain view."

Great perspective provided by Armstrong – https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/banking-crisis/federal-reserve-conspiracy-theories/

Last week Justinie mentioned using G4S security, Gardia World and another company for 'hotel internment' security. His private army is now at work against Canadians (hardly needed, we are the most passive people around) NO BALLS!

For the first time in my sunny Canadian life, I feel oppressed. Wow, I never imagined this would be possible in my lifetime. Where is the manual: How to survive under an oppression state? LOL

Thanks for all you do, Kim

It is very scary when dystopian conspiracy predictions are not falsified by events, and when attempts to discuss the official theories are censored.

The most scary thing is how many people continue to suspend their critical faculties. Young "educated" people are the worst. We have all been asleep while our children have been compulsorily transformed from curious beings into timid box-tickers obedient to authority. Do we have to write off most of the under 45's (and half of the "boomers") in order to reclaim a sane world?

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.