The lunatics have taken over the asylum

The end of democracy

Klaus Schwab and a globe. Any resemblance with Charly Chaplin in The Great Dictator exists merely in your own imagination.

The G20 that met last week on the paradise island of Bali were many. Because at the same time -what a coincidence! - the B20 also met there and these are the men who run the show: the representatives of the world's largest 'business 20' that have come to play an increasingly important role in international politics as a result of globalism in recent decades. Public-Private cooperation it's called, which often boils down to the Public (us) paying and the Private collecting. It was a kind of LAT relationship between the two, there in Bali. Living Apart Together, after all, it is important to keep some semblance between those who eat directly from the state's trough -politicians- and those who do so thanks to the decisions of those politicians; the pigs. From Big Pharma, Big Tech and Big Media, to Big Energy, Big Industry and Big Arms. There was some chafing between the G20 and the B20, to the extent that fact checkers started getting involved. Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum was also there, and since he likes to go for a B20 spot, but is also enormously sensitive at his G20 spot, confusion arose as to exactly where Herr Klaus had been invited. Was he a businessman or a politician? In the end it turned out that he had dropped in on both; he and his WEF remain the great mixer of politics and business for a reason. One thing the 20 governments apparently agreed on was the fact that there should be a digital vaccination card "to facilitate travel". They created a problem and now handed the solution to it. How convenient. Not that there wasn't already a vaccination pass; in Canada, that vax-pass is already being developed. With help from -well well, who would have guessed- the WEF, the Dutch State and KLM. Coincidentally -you don't say!- just hours before that the Dutch Queen Máxima had also, in a video message, advocated the digitization of just about everything: banks and currencies included.

Still from the Netherlands the news suddenly arrived that a solution to Schiphol's (Amsterdam Airport) capacity problems was on the way. You may remember that last summer those who wanted to fly from or to Amsterdam got stuck. Tens of thousands of passengers were left stranded. Chaos reigned and planes left empty because baggage handling could not cope. The Dutch top executive of travel organizer TUI, Arjen Kers, said in De Telegraaf newspaper at the time that, in his opinion, the Dutch government wanted to keep the chaos permanent: " Their 'shrinkage agenda' is leading." Meaning: they want the airport to get less traffic.

Not to worry, as the Dutch government now suddenly has a solution to solve this problem. Not by recruiting more baggage people, that would be too easy. No, the digital passport for travelers will be the solution. Who would have guessed? The fact that there were no problems at all at passport control but that problems occurred at the baggage handling is a detail.

Anyone who criticizes this robbery at broad daylight, of our money, our rights and our freedom is immediately portrayed - you guessed it - as a conspiracy theorist, a right-wing extremist and - yes - as a threat to society. That's why Dutch Interior Minister Hanke Bruins Slot is now going to introduce a bill that could ban political parties "if they want to overthrow the democratic rule of law. This new law is directly aimed at the Forum for Democracy party of 'enfant terrible' Thierry Baudet who dares to state that the "Emperor has no clothes on" in Parliament House. It illustrates the desperation of a political class trying to dig themselves out of a hole.

The above evolutions also clearly show the democratic deficit that globalism has given us; the gigantism of some corporations and NGOs has become so enormous that it threatens our democratic rule of law. The citizen no longer has a grip on his government, the government no longer has a grip on the supranational institutions, while the giants of Big Everything have a grip on just about all things thanks to their deep pockets and their enormous lobbying efforts.

Our people's representatives are only allowed to push the yes button to approve the decisions of the G20 club. Since particracy has taken over from democracy, the elected representatives' own opinions and beliefs no longer matter.

The citizen stands by and watches. In Europe at this time, it's with a blanket wrapped around them in a cold house to save on electricity bills which are soaring, watching soccer players sweat in an air-conditioned stadium in Qatar. Oh irony.