The big story of 2024 that NOBODY is talking about
Kit Knightly
As the embers of 2024 spit out their dying sparks and tendrils of smoke corkscrew into 2025, I want to ask: what were the important news stories of this year?
Most people will say something international. The war in Ukraine, the atrocities in Gaza, the fall of Assad.
Maybe some will cite elections, it was a big year for voting after all. A global shift-change in the corridors of power saw a dozen governments swapped out for new faces, with 2 weeks of the year left it’s still possible Trudeau, Macron or Scholz may join the procession.
The tech minded might talk about advancements in Artificial Intelligence.
Those are the big stories of 2024. The banner headlines. Sound and fury and all that signifies. But were they the most important?
No, the important story of 2024 was The Great Reset.
Remember that? It was this pan-global supranational plan to tear down and then rebuild society in a “sustainable”, “inclusive”, “fair” and “secure” way that would – totally accidentally – eradicate civil liberties and individual freedom for every single person on the planet.
It was all the rage a few years ago, you might remember. But when it didn’t go over too well with a lot of people, the powers that be dropped the subject and there’s been very little talk about it since 2022.
Does that mean it’s gone away?
We need to have “object permanence” in politics as in all things. Something doesn’t cease to exist just because you can’t see it anymore. The world doesn’t vanish when you close your eyes.
The Great Reset is still the plan.
It’s still happening. It’s just distributed now. A compartmentalized strategy uploaded to the cloud, everywhere and nowhere. A million nanobots working a million angles to change a million tiny rules and build a million tiny cells.
Like the end of The Usual Suspects, stand the right distance back and you can see the pattern.
Just last week, the UK’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty published his annual health report. What does he recommend? Sin taxes on “unhealthy” foods and 15 minute cities. Labour have already increased “sin taxes” on sugar, salt, alcohol and tobacco. Next comes red meat, dairy and just “carbon” in general.
Earlier this year the UK introduced licensing for keeping chickens. They banned smoking too.
By 2035 it will be impossible to buy a new petrol car in the UK. Or the EU. Or Canada. Or New Zealand. Or Australia. Or Mexico. Or South Africa. Or California, and 11 other US states.
From that point you and your car will be anchored to charging points. Even better your new car will probably have automatic drive features, speed limiters – oh and remote kill switches.
This week, all of sudden, the news tells us that wood burning stoves cause cancer. A ban is already being discussed. Since coal is already a no-no for domestic users (since 2023), there effectively goes your last chance of energy and heat independence. If they ban stoves there will be no heating available to you that can’t be hooked up to a smart meter, surveilled, controlled.
Unless you count burning a candle inside a plant pot. And they’re coming for those too.
The much-publicised murder of Sara Sharif has already been parlayed into a new bill taking away parents “automatic right to homeschool their children” – if the state deems them “vulnerable”.
Digital IDs are coming for everyone from everywhere. Here’s just a selection of reasons –
To secure the border and ensure electoral integrity in the US.
To protect children on social media in Australia.
To promote efficiency in the EU.
To combat illegal immigration in the UK.
To track migrant workers in Russia.
Because they said so in China.
The EU wants to establish an “asset register” and biometric tracking across borders. Online anonymity is being eroded with each “hate crime” attributed to “disinformation” and “hate speech”.
There is persistent and consistent talk of rationing – food and water and travel.
Ban it. Ration it. Monitor it. Control everyone’s everything.
Can’t you see the walls closing in?
These are not disparate issues, they are heads on a hydra. They form the universal silent agenda that is everywhere. They are bipartisan and cross-bench. They are the things unquestioned, sanctioned and approved by both “sides” of every fake “divide”.
The people at the apex of the pyramid literally spent two years talking about this. Telling you it was the plan and how great it was going to be.
Then, when it didn’t take, they spent two more years pretending they never said it and distracting you with other things like UFOs. Taylor Swift. ChatGPT. Race-baiting.
They are building a prison around every single person on this planet while we argue about Hunter Biden and QAnon and Transgender bathrooms.
The drones over New Jersey – supposing there’s anything really there at all – may as well be a giant jangling key chain in the sky.
That’s what all of it is. The elections. The terrorism. The scandals. The leaked reports.
It’s a laser pointer. It stops the cat from playing with the things he shouldn’t play with.
Today is my birthday. I’m hurtling – faster than I expected or desired – towards 40. My birthday wish is a world worth living in when I get there.
The silver lining of 2025 being as bad I suspect it’s going to be is that it might force people to re-realise everything they’ve forgotten since 2022. And the first step to fixing something is admitting there’s a problem.
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Off topic but this may be the most unbelievably desperate cultural rewriting I ever saw. From The Independent:
“17 Movies where viewers completely missed the point”
One of them is “The Matrix”. Well you’ll never guess what The Matrix is “really about”:
“Most people could be forgiven for missing the trans metaphor at the heart of The Matrix when it first debuted; at the time, the sibling filmmaking team the Wachowskis were publicly thought to be two cisgender men. In the years since the film’s release, the Wachowskis have confirmed that the film was intended as a metaphor for the trans experience, a reading that flew over the heads of most viewers back in 1999. The appropriation of The Matrix by the alt right, meanwhile – with the film’s famous “red pill/blue pill” imagery even working its way into the lexicon – was also bizarrely off base. “It’s a very, very shallow reading of the intention of a film,” star Hugo Weaving later said.”
I mean: is there any fucking hint in The Matrix that it’s really about men who want to cut their own cocks off?
And how about this?:
“at the time, the sibling filmmaking team the Wachowskis were publicly thought to be two cisgender men.”
At the time, had anyone even heard of “cisgender”?
I still confidently expect the release of “Mozart: Trans Trailblazer!” followed by similar blockbusters about St. Augustine and Plato.
Last night on local TV (Sydney) i watched a re-run of the first
two episodes of That Great British Comedy Series “To The Manor
Born”… Hoping soon for a re-run of “Yes, Minister ?”…
Ah ! Those Were The Days
Ah ! They Dont Make ’em Like That Anymore…
I’d say the main msm news plant of the year was that queens welsh news guy painted as a nonce meaning they can control your brain cell data mine no prob.
In my 30’s I would say,’40, I’m be happy with that’ but here is me. still saying idiot things in my late 50.s.
When I was 40, had my fave band stay at my flat (was on the dole), on my birthday.
A few days later had a smoke with the best guitarist ever,
Happy Birthday.
Happy birthday and all the best to the author.
The political system worldwide is more and more openly showing it’s ugly and rogue face behind the smiling masks.
Understand the politicians are in the know and they are getting scared.
The reason is most certainly the following subject and not the CO2 narrative.
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/101-art-berman
Maybe They have discovered a way to plug The Hole ?
The Usual Suspects is a cheat. You watch the whole movie, and then you find out in the end it was all a lie. So what’s the point? And what pattern?
The one silver lining, if you can call it that, is that the prevailing economic doctrine and the people delivering that doctrine have ensured that in Britain at least, nothing fucking works! We can’t even build a train track for fuck’s sake. Good luck implementing the apparatus that we’ll need for this all electric “utopia” they have planned for us.
It isn’t going to happen. They’ll try, but it won’t work, not like they want it to. Society will collapse into chaos first. Who knows, maybe that’s the plan. It doesn’t sound like a good plan for control to me though.
By the way, if you moan about any of the stuff mentioned in the article but you still have and use a smartphone, then I’m afraid you have no grounds to complain at all as they are the nexus of all of this.
Smartphones can be tamed, little research will show you that. In fact any smart device can be tamed. The problem we face is lack of awareness and the human ability of not giving a f**k until it’s too late.
Oh it’s a good plan for control, people will be running around like headless chickens, clucking it couldn’t happen here. The population problem will disappear and I haven’t even got a mobile phone yet.
Spot on message and reminder, Kit. Ignore the comments about “lightening up” and backing off the “doom porn”. I get the same comments from friends and family when I share important articles and reminders about how the world really works. Somebody needs to keep the torch lit, especially when formerly open agendas suddenly disappear. I’m reminded of DARPAs “Total Information Awareness” program that the DoD ran back about 20 years ago. It was “disbanded” by Congress after public outcry and criticism, but its core elements just ended up going underground and getting dispersed into other DoD programs. Same shite, different decade. Keep up the good work, and best birthday wishes.
You’re right. In the 2000’s I used to be all over the agendas and shenanigans of TPTB. Then the 20teens came along, the world seemed more open and more prosperous than ever before, and I took my eye off the ball. That is until the 2020’s, when they hit us all while we weren’t looking.
You will own nothing and you will be happy
The scented candles apocalypse is one hell of a hoot. Once again we are supposed to believe those mega entities slithering around in that vampiric blood tank up there give a flying fuck about the health of the minions i.e. the very minions they decimated with phony viral spookery, lethal axe-vaxxes, “trans” genitalia gouging, and sheer non-stop anxiety porn. And behold once again the unceasing flood of polysyllabic puke to impress the ever gullible “progressives”.
Isn’t it time we were due another video of dancing medical staff? How about dancing undertakers? Cavorting corpse carvers? Clowning climatologists?
“Porn ! Porn ! Everywhere there’s Porn !”
Fear Porn. Anxiety Porn. Despair Porn. Porn, Porn, Porn !!!
Bring Back Yesterday (BBY) when we had only Sex Porn
to
distractuswear us down…“Because they said so in China” – brilliant. Never underestimate the power of humour. Even in difficult times!
You are still looking at the smokescreen and not the reality. The great reset began in the early 1980’s. When we were told our future prosperity relied on a service economy while manufacturing and production were old school nonsense.
This was a coded description of a capitalist economy where wealth would come from existing assets alone. Labour would never make you rich.
The arguments about whether we are green enough or who is good and who is evil are just to distract people from the real issue. The wealthy do not want any new club members. If you look closely you will find there are no new wealth club members. It is the same lot that were there in the 1980’s.
Except for Chinese. That is why they are now the greatest “threat”.
Happy Birthday. I advise you to read something uplifting, as opposed to your article. While it is important to be informed in order to resist tyranny, it’s also important to find few reasons to get out of bed in the morning. So lighten up, youngster, and enjoy your remaining years free from the unstoppable tyranny of the ageing process.
Yes, you’re so right- the HANDS were not the most washed thing of late, it was and STILL is the BRAIN
About the size of it
Happy Birthday Kit, how about less doom.
BTW Whitney Webb has done sterling work on who Vance is, Trump’s Vp and you have not mentioned anything.
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