Klaus Schwab is is the head of the World Economic Forum (WEF). He is famous for saying that "You Will Own Nothing and You'll Be Happy."
Conrad Black has participated in WEF sessions, so he knows whereof he speaks. His column at The Burning Platform offers this:
As one who attended for 20 years —
and, following the controversial death of Bob
Maxwell, was co-leader (with the late Lord Rothermere) of the WEF
media group — I found the sessions interesting and informative, and sometimes
even entertaining. (On one occasion, I was speaking with the doyen of
conferenciers, Henry Kissinger; when someone approached, Kissinger said, “Here
comes that goddamn Indian.” I remarked that he was quoting General Custer; the
networker turned out to be the prime minister of India.) Klaus Schwab thought
the leaders of the international organizations he featured at Davos — the
European Union, the World Bank, the United Nations, World Court, World Trade
Organization and all their affiliated agencies — should play an increasingly
important role to implement his vision of universal supranationalism.
As the Cold War ended, and the
international left presciently clambered aboard the accelerating bandwagon of
environmentalism to attack capitalism from a different direction in the name of
saving the planet, Schwab became a fully paid up advocate of the most
comprehensive version of the virtues of global governance. This evolution
rushed back to me these last days as I watched Schwab at the G20 meeting, as
part of the Business-20 portion of the summit, with his heavy Teutonic accent
that sounds like the Marx brothers imitating Kaiser Wilhelm, advising the
world’s 20 most prominent political leaders that the Davos reset of a
universal, heavily regulated, post-national, post-religious world of
synchronized egalitarian toiling was inevitable and infinitely desirable. For a
moment I wondered, in Margaret Thatcher‘s phrase, “Do my ears deceive me?” They
did not.
As the editor of a just-published
collection of essays titled Against the Great Reset, (Bombardier Books), Michael Walsh
points out, “The World Economic Forum (WEF) advocates a complete reimagining of
the Western world’s social, economic and moral structures.” This book contains
18 mostly very stimulating essays from such noted authorities as Victor Davis
Hanson, Douglas Murray, Roger Kimball, Michael Anton and Walsh himself
(including a modest contribution from me). Klaus Schwab has expressed pride
that Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney (who converted the Bank
of England into a rabid partisan of Britain’s continued membership in the
European Union and a crusading promoter of militant environmentalism) are all
Davos alumni. And federal Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre has publicly
warned against the WEF’s globalist agenda: “Freedom means making our own
decisions here at home.”
For Schwab, stakeholder capitalism means the overarching requirements of society as interpreted and enforced by an emergent international class of theoretical regulators that would enforce the interests of everyone in society in the activities of the entire private sector. He calls this the “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” which, he says, is “fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human.” The 2020 book, “The Great Reset” was inspired by the COVID crisis to present a full frontal exposé of the Davos ambition 50 years after its gestation: “It will steer the market towards fairer outcomes, environmental, social and governance metrics.… To ensure that investments advanced shared goals such as equality and sustainability.… And harness the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to support the public good, especially by addressing health and social challenges.”
As Victor Davis Hanson points out in his
essay, “The viper tongue of totalitarianism is most often bathed in palliatives
before it strikes.” As I wrote, the whole concept of the Great Reset is based
on the fervent endorsement of “democracy, as long as everyone votes for
increased public-sector authority in pursuit of green egalitarianism and the
homogenization of all peoples in a conformist world,” under the direction of
the Davos claque of world bureaucrats and redistributors. . . .
Much more at the link here.
This is no wild and crazy conspiracy theory. It’s happening today. And recall that among the WEF / Davis alumni are Justin Trudeau, Angela Merkel, Jacinda Ardern, Tony Blair, and closer to home,
Huma Abedin, Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark-R), Rep. Dan Crenshaw (TX-R),
Brian Deese, National Economic Council, Tulsi Gabbard, Nikki Haley, Bobby
Jindal, Adam Kinzinger, Gavin Newsom, Samantha Power, and Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY-R).
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