Samuel Greg, a Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy at the American Institute for Economic Research and author, most recently, of The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, has written a good piece for the Spectator about the WEF on the eve of Davos 2023. He argues that if you care about liberty, democracy and national self-determination, it’s perfectly rational to be concerned about the influence of Klaus Schwab and his followers. Not because they are the puppeteers controlling politicians across the West, but because they’re ideas permeate the upper echelons of the global elite. In particular, Schwab’s belief in the top-down, technocratic form of government exemplified by the EU.
It wields no formal political power and can’t make anyone do anything. Nonetheless, since its founding in 1971, the WEF has become an organisation which embodies supreme confidence in the imperative of a particular type of person running the world from the top-down. In his famous 2004 essay entitled ‘Dead Souls’, the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington called this prototype ‘Davos Man’.
A clever moniker that neither Schwab nor the WEF have ever succeeded in shaking off, Davos Man was Huntington’s short-hand description of “academics, international civil servants and executives in global companies, as well as successful high-technology entrepreneurs” who thought alike and tended to view national loyalties and boundaries “as residues from the past”. Davos Man also looked with undisguised disdain, Huntington suggested, upon those who weren’t getting with the programme – whatever the content of the programme happened to be.
Therein lies the deepest problem with the WEF. It’s one thing for people to come together in international settings to discuss problems, share insights, and network. Business leaders, politicians, and NGO-types do this all the time.
It’s another thing for an outfit such as the WEF to decide that the time has come to rearrange the world from the top-down and remake the planet in a corporatist image. The ideal for which Schwab is aiming, judging from his speeches and writings, is something akin to a globalised EU, with its supranational and ingrained bureaucratic ways being transposed to an international level, and the levers of power vested in the hands of reliable Davos men and women.
In short, it’s easy to caricature the WEF and Schwab as something akin to Ian Fleming’s fictious Spectre and its criminal-mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Yet the agenda now being pursued at settings such as Davos is sufficiently alarming that anyone who believes in preserving things like liberty, sovereignty, and the decentralisation of power should be concerned.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Robert Malone has a saltier take on the WEF’s current agenda on his Substack, particularly no. 4 on the WEF’s list of priorities: “Preparing for the next pandemic requires ending health disparities.” That’s uncomfortably reminiscent of the toxic new ideology I discussed yesterday, which combines extreme risk aversion – to pandemics, climate change, hate speech, etc. – with ‘equity’, meaning a commitment to protecting ‘vulnerable’ groups, e.g. ethnic minorities and the LGBTQ+ community. So the argument for, say, keeping mask mandates in place forever would run something like this: airborne viral diseases have a disproportionately negative effect on marginalised people because they have less access to healthcare, therefore governments have a moral duty to impose masks mandates.
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We are paying the wages of these despicable arseholes.
The Davos Deviants are taking the world to hell in an EV and useless, grubby leeches like Charlotte are concerned that the dead might be given the wrong pronoun. I strongly doubt that even the bloody dead would G a F about how they should be addressed as the hearse carries them away. Even if they were able.
I am bloody furious that the wan#ers in Parliament can be so conceited as to believe this subject is worthy of discussion even over a cup of tea in one of their subsidised cafes. Is this glorified idiot of a retard not aware how utterly, depressingly stupid she sounds to the decent people currently occupying this country?
And whoever was Speaker at the time this matter was raised should hang their head in shame for the sheer insult this subject and this woman has given to the British people.
Nuke the damned lot of them.
Unbelievable!
Thanks Freddy
Next time, why not say what you really think of them!!
I hope to God such an asinine commentary is not repeated by this lazy, corrupt, idiotic cohort of sheer deplorables, disgracing the decent people of this country.
Bravo, hux!
What a disgusting sign of the times and a shocking indictment of the state of British politicians if they’re even seeing fit to raise such a non-issue and utter bilge in parliament. As if there’s nothing more pressing going on right now, effecting every man, woman and child in society than talking about this complete bloody garbage! Talk about priorities.. 
Thanks Mogs
If there is a bolder, brighter, more in our faces way to confirm how much these rank nobodies could affirm their sheer ignorance I hope I never have to see it.
If there is a more obvious way of ramming their contempt of their employers down our throats we are fortunate to have not yet witnessed it.
Surely to God a more sick and deplorable crew of unemployables could ever be gathered together under one roof.
As a defining moment that surely demands the abolition of this caricature of a parliament and democracy this must be it.
For pity’s sake please let this be the nadir.
Sadly, I think these insane nobody’s can and will sink yet further, in ways we just can’t yet fathom.
Not fit to run a bath, and the US is even worse!
Go go go——-You must have a had a power breakfast his morning. ——That was certainly one of your best and most invigorating tirades my friend
Thanks varmint.
Top class HP!!
Thanks Spycatcher.
Funnier than the “Dead Parrot” sketch. ——–“Can I help you at all?——I’ve come to change me parrots gender”—“But it looks like it might be dead sir”————“Nope it’s alive and just sleeping and he wants to be a girl” ——-“I am afraid your LGBT parrot is deceased sir, it’s gone to meet it’s maker”——“But it wants to wear a dress”——“But how does it know it wants to wear a frock if it’s dead”?
Very good
There is no such thing as a “transgender person”. There are men and women, some of whom choose to claim they are the opposite sex to their actual sex.
Exactamondo. There’s male, female then confused/mentally ill. I think there’s a lot of normalising of mental illness and anti-social behaviour going on nowadays, which would not have been tolerated years gone by. And yes, transsexuals have always been with us and they’ve never been any bother or been plastered all over the news, but it’s like now there’s a new breed and they’re a danger to kids and a threat to society as a whole. Now any old pervert man can don a dress, proclaim he’s a *she* just so he can gain access to the women’s changing room or enter a female sports event. That shit never used to happen. Craziness…
SSSHHHHHHHH ——You will be dragged to the Gender Race Equality Diversity and Climate Gulag
She’s not a looker, and cow dung for brains.
Maybe she will look better dead and she can then go on the Dead People Dating Site.
Why doesn’t the stupid b**ch read new the WHO treaty and amendments that are going to toss away our sovereign rights to the WHO and the cronies that control it and do something about that instead of pissing away her time on stupid delusional crap that affects a minuscule percentage of people and even then is straight out of Alice in Wonderland?
And then they wonder why people’s opinion of politicians is low.
Nice one Stewart.
Such an unfortunate photo suggesting an irreversible brain implant.
I.D.G.A.F who you think you are. You could claim to be a flying unicorn for all I care, but once you impose your views over mine, we will most certainly clash. Guaranteed.
And I won’t crumble.
Much love.
Your lifelong, implacable & impertinent opponent.
GDA
In order to avoid being an outlier in the political class, the Conservative Party will now claim this Labour MP is being extreme. The Tories will propose, instead, a regulator to ensure the corpse cannot make this change less than 2 days nor more than 6 weeks after death and a fee has to be paid. Furthermore, it will absolutely be prohibited to make two changes; only one is to be allowed.
I fear we will all be requyired to change our gender and at that point I’m leaving.
Maybe helpline for the dead where they can be advised best how to look wearing a frock in their urn.
‘course they can. All they need to do is complete form XA96a and the record will be changed forever – or until either one of their children complete form XA96b or their parents complete XA96c. If both forms XA96b and XA96c are submitted then whichever was submitted first will be deemed invalid. In cases where multiple copies of XA96b are completed they will be weighted by the ratio of numbers of children (acknowledged or not) of the deceased to numbers of acknowledged parents.
Of course, if there is a valid marriage certificate it will need to be amended and substituted with a retrospective civil partnership certificate. In its absence any pension entitlements which the deceased accrued will revert to any surviving parents or grandparents or to the deceased’s dog or to the state.
Simple.
Marvellous
This article has disappeared
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/04/ex-whitehall-mandarin-led-premier-league-stasi-that-banned-newcastle-fan
What article?
I see no article…
Crikey tof. What’s going on?
A glitch in the matrix…
They’re coming…
Run!
Thank you – I thought I was going doolally (if that’s not offensive to the doolally community).
Methinks the legal department of the Prem might have been in touch.
Looks like it – as per below, article has disappeared from Telegraph.
Look forward to hearing from DS as to what’s going on there.
Yep ——–Toby come clean mate. ——-I notice the article about the Newcastle fan is still there though.
Has the Telegraph article (to which it referred) suffered the same fate?
Good spot – yes!
I would put on her tombstone. Here lies a man with two ar*eholes.
People cannot pay their mortgage or their energy bill. They are being treated like aliens in their own country and our daughters will soon have to wear a headscarf to school. We have men being told it is ok to use the womens loo. We are governed by a political class of WEF and UN lackeys, yet here is a squirming twerp worrying about the rights of dead people. ——-Are there actually any votes in that by the way?
Cool! The bishops can then remember Jesus of Nazareth as a transgender Person of the Trinity, alongside God our Mother, on account of the description of Him wearing ankle-length female attire, ‘tied under the paps’ (Revelation.i.13).
I started a list of things that are important to get fixed. I got to 50 and this still doesn’t make the list!
Brilliant idea. I intend to declare I’m still alive after I’ve “passed” and carry on claiming my pensions.