Chief Twit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> is no midwit.
On Wednesday, Musk addressed the World Government Summit currently taking place in Dubai. Via video conference, Musk professed a sharp defense of nationalism and sovereignty while blasting the idea of a one-world government.
The Tesla founder advised the leaders of more than 150 countries that sometimes, too much cooperation can be a bad thing. If countries were to merge under a world government and create a single civilization, then the entire world could face calamity if that system came crashing down, he argued.
&#8220;I think we want to be a little bit cautious about being too much … of a single civilization because if we are too much of a single civilization, then the whole thing may collapse,&#8221; he said.
Musk went on to praise what deemed &#8220;civilizational diversity.&#8221;
&#8220;But I think we want to be a little bit wary of actually cooperating too much — it sounds a little odd, but we want to have some amount of civilizational diversity such that if something does go wrong with some part of civilization that the whole thing doesn&#8217;t collapse,&#8221; he added.
The free-speech-loving billionaire used examples from history, arguing that cultures have been protected thanks to heterogeneity in the past.
&#8220;If you look at, say, the history and the rise and fall of civilizations that really all throughout history &#8230; it hasn&#8217;t meant the doom of humanity as a whole because there’ve been all these separate civilizations that were separated by great distances,&#8221; he explained.
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Seemed like the right venue
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Musk pointed to the fact that while Rome was falling, Islam was rising. Since Rome did not have a monopoly on all forms of government and culture worldwide, knowledge was able to survive and even thrive.
However, if we were to place civilization under one authority today — then we would naturally risk chaos should that power structure fall.
During his address, Musk also detailed how Twitter under his watch seeks to abide by laws in certain countries without imposing a progressive worldview that has become synonymous with The Bay area where the company is headquartered.
&#8220;I think &#8230; the general idea is just to reflect the values of the people as opposed to imposing the values of essentially San Francisco and Berkeley — which are somewhat of a niche ideology as compared to the rest of the world,&#8221; he stated. &#8220;But you know Twitter was, I think, doing a little too much to impose a niche &#8230; ideology on the world so, you know, I thought it was important for the future of civilization to try to correct that thumb on the scale.&#8221;
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Indeed, it is no secret that the previous leaders of the social media platform viewed it as their duty to be the arbiter of truth while pushing certain narratives. Under the guise of protecting against disinformation, Twitter previously stifled free speech and imposed an arguably woke worldview on everybody else. In many ways, they tried placing the entire globe under a &#8220;one world government&#8221; on the internet.
Musk has no interest in that and believes that making Twitter a place for free thought and citizen journalism — where people can be entertained and informed — is crucial for protecting democracy.
Since he purchased the company and told the world his plans, he has been described as everything from a &#8220;fascist&#8221; to a &#8220;threat to global democracy.&#8221; The criticisms don&#8217;t exactly make sense. He is against big business working with big government and wants to protect democracy by promoting free speech.
Folks who oppose such measures are men like World Economic Forum head Klaus Schwab. Musk has previously blasted WEF for &#8220;increasingly becoming an unelected world government that the people never asked for and don’t want.&#8221;
Schwab also spoke at the World Government Summit Wednesday. Not surprisingly, he argued precisely the opposite of what Musk had to say.
He wants to see an increase in global cooperation to foster a &#8220;global rules-based order.&#8221;
Schwab also warned that artificial intelligence and other advancements will increase over the next five years and that those&#8221;who master those technologies in some way will be the master of the world.&#8221;
It&#8217;s not hard to see that right now, Musk is, in many ways, blocking the WEF-aligned crowd from controlling the world through their ideas about proper governance. Right now, he stands athwart a global government. His acquisition of Twitter has thrown a wrench in globalist plans on everything from Ukraine to content moderation to ESG, and more. Twitter, under Musk, fosters the sort of creativity that technocrats cannot control. And that’s what they are really afraid of.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Hero: Elon Musk Blasts One-World Government At World Government Summit

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Globalism

Klaus Schwab

World

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/klaus-schwab-tells-world-economic-forum-that-global-challenges-are-catalysts-for-economic-transformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> has finally jumped the shark, presumably while skiing across Al Gore’s “boiling ocean” behind a leaky tub steered by the radical Left’s Captain Queeg.
As the annual globalist confab staggered to a conclusion in Davos, the forum&#8217;s 52-year arc was also mercifully nearing an end. It began in 1971 as a wildly ambitious kook cult led by a 30-year-old economist who was equal parts Bond villain and L. Ron Hubbard. No one paid much attention for decades, but eventually rich, famous, and powerful people started showing up. That’s when conservatives raised the alarm and warned the world that Klaus Schwab and his vacant-eyed acolytes appeared bent on world domination. As usual, the leftist media’s response was something like, &#8220;You guys are crazy conspiracy theorists, and anyway, it’s a good thing.&#8221;
In 2023, with much of the world engulfed by debt, inflation, crisis-level immigration, and the looming threat of World War III, no one wants to hear what these pompous quarter-wits in propeller beanies have to say about how the rest of us should live. Even Europe’s unofficial energy czar, Greta Thunberg, only showed up this year <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/davos-2023-keep-it-in-the-ground-greta-thunberg-tells-protest-at-end-of-wef/ar-AA16ytTz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to heckle</a> the swells.
Emissions from this year’s collection of aging C-list gasbags included the usual dire warnings about a dying planet and the neo-spiritual demand for repentance from the developed world. With a dystopian hellscape just around the corner, the answer, as always, is for successful countries to return to the Stone Age while handing all their money over to unelected globalists who promise to distribute it to the noble savages.
If you eat meat, own a car, believe in borders, don’t want to be tracked, or simply want to be left alone, you’re the problem. The message was not new, but now it suddenly sounds more tired than scary. Maybe it’s because what passed for star power at this year’s meeting looked more like a reboot of “Cocoon,” or “Grumpy Old Men.”
Al Gore, 74, his voice rising in that affected and decidedly discomfiting style, once again claimed the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boiling-the-oceans-al-gore-goes-on-unhinged-climate-rant-condemns-detainment-of-greta-thunberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oceans are boiling</a>.” There must be a giant gas stove under the seabed. Why, it seems like only yesterday that Gore was fending off a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/two-more-women-accuse-al-gore-of-assault-2010-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slew of complaints from masseuses</a>, yet miraculously managed to sidestep MeToo cancellation and make <a href="https://moneyinc.com/al-gore-net-worth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds of millions of dollars</a> off his “save the planet” grift.
Fellow failed Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry, 79, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-davos-john-kerry-praises-select-group-of-people-for-saving-the-planet-but-says-they-need-money-money-money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pronounced himself an “extraterrestrial&#8221;</a> who had been “touched” by someone or something which conferred upon him the power to save the planet. Synonymous with insufferable, Kerry once famously said that flying by private jet “is the only choice for somebody like me.” You too can own your own Gulfstream, if you marry the rich widow of your former Senate colleague.
Tony Blair, 69, the former British prime minister who is rumored to be Schwab’s potential successor, was heard calling for a “digital infrastructure” so “we can know who is vaccinated and who is not.” Memo to Blair: Not even those annoying people with “In this house …” yard signs and “Co-Exist” bumper stickers want this anymore.
The WEF&#8217;s twin sugar daddies didn’t even bother to attend this year. <a href="https://radaronline.com/p/bill-gates-dodges-questions-jeffrey-epstein-meetings-online-qa-session/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein’s old wingman, Bill Gates</a>, was a no-show, and George Soros was either unwilling or unable to leave the crypt to come bask in the genuflections of adoring minions.
There are even signs a mutiny could be building against Schwab. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/18/mutiny-erupts-among-wef-staff-over-role-of-mr-davos-klaus-schwab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to The Guardian</a>, a group of current and former forum members signed on to a report calling the founder “completely unaccountable to anyone inside and outside the organization.”
“Klaus has been at the helm of the WEF for 52 years,” the group charged. “When he was born, 122 of the 195 states in the world right now did not even exist.”
Far more useful advice for protecting mankind and the planet came from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-british-satirists-scathing-indictment-of-woke-culture-global-warming-hysteria-viewed-5m-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British comedian Konstantin Kisin</a>, whose address at a recent Oxford Union debate went viral and reached far more eyes and ears than any dopey Davos decree. The gist: Innovation, not authoritarianism, is humanity’s only hope. People in the world’s poorest and most populous countries are not going to stop trying to stay warm and feed their children just to win over a delusional pack of patronizing progressives.
“You are not going to get these people to stay poor,” Kisin said. “You’re not even going to get them to not want to be richer. And so I put it to you ladies and gentlemen, there is only one thing we can do in this country to stop climate change, and that is to make scientific and technological breakthroughs that will create the clean energy that is not only clean, but also cheaper.”
If Kisin wants to start a club and hold annual meetings in the Swiss Alps to discuss how to take over the world, I’m in. Who knows? It might become a real thing in 50 years.

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Grumpy Old Men: Kerry, Gore Help The World Tune Out Klaus Schwab’s Aging Cult Of Delusional Kooks

Grumpy Old Men: Kerry, Gore Help The World Tune Out Klaus Schwab's Aging Cult Of Delusional Kooks

Al Gore

John Kerry

World Economic Forum

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/distasteful-masterclass-in-hypocrisy-climate-group-shreds-world-economic-forum-attendees-for-flying-in-on-hundreds-of-private-jets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> has an innocuous name for a sinister new initiative designed to give radical globalist bureaucrats control over what people can say and see on social media, Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> warned in an illuminating tweet thread Wednesday.
Called “Safety by Design,” the new scheme seeks to regulate social media by having prohibitions against “harmful” content built into the technology behind their platforms. But it looks like yet another bid by the Left to control speech it doesn’t like by deeming it dangerous, Knowles said.
“If you thought the Twitter Files were as bad as it gets for the “Trust &amp; Safety” of Big Tech merging with government, you ain&#8217;t seen nothin&#8217; yet,” Knowles tweeted.
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🧵If you thought the Twitter Files were as bad as it gets for the “Trust &amp; Safety” of Big Tech merging with government, you ain&#39;t seen nothin&#39; yet.
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While the efforts began under the banner of protecting children, Knowles warned that, for the WEF, which is meeting in Davos this week, the stated purpose is more likely to be the proverbial camel’s nose in the tent. In this year’s promotional literature, the WEF includes the Safety by Design project as part of its larger plan for “Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment and Sport Platform.”
“Does that sound like something that exists merely to deplatform child pornography?” Knowles mused on Twitter. “No. Because it isn’t.”
Safety by Design’s leading champion is a radical Australian official (and dual US Citizen) named Julie Inman Grant, who has helped put it in place Down Under, according to Knowles. During last year’s annual WEF meeting, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/15fA5rhCdPAMbuOsdaeMGSTSvKN8N2_pJ/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a clip of the Australian eSafety commissioner</a> suggesting a “recalibration” of free speech went viral. Knowles said Grant, who spoke again Wednesday at a WEF panel, has a resume steeped in tech censorship.
“After beginning her career in DC, Grant tried to become a &#8216;safety antagonist&#8217;—her words—at Microsoft, Adobe, and pre-Elon Twitter,” Knowles tweeted. “She left Big Tech after her push for &#8216;Safety by Design&#8217; fell flat and went where her scheme for control was welcome: the Australian Gov &amp; WEF.”
Grant’s own interview history includes mocking &#8220;middle-aged Caucasian men” and advocating the role app stores can play, citing the deplatforming of Parler following January 6. But with “Safety by Design,” she seems to have finally latched onto an effective – and frightening – tool for controlling the speech of people she disagrees with, according to Knowles. The basic idea behind it is that since government regulators can’t possibly keep up with innovation, regulatory preferences should be built into technology.
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“In order to operate in Australia and many more countries soon if the WEF has its way… a company would have to abide by these “basic online safety expectations” and lean into the “safety” pushed by the eSafety Commissioner and the WEF,” Knowles wrote.
The Australian agency offers an “enterprise” training course for tech companies and lists hate speech, individual identity attacks, disinformation/misinformation, and conspiracy content as items for the companies to target. In recent years, and especially with newly revealed communications between the U.S. government and Twitter, conservatives have come to believe that their beliefs on politics, public health, and other issues have been branded as “misinformation” simply as a pretext to silence them.
Safety by Design could soon be coming to a government near you, Knowles warned. That’s because Grant also serves on the WEF’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety and something called its “XR Ecosystem Governance Steering Committee on Building and Defining the Metaverse.”
“At this point, you might be thinking, ‘Thank goodness I don’t live in Australia,’ or perhaps, ‘Uh oh, I live in Australia,’” he tweeted. “But it turns out it doesn’t matter. Thanks to the World Economic Forum, &#8216;Safety by Design&#8217; is being exported globally.”

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Michael Knowles Uncovers WEF’s Sinister Threat To Free Speech

Michael Knowles Uncovers WEF's Sinister Threat To Free Speech

Michael Knowles

Social Media

Wokeness

<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> Chair <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/klaus-schwab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Klaus Schwab</a> told elected officials and corporate leaders gathered at the organization’s annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday that the world’s present economic and geopolitical challenges are opportunities for “transformation.”
The organization is a leading proponent of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/esg-the-invisible-fist-of-the-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stakeholder capitalism</a>, an economic philosophy in which executives consider the needs of communities and other parties in addition to shareholders, as well as increased cooperation between public and private actors to chart the direction of mankind.
“We are confronted with unprecedented and multiple challenges. First, our global economy is undergoing deep transformation,” Schwab said during his <a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/welcoming-remarks-and-special-address-1ae0e2ca72" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opening address</a>. “The energy transition, the consequences of COVID, the reshaping of supply chains are all serving as catalytic forces for the economic transformation.”
He said large corporations and social media companies are now among the “messy patchwork” of superpowers, emerging powers, and rogue states “all competing increasingly for power and influence.” The German economist added that the world is marked by “increased fragmentation and confrontation.”
Schwab, who has led the controversial organization for decades, garnered worldwide notoriety for suggesting that the lockdown-induced recession presents an opportunity for elites to craft a “Great Reset” of the planet’s economic and social systems. He repeated many of the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tenets</a> of the plan during his speech.
“The spirit of Davos is positive and constructive. It means investing into a greener and therefore more sustainable economy, investing into a more cohesive society by providing everyone with the appropriate skills and opportunities, investing into the hard and soft infrastructure that modern societies require,” he said. “Through collective responsibility, innovation, and human goodwill and ingenuity, we have the capacity to turn such challenges into opportunities.”
Other prominent speakers who addressed the conference on Tuesday included Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska, who <a href="https://www.weforum.org/press/2023/01/ukrainian-first-lady-joins-swiss-president-in-opening-plenary-of-world-economic-forum-annual-meeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> that the “combined influence” of the assembled nations and corporate interests is “bigger than the weight” of their common problems. “That is why it is all the more important right now to use this influence when Russia’s invasion threatens a large-scale collapse of the world as we know it,” she added.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen likewise <a href="https://www.weforum.org/press/2023/01/ec-president-von-der-leyen-outlines-vision-for-strong-united-europe-in-face-of-war-and-climate-perils" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affirmed</a> that “Europe will always stand with the Ukrainian people” and commented that policymakers would still endeavor to “reach net zero” carbon emissions despite energy shortfalls worsened by the invasion.
The theme of this year’s World Economic Forum conference is “Cooperation in a Fragmented World,” which involves “how we can tackle the numerous and interlinked challenges the world is facing and find solutions through public-private cooperation,” according to a <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/davos-2023-day-1-what-to-expect/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the organization. Several officials from the Biden administration are in attendance, including Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, who is listed as a featured speaker on a <a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/philanthropy-a-catalyst-for-protecting-our-planet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel</a> about governments and corporations using “the power of catalytic philanthropy” for climate investments.
Other American officials, such as Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), and “a few members of the House of Representatives” took part in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-lawmakers-wine-and-dine-with-klaus-schwab-business-leaders-at-world-economic-forum-in-davos-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">luncheon</a> at the conference alongside dozens of prominent executives on Monday, according to a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/16/world-economic-forum-manchin-sinema-attend-davos-luncheon-with-ceos.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from CNBC. Manchin and Coons respectively discussed energy policy and governmental support of Ukraine.

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Klaus Schwab Tells World Economic Forum That Global Challenges Are Catalysts For ‘Economic Transformation’

Klaus Schwab Delivers Opening Address At World Economic Forum

Global Politics

Ukraine

Elon Musk, the entrepreneur who serves as CEO of Space X, Tesla, and Twitter, reacted harshly after Klaus Schwab, the chairman of the World Economic Forum, preached at the WEF’s summit about an attempt to “master the future.”
Schwab, the world’s leading proponent of “stakeholder capitalism,” made his remarks while at an awards ceremony for &#8220;cultural leaders&#8221; who have worked to promote things like climate change.
“We couldn’t meet at a more challenging time,” Schwab declared. “We are confronted with so many crises simultaneously. What does it need to master the future? I think to have a platform, where all stakeholders of global society are engaged; governments, business, civil society, young generation, and I could go on, I think is a first step to meet all the challenges.&#8221;
Musk lacerated Schwab and his cobelligerents, tweeting, “‘Master the Future’ doesn’t sound ominous at all. How is WEF/Davos even a thing? Are they trying to be the boss of Earth!?”
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“Master the Future” doesn’t sound ominous at all … 🙄
How is WEF/Davos even a thing? Are they trying to be the boss of Earth!?
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The WEF, which was founded by Schwab, states that its mission is to “demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. … Our activities are shaped by a unique institutional culture founded on the stakeholder theory, which asserts that an organization is accountable to all parts of society.”
That, in essence, means corporations are no longer accountable to their shareholders, instead serving “societal aspirations,” as the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/davos-manifesto-2020-the-universal-purpose-of-a-company-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Davos Manifesto</a> acknowledges.
During the WEF&#8217;s meeting, American leaders have reportedly enjoyed a lavish lunch with some of the planet’s most powerful corporate leaders and Schwab.
Officials such as Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), and “a few members of the House of Representatives” took part in a luncheon at the conference alongside prominent executives on Monday, according to a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/16/world-economic-forum-manchin-sinema-attend-davos-luncheon-with-ceos.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from CNBC.
One attendee told the outlet that Coons and Manchin each addressed the crowd of business leaders. Coons reportedly discussed efforts to fund the Ukrainian war effort against Russia, while Manchin commented on the merits of American energy independence.
Coons told the outlet that “about 50 CEOs” would attend the luncheon at the Hotel Schatzalp, a property situated in the Alps and decorated in belle époque style. Among the executives in attendance at the lunch was Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri.
Related: <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-the-real-story-of-the-great-reset/">The Real Story Of The Great Reset</a>

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‘Are They Trying To Be The Boss Of Earth?’: Elon Musk Attacks WEF’s Klaus Schwab Wanting To ‘Master The Future’

Elon Musk Attacks WEF’s Klaus Schwab Wanting To ‘Master The Future’

Stakeholder capitalism

Several American officials reportedly enjoyed a lavish lunch with some of the planet’s most powerful corporate leaders and <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> Chair <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/klaus-schwab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Klaus Schwab</a> during the organization’s annual conference in Davos, Switzerland.
The organization is a leading proponent of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/esg-the-invisible-fist-of-the-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stakeholder capitalism</a>, an approach to investments that says executives must consider the needs of communities and other parties in addition to shareholders, as well as increased cooperation between public and private actors. Officials such as Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), and “a few members of the House of Representatives” took part in a luncheon at the conference alongside prominent executives on Monday, according to a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/16/world-economic-forum-manchin-sinema-attend-davos-luncheon-with-ceos.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from CNBC.
One attendee told the outlet that Coons and Manchin each addressed the crowd of business leaders. Coons reportedly discussed efforts to fund the Ukrainian war effort against Russia, while Manchin commented on the merits of American energy independence.
Coons told the outlet that “about 50 CEOs” would attend the luncheon at the Hotel Schatzalp, a property situated in the Alps and decorated in belle époque style. Among the executives in attendance at the lunch was Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri.
European leaders are currently incensed by the Inflation Reduction Act, a law signed by President Joe Biden last year, because the package subsidized American electric vehicle manufacturing and neglected to offer the same benefits to European automakers. Manchin said during an <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/world-econommic-forum-us-lawmakers-pitch-von-der-leyen-in-davos-were-not-protectionist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with POLITICO Europe that the continent’s leaders are “hyper-hypocritical” following several decades of their own protectionist measures.
“That bill was designed to basically strengthen the United States so that we can help our allies and friends, which need it right now,&#8221; the centrist lawmaker remarked. &#8220;And if anybody needs it, the E.U. needs it. And without that, we&#8217;re not going to be and maintain the superpower status of the world if we&#8217;re not energy independent.&#8221;
Manchin said that he has admonished European leaders to refrain from regulations on fossil fuels and instead emphasize technological innovations. “I told them, I said, the most important thing is basically you cannot eliminate your way to clean your climate,” he added. “You can innovate it, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing in the U.S.”
Coons told the outlet that European powers grew “too reliant on Russian energy,” commenting that he desires to “find a path forward” and discuss “the alignment of values and priorities.”
The theme of this year’s World Economic Forum conference is “Cooperation in a Fragmented World,” which involves “how we can tackle the numerous and interlinked challenges the world is facing and find solutions through public-private cooperation,” according to a <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/davos-2023-day-1-what-to-expect/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the organization. Executives scheduled to speak or participate in panel events include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, while political leaders such as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska will <a href="https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AM23_List_of_confirmed_PFs.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attend</a> the conference.
Several officials from the Biden administration, which has <a href="https://www.state.gov/first-movers-coalition-announces-expansion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partnered</a> with the World Economic Forum through the First Movers Coalition, a “public-private partnership to commercialize clean technologies through advance purchase commitments,” are representing the United States. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will speak on a <a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/philanthropy-a-catalyst-for-protecting-our-planet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel</a> about government and corporate actors using “the power of catalytic philanthropy” for climate investments.
Representative Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) will likewise make the pilgrimage to Davos in spite of hesitancy toward the World Economic Forum among conservatives. The officials have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-republicans-attending-the-world-economic-forum-next-week" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released statements</a> claiming that they will attempt to bring American founding principles to the controversial event.

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Lawmakers, business leaders, and academics participating in the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> will descend upon the small ski town of Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss a variety of policy proposals that entail greater coordination between government and corporate actors.
The organization, which German economist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/klaus-schwab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Klaus Schwab</a> has chaired for the past five decades, is a leading proponent of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/esg-the-invisible-fist-of-the-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stakeholder capitalism</a>, an approach to investing that says executives must consider the needs of communities and other parties in addition to shareholders. The group’s annual conference has drawn the attention of conservatives who contend that many of the policies floated each year infringe upon individual liberties.
The World Economic Forum is convening during January for the first time since the lockdown-induced recession. This year’s conference theme is “Cooperation in a Fragmented World,” which involves “how we can tackle the numerous and interlinked challenges the world is facing and find solutions through public-private cooperation,” according to a <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/davos-2023-day-1-what-to-expect/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>.
The conference will feature discussions about economic challenges such as record inflation, tensions arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and renewable energy as a solution to climate change. The World Economic Forum released dozens of <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/davos-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publications</a> written by prominent executives on global challenges and how corporate involvement can solve them. One such <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/how-social-enterprises-offer-big-businesses-pathways-to-sustainable-innovations-davos2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a>, co-authored by Anheuser-Busch Chief Sustainability Officer Ezgi Barcenas, prompts business leaders to consider partnerships with “social enterprises.” Another <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/leaders-climate-change-worry-deloitte-survey-davos23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a>, written by Deloitte CEO Emeritus Punit Renjen, claims that “climate inaction” will cost the global economy $178 trillion by 2070 and contends that “climate action” could deliver $43 trillion in value.
“To make meaningful headway, the private sector must help to develop and implement adaptation strategies,” he wrote. “We have the know-how, influence, and scale to do it. And I think the best place for us to start is to engage the broader ecosystem to create solutions that facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy.”
Beyond the more than 1,400 business leaders scheduled to <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/better-business-stakeholder-capitalism-esg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attend</a> the conference, executives expected to speak or participate in panel events include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, and Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel. Hundreds of world leaders, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska, and Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, will also <a href="https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AM23_List_of_confirmed_PFs.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attend</a> the conference.
Several officials from the Biden administration, including Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, will represent the United States. Prominent Republicans, such as Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, Representative Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, and Representative Darrell Issa of California, will likewise make the pilgrimage to Davos; the officials have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-republicans-attending-the-world-economic-forum-next-week" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released statements</a> arguing that they will attempt to bring conservative principles to the controversial event.
Schwab has garnered worldwide notoriety for suggesting that the lockdown-induced recession presents an opportunity for elites to craft a “Great Reset” of the planet’s economic and social systems. The three <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">components</a> of the plan are governments guaranteeing “fairer outcomes” in the marketplace, channeling investments toward “equality and sustainability” efforts, and using medical technology to address “health and social challenges.”

The World Economic Forum Meets In Davos This Week. Here’s What To Expect.

What To Expect From The World Economic Forum This Week

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Multiple <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican</a> lawmakers plan to attend the annual meeting of the controversial <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> next week in Davos, Switzerland.
The World Economic Forum draws many of the most powerful government officials and corporate leaders on the planet for its yearly conference, where speakers promote an array of global initiatives that conservatives say infringe on mankind’s fundamental liberties. The group, which is led by German economist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/klaus-schwab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Klaus Schwab</a>, is a leading proponent of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/esg-the-invisible-fist-of-the-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stakeholder capitalism</a>, an approach to investing that says executives must consider the needs of employees, communities, and other parties in addition to shareholders, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-woke-go-broke-amazon-installed-solar-panels-in-an-attempt-to-go-net-zero-they-kept-catching-fire-and-were-turned-off" target="_blank" rel="noopener">use of corporate power</a> to advance political agendas in the global economy.
The event includes a <a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/america-un-bound" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel</a> regarding the “reshaped legislative landscape in the United States as it relates to domestic and foreign policy.” Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) and Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) will speak alongside Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), and Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ).
Kemp, who decisively won reelection at the end of last year, will “share with leaders how the state of Georgia’s long record of conservative governance, protecting individual liberty, and championing opportunity can serve as a model for economic success across the country and around the world,” a spokesperson remarked in a <a href="https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/01/12/kemp-address-world-economic-forum-in-switzerland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to Georgia Public Broadcasting.
The World Economic Forum mentioned Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Sen. James Risch (R-ID), and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) in a <a href="https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AM23_List_of_confirmed_PFs.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">list</a> of public figures for this year&#8217;s conference alongside Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), and Rep. Greg Meeks (D-NY).
A <a href="https://issa.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-issa-statement-world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from Issa criticized many policies advanced by the World Economic Forum and said the lawmaker would attend the event despite his disagreements with many attendees. &#8220;No conservative should be unwilling to go where progressive activists, world leaders, and the mainstream media are gathered and tell them when they are wrong,&#8221; Issa commented. “Anyone who thinks Darrell Issa would go anywhere overseas and not have America’s back doesn’t know him at all,” Issa communications director Jonathan Wilcox told The Daily Wire in a separate statement.
A spokesman from Salazar&#8217;s team told The Daily Wire that the lawmaker &#8220;was invited to participate in a bipartisan congressional delegation to this year’s World Economic Forum to ensure American interests are protected,&#8221; adding that &#8220;she will highlight American exceptionalism and opportunities available under a free-market economy.&#8221; Spokespeople for Risch and Gallagher told The Daily Wire that the lawmakers were invited to the conference but do not plan to attend.
Several officials from the Biden administration, including Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, USAID Administrator Samantha Power, and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, also plan to attend the conference. The Biden administration has <a href="https://www.state.gov/first-movers-coalition-announces-expansion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partnered</a> with the World Economic Forum through the First Movers Coalition, a “public-private partnership to commercialize clean technologies through advance purchase commitments.”
The World Economic Forum conference will “reaffirm the value and imperative of dialogue and public-private cooperation, not only to navigate the current cascading crises but, more importantly, to drive tangible, system-positive change for the long term,” according to the event’s website. The conference will feature discussions about renewable energy, economic challenges such as record inflation, and tensions arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kerry will speak on a <a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/philanthropy-a-catalyst-for-protecting-our-planet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel</a> about public and private actors using “the power of catalytic philanthropy” for climate investments, while Whitmer is scheduled to <a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/the-return-of-manufacturing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discuss</a> the future of global manufacturing.
“Energy transition and climate change are inextricably linked, with its impact being felt in recent months. While a global energy transition is under way, further action is needed to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change,” the website said. “Critical measures to accelerate energy transition include decoupling economic growth from energy consumption, particularly in emerging economies, mainstreaming breakthrough technological innovations and addressing equity.”
Schwab, who has led the controversial organization for decades, garnered worldwide notoriety for suggesting that the lockdown-induced recession presents an opportunity for elites to craft a “Great Reset” of the planet’s economic and social systems. The three <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">components</a> of the plan are governments promoting “fairer outcomes” in the marketplace, channeling investments toward “equality and sustainability” efforts such as those promoted through the ESG movement, and using medical technology to address “health and social challenges.”

Here Are The Republicans Attending The World Economic Forum Next Week

Brian Kemp, Maria Salazar, Other Republicans To Attend World Economic Forum

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Did you ever vote for a &#8220;Brave New World&#8221; created by globalist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wef-chairman-urges-world-leaders-for-deep-systemic-and-structural-restructuring-of-our-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Klaus Shwab</a>?
Well, it doesn&#8217;t really matter whether you wanted it or not, because under <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>, it seems America is along for the ride anyway.
This week at the G-20&#8217;s B-20 event, Schwab told government and business leaders that the entire world order needs some change.
&#8220;If we look at all the challenges, we can speak about the multi crises, economic, political, social, ecological, and institutional crises,&#8221; Schwab said at the event. &#8220;But actually, what we have to confront is a deep systemic and structural restructuring of our world. And this will take some time and the world will look different after we have gone through this transition process.&#8221;
Schwab is a German engineer and professor by trade, as well as the founder of the World Economic Forum.
He was never elected leader of a condo association, let alone a government.
Nevertheless, he has been pushing for the &#8220;Great Reset&#8221; for all nations for quite some time.
In 2020, arguing that COVID presented a grand opportunity for his vision, Schwab <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=mplement+long-overdue+reforms+that+promote+more+equitable+outcomes.+Depending+on+the+country%2C+these+may+include+changes+to+wealth+taxes%2C+the+withdrawal+of+fossil-fuel+subsidies+and+new+rules+governing+intellectual+property%2C+trade+and+competition&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;oq=mplement+long-overdue+reforms+that+promote+more+equitable+outcomes.+Depending+on+the+country%2C+these+may+include+changes+to+wealth+taxes%2C+the+withdrawal+of+fossil-fuel+subsidies+and+new+rules+governing+intellectual+property%2C+trade+and+competition&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.1082j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> upon countries to &#8220;implement long-overdue reforms that promote more equitable outcomes. Depending on the country, these may include changes to wealth taxes, the withdrawal of fossil-fuel subsidies and new rules governing intellectual property, trade and competition.&#8221;
Now, he is calling upon nations to work together to hasten the transition.
&#8220;Politically, the driving forces for this transformation, of course, is the political transition into a multipolar world, which has a tendency to make our world much more fragmented,&#8221; he added this week. &#8220;For this reason, events like this one, the G20 and so on, are the very important connectors to unwind a too great segmentation.&#8221;
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Klaus Schwab is now part of the G20 and here he is giving his instructions directly to our &quot;elected&quot; leaders…
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Now, Schwab isn&#8217;t your regular run-of-the-mill international non-governmental activist.
He is pretty influential and has bragged that he has embedded WEF ideals amongst national leaders throughout the West thanks to its Young Global Leaders program.
&#8220;I have to say, when I mention now names, like Mrs. [Angela] Merkel and even Vladimir Putin, and so on, they all have been Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. But what we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister [Justin] Trudeau, President of France, Argentina, and so,&#8221; Schwab <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1003573450553693" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2017. &#8220;But we penetrate the cabinets. So yesterday, I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I know that half of his cabinet, or even more than half of his cabinet, are actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.&#8221;
So, it is not really conspiratorial or &#8220;misinformation&#8221; to say that Schwab wants an ideological takeover of the world. He has openly admitted that he wants to reshape the world in his image.
The G-20 is supposed to be made up of 20 leading nations, alongside various groups and NGOs that help promote economic and social policy. Ideally, the organization has spirited debates made up of folks who disagree.
In actuality, most actors involved wind up agreeing with each other from the outset, thus creating an echo chamber where the answer is always the same: More international government is needed to solve global problems. Schwab evidently agrees with that message as well.
The current president has made it abundantly clear from the get-go of his administration that he agrees with that agenda.
While <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+reisgns+inetrnaitonal+agreemnets&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;oq=biden++reisgns+inetrnaitonal+agreemnets&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64l3j69i60j69i65l2j69i60.6195j1j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaigning</a>, he made it known that there were a litany of international agreements he wanted to rejoin that former President Donald Trump did away with during his time in office.
In other words, Biden agrees with Schwab. Trump&#8217;s previous message — which he often <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-world-economic-forum-davos-switzerland/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">touted</a> on the world stage — of putting “America First&#8221; has no place in Schwab&#8217;s goals.
Still, one would think that the American people are owed an explanation as to what &#8220;restructuring&#8221; the world really means, and how America&#8217;s Constitution, sovereignty, and international interests play into it. We&#8217;ll hold our breath as we await that explanation.
This piece has been updated to include clarifying information on the G-20 B-20 event.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Why Is Super Creep Klaus Schwab Even At The G-20?

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Speaking at the B20 event in Bali, part of the G20 summit, which is comprised of 19 countries and the European Union, Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), spoke of his hopes for a “deep systemic and structural restructuring of our world.”
Back in the midst of the COVID epidemic, Schwab seized the opportunity to advance his agenda, <a href="https://www.globalgovernanceproject.org/the-great-reset/klaus-schwab/">writing</a>, “There is now a brief opportunity for global leaders to cooperate to achieve a ‘Great Reset’ – a step forwards to a more resilient, cohesive, equitable and prosperous world.”
“If we look at all the challenges, we can speak about the multi crises, economic, political, social, ecological, and institutional crises,” Schwab said at the G20 summit. “But actually, what we have to confront is a deep systemic and structural restructuring of our world. And this will take some time and the world will look differently after we have gone through this transition process.”
“Politically, the driving forces for this transformation, of course, is the political transition into a multi (unintelligible) world, which has a tendency to make our world much more fragmented. For this reason, events like this one, the G20 and so on, are the very important connectors to unwind a too great segmentation &#8230;” he continued.
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Klaus Schwab is now part of the G20 and here he is giving his instructions directly to our &quot;elected&quot; leaders…
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“We have continuous partnerships with many governments around the world,” Schwab has said in the past. “Then of course, we have NGOs, we have trade unions, we have all those different parts – media, of course – and very important experts and scientists and academia … religious leaders, social entrepreneurs …”
“We can, says Schwab, cure ‘inequality and the unfairness that underpins it,” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro wrote in a piece titled, “<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-the-real-story-of-the-great-reset/">The Real Story Of The Great Reset</a>.”
“He doesn’t mean that we ought to press forward free markets and property rights more broadly – the greatest alleviators of poverty in human history,” Shapiro continued. “Instead, he means we ought reorganize the global economy in centralized fashion. Every country ought to pursue ‘a broader, if not universal provision of social assistance,’ plus ‘a move toward enhanced protection for workers in the form of mandatory benefits.’ This inevitably means that governments will ‘decide that it’s in the best interest of society to rewrite some of the rules of the game and permanently increase their roles.’”

WEF Chairman Urges World Leaders For ‘Deep Systemic And Structural Restructuring Of Our World’

WEF Chairman Urges World Leaders For 'Deep Systemic And Structural Restructuring Of Our World'

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BEN SHAPIRO: The Real Story Of The Great Reset

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If you understand nothing else about Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum, get this: they are godless.
That matters. From your answer to the question “Does God exist?” flows the whole of your worldview. If your government thinks you are a product of random chance and necessity, and that there is no God to judge in the next life their actions in this one, history demonstrates with chilling clarity how that plays out.
In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/klaus-schwab-the-world-economic-forum-and-the-new-fascism-3">Part 3</a> of this series, we saw how Schwab’s literary references in his books suggested a shallow understanding of the humanities and none whatsoever of religion.
There are, however, numerous philosophical references in which he reveals a more intimate knowledge: Friedrich Nietzsche, Antonio Gramsci, Steven Pinker, Yuval Noah Harari, and Peter Singer to name only a few. This is telling. All of them are atheists, and aggressively so.
Schwab quotes them favorably, and where the WEF has taken a little from each is obvious:
From Nietzsche, the idea of the Superman who can face the harsh reality of a world without any ultimate transcendent hope.
Gramsci, an evil little Italian communist, contributed the ideas for the overthrow of the Christian and democratic West; ideas that inform <a href="https://youtu.be/kqJRx7tvEO4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the subversive tactics of the radical Left</a> from Black Lives Matter to the sexualization of children.
Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, sang the siren song of perpetual human progress in his books The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now, a tune irresistible to secular scientific elites.
Harari, a historian at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has written a personal mission statement reading: “Care about suffering.” And yet, according to <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/yuval-noah-harari-gives-the-really-big-picture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ian Parker of The New Yorker</a>, Harari nonetheless speaks of suffering with “nihilistic composure.” Adds Parker: “The subject of human suffering — even extreme suffering — doesn’t seem to agitate Harari in quite the way that industrial agriculture does.” Perhaps that’s because his original mission statement, “Embrace ambiguity,” leaves open the question of whose suffering he cares about.
And Singer.
Peter Singer, a bioethicist at Princeton University, is quite possibly the most influential philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. In 1975 he published Animal Liberation, giving rise to the modern animal rights movement. 
Once, while dining with him in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia, I listened as he explained his animal rights philosophy. A vegetarian for obvious reasons, he ordered gnocchi. Wordlessly, I expressed my views on animals and their place within creation by ordering kangaroo.
He is the most philosophically consistent atheist I have ever met, and I’ve known more than a few. In addition to debating the late atheist journalist <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Christopher-Hitchens-Restless-Notorious/dp/0718022173/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1664734347&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Hitchens</a>, Tuft’s cognitive scientist <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/third-rail/multimedia/2015/5/does-religion-do-more-harm-than-good1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Dennett</a>, and Skeptic Magazine editor <a href="https://youtu.be/3S4x3gtkubY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Shermer</a>, I organized and chaired three of Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins’s debates. But Singer is, by far, the most dangerous of the lot, and that’s because he is willing to follow his atheism to its dark conclusions.
Journalist Kevin Toolis writes of him: “[W]hat is legitimate for Singer is just plain murder for other people.”
It is Singer’s view that man is an animal like any other and that he deserves no special status among the various species. That is, he argues, a residual of Christian thought. Worse, he has argued that parents should get twenty-eight days with a newborn child to determine if they want to keep it or euthanize it. This is where atheism, pushed to its logical outcome, takes you. And it’s where the WEF would like to take the rest of us.
This bring us to Dennis Meadows, Emeritus Professor of Systems Management at the University of New Hampshire. Meadows is an original member of the Club of Rome and one of the co-authors of Limits to Growth, a mega-bestseller that informs the WEF’s agenda. Meadows <a href="https://youtu.be/ojK05pVOlhs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thinks we must reduce the global population by, oh, a mere 6-7 billion people</a>. But no worries, he wants to do it “peacefully.”
These are the people from whom Schwab and the WEF take their cues. Pinker, Harari, Singer, and Meadows are WEF “agenda contributors.” (That’s a little more than what appears at the bottom of this article: The views expressed in this piece are those of the author …) 
Read their books. Watch them in smug conversation. They simply cannot resist telling you what they think and what they want to do. These are your would-be overlords.
Combine these murderous ideas with politicians who have the power to implement them — <a href="https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AM22_List_of_confirmed_PFs.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than fifty government leaders attended this year’s WEF annual meeting</a> — and you have a toxic combination.
Take, for example, Ursula von der Leyen. Perhaps you saw her recently in the news. She is the unelected President of the European Commission <a href="https://youtu.be/a50pq2Dg6OQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who threatened</a> Italy with unspecified sanctions should they elect a prime minister at odds with the EU’s vision for the continent. (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-appears-to-shadowban-videos-of-italys-first-female-incoming-prime-minister" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I’m delighted to say the Italians defied von der Leyen</a>.) She is also a WEF agenda contributor and is front and center in <a href="https://www.weforum.org/about/leadership-and-governance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this WEF leadership photo</a>.
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At bottom, the WEF has no actual power. They possess no armies, they hold no seat at the UN, and they are stateless. What they have is influence. 
Schwab is Mr. Networker Guy. He has managed to gather world leaders of disparate cultures, languages, of democratic and non-democratic countries, some who are enemies, all of whom have participated on a voluntary basis, and he’s given them an organizing vision. But it’s not Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People techniques that have enabled him to do it. 
It’s the product he&#8217;s selling and they all want it:
Absolute power.
It is a fact of history. We are always just a step from totalitarianism. Those politicians who would readily embrace it and the thugs who would readily enforce it are always there. It just needs someone to speak it into being, to offer a roadmap to get there.
That’s what the WEF offers, and it offers it all under the cover of environmental and humanitarian virtue.
Do you really think Xi or Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, both WEF participants, really care about “a sustainable future”? The WEF deals in the laundering of reputations, those of current or aspiring tyrants in particular.
In my considerable experience engaging men who posture as some of the world’s smartest, I’ve discovered when it comes to seductive but unworkable utopian ideas, intellectuals are not unlike football coaches with talented but troublesome players: they are confident they will be able to succeed where the last guy could not. As a consequence, Marxism and fascism live on like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-wide-receiver-antonio-brown-responds-to-controversial-video-of-him-allegedly-exposing-himself-to-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antonio Brown’s career</a>.
With the threat of a climate apocalypse serving as Plato’s Noble Lie, Marxist-style government power grabs are taking place all over the Western world. But Marxism could never survive on its own because Marxist economics don’t work. So, it must always adopt a fascist element, loosening government restrictions on private property and a market economy; not totally, but as the Chinese have done it: “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” 
The addition of ESG — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/climate-risk-is-investment-risk-bill-clinton-and-blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-make-bold-claims-about-woke-investing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Environmental, Social, and Governance</a> — is that fascist element. A kind of coercive corporate social credit system, once compliance is fully in place, it will bring all industry to government heel.
The path to totalitarianism, you see, is quite clear.
I have visited the sites of past claimants to the utopian throne. They are not, as you might suppose, great works of architecture or museums housing their treasures. They are places with names like Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Babyn Yar, Lefortovo, and Lubyanka. 
They are the homes I have visited in Cuba, China, Russia, Vietnam, and half a dozen more where dissenters must hide from the regime. Because the most consistent feature of earthly utopias is their gulags and their gallows.
But there is, I think, a path to a “sustainable future” for freedom.
In his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson/dp/0143122061">Civilization: The West and the Rest</a>, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson quotes a scholar from the Chinese Academy of Sciences:
“We were asked to look into what accounted for the … pre-eminence of the West over all the world … At first, we thought it was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West has been so powerful. The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life was what made possible the emergence of capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics. We don’t have any doubt about this.”
For centuries, the Christian faith served as the West’s bulwark against moral and political evils. But with the decline of Christian belief has come a corresponding rise in perversions of every kind. Rather than a Christian culture, we’ve become Christian-ish.
Thus, concepts with a Christian foundation — love, freedom, tolerance, diversity, stewardship of the environment, care for the poor, etc. — are easily highjacked and harnessed to a destructive end.
If the West is to survive in any recognizable sense, it must be more than Christian-ish.
As T.S. Eliot observed, “If Christianity goes, the whole culture goes.”
Larry Alex Taunton is a freelance columnist contributing to The Daily Wire, USA Today, Fox News, First Things, The Atlantic, The New York Post, CNN, Daily Caller, and The American Spectator. He is also the author of <a href="https://larryalextaunton.com/books/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Faith of Christopher Hitchens</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Grace-Effect-Reverse-Corruption-Unbelief/dp/1595554408/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1664139427&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Grace Effect</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Around-World-More-Than-Days/dp/1642935921/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&amp;keywords=around+the+world+in+more+than+80+days+taunton&amp;qid=1585871070&amp;sr=8-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Around the World in (More Than) 80 Days</a>. You can subscribe to his podcast at <a href="https://larryalextaunton.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">larryalextaunton.com</a> and find him on Twitter @larrytaunton.
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