Dutch farmers just won’t stay home.
Two large protests unfolded in the Netherlands last week as citizens headed to vote in a provincial election yesterday. One protest was led by people with legitimate, tangible skin in the game: Farmers, fishermen, and their supporters. Dutch land, way of life, and time-tested traditions of success are under threat and being taken and destroyed. 
 
The second protest was an assembly of autonomous human drones, fueled by the information war. These victims of &#8220;menticide&#8221; are the &#8220;extinction rebellion&#8221; — brainwashed meatbots — from the same information ecosystems that created Antifa and Black Lives Matter. 

While the Dutch provincial election took a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/european-farmers-fed-climate-policies-shock-political-establishment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">favorable turn</a> for the farmers, many believe the threat to their autonomy still remains. 
Dutch farmers are under a severe information attack of their own, with accusations that farming causes “stickstoff poisoning,” — nitrogen poisoning. The accusation is so fraudulent that to even discuss the merits is to lose the fight. A famous Dutch medical doctor and psychoanalyst, Joost Meerloo, wrote extensively about such menticide in his classic book on brainwashing, &#8220;Rape of the Mind,&#8221; published in 1956. In the book, Dr. Meerloo explained exactly what we are seeing today, including methods for countering this mental martial art. A paraphrase of Dr. Meerloo’s advice: Do not engage in discussion of details when the bedrock details of the argument are lies. To discuss the merits of the meritless is to lose. 
 
The nitrogen argument put forth by Dutch prime minister Rutte and his globalist friends is fake. Unworthy of discussion. Instead, they should fix their gaze higher — ad hominem in this case — on the communists and other tyrants who wield the information swords.
The argument is as prima facie fallacious as the accusation that calling Holland “Holland” is somehow wrong. Their true goal is total control. Control of the simplest acts of existence, such as eating, which words we use, and calling oneself Dutch or American. According to the Dutch government, the name “Holland” is now outdated and should no longer be used by Dutch government officials. Yes, the term Holland is now canceled.
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent interview</a>, Dr. Jordan Peterson pointedly and repeatedly called this country, the Netherlands, Holland. If any man understands the immense power of a single word, the man is Dr. Peterson. Dr. Peterson knows compelled speech is slavery and slavery leads to spiritual death.
Last year, I stood outside a venue in the Netherlands where Dr. Peterson was speaking to a full house. He travels with a security detail due to serious, credible threats. Antifa protested the event, attempting to intimidate those who will listen to men who study, stand, and speak the truth.
I have spent months with Antifa in the past — in Portland, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Hong Kong (yes), and Washington D.C. I know their ways and how they work tirelessly to intimidate, using an information war as their highest form of warfare. 
The information war currently spreading across the Dutch &#8220;mindscape&#8221; is the real poison. The Dutch government is openly in the grips of a beastly alliance of the WEF and the CCP — The World Economic Forum and the Chinese Communist Party. Klaus Schwab, chairman of the WEF, has publicly, effusively praised Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the Netherlands version of Justin Trudeau.
These globalists need the farmland to create their planned Utopia called &#8220;Tristate City,&#8221; a megalopolis, comprising most of the Netherlands, parts of Germany, and Belgium. And while the brainchild behind the massive blueprint, urban planner Peter Savelberg, recently <a href="https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/global-policy-lab/living-cities-taking-on-period-poverty-tristate-city-conspiracy-monumental-women/">walked back his proposal</a>, it doesn&#8217;t diminish the WEF&#8217;s vision of a human farm where every movement will be tracked, recorded, and analyzed in real time by people such as Chinese agents.
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Tristate City includes the two busiest ports in Europe: Rotterdam and Antwerp. If China has its way, its new growing <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/war-in-ukraine-challenging-china-s-train-routes-to-europe/6530632.html">Asian rail infrastructure</a> will chug across the middle of the Tristate City to Rotterdam. The Tristate City is set to become a giant Chinese port city. 
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WEF/CCP needs and wants the land. Standing in the way, of course, are the farmers and a strong Dutch spirit. If the western WEF members, who now cooperate so deeply with CCP, succeed they will eventually fight over the spoils. Stated more plainly — though WEF and CCP are today wedded in unholy marriage, they are destined for bloody divorce. 
 
Why so herculean an effort to destroy Dutch culture including farmers and fishermen? Control: Control of food supply, freedom of movement, association, and commerce. Dutch farmers — among the most efficient and responsible in the world — are working in large parts on land that was reclaimed from the sea. Not primal forests, but underwater. Their family lines go back centuries. They are literally the original tribespeople, as it were. If this were any place other than Europe, the Frisians and others might be labeled indigenous, in need of protection. 

WATCH: New <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/b">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson podcast</a>, &#8220;Dutch Farmers: Canaries in the Globalist Coal Mine, with Michael Yon &amp; Eva Vlaardingerbroek&#8221;
<a href="https://michaelyon.com/">Michael Yon</a> became one of America’s youngest Green Berets at 19-years-old. Michael has lived over half of his life abroad living or traveling to about 90 countries. Author of three books in the United States and three others in Japan, he is America’s most experienced combat correspondent. Follow him on Twitter: @Michael_Yon, and http://michaelyon.locals.com
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/paypal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PayPal</a> CEO Dan Schulman announced that he would retire from the financial services <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/big-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">platform</a> at the end of the year.
Schulman, who will continue to serve on the company’s board of directors, said that he wants to devote more time to his “passions outside the workplace.” He became the company’s chief executive in 2014 after a stint as enterprise growth president at American Express.
&#8220;I&#8217;m proud of what we have accomplished at PayPal and of the incredibly talented and committed people I work with every day,” he said in a <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/president-and-ceo-dan-schulman-announces-intention-to-retire-from-paypal-at-year-end-301743529.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “Together, we have reimagined financial services and e-commerce, and worked to improve the financial health of our customers. PayPal makes a difference every day for its customers and communities and the company is positioned for a great future.”
The retirement comes months after PayPal, which has deplatformed multiple organizations and commentators for their political views, had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-paypal-policy-lets-company-pull-2500-from-users-accounts-if-they-promote-misinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unveiled</a> an upcoming change to its acceptable use policy that would have banned the promotion of “misinformation,” as well as “hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory.” Within one day of The Daily Wire reporting on the policy change, which would have imposed $2,500 penalties on users for each violation, PayPal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paypal-reverses-plan-to-fine-users-2500-for-misinformation-after-daily-wire-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that the guidelines were published “in error.”
PayPal lost $6 billion in valuation during a subsequent stock market <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-paypal-stock-plummets-after-daily-wire-report-exposes-shocking-misinformation-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selloff</a> as thousands of users canceled their accounts. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paypal-ceos-interview-with-world-economic-forum-could-suggest-mentality-behind-backtracked-misinformation-penalty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> between Schulman and the World Economic Forum published months earlier showed that the executive&#8217;s approach to business had long involved moving the needle on social issues as well as earning profits.
“Trust extends well beyond whether you deliver an excellent product or service. Doing that is very necessary, but it’s not sufficient,” asserted Schulman, who currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council and Board of Governors. “To be a company that embodies trust, your mission and values should make it clear that you stand for more than just maximizing profit. That you stand up for social issues that are important, and you do the right things to help create a better world.”
The World Economic Forum 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 encourages executives to consider the needs of employees, communities, and other parties in addition to shareholders, and the use of <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">corporate power</a> to advance political agendas in the global economy. “Saying that you have values and not acting on them is worse than not having any values,” Schulman continued. “That’s what causes employees to revolt, that’s how you sow distrust with customers or regulators.”
Among the many <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-former-paypal-exec-led-backlash-before-paypal-abandoned-alleged-plan-to-fine-users-2500-for-misinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critics</a> of the PayPal misinformation policy were David Sacks, the company’s former president, and Elon Musk, who co-founded one of the firms which would later become PayPal. Members of the Senate likewise requested more information about the retracted acceptable use policy in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senators-confront-paypal-on-misinformation-policy-highlighted-by-daily-wire-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> sent to Schulman.
“Greater encroachment by large technology and financial companies into public speech will only exacerbate Americans’ increasing mistrust of such institutions,” the lawmakers wrote. “Policies that empower companies to punish individuals’ beliefs by acting as arbiters of fact in our ever-changing news and public debate environment represent poor business decisions. Instead, large technology and financial institutions should focus on serving the needs of their customers without bias.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr Jordan B Peterson</a> laid out his plan to take on the globalists on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” telling the podcast king in an extended interview posted Saturday that he is considering starting a populist alternative to the World Economic Forum.
Peterson told Rogan that he will be gathering a consortium this October/November in London as a kind of rival to the WEF. This group will discuss six questions pertaining to global philosophy and policy. While this first conference will be invite-only, it will be public, and Peterson noted that if successful, he would like to expand yearly.
Some of the ideas — which are aimed at providing an “alternative vision of the future &#8230; an alternative to that kind of apocalyptic narrative that&#8217;s being put forward, at least implicitly, by organizations like the WEF” — are as follows:
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<li>How to get &#8220;energy and resources at the lowest possible cost, as rapidly as possible, to the largest number of people around the world.”</li>
<li>Engaging in a &#8220;pro-human view&#8221; of earth stewardship.</li>
<li>Putting forward a &#8220;vision on the family policy front to facilitate the encouragement of and the maintenance of longterm, monogamous couples who are child-centered.”</li>
<li>And discovering our &#8220;story,&#8221; specifically as it relates to &#8220;voluntary play&#8221; rather than &#8220;the spirit of power&#8221; ruling.</li>
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Peterson, the DailyWire+ star, clinical psychologist, and best-selling author, also told Rogan that the transgender “contagion” is damaging children and likened it to the satanic ritual abuse claims that arose in daycare centers nearly 40 years ago. He also took a clear shot at the globalist group that gathers in Davos to formulate progressive policies to impose on the world.
“I&#8217;ve been trying to understand the driving ideas underneath this globalist utopian tyranny that seems to be developing from the top-down, and I think it&#8217;s driven at least in part by this religious vision that I already described — you know, that you have to construe culture itself, especially industrial culture, as the tyrannical father raping and pillaging everything in its way, which is [an] unbelievably dangerous way to think — too one-sided,&#8221; Peterson said.
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Peterson blasted the progressive elites, who hint darkly at population controls and push policies that make food and energy expensive for the world&#8217;s poor.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve already felt that I’ve been at war for the last six months, and I would say it&#8217;s war because what I observed happening in Europe when I was there last was that &#8230; it&#8217;s pretty damn clear that the globalist utopians are willing to sacrifice the poor for the sake of the planet, you know, and they&#8217;re doing that by cranking energy prices up through the roof, and that means that people die,&#8221; Peterson said.
Peterson has clashed with leftist authoritarians in the past, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is a WEF regular. Peterson is also currently sparring <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-jordan-peterson-lashes-out-at-canadas-commissars-after-board-threatens-his-medical-license" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with a psychology trade association</a> that sought to sanction him for tweets it deemed offensive. The College of Psychologists of Ontario ordered Peterson to undergo “social media communications retraining” or face a hearing on the potential suspension of his license to practice clinical psychology. Peterson made it clear he has no intention of submitting to the group&#8217;s demand.
Rogan also asked Peterson to share his thoughts on what is behind the surge in people identifying as transgender. Peterson explained that the trend is being driven by “sociological contagion,” and compared it to “the satanic ritual abuse accusations that emerged in daycares in the 1980s.” Peterson blasted his home country’s new law, which amended Canada’s human rights protections to cover transgender and “nonbinary” citizens. Peterson predicted that the new law and continued mainstreaming of young people getting chemical and surgical gender treatments will “fatally confuse thousands of young girls.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/home-depot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Home Depot</a> co-founder Bernie Marcus shredded the younger “woke generation” for laziness and asserted that “office people” are among the least motivated to work.
The businessman commented during an <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/home-depot-co-founder-warns-woke-generation-ignoring-economys-bottom-line" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Fox News that companies across the nation are facing difficulties attracting and retaining young people in particular. He attributed the phenomenon to the rise of a socialistic attitude and a prevailing sense of entitlement.
“They don&#8217;t want to work. Nobody wants to work anymore, especially office people. They want to work three days a week. It&#8217;s incredible. How do you have a recession when you have people that don&#8217;t want jobs?&#8221; he said. “They&#8217;re entitled, they&#8217;re given everything. The government, in many cases, if you don&#8217;t work, you get as much money as when you did work.”
An analysis from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity found that federal supplemental unemployment benefits, food stamp expansions, child tax credit payments, and other benefits offered in the aftermath of the lockdown-induced recession could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/some-families-with-no-one-working-can-receive-up-to-six-figures-of-welfare-in-three-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exceed</a> $120,000 in multiple states. Even with the expiration of the programs, a more recent <a href="https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Paying-Americans-Not-to-Work.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> from the conservative think tank found that unemployment insurance and expanded medical subsidies can exceed the national median income in nearly half of states for families with two parents and two children.
Policymakers and corporate leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, discussed the merits of a four-day workweek, even as the labor market suffers from a lack of available workers that is worsening inflation across the economy. Though the speakers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/four-day-workweek-world-economic-forum-weighs-the-merits-of-the-upper-class-working-less" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referenced</a> a number of analyses showing that employees generally prefer virtual or flexible work arrangements, other studies reveal that the costs of such setups are not palpable for employers: 85% of business leaders say the shift to hybrid work “has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are being productive,” according to a <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/hybrid-work-is-just-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> from Microsoft.
Marcus, the first chief executive of Home Depot and an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nobody-gives-a-damn-home-depot-co-founder-slams-americans-refusing-to-work-thanks-to-socialism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ardent supporter</a> of capitalism, expressed skepticism toward the ability of fellow billionaires who desire to manage the future of the planet. &#8220;I certainly don&#8217;t want to see the woke generation coming up, especially the leaders. I&#8217;m watching Davos, what happened in Davos, and they&#8217;re recommending spending more money on climate control when we don&#8217;t have it,&#8221; he continued &#8220;We&#8217;ve already overspent. And if anything, climate control has caused most of the problems we have today.&#8221;
Republicans have recently argued that efforts from asset management firms to pressure portfolio companies to divest from fossil fuels have exacerbated rising energy prices. Several attorneys general <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-attorneys-general-move-to-block-vanguards-climate-crusade-from-impacting-public-power-grids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed motions</a> two months ago with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission contending that asset manager Vanguard should be barred from acquiring shares in publicly traded utilities out of a concern that the company’s emissions reduction objectives would hike energy prices and decrease grid reliability.
Marcus rebuked companies that grow enraptured with pursuing social goals rather than maximizing profits. &#8220;We need leaders who are basically thinking about the shareholders and their employees, and how well the shareholders are doing and their employees,” he said. “And I think today it&#8217;s all about woke diversity, things that don&#8217;t hit the bottom line.”

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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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&#8220;Dirty Jobs&#8221; host Mike Rowe blasted the billionaires attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, accusing them of &#8220;hypocrisy&#8221; for blaming the &#8220;everyday guy&#8221; for &#8220;all of the trouble in the world.&#8221;
During an appearance on Fox News&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3QvOogiRk">The Ingraham Angle</a>&#8221; on Wednesday, Rowe was asked what he thought about the &#8220;callous&#8221; and &#8220;dismissive attitude&#8221; of the elites at the forum over jobs &#8220;they don&#8217;t approve of,&#8221; such as those in the fossil fuel industry.
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to maintain a consistent level of outrage,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-rowe-says-feds-revoked-his-filming-permit-received-call-claiming-it-was-pulled-for-his-personal-politics">Rowe</a> replied. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been at this for 15 years. The foundation I run is focused on real jobs that require an actual skill that truly exists.&#8221;
Rowe said when he looks at the coverage of Davos, he doesn&#8217;t understand &#8220;why anybody is taking any of it seriously.&#8221;
&#8220;These are billionaires, and very, very, very wealthy people who fly privately to this resort to basically blame the everyday guy for all of the trouble in the world,&#8221; Rowe explained.
&#8220;I just don&#8217;t know how a reasonable person can see through the hypocrisy to even for a moment seriously consider the validity of anything you just played,&#8221; he added, referencing a clip that showed elites espousing the need to &#8220;close the emissions gap,&#8221; phase out coal, and end the &#8220;addiction to fossil fuels.&#8221;
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Fox News host Laura Ingraham said we couldn&#8217;t ignore their comments because it&#8217;s creating liberal policies that hurt people.
Rowe agreed and said sometimes things are going to &#8220;have to go splat&#8221; before the majority stands up, but to &#8220;affirmatively make fossil fuels the enemy right now&#8221; is crazy.
&#8220;And to marginalize and vilify the very thing we are all so completely and totally reliant on, that&#8217;s a recipe for crazy making,&#8221; Rowe added, noting that our relationship with energy and food is completely disconnected.
&#8220;We&#8217;re at war with the very things that we need,&#8221; he added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bed-it-all-up-mike-rowe-explains-why-7-million-able-bodied-men-arent-looking-for-work-and-its-not-a-skills-gap">&#8216;B****ed It All Up&#8217;: Mike Rowe Explains Why 7 Million Able-Bodied Men Aren&#8217;t Looking For Work, And It&#8217;s Not &#8216;A Skills Gap&#8217;</a>

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Mike Rowe Blasts ‘Hypocrisy’ Of Billionaires At WEF Blaming ‘Everyday Guy’ For ‘All Of The Trouble In The World’

Mike Rowe Blasts 'Hypocrisy' Of Billionaires At WEF Blaming ‘Everyday Guy’ For 'All Of The Trouble In The World’

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Attendees of the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> in Davos, Switzerland, discussed growing calls for a four-day workweek and various challenges the arrangement could present to <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/business" target="_blank" rel="noopener">companies</a>.
Proposals for a four-day week of eight-hour days have increased in recent years, culminating in an international <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60b956cbe7bf6f2efd86b04e/t/6387a0e53881be1284cb046e/1669832945858/The+Four+Day+Week-+Assessing+Global+Trials+of+Reduced+Work+Time+with+No+Reduction+in+Pay+%E2%80%93+A+%E2%80%93+30112022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> finding that revenues rose for participating companies even as metrics related to employee well-being improved. Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Wharton School, led a <a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/the-four-day-week" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel event</a> at the conference during which officials considered the global rollout of the arrangement.
Dutch Employment Minister Karien van Gennip acknowledged that the four-day workweek conversation remains “very much a discussion for the upper class.” More than one year after virtual commutes became commonplace for white-collar employees after the lockdown-induced recession, some 67% were able to work from home exclusively compared to 48% of educators and 35% of healthcare professionals, according to a <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/355907/remote-work-persisting-trending-permanent.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> from Gallup.
“If you look at many of the jobs that are service jobs, they are still in-person service jobs,” van Gennip said. “It’s much more difficult to go toward those flexibility hours and also, if you would go to a four-day work week, if you consider the discussions we also have on minimum wage and on living wage, then you have to be quite serious about what it means for the pay per hour.”
Randstad CEO Sander van’t Noordende nevertheless asserted that implementing flexible work arrangements is a “business imperative” for many companies.
“Talent is scarce, and you almost start to treat your talent as your customer,” the Dutch human resources consultancy executive remarked. “Work-life balance is a critical thing that people are looking for as well.”
Some 45% of workers cite lackluster flexibility when discussing why they left their previous jobs, while roughly 48% mention childcare issues, according to another <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/09/majority-of-workers-who-quit-a-job-in-2021-cite-low-pay-no-opportunities-for-advancement-feeling-disrespected/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> from Pew Research Center. UNI Global Union General Secretary Christy Hoffman confirmed on the panel that “scheduling is really important for low-wage, predominantly women workers” in sectors where virtual or flexible work is less feasible.
Hoffman added that the United States and Japan are “by far the worst” in comparison to the rest of the developed world with respect to work hours. “It’s sort of considered barbaric in other countries that you get two weeks off per year,” she continued, noting that four weeks of paid vacation is a customary practice in western Europe.
Grant contrasted the possibility of a four-day workweek with criticism of flexible work arrangements from Elon Musk, who has mandated that employees at his companies complete their tasks from the office. The billionaire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-remote-work-is-no-longer-acceptable-at-tesla" target="_blank" rel="noopener">informed</a> workers at electric automaker Tesla that work-from-home is “no longer” acceptable and commented on social media that those who disagree with the new policy “should pretend to work somewhere else.” He likewise <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/freedom-of-speech-and-freedom-of-reach-elon-musk-tells-twitter-employees-users-should-be-able-to-tweet-pretty-outrageous-things" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Twitter employees that working “on location physically” is far superior to other arrangements.
Other findings indeed show that the costs of virtual work arrangements are palpable for employers: 85% of business leaders say the shift to hybrid work “has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are being productive,” according to a <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/hybrid-work-is-just-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> from Microsoft.
Van’t Noordende noted that “time will tell” whether the cultural sea change at Twitter will be successful.
“If people want to work seven days per week in a very intense environment to build a great company, be my guest. They should absolutely do that,” he said. “But I am wondering, because now he bought Twitter, which is a more established company with a certain culture, can he change that culture to the startup culture that he sort of built the other businesses with? It’s an interesting experiment.”

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Four-Day Workweek? World Economic Forum Weighs The Merits Of The ‘Upper Class’ Working Less

World Economic Forum Weighs The Merits Of The Four-Day Workweek

The <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate</a> moralism arms race in Davos, Switzerland, intensified on Thursday as activist <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/greta-thunberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greta Thunberg</a> accused attendees of the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> of hypocrisy regarding the environment.
The 20-year-old Swede participated in a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/19/greta-thunberg-says-davos-prioritizing-short-term-profits-over-planet.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> moderated by CNBC in the resort town, which is presently hosting hundreds of government officials and corporate leaders for the World Economic Forum’s annual conference. Thunberg contended that the green of the dollar was more important to the attendees than the green of the planet.
“We are right now in Davos where basically the people who are mostly fueling the destruction of the planet, the people who are at the very core of the climate crisis, the people who are investing in fossil fuels, and yet somehow these are the people that we seem to rely on solving our problems,” she remarked. “They have proven time and time again that they are not prioritizing that. They are prioritizing self-greed, corporate greed and short-term economic profits above people and above planet.”
German authorities recently detained Thunburg after she and other activists protested the expansion of a coal mine in the town of Lutzerath. Even though video later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-video-of-greta-thunbergs-detention-sparks-allegations-of-a-staged-incident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emerged</a> showing the police effectively allowing the media to take pictures and film the 20-year-old before they removed her from the area, Thunberg added that the world should be listening to her and other activists before politicians and executives.
“These people are going to go as far as they possibly can as long as they can get away with it,” she continued. “They will continue to invest in fossil fuels, they will continue to throw people under the bus for their own gain.”
Climate policy has been a prominent theme at the World Economic Forum even as the Russian invasion of Ukraine bottlenecks worldwide energy supplies. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen <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> during her remarks at the conference that “Europe will always stand with the Ukrainian people” and commented that policymakers would endeavor to “reach net zero” carbon emissions despite the energy shortfalls. Former Vice President Al Gore embarked upon a <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">speech</a> in which he claimed that the oceans are currently boiling.
Thunberg was not the only activist to levy charges of hypocrisy against the World Economic Forum. Greenpeace, an international climate advocacy organization, issued a harsh <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">rebuke</a> of attendees for traveling to the conference on hundreds of private jets. The vast majority of the more than 1,000 planes which entered Davos amid last year’s conference were embarking on short-haul flights of less than 500 miles that “could have easily been train or car trips,” according to <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/international/ce-delft_co2-emissions-from-private-flights-to-the-world-economic-forum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> published by the group, while one plane traveled only 13 miles to attend the event.
“Europe is experiencing the warmest January days ever recorded and communities around the world are grappling with extreme weather events supercharged by the climate crisis,” Klara Maria Schenk, a campaigner for Greenpeace, said in a <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/57867/hundreds-of-ultra-short-private-jet-flights-to-davos-world-economic-forum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “Meanwhile, the rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors. Davos has a perfectly adequate railway station, still these people can’t even be bothered to take the train.”
The research concluded that private jet travel to and from Davos during last year’s conference produced emissions equivalent to those caused in one week by 350,000 cars. Private jet emissions linked to Davos quadrupled during the week of the meeting.

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Leftist Civil War: Greta Thunberg Airs Grievances Against World Economic Forum

Greta Thunberg Blasts World Economic Forum

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Greta Thunberg

This article is a companion piece to today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
White House Defends Biden&#8217;s Handling Of Classified Docs
Amid increased pressure from the press, the White House has continued to defend President Biden’s handling of classified documents, stating that he was not aware the documents were in his possession. Here’s White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre this week:
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REPORTER: &quot;The White House says Republicans are faking outrage on this issue. Why shouldn&#39;t Americans be outraged about classified documents being found in a garage?&quot;
KJP: &quot;[Biden] said that he didn&#39;t know, right? He said that he was surprised.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/bNnwiZkmqC">pic.twitter.com/bNnwiZkmqC</a>
&mdash; Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1615435340436627464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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No Death Penalty For Walmart Shooter
In other legal news, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-decline-to-seek-death-penalty-against-el-paso-walmart-shooter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will not</a> seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing dozens of people in a racially motivated attack at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in 2019. That&#8217;s according to papers filed in court this week.
Philadelphia Flyers Player Defends His Faith
Philadelphia Flyers hockey player Ivan Provorov, who is a practicing member of the Russian Orthodox Church, came under fire this week after refusing to don a rainbow jersey as part of the NHL’s “pride” night on Tuesday.
“I respect everybody and I respect everybody’s choices,&#8221; Provorov stated. &#8220;My choice is to stay true to myself and my religion.”
Flyers head coach John Tortorella also voiced his support for the 26-year-old defenseman:
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Flyers head coach John Tortorella defended Provy and refused to bench him tonight:
“He’s being true to himself.” <a href="https://t.co/ZPbbKMqFi1">pic.twitter.com/ZPbbKMqFi1</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1615572273133457408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Microsoft Layoffs Coming
On Wednesday, Microsoft Corporation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/microsoft-announces-mass-layoffs-to-cut-costs-amid-economic-headwinds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> it is laying off 10,000 employees — which is less than 5% of its workforce. In a company-wide blogpost, the CEO cited concerns about recessions and the health of the global economy.
Man Accused Of Googling How To Dispose Of Body Charged With Wife&#8217;s Murder
Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/did-you-kill-your-wife-brian-reporters-ambush-accused-killer-after-he-pleads-not-guilty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly</a> Googled how to dispose of a woman’s body, appeared in court today on charges of murdering his wife. He was formally charged with murder and disinterring a body without authority, in addition to misleading authorities. He was ordered to be held without bail. His wife was last seen alive around New Year’s Day.
World&#8217;s Oldest Norwegian Runestone Found, Archeologists Say 
Archeologists from the University of Oslo and the Oslo Museum of Cultural history <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/worlds-oldest-runestone-up-to-2000-years-old-found-in-norway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believe</a> they’ve discovered the “world’s oldest” runestone in Norway, dating back to between AD 1 and AD 250, the team behind the finding announced Tuesday. The artifact is considered one of the earliest examples of written words in Scandinavia.
Greenpeace Slams World Economic Forum Hypocrites
This week, climate activism organization Greenpeace <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">issued</a> a scathing rebuke of World Economic Forum attendees after a report found that approximately 1,040 private jets flew in and out of airports servicing Davos during last year’s conference. The activists pointed out that the “vast majority” of such flights could have been taken via train or other more climate-friendly vehicles.
French Nun, Oldest Living Person In The World Dies
A French nun believed to be the oldest living person in the world has died. Lucile Randon, known as Sister Andre, was 118 years old and less than a month shy of her 119th birthday. She believed working kept her “young” and said she worked until she was 108 years old. She is said to have eaten chocolate and had a glass of wine every day.
Top Ukrainian Official Among At Least 14 Dead After Helicopter Crashes Into Kindergarten
At least 14 people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-ukrainian-official-among-at-least-14-dead-after-helicopter-crashes-into-kindergarten" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> following a helicopter crash in Ukraine on Wednesday, including the country’s interior minister. The cause of the crash is unknown.
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Wednesday Afternoon Update: White House Downplays Docs Scandal, NHL Player Defends His Religion, Greenpeace Slams Davos Hypocrites

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As you probably know, your so-called moral betters are meeting in Davos, Switzerland, right now for the annual World Economic Forum. Amongst the issues they love to preen about are “gender inequality” and abuse against women in the workplace due to things like the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AhDC2ICAr0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mythical gender pay gap.</a>
Hearing that, you might suspect this group of globalists would be doing something about the horrors of prostitution, sex trafficking, and more.
Wrong.
It seems  many of the participants of WEF — these global elites who profess to care for their fellow men and women — are clients of such “sex workers,” as the Left loves to call them.
A recent report revealed that each year more than 100 high-end prostitutes travel to the Swiss ski resort town for the annual conference.
Per The New York Post, “One prostitute who goes by the name ‘Liana’ <a href="https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/politik-ausland/wirtschaftsgipfel-in-der-schweiz-escort-boom-in-davos-82579030.bild.html">told the German newspaper Bild</a> that she frequently provides services to an American attendee at Davos who pays $750 per hour — or $2,500 to spend the whole night.”
“She added that she dresses in business attire in order to blend in with the crowd at the World Economic Forum gathering,” the paper noted.
She claimed she couldn’t mention who her client is, but stated he is an American who is one of the 2,700 regular attendees of the conference.
“Liana” isn’t alone. One investigation found that at least 100 prostitutes in recent years traveled to Davos to meet the demands of the WEF attendees.
So, in a sleepy town in Switzerland, a bunch of executives fly into town each year on private jets so they can preach to you about the “morality” we need to invoke in society.
Mind you, these are the same folks who tell you that you need to give up fossil fuels as you nearly freeze to death in order to fight climate change. They can scurry around on private jets, but you need to sacrifice.
Similarly, they claim we need laws to protect women — yet, they have no concern about coughing up thousands to fly in prostitutes for the week in Davos.
Now, it should be noted there are people fighting to pass laws to decriminalize sex work. There is some logic to that, by the way. Many women and men, forced into prostitution are victims and are not involved willingly.
I&#8217;ve explored that on my show, such as the time I interviewed Tim Ballard, who works with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhjkqLhbgu8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Operation Underground Railroad</a>. That group regularly saves victims who were forced to do pornography.
So, the argument is that if you’re penalizing sex work, then sometimes you&#8217;re criminalizing a person that&#8217;s just been victimized and now is being revictimized by the court systems. It’s an interesting debate. 
For now, though, I think we can all agree it&#8217;s more than a little hypocritical for these high-powered bosses at Davos to book escorts into their hotel rooms while they claim to care about women.

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World Economic Forum: Hypocrisy Is Thy Name 

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Former Vice President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/al-gore" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Gore</a> ranted about <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate change</a> during the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> in Davos, Switzerland, and condemned the purported detainment of activist <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/greta-thunberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greta Thunberg</a>.
The former Democratic presidential candidate said in an impassioned <a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/leading-the-charge-through-earths-new-normal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jeremiad</a> at the conference that carbon emissions are raising the temperature of the troposphere, the part of the atmosphere that contains oxygen, to an unsustainable degree. He claimed that increased emissions are linked to extreme weather events and the apparent boiling of the oceans.
“We’re still putting 162 million tons into it every single day, and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the Earth,” he remarked. “That’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice, and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach one billion in this century.”
Gore also repeated his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-may-try-to-fire-world-bank-president-for-not-pushing-climate-policy-enough-possible-replacement-chimes-in-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assertion</a> that World Bank President David Malpass, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, is a “climate denier” who pursues environmental policies with insufficient zeal. The accusation last year followed speculation that President Joe Biden would select Gore to serve as the next leader of the international financial institution.
“We are not winning. The crisis is still getting worse faster than we are deploying these solutions, and we need to make changes quickly,” Gore continued. “Emissions are still going up. All these promises of the last few years to cut emissions, emissions are still going up. When are going to bring these emissions down?”
Gore, who served during the administration of former President Bill Clinton, also condemned the purported detainment of Greta Thunberg after she and other activists protested the expansion of a coal mine in Germany. The 20-year-old was initially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-police-detain-greta-thunberg-at-anti-energy-protest-she-smiles-while-getting-hauled-away" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photographed</a> smiling as German police picked her up and carried her away; video later emerged showing the police effectively allowing the media to take pictures and film Thunberg before they removed her from the area, sparking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-video-of-greta-thunbergs-detention-sparks-allegations-of-a-staged-incident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusations</a> that the detainment was a publicity stunt.
“We’ve heard about divides at this conference between the north and south, and the east and west. There’s another divide, increasingly, between those who are old enough to be in positions of power and the young people of this world. Greta Thunberg was just arrested in Germany. I agree with her efforts to stop that coal mine,” Gore continued. “Young people around the world are looking at what we’re doing.”
Climate policy has been a preeminent theme at this year’s World Economic Forum conference even as the Russian invasion of Ukraine bottlenecks worldwide energy supplies. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen <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> during her remarks that “Europe will always stand with the Ukrainian people” and commented that policymakers would still endeavor to “reach net zero” carbon emissions despite the energy shortfalls.
World Economic Forum Chair Klaus Schwab, who has led the controversial organization for decades, cited the worldwide “transition” toward renewable energy in his <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">opening address</a>. The German economist garnered notoriety for suggesting that the lockdown-induced recession was an opportunity for elites to craft a “Great Reset” of the world’s economic and social systems.

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‘Boiling The Oceans’: Al Gore Goes On Unhinged Climate Rant, Condemns Detainment Of Greta Thunberg

Al Gore Goes On Unhinged Climate Rant, Condemns Detainment Of Greta Thunberg

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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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