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When the skies over the Swiss resort of Davos next fill with over 1,000 private jets bearing the elites of the world to discuss its fate, the Teutonic man behind it all may no longer be there.
Klaus Martin Schwab, born during WWII to a Nazi factory manager using forced labor to make flamethrowers, is Mr. Globalism. Even those who don’t know his name have seen that face with its cold fish stare through the rimmed eyeglasses looking back at them from under the towering futura font, slim and minimalist, of a solemn address at a World Economic Forum event.
“As I enter my 88th year, I have decided to step down from the position of Chair and as a member of the Board of Trustees, with immediate effect,” Klaus announced with dryly punctilious precision, declaring his departure while telling us nothing about why he’s leaving.
One reason may be that the WEF is investigating Schwab’s alleged withdrawal of cash from ATMs and use of the WEF to pay for hotel room massages, but the WEF founder has been accused of worse in the past.
But the real reason may be all the empty seats at the last World Economic Forum’s Davos event.
Not only Trump, who delivered virtual remarks, but most world leaders stayed home from 2025’s AI-themed Davos. Apart from Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, who can be counted on to show up at garage sales, dinner theaters and children’s puppet shows as long as there’s a chance photos will be taken, the WEF had to make do with personal addresses from the likes of South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, the UN Secretary General, and the European Commission president.
The globalists, failed state leaders, and CEOs looking to mingle still come, but Davos is dying.
Klaus and Davos both outlived their moment and the movement. Globalism remains a compelling force as a political reality, but its ideological momentum has run out. Conservatives hate the WEF and entire political movements have been based on running against globalism. Leftists want their internationalism in the form of riots and terrorism, not glorified TED talks with Bill Gates and elderly German academic bureaucrats selling them watered-down Marxism.
The general public never had much faith in the Eurocratic vision that the world would be run by an unaccountable world government of elite bureaucrats, academic experts and billionaire philanthropists holding conferences in various resorts to discuss how much light rail to build and how many patients with incurable diseases on national health insurance to euthanize.
But if Klaus were to blame anyone for destroying globalism’s credibility, it would be his former messiah, Barack Obama, who seemed like he had been cloned at Davos to accomplish the WEF’s goals. Instead, Americans got a taste of Davos and ran as far as they could the other way. Obama’s Arab Spring flooded Europe with Muslim mass migration and woke the continent from the slumbering haze of childless elderly government workers sleepwalking into the sunset.
By the time Schwab was using the pandemic to call for a “global reset”, the slick blend of corporate buzzwords and NGO marketing looked like an evil tyranny to millions of people. The Davosites had gotten their way and left behind ruin and misery on a global scale, and as the 1,000 private jets continued to fly to Davos, it was all too clear that they were still not done.
The one thing much of America and Europe now agree on is a burning hatred for the establishment. And globalism in its full flower at the WEF is the ultimate establishment. The WEF and its allied billionaire philanthropists helped platform and fund a militant activist class, but from Obama to the street rioters, that class doesn’t want to be seen in public with the WEF.
Schwab’s 2025 WEF pitch for “constructive optimism” and collaboration through AI fell flat.
Ironically, with AI, Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution seems more plausible than ever, but no one is cheering the dystopia of digital automation even as everyone seems to be diving in. It’s a world that seems to echo the WEF’s old pitch of “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy”, many believe the first part, but few believe the second part. And no one outside Davos is happy.
The illusion of a global world order, a project with troubling roots in Europe’s post-fascist systems, came apart even before Trump took office. Nationalist governments run for office promising that unhitching from globalism will make their countries and societies better. Brexit was not a one-off but a major moment in a grand global uncoupling that continues today.
President Trump’s dismantling of America’s participation in globalist institutions is a serious blow to the order that Schwab had tried to impose, but it wouldn’t be possible if there hadn’t been a systemic loss of faith in the system embodied by Davos conferences, McKinsey contracts, expert opinions, multilateral talks, think tank papers and whatever Bill Gates, Bloomberg, Soros, the Amazon founder’s ex-wife and the Apple co-founder’s widow are funding this year.
At last year’s Davos event, Schwab complained that, “geopolitically, our world is more interconnected, yet paradoxically, more divided than ever” and urged that “to break this cycle, we need a paradigm shift, we must rebuild trust” touting “100 initiatives” bringing together “the best experts throughout the year at our headquarters in Geneva, and throughout the world, to make tangible progress in finding solutions for the key challenges on the global agenda.”
But Klaus was selling something that no one was buying anymore. Davos is a club for men and women whose institutional power is great, but whose hold on events and the public has faded. That’s why world leaders have been staying away, leaving it to CEOs to abuse shareholder funds to subsidize Schwab’s Swiss globalist gab getaway. And not even Klaus could keep it up.
After Klaus, the WEF falls to Børge Brende, a former Norwegian minister who already serves as its CEO to be its public face. Unfortunately, like Schwab, it’s the face of a James Bond villain. But that’s already how most people see globalism. What used to be sold to the public as a more efficient process of fixing problems in the third world has turned the first world into the third.
Globalism, like Davos, is a scam, its promise of fixing problems through convergence only converges the problems on those parts of the world foolish enough to try to fix them. The Arab Spring didn’t just make the Middle East and North Africa worse, it also made Europe worse. Promising to save the planet has made life worse for Dutch farmers and American workers.
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings,” Winston Churchill, who had been at war with the system represented by the Schwabs, asserted. “The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” The WEF has played a role in sharing miseries, but those miseries are more likely to be found in rust belt cities in America and England than in the resort playgrounds of Davos. Every WEF idea somehow makes life worse for ordinary people and better for Davos attendees. And few still believe that’s some sort of coincidence.
Davos urged corporations to act like NGOs and NGOs to act like corporations. Billionaires were told to think like politicians and bring about positive change. National leaders were encouraged to think like world leaders. Out of this goulash of globalism has come a much worse world in which people no longer feel represented by those they elect and believe that they are being governed by an unelected tyranny of self-proclaimed billionaire world leaders like Bill Gates.
And they’re sick and tired of it.
Klaus Schwab’s belated retirement is incomplete. A proper Auf Wiedersehen from him would have been to take down the signs, pull down the curtain and put an end to the WEF.
Adios greedy money pimp Klaushh. It’s time for your fellow fleecers to kook you for brunch. 😆
There is no problem on Earth that a panel of experts has not made worse. One correction, though, euthanasia is not just for those with incurable diseases, it’s for any white person in Europe or Canada that can be convinced to remove themselves from the chess board now that their replacements have arrived.
Hod Dave us from the “Experts” who never fail to make everything & anything worse, especially Krass Sloß
KLAUS AND AOC SHOULD START A MASTER RACE AND START A RELIGION
their master race are the demons in hell and their religion is satanism
Maybe he’ll hang with the Pope soon!!
His brand has become toxic.
Rich Oligarchs making a play to take over the World. Thanks for teaching us about Oligarchs. Now when reading about Ancient Rome and Greece I can see the Oligarchs working behind the scenes.
The Democrats can’t save themselves with words anymore . They’re forced to start governing their cities well . I don’t believe that can happen . Our Constitutional Republic goes against every fiber of their totalitarian being .
So true, California at the head of the line asking for handouts.
I think California’s bullet train is a prime example – I think Newsom never intends to finish the train route so that he can keep asking Washington DC for more funds to “finish” the train project – a great scam, about the only thing Newsom is good at; a clever way to bail himself out of his $75 billion State deficit and also to secure more money to give out more free food stamps to illegals, thus bribing illegals to vote democrat because he automatically registers illegals to vote when giving them their driver’s license.
The Bullet Train was a stupid idea from the start, it only became clearer how stupid it was as time went on. Grifters who owned property on the proposed train route cashed in.
And good riddance too. Now, maybe ze bugs vill eat him.
and we will then be truly happy
Globalism is evil, according to the Bible. God determines the times, and boundaries, of nations. Mankind builds Babylon, to oppose God, whether with mud bricks, or the latest technology.
A Great Big Stage Beetle on the top of his Retirement Cake a Live One wit those nasty Mandibles
“we must rebuild trust” touting “100 initiatives” bringing together “the best experts ”
Ha ha ha!!!
“YOU will own nothing and be happy” is what all the billionaires said, I wonder if one of those experts would consider changing the first word to WE.
I always thought that the phrase “You will own nothing and you will be happy” had about as much mass appeal as every other globalist/fascist/communist catchphrase being forced on the world since the mid 20th C.
Klause, good bye and good riddance. And take Obama and his crowd with you.
I can’t help but wonder that when an ordinary bloke in England is watching
the telly after a hard day’s work and there’s a knock on the door, is it likely
he’ll find two policemen there, come to arrest him for offending comments
he made on the internet against Islam. Even though his neighborhood is
now overrun with Muslims committing atrocious crimes while promoting
Sharia. I mean – does that have anything to do with the Globalists?
Well, one can assume that it’s English leaders who have enacted laws to
keep that poor bloke from speaking rightfully up. But are they connected
to Globalists? Absolutely. The powerful globalist Trilateral Commission
is replete with European global bankers, corporate industrialists, inter-
national entrepreneurs, and their BFFs, the power-lusting politicians.
Why, even former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff –
among hundreds of other American movers and shakers – is doing his
thing on the North American branch of the Trilateral Commission.
Davos and the claptrap they spew may be petering out but does that
mean the Globalists will go with them? If you believe that, then my
English bloke buddy and I have a nice bridge to sell you in a sprawling
desert of sand. Real cheap.
Oligarchs (Globalists) never give up. As soon as some of them disappear others take their place. That is one invariant of history.
when the skies are full of the planes, is the time to set off the emp. knock them all out at once, one huge fly swatter for humanity, ridding the pestilence once and for all
I thought the new guy was Brabeck Letmathe—he of the weird-looking eye—who definitely looks like a Bond villain.
Don’t know what the Norwegian guy looks like—but everything about the WEF has a creepy vibe— perfect for worshiping AI and some post-human future—where wrinkley, billionaire old guys supposedly get to download themselves into some metaverse. Not surprising that that vision, along with euthanasia and complete, bankrupt dependency for the hoi polloi, fails at being genuinely popular as it reveals itself.
Bond movies were suppossed to be adventure fantasys. It is starting to look like the Bond villains are close to reality.
I dream of a day when a full load of 2000# jdams hits davos and fixes many problems plaguing the world today.
Well, of course Davos is on the skids. When Epstein was alive he supplied young women to lots of the “dignitaries”. Many looked forward to attending so they could have a wild time with women half, or a third their age.
If all you get to do at Davis is plan the murder and enslavement of mankind, what fun is that?
I vill not eat de bugs.
I see that Mr. EAT-Z-BUGS is under investigation for Corruption the Dark Secrets of WEF and CFR Globalists
Only birds should be allowed to eat bugs 🙂
Lets just leave the Bugs and Worms for the Birds they need to feed their young just like Humans do and Feed their Kids with Meat not Plant Based Junk and Fake Lab Meat
The real founders of the World Economic Forum were Americans, namely Henry Kissinger, John Kenneth Galbraith and Herman Kahn. It was Kissinger who recruited Klaus Schwab into his “round table” of globalists through a Harvard University-based program funded by the CIA, which would ultimately lead to the founding of the WEF. Don’t take my word for it, independent journalist Johnny Vedmore gives you the whole story in his articles “Dr. Klaus Schwab or: How the CFR Taught Me to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” and “Schwab Family Values,” both of which are available on the Unlimited Hangout website.
The ketchup whore John Kerry is losing some of his best friends. I’d think anyone with such superior DNA would do better., they being the best the human family has ever produced………..unconscionable, insufferable, unprincipled, greedy slugs.
Very strange. None of the local demonstrations are complaining about tariffs. Mostly they are complaining about being threatened with losing Social Security. But MSM is running tons of articles saying the voters are upset about tariffs, I don’t recall a single voter complaining about tariffs.