2023-12-29 20:47:52
SPITTING IMAGE – He speaks on familiar terms with the greats of this world, is described as “the master of masters” with the appearance of a sectarian guru, and personally knows more heads of state, leaders and billionaires than anyone else. Klaus Schwab himself probably did not imagine, when he founded the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 1971, that he would become such an influential figure, dictating, in one way or another, from the radio station. skiing in Davos, Switzerland, the social and economic trajectories of the world. How did this German engineer and economist with a dubious family tree manage to become what he is today: a controversial personality for some, a “visionary” for others, who is not content with share his opinion on every major news story, but influence political decisions via the WEF, subsidiary organizations like the Young Global Leaders (YGL), or his writings?
Born in Germany in 1938, Klaus Schwab mainly grew up and lived in Switzerland. In 1966, he obtained a doctorate in engineering sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and followed this with a doctorate in economics from the University of Fribourg. He flew to the United States to complete a Master of Public Administration at Harvard, and returned in 1972 to Switzerland to teach industrial management at the University of Geneva.
Bipolar, bipolar, did you say bipolar?
Apart from the “official” version and his own testimonies, there is little information on the circumstances of the creation of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which was initially called the European Management Symposium. Klaus Schwab discusses two main elements, starting with reading the book The American Challenge by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. This essay, published in 1967, warned of the risk of Europe becoming an economic colony of the United States. The French journalist and politician described the inability of European companies, particularly French, to compete with American organizations. A scenario that has become a reality according to Klaus Schwab himself, who nowadays describes a new bipolar world, dominated by the United States and China and in which Europe is relegated to a “bridge role”.
The other circumstance of the creation of the Symposium is the Cold War. This was still in full swing in the 1970s after a timid rapprochement between the United States and the USSR at the end of the 1960s. The Berlin and Cuban missile crises gave way to the Vietnam War, Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the oil shock. Added to this is globalization and the changes it brings. For Klaus Schwab, there was a need for dialogue between the different actors in the world: “I founded the WEF in 1971 with the aim of creating a forum in which leaders of business, government and international organizations could meet and discuss the challenges facing the world”.
Business first… Lie then !
During the first edition, Schwab, virtually unknown, received the support of Raymond Barre, then European Commissioner for Economic Affairs. This still sets its conditions: “Let this not become a commercial matter” and above all, that in the future it will be held in a country of the European Community. Klaus Schwab has the answer you need: “But, Mr. Commissioner, Switzerland will soon join the European institutions!” (which will never be the case). “At the first congress in Davos, in the summer of 1971, there were very few of us, between one hundred and two hundred, business leaders and management professors”, testifies a French industrialist. The WEF speaks of 450 participants, from 31 countries.
With the Cold War coming to an end, Klaus Schwab saw a new geopolitical landscape taking shape and seized the opportunity to, in 1987, rename his Symposium the World Economic Forum.
The crème de la crème at the splits ball
The WEF now intends to bring together the elite around the “new economic, political and social challenges” imposed by the upheavals of the end of the 20th century (fall of the USSR, globalization and the rise of digital technologies).
The growth of Davos will therefore be dazzling. The summit brings together Western leaders, their counterparts from emerging countries or those from former communist or banana republics. In the name of the currency “Committed to improving the state of the world” (Committed to improving the state of the world), Klaus Schwab intends to apply his business management principles, the 3 Bs for “Bounding, Binding, Building” (Create a framework, make connections, build), to other areas such as politics, governance and diplomacy. In Davos, we see, for example, Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Özal shaking hands with his Greek counterpart Andréas Papandreou, South African President Frederik de Klerk alongside the icon of the fight against apartheid, Nelson Mandela, or Shimon Peres conversing with Yasser Arafat…
The triumph of Davos is such that its name is used to describe all meetings of the same kind throughout the world. Klaus Schwab personally invites leaders to come and address the bosses of the most important global companies, as part of informal meetings organized on the sidelines of the summit.
The WEF is now much more than an annual meeting bringing together political leaders and businessmen to discuss business. It becomes the forum for well-defined ideas through which Klaus Schwab and his organization help shape the global agenda. We are far from the themes of the first editions. The WEF openly discusses the “construction of healthy and equitable societies”, food and nature, industrial transformation or even the “fourth industrial revolution” (to which Schwab dedicated one of his books, which caused controversy) and relays the theories of the most controversial billionaires, like Bill Gates or George Soros.
The YGL infiltrates and the Global Shapers are brainwashed
How can we “shape” the world? Are the thematic conferences during the few days of the annual Davos summit enough to “shake” political leaders to convince them to authorize artificial meat or insect-based foods? Yes No Maybe. On the other hand, enlisting young leaders likely to be the political or economic leaders of tomorrow, yes. This is the mission of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow, renamed Young Global Leaders (YGL) in 2004.
The WEF explains that the YGL forum, bringing together “dynamic and inspiring leaders under the age of 40” was launched to “respond to the growing consensus that the interrelated challenges facing the world require solutions based on a global vision. and looking to the future”. In 2021, Klaus Schwab explained the need of “take into consideration the disenchanted generation” which lived through the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid pandemic, through its network of 12,000 Gobal Shapers, another organization aiming to “influence (…) young leaders to shape decision-making processes ”. A sect ?
The founder of the Economic Forum says it himself: his Young Global Leaders infiltrate governments around the world. Who has already been part of it and who are the current figures? Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, Nicolas Sarkozy, Emmanuel Macron, Gabriel Attal, Jacinda Arden and even Justin Trudeau, a clique which finances the WEF. Governments infiltrated by the YGL are Schwab’s “greatest pride”. Other names from the world of business and the arts have made “their classes” in Davos such as Elon Musk, Jack Ma, Mark Zuckerberg, Leonardo DiCaprio and Charlize Theron: What should we think, then, of their speeches and their actions?
Requiem for the democracy of madmen, or how to sell our freedoms to the highest bidders
Faced with the challenges that the world is supposed to face such as pandemics and global warming, the recommendations of the WEF, its founder and its panel of “humanist” speakers who wish to “reset” the world and change behavior, are not never banal, and flirt with totalitarianism, between those which suggest reducing the number of long-haul flights that a person would be allowed to take in their life or others which advocate cities where the inhabitants would own nothing but would be happy… Many people see this as an attack on individual freedom and privacy.
These recommendations come precisely from Klaus Schwab and those close to him. In his book The Great Reset (The Great Reset), German engineer takes over his organization’s agenda Global Redesign Initiativepublished after the 2008 economic crisis and focusing on the transformation of global governance.
It all starts with the concept of “stakeholder capitalism”, proposed and hammered home for decades par Schwab. “In its current form, capitalism does not suit the world around us”, he said, he who with the WEF was a relay for the United States and ultraliberalism. What does his “capitalism” consist of? “This is a model that I first proposed half a century ago, positioning private companies as the custodians of society and it clearly constitutes the best response to the social and environmental challenges of today,” he wrote. To the detriment of democratic institutions? “The voice of the government would be one voice among others, without always being the final arbiter”, lit-on. But who would be the other players in the Schwab model?
The tensions experienced by the global economy, the consequences of Covid, the technological revolution must, he believes in his book, lead to the reorganization of our societies, from education to working conditions, including food and health.
Not surprising that The Great Reset sparks controversy. While some see this work as an “unserious effort to truly resolve crises,” others believe it is a programmatic platform constituting a threat to individual freedom.
If the Great Reset is considered by some to be a visionary concept, for others good old Klaus, at the age of 85, is no longer capable of carrying out his project. “Schwab is a kind of genius. He has a boundless imagination, but he doesn’t necessarily follow through with ideas” : thus the describe a former collaborator. Others salute the “visionary” and “brilliant” spirit of the man, “cold and brittle”, “terribly unsympathetic” and “endowed with an oversized ego”.
Basically, is Schwab the figurehead of the globalist ship that he organizes as he pleases, or, more simply, the spokesperson for madmen who want to subjugate the world?
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