Doom Goblins of Davos 2024
Smoke and Minnows at the World Economic Forum
It's a short hop nowadays from Christmas to Doomsday. Just when you're thinking winter can't get any more cruel, along comes the World Economic Forum's annual self-help retreat for international fraudsters. January brings both snow and the WEF to Davos in Switzerland - the place where robbers go to mock the robbed and globalist wet-dreams go to die. From Monday 15th through Friday 19th, everyslug who's anyslug will be there, hatching plans, shaking tentacles and laying eggs in the throats of unwary mouth-breathers.
While much of europe is collapsing beneath the full-court press of globalism, Switzerland in January is still a great place to be rich. Flunkies hop, creep and grovel in greeting as bullet-proof supercars disgorge all the unusual suspects plus assorted minders, companions, acolytes and catamites. Great electrified gates swing open, beckoning the overlords of finance inward to a billionaires banquet where the privileged few can swig cocktails of virgin's blood (allegedly) en route to an agreeable carniverous feast. Afterwards there will be hand-ground Colombian coffee, 50 year-old brandy and Cuban cigars in underground vaults where 100 year-old fiends can reunite to compare face-lifts and simian implant-scars.
But the circus needs more roadies than ringmasters. Just a few blocks away, where a stony single bunk for the night is a mere $330, humbler Swiss hotels are groaning under the weight of two thousand dedicated laptop-monkeys with masters degrees from the University of Eternal Debt. These are the Schlaves of Schwab, the schoy-boys and girls who organise the schedules and scheminars. They eat and drink purely for health, not pleasure, work a schixteen-hour day and pretend to abschtain from schex.
Sponsored by every corrupt NGO on the planet, these woke young WEFties are essential for the maintainance of public relations. Their job is to create the illusion of a vast, overarching organisation that draws on the talent and vigour of youthful idealists from all corners of the globe. So the after-party selfies are guaranteed to include lots of diverse, bright-eyed PHD-ophiles from Oxbridge, Ivy-League universities, MIT, Harvard, Goldman Sachs and Blackrock.
It goes without saying that this crowd will include a truly spellbinding array of lesbian women of colour, the perma-smirking offspring of Asian entrepreneurs, a handful of African mineral-princes and a flock of flamboyant cockatoos from the LGBT2+kfc&P community. As they like to sing (when nobody's looking)-
“You fly around the world with a laptop on your knees From Davos to the UN and the climate jamborees You've never had a job outside of universi-tee
Get your money for nothing and your jabs for free”
There are untold legions of these graduate goblins, armed to the teeth with rainbow -stripe data visualisations, zig-zag predictions and dot-to-dot flow-charts. Their unique version of speech is a hobbling centipede of cliches, buzz-words, catch phrases and sheer unadulterated waffle that starts in the middle of nothing and takes you on a long and winding road to nowhere.
Do not be seduced by the volume of WEF guff. The Forum itself is a smokescreen, a carefully-crafted sideshow of distraction, a swirling school of paper-pushing minnows chasing each other’s tails from conference to conference. The real sharks move unseen, in the shadowy uplit pools, swapping suitcases in VIP privacy, carving up the loot from last year's jobs.
THE GLOBAL RISKS REPORT 2024
As we explained last year, the real WEF is a locked private room where creatures like the CEO of Pfizer can cuddle President Zelensky on a sofa still warm from Bill Gates' hairy bum. But you won't be hearing about that in The Global Risks Report (TGRR).
Under inspection, this document is little more than a bedwetter’s guide to post-millenial angst. For all its turgid prose and pompous blag, TGRR is nevertheless the nearest thing we can get to a glimpse of the Schwabian mind at work. His faithful minions have been tasked with cobbling it together every year since 2005, so lets take a glance at all 120+ pages to see what kind of soap the WEF expects us to swallow this time round. I downloaded the PDF and read the entire thing -so you don't have to- but there's a link below where you can get your very own copy if you're a glutton for Globaldigook.
Because Globaldigook is, alas, the language in which the Risks Report is presented. Veterans of the eerily similar bilge churned out every month by the United Nations will recognise the style. So why not start at the very beginning, which is -as a famous Austrian refugee once said- a very good place to start.
Gazing implacably at the reader from the Preface page are the eyes of the fragrant Saadia Zahidi, no less. I never before met a report that needed a 'Managing Director' but Saadia is proudly wearing that title for all the world to see. I can tell you very little about her, except that she is a citizen of both Pakistan and Switzerland, which sounds like an ideal scenario for shifting wealth from east to west untroubled by intrusive oversight. Something I’m sure she would never do. She announces-
“As 2024 begins, the 19th edition of the report is set against a backdrop of rapidly accelerating technological change and economic uncertainty, as the world is plagued by a duo of dangerous crises: climate and conflict.”
I’d say the world has been plagued by considerably more dangerous duos - Simon and Garfunkel spring to mind- but that’s beside the point. Saadia continues-
“Underlying geopolitical tensions combined with the eruption of active hostilities in multiple regions is contributing to an unstable global order characterized by polarizing narratives, eroding trust and insecurity.”
I must confess, if you put a gun to my head I couldn’t explain how to go about eroding insecurity, but I haven’t got a bachelor's degree in economics from Smith College, a master's in international economics from Graduate Institute Geneva and an MPA from Harvard, like Saadia. Incidentally, the ‘eruption of active hostilities in multiple regions’ is a most elegant way of evading the word “wars”, don’t you think?
Anyway, give yourself a pat on the heat-pump if you guessed what would be the next item on the Global Risk list, because it turns out “At the same time, countries are grappling with the impacts of record-breaking extreme weather.” Yes, you guessed, it’s that ol’ Groundhog Day slop we see belching from mainstream media every hour of every week. We are confronted, yet again, by the globalist bucket-list of incoming doom, and to be honest it’s downhill all the way from here on to the AI apocalypse on page 82.
But before the Risk Report degenerates into the real nitty gritty (glorified pie-charts and meaningless tables of uncheckable data-analysis) our heroine is unafraid to voice some of the Great Questions of our time. I have done my humble best to offer appropriate responses.
Saadia Zahidi : “ Could we catapult to a 3°C world as the impacts of climate change intrinsically rewrite the planet?”
ME : Could you explain the concept of “intrinsically rewriting” to someone who has been writing for over half a century? In words of one syllable?
Saadia Zahidi: “Have we reached the peak of human development for large parts of the global population, given deteriorating debt and geo-economic conditions?”
ME: If the WEF Global Risks Report 2024 is a product of ‘the peak of human development’ I am a snapper turtle in a tank filled with gin.
Saadia Zahidi: “Could we face an explosion of criminality and corruption that feeds on more fragile states and more vulnerable populations?”
ME: Do bears shit after a curry?
But there is no getting past the wisdom bestowed on us by the poly-qualificational phenomenon that is, lest we forget, Managing Director of this 121-page howl of existential terror. Harnessing all the muscular force brought to her academic marathons, Saadia observes -“The future is not fixed. A multiplicity of different futures is conceivable over the next decade.”
We breathe again. God bless you sweet master! And on that note of gratitude, we plunge headlong into the depths of insight and speculation that took Saadia Zahidi all year to collect.
REPORTING WEF-STYLE : THE LAW OF GLOBALDIGOOK:
Never use one syllable if you can find seven to do the same job.
This law is unbreakable. Thus, instead of the handy word “war” which we all understand, the report refers instead to “interstate armed conflict” (a dozen times) or “lethal conflicts”, “violent conflicts” and “state violence”.
The ‘Ukraine -Russian war’ is, however, a conspicuous exception to the rule. Which implies that as far as the WEF is concerned, here is a war uniquely worthy of the title. Citizens of, say, Yemen, Iraq or Syria might feel a little peeved, stuck as they are in the “interstate armed conflict” bin alongside Libya and Egypt. By the same token, millions of taxpayers in the european countries shovelling billions into President Zelensky’s bottomless mass-grave program may feel a little cynical to hear that particular “interstate armed conflict” reduced to Vlod versus Vlad.
To describe this ‘report’ as over-written is an understatement, but Globaldigook knows whereof it speaks. Governments, corporations and lawyers have been using excess verbiage to bamboozle the schmucks for centuries. Consider the reams of barely visible ‘terms and conditions’ your bank attaches to its emails. Or try reading the kind of ‘report’ that emerges after an ‘Independent Government Inquiry’.
The Hutton Report, for example, was the product of a state-run inquiry into the alleged murder of senior WMD Weapons Inspector Doctor David Kelly in the run-up to the US/UK led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A year in creation, in order to pronounce the Blair government completely innocent of any wrongdoing, the report took 750 pages, in 13 chapters with 18 appendices. That’s about one and a half times the size of a John Grisham novel, but containing a lot less law and considerably more fiction.
Similar comments apply to other fabrications like the 9/11 Commission Report, and will no doubt apply to the Hallett Report. (The state-whitewashing exercise set to follow the ‘Covid-19’ inquiry currently being performed in UK political theatres; tickets limited by prior arrangement.)
Government reports, we all understand, are intended to conceal what really happened. The WEF’s Global Risks Report 2024 is another kettle of shark. It is intended (we are repeatedly told) to reveal what people think is likely to happen. But is that really its purpose?
Stepping back from all the piffle about stakeholder input, experts and business leaders yada yada, this document is, on its face, nothing more than an upmarket poll. Polls -like ‘independent reports’- are routinely used in attempts to shape public opinion, not to reflect it.
The modern benchmark for fake ‘polling’ is the widely-mocked Yougov operation which was launched in 2000 by serial tax-evader Nadhim Zahawi. This Iraqi carpetbagger somehow elbowed his way into the very heart of the UK political establishment, enriching himself by insider dealing while squirreling away his wealth offshore.
[We identified Zahawi as a con-artist back in 2021 - See our Nadhim Zahawi coverage HERE]
Zahawi was sacked by the British Conservative party in 2023 and will be turfed out of UK politics in the 2024 election. Despite his glaring dishonesty, this globetrotting parasite has been Minister for Covid Vaccines, Secretary of State for Education and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Such is the nature of professional poll-pushers.
Seen in this context -where I suggest it belongs- the Risk Report is a shallow contrivance aimed at (a) public fear-mongering and (b) sourcing investment from gullible but vulnerable parties. To unmask the real purpose behind any operation, I tend to follow the money. In this case, it is no surprise to find Saadia Zahidi’s branch of the WEF in bed with the infamous economic vampire-colony of Marsh McLennan insurance brokers.
Now MM have far too much previous form in subversive globalism to go into in a single post, but better connected souls than myself view this company as riddled with hawk-eyed finance-predators of the highest order. And the MM fingerprints are all over the WEF Global Risk Report, from top to tail -as we read:
“We would like to thank our Strategic Partners, Marsh McLennan, and Zurich Insurance Group, and particularly John Doyle (President and Chief Executive Officer, Marsh McLennan) and Mario Greco (Chief Executive Officer, Zurich Insurance Group). Thanks also to Peter Giger (Group Chief Risk Officer, Zurich Insurance Group) and Carolina Klint (Managing Director, Risk Management Leader Continental Europe, Marsh). Special gratitude is due to John Scott (Head of Sustainability Risk, Zurich Insurance Group) and Richard Smith-Bingham (Executive Director, Marsh McLennan Advantage) for their contributions throughout the planning and drafting of the report.”
In case that isn’t enough MM employees for you, on page 122 a further thirty -count’em!- MM bods are namechecked for gratitude. One could be forgiven for thinking Marsh McLennan manufactured the entire report, and simply uses the WEF as free publicity. As of this morning, MM has market capitalisation listed at $96 billion. The above-mentioned Zurich Insurance Group is listed at a modest $62 billion. These boys are not minnows…
The WEF/MM Global Risks Report is obviously a crock precisely because it is backed by two such outfits with astronomical combined assets and thumbs in every pie. With that kind of money on call, a genuine report would be precise, detailed, specific, and absolutely NOT available to the public. The contents of TGRR 2024 are designed for consumption by gullible, eager creatures so far down the food chain they wouldn’t know a pike from a pilchard. Journalists, in other words.
If you have the stamina, there is some light relief buried among the existential threat-fest. I chortled aloud reading their take on ‘False Information’ (page 18 if you need a laugh) which had all the faux sincerity of a cardboard cut-out. Readers are led by the nose towards the rapidly advancing state-only-internet like lambs to a machete:
QUOTE : “ Misinformation and disinformation (#1) is a new leader of the top 10 rankings this year. No longer requiring a niche skill set, easy-to-use interfaces to large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models have already enabled an explosion in falsified information and so-called ‘synthetic’ content, from sophisticated voice cloning to counterfeit websites.”
Well gee, Huck, how in hell we gonna protect the homestead now? Mibbe we’d best phone the guv’nor an’ get him to shut down them county-fate websites.
QUOTE: “Requirements in China to watermark AI-generated content may help identify false information, including unintentional misinformation through AI hallucinated content.”
Holy moley Jeb! Them sneaky Chinee only dun fixed the whole durn problem they-selves! Could be that ol’ Commie Party ain’t so stoopid after all. Ah say we dump Trump and vote for them dee-mo-cratz nex’ time.
On a more serious note, I confess I hadn’t actually heard of “AI hallucinated content” so I googled it. Turns out it’s not unusual for AI models to flip their lid and generate utterly lunatic results to innocent requests. Yes, the mega-brain in the machine can go just as haywire as young John Doe alone in his den with tik-tok, a sex-doll and a brick of crystal meth. Who knew? (Apart from every adult with a functional cortex).
Of course, once the author tiptoes towards the looming elections of 2024, the punchline comes galloping over the hill like cavalry heading for the Little Big Horn :
QUOTE: “ The presence of misinformation and disinformation in these electoral processes, could seriously destabilize the real and perceived legitimacy of newly elected governments, risking political unrest, violence and terrorism, and a longer-term erosion of democratic processes.”
And there you have it -the WEF Quadratic Equation of Doom:
MISINFORMATION x ELECTION + DONALD TRUMP
= VIOLENCE + TERRORISM
So now we know. There are more gems to be gleaned from the report, and I will likely return to the subject as this week in Davos unrolls for our entertainment. Expect all the above themes to be reiterated live onstage for the mainstream media in the next few days. Stay tuned.
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