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The World Economic Forum’s Woke War on Business
Townhall.com ^ | February 20, 2022 | Conor Tomlinson

Posted on 02/20/2022 4:15:07 AM PST by Kaslin

It took some time for the authoritarian ideas of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to become excoriated in the mainstream press. But one of the most nefarious elements of Stakeholder Capitalism are Universal Environmental, Social, and Government (ESG) Scores. But what are ESG scores, and could they be a gateway to a social credit system?

Stakeholder Capitalism is WEF founder Klaus Schwab’s model for imposing his ethical prescriptions onto free-market exchange. Businesses will no longer be beholden to “the prevailing shareholder-primacy model of profit maximization”, but instead to “more socially conscious” stakeholders: experts in fields like environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, and increased immigration. These stakeholder criteria are determined by the UN’s seventeen Sustainable Development Goals: including the elimination of all poverty (relative and absolute), gender equality, and economic equity between nations. This is an aspect of his ““Great Reset” of capitalism.”

Schwab asks us to envision a world where these values are totalised across “every sector.” The union of monopolistic business and government policy is a core tenet of fascism. Under lockdowns, businesses and governments accrued unprecedented power and profits while we were under house arrest. Politicians have stocks and shares in many of the businesses they legislate against — and big businesses support measures like universal corporation tax rates to impair their opposition. The unification of the public and private spheres to form a national body politic — a corpus — is the etymology of the term corporation. As emissaries of the WEF’s ethic, all commerce and governing bodies become organs of an international state, which everything is for, and nothing is outside or against.

Businesses will be subjected to performance evaluations concerning compliance with ESG targets, to ensure their continued eligibility for WEF partnership perks. This involves gathering data on their employees and customers. This requires a vast digital infrastructure with algorithms tracking everything from purchasing habits to demographic trends. Your consumer behaviour will be scored on its carbon footprint, or proportion of patronage of “Black owned business”. The disparity between the targets and a business’ performance will provide an incentive for businesses to nudge their customer bases toward partaking in what they see as “ethical” and “sustainable” consumer behaviours.

To accelerate the process, businesses will form special interest lobbying groups to pressure governments into passing legislation that increases compliance with environmental and social policies. Eventually, boycotts will be done on your behalf. Dissidents to this new public-private ideology will not be able to buy from any business working with the WEF. Given the WEF’s partnerships with governments, monopolistic enterprises like Amazon and Silicon Valley social media giants, and international bodies like the WHO and WTO: that will be the majority of businesses.

Soon, there could be speakeasies for groceries — like in Lithuania, which banned those not vaccinated against COVID from supermarkets and pharmacies. Your social media posts could bar you from buying essential goods. Like store signs swearing Party support in Soviet occupied Europe, or Mom and Pop shops begging to be spared from 2020’s riots, adopting ESG scores are the new pledge of fealty to the WEF’s authoritarian international rule.

But that is only if world leaders acquiesce to this public-private corporate partnership. Why would Prime Ministers and Presidents pay patronage to an unelected Bond villain in Davos?

In many instances, the WEF’s is responsible for their rise through a Party apparatus to elected office. Their Global Leadership Fellows programme has coached many influential political figures in their doctrine of international cooperation, utilitarian policymaking, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Graduates of their related Young Global Leaders initiative include Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, French President Emmanuel Macron, the Prime Minister of Belgium, the Prime Minister of Finland, the Crown Prince of Norway. Those not listed on the website, but cited by Schwab, include Vladimir Putin, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

It will be difficult to seek safe harbour from compliance with this digital commerce system when most world leaders attended the same political summer-school.

However, as the Canadian truckers’ protest goes to show, the best laid plans of this globalist Internationale aren’t going over as well as they had hoped. In their ivory-tower elitism, they forgot the working man and woman have more conscience than they do. The internet has liberalised access to information like the printing press did the Good Word from the clutches of corrupt Churches. All it takes is for goods distributors, businesses, and everyday consumers to conscientiously object, and their great narrative comes undone.

The only fear is that this grassroots uprising will be the excuse to expedite automation, and put the heavy-goods haulers out of business. It may take a few luddites to resist the algorithmic determination of our lives, and expropriation of our property, lest we end up nihilistic and immiserated.

Reject their tenets of the new institutional religion. Buy and make American. Follow the example of the freedom convoy, and don’t allow any political figure — elected or otherwise — to tell you what to put in your body or thoughts to have in your head.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: business; capitalism; woke

1 posted on 02/20/2022 4:15:07 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Might a list of the members be available?


2 posted on 02/20/2022 4:26:44 AM PST by Norski
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To: Kaslin

However, as the Canadian truckers’ protest goes to show,...

The state will go to any lengths to project its will on its citizens who do not comply.

Its gonna get messy real fast...


3 posted on 02/20/2022 4:28:41 AM PST by Adder (Proud member of the FJBLGB community: /s is implied where applicable.)
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To: Norski

4 posted on 02/20/2022 5:00:21 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: Norski

Here’s one list with a lot of Canadian pols and some CEOs; https://twitter.com/NailHard/status/1491988554569945090

Old Klaus has been at it a long time. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/WEF/Global_Leaders_for_Tomorrow (1993-2003)

That changed to the current Young Global Leaders; https://wikispooks.com/wiki/WEF/Young_Global_Leaders

Year one; Bill Gates, Tony Blair, Angela Merkel; https://wikispooks.com/wiki/WEF/Global_Leaders_for_Tomorrow/1993

It would take days to go through the lists for every year and look up every name to see where they are today.

WEF is now going after younger people in their late teens and 20s. https://www.globalshapers.org/


5 posted on 02/20/2022 5:19:33 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: stars & stripes forever

More women than men?


6 posted on 02/20/2022 5:21:09 AM PST by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: Kaslin

This will all be wrapped into or used to support the move to a digital dollar. That is a hill to die on because it makes you complete chattel of the state.


7 posted on 02/20/2022 5:22:09 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: Kaslin
"Transform" - There's that word again

https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/True-Cost-of-Food-Full-Report-Final.pdf

David Rockefeller is the current chair of the Bilderberg Group which has a lot of overlapping membership with WEF. All are aligned with the UN Agenda 2030 and 17 sustainability goals. You'll own nothing and be happy, eating bugs and fake meat.

8 posted on 02/20/2022 5:34:52 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Mouton

COVID > COVID Jabs > COVID Passports > full health data added > ID added for convenience > Digital currency created > there’s an app for that > cash and credit/debit cards disappear > Your life becomes a QR Code > Data from all of the above is collected, analyzed and becomes your Social Credit Score based on where you go, what you spend, what you eat, your health data, what you say in texts or on the web.


9 posted on 02/20/2022 5:42:04 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Mouton

So actual cash in hand will be no good? Is that why all these new startups like Chime and Netspend are trying to get people on a digiting banking instead of cashing their checks themselves? Now it’s like everyone has a Debit card, and EBT card or credit card for all purchases.


10 posted on 02/20/2022 5:43:03 AM PST by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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To: JoJo354; Kaslin; Pollard; stars & stripes forever

First List from Stars & Stripes Forever, (36)

Please note all persons, companies, countries, and offices. Keep Track.

List of 36 of graduates Young Leaders of World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab’s project

Jacinda Arden PM NZ

Maria Bartiromo Fox News Editor

Petere Buttigieg Sec Transp US Dept Transp

Tulsi Gabbard, HI Dem Congresswoman

Kate Gallego Mayor of Phoenix AZ (check electoral fraud)

Joseph P. Kennedy III

Adam Kinziger, Rep Ill Congressman

Emmanual Macron, President of France (Serial Killer eyes)

Julia Navy Stanford University an Executive Director

David de Rothschild

Daniel Sachs, Soros Fund Management, Chair /Invstmnts USA

Rachel Schutt BlackRock, Head of AI Labs

Keith Schwab Caltech Ass Prof Applied Physics

Daniel Shapiro, Harvard, Dir of Int Negotiation Program

Fern Shaw, Dir UPS Calif

Sally Shin, NBC News, Ex Ed, Bus, Tech, Media

Anjali Sud CEO Vimeo, USA

Peter Z. Thiel, Founders Fund, USA Partner

Renee Maria Tremblay, Supreme Ct Canada (Parliament) (Poss MTF)

Lila Tretikov Microsoft, USA Chief Tech Offcr

Vasudha Vats, Pfizer VP USA (Poss M2F)

Mark Vlasic, USA Georgetown U Proffs
Nicole Vogrin, USA Western Union, CCO

Leana Wen Geo Wash Univ, visitng prof Health Policy and Management (Poss MTF)

Adam Werbach USA Amazon Sustainatble shopping

Ted Wiley USA Form Energy

Briony Win USA Anthem, Inc. CSO

Michelle Wucker USA CEO Gray Rhino & Co.

Lin Yang, Pr Innovation Ideas Institute USA

Melike Yetken USA Google

Monica Yunus USA co founder Sing for Hope

Michelle Zatlyn USA Cloudflare CEO pres co founder

Feng Zhang USA MIT Prof neuroscience

Longmei Zhang USA IMF Chida rep

Zhang Lu USA Fusion Fund

Mark Zuckerberg USA Facebook Meta CEO


11 posted on 02/20/2022 6:22:45 AM PST by Norski
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To: JoJo354

Once it goes cashless the government can on a whim decide to charge transactions fees, say starting at 1% of transaction amount. It would not per se be a tax, it will be a fee over and above tax payments. Plus, look at what Trudumbo is doing in Canada. The government can shut you off in a second. Plus the government has a complete immediate means to determine where and on what you spend your money. A good example of how that can be used consider how some banks will not process payments to gun or ammo sellers. Expand that to organizations they don’t like Free Republic etc on and on.

This is turning into a very dark evil place.


12 posted on 02/20/2022 6:33:21 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: Norski

Young Global Leaders. Check out who they are...

https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&status=alumni&class_year=&sector=&region=#results


13 posted on 02/20/2022 6:34:24 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: Norski

I can’t figure out Maria Bartiromo. She’s also pretty high up in the Council on Foreign Relations yet acts like a conservative firebrand.

Now she’s even on the board for Young Global Leaders;

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and the Board of Governors of the Columbus Citizens Foundation.

https://www.wict.org/bio/maria-bartiromo/


14 posted on 02/20/2022 6:45:50 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Pollard
I can’t figure out Maria Bartiromo. She’s also pretty high up in the Council on Foreign Relations yet acts like a conservative firebrand.

Yes, it is called 'acting'. Most Republican politicians are very good at it, especially during primary season. Demoncraps, not so much, because they are already openly pro-fascism.

15 posted on 02/20/2022 6:52:19 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: stars & stripes forever

In logo, note please, the black and white check or houndstooth check of the jacket on the person at the top of the page link. Note the chain on the shoulder strap of the same person. Note that many of the pictures of these persons have the top of the head cut off. All hallmarks of Freemasonry, the chain is of slavery - same as those worn by modern entertainment slaves (rappers).

Many of these persons have eyes that do not appear normal. Some have triangular shaped irises, and at least one serpentine or “cats-eye”. Some persons appear transgendered. One World Religion, One World Government. Indistinguishable and inseparable from each other at the end.

All need salvation. Most would just laugh at the notion. So, we pray for their salvation. And we bind the strongman (head) evil spirits in them and their organisations, daily, and loose the hosts of heaven to cut their communications, daily, to prevent the soon fulfillment of the goals of their master.

Binding and loosing must be done in the Name of Jesus, and only by believers. Reason: If an unbeliever does this, an Acts 19 situation may occur (beat up by evil spirits).

The binding and loosing works quite well, but should be done on a regular basis, as the adversary replenishes his troops regularly, in the same manner as earthly armies.

We are at constant war, of course.


16 posted on 02/20/2022 6:57:27 AM PST by Norski
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To: Pollard

Same principle being used by the government, R/D parties.
Uniparty at the top.

When they are all fighting about something, look around and see what is being done (stolen) while attention is fixed on the uproar.

Look up Hegelian Principle. Afterward, return and share conclusions. Thank you, Norski.


17 posted on 02/20/2022 7:04:06 AM PST by Norski
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To: Mouton

At this point I have very little hope that this country can be turned around. There is just too many forces out there working to bring us down. I am placing my faith in God that He will carry through his plans written in the Bible. The evil is spreading and how can we stop it?


18 posted on 02/20/2022 7:32:57 AM PST by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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