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Victor Davis Hanson 00:00 Introduction to Davos and Its Aspirations 00:41 The Elite Gathering at Davos 01:11 Critique of Davos Ideals 02:21 Donald Trump's Opposition to Davos 03:49 The Impact of Davos Policies 05:19 Conclusion and Final Thoughts “[Davos] have actual disgust for elected governments because you see elected governments make mistakes in their view. They elect people and then they do the wrong thing. They have these 19th century borders. They believe in legal-only immigration. They don't believe in redistribution of money. They believe in free market capitalism. They are opposed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. And they don't...

President Trump gets a thing or two done. In his first term in office, President Trump apparently thought he could operate as if the federal government were a corporation he headed as Chief Executive and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. He assumed those beneath him would give him honest counsel, would perform their assigned duties, and follow his directives. He learned otherwise. All the steps he took the first week after beginning his astonishing second term are those a wise CEO and commander in chief must take to do the job he promised and was elected to do....

Could there be anything less MAGA than the annual gathering of the 55th annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland? This year, with a shriveled attendance, the assembled corporate leaders, socialist governments, assorted big thinkers, United Nations officials, and woke NGOs don’t seem very happy. Indeed, they seem downright glum about their plans for world government run by euro-centric and Third World globalist elites. Once a favorite place for preening politicians to show their world-humanitarian feathers, the affair has lost some luster. “This year the leaders of the world’s most powerful nations are skipping the meeting,” Breitbart reported. Why? It...

An executive order from President Donald Trump moving federal inmates who transitioned male to female... John Ratcliffe confirmed as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency by the US Senate... A Ukrainian drone attack tonight on an oil refinery in the Russian city of Ryazan... Ukrainian drones shot down in the Moscow Region... President Donald Trump signing an executive order leading to release of classified assassination files from the 1960's... A new opioid settlement involving Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family. The 7.4-billion-dollar deal replaces a previous... A US District Judge blocking President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship... In...

Donald Trump might be receiving a lot of attention for being an anti-globalist force, and rightly so. He is the biggest whale in that ocean, but where Trump is an America-first powerhouse, Argentina's Javier Milei is an anti-globalist great white shark, chomping down on anything that resembles globalist control. Milei traveled to Davos in Switzerland as many global leaders did in order to deliver his address on the world stage, and as expected, when he got there, he didn't just let the globalists have it, he called them out for their evils. He even went so far as to challenge...

President Donald Trump took the globalist elites to task at the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos, Switzerland, delivering a bold, unapologetic speech that championed his “America First” agenda.Speaking remotely, Trump minced no words in criticizing NATO allies for their lackluster defense spending, challenging multinational corporations to invest in the U.S., and calling out Bank of America’s discrimination against conservatives.Trump’s speech, which came just days after his historic re-election, was a full-throttle repudiation of the disastrous policies of the Biden regime.Trump boldly confronted the globalists, declaring that their agenda is coming to an end. He announced that foreign aid...

VIDEOPerhaps the most HILARIOUS moment from Davos 2024 was when a frustrated Richard Quest of CNN yelled "NOW YOU HAVE TRANSGRESSED!" at the Rebel News reporters who dared to question whether he was acting as a regime journalist who did not dare to challenge the power of the World Economic Forum. Well, we got a very similar performance from Richard Quest this year at Davos when he was challenged by Ezra Levant for being a mere "fluffer" for Klaus Schwab.It will be interesting to see if Quest actually does dare to ask probing questions this year. CNN is undergoing YUUUUGE...

In the recent frenzy of commentary seeking to interpret U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s increasingly adamant comments about territorial expansion to Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, too much of the discussion has focused on matters of secondary importance. These range from assessing whether Trump is merely engaging in a game of showmanship or distraction, to deciphering how those regions’ inhabitants feel about ceding territorial control to the United States, to determining how much it would cost to purchase their acquiescence. From a policy perspective, though, more fundamental matters have gone surprisingly unaddressed, beginning with the question of whether any of...

Donald Trump directly blamed Vladimir Putin for the fact the war in Ukraine is still raging — a day after threatening massive tariffs and sanctions on Russian products if he fails to make a deal to end the conflict. Speaking in a video address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the United States president said he would bring down the cost of oil, because "if the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately," adding: "It's time to end it." Asked whether he believed the war in Ukraine would end by the time the WEF returned to Davos...

I did not start taking notes until about 10 minutes in, sorry, but here's what I gathered so far: He will get rid of 10 regulations for each new regulationTariffs, whose amounts are not yet established, will be imposed on foreign goodsFederal tax breaks will be given for companies that make products within the US: he will lower it from 21% to 15% if products are produced in the USA.He will reduce interest rates and inflationThe US is becoming a merit-based countryHe (of course) talked about the borderThere are only 2 genders. Transgender surgeries will be rare. Transgender athletes will...

VIDEOThe best thing about the yearly World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland is the exposure of the fools and hypocrites there by Rebel News of Canada. While most of the other news outlets serve as not much more than dutiful PR machines for the WEF agenda there, Rebel News shows us what is REALLY happening. For example Rebel News exposed Greta Thunberg at Davos as nothing more than a giggling airhead who is helpless without her handlers telling her what to say. This year, one of the people exposed by Rebel News at Davos was the Keir Starmer loving...

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The United States should send its peacekeepers to Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, in an interview with Bloomberg. Zelensky said that any effective peacekeeping forces deployed on the Ukraine, should include American troops, the newspaper notes. According to him, his European allies do not have enough soldiers to become a realistic deterrent for President Vladimir Putin and any other decision risks leading to a split within the NATO alliance. "This cannot happen without the United States. Even if some European friends think it can be, no, it can't be. No one will...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement on Monday, once again placing the world's top historic emitter of greenhouse gases outside of the global pact aimed at pushing nations to tackle climate change. Here are some reactions to the announcement of the second U.S. withdrawal from the climate pact: SIMON STIELL, U.N. CLIMATE CHANGE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY "Embracing (the global clean energy boom) will mean massive profits, millions of manufacturing jobs and clean air. Ignoring it only sends all that vast wealth to competitor economies, while climate disasters like droughts, wildfires and superstorms...

Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies "co-governing power", according to a confidential document seen by Reuters. The briefing document, dated Jan. 14 and signed by Ambassador Andreas Michaelis, describes Donald Trump's agenda for his second White House term as one of "maximum disruption" that will bring about "a redefinition of the constitutional order - maximum concentration of power with the president at the expense of Congress and the federal states." "Basic democratic principles and checks and balances...

To all my fellow Freepers who live in California, Especially those in the Los Angeles area, I'm monitoring the out-of-control fires that are raging in your area. My heart breaks for you all. The scenes I am seeing look like a Biblical disaster. A small nuclear device would have done less damage. The entire LA area looks like it will be utterly destroyed. I'm leaving out any discussion of fault, that is fodder for another thread. This thread is simply to wish you all well. Please remember, your life (and the life of those you love, including pets) is of...

There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the primary cause of the most important problems that our world is facing today. Many of them are completely convinced that humans are literally a “plague” upon the Earth and that extreme measures are required to prevent us from destroying the entire planet. To the elite, everything from global warming to our growing economic problems can be directly traced back to a lack of population control. They warn that if nothing is done about our exploding population, humanity will be facing a future full of poverty, war and...

VIDEOBy fascinating coincidence, the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos begins on January 20, the same day that Donald Trump is inaugurated. That alone is more than enough to cast a depressing pall over that whole enterprise in Switzerland. And the best way to be informed about just how depressed the Davos folks are is to watch the Rebel News of Canada which provides real news from there, not the shill news of most of the other outlets. Here are a couple of scenes from Davos 2024. I expect Davos 2025 to be even more entertaining due to all the...

The Bilderberg Group - a secret organization of the global elite - is undergoing a leadership transformation as Donald Trump prepares to retake the White House. The society, which consists of leaders in politics, industry, academia and the military, has selected former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg to chair its 'steering committee.' Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg group has long drawn fascination for its clandestine meetings at exclusive hotels and alpine resorts where attendees hold discussions on international relations, economics and security. Heads of the CIA and MI6 have been among its members, while Henry Kissinger was a regular alongside the...

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum takes place from 20-24 January in Davos, Switzerland. The meeting convenes under the title Collaboration for the Intelligent Age, accessible to the wider public with livestreamed sessions and an overview of the themes is available on the dedicated event website. Each year, the Annual Meeting welcomes governments, all major international organizations and the Forum’s 1,000 partner companies, civil society leaders, young changemakers, social entrepreneurs and the media – check back here for updates over the coming weeks.