stevenguinness | Corporate membership is essential for the
World Economic Forum to spread its influence, but in the end every
single member is in compliance with the agenda, objectives, projects and
values of the WEF. These take precedent over all else.
Also in concurrence with the WEF are the
organisation’s Board of Trustees. Three of these include the current
Managing Director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, European Central
Bank President Christine Lagarde and former Bank of England governor
Mark Carney. The Trilateral Commission are also represented amongst the
trustees through Larry Fink and David Rubenstein.
To add some historical context to the WEF,
the group dates back to 1971 when it was originally founded as the
European Management Forum. At the time the conflict in Vietnam was
raging, social protest movements were building and the United States was
about to relinquish the gold standard. By 1973 when the post World War
Two Bretton Woods system collapsed and the Trilateral Commission was
formed, the Forum had widened its interest beyond just management to
include economic and social issues. From here onwards political leaders
from around the world began to receive invitations to the institution’s
annual meeting in Davos.
The World Economic Forum is classified today as the ‘International Organisation for Public-Private Cooperation‘, and is the only global institution recognised as such. It is in this capacity that the forum ‘engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.’
Like how the Bank for International
Settlements acts as a forum to bring central banks together under one
umbrella, the WEF plays the same role by uniting business, government
and civil society.
The WEF declare themselves as being a ‘catalyst for global initiatives‘, which is accurate considering ‘The Great Reset‘ agenda originates at the WEF level. And it is initiatives like ‘The Great Reset‘ and the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution‘ which the WEF say are distinguished by ‘the active participation of government, business and civil society figures‘.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) narrative was developed out of the World Economic Forum back in 2016. The WEF have confidently asserted that because of 4IR, ‘over
the next decade, we will witness changes tearing through the global
economy with an unprecedented speed, scale and force. They will
transform entire systems of production, distribution and consumption‘.
Not only that, but the world is on the verge of witnessing ‘more technological change over the next decade than we have seen in the past 50 years.’
The group now plan to use ‘The Great Reset‘
as their theme for the 2021 annual meeting in Davos as a vehicle for
advancing the 4IR agenda. 4IR is marketed as a technological revolution,
where advancement in all the sciences ‘will leave no aspect of global society untouched.’
And like their global counterparts, such
as the BIS and the Trilateral Commission, the WEF nurture their agenda
gradually and seek to maintain their focus on the long term rather than ‘the emergencies of the day‘. In their own words, ‘success
is measured not only in terms of immediate results – we understand that
real progress takes time and sustained commitment.’
For my next article we will look into the specifics of ‘The Great Reset‘ agenda as well as what global planners are seeking to achieve out of Covid-19.
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