posted on Apr, 24 2022 @ 09:40 AM
World Economic Forum unveils its new agents of influence - focus on 2022 digital ministries
04/23/2022 | World Economic Forum chief Klaus Schwab is proud of the "penetration" of governments, especially Canada's. With the 2022 class of Young
Global Leaders, the Forum adds another Canadian minister and as many as six ministers of digitization to its list of agents of influence. In Germany,
the foreign minister has been one of the apprentices of the big-corporate lobby since 2020.
The World Economic Forum proudly announced its selection of Young Global Leaders this year on April 22:
These young global leaders are creating a sustainable and inclusive future."
If I counted correctly, there are 109 new elite Forum trainees this year, 20 from North America, 18 from Europe (including Ukraine), 16 from the
Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, 11 from the rest of Africa, and 12 from "Greater China."
Each year, a very well-funded World Economic Forum foundation selects successful individuals under 40 from the political, corporate, cultural and
media sectors to be trained as top leaders in a multi-year program, including a special 10-day course at Harvard University and joint meetings with
the political elite of the U.S. and other countries. Perhaps more importantly, they will be networked, among themselves and with other key Forum
influencers in governments, corporations and the media.
Arguably, not only because of their superior qualities, but also thanks to the protection afforded by the Forum and its large and highly influential
network, those selected can expect their status and influence to receive another powerful boost. The network consists of 1400 current and former Young
Global Leaders in 120 countries, most of them in influential positions.
Angela Merkel, for example, was elected as a fresh-faced family minister and went on to become German chancellor for 16 years. Similarly, current
French President Emmanuel Macron and many other former heads of government. Annalena Baerbock, chosen in 2020, became her party's candidate for
chancellor and is now foreign minister.
In a panel discussion at Harvard University, available as a Youtube video, probably from 2017, Klaus Schwab boasts:
I have to say, now when I mention names, like Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin and so on, they were all Young Global Leaders of the World Economic
Forum. But, what we are particularly proud of today, this young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, the President of Argentina and so on: we are
pushing through (penetrate) the cabinets. Yesterday, I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau. And I know that actually half his cabinet, more
than half his cabinet, is made up of Young Global Leaders from the World Economic Forum."
His Harvard interlocutor interjects that this is also the case in Argentina, and Schwab agrees:
Yes, it's also true in Argentina, and also in France, I mean, with the president, with the Young Global Leader. But what is important for me is that
these Young Global Leaders get the opportunity to come here (Harvard). And we already set up a course a few years ago. I think this collaboration has
a tremendous impact, being here for a week really creates a strong community."
He also talks about how the Forum has also been seeking out and promoting even younger leadership material for some time now:
In addition to the Young Global Leaders, we now have the Global Shapers in 450 cities around the world. I wonder, is there a Global Shaper here?"
Guinea Pig Canada ...
To the already particularly long list of Forum influencers in the Canadian government is added "the Class of 2022" Sean Fraser, the current Minister
of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.
In addition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, among others, is a Young Leader plant of the World Economic Forum
and a member of its Foundation Board to boot.
During the trucker protests against the rigid Corona measures in Canada, she and her prime minister launched a successful trial run for the repressive
control society for which the World Economic Forum and its cooperation partners have been working out the concepts for some time. Trudeau declared a
state of emergency and suspended civil liberties. The protesters and those who had donated money to them, even small sums, had their bank accounts
frozen. Many also lost their jobs, especially if they were employed in the public sector. In a video, Freeland enthusiastically explained these
decidedly anti-freedom measures.
It was a very successful experiment, if the aim was to see whether an openly repressive surveillance and control regime could be introduced without
the international media running riot and denying the government its allegiance to the values of the West. Nothing of the sort happened.
At the Canadian Ministry of Labor, a research institute is working on a pet project of the Forum, computer-controlled man-machines or machine-humans.
Quote:
New human bodies and a new concept of identity could emerge as convergence progresses. (...) By learning to better understand and control the
mechanisms underlying biology, we could see a shift away from vitalism, from the idea that living and artificial organisms are something fundamentally
different."
Team members include Kristel Van der Elst, former head of Strategic Foresight at the World Economic Forum. She also advises the EU Commission. Another
team member is Nicholas Davis, who was a member of the World Economic Forum's Executive Committee until 2019. Together with Forum chief Klaus Schwab,
Davis published the book "Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Guide to Building a Better World" in 2018.
This is the kind of thing that happens when the Forum successfully penetrates a Cabinet.
... and Ukraine
The "Class of 2022" of Young Global Leaders includes Mykhailo Fedorov. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. The
most important project he is pushing ahead with, or at least was pushing ahead with until the Russian troops invaded, is the "state in a smartphone."
According to this, by 2025 at the latest, all state identity documents, together with banking data and biometric identification, will be available on
every citizen's smartphone, using the so-called Diia app.
In an article for the Atlantic Council, Fedorov wrote in April 2021:
Ukraine is part of the global digitization process that includes the development of e-passports and the increasing use of other forms of electronic
identification around the world."
In December 2021, the ePidtrymka program launched. Users who proved via Diia app that the had received at least two vaccination doses were given
vouchers worth 1000 hryvnia, the equivalent of about 30 euros, and half again more if they had a booster vaccination. Since March, aid for
war-affected people has apparently also been handed out via the app.
The "State in a Smartphone" project is funded by the governments of the United States, Great Britain and Switzerland.
It's no wonder that the World Economic Forum is proud of its Ukrainian digitization protégé, as it has combined elements of the Forum's favorite
projects - digital basic income, digital ID and social credit system - into one app.
tbc