{"id":17941,"date":"2023-01-19T09:53:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T14:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17941"},"modified":"2023-01-19T09:53:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T14:53:49","slug":"new-york-post-davos-summit-clear-and-present-danger-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/19\/new-york-post-davos-summit-clear-and-present-danger-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Post: Davos Summit Clear and Present Danger to Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Post, January 19, 2023<\/h2>\n

Elite \u2018extraterrestrials\u2019 plot in Davos to take away your freedom<\/a><\/h1>\n
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By James Bovard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

If you expect billionaires and political weasels to save the Earth, then you\u2019ll love the World Economic Forum<\/a> at Davos, Switzerland.<\/strong> The Swiss government assigned up to 5,000 Swiss troops to protect its attendees \u2014 except from prostitutes charging them $2,500 a night. Self-worship is obligatory in Davos.<\/p>\n

John Kerry, Joe Biden\u2019s special presidential envoy for climate, hailed his fellow attendees as \u201cextraterrestrial\u201d for their devotion to saving the Earth. Never mind that they all flew there on private jets.<\/p>\n

WEF is whooping up the \u201cGreat Reset\u201d \u2014 \u201c \u2018building back better\u2019 so that economies could emerge greener and fairer out of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

But people around the globe are still recovering from the last time WEF stampeded policymakers. \u201cWEF was hugely influential, championing every form of COVID control from lockdowns to vaccine mandates,\u201d observed Jeffrey Tucker, president of the Brownstone Institute.<\/p>\n

Freedom of speech is the greatest barrier to inflicting the Great Reset. Accordingly, the biggest peril the self-proclaimed \u201cGlobal Shapers\u201d are targeting is \u201cThe Clear and Present Danger of Disinformation.\u201d WEF searched long and hard to find an eminent disinformation panel host to incarnate Davos values. They selected Brian Stelter, a former anchor who was too damn squirrely even for CNN<\/p>\n

The star of the panel was New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, who proclaimed that disinformation is the \u201cmost existential\u201d of \u201cevery other major challenge that we are grappling with as a society.\u201d Sulzberger boasted, \u201cWhen we make mistakes, we acknowledge them in public and we correct them.\u201d Except for RussiaGate, its 1619 Project fairy tale, and a few dozen other howlers. Former New York Times editor Jill Abramson slammed the Times for being part of the Davos \u201ccorrupt circle-jerk.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Davos pro-censorship fervor was epitomized by panelist Vera Jourov\u00e1, European Commission vice president. She declared that the United States \u201cwill have soon\u201d laws prohibiting \u201cillegal hate speech\u201d like Europe has.<\/p>\n

But the speech that politicians hate the most is criticism of government. Panelist Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) blamed \u201cmisinformation\u201d for not being able to \u201cget people to take a COVID vaccine.\u201d But the false claims by Biden and top officials that vaccines prevent infection and transmission weren\u2019t misinformation \u2014 they were just typos.<\/p>\n

The #TwitterFiles recently revealed that federal officials pressured Twitter to suppress 250,000 Twitter users (including journalists). But according to WEF scoring, that wasn\u2019t an outrage \u2014 instead, it was a tiny down payment for a Higher Truth. (Twitter\u2019s new owner, Elon Musk, was not invited to Davos.)<\/p>\n

WEF is calling for a \u201cGlobal Framework To Regulate Harm Online\u201d \u2014 i.e., worldwide censorship. But the WEF offers one of the best illustrations of how denunciations of \u201cdisinformation\u201d are self-serving shams.<\/p>\n

In 2016, WEF put out a video with eight predictions for life in 2030. The highlight of the film was a vapid millennial guy pictured alongside the slogan: \u201cYou will own nothing and be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

This bizarre notion was no WEF aberration. Last July, WEF proposed slashing ownership of private vehicles around the globe. And then there was the WEF pitch to save the planet by having people eat insects instead of red meat. But according to WEF managing director Adrian Monck, the WEF has been the victim of a horrible conspiracy theory sparked by the \u201cown nothing, be happy\u201d phrase. Monck sought to absolve WEF because the phrase in the video came from \u201can essay series intended to spark debate about socio-economic developments.\u201d They didn\u2019t really <\/em>want to turn everyone back into serfs. How dare you criticize the billionaire elite with their own words? That\u2019s misinformation!<\/p>\n

According to WEF, individual freedom is a luxury that citizens can no longer afford. Would-be tyrants can always find lofty pretexts to enchain their victims.<\/strong> Yes, John Kerry, you are extraterrestrials \u2014 from one of those movies where the aliens try to conquer the Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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