An Emerging Global Industrial Feudalism - The Elites Meet at the World Economic Forum to Plot the Destruction of Liberty and Prosperity

The World Economic Forum (WEF) kicks off every year in Davos, Switzerland in January.  It's where the elites of global tyranny meet to plot and implement the takeover of the world by destroying peace, liberty, property rights and prosperity while imposing a corporate industrial feudalism and militarized police states upon everyone on the planet.   The WEF is no ordinary meeting.  In fact, it's very well organized.  It's got extremely powerful players, unlimited money, an agenda and extensive plans. Furthermore, much of the WEF's goals have already been accomplished including NSA styled global surveillance, endless wars for resources and corporate monopoly, the destruction of the world's currencies by central banks, the bail-in or theft of financial assets to bailout banksters and the total annihilation of the middle class everywhere.

From it's own website, the World Economic Forum pretty much lays out in plain and simple language its purpose, players and goals.  For the uninitiated, progressives, communitarians, collectivists and Marxists, it reads like a fairy tale of an awesome plan for humanity.  For those anchored in reality, facts and history, it's a blueprint to abolish peace, liberty and prosperity on a global scale. The website is worth cruising because it's packed with relevant information on its players, partners and councils.

Global Agenda Councils

The Network of Global Agenda Councils is a unique, global community of over 1,500 premier thought leaders who are the foremost experts in their fields of academia, business, government, international organizations and society. Grouped in over 80 Councils, Global Agenda Council Members commit their extensive knowledge, expertise and passion to jointly shape the global, regional and industry agenda. The Global Agenda Councils are committed to addressing the most pressing issues and opportunities of our time and aim to provide new thinking and solutions.

Below are the Global Agenda Councils and it's clearly evident that these central planning councils cover every possible aspect of human endeavor and existence.

Advanced Manufacturing,Ageing, Anti-Corruption & Transparency, Arctic, Biodiversity & Natural Capital, Biotechnology, Catastrophic Risks, Climate Change, Competitiveness, Complex Systems, Conflict Prevention, Data-Driven Development, Design & Innovation, Digital Health, Education & Skills, Emerging Multinationals Emerging Technologies, Employment, Energy Security, Financing & Capital, Fiscal Sustainability, Food & Nutrition,Security, Fostering Entrepreneurship, Fragile States and Conflict Prevention, Future of Government, Future of Media, Future of Universities, Future of the Internet, Geopolitical Risk, Global Financial System, Global Trade & FDI, Governance for Sustainability, Human Rights, Illicit Trade, Illicit Trade & Organized Crime, Informed Societies, Infrastructure, Institutional Governance, System,s Intellectual Property System, International Monetary System, Logistics & Supply Chain Systems, Long-Term Investing, Measuring Sustainability, Migration, Neuroscience & Behaviour, New Economic Thinking, New Energy Architecture, New Growth Models, New Models of Leadership, New Models of Travel & Tourism, Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Weapons, Oceans, Organized Crime, Personal Transportation Systems, Personalized & Precision Medicine, Population Growth, Poverty & Sustainable Development, Responsible Mineral Resources Management, Robotics & Smart Devices, Role of Business, Role of Civil Society, Role of Faith, Role of the Arts in Society, Rule of Law, Social Innovation, Social Media, Social Security Systems, Space Security, Sustainable Consumption, Terrorism, Urbanization, Values, Water Security, Well-being & Mental Health,Women's Empowerment, Youth Unemployment


Strategic Partners

"Strategic Partners make a tangible impact on global issues and society by contributing to better policy-making, informing business decisions, sharing best practices and engaging stakeholders beyond commercial objectives."

ABB
The Abraaj Group
Accenture
Adecco Group
Aetna
Agility
Alcoa
ArcelorMittal
AUDI AG
Bahrain Economic Development Board
Bain & Company
Bank of America
Barclays
Basic Element
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation**
Bombardier
Booz & Company
The Boston Consulting Group
BP Plc
Bridgewater Associates
BT
Burda Media
CA Technologies
Chevron
Cisco
Citi
Clayton, Dubilier, Rice LLC
The Coca-Cola Company
Credit Suisse
Dalian Wanda Group
Deloitte
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Post DHL
Dogus Group
The Dow Chemical Company
DuPont
Eskom Holdings SOC Limited
EY
Fluor Corporation
GE
Goldman Sachs
Google Inc.
Hanwha Group
HCL Technologies Ltd
Heidrick & Struggles
Henkel
HSBC
Huawei Technologies
IHS
Infosys
Itaú Unibanco
Jones Lang LaSalle =
JPMorgan Chase Co.
KPMG International
Kudelski Group
Lazard
Leighton Holdings Ltd
Lenovo
LIXIL Group
LUKOIL
ManpowerGroup
Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC)
McKinsey & Company
Microsoft Corporation
Mitsubishi Corporation
Morgan Stanley
National Bank of Kuwait
Nestlé SA
Novartis
NYSE
The Olayan Group
Old Mutual
Omnicom Group
PepsiCo
Petrobras
Petroleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras
Prudential
Publicis Groupe
PwC
Qualcomm
Reliance Industries
Renault-Nissan Alliance
The Rockefeller Foundation**
Royal Philips
SABMiller
salesforce.com *
Saudi Aramco
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)
Sberbank
Siemens
SK Group
SOCAR (State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic)
Standard Chartered
Swiss International Air Lines
Swiss Re
System Capital Management
Takeda Pharmaceutical
Tata Consultancy Services
Tech Mahindra
Thomson Reuters
Toshiba Corporation
Total
UBS
Unilever
USM Holdings
VimpelCom
Visa Inc.
Volkswagen AG
VTB Bank
Wipro
WPP
Yahoo
Zurich Insurance Group

The biggest multinational corporations are strategic partners.

Foundation Members

The World Economic Forum’s 1,000 Foundation Member companies are at the heart of all the Forum’s activities and their support is essential in helping find truly sustainable and global solutions to improve the state of the world. The typical Member company is a global enterprise ranking among the top companies within their industry and/or country.

Global Leadership Fellows

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the once well-defined line between the public and private sectors continues to blur, making it difficult for any one organization to act effectively in isolation. To succeed in such a fast-changing environment, institutions – both private and public – must bring together numerous stakeholders to approach problems more efficiently, develop strategies and capitalize on opportunities.

The NWO is based on the marriage of big business and big government under a global governance leadership.  The Public Private Partnership is the term the global elites prefer to use because they perceive that it sounds quite harmless and benign to the public.

But in reality, the Public Private Partnership is nothing more than corporatism, fascism, protectionism, oligarchy, plutocracy and the total takeover of the world by corporations and the political class they fund.

Never before in human history has totalitarianism gone so global.  Moreover, the NWO represents the corporate domination of all resources on the planet as well as the concentration of all wealth and power.

Financial Systems

Strengthening the international monetary and financial system is a priority in the wake of the global financial crisis. 

Above all, the WEF is committed to preserving the world's central banking system that is directly responsible for creating so much impoverishment by wiping out the purchasing power of paper and central bank currency.  Effectively, central banks exist for no purpose other than to transfer wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich.  The plunder attributable to central banking systems is absolutely crucial to concentrating wealth and power.  Sound money tends to concentrate in the hands of ordinary people and not the political and elite classes.

As a suffering humanity continues to be stung by rising costs for essentials like food, shelter and medicine, the ability of a person to even earn a living in a command and controlled economy dominated by corporatist and statist interests vanish quite quickly.

As the world's most powerful autocrats, bureaucrats, education-crats, corporations, corporatists, media and technology players continue to amass control as master propagandists and at the expense of property rights and individual liberty, the result will continue to be devastating.

The dominate themes of the NWO, the UN and the World Economic forum continue to be sustainability and civil society.  Yet, social unrest from economic misery continues to escalate and civil society is crumbling under the weight of corporate and bureaucratic tyranny.

Where this will end is anybody's guess but it won't be good for the earth's occupants nor will it inspire peaceful co-existence, tolerance, civil liberties or prosperity.

Arrest and Prosecute the IRS and the Dems: How the IRS is Squashing the 1st Amendment

The scandal involving the admission by the IRS that it has specifically targeted groups that advocate for liberty and constitutional governance should be extremely disturbing to every American.  Even more reprehensibly sinister is that Obama and the Democratic Party are at the forefront in the outright assault on the 1st Amendment and political activism.  As the Democratic Party increasingly bares its totalitarian stripes, the sheer horror of it all is quite reminiscent of the Nazi Party, Stalism, Maoism and other ruthless statist regimes.  Of course, I'm not in any way implying that the Republican Party is any better.  The GOP is indeed also responsible for the wholesale squashing of civil liberties.

The Washington Post has even reported on IRS-gate and how the agency is persecuting groups that are critical of the government.

IRS targeted groups critical of government, documents from agency probe show

While both Republicans and Democrats approvingly seek to invoke the hideous Patriot Act as a pretext to detain, kidnap and torture anybody who is perceived as an enemy of the state, the exploding IRS scandal only adds to the emerging truth that America has morphed into a Nazified Police State, complete with gulags and torture.

The 1st Amendment is unique in that it actually contains 5 specific rights that the Federal government cannot infringe upon:  freedom of religion, free speech, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble and the freedom to petition the government.  The exact wording of the 1st Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

These are powerful rights that the Federal government has no legal authority to trample.  Yet, the IRS, the Democrats and the Obama regime are tramping every one of them by targeting religious groups and patriot groups for persecution and attempting to squash their right to free speech, their right to politically advocate using media venues, their right to assemble and their right to petition the government.  Moreover, the IRS, an agency under the direct supervision of the Treasury Department, admits to intimidating, harassing and even threatening groups that exercise their constitutional rights.

By any definition, the acts of the government to squash opposition to the government do indeed constitute a blatant infringement of the heart and soul of American styled liberty as defined by the Constitution and its specific limitations of Federal powers.

Accordingly, the government and the IRS-Treasury Department are engaging in criminal activity.  In a sane and just world, the criminals would be brought to justice through criminal prosecution.  But in America today, the Gestapo criminals are above the law, above the constitution and exempt from criminal prosecution for their criminal activities.

Anybody who still believes that America is the Land of the Free is so utterly delusional that they have voluntarily submitted to the militarized federal police state and its Nazi tactics and propaganda.  This is a very bad sign that does not bode well for the future of liberty in a nation that now consistently and openly squashes liberty.

Liberty Needs a Website

These are awesome times for liberty activists and the power of the Internet has been our greatest weapon in exposing the draconian tyranny that is descending upon us like an Iron Curtain. There are some awesomely dedicated folks doing great work for liberty on the Internet with websites, blogs and citizen journalism.  I'm a huge advocate for citizen journalism because the slop we get from mainstream media is unacceptable for intelligent, moral and thinking folks.  However, liberty media is highly individualistic, small, disorganized and limited. Moreover, there is no liberty media that is designed for mass information, news, communication, activism and education. Liberty does not have a one stop 'go to' website where folks can get news, debate/discuss news and issues affecting liberty, have access to educational material or organize for activism.

What does liberty need? Liberty needs a website with a simple and appealing name that is a combination of Drudge styled news headlines, the best of liberty media (reason.com, LewRockwell.com etc.) and bloggers.  

I like the simplicity of the Drudge Report format because it's quick and downloads fast; Drudge doesn't  have all the clunky photos and graphics of a Huffington Post.  However, I would NOT want a website that looks like Drudge and but something that looks like a combination of Drudge simplicity and other sites that prominently displays linked material.  I rather like the format of Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis because of its linked blogrolls and websites. Showcasing citizen journalists, their websites, their blogs and their research should be a TOP priority of any liberty website.

I also think that categories are important simply because folks tend to follow their favorite issues.  Minimally, categories should include:


Breaking/Trending Now
Foreign Policy
Civil Liberties
Health/Healthcare
Food/GMO
Economic/Fiscal/Monetary
Legal/Court Issues
Legislative Issues

I believe that a lot of very significant activism will be taking place at the city and state level, especially on NDAA, drones, Obamacare, the 2nd amendment and more.  Therefore, I would want a drop down tab showing all 50 states with the ultimate goal of having a state coordinator to inform folks at the state level and organize activism.  Each state should really have its own liberty blog/blogger(s) to keeps folks informed on what is happening in their state, city or geographic area.

The primary purpose of creating a powerhouse of a liberty website is to showcase the work of liberty activists and create a strong alternative media that's got just about everything and anything that liberty activists need in the way of news, information, education and activism. 

One of my problems is that I'm not a video person because I prefer to read and believe that a lot of videos are nonsense.  Still, I believe there is a place for high quality video and there are indeed folks who prefer video to text.  Quality video is a void that must be filled.

What I don't want is a website that will focus on non-stop conspiracy theories.  There are just folks who are obsessed with narrow conspiracy theory views like "It's the Zionists, it's the Illuminati, it's the Pope, it's the Jews, it's Israel, it's the Muslim etc.".  There are also folks whose own obsessions have churned them into hatemongers of sorts.  There is no place for intolerant hatemongers in the free and tolerant world of liberty.

I want a liberty website to deal with credible and documented facts, as well as valid history.  The other day, I got a Facebook message telling me that Obama was indicted and would be resigning.  The link provided was clearly not credible.  They may be a place for utter nonsense in the whacky world of the Internet but certainly not on a high quality liberty website.

Above all, I want a website that will have first class, reliable, important and factual information that will appeal to the young, to liberty activists, to independents, to Libertarians and to disaffected Republicans and Democrats who are not happy with establishment R and D propaganda.  A liberty website that is ideologically anchored in the core principles of liberty should absolutely appeal to a very wide range of folks.

It's also critically important that a liberty website not only maintain exceptionally high standards of information quality but also civility in discourse.  There is nothing worse than a Facebook post degenerating into "you effing moron..." and worse.  Precisely because a liberty website will be designed to appeal to a broad range of folks with different ideas of liberty, religious and cultural issues, it is imperative that folks be respectful.  Disagreement will always occur but they should be civil and respectful because the purpose of any discourse should be to advance a solution to a problem and not pulverize, humiliate and degrade anybody who disagrees with you.

Moving forward, the challenges of building a powerful liberty website include:

Naming the website
Ascertaining the cost of creating the website
Maintaining the website
Marketing the website
Making the website a high volume 'go-to' site
Successfully monetizing the website

I'm throwing these ideas out there because I'm looking for help, ideas and input on how best to serve and market the cause of liberty on a very grand scale.

I believe that we need to bring the big world of liberty under a very large and effective liberty umbrella.  Some of my favorite websites include:

Liberty Links/Blogrolls  

Environment
Junk Science
Watts Up With That?

Financial
Economic Harmonies
Future of Capitalism
International Liberty
Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis
Testosterone Pit
The Burning Platform
The Coming Depression
The Independent Institute
Zero Hedge

Health
Green Med Info.
Natural News

Liberty/General
A Lightening War for Liberty
Activist Post
Bastiat Institute
Black Listed News
Cato Institute
ChrisInMaryville’s Blog
Classic Liberal Blog
Economic Policy Journal
Foundation for Economic Education
Freedom’s Phoenix
Glenn Greenwald
Global Research
Globalist Report
Jonathan Turley
Karen de Coster
Lew Rockwell
Libertarian Christians
Liberty Crier
Rational Review News Digest
Reason
Spread Liberty News
The American Dream
The Daily Bell
The New American
Wired

Legal Defense of Liberty 
The Institute for Justice
The Rutherford Institute

Technology
Tech Dirt
Technology Liberation Front

I don't doubt that the above list of liberty links could be significantly expanded but it's a good starting point.

Finally, I absolutely believe that the liberty movement is growing leaps and bounds but that liberty's presence and power on the Internet is lacking.  If we are going to be a formidable force in the battle for liberty, the Internet is the battleground to win the only war that I personally support.  Small low volume sites, even if they are high quality, get lost.  We need to bring the power of our resources together for maximum effectiveness and showcase our talent, determination and hardworking liberty activists. 

We need to assemble our own liberty think tank to advance the project.

Any ideas? 

America: A Militarized Police State that Sexualizes Tyranny

‎"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."  General Omar Bradley

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."  Albert Einstein

"In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again." Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Never in a million years could I ever have imagined that I would bear witness to the end of America and watch it churn into a Nazified Police State.  The compliant sheeple have shocked me into a new reality.

Every day, millions of Americans voluntarily consent and allow TSA sexual predators to grope and probe their breasts, vaginas, anuses, penises and testicles, all without a whimper of protest.

America has more folks locked up in prison than any nation on earth, including some of the most ruthlessly oppressive regimes ever to exist.

US Prison Population: The Largest in the World

The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world—more even than China or Russia. In fact, more people are in prisons in the United States than in all other developed countries combined. Professor Daniel J. D’Amico explains that as of 2010 over 1.6 million people were serving jail sentences in America.

The 4th amendment has been effectively nullified and law enforcement searches of citizens without probable cause or a warrant are now routine. The Supreme Court has upheld the right of law enforcement to perform cavity searches on anybody in police custody, even if picked up on a routine traffic violation.

Bend Over and Spread Em says the Supreme Court

Regarding the recent 5-4 SCOTUS decision to uphold strip searches, Supreme Court Justice Breyer describes a strip search in his dissent (joined by Kagan, Gingsberg and Sotomayor) as follows:

“‘..a visual inspection of the inmate’s naked body. This should include the inmate opening his mouth and moving his tongue up and down and from side to side, removing any dentures, running his hands through his hair, allowing his ears to be visually examined, lifting his arms to expose his arm pits, lifting his feet to examine the sole, spreading and/or lifting his testicles to expose the area behind them and bending over and/or spreading the cheeks of his buttocks to expose his anus. For females, the procedures are similar except females must in addition, squat to expose the vagina.’”

The Supreme Court has upheld the right of the police to do this to anybody for any reason who has the misfortune of ending up in police custody for any reason, including minor traffic violations.

As America morphs into a full fledged militarized police state, few are even noticing this horror, except for the civil liberties activists who are trying to fight these draconian assaults on liberty, and all without the support of even the people.  Moreover, the presence of the militarized police state doesn't even seem to bother anybody as Americans just accept it, along with many other assaults on their liberty, privacy and dignity.

How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police

Over the past 10 years, law enforcement officials have begun to look and act more and more like soldiers. Here's why we should be alarmed...

In an effort to remedy their relative inadequacy in dealing with terrorism on U.S. soil, police forces throughout the country have purchased military equipment, adopted military training, and sought to inculcate a "soldier's mentality" among their ranks.

Benjamin Franklin warned “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Franklin was right and he absolutely validates how sacrificing liberty for security ends just like Gibbons' described the end of the Roman Empire.  "In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.".

I shudder with horror at the thought that this is the future that Americans wants.  But based on the voting habits of the American people, it appears that they do not value liberty as they flee to the bosom of tyranny.  Such a choice will carry a horrific price from which there will be no escape.

Is Marxism Back?

In recent years, Marxists and socialists have been euphoric as their delusions kick in and they announce with glee that capitalism has failed and they have the smoking gun proof - collapsed economies and and human misery is piling up everywhere. Not that Marxists or socialists even know anything about capitalism but then again neither do capitalists or those masquerading as capitalists. In Europe, hardcore socialists have been elected, voted out of office and elected again. This happened in France where the French did indeed elect Francois Holland who campaigned on taxing the rich at a rate of 75%. Holland fulfilled his promise, here.

All those warm and fuzzy sounding "ism's" like communism, socialism, Marxism, progressivism, egalitarianism, communitarianism etc. have never really existed. The concept of 'from each according to his ability and to each according to their needs' has not only been proven to be a BIG fail, it's well documented that such ideologies killed 100 million folks during the 20th century alone, mostly by starvation.

Take the collectivist "ism's" and toss in fascism, corporatism, oligarchism and crony capitalism and what you get isn't something that benefits humanity and human prosperity but a monster that merely facilitates the massive concentration of wealth and power. The high ranking communist party officials never suffered and were well supplied with the finest of everything. It was everybody else who waited for hours in a breadline for a loaf of stale and moldy bread.

The west and its so-called 'soft socialism' is sinking faster than the Titanic but this isn't a failure of capitalism.  It's the failure of the evil fascist marriage between Big Government and Big Business that grew government by zapping the wealth of the people.

While I may have a hard time convincing a Republican that fascist crony capitalism is a bad idea and quite destructive to middle class prosperity, I have an even harder time convincing liberals that capitalism truly empowers the 99% at the expense of the 1% and that all forms of statism exclusively benefits the 1% at the expense of the 99%.

 How the 1% Defeated the 99% By Concentrating Wealth and Power

Collectivists everywhere are excited about a new and updated version of The Communist Manifesto. In fact, an economic blog, azizonomics.com, wrote about it in a piece titled Is Marxism Coming Back?

In his introduction to a new edition of The Communist Manifesto, Professor Eric Hobsbawm suggests that Marx was right to argue that the “contradictions of a market system based on no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous ‘cash payment’, a system of exploitation and of ‘endless accumulation’ can never be overcome...

That's an amazing statement. What is naked self interest, the callous 'cash payment' and a system of exploitation? That's just a dude working to survive and provide for his family. Since when is voluntarily hiring out your skills for wages an act of exploitation? While that's what humans have done since time immemorial, work to survive by making and trading goods and services, the collectivists somehow denigrate work and producing as an undesirable human  character flaw, with the major flaw being that an individual just might want to decide what he wants and needs vs taking orders from the government on his wants and needs.

Amazingly and despite the fact that collectivism vaporized 100 million folks, Professor Hobsbawm does understand that folks will be reluctant to accept Soviet style Marxism. Hobsbawm laments " “It is extremely unlikely that such a ‘post-capitalist society’ would respond to the traditional models of socialism and still less to the ‘really existing’ socialisms of the Soviet era,” and then goes on to suggest that communism will have to be redefined “What forms it might take and how far it would embody the humanist values of Marx’s and Engels’s communism, would depend on the political action through which this change came about.”  While the linking of humanist values to totalitarian collectivist hell  may be a stretch bordering on the lunatic fringe,  it's still a veiled suggestion that social change can and will painlessly produce the acceptance of communism (even though folks may not actually know they are being herded into communism).

With all its flaws and bad and unjust as it is, our deeply problematic corporatist economic system is still a much better deal for humanity than totalitarian collectivism. Still, we must continue to strive to shed the shackles of statism because it's absolutely crucial to human liberty.  Statism never recedes and it always tightens the noose around the necks of human beings until it squeezes the life out of them, their liberty and their prosperity.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C.S. Lewis