WEF24: Ramping Up Global Control
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, is over, and the new year’s program of globalism is off and running. Since 1971, the annual January confab of globalists and radical-left activists has served as the agenda-setting venue for each year’s slate of globalist events. This year was no exception; many of the Davos participants laid the rhetorical groundwork for major globalist events later in 2024, including September’s Summit of the Future in New York and December’s COP29 in Azerbaijan. But this year’s edition of the WEF was tempered by the growing awareness among globalist elites that many of their agenda items are in serious jeopardy. The theme of this year’s event, “Rebuilding Trust,” was a transparent sign that Klaus Schwab, the WEF’s Central Casting-esque founder and leader, senses that the power and influence of globalists are very much on the wane, even as nationalism and a renewed interest in liberty are transforming governments and societies from Finland and Italy all the way to Argentina.
Some of that nationalism and newfound interest in liberty found its way into the Davos proceedings in the persons of Javier Milei, Argentina’s new libertarian president, and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, both of whom sharply criticized the globalist elites running the WEF show. But in the main, this year’s presenters and conferees stayed on script. For now, at least, the twin causes of globalism and radical leftist cultural Marxism continue to be the driving ideologies for the Davos dons.
Probably the most striking and widely commented-on imagery to emerge from this year’s WEF was of a shamanic ritual in which a Brazilian shamaness, adorned in colorful garb and face paint, proceeded to cough on the heads of several visibly startled besuited personages. The shamaness, a chieftess whose name is Putanny Yawanawá, hails from the Yaminawá, or Yawanawá, tribe of Brazil’s Acre state in Amazonia. The Yawanawá, or “people of the peccary,” consists of about 2,600 people living in seven extremely remote villages deep in the Amazon rainforest. Very few of them are literate or speak either Portuguese or Spanish. They are committed to maintaining their traditional way of life in their tropical rainforest idyll, having supposedly rejected modern civilization in favor of Rousseauean noble simplicity. Nevertheless, the Yawanawá, like some other indigenous tribes in Amazonia, are happy to make a few escudos by inviting foreign tourists to their villages to participate in cultural immersion, the main attractant of which is ayahuasca-fueled shamanic ritual.
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