The Return of the Robber Barons

 Brian Parsons has an article today at the American Thinker entitled 21st Century Robber Barons: the WEF. What is a robber baron? Parsons starts by explaining the term, which hasn't been used since the early part of the 20th Century.

In the 1870s, the term “robber baron” was first used to describe an exploitative class of industrialists who utilized their wealth to create monopolies of resources and amass control in the fledgling United States. The name describes an illegitimate aristocracy of unelected plutocrats. John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie; all American industrial royalty whose names line the streets of America and the pages of our history books. One hundred fifty years later, we face a new global class of robber barons.

Once a year, the world’s richest and most influential people meet behind closed doors in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss the future direction of the globe. Known as the World Economic Forum, they were originally founded in 1971 by German engineer Klaus Schwab. Look at any major global policy push in recent history, and you’ll likely find the fingerprints of the World Economic Forum. From climate alarmism to ESG investing to our obsession with sustainability and population control or a push for centralized and authoritarian government, we find the handiwork of the World Economic Forum.

He goes on to cite example after example of rich people who use their wealth, or worse,  their corporations wealth which is essentially other people's money, to serve themselves at your and my expense. For example, Blackrock uses its investers' money to force other corporations to submit to ESG behaviors at the expence of prfits for those investors.

The original robber barons just lobbied the Federal government for better tax treatment. These guys want to turn us into primative serfs who eat algae and bugs and work for them as slaves. So how has Schwab done this? By training a buch of "Young Global Leaders" to infiltrate governments and corporations around the world. All of these "Young Global Leaders" have drunk the kool-aid, are convinced of the rightness of their policies, and keep chugging along no matter how destructive and unpopular these policies may be. As an example:

The World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders collective is a veritable who’s-who of politicians, tech titans, corporate executives, philanthropists, celebrities, and financiers worldwide. You don’t have to look far to find their influence. In the United States, we find their people in finance at organizations like Blackrock, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, CitiBank, and Mastercard. In technology, we find their people at Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, Microsoft, Amazon, and more. In the media, they’re at Fox, CNN, CBS, Forbes, Bloomberg, the NY Times, and the Washington Post. In government, they hold governorships, congressional seats, mayorships, federal cabinet positions, and more. At the universities, they’re presidents, faculty, lecturers, and researchers. There is no sector they do not touch.

Every extreme policy push in America of the last five years overlaps with the objectives and people of the World Economic Forum. The neo-Marxist Critical Race Theory push following the death of George Floyd? Ibram X. Kendi is a Young Global Leader. Environmental Social Governance investing? The World Economic Forum counts dozens of ESG executives from financial firms among its members. Financial firms like Blackrock outbidding residential home buyers for residential properties? This aligns with their objective to create a tenant class. Visa, Mastercard, and American Express pushing for a backdoor gun registry in the U.S.? All WEF partners as well.

The United States is a particular target of the WEF, but its Young Global Leaders have infiltrated the whole world: Canada, New Zealand, Germany, France...the list is long. Please go read all of Brian Parsons' article.  It is positively chilling.