{"id":227646,"date":"2023-01-23T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=227646"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:06:27","slug":"all-quiet-panic-on-the-western-front-the-davos-freak-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/01\/all-quiet-panic-on-the-western-front-the-davos-freak-show\/","title":{"rendered":"All Quiet (Panic) on the Western Front–The Davos Freak Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shadows are falling
\n<\/em>And I\u2019ve been here all day
\nIt\u2019s too hot to sleep
\nAnd time is running away
\nFeel like my soul
\nhas turned into steel
\n<\/em>I\u2019ve still got the scars
\nThat the sun didn\u2019t heal
\nThere\u2019s not even room enough
\nTo be anywhere
\nLord it\u2019s not dark yet,
\nbut it\u2019s getting there. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0<\/em>Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet<\/a><\/p>\n

Lights! Action! Reset!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>17 Jan 2023 –<\/em> The World Economic Forum (WEF)\u2019s Davos Freak Show<\/a> is back in business on Monday [16 Jan].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The mainstream media of the collective West, in unison, will be spinning non-stop, for a week, all the \u201cnews\u201d that are fit to print to extol new declinations of The Great Reset<\/a>, re-baptized The Great Narrative, but actually framed as a benign offer by \u201cstakeholder capitalism\u201d<\/a>. These are the main planks of the shady platform of a shady NGO registered in Cologny, a tony Geneva suburb.<\/p>\n

The list of Davos attendees was duly leaked<\/a>. Proverbially, it\u2019s an Anglo-American Exceptionalist fun fest, complete with intel honchos such as the US Director of National Intelligence, Avril \u201cMadam Torture\u201d Haines<\/strong>; the head of MI6 Richard Moore<\/strong>; and FBI director Christopher Wray.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remixed Diderot and D\u2019Alembert Encyclopedias could be written about the Davos pathology \u2013 where a hefty list of multibillionaires, heads of state and corporate darlings (owned by BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and co.) \u201cengage\u201d in selling Demented Dystopia packages to the unsuspecting masses.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s cut to the chase and focus on a few panels next week \u2013 which could easily be mistaken for Straight to Hell sessions<\/a>.
\nThe Tuesday, January 17 list is particularly engaging. It features a \u201cDe-Globalization or Re-Globalization?\u201d panel with speakers Ian Bremmer, Adam Tooze,\u00a0Neil\u00a0Ferguson, P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 and Ngaire Woods<\/strong>. Three Atlanticists\/Exceptionalists stand out, especially the ultra-toxic Ferguson.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>After \u201cIn Defense of Europe\u201d, featuring a bunch of nullities including Poland\u2019s Andrjez Duda,<\/strong> attendees will be greeted with a Special Season in Hell (sorry, Rimbaud) featuring none other than EC dominatrix Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>, known by a vast majority of Germans as Ursula von der Leichen (\u201cUrsula of Cadavers\u201d) in a tag team with WEF mastermind, Third Reich emulator Klaus \u201cNosferatu\u201d Schwab.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rumors are that Lucifer, in his privileged underground abode, is green with envy.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also \u201cUkraine: What Next?\u201d with another bunch of nullities, and \u201cWar in Europe: Year 2\u201d featuring Moldova woke chick Maia Sandu<\/strong> and Finnish party girl Sanna Marin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the War Criminal section, pride of place goes to\u00a0\u201cA Conversation with Henry Kissinger: Historical Perspectives on War\u201d, where Dr. K. will sell all his trademark Divide and Rule permutations. Added sulphur will be provided by Thucydides strangler Graham Allison<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In his Special Address, \u201cLiver Sausage\u201d Chancellor Olaf Scholz<\/strong> will be side by side with Nosferatu, hoping he won\u2019t be \u2013 literally \u2013 grilled.<\/p>\n

Then, on Wednesday, January 18, comes the apotheosis: \u201cRestoring Security and Peace\u201d with speakers Fareed Zakaria \u2013 the US establishment\u2019s pet brown man; NATO\u2019s Jens \u201cWar is Peace\u201d Stoltenberg<\/strong>; Andrzej Duda<\/strong> \u2013 again; and Canadian warmonger Chrystia Freeland<\/strong> \u2013 widely rumored to become the next NATO Secretary-General.<\/p>\n

And it gets juicier: the coke comedian posing as warlord may join via zoom from Kiev.<\/p>\n

The notion that this panel is entitled to emit judgments about \u201cpeace\u201d deserves nothing less than its own Nobel Peace Prize.Cynics of all persuasions may be excused for lamenting Mr. Zircon \u2013 currently on oceanic patrol encompassing the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and of course \u201cMare Nostrum\u201d Mediterranean \u2013 won\u2019t be presenting his business card at Davos.<\/p>\n

Analyst Peter Koenig has developed a convincing thesis<\/a> that the WEF, the WHO and NATO may be running some sort of sophisticated death cult. The Great Reset does mingle merrily with NATO\u2019s agenda as agent provocateur, financer and weaponizer of the proxy Empire vs. Russia war in black hole Ukraine. NAKO \u2013 an \u00a0acronym for North Atlantic Killing Organization \u2013 would be more appropriate in this case.<\/p>\n

As Koenig summarizes it,<\/p>\n

\u201cNATO enters any territory where the \u2018conventional\u2019 media lie-machine, and social engineering are failing or not completing their people-ordaining goals fast enough.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In parallel, very few people are aware that on June 13, 2019 in New York, a secret deal was clinched between the UN, the WEF, an array of oligarch-weaponized NGOs \u2013 with the WHO in the front line \u2013 and last but not least, the world\u2019s top corporations, which are all owned by an interlinked maze with Vanguard and BlackRock at the center.<\/p>\n

The practical result of the deal is the UN Agenda 2030.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Virtually every government in the NATOstan area and the \u201cWestern Hemisphere\u201d (US establishment definition) has been hijacked by Agenda 2030 \u2013 which translates, essentially, as\u00a0hoarding, privatizing and financializing all the earth\u2019s assets, under the pretext of \u201cprotecting\u201d them.<\/p>\n

Translation: the marketization and monetization of the entire natural world (see, for instance, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Davos superstar shills such as insufferable bore Neil Ferguson<\/strong> are just well rewarded vassals: western intellectuals of the Harvard, Yale and Princeton mould that would never dare bite the hand that feeds them.<\/p>\n

Ferguson just wrote a column on Bloomberg titled \u201cAll is Not Quiet on the Eastern Front\u201d \u2013 basically to peddle the risk of WWIII, on behalf of his masters, blaming of course \u201cChina as the arsenal of autocracy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Among serial high-handed inanities, this one stands out. Ferguson writes, \u201cThere are two obvious problems with US strategy (\u2026) The first is that if algorithmic weapons systems are the equivalent of tactical nuclear weapons, Putin may eventually be driven to using the latter, as he clearly lacks the former.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cluelessness here is a euphemism. Ferguson clearly has no idea \u201calgorithmic weapons\u201d mean; if he\u2019s referring to electronic warfare, the US may have been able to maintain superiority for a while in Ukraine, but that\u2019s over.<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s typical Ferguson \u2013 who wrote a whole Rothschild hagiography just like his column, drinking from the Rothschild archives that appeared to have been sanitized as he knows next to nothing meaningful about their history.<\/p>\n

Ferguson has \u201cdeduced\u201d that Russia is weak and China is strong. Nonsense. Both are strong \u2013 and Russia is more advanced technologically than China in their advanced offensive and defensive missile development, and can beat the US in a nuclear war as Russian air space is sealed by layered defenses such as the S-400 all the way to the already tested S-500s and designed S-600s.<\/p>\n

As far as semiconductor chips, the advantage that Taiwan has in chip manufacture is in mass production of the most advanced chips; but China and Russia can fabricate the chips necessary for military use, though not engage in mass commercial production.\u00a0The US has an important advantage here commercially with Taiwan, but that\u2019s not a military advantage.<\/p>\n

Ferguson gives away his game when he carps about the need to \u201cdeter a nascent Axis-like combination of Russia, Iran and China from risking simultaneous conflict in three theaters: Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Far East.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here we have trademark Atlanticist demonization of the top three vectors of Eurasia integration mixed with a toxic cocktail of ignorance and arrogance: it\u2019s NATO that is stoking \u201cconflict\u201d in Eastern Europe; and it\u2019s the Empire that is being expelled from the \u201cFar East\u201d (oh, that\u2019s so colonial) and soon from the Middle East (actually West Asia).<\/p>\n

An AMGOT tale<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Nobody with an IQ over room temperature will expect Davos next week to discuss any aspect of the NATO vs. Eurasia existential war seriously \u2013 not to mention propose diplomacy. So I\u2019ll leave you with yet another typical tawdry story about how the Empire \u2013 who rules over Davos \u2013 deals in practice with its vassals.<\/p>\n

While in Sicily earlier this year I learned that an ultra high-value Pentagon asset had landed in Rome, in haste, as part of an unscheduled visit. A few days later the reason for the visit was printed in La Repubblica, one of the papers of the toxic Agnelli clan.<\/p>\n

That was a Mafia scam: a face-to-face \u201csuggestion\u201d for the Meloni government to imperatively provide Kiev, as soon as possible, with the costly anti-Samp-T missile system, developed by an European consortium, Eurosam, uniting MBDA Italy, MBDA France and Thales.<\/p>\n

Italy possesses only 5 batteries of this system, not exactly brilliant against ballistic missiles but efficient against cruise missiles.<\/p>\n

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan had already called Palazzo Chigi to announce the \u201coffer you can\u2019t refuse\u201d. Apparently that was not enough, thus the hasty envoy trip.\u00a0 Rome will have to toe the line. Or else. After all, never forget the terminology employed by US generals to designate Sicily, and Italy as a whole: AMGOT.<\/p>\n

American government occupied territory.<\/p>\n

Have fun with the Davos freak show.<\/p>\n

_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil, is a correspondent and editor-at-large at <\/em>Asia Times and<\/em> columnist for<\/em> Consortium News and<\/em> Strategic Culture in Moscow. Since the mid-1980s he\u2019s lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Singapore, and Bangkok. He has extensively covered Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia to China, Iran, Iraq and the wider Middle East. He is the author of <\/em>Globalistan<\/a> (2007),<\/em> Red Zone Blues<\/a> (2007), <\/em>Obama Does Globalistan<\/a> (2009), <\/em>Empire of Chaos<\/a> (2014) and <\/em>2030<\/a> (2015), all by Nimble Books. Pepe was contributing editor to <\/em>The Empire and The Crescent and<\/em> Tutto in Vendita in Italy and is also associated with the Paris-based European Academy of Geopolitics. When not on the road he lives between Paris and Bangkok. <\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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