Klaus Schwab: "The world will look differently after we..."
Was Schwab at the G20 summit this week? Or is that claim a "conspiracy theory"? We fact check a fact checker and reveal the true story.
World Economic Forum Founder Klaus Schwab attended a global economic summit this week. Many are reporting that this was the G20 summit — and this is the case — or isn’t the case, depending on who you believe and how you look at it.
You have to admire the creative writing from Newsweek’s fact checkers. They compose a brilliant sleight-of-hand description of where Schwab was speaking. In their quest to debunk “conspiracy theorists,” here is how they describe the event Schwab spoke at:
Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), did go to Bali, but he was attending B20, a concurrent event that is part of the G20 summit that invites global business leaders for a series of keynote addresses and speeches.
Schwab was among a list of speakers, including SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who delivered talks at B20.
So, B20 is part of the G20 summit - running concurrently - but yet those who report that Schwab attended the G20 are “conspiracy theorists.”
As a wordsmith, I believe this Newsweek fact checker deserves a raise.
We also learn from that bastion of journalistic integrity - Newsweek - that this photo of Schwab wearing a socialistic looking outfit while standing next to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden was also NOT at the G20 - but was actually taken at the 40th and 41st Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summits held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, between November 10 and 13, a few days before the G20 summit. Reuters - cited as the debunker - claims that global leaders like Schwab are wearing traditional Cambodian clothes. Everyone is wearing them at the same time because the conference is in Cambodia. Global leaders always dress to match the culture they visit - didn’t you know that? I don’t know if the colors mean anything in the Cambodian culture or if Schwab just likes orange -but the clothing still looks like something Chairman Mao used to wear - part old school CCP and part Old Navy.
Here is a still image of Biden and Trudeau shuffling to dinner together wearing the Cambodian attire:
Whether or not Schwab technically spoke at the G20 or the B20 or both this week - that detail is not particularly important. What IS important is the content of Schwab’s speech. In his talk, Schwab reveals more plans for world domination:
“What we have to confront is a deep systemic restructuring of our world. This will take some time and the world will look differently after we have gone through this transition process.”
Klaus Schwab
Here is Schwab’s entire 13-minute talk.
From the Epoch Times: “What we have to confront is a deep systemic and structural restructuring of our world. And this will take some time. And the world may look differently after … [the] transition process,” Schwab said at the B20 summit on Nov. 14. As to the negative effects of such restructuring, Schwab pointed to the example of a company.
During a business restructuring, some costs will be written off and shareholders will suffer, the WEF head said. In the same way, the restructuring of an economy will result in “a reduction of disposable income which can lead to extensive social tensions,” he admitted.
Schwab also talked about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which foresees significant changes to society and industries from rising interconnectivity and automation.
During the Fourth Industrial Revolution, advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, gene editing, and so on are expected to blur the boundaries among the biological, physical, and digital worlds.
During his speech, Schwab talked about using the metaverse, a term referring to a single, universal virtual world, “to create much deeper and much more extensive and comprehensive global dialogues.” Schwab also pushed for more cooperation between the government and corporate sector.
“Governments and businesses have to cooperate in order to become a fast fish. Because in our world of today, it’s not anymore so much [about] a big fish who eats the small fish but it is a fast fish who eats the slow fish.”
The groups that move first to adopt the Fourth Industrial Revolution will automatically win the race. The winners will “take it all.”
Why am I suddenly in the mood for ABBA?
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