{"id":1321524,"date":"2022-02-21T08:25:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1321524"},"modified":"2022-02-21T08:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:25:23","slug":"connor-tomlinson-the-world-economic-forums-woke-war-on-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/connor-tomlinson-the-world-economic-forums-woke-war-on-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Tomlinson: The World Economic Forum\u2019s Woke War on Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconnor-tomlinson-the-world-economic-forums-woke-war-on-business%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1321524&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12\">\n<div class=\"contributor-img pull-left\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/connortomlinson\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Connor Tomlinson\" class=\"img-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/media.townhall.com\/townhall\/reu\/contributor-sm\/authorimages\/9970a407-d539-4afc-89d2-af1eb8fc5981.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>|<\/p>\n<p>Posted: Feb 20, 2022 12:01 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<p><em>The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left aside-wrapper aside-wrapper-950\">\n<\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It took some time for the authoritarian ideas of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to become excoriated in the mainstream press. But one of the most nefarious elements of Stakeholder Capitalism are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/press\/2020\/09\/measuring-stakeholder-capitalism-top-global-companies-take-action-on-universal-esg-reporting\">\u00a0Universal \u00a0Environmental, Social, and Government (ESG) Scores<\/a>. \u00a0But what are ESG scores, and could they be a gateway to a social credit system?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stakeholder Capitalism is WEF founder Klaus Schwab\u2019s model for imposing his ethical prescriptions onto free-market exchange. Businesses will no longer be beholden to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/06\/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset\/\">the prevailing shareholder-primacy model of profit maximization<\/a>\u201d, but instead to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/stakeholder-capitalism-new-metrics-by-klaus-schwab-2019-11?barrier=accesspaylog\">more socially conscious<\/a>\u201d stakeholders: experts in fields like environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, and increased immigration. These stakeholder criteria are determined by the<a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\">\u00a0UN\u2019s seventeen Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>: including the<a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\/goal1\">\u00a0elimination of all poverty (relative and absolute)<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\/goal5\">\u00a0gender equality<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\/goal10\">\u00a0economic equity between nations<\/a>. This is an aspect of his \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/06\/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset\/\">\u201cGreat Reset\u201d of capitalism.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Schwab asks us to envision a world where these values are totalised across \u201cevery sector.\u201d The union of monopolistic business and government policy is a core tenet of fascism. Under lockdowns, businesses and governments accrued unprecedented power and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/29\/technology\/amazons-profits-triple.html\">\u00a0profits<\/a> while we were under house arrest.<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/06\/vaccine-segregation-and-quarantine-camps-are-flashing-warnings-to-stop-covid-insanity-before-its-too-late\/\">\u00a0Politicians have stocks and shares<\/a> in many of the businesses they legislate against \u2014 and big businesses support measures like<a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/the-corporate-tax-extortion-racket\/\">\u00a0universal corporation tax rates<\/a> to impair their opposition. The unification of the public and private spheres to form a national body politic \u2014 a\u00a0corpus\u00a0\u2014 is the etymology of the term corporation. As emissaries of the WEF\u2019s ethic, all commerce and governing bodies become organs of an international state, which<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldfuturefund.org\/wffmaster\/Reading\/Germany\/mussolini.htm\">\u00a0everything is for, and nothing is outside or against<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Businesses will be subjected to performance evaluations concerning compliance with ESG targets, to ensure their continued eligibility for WEF partnership perks. This involves gathering data on their employees and customers. This requires a vast digital infrastructure with algorithms tracking everything from purchasing habits to demographic trends. Your consumer behaviour will be scored on its carbon footprint, or proportion of patronage of \u201cBlack owned business\u201d. The disparity between the targets and a business\u2019 performance will provide an incentive for businesses to nudge their customer bases toward partaking in what they see as \u201cethical\u201d and \u201csustainable\u201d consumer behaviours.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To accelerate the process, businesses will form special interest lobbying groups to pressure governments into passing legislation that increases compliance with environmental and social policies. Eventually, boycotts will be done on your behalf. Dissidents to this new public-private ideology will not be able to buy from any business working with the WEF. Given the WEF\u2019s partnerships with governments, monopolistic enterprises like Amazon and Silicon Valley social media giants, and international bodies like the WHO and WTO: that will be the majority of businesses.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Soon, there could be speakeasies for groceries \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/06\/vaccine-segregation-and-quarantine-camps-are-flashing-warnings-to-stop-covid-insanity-before-its-too-late\/\">\u00a0like in Lithuania<\/a>, which banned those not vaccinated against COVID from supermarkets and pharmacies. Your social media posts could bar you from buying essential goods. Like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Reflections-on-a-Ravaged-Century\/dp\/B00IXB328A\/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&#038;qid=&#038;sr=\">store signs swearing Party support in Soviet occupied Europe<\/a>, or Mom and Pop shops\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hannity.com\/media-room\/heartbreaking-pet-store-owner-to-rioters-single-mother-owned-show-mercy-this-is-all-i-have\/\">begging to be spared from 2020\u2019s riots<\/a>, adopting ESG scores are the new pledge of fealty to the WEF\u2019s authoritarian international rule.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But that is only if world leaders acquiesce to this public-private corporate partnership. Why would Prime Ministers and Presidents pay patronage to an unelected Bond villain in Davos?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In many instances, the WEF\u2019s is responsible for their rise through a Party apparatus to elected office. Their<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/communities\/global-leadership-fellows\">\u00a0Global Leadership Fellows programme<\/a> has coached many influential political figures in their doctrine of international cooperation, utilitarian policymaking, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Graduates of their related Young Global Leaders initiative include<a href=\"https:\/\/www.younggloballeaders.org\/community?page=3&#038;sector=Public+Figure\">\u00a0Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.younggloballeaders.org\/community?class_year=&#038;page=2&#038;q=&#038;region=&#038;sector=Public+Figure&#038;status=\">\u00a0New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.younggloballeaders.org\/community?page=7&#038;sector=Public+Figure\">\u00a0French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a>, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.younggloballeaders.org\/community?page=4&#038;sector=Public+Figure\">\u00a0Prime Minister of Belgium<\/a>, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.younggloballeaders.org\/community?page=8&#038;sector=Public+Figure\">\u00a0Prime Minister of Finland<\/a>, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.younggloballeaders.org\/community?page=8&#038;sector=Public+Figure\">\u00a0Crown Prince of Norway<\/a>. Those not listed on the website,<a href=\"https:\/\/rairfoundation.com\/great-reset-globalist-klaus-schwab-explains-govt-takeover-of-industry-in-unearthed-video-must-see\/\">\u00a0but cited by Schwab<\/a>, include Vladimir Putin, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It will be difficult to seek safe harbour from compliance with this digital commerce system when most world leaders attended the same political summer-school.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, as<a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/trudeau-tyranny-truckers\/\">\u00a0the Canadian truckers\u2019 protest<\/a> goes to show, the best laid plans of this globalist Internationale aren\u2019t going over as well as they had hoped. In their ivory-tower elitism, they forgot the working man and woman have more conscience than they do. The internet has liberalised access to information like the printing press did the Good Word from the clutches of corrupt Churches. All it takes is for goods distributors, businesses, and everyday consumers to conscientiously object, and their great narrative comes undone.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The only fear is that this grassroots uprising will be the excuse to expedite automation, and put the heavy-goods haulers out of business. It may take a few luddites to resist the<a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/the-goods-as-services-economy-a-sure-road-to-immiseration\/\">\u00a0algorithmic determination of our lives, and expropriation of our property<\/a>, lest we end up nihilistic and immiserated.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Reject their tenets of the new institutional religion. Buy and make American. Follow the example of the freedom convoy, and don\u2019t allow any political figure \u2014 elected or otherwise \u2014 to tell you what to put in your body or thoughts to have in your head.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Connor Tomlinson is the Head of Research at the British Conservation Alliance, and a political commentator with Young Voices UK. He appears regularly in C3 Magazine, AIER, and on talkRadio.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| Posted: Feb 20, 2022 12:01 AM  The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}