Opinion by Kip Hansen — 14 January 2024
Statistica informs us that the wonderful World Economic Forum, whose billionaire members want total domination of everything on the planet, apparently have decided not to gain that domination through armed conflict.
The text reads:
“With inflation easing in most parts of the world, experts no longer consider the cost-of-living crisis the most pressing issue in the short-term. Instead, they think misinformation and disinformation will be the most severe risk over the next two years. In light of nearly three billion people heading to the polls in various major economies during that time, the widespread use of mis- or disinformation could “undermine the legitimacy of newly elected governments” and ultimately result in unrest in the form of violent protests, hate crimes or even terrorism. Looking at the 10-year horizon, misinformation is expected to remain a major threat, but the four most severe risks faced by the world are all predicted to be related to climate change.”
I’m not sure if they have decided to run even more mis- and disinformation campaigns in their effort to gain control over the next two years, but it certainly is possible. In the two-year time-frame, “interstate armed conflict”, despite two rather significant wars currently taking place, is down the list at #5, coming in below misinformation and disinformation, extreme weather events, societal polarization, and cyber security.
But, apparently these power-hungry plutocrats, have decided to let the wars fade away, and instead, over the next ten years, they plan to use the manufactured threats of climate change-related extreme weather, critical change to Earth systems, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, and natural resource shortages to create enough world-wide fear to allow them to grab even more power where ever and however they can.
Statistica seems to encourage them with the cute little melting Earth image.
War, interstate armed conflict, has been dropped from the top ten altogether.
Whoopee!
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mid 70s here and don’t recall any prediction the “experts” have ever got right, but they all got rich. As someone said – I followed their science but all I found was taxpayer money.
czechlist ==> If there was any $ left to find….all spent on propaganda.
Good to see they placed those top 4 blue at the top in 10 years … Above their root cause…misinformation and disinformation
Apparently the Wuhan lab leak was a success.
Gabriela Bucher, director of Oxfam, endorses it:
She says it with such glee and its highest profit ever makes her smile.
A good advertisement for why you shouldn’t donate to Oxfam.
and covid showed WHO are the experts at mis and dis info
and its not John citizen
I see they cover ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ but what about outright lying. That seems to be totally endemic to one of the parties in out political system :<)
I was looking for “stupidity” on their list. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that they didn’t include it.
Disinformation would be outright lying.
‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ are modern and more polite ways of saying outright lying. All political parties lie. Its what they do.
Odd, isn’t it …their top 4 “predictions” are all based on their fifth prediction.
I’m 100% sure they will continue pumping out their “disinformation and misinformation” for many, many years to come.
And why isn’t voluntary illegal migration seen as a threat now and into the future. ??
And why do they think “societal polarization” will decrease, when they are specifically push that agenda by ever possible means.
just looked at the comment above…. sorry, but gees my typing sucks !!!
BNasty 2000
‘Usually your typing is good and your comment sucks
This time the comment is good
Did you hire a ghostwriter?
Poor little dickie.
You haven’t written a worthwhile comment in years.
Don’t be so jealous.
Absolutely agree with that!
They should know as they are the source of most of it.
yeah. Looks like they have published their action plan.
The rich members of the World Economic Forum are the major source of funding for misinformation and disinformation. It appears there will be big spending for this for the next two years. Then they run out of ideas or money after two years, or both, and hope for the doom events to bubble up through the froth.
Having never been right before, I think they have panicked.
When in a few years time their list will obviously be hopelessly off target, then they will simple say that it must have been ‘misinformation’.
I don’t think they’ll run out of money John, as they’ll simply just relieve us of ours with more punative taxes.
I’m surprised they apparently have no worries involving piano wire and lampposts.
That’s because they are leading from the rear.
Who would hate a billionaire ski club?
My thoughts too.
When you’re a billionaire, you can pay for a lot of security. A lot.
Apparently, over the last 10-20 years, the construction of large, luxury, reinforced (bomb-proof) shelters on small island getaways has increased dramatically as has massive security for them. For the multi-billionaire elites this and a luxury yacht with helipad to get there are the must-have lifestyle accessories.
Islands like this one.
The Horrors of Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Island | Vanity Fair
It’s all about the lifestyle for WEF club members. Just ask Randy Andy. But whatever you do, don’t make any wagers of the life expectancy of Ghislaine Maxwell.
Since the contents of her address book were made public she’s slightly better off. It keeps coming back to what did Epstein know and about who? Presumably Maxwell wasn’t aware of the same information as she hasn’t exhibited any sudden suicidal urges.
Through the centuries there have been many arguments over the meaning or validity of scientific discoveries and interpretations. The Roman Catholic church used a term meaning heresy when condemning the ideas of Copernicus in the 16th century. Today, the authorities of academia use the term “misinformation” in the same way. Those who question academic scientific findings are the “heretics” of today. Much like the 16th century church, academia and its allies have a position to protect and rather than refute the findings of others accuse them of misinformation or heresy by another name.
Save your bigotry for the Masonic Lodge – without the Catholic Church you would have no science and would now be speaking Arabic from your cosy tent.
Galileo was allowed to teach Copernicus’ ideas as theory and only got into trouble when the hot-head had to go and defame his friend, who happened to be the Pope, in a book discussing his ideas – much like the global warming cult insult and ridicule those pointing out the errors of the CAGW theory.
Galileo had to teach Copernicus’ ideas as a theory because he didn’t have solid proof – his telescope wasn’t good enough.
He was wrong anyway – he ridiculed Kepler for saying the planets travelled on elliptical orbits instead of perfect circles, but Kepler’s calculations (based on the careful data collected by Tycho Brahe) won the day.
After Jews, Catholic Jesuits have the most Nobels.
The protestant revolution set science and the world back hundreds of years and left populations firmly under the thumb of autocratic leaders who were now in control of both the political and the religious, for their own selfish ends.
I think you meant Protestant Reformation. Lots of great scientists in Protestant UK. The success of the Jesuit scientists is a modern thing.
“The success of the Jesuit scientists is a modern thing.” You don’t define “modern” but the following gentlemen might disagree with your statement. And that’s only getting to surnames starting with G in the alphabet.
François d’Aguilon (1567–1617) – Belgian Jesuit mathematician, architect, and physicist, who worked on optics
Giacopo Belgrado (1704–1789) – Jesuit professor of mathematics and physics and court mathematician who did experimental work in electricity
Giuseppe Biancani (1566–1624) – Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named
Jacques de Billy (1602–1679) – Jesuit who has produced a number of results in number theory which have been named after him; published several astronomical tables; the crater Billy on the Moon is named after him
Paolo Casati (1617–1707) – Jesuit mathematician who wrote on astronomy, meteorology, and vacuums; the crater Casatus on the Moon is named after him;
Louis Bertrand Castel (1688–1757) – French Jesuit physicist who worked on gravity and optics in a Cartesian context
Albert Curtz (1600–1671) – Jesuit astronomer who expanded on the works of Tycho Brahe and contributed to early understanding of the moon; the crater Curtius on the Moon is named after him
Jean-Charles de la Faille (1597–1652) – Jesuit mathematician who determined the center of gravity of the sector of a circle for the first time
Leonardo Garzoni (1543–1592) – Jesuit natural philosopher; author of the first known example of a modern treatment of magnetic phenomena
Bartolomeu de Gusmão (1685–1724) – Jesuit known for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design
Modern in the sense of Noble Prizes which wasn’t around in those early days.
And you left out Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I’ve read some of his work and liked it very much.
Sure, smart people- those Jesuits- but I bet they might have had a problem if they challenge the Popes.
By the way, I was raised Catholic and disliked it from day one. Men in purple robes burning incense and nuns dressed like penguins. 🙂
agreed entirely. And you could have added Gregor Mendel 1822-1884, the Augustinian friar, to your list. His work was essential to the scientific understanding of genetics in the early 20th century.
Bigotry? Surely it must be misinformation, n’est pas? Your last paragraph describes exactly the Roman Catholic church for centuries. While Charles Martel may have been a nominal member of the Roman church, his religious beliefs, if any, probably had little to do with the outcome of the Battle of Tours. The later Albigensian Crusade is a better example of how the Roman church dealt with differences of opinion. Whether Galileo was right or wrong has no bearing on the issue. The church was wrong as well and had the power to restrict him to his house for much of the rest of his life.
You forgot to add the /sarcasm.
I hope you’re not being serious. Protestantism was a major step forward in ridding us of dogma. At least Protestants got to read and interpret the source of the dogma (Bible, etc) for themselves instead of it being handed down from on high through the Pope and fellow pedophiles.
Sure, it led to thousands of Protestant denominations (after all, anyone could be justified in interpreting it however they liked), but that further helped demonstrate the absurdity of religion itself and continue to secure the place of evidence-based scientific inquiry as the only successful method of finding out about the universe that we’ve ever been able to conceive of.
Science has given us pretty much everything we have (including our very lives for 95% of the population that wouldn’t exist otherwise), religion and dogma (like climate change) have only given us conflict.
Power corrupts – there are a lot of paedophiles in the Protestant church as well – they are not, somehow, magically immune.
And in other walks of life such as the Boy Scouts and public (US definition) schools.
Lots of weird people of all sorts everywhere in all walks of life. Just part of the diverse spectrum of our species, the naked apes.
OK as to the Boy Scouts. H@mosexuals SUED the Boy Scouts because the organization would not allow h@mosexual scout leaders. The h@mosexuals won in federal court and the national Boy Scout leadership accepted the forced allowance of h@mosexual leaders.
20+ years later the Boy Scouts are being sued out of existence by boys, now men, who were abused by the h@mosexual leaders forced on the organization be a federal judge.
Wow, who could have seen that coming??
So yes, the leadership of the organization, who’s income from the organization was based on the very existence of that organization, accepted the federal forced change when they should have just dissolved the national organization and devolved to how many ever regional or local organizations so as to ignore the federal ruling and force the h@mosexuals to sue in multiple jurisdictions.
So the greedy national “leaders” allowed the abuse, but the federal judge made it happen.
Don’t blame Boy Scouts, blame OUR federal court system. But especially blame predatory h@mosexuals. Like all those “pedoph!le priests”, who at the 99% level were H@MOSEXUALS abusing boys, so why not identified as such for the last 60 years? Ever here of ANY priest abusing a girl? I thought not!
And now the Pope appears to have been of the same cloth. Scarry, but who voted him in? Why would one expect anything different?
I was a Boy Scout, a good CHRISTIAN organization crushed by the ANTI-RELIGION liberal organizations created to destroy any semblance of morality in this country, and the world..
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Actually, yes, I have heard of priests abusing girls and women. It just doesn’t have the same ring to as the abuse of young boys. All of it is bad.
If you look at the cases involving the clergy of the various religions the abuse of girls and young women does seem to be the majority of them. For some reason, however, the abuse of boys and young men, although in the minority, gets more widely reported. Not sure why but it is a very bad problem.
The Catholic Church hasn’t been condemned for having more of a problem than other churches, but for attempting to cover it up more than others.
Really? Links please to all the abuse of girls.
Thanks in advance.
Anywhere above 1%?
Of children only, all the news stories were about “pedophiles”.
That’s a pretty good explanation of the mistaken idea of scientism.
“Protestantism was a major step forward in ridding us of dogma.”
No it was not, initially. The Baptists in the 16th century were vigorous in denouncing the heliocentric universe because of literal interpretation of the Bible and the Old Testament. Reconciliation to the heliocentric universe came only later with the Enlightenment and further development of science by Newton and Kepler.
My most religious cousin believes the earth is flat, and works out scientific evidence to prove it to the rest of us. Fortunately I am not on Facebook so I don’t get to see his reasoning. And yes, he is Protestant.
It would stand to reason (using the term very loosely) then, that he doesn’t believe there have been any satellites, launched into orbit, no moon landings, no probes sent to other planets. Doing all these things as we do them requires spherical planets. How does he think satellite TV and phones work?
With “overpopulation” identified as the main problem, war has transformed from problem to solution..
Reproductive rates are slowing down and are expected to turn negative in a few decades.
Families are having fewer children as child health improves and most of their children survive.
Non-democratic overreach and authoritarianism is always number one. Manipulated populism is number two in the formerly-free world. Free riders (EU) with a declining U.S. military as world cop is number three.
Davos: the annual disease vector and Blofeld watch. Someone needs to corner the market on fluffy white cats and monacles, that’ll bring ’em to heel.
Davos just doesn’t provide as much bang without Jeffrey Epstein being in attendance!
Does anyone remember the early 1970’s movie Rollerball…the fantasy world situation of the movie seem to be coming true…eight mega billion dollar companies controlling the entire world
it was staged future 2017…may have been 10 to 20 years too soon…but sure seems to be heading towards that point
We need a Jonathan
Remember it? I still have it on DVD. Don’t get the remake – terrible, apart from Jean Reno who is always watchable.
I also had the original story at one time, the author had a lot more to say in that.
We’re getting closer to Soylent Green as well.
Idiocracy is also a very good match.
Global Warming™ now phased into history. Extreme Weather Events™ the new crisis.
Should Lurch be praised or crucified. Has his efforts to stop Global Warming™ overshot the mark and all that snow outside at Davos a blessing or a curse.
The weatthy clowns who show up at Davos will need a mammoth effort to convince the plebs that the Globe is boiling.
Is the symbol meant to represent all the snow at Davos melting. It is not the image I would use for a boiling planet. The standard image is a red globe with fire licking at the base.
Any news agency worth listening to would have wall-to-wall coverage of climate botherers meeting in a place covered in snow to discuss Global Warming™. Maybe the reason for the new meme Extreme Weather Events™.
Our local news in Australia advised that the USA was being blasted by the Arctic over the last couple of days. Once snow just fell gently and regularly. Now it gets occasionally blasted out of the Arctic and lands on North America and maybe Davos.
“Our local news in Australia advised that the USA was being blasted by the Arctic over the last couple of days.”
Out in Western Washington State, it’s been VERY cold (in the teens F), but no snow at all.
” the USA was being blasted by the Arctic “
It is the cold air from the Canadian north that “blasted” into the USA.
Build a wall!
Snow came to the Great Lakes “snow belt” via wind over water – not ice.
The mix of air off the Pacific with the cold that just came this past week
is producing snow.
My location in central WA State had a low of -17°F { -27°C }. I got some
snow because I live on an up-slope.
Tonight is a bit warmer — Wednesday will be warmer and snowier.
There’s actually a lot to unpack here, despite being pretty brief. First, they’ve been harping on for years about how climate change and other assumed environmental threats are going to lead to more conflict, both interstate and internal/domestic (you know, fighting over dwindling resources like water), we’ve been hearing a growing chorus about the threat AI poses, climate change will ruin the economy (yet economic concerns are apparently gone in ten years), and yes, the threat of misinformation and disinformation has already been around since at least COVID-19, and it’s all coming from the leftists themselves…
“Based on risk assessments by 1490 experts across academia, business, government…”
Hmm I might have polled at least 1 general or secret agent so I could put military and U?S intelligence on the list. Those two things consume most US federal spending most years.
You would be astonished how much money goes into the general welfare category: healthcare, disability ‘insurance’, unemployment, old age, etc. In Australia, it dwarfs the military budget – a reflection of the fact that the first duty of a western government is to get re-elected.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s own money.
Alexis de Toqueville
You can of course remove “American Republic” with “democracy” and “Congress” with “politicians” and it becomes a global truism.
Better to get bribed then for them to just run off with the money.
About 60 percent of American adults agree with the so-called “Climate Change” agenda, according to recent polls, and the right has gone into hiding.
Both parties make mistakes, it’s up the the other to try to correct them.
They are clearly worried that Plan A didn’t work. Their first choice was to put out 100s of billions to create a phony end-of-world crisis, stack the deck by creating a forgone conclusion for global governance that people would feel compelled to accept. They bought governments, cities that fell for the ‘Agendas’, major institutions, the universities, interfered in energy markets, agriculture, etc. thereby creating all the economic, social misinformation, tech crises they list here.
The social, economic, food insecurity psychological/divisiveness issues were all predicted here by a large number of realists to be the fallout of these policies and distortions they promulgated. The WEF billionaires clearly are not as smart as people generally give them credit for. They are venal, selfish evil opportunists of the very crassest,
kind. Is it a stretch to accuse them of crimes against humanity humanity, treason against there governments? I think not, and I hope they are brought down for it.
They’re not billionaires and they haven’t bought anything. Sure, there are big money interests lurking at Davos but they’re not part of the Klaus Schwab inner circle who are in this to become billionaires. The ultra-capitalized corporations that are partners of the WEF are shamelessly in Switzerland to keep track of what’s going on. add their own input and avoid being consumed. Those attending as government operatives are also observers. No government, from that of the USA to the economic backwater of Belize, is going to allow itself to be swallowed up by the WEF dragon. In fact, the larger players probably have plans on co-opting it for their own purposes.
And yet Klaus has bragged about having Soros funded insiders in leadership positions in Western governments.
Bloomberg’s green energy research team estimates $US200 trillion to stop warming by 2050. There is a lot of profit for the rich and the crooked in that scale of spending.
“No govt …[will] allow itself to be swallowed by WEF”
Perhaps not the US depending on if Dems are re-elected. But look at Ardern in NZ –was she the only WEF shill, or are more still in NZ govt?
And Canada. Freeland, the Cdn Finance Minister who has royally wrecked the once-sturdy finances of this country is a WEF trustee. Sean Fraser is a WEF Global Leader who began flooding Canada with millions of migrants in a couple short years in charge of Immigration; as the new arrivals wrecked the Cdn housing market with the massive influx, he promptly was named as Housing Minister to “deal” with the crisis he himself originated. The planned replacement for Justin Trudeau is Mark Carney, on a Board at WEF. Canada has certainly swallowed.
A WEF opinion piece lumps what it calls ‘misinformation and disinformation’ in with “material promoting terrorism, child sexual abuse, hate speech” (association fallacy).
It also uses an extreme example: “the coronavirus vaccine contains a microchip that enables the government to track recipients” (straw man — cherry picking).
Further on it commends Pinterest for their “misinformation policy designed to combat false and misleading information about climate change; it prohibits ads and posts that include content that denies the existence or impacts of climate change”.
It is only popes who claim to be infallible, at least on ‘faith and morals’.
The solution to misinformation and disinformation is more information not less as put eloquently by J S Mill in On Liberty (1859):
“… the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error”.
Thanks for calling out these fallacies.
Yeah I’d never have known they were fallacies withoutvsomeone to point them out to me.
The WEF is very clear eyed about their influence upon the west. They have a vision and they will use their influence to achieve it.
Unfortunately Putin didn’t consult with them before invading Ukraine. Neither did Hamas going into Israel, or Hezbollah or the Houthis joining the fray. The ayatollahs in Iran have their own aspirations for global domination, as does Xi Jingping in China. Then there’s the House of Saud, Kim Jong Un and The Mexican drug cartels and a long list of tyrants beyond them. The list of very bad people who have far more influence on world events than the WEF is very long. The WEF is pushing a string up a hill.
david ==> There are those who posit that all of your villains are co-workers on a single parallel plan — in competitive cooperation.
The WEF might well believe that, and the villains might even be telling them that, but trust me, should the WEF ever achieve their goals they will be first to be put to death by the villains.
It seems that the U.S. government is subsidizing human trafficking, as well as drug trafficking, hence it is in business with the Mexican cartels.
All of these pale in comparison besides the real threat from an organisation bent on world domination – Disney.
Fear the mouse.
These experts talk of extreme weather events.
What are they?
I am over 80. I cannot recall a single weather event that was extreme.
There was a tropical cyclone through Townsville when I was about 10, but they are not extreme because they happen often somewhere each year and so are natural.
I long for a list of these extreme weather events so I can attack those which are not. For a start, that is all of them. Nothing odd has happened. Even Hunga Tonga is part of what happens naturally, without any help from the Hand of Man.
Geoff S
News died with the oj car chase. CNN replaced News with editorial, fact with opinion.
No longer were News casters required to dig out the facts. They could instead report on how they “felt” from the comfort of the need room.
1490 ‘experts’, that are people with too high an opinion of their own expertise, can be wrong and invariably are. The one guy who shouts: Donbas or Gaza or Taiwan has a better idea of danger but his voice is drowned out by the cacophony of self-important imposters.
Kip Hansen is one of the best writers here but as soon as I see the word “prediction” I move on to the next article. I know people love predictions so here is one of mine
The next leftist boogeyman, after people get tired of CO2, will be an invasion of aliens from the planet Uranus. We already have an invasion of aliens from South America. They only scare conservatives. Aliens from Uranus will scare everyone. The only solution will be leftist fascism
I would like to remind you that in 1997 I predicted the climate would get warmer, unless it got colder, and I was right.
https://www.uranusgeneralstore.com/
You are the one that “believes”*** in CO2 warming….. ***(spooky music)
I take it you would also like aliens to invade Uranus.
Your “prediction” really does make you sound like a “climate scientist™”
Have you been abusing those climate models of yours again.. naughty little child.
It’s right there, in the asseration…
1) Inflation & economic pressures have been overcome, experts tell us, so;
2) Our biggest short term obstacles are now misinformation.
… please accept item #1 before going onto item #2.
between food water and health control they wont need a war…
this sites an aussie one but theres usa info too
we need to act fairly fast
https://australiaexitsthewho.com/
Yes, mis and dis information in their feeble minds is the greatest threat… to their stranglehold on power via indoctrination and propaganda. What they term mis and dis info is likely actual truth and if the masses accepted the truth about the climate, medicine, and a host of other factors, those villagers may come after the elite rulers with torches and pitchforks!
And deindustrialization, as is now occurring in the UK and Germany because of very high energy costs, is not on the list? One would think that economic forums might consider economics in their deliberations.
Funny, they talk about mis & dis information. The BBC’s Verify, labels organizations responsible for mis & dis information as extreme right.
So what does that make the BBC, WEF and the rest of the establishment?
Go as far right as Attila the Hun then take out a pair of binoculars. On a clear day you might just be able to make out where the Beeb and the WEF are.