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Who Funds That? EP 17: Against Nuclear Energy, Against Humanity
Who Funds That? EP 17: Against Nuclear Energy, Against Humanity
64 views Aug 12, 2026 Who Funds That?
Do environmentalists—and the rest of the progressive left that includes combating climate change as part of its “Omnicause”—care more about saving the planet or replacing market capitalism, private property, and pluralist living arrangements with socialist tower-blocks connected by overcrowded light rail (on which there will be no enforcement of fare payment, naturally)? There’s a tell—opposing nuclear-powered electric generation, which emits no point-source carbon emissions whatsoever. And my colleague Ken Braun, author of Capital Research Center’s comprehensive report on the environmentalist movement’s “Enemies of Energy,” has updated his extensive list of left-wing groups opposed to nuclear energy—the ones that clearly privilege making a New Soviet Man over making the Earth better for people. Links: https://capitalresearch.org/article/o...https://www.influencewatch.org/influe...https://capitalresearch.org/article/t...https://capitalresearch.org/article/n...
opponents: Opposition to Nuclear Energy - Influence Watch
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Hello, I'm Michael Watson and this is
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Capital Research C Center's Who Funds
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That podcast. Do environmentalists and
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the rest of the progressive left that
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includes combating climate change as
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part of its omni cause care more about
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saving the planet or replacing market
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capitalism, private property, and
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pluralist living arrangements with
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socialist tower blocks connected by
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overcrowded light rail on which there
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will be no enforcement of fair payment.
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Naturally, there's a tell opposing
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nuclearpowered electric generation which
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emits no point source carbon emissions
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whatsoever. My colleague Ken Brun,
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author of Capital Research Center's
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comprehensive report on the
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environmentalist movements enemies of
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energy, has updated his extensive list
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of left-wing groups opposed to nuclear
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energy, the ones that clearly privilege
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making a new Soviet man over making the
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Earth better for people. Uh, Ken,
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welcome back.
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I'm glad to be here. That's a heck of an
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introduction. I loved it. [laughter]
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I may have engaged in some mild red
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baiting in that introduction, but it has
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a point, right? I You know, nuclear
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energy is nuclear energy is a pretty
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unfettered good unless you're a
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communist and specifically not a French
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communist because they don't mind the
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fact that their state-run energy company
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has nuclear energy.
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There's actually a good joke on that. Um
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there was a what's the difference
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between why did the French get like 60%
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of their electricity or more from a
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nuclear power and the the Americans
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don't? And uh the answer which is hardly
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a joke says well you have to understand
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two two points. number one that uh in
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France they have you know 700 varieties
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of cheese and only one nuclear reactor
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design. In the United States we have one
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variety of cheese and 700 nuclear
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reactor designs. Each one is built brand
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new as if it's a new work of art. And
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also in France the communists see it as
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a jobs program. So uh they're actually
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in favor of it. [laughter] So having
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established that French communists are
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in favor of nuclear energy, who's
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against it and why?
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you have written as the uh everything
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left leftism omnicause. Um it's there's
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at least $3.5 billion is the new number.
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is at the top of this list, but all the
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way down to, you know, the League of
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Women Voters has an anti- an opposition
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to nuclear energy going back decades. U
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NAACP, you can name them all. So, it's
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not just EDF.
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politics named after somebody. I want
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Reid Hoffman and Disinformation -Capital Research Center
November 15, 2021
reid Hoffman and Disinformation
Michael Watson on Newsmax
Jenn Pellegrino interviews Michael Watson on Newsmax on November 3, 2021.
November 15, 2021
Good Information is a project backed by big liberal donors, including George Soros and Reid Hoffman. Hoffman has a history of Democratic political causes and disinformation efforts, including American Emergent Technologies, which ran a fake news campaign modeled on tactics Russian government cutouts allegedly used during the 2016 presidential election. Good Information looks like another disinformation project in the Left’s war on the free speech rights of conservatives.
See also:
- “Onetime Disinformation Donors Back Left-Wing Propaganda Targeting Disinformation” by Michael Watson, October 21, 2021.
Tags: disinformation, George Soros, Good Information, Reid Hoffman
Michael is Research Director for Capital Research Center and serves as the managing editor for InfluenceWatch. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, he previously worked for a…
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on Tuesday, political media outlet Axios reported on the latest project of controversial Democratic operative Tara McGowan, best known as head of the ACRONYM network of Democratic-aligned political committees and political investment vehicles including Shadow, which created the phone-voting application that crashed during the Iowa Democratic Party presidential nominating caucuses in 2020. McGowan will head Good Information, a nominally for-profit “public benefit corporation” venture “to fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information” and “to invest in local news companies.” The venture supersedes an earlier reported effort to create a nonprofit along the same lines.
Backers
Axios’s reporting indicates that McGowan’s project will be funded by major Democratic donors including George Soros. That is not surprising, but another name said to be funding this “anti-disinformation” effort should raise eyebrows because he has supported purveyors of disinformation in the past: Reid Hoffman, billionaire founder of LinkedIn.
Since 2016, Hoffman has provided substantial funding to Democratic political causes, among them McGowan’s ACRONYM, through his Investing in US vehicle. But one of those causes should give the lie to Hoffman’s claims of concern about disinformation. Investing in US funded American Emergent Technologies, one of a handful of Democratic groups that allegedly ran a literal fake news campaign modeled on the tactics Russian government cutouts allegedly used to influence the 2016 presidential election in order to defeat a Republican candidate in an Alabama race.
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An Alabama resident waved to passing cars while holding a Doug Jones sign outside the candidates’ headquarters last year.Credit...Maura Friedman for The New York Times
By Scott Shane and Alan Blinder
Dec. 19, 2018
As Russia’s online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try out similarly deceptive tactics in the fiercely contested Alabama Senate race, according to people familiar with the effort and a report on its results.
The secret project, carried out on Facebook and Twitter, was likely too small to have a significant effect on the race, in which the Democratic candidate it was designed to help, Doug Jones, edged out the Republican, Roy S. Moore. But it was a sign that American political operatives of both parties have paid close attention to the Russian methods, which some fear may come to taint elections in the United States.
One participant in the Alabama project, Jonathon Morgan, is the chief executive of New Knowledge, a small cyber security firm that wrote a scathing account of Russia’s social media operations in the 2016 election that was released this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
An internal report on the Alabama effort, obtained by The New York Times, says explicitly that it “experimented with many of the tactics now understood to have influenced the 2016 elections.”
The project’s operators created a Facebook page on which they posed as conservative Alabamians, using it to try to divide Republicans and even to endorse a write-in candidate to draw votes from Mr. Moore. It involved a scheme to link the Moore campaign to thousands of Russian accounts that suddenly began following the Republican candidate on Twitter, a development that drew national media attention.
“We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” the report says.....
While Hoffman denies having known that American Emergent Technologies was engaging in a disinformation operation, the fact that he funded a group that would consider doing such a thing should be a giant red flag against Good Information’s and McGowan’s claim that they will provide “fact-based information.”
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As part of the creation of Good Information, the group is acquiring McGowan’s former liberal agitprop network, Courier Newsroom. Courier Newsroom was a front for ACRONYM, operating what the left-leaning OpenSecrets called “a network of websites emulating progressive local news outlets. Courier has faced scrutiny for exploiting the collapse of local journalism to spread ‘hyperlocal partisan propaganda.’” As CRC president Scott Walter described:
Courier’s Wisconsin site UpNorthNews can lightly rewrite a Democratic candidate’s press release, and then the real money kicks in as the disinfo machine advertises the fake news story across multiple social media sites, in hopes of swaying Badger State voters who assume they’re reading news, not a political ad. Tobias Hoonhout reported for National Review on a number of such efforts and found that “at least 74 percent of the group’s spending has been allocated to boosting vulnerable Democrats competing in 14 competitive House races.”
McGowan reportedly told Axios that Good Information “could make investments in entities across the political spectrum,” citing Bill Kristol’s The Bulwark, which I recently characterized as a repository of liberal cable-news-contributing former Republicans who seemingly exist solely to support whatever the liberalism of the moment demands, as “as an example of the type of center-right news outlet [Good Information] could fund.”
The Greater “Disinformation” Trojan Horse
Billionaire liberals who have backed disinformation in the past supporting a “efforts that tackle disinformation” is not new. In his piece describing how Courier false-flags national Democratic press releases as “local news,” Walter described the “Commission on Information Disorder,” the Aspen Institute project that placed PACRONYM donor Kathryn Murdoch and Katie Couric in charge of “combating America’s urgent mis- and disinformation challenge.” Couric recently admitted omitting liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s interview comments critical of Colin Kaepernick’s anti-national anthem protests.
Also targeting supposed “disinformation” is Frances Haugen, the “Facebook Whistleblower.” In fact, her campaign has all the hallmarks not of whistleblowing but of political public relations: *Politico*reported that Pierre Omidyar (a notable funder of Kristol’s network of anti-Trump and anti-conservatism advocacy groups) funded Whistleblower Aid and Center for Humane Technology, both nonprofits working with Haugen. Center for Human Technology’s public relations flack is Bill Burton, late of the Obama White House. Haugen appeared on Burton’s podcast. Larry Lessig—a Harvard academic, erstwhile Democratic politician, and critic of the legal decisions that undergird conservatives’ organized political advocacy—has provided Haugen with legal and communications work pro bono.
Taken together, it looks like McGowan, Hoffman, and Soros’s latest effort for “Good Information” over “disinformation” is yet another front in the Left’s war on conservative speech rights.
It probably is exactly what it looks like.
Tags: ACRONYM, Center for Humane Technology, Commission on Information Disorder, Courier Newsroom, disinformation, election integrity, Frances Haugen, George Soros, Good Information, Investing in US, Iowa, Kathryn Murdoch, Katie Couric, PACRONYM, Reid Hoffman, Whistleblower Aid
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the Great Reset and Its Critics (full series)
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in mid-2020, after COVID-19 and lockdown policies to (unsuccessfully) stop it had spread across the world, the World Economic Forum (WEF) leader Klaus Schwab, along with the man now known as King Charles III of the United Kingdom, announced the Forum’s “Great Reset Initiative” to guide a state-managed, environmentalist, and corporate-aligned reconstruction of the world economy. Schwab built on the initiative with a book co-authored with French economist Thierry Malleret titled COVID-19: The Great Reset. In their book, they made predictions about how the pandemic and ruling regime it ushered in would “reset” society to the benefit of environmentalism and management of the economy by a concert of state and “stakeholder.” The sequel, The Great Narrative, proposed an approach to selling the WEF’s reset agenda based on Schwab and Malleret’s discussions with 50 mostly left-wing, mostly academic thinkfluencers; It calls for moreglobal governance. The radicalism of the “reset”—it’s right there in the name—and the influence of Schwab and the WEF, have elicited firm opposition.
Few quotes stick in the conservative or libertarian craw. quite like the infamous musing of incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to President Barack Obama, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” For Emanuel, the Obama administration, and Democrats’ generational-scale majorities in both houses of Congress, that meant enacting the fiscal stimulus, a then-outrageous $787 billion boondoggle of building projects; regulatory legislation like the Dodd-Frank banking act; and Obamacare, the statist restructuring of health care finance SO PPL COULD BUY PRICE GOUGING INEFFICIENT CORP PRODUCT??].
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But the quote sticks because the impulse is far from Emanuel’s alone. Nothing in the COVID-19 pandemic period so vividly demonstrated the impulse “to do things that you think you could not do before” as the name given to a project launched at a 2020 virtual conference of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the think tank and business league based in Europebest known for hosting the annual Davos meetings at which international politicians and corporate bigwigs lay out their visions for the world.
That name was “The Great Reset.” Demonstrating the WEF’s influence over a European metropolitan left-leaning sort, the project was launched by Klaus Schwab, the German academic who has led the WEF and been a leading opponent of shareholder primacy in corporate governance since 1971, and then-Prince of Wales, now King Charles III of the United Kingdom.The project, in the words of International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva, aspires to frame the emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic in the creation of “a greener, smarter, fairer world.”
Later in 2020, Schwab and French economist Thierry Malleret published COVID-19: The Great Reset, a book-length examination of the changes in society the authors presumed were likely to happen and perhaps desirable as a result of the pandemic. Increased power of the state and left-wing activism were presumed certain; rapid adoption of environmentalist-aligned, “stakeholder”-influenced corporate practices was presumed to be a necessity.
Schwab has opposed “shareholder primacy,” the view that corporate management owes shareholders the greatest profits that can be obtained in obedience to law and custom, since the 1970s. Like the financial crisis of 2008 did for Emanuel’s American Democrats, the crisis created by the COVID pandemic and the unprecedented-in-modern-times attempts to suppress it offers Schwab and the WEF the opportunity to press home their environmentalist and statist goals.
But can central plannersremake a world that they cannot accurately predict? From the perspective at the turn of 2023, many of Schwab and Malleret’s predictions of the world that COVID would bring into being have not come to pass, perhaps none more crucially than one on page 70: “At this current juncture [mid-2020 YOU MEAN WHEN THE PRICE OF OIL WENT NEGATIVE?], it is hard to imagine how inflation could pick up anytime soon.”
Schwab and Malleret’s sequel to COVID-19: The Great Reset, titled The Great Narrative, does little to diminish such suspicions. The “narrative” is essentially a repackaging of the same warmed-over environmentalist tropes all have heard before with little connection to the actual production of things, which makes sense given that the book is based on discussions with 50 global thinkfluencers or government officials, not with industrialists or even manufacturing-trades labor unionists. The result is a mix of technocratic gibberish and Greenpeace-in-a-suit environmentalism with the solutions for “a better future” having little to offer the Western middle and working classes beyond handwaving about a “just transition” and promises that weather-dependent energy technologies are much more stable and productive than traditional fuels. (Just ask Europeans trying to heat their homes amid an energy crisis how well that claim has aged.) BECAUSE AN EXORTIONATE DICTATOR WITHDREW IT, AND THE WORD DID NOT WANT TO FUND HIS GENOCIDE YOU TWAT]
The authors’ barely veiled desire to exploit the COVID crisis to pursue left-wing ends has provoked alarm and responses, at least two of book length. ClimateDepot.com publisherand longtime critic of environmentalism Marc Marono released The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown while Michael Walsh released a compilation of essays tiled Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order.Both focus less on Schwab’s “reset” itself than the broader agenda of ski-chalet environmentalism and chardonnay socialism popular with the professional-managerial technocratic class that is overrepresented at World Economic Forum gatherings and among the speakers at TED Talks. The right-leaning opponents’ fears are summarized in a line from a pre-COVID-era WEF video on predictions for the world in 2030: “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.”
The WEF is adamant that it does not advocate this; the line is derived from an op-ed by a Danish Social Democratic politician published by the WEF that is headlined, “I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better.” Many would still respectfully dissent from such a vision.
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In the next installment, in COVID-19: The Great Reset the authors made many ambitious (and wrong) predictions about how the pandemic would change the world.
2 COVID-19: The Great Reset: A Litany of Bad Predictions THIS TAX CUT WIL PAY FOR ITSELF
In July 2020, Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret published COVID-19: The Great Reset, which the authors wrote would “help understand what’s coming in a multitude of domains.” But at a little more than two years removed from the book’s publication, much has not proceeded as Schwab and Malleret expected. This has important implications for the state and “stakeholder”— left-wing interest group and left-wing NGO-industrial complex—directed future they seek.
At least in the United States, their expectations for employment and inflation were completely wrong. They argue that (from their vantage point in July 2020) the unemployment situation was “bound to deteriorate further” because a “sustainable economic recovery” would not start until a COVID-19 vaccination was developed. In fact, the combination of the end of the initial, harshest lockdowns and government assistance meant that the economy had already begun to rebound at the time of publication. Both unemployment and broader dis-employment (the “U-6” measure) had peaked during the maximum extent of lockdown in April 2020 and were trending rapidly downward (from an historically astronomical level) in July 2020. The economic recovery in the U.S. began rapidly after the end of the lockdowns, with the formal recessionary period (defined as the beginning of contraction to the beginning of recovery) lasting only two months.
Schwab and Malleret were also wrong about the other side of the Phillips Curve: inflation, which has been high and persistent in both the United States and Europe since 2021. They wrote, “At this juncture, it is hard to imagine how inflation could pick up anytime soon.” But it did, and with increased inflation will come increased interest rates and government debt-servicing costs. A situation of near-zero inflation and near-zero aggregate growth over a long period as has occurred in Japan, which Schwab and Malleret suggest is a “salutary lesson that there is hope in the face of economic hardship,” is not currently in the cards for America and Europe.
As for public health and the spread of the virus, Schwab and Malleret in large part blame failures in global governance. But global governance is not a thing that meaningfully exists. The multilateral institutions, like the World Health Organization that the authors claim to be a global governance body, are more meaningfully sites of great-power rivalry. The potential consequences of WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus having been backed for his post by the People’s Republic of China, site of the first outbreaks of COVID-19, go unremarked. Schwab and Malleret predict rising tensions between the United States and Communist China, but the implications of that rivalry for their desired “global governance” appear to evade them.
Schwab and Malleret praise the effects of the “environmental reset” that lockdowns placed on the general population. Schwab, for one, has sought for decades to supplant shareholder primacy with corporate social policy modeled on environmental and social governance (ESG). Naturally, he predicts COVID-19 will lead ESG into ascendancy.
Not all the “environmental reset” predictions have come true. Andrew Cuomo, hounded from the governor’s office in New York for allegedly sexually harassing 11 women, would not today find himself considered an example of “enlightened leadership,” as Schwab and Malleret did given his commitments to an environmentalist rebuilding from the pandemic crisis. Air travel has recovered (airport security passenger throughput totals are nearly back to pre-pandemic levels) and the lockdowns revealed that many digital substitutes for in-person experiences are woefully insufficient, “virtual learning” for K–12 students being the most obvious.
Schwab and Malleret praise the possibility of digital contract tracing to control viral outbreaks, but across the Western world such schemes largely failed due to public resistance and indifferent non-adoption. Technocrats have largely blamed this outcome on concerns over data security, but the cause was likely more visceral. Free people resisted giving out tracking information on their movements to Big Tech and Big Government that might be used to confine them. Even Schwab and Malleret acknowledge the “risk of dystopia” such tracking creates.
That free peoples might consider that risk unacceptable, even in the face of disease and death, appears to evade them. Likewise do the implications of a mental health crisis caused in part by lockdowns, or the just fury of those who lost “great markers of time”—weddings, funerals, even day-to-day interactions—to unreasonably extended confinement.
The resilience of the “old normal” against the new is perhaps best illustrated by one bad guess the authors made. In 2020, car-rental giant Hertz declared bankruptcy. Schwab and Malleret called this “the last straw” for a firm reliant on air travelers. But in October 2021, Hertz emerged from restructuring having cleared billions in debt, sold off used vehicles amid high used-car prices, and profited from a post-pandemic return to travel. The “last straw” looked more like a classical business cycle, if on an accelerated timeframe.
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In the next installment, in The Great Narrative update their leftist technocratic vision of the future.
3 the Great Narrative: A Bet on the Highly Unlikely
The ambition of COVID-19: The Great Reset and the WEF’s broader Great Reset projects ensured that the 2020 volume would not be the last word on the question. So, in 2021 (the book was copyrighted in 2022, but the introduction is dated December 2021) Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret wrote The Great Narrative for a Better Future, a follow-up volume to The Great Reset.
If the first volume was supposed to be a description of where COVID-19 was sending the world, The Great Narrative was to be what Schwab and Malleret called “a framework for future action.” To that end, the authors conducted “50 conversations with foremost global thinkers and opinion-makers” to help sharpen their argument for what WEF critic and Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hansoncalled:
a kitchen-sink mishmash of agendas that incorporate the U.N.’s long stale “Sustainable Development” plan (“Agenda 21”), the Green New Deal, tidbits of Black Lives Matter sloganeering, critical race theory, ‘stakeholder’ capitalism that often championsESG, or forced corporate embrace of “environmental and social governance” over shareholder profitability, open-borders rhetoric, and boutique redistributionism dumbed down from Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Given the people who made up the book’s list of global thinkfluencers, that laundry-list of warmed-over leftism is exactly what one would expect from Schwab and Malleret’s narrative. The authors’ conversationalists included several American and British academics (not a group known for their ideological diversity, unless left and radical-left” count), environmentalist scholars and activists, think tankers, and two former leaders of international institutions withties to the Chinese Communist Party’s Chinese People’s Consultative Conference. Interestingly, missing from the list are any industrialists (even environmentalist ones) or even trade union officials. This is surprising given Schwab and Malleret’s praise for organized labor. No Abrahamic religious leaders were listed as discussants; one environmentalist Hindu guru was. The authors did speak with at least two identifiably center-right people from Britain and America; Dambisa Moyo, an economist and author who now sits as a Tory in the House of Lords, and historian and Hanson’s Hoover Institution colleague Niall Ferguson.
Hanson’s quote, taken from his essay in the critical compilation Against the Great Reset, accurately summarizes Schwab and Malleret’s Great Narrative. It is worth examining the fulcrum of reality on which the Great Reset–Great Narrative hinges. The technocratic vision has a critical flaw: It admits no decision point at which policymakers or the mass public must decide whether to bear a cost for a benefit.
Therefore, in The Great Resetthe decision to lock down or open the economy had to be presented as a false choice, with the true answer being to lock down because the economy would not recover anyway until the virus was suppressed. This claim can be evaluated against the economic performances of Florida, spiritual home of the American anti-lockdown movement, and California, dedicated to “following the science.” Florida’s labor force and total employment have not only fully recovered from the pandemic, but also increased in aggregate. California’s have both fallen.
In The Great Narrative, the solution to the difficulty that an aggressive environmentalist agenda would place on the Western middle classes who might not be ready for the “you’ll own nothing, and be happy” ideal is Moore’s Law for everything. Moore’s Law is the claim, made by and named for longtime Intel (and Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation) head Gordon Moore, that the number of transistors on a microchip would double every two years. Less precisely, it is a statement of rapid technological progress.
Schwab and Malleret predict that because of rapid technological progress, decarbonizing the economy can occur beginning immediately, though there may be “bumps along the way” in the form of higher energy prices. This progress, combined with developments in human-machine interfaces and the “internet of things,” will effect the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” that Schwab has proclaimed.
Maybe it will, though as Michael Brendan Dougherty noted in his reflection on the 2022 World Economic Forum conference at Davos, whether the Davoisie would take such blessings as cause to offer the public “anything other than afuture of privation and control” is unclear from their rhetoric. But what if, like their prediction of inflation rates from 2020, Schwab and Malleret are wrong?
If governments and corporate ESG activists decide to follow The Great Narrativeagenda and the promised rapid technological progress does not emerge, the average citizen—at least in the industrialized world—will find himself substantially worse off in life-experience terms. Europeans, who have been living the decarbonization agenda for a few years now, are experiencing an energy crisis after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, making his role as Europe’s supplier of natural gas untenable. (An American president had in 2018 warned about Europe’s reliance on Russian energy, to much ridicule from the great and good at the time.) Now, Europeans are figuring out how to live without central heating in case further energy rationing is needed.
The reaction to lockdown showed that people will live with less for a period. [MUSK HAD TO THREATEN TO FIRE PPL TO END TELECOMMUTE?] And then they won’t. At the time of writing, even the People’s Republic of China, a totalitarian dictatorship, has been forced in part by public pressure to abandon its Zero-COVID lockdown regime. The mere perception that the middle classes in the industrialized West were falling behind gave rise to the first generation of 21st century populisms of Right and Left: Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and so forth. They were not entirely successful; all lost to establishment figures either within their own faction or in general elections, some multiple times.
But where would a Davos agenda that fails to keep the heat on, declines into the surveillance dystopia that Schwab and Malleret themselves acknowledge as a possibility, or leads to mass unemployment as factories shutter and small businesses close lead? A second generation of Western populists is already emerging, and nothing would power it more forcefully than making people’s lived experiences worse in the medium term.
4 The Critics
The ambition of the Great Reset agenda was sure to provoke a response from critics. Given recent political developments in the United States that have placed conservatives in opposition both to the panopticon state and to the Big Tech industry (formerly the positions of the Left), that opposition has overwhelmingly come from the Right. Two of the most prominent books published presenting right-of-center opposition to the agenda are Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order, a collection of essays from right-leaning intellectual figures edited by writer Michael Walsh, and The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdownby Marc Morano, a prominent critic of the environmentalist movement.
Morano’s book consists mostly of direct objections to COVID-19 response policies, colloquially lumped together as “lockdowns.” Most of those objections are justified. There is precious little evidence that lockdowns, mask mandates,school closures, and similar intrusions did much of anything to reduce the death and disease toll from COVID-19, and the consequences of having tried to shut down human life have only begun to be realized. NOT UTTER LACK OF DATA
But not all are. To pick just one example, Morano’s praise for longtime vaccination skeptic and environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s activism against COVID-19 regulations may be a case of “any ally in a crisis,” but it risks discrediting the justified opposition to lockdowns and biomedical surveillance dystopia by attaching it to other unjustified claims.Morano is on stronger ground giving credit to those governors—he names Brian Kemp of Georgia, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, and most prominently Ron DeSantis of Florida—who opposed and either expeditiously lifted or never enacted lockdown policies while rejecting further restrictions like vaccination passports.
The more intellectual book of criticism is the Walsh-edited Against the Great Reset. Its “eighteen theses” are 18 essays by 17 writers (Walsh contributes two) criticizing various elements of the World Economic Forum’s proposed technocracy. They vary in content and rhetorical success. Victor Davis Hanson eviscerates the underlying ideology of the Reset in a mere 26 pages. James Poulos of the Claremont Institute fails to convince this technologically unsophisticated reader that bitcoin “can be used as the girders of a new online architecture” that can reorient man to God. Alberto Mingardi’s examination of “stakeholderism,” the ideology of business control underlying ESG activism, is mandatory reading for anyone concerned with the subject, whileConrad Black and Michael Anton seem to miss the mark on the anti-capitalism of the Reset by being too optimistic and too pessimistic, respectively.
Underlying the criticism is the not-unreasonable fear that the lockdown regime writ large—movement restrictions, restrictions on personal consumption, subjection of the individual’s rights to the determination of the “common good” by a bureaucrat—will feature in the Davos Worldthat Schwab, Malleret, and the World Economic Forum would build. The group’s messaging—most infamously the “8 Predictions for the World in 2030” video that birthed “you’ll own nothing and be happy” that predates COVID-19 and the Great Reset—does not breed confidence. Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote for National Reviewthat “Schwab’s obsessions with global political cooperation, environmentalism, and ‘the fourth industrial revolution’—his idea that the next great leap in capitalist productivity will come from integrating technology with the human person itself—guarantees that the presentations [at WEF Davos conferences] will be a mix of utopian globalism that somehow combine visions of global austerity (to reduce carbon) with nightmares about a handful of corporate and political leaders having direct access to your amygdala.” And it is difficult to say that he is wrong.
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In the next installment, World Economic Forum’s technocratic agenda runs counter to reality and human nature.
Tags: China, COVID-19, disinformation, environmental social governance (ESG), King Charles III, lockdown, Rahm Emanuel, World Economic Forum (WEF)
5 conclusion
The technocratic mentality that pervades the World Economic Forum’s messaging, including The Great Resetand The Great Narrative, holds that planners—the “stakeholders” of ESG prospectuses, the politicians and corporate officials who convene at WEF’s Davos conferences—can master the world economy, the global climate, and global governance. But ancient and timeless forces continue to assert themselves.
Global governance? If it ever exists, it dies at the outbreak of major interstate war.Thus, when one-time Davos participant Vladimir Putin attempted to sack Kyiv and decapitate the Ukrainian government, global governance perished as surely as the League of Nations. The Great Powers once again divided into camps as China tepidly backed Russia and the American-European alliance aligned firmly behind Ukraine. NATO IS KICKING PUTIN'S ASS, AND WORLD GOV EXPLAIN'S CHINA RETICENCE
Whatever the World Economic Forum and the Biden administration or its climate envoy John Kerry might wish,geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the People’s Republic of China is inevitable. Americans will not consent to de facto rule by the Chinese Communist Party once they become aware of it. The Chinese Communist Party will continue to “revise” the international order created by the post–World War II United States (and its allies) in its own interests. International deal-making will take a back seat to power geopolitics.
Whither ESG? It is interesting to read Schwab and Malleret’s paeans to environmental, social, and governance practices after the collapse of the cryptocurrency giant FTX into an eight-count indictment against its trendy ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried for wire fraud among other offenses. Bankman-Fried was a major [CONSERVATIVE, JUST EASIER TO HIDE] liberal political donor and practitioner of utilitarian LIBTARD “effective altruism,” derived from the utilitarianism of philosopher and Great Narrativediscussion participant Peter Singer. Critics of ESG have made much of the fact that at least one ESG ratings agency rated FTX above ExxonMobil POLLUTER STRANDED ASSETS DENIAL FUNDER for “leadership and governance,” suspecting that Bankman-Fried’s trendy liberal affectations had something to do with it. As for allowing the general public to influence policy, including corporate behavior, democratic representative government already exists throughout the West. Deferring to NGOs is simply a case of gerrymandering the deciding class from one roughly evenly divided on ideological lines to one overwhelmingly of the professional-managerial Left.
What would more international migration bring? Apparently uncontrolled international migration fueled the first generation of populist figures such as Italy’s Matteo Salvini and of course former President Donald Trump, as well as the British vote to leave the European Union. While the Biden administration in the U.S. and elements in Europe might wish to ignore border controls, there is no reason to believe that political forces will allow them to do so indefinitely.
Decarbonization and net-zero emissions? Both are bets on rapid technological progress that may or may not be realized. Forcing them into effect before the technology is scalable, reliable, and available BASS ACKWARDS will reduce the Western middle class’s quality of life CLIMATE CHAOS , providing yet more fuel to the establishment’s populist and conservative rivals.
Control of the narrative against “misinformation” is already contested, as the dissident environmentalist industrialist—who under different circumstances the WEF might praise as one of the visionaries of the Fourth Industrial Revolution—Elon Musk has taken over Twitter and launched a campaign to expose the company’s prior bad actions in information control.
And what about the permanent lockdown NO ONE ADVOCATES THIS YOU FECK that the WEF’s staunchest critics fear? Such is contrary to human nature and blessedly impossible: Humanity demands togetherness, even over something as trivial as sports. The vision of a permanently locked-down world may have been best refuted by the estimated 5 million revelers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose assemblies forced the cancellation of the national soccer team’s World Cup trophy parade because the team bus could not safely part the seas of people. What cannot be, will not be.
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Michael is Research Director for Capital Research Center and serves as the managing editor for InfluenceWatch. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, he previously worked for a Washington, D.C. public relations firm.
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #211: Dark Money and Demand Justice
Article on March 28, 2022 by Hayden Ludwig, Michael Watson
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #210: Race to the Bottom
Article on March 18, 2022 by Michael Watson
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #209: Protecting Big Labor’s Paycheck
Article on March 11, 2022 by Michael Watson
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #207: Saving Our Elections
Article on March 4, 2022 by Michael Watson
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #206: Equality and the Value of Humans
Article on February 19, 2022 by Michael Watson
LABOR WATCH
Congressional Staff Unionization: A Class Analysis
Article on February 14, 2022 by Michael Watson
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #205: When Rules Begin to Apply
Article on February 11, 2022 by Michael Watson
COMMENTARY
Putting Our Cocktail Parties Where Our Mouths Are
Article on February 9, 2022 by Michael Watson
LABOR WATCH
A Misguided Republican Gift to Big Labor
Article on February 8, 2022 by Michael Watson
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #204: An Education on Image
Article on February 4, 2022 by Michael Watson
EDUCATION REFORM
Catharsis Comes for the Education Monopoly
Article on January 28, 2022 by Michael Watson
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #203: Virginia Responds to “Zuck Bucks”
Article on January 28, 2022 by Parker Thayer, Hayden Ludwig, Michael Watson, Scott Walter
LABOR WATCH
Unionization Falls as Left Wing Pushes More Coercion
Article on January 25, 2022 by Michael Watson
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #202: Virginia’s Education Deep State
Article on January 21, 2022 by Michael Watson
ORGANIZATION TRENDS
Remembering Those Who Covered for an Actor’s . . . Misremembering
Article on January 20, 2022 by Michael Watson
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #201: Education Distrust
Article on January 14, 2022 by Michael Watson
LABOR WATCH
Philadelphia Union Boss Conviction Reveals Big Labor’s Political Machines
Article on January 12, 2022 by Michael Watson
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #200: Teachers Strike Chicago
Article on January 10, 2022 by Michael Watson
ORGANIZATION TRENDS
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Three Woke Advantages
Article on December 21, 2021 by Michael Watson
ORGANIZATION TRENDS
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Corporate America
Article on December 21, 2021 by Michael Watson
ORGANIZATION TRENDS
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: The Left’s Ultimate Weapon
Article on December 21, 2021 by Michael Watson
ORGANIZATION TRENDS
Overcoming Woke-Progressivism: Forced by the Government
Article on December 21, 2021 by Michael Watson
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InfluenceWatch Podcast #199: Auditing Equity
Article on December 17, 2021 by Michael Watson