THE MEN BEHIND THE CURTAIN | VOL. 2: KLAUS SCHWAB & THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM [TRANSCRIPT]
- Post-Liberal
- Oct 1, 2024
- 14 min read

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In the post-COVID world, the term “Great Reset” began to work its way into the public lexicon alongside terms such as the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Stakeholder Capitalism”; all of which were made popular by a relatively small yet remarkably consequential sub-culture of self-styled “elites.”
We also saw catchphrases like “Build Back Better” suddenly being parroted by world leaders and highly influential individuals the world over.
This sort of highly coordinated behavior amongst world leaders almost suggests that there is some type of conspiracy afoot. Perhaps it’s all just a wild coincidence, but it is hard to believe in coincidence once you are aware of the men behind the curtain.
Each year, some of the wealthiest and most influential individuals on the planet leave the comfort of their homes to make a pilgrimage of sorts, not to some exclusive tropical paradise, but to one of the coldest, most hard-to-reach places in central Europe. [possible clip]
In early January, when temperatures are arguably at their lowest, private jets from around the world arrive at Samedan St Moritz Airport, the closest private aviation airport to a scenic town in the Swiss Alps called Davos. [Potential clips: 1, 2, ]
The municipality of Davos gained prominence in the 19th century as a mountain health resort, but ever since 1971 it has been primarily known as the home of Klaus Schwab’s annual World Economic Forum; so much so that the forum’s posh participants are often referred to as “the Davos crowd.”
The World Economic Forum, or WEF, is described by Wikipedia as:
“an international non-governmental and lobbying organization for multinational companies… The foundation, which is mostly funded by its 1,000 member companies – typically global enterprises with more than US$5 billion in turnover – as well as public subsidies, views its own mission as “improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas”.” (#)
However, the forum’s Wikipedia entry fails to communicate some of the widely held suspicions surrounding the group.
Unsurprisingly, Jimmy Wales, owner of the Wikimedia Foundation that owns Wikipedia, is 100% beholden to the Davos agenda and is a card-carrying member of the WEF.
Some might describe the WEF as self-appointed saviors who seek to fix this broken world with their brilliant, progressive ideas. The Forum is typically comprised of world leaders, Big-Pharma executives, tech titans, Hollywood celebrities, media personalities, and internet influencers.
For many years, the forum flew well under the radar, but in the last half-decade, awareness of the meetings has spread and reached the everyday American. This awareness is due to growing scrutiny of the Forum in the alternative and conservative media space.
A few of the noble and brilliant ideas that the Forum has espoused in recent history include turning major metropolitan areas into Smart Cities (#), the implementation of expiratory Central Bank Digital Currencies (clip), biometric sensors in the human body (#), and the general digitization of every aspect of human life(#).
But as it turns out, everyday people do not seem too eager to be ruled by self-aggrandizing technocratic elites.
There are a few different perspectives in which the WEF is seen by the greater public.
Some see them as a club of self-important people with messiah complexes, who congregate in the Alps to schmooze and feel relevant, and that there is no real reason to fear their various agendas.
To others, this “Davos crowd” is synonymous with the “ruling class”, and might as well be the Illuminati itself…
But anyone who has studied the history and connections of the Forum would tell you that the truth lies somewhere in between these two perspectives. It is unlikely that the members of the forum sit at the peak of the supranational deep-state power structure, but their agendas are very real, and their ability to effect those goals should not be taken lightly.
When you start to look into who Klaus Schwab really is, you find a man who appears to have been groomed by some of the most influential names in foreign policy of the 20th century.
But what kind of man is he, really?
Dr. Klaus Martin Schwab is typically billed as an “Engineer, economist, and professor,” he has also been described by Dr. Mercola as the “most dangerous man in the world.” (#)
Klaus is an instantly recognizable fellow, with a permanent scowl and the voice of a cartoon supervillain (with a backstory to boot!) The 78-year-old is not exactly an extroverted charmer, ensnaring his guests with oceans of charisma. He once described himself in an interview as follows:
“I’m not a marketing man in my own right, but – if you like – an antisocial figure.”
Former business journalist Jurgen Dunsch stated in an interview with German Journalist Stephen Schnyder that: “Schwab is not a buddy type. He rarely laughs.” to which Schnyder added that “even a smile rarely crosses his lips.” (#)
While he may not win many personality contests, none can deny that Klaus Schwab is a well-educated man. He earned his doctorate in engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, a doctorate in economics from the University of Fribourg, and a Master of Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. (#)
An impressive resume to be sure, but it is the Schwab family history where the real intrigue begins. Particularly regarding his father, Eugene Schwab, and a peculiar connection to Nazi Germany. (#)
In the 1930s, in the years leading up to the German annexation of Poland, Eugene Schwab managed the Escher-Wyss factory and was the largest employer in Ravensburg Germany.
Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party would award the Escher-Wyss Ravensburg branch the title of “National Socialist Model Company” while Eugene Schwab was at the helm. (#) It is believed that the award amounted to an attempt by the Nazis to woo the Swiss company into cooperating in the coming war.
Ravensburg was a peculiar location during the war, with the presence of the Red Cross and a rumored agreement with various companies including Escher-Wyss, ensured that Ravensburg was not classified as a significant military target throughout the war, and for that reason, the town still maintains many of its original features. However, sinister things were afoot in Ravensburg once the war began. (#)
The Escher-Wyss company was a leader in “large turbine technology for hydroelectric dams and power plants,” but they also manufactured parts for German fighter planes. Escher-Wyss was also intimately involved in projects happening behind the scenes that, if completed, could have changed the outcome of World War II: namely the Nazi Atom-Bomb Project. (#)
Schwab’s father’s troublesome exploits didn’t stop there; he was also allegedly involved in another infamous Nazi practice: the use of forced labor.
During the years of World War II, nearly 3,600 forced laborers worked in Ravensburg, including at Escher Wyss. According to the city archivist in Ravensburg, Andrea Schmuder, the Escher-Wyss machine factory in Ravensburg employed between 198 and 203 civil workers and POWs during the war.
Historian Karl Schweizer states that,
“Escher-Wyss maintained a small, special camp for forced laborers on the factory premises.”
It was from these humble beginnings that Klaus Martin Schwab emerged. He was born on the 30th of March 1938 in Ravensburg, Germany, and was the eldest child of a typical nuclear family.
By the mid-1940s, Schwab would go on to attend primary school in Au, Germany, where he got his first taste of leadership chairing the Franco-German regional youth association. (#)
Eugene Schwab decided that if his sons wanted to make an impact on the world, they should train as Machine Engineers, and that is precisely what Klaus did. Between 1958 and 1962, Klaus started working with various engineering companies and, in 1962, finished his studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich with an engineering diploma.(#)
By 1967, Klaus had gained a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland as well as a Master of Public Administration qualification from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in the United States.
Schwab founded the European Management Forum in 1971, which would change its name to the World Economic Forum more than a decade later, in 1987.
By this time his circle had grown to include some very powerful men.
While attending Harvard in the 1960s, Schwab became quick friends with then-professor and CFR member Henry Kissinger, who has guided him to this day and was just as instrumental in the creation of the World Economic Forum as Schwab himself. (#) Klaus would later say that Kissinger was among the top 3-4 figures who had most influenced his thinking over the course of his entire life.
Dissenting researchers have claimed that the World Economic Forum is not a European creation at all. In reality, it is instead an operation that emanates from the public policy grandees of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixonian eras of American politics, all of whom had ties to the Council on Foreign Relations and the associated “Round Table” Movement, with a supporting role played by the Central Intelligence Agency.
As the story goes, Kissinger would recruit Schwab at the International seminar at Harvard, which had been funded by the CIA. Although this funding was exposed the year Klaus Schwab left Harvard, the connection has gone largely unnoticed. (#)
Klaus Schwab may be credited with the creation of the Forum, but there are three men (That have gone under the radar, that) without whom the Davos group may never have existed. (These) Three wise men (guided) the young Schwab: Henry Kissinger, John K. Galbraith, and Herman Kahn.
Henry Alfred Kissinger is a deep politician who is known for being both a Nobel Prize winner and a war criminal. He rose to prominence under the tutelage of Nazi import Fritz G. A. Kraemer and David Rockefeller. A few of Kissinger’s greatest hits include pressing Richard Nixon to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam through a project called Operation: Duck Hook (clip), running the Chile coup d’etat in 1973 (clip), and a possible role in the assassination of Orlando Letelier(#).
In the mid-fifties, Kissinger was recommended to the Council on Foreign Relations by the dean of Harvard and renowned deep-state actor McGeorge Bundy. From there he would become deeply involved in globalist affairs in America and abroad.
In December of 1966, an event took place that could be seen as a prototype for the same sort of semi-public discussion panels that the World Economic Forum employs at their annual meetings today. The event was billed as a 22-man panel of advisors to help “shape European policy.” The members of this panel consisted of a whos who of globalist advisors and included Henry A. Kissinger. (#)
Other attendees would include members of the CFR, the Ford Foundation, and representatives from other leading American universities. This panel has been described as having laid the foundation for the WEF.
A decade later, Kissinger would attend another pivotal event where he would be included in a group of twenty-nine “American authorities on Germany” and would sign a statement claiming that recent state elections in West Germany did not indicate a rebirth of Nazism. (#)
The deeper purpose behind this “signing” was to assure the world that the scourge of Nazism was no longer present in Germany, that Europe was undergoing a fresh start, that the horrors of the World Wars were but memories of a dead era, and that a new era of trustworthy and sophisticated European elites had dawned. This would eventually culminate in what we refer to today as “the Davos man.”
What this new, more sophisticated Europe truly represented was American involvement in European policy creation. This budding enclave Kissinger helped to birth would need to become an organized institution, and it would also need a figurehead. It was around this time that Klaus Schwab first caught the eye of Henry A. Kissinger.
As previously mentioned, Kissinger was the executive director of the International Seminar in 1967, which Schwab often mentions when recollecting the time he spent at Harvard. The seminar has since been described as Harvard’s deep-state recruitment network.
1967 would be the year it was reported that various Harvard programs had been receiving funding from the CIA. This included but was not limited to $135,000 in funding for Kissinger’s Seminar, funding which Kissinger claimed he was unaware had come from the agency.
The evidence suggests Klaus Schwab was recruited by Kissinger into his circle of “Round Table” imperialists via a CIA-funded program at Harvard University. This CIA-funded seminar would be a gateway for Schwab to the extremely well-connected American policy-makers who would help him construct one of the most powerful European public policy institutes the world has ever known, the World Economic Forum.
But Kissinger wasn’t Schwab’s only guiding confidant; he was also advised by both John K. Galbraith (Ken Galbraith) and Herman Kahn.
Galbraith was a Canadian-American diplomat, economist, and disciple of John Maynard Keynes, the renowned economist who is celebrated by mainstream historians for having revolutionized how economics is taught and practiced in the West as well as creating the theories associated with Keynesian economics. Keynes lesser known qualities include being a Bolshevik, a pedophile, and a lackey of the international banking cartels.(#)
In the late 1960s, Kissinger and Galbraith were considered two of the foremost intellectuals, authors, and educators in America. Both men were increasingly focused on the creation of foreign policies for both America and the emerging new Europe, and both were influential figures at Harvard, Galbraith as the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Kissinger as a Professor of Government, and the two men were focused on the creation of foreign policy for both America and the emerging new Europe. It was Kissinger who would introduce Schwab to Galbraith, and it was Galbraith who would eventually help Schwab create the institution that would one day become the World Economic Forum.
The third individual credited with assisting Schwab in the forum’s creation was Herman Kahn. Khan was an atheistic Jew who was well-known in the 1950s for his many published works on nuclear warfare and his association with a deep-state think-tank called the Hudson Institute.
The most seminal of Kahn’s writings was a work titled On Thermonuclear War, which sought to design the game plan for nuclear war—how to prevent it, or, if it could not be prevented, how to win it. The Israeli-American sociologist Amitai Etzioni is quoted as saying that,
“Kahn does for nuclear arms what free-love advocates did for sex: he speaks candidly of acts about which others whisper behind closed doors.”
Khan has been affectionately described as “the real-life Dr. Strangelove,” when asked about the comparison, Khan told Newsweek,
“Kubrick is a friend of mine. He told me Dr. Strangelove wasn’t supposed to be me.”
Despite his assurances, students and researchers of Kubrick’s work continue to point out the similarities between Stanley Kubrick’s classic character and the real-life Herman Kahn.
Khan was also a proponent of America’s role in the “new, sophisticated Europe.” In an essay written for the Council on Foreign Relations in July 1966, entitled, Our Alternatives in Europe, Kahn openly advocates for a globalist vision of the West:
“Existing U.S. policy has generally been directed to the political and economic as well as the military integration or unification of Western Europe as a means to European security. Some have seen unification as a step toward the political unity of the West as a whole, or even of the world. Thus, the achievement of some more qualified form of integration or federation of Europe, and of Europe with America, has also been held to be an intrinsically desirable goal, especially as national rivalries in Europe have been seen as a fundamentally disruptive force in modern history; hence their suppression, or accommodation in a larger political framework, is indispensable to the future stability of the world.”(#)
This statement has been seen as hinting at a Unified American and European superstate, which at that point had long been the goal of the Milner Group or “Round Table” organizations of the early 1900s as written about in Carroll Quigley’s “The Anglo-American Establishment.”
Khan’s life and works are peppered with the same globalist philosophy that persists today in Davos. He would encourage the marriage of long-term planning with the state of technology and its growth. This was first exemplified in his work, ‘The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years.’ This sort of long-term technological planning is exactly how the WEF operates today.
There was another document released soon after Kahn’s The Year 2000, which had been written simultaneously. That document was entitled, Ancillary Pilot Study for the Educational Policy Research Program: Final Report, it was essentially a blueprint for how to achieve the future society Kahn’s works had envisaged.
Under a section titled ‘Special Educational Needs of Decision-Makers,’ the paper states:
“The desirability of explicitly educated decision-makers so that they are better able, in effect, to plan the destiny of the nation, or to carry out the plans formulated through a more democratic process, should be very seriously considered. One facet of this procedure would be the creation of a shared set of concepts, shared language, shared analogies, shared references …”
He goes on to state in the same section that,
“Universal re-teaching in the spirit of the humanistic tradition of Europe—at least for its comprehensive leadership group—might be useful in many ways.”
In so many words, what Kahn is advocating for in these works is the systematic subversion of democracy in favor of a small group of similarly trained—or groomed—individuals deciding what our shared values as a society should be. Anyone who has taken the time to observe the World Economic Forum can tell you that this is exactly the same attitude the Forum’s attendees share.
By 1970, Kahn would be traveling to Europe with Galbraith in support of Klaus Schwab’s recruitment drive for the first European Management Symposium. In 1971, Kahn would be sitting center stage to watch John Kenneth Galbraith’s keynote speech at the historic first session of the policy-making organization that would eventually become the World Economic Forum.
As the next half-century progressed, due attention was finally being called to the infamous Council on Foreign Relations, the budding Trilateral Commission, so much so that by the time the era of Barrack Obama had come around, independent outlets were rushing to list all the members of his cabinet who belonged to these groups. (#)(#) and in the area of Donald Trump due attention was finally given to the World Economic Forum.
By the end of Obama’s second term, the WEF had become so brazen that they were essentially letting the proverbial cat out of the bag. The elites were now completely unafraid to say the quiet parts out loud, albeit couched in disarming language.
We are only beginning to see the big picture come into focus. To better understand, let’s consider where the elitist mindset was back when the Forum was created.
The Club of Rome is yet another think tank and globalist hot bed. Around the time that Schwab and the Forum were getting started, the Club’s founder, Aurelio Peccei published a controversial book ‘The Limits to Growth,’ a book that took a very Malthusian approach to overpopulation. The book would be the genesis for the sort of language we commonly hear coming out of Davos, particularly in regard to “sustainability” and “population control.” Peccei would be invited by Schwab to make the keynote speech at the 1973 World Economic Forum.
The concept of sustainability would be one that dominated the goals of the Forum through the decades.
As he entered the autumn of his life, Schwab would become much more than just a technocrat and more closely resemble a herald for the inevitable push toward transhumanism. Both Schwab and his advisor Yuval Noah Hirari have been very vocal about their intention to fuse physical and biological identities with future technology, most notably the desire to “take surveillance under the skin.”
So, what are the fruits of all this technocratic, long-term planning?
We’ve seen the advent of the Environmental Social Governance Score—or ESG—which has been a disaster for just about everyone except for China.
We’ve also seen a huge push toward “net-zero” carbon emissions, something that is crippling economies worldwide.
The push for transhumanism and the integration of Artificial intelligence, two frequent topics at the forum, have become increasingly relevant in recent years and will be critical going into the future..
But, as menacing as some of the group’s stated goals might seem, not everyone is convinced that the WEF holds dominion over anything.
Whether the Davos crowd is at the peak of the pyramid or not, the key agendas that the forum pushes are increasingly seen as undesirable:
The WEF put a lot of stake in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse, a venture that has so far fallen flat on its face.
The Forum pushed the idea that in the future individuals will “own nothing” and be happy, and that people should eat bugs – both ideas were largely seen as comical. (#) (#)
Additionally, BlackRock CEO Laurence Fink’s ESG system seems to be ruffling feathers across the globe as well—except in China, of course, where Fink has chosen to turn a blind eye. (#)(#)
The ruling elite and the “think-tank class” are becoming increasingly detached from the needs and concerns of humanity. Are we finally reaching a moment in history where humanity is tired of living in a glorified slavery system run by men like Klaus Schwab? The coming years will determine whether or not humanity experiences a great reset or a great awakening.
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