The sky is falling … really!
Davos, New Mexico and reality
If I were an elitest, I would have to say — The world is in polycrisis.
Such is the theme of this year’s World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. WEF founder and executive chairman, Klaus Schwab calls the world’s leaders together every year to talk about world problems and progressive solutions.
This year’s anointed attendees are in record numbers, consisting of heads of state, finance ministers, business executives, central bank governors and public officials. If you and I were to try to attend, we would be turned away. By invitation, to the enlightened only.
To be anointed, you must be fluent in the WEF language. The GPA (Global Parity Alliance) is introducing the DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) lighthouses (programs) as directed by the ESG standards. That stands for environmental, social and governance to you commoners.
This year’s DEI report showed $7.5 billion was spent on “reeducation programs.” They plan on increasing that to $15.4 billion, paid by participating countries by 2026 because, “the pandemic has caused a generational loss in gender equality, increasing the projected time to reach global parity from 100 to 132 years.”
Gender equality? Global parity? One hundred thirty-two years? Their words, not mine and I have no idea to what they are referring, but it will cost tens-of-billions of member countries’ taxpayer dollars over the next three years.
Why am I ranting about the WEF and what’s it got to do with us in New Mexico? To the conspiracy buff, it has to do with a new world order, created by unelected superior highbrows who have our future planned, despite what you and I may want.
It has to do with our local politicians who are funded to support these global progressive agendas within the state.
A large number of our state legislators identify as progressives. They also receive large sums of campaign contributions from out of state PACs and nonprofits. It’s called “dark money” as the identity of the donors is not required.
Results of the WEFs global ambitions are being felt here in New Mexico as well as other countries. Their war against fossil fuels has brought us inflation at the pump and the grocery store. Electricity and natural gas are up 30%. Globalists blame climate change and the need to reach net zero carbon emissions.
WEF agendas and the agendas of other multilateral organizations, including the UN’s Agenda 21 permeate our state’s politics. Protecting the environment by preventing deforestation has included preventing regular cleaning of our forest floors of fuels. As a result, we burned up last year when a control burn raged.
Education or reeducation as stated above has been a WEF initiative. Here in New Mexico, the governor is pushing funding for early childhood education – pre-K. In her State of the State message, she proposed child care for all. Let the state have your kids to begin early indoctrination. Those of us who went to kindergarten didn’t learn about global warming and gender neutrality.
More money is not the answer to all problems. The proper focusing of spending is. Right now, we have a surplus which accounts for the governor’s proposed eight-percent budget increase and education is a big recipient.
Here is where it could help: Senate Minority Whip, Craig Brandt has introduced a comprehensive school choice bill establishing Education Freedom Accounts which could be used for private school tuition, tutoring and text books. Parents should not be forced to send their kids to failing schools and this is a good focus for state educational expenditures.
To her credit, the governor has proclaimed January 22-28 to be “school choice week,” which is part of a national effort to improve education through school choice reform. We need to encourage her to make school choice happen in New Mexico. Senator Brandt’s Education Freedom Accounts Act should be robustly debated in this legislative session.
The past two weeks have seen some progress in recognizing reality. President Biden acknowledged his stopping of the Keystone XL Pipeline was a mistake and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has dropped the COVID jab mandate for our military and allowed the reinstatement of those military personnel who refused to take the shot. Both were failed globalist agendas.
The times may be changing.
Pushback at this year’s WEF meeting may be the reason Klaus Schwab and George Soros sent their regrets and will not attend, knowing their initiatives have not been well received. On the heels of all the problems brought on by the COVID lockdowns, mandates and inflation, this year’s WEF stated goal is to “restore trust,” something our state legislators should also do.
So many crises have been misleadingly created which are just straw dogs for politicians to exercise more control over our lives and thinking people are beginning to catch on and pushing back. We don’t need more elitist or government mandated curriculums in our schools or bio-medical mandates. We need the freedom to choose on the local level on how to conduct our lives and educate our children.
As established in our Declaration of Independence, the rights of freedom are granted by our Creator, not governments. Governments are instituted to protect these rights and derive their powers from the consent of the governed. Let us remind our politicians of this fact and encourage them to restore the public trust as a government of, by and for the people.
Tom Wright is a Santa Fe writer and investor in El Rito Media, LLC, owner of the Rio Grande SUN.