Loading ...“WEF loses footing among swirl of failures, festering accusations.”
JEFF CHILDERS
Three days ago, the Washington Times ran a terrific story headlined, “WEF loses footing among swirl of failures, festering accusations.” I am not making this up: that ridiculous living parody of a cartoon villain Klaus Schwab is finally on his way out.
Last May, Schwab had already announced the delightful news that he was stepping down as the World Economic Forum’s chief grifter. But of course, he wasn’t really leaving — just retreating to the boardroom shadows. He retained control of the board of trustees as its chairman.
Welp, he’s now leaving that post, earlier than planned. He’s slow-walking it, of course, but he’s slowly and surely being reset. His parasitic career is finally running off the tracks into an inglorious ditch.
“What is essential now after the turmoil of the last months, is to recover our sense of mission,” Schwab explained, without saying whether the turmoil was President Trump’s second term or, more likely, the ongoing investigation of the WEF. Live by the woke sword, die by the Cuomo. Schwab is getting slow-rolled out the side door, one HR scandal at a time.
About eight months ago, the Wall Street Journal reported a whole slew of allegationsthat Schwab discriminated against WEF employees. He tried to fire everyone over 50 after saying the WEF needed a more youthful appearance. He canned a woman because she was pregnant and couldn’t work longer hours. The journal said “employees registered internal complaints after white WEF managers used the N-word around black employees.”
The black staff “also raised formal complaints to Forum leaders about being passed over for promotions or left out of Davos.”
I know, you’re shocked. The virtue-signaling elite are actually all horny, racist, fake hypocrite poseurs. How could this happen, & etc.
Female employees reported that WEF “women were routinely sexualized and objectified.” They warned that, if you find yourself alone with Schwab, he may make uncomfortable comments about your appearance. The WEF’s founder once told a board member that she needed to lose weight. Three women who worked closely with him said he often made suggestive comments to them that made them feel weird and uncomfortable.
One of his former secretaries told the Journal that she had to be really clear with Schwab, more than once, about “what kind of relationship I wanted: professional and nothing sexual.” Another staffer told the Journal about the time Schwab propped his leg up on her desk with his crotch in front of her face and told her he wished she was Hawaiian, because he’d like to see her in a Hawaiian costume.
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They nearly nuked Justice Clarence Thomas over much less.
The Journal reported a lot more. It said it interviewed over 80 former WEF employees. The story reads like a Mad Libs of elite hypocrisy: racial slurs from managers, pregnancy discrimination, over-50 purges, desk-crotch monologues, and Klaus wishing women were in Hawaiian costume and telling them they needed to find a “man” while slyly suggesting himself.
80 employees! That wasn’t research for a story. It was a character-assassinating hit piece. And it seems to be working. The long knives are out for Schwab. DOGE has savaged WEF’s free flow of funding from the US. The appalling exposés are popping up. It may be too early to say the WEF is teetering.
But as in Hemingway’s classic The Sun Also Rises, the main character was asked how he went bankrupt. He answered: “two ways. Gradually, and then suddenly.”
The clock appears to be ticking on the world’s most successful and most injurious grifting operation and its most well-protected chairman. The end may come faster than you think.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy