The World Economic Forum (WEF) – the “Davos Emperor” – has just suffered a further downfall. Its President and CEO, Børge Brende, who less than two years ago in May 2024, transitioned into full WEF leadership after Klaus Schwab’s resignation, due to scandals linked to financial irregularities and sexual harassment by Schwab and senior WEF management. This was first published by the Financial Times (FT) and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), both “belonging” to the Murdoch media mogul. BlackRock is controlling Murdoch.
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BlackRock / Vanguard, i.e., Larry Fink is the WEF’s chief financier and de facto owner of the WEF. He is a smooth operator.
The chain of command is clear.
Something very similar happened this time. FT and WSJ reported on the Børge Brende link to Epstein. Brende, first trying to play it down by “just a few dinner meetings”, could not escape the truth revealed in the 3.5 million Epstein pages published with an AI-fueled search engine. It was easy to reveal all the multiple contacts of Brende’s with the already in 2008 convicted sex-trafficking pedophile.
Over 20 e-mails and SMS exchanges between the two, indicated much more than just innocent dinner conversations (see also this).
The revelations prompted an internal investigation at the WEF and have now led to Brende’s downfall and (forced) resignation.
“After careful consideration, I have decided to step down as president and CEO of the World Economic Forum. My time here, spanning eight and a half years, has been profoundly rewarding,” Brende said in a statement on Thursday morning, 26 February 2025.
Surely, “rewarding” in more ways than one.
The WEF being headed by a pedophile was too strong for Larry Fink. He needed to pull the trigger, so to speak, to save his world-influencing, elite navel-gazing, billions-making “baby”. But can he? The continuous downward trend is not only reflected at the top, but also within the staff – a toxic working ambiance, indeed, already referred to in the first FT articles two years ago.
A former Norwegian Foreign Minister, Børge Brende, is still a public figure in Norway. When at first the scandal erupted, Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, suggested that Brende stepped down as the WEF’s chair. By doing so, Brende could have saved Norway and the WEF further reputational damage.
Since disclosure of the Epstein files, Norway has seen several public figures drawn into the controversy, including Crown Princess Mette-Marit and diplomats Mona Juul and Terje Rød-Larsen. Former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland was charged with “gross corruption” earlier this month over his ties with Epstein.
The WEF’s staff being the core of the organization, no matter who funds it and with how much money, without dedicated work, nothing happens, the infamous Davos event would not exist – nor would all the other WEF conferences around the world.
Although this might be a good thing, surely not for Larry Fink’s super-ego. But, can he and his riches keep the WEF – what has become a house of cards – alive and sprouting afresh?
That is the question.
The WEF’s Board of Trustees has appointed Managing Director Alois Zwinggi, a Swiss national, as temporary President and CEO. Mr. Zwinggi joined the WEF in 2010 as member of the Managing Board. He has a reputation as one of the few solid pillars of the WEF and has apparently no skeletons in the closet. Precisely what the WEF needs now to survive. Zwinggi was about to retire this year, but was asked to take on this position. Could it mean that he may be eventually confirmed as the WEF’s “permanent” CEO?
Could Mr. Zwinggi restructure the WEF into a humane, international ethical business promoting organization, do away with the digital control gulag, with the climate hoax, with the pursuit of the evil UN Agenda 2030 – thereby saving the WEF and improving its reputation, despite its badly blemished image around the globe?
If the WEF remains in the control of psychopaths, whose objective remains world domination, human subjugation, in a globalist fully digitized One World Government to control and manipulate the planet, as it likely will remain with BlackRock-Vanguard and Larry Fink in power, the most solid Swiss new CEO will only remain a puppet and the disappearance of the WEF with a transhumanized AI-led fear-mongering elite-supremacy is pre-programmed.
Here is what Vladimir Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev had to say when the latest scandal with Borge Brende’s links to Epstein further “tainted” the reputation of the WEF,
All “good people” should attend Russia’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), while WEF can remain “focused on discussing Epstein’s legacy and the lessons learned from his network-building.”
Could not have said it better.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst, regular author for Global Research, and a former Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
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