Crisis Update: Argentina's Javier Milei Storms Davos Citadel

President targets collectivists but not finance capital

• Milei confounds critics, damning collectivists, do-gooders and power seekers

• Says neo-Marxists co-opted the common sense of the Western world

• Most parties promote state control, contrary to freedoms that led to prosperity

• But Javier failed to mention the evidence of unfettered finance capital

• Banker oligarchs seek to control the planet's resources for themselves...

• Expropriating land, enclosing people - for which there is also historical precedent

• War is one leg of the policy tripod, with climate, energy: all lead to dispossession

• Loans for war but not for farmers; Germans take their tractors to the streets

• EU president says disinformation is a bigger danger than war or climate

See also:
Argentina’s President-Elect Milei Is An Enigma - Until you look at his WEF, Wallenberg and HSBC connections (Nov 20, 2023)

From Argentina To A Street Near You: A crisis born of elite conceit is about to be exported around the world (Aug 16, 2022)

Supra-National Socialism And Revolutionary Virtue: DEI - diversity, equity and inclusion - are their false gods (Aug 3, 2023)

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Jan 18, 2024

How appropriate that an avowed Libertarian should point out The Emperor's New Clothes in the hallowed halls of Davos.

Argentina's president Javier Milei thumbed his nose at the globalists by eschewing private jets and flying to Switzerland on a commercial Lufthansa flight and attacking the failures of collectivism in its citadel.

Milei is a veteran of the World Economic Forum (WEF), having accompanied former president Carlos Menem, so he knows well the globalist crowd. [1]

We had our doubts. See Argentina’s President-Elect Milei Is An Enigma - Until you look at his WEF, Wallenberg and HSBC connections (Nov 20, 2023)

Many people have been skeptical of Milei, suspecting him of using Libertarianism to win election, while he has ties to powerful banking and corporate interests, and also Zionist interests who are currently using the very un-Libertarian tactic of war to reshape West Asia.

As the Mises Caucus posted, “If this is an act, it's nevertheless an exceptionally entertaining one.”

Let us assume that Milei is speaking from the heart and taking on the globalist project, which we can summarize briefly.

The target

On the one hand we have the WEF which in 2019 signed a partnership with the United Nations to advance Agenda 21, with the target date of 2030, later tightened to 2025. These objectives are hidden behind vague sustainable development goals.

Practical measures include corralling the population into SMART and 15-minute cities, the rewilding of farmland, reduction in energy capacity, restrictions on fertilizer and pesticides, and the consequent reduction in food production.

The UN promotes contradictory goals to reduce hunger, while pursuing open borders and migration into the West where energy and food availability are being reduced; and axing energy and industrial production while claiming that it seeks to reduce poverty.

There is a constellation of individual projects including biometric digital identity or vaccine passports, which would enable social credit ratings and rationing via a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

These are justified under Climate Change and health — or what the WEF this year lumps together as Climate Change Health. Under the guise of reducing carbon dioxide from 0.4 per cent of the atmosphere, the key policies are phasing out use of oil, gas and coal; and reducing the heat from the sun by geoengineering and the spraying of metals, something the press is only now admitting, having for decades ridiculed "chemtrails." [2]

Metals that fill the air include aluminium and barium, while Monsanto coincidentally develops aluminium-resistant seeds. [3]

On the other hand we have the Council on Inclusive Capitalism headed by Lynn Forester de Rothschild and Pope Francis, representing the combined assets of finance capital to force through the above projects in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion. This was announced by Prince Charles in Jun 2020 as The Great Reset.

It is this last cohort that Milei addressed directly for their collectivist claims, and their purported abandonment of free trade and capitalism.

He even came close to mentioning the policy that lies at the root of all the above: depopulation.

Population reduction was described in the Rockefeller-sponsored Club of Rome document, The Limits to Growth, and codified in the Kissinger Report or National Security Study Memorandum 200 in 1974.

This follows from the Convention on Biodiversity which is concerned with genetics and the ownership of DNA. Since the courts maintain that nature itself cannot be patented, ownership can only be attained by modifying DNA.

The critique

Milei called out those motivated by well intentioned urge to help others, and by the desire of some to belong to a privileged caste.

He cited Argentina's fall from one of the world's wealthiest countries after 1860, to collectivism in the 20th, and consequently to 140 in the rank of national wealth.

Since 1800, after the industrial revolution, global per capital GDP multiplied more than 15 times, lifting 90 per cent of the world's population out of poverty. Those in extreme poverty fell from 95 per cent to only 5 per cent, on the eve of the Covid “Great Reset” pandemic.

“Far from being the cause of our problems, free market capitalism as an economic system is the only tool we have to end hunger, poverty and destitution throughout the planet. The empirical evidence is unquestionable, therefore as there is no doubt that free market capitalism is superior in productive terms, the Left has attacked capitalism for its moral issues for being... unjust.

“They claim capitalism is bad because it is individualistic and collectivism is good because it is altruistic towards others. And thus they strive for social justice but this concept, that has become trendy in the developed world, has been a constant in political discourse in my country for over 80 years.”

Social justice is unfair because it is violent. It is unfair “because the state is financed through taxes and taxes are collected coercively — can any of us confidently say that they pay taxes of their own free will? This implies that the state is funded through coercion and that the higher the tax burden, the greater the coercion leading to a reduction in freedom.”

“Those who promote social justice start from the idea that the economy as a whole is a cake that can be distributed in a different way — but that cake is not donated. It is wealth that is generated in what Israel Kirzner called the market discovery process. If the good or service that a company offers is not desired that company goes bankrupt unless it adapts to what the market is demanding.”

Free countries are 12 times richer than repressed ones, he said, with 25 times to 50 times fewer poor people, while citizens of free countries live 25 per cent longer.

He quoted Alberto Benegas Lynch, professor of economics at the University of Buenos Aires, who is also president of the Department of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences:

“Libertarianism is the unrestricted respect for the life project of others based on the principle of non-aggression and in defence of the right to life, liberty and property.”

The West is in danger, Milei said, because of poor theoretical understanding among the political and economic establishment and their desire for power, opening the doors to socialism and potentially condemning us to poverty, misery and stagnation.

Socialism had failed, he said, economically, socially, culturally and also killed more than 100 million people.

He reserved his strongest criticism for neoclassical economics. When it does not match reality, its adherents attribute the error to supposed market failure instead of revising the premises of their model. They pile regulation upon regulation, introducing distortions.

“The market is a mechanism of social cooperation based on voluntary exchange of property rights — thus discussing market failure is a contradiction in terms. The only way there can be a failure is if there is coercion present.

“Neoclassical economists should think outside the box. When the model fails, don't get angry with reality. Get angry with the model and change it.”

“The solution that collectivists will propose is not greater freedom but greater regulation... until we all become poorer and the lives of all of us depend upon a bureaucrat sitting in a luxury office.”

“Given the resounding failure of collectivist models and the undeniable advantages of the free world, socialists were forced to change their agenda. They replaced the class struggle with new battles: the fight between man and woman, and of humans against nature… They argue that humans cause harm to the planet and that it must be protected at all costs, even advocating for population control mechanisms or supporting the controversial agenda of abortion rights.”

“Neo-Marxists have managed to co-opt the common sense of the Western world. They achieved this through the appropriation of the media, culture, universities and even international organisations. This final case is very serious as it involves institutions with huge influence on the political and economic decisions in countries within these multilateral organisations.”

The definition of socialism, he said, is outdated today. States do not need to control the means of production in order to regiment the lives of individuals. They can do so through monetary issuance, debt, subsidy, interest rates, price controls and regulations to correct alleged market failures.

“The politically accepted offering in most countries are collectivist variants whether they call themselves communist, fascist, Nazi, socialist, social democrat, national socialist, Christian democrat, Keynesian, neo-Keynesian, progressives, populists, nationalists or globalists. Everyone argues that the state should control all aspects of individual life; all define a model contrary to the one that led humanity to the most spectacular progress in its history.”

The Argentine case was, he said, the empirical proof that regardless of wealth, natural resources, population capability, education levels or the amount of gold bars in the central bank's coffers, these factors do not guarantee success.

“If measures are adopted that hinder the free functioning of markets, free competition, free price systems, if trade is hindered, if private property is attacked, the only possible destination is poverty.

“Don't be intimidated by the political class or the parasites who live off the state. Don't yield to a political class that only wants to prolong its power and preserve its privileges... The state is not the solution; the state is the problem itself.”

Talk or action

It is hard to disagree with much that Milei said.

Since the corporation and finance capital is more powerful than the state, the latter will always be to tool of corporate power. The way to contain that power is to de-fang the state and push corporate power back where it belongs — into producing goods and services, and not trying to re-engineer society.

Klaus Schwab's spies had likely alerted him to Milei's views. Schwab recently said that Libertarianism is the biggest threat to the system he's trying to build. He identified Libertarianism as the main obstacle to “shareholder capitalism” or centralised economies.

“You have this anti-system movement... which is called Libertarianism, which means to tear down everything which creates some kind of influence of government into private life.”

But are the globalists driven, as Milei claims, by a resurgence of collectivism; a well-intentioned desire to help others, and the desire of some to belong to a privileged caste — or do we witness the irrational exuberance of the same capitalism that Milei seeks to defend?