Davos and The New World Order

Carney’s role sparks elite control suspicions in the New World Order

The World Economic Forum’s annual Davos shindig is kicking off right now (January 19-23, 2026), and let’s be honest—it’s the same elite circle as always, just with a fresh coat of “A Spirit of Dialogue” paint on top. This year’s gathering in the Swiss Alps has a record crowd: nearly 3,000 big shots from governments, CEOs, and civil society types, including a whopping 400 political leaders and 65 heads of state or government. The agenda? Five big interconnected buzzword salads: cooperating in a “more contested world” (read: geopolitical mess), deploying innovation responsibly (hello, AI takeover fears), unlocking new growth in a sluggish economy, building prosperity without wrecking the planet, and investing in people. Translation: how do we keep the global machine humming amid trade wars, Trump tariffs, AI disruption, and climate headaches, all while pretending multilateralism isn’t on life support?

Enter Mark Carney, Canada’s freshly minted Prime Minister and former WEF darling (he was on their board of trustees back in his banker days). He’s strutting into Davos like the guy who just pivoted Canada away from U.S. dependency with those cheeky China EV deals and Qatar investment grabs. Carney’s got a prime slot: a special address on Tuesday exploring “cooperation in a more contested world”—basically his wheelhouse after calling out the “new world order” during his Beijing trip. He’s there to schmooze investors, pitch Canada as the safe, resource-rich bet for global capital (energy, AI, ag, you name it), and probably huddle with European leaders to plot against Trump’s Greenland threats and tariff tantrums. Expect him to sell diversification hard: “We’ve got options beyond Uncle Sam, folks—come invest!”

Critically? It’s peak hypocrisy theater. Carney, the ex-Goldman Sachs guy turned UN climate envoy turned PM, embodies the Davos ethos: talk big on sustainability, inequality, and cooperation while the ultra-rich (billionaire wealth exploded again last year) keep cashing in and the rest scramble. Many critics are already blasting the event for ignoring skyrocketing inequality—Canada’s own billionaires added hundreds of millions daily in 2024 while poverty lingers. Yet here Carney is, leveraging his old finance Rolodex to lure more money into “nation-building projects,” all under the guise of resilience. Sure, it’s pragmatic realpolitik in a fractured world, but it feels like the same old elite playbook: the powerful network in luxury chalets to decide what’s “best” for everyone else, then pat themselves on the back for “dialogue.”

Bottom line: Davos 2026 is less about solving crises and more about damage control in a Trump-dominated, multipolar mess. Carney’s role? The polished Canadian counterweight—charming Europeans, nodding at China ties, and reminding everyone Canada’s open for business. Whether it actually moves the needle on real issues or just generates more hot air remains to be seen.

The Great Reset

The Great Reset originated as an official initiative from the World Economic Forum (WEF), launched in response to the massive disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

It all kicked off publicly in June 2020, when Klaus Schwab (the WEF’s founder and then-executive chairman) published an article titled “Now is the time for a ‘great reset’ of capitalism.” He argued that the pandemic had exposed deep flaws in global economic and social systems—like inequality, environmental damage, and over-reliance on fragile supply chains—and that this crisis presented a rare “window of opportunity” to rebuild better, not just return to the old normal.

The formal launch happened on June 3, 2020, during a virtual event featuring Schwab, then-Prince Charles (now King Charles III), IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, and others. They framed it as a call for a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world. Schwab outlined three core pillars:

• Shifting to “stakeholder capitalism” (where companies serve not just shareholders but society, workers, and the environment).
• Building back with ESG metrics (environmental, social, governance) for greener, fairer growth.
• Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (AI, robotics, biotech, etc.) for public good rather than pure profit.

This idea became the theme for the WEF’s 2021 annual Davos meeting (delayed due to the pandemic). Schwab and co-author Thierry Malleret expanded on it in their July 2020 book, COVID-19: The Great Reset, which dives into how the virus accelerated the need for systemic change—think greener economies, smarter tech use, and less inequality.

The phrase “Great Reset” itself wasn’t brand new; it echoed earlier ideas, like Richard Florida’s 2010 book on post-financial-crisis recovery, and Schwab’s long-standing push for multi-stakeholder cooperation since founding the WEF in 1971. But the 2020 version tied it directly to the pandemic as a catalyst for radical, positive transformation.

Critically, though? What started as a wonky policy pitch from global elites quickly morphed into one of the internet’s favorite conspiracy magnets. By late 2020, conservative commentators, anti-lockdown groups, and far-right circles spun it into wild claims: that the pandemic was engineered by a shadowy cabal to impose a one-world government, abolish private property (“You’ll own nothing and be happy”), force vaccines for control, or usher in communism under greenwashing. Phrases from leaders like Justin Trudeau or Joe Biden talking about a post-COVID “reset” got cherry-picked as “proof.”

The WEF’s own vague, ambitious language—plus the involvement of billionaires and royals—made it easy fodder. The microsite eventually went 404, and the initiative faded as a headline-grabber post-2022, but the conspiracy version lives on, often blending with anti-globalism narratives.

In short: Officially, it’s a hopeful (if elite-driven) call to fix broken systems using the pandemic as leverage. Unofficially, for many skeptics, it’s Exhibit A of top-down power grabs disguised as progress. The truth is that we can’t trust any “progress/justice pitch” coming from billionaires and their custodians.