The Davos Question

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, 28 January 2008 01:09.

On Saturday the little big men of the World Economic Forum checked out of their Davos hotels and made the hop home in the company Gulfstream. Along with the customary hookers and political whores, the high-powered networking and, doubtless for some, the plain high, our heroes left behind all that damned public caring - at least, for another year.

Actually, the caring thing was pretty well done this year. They concocted a public relations exercise involving a somewhat bland question:-

What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?

There was a lot of hot air vented about knowledge and poverty, climate change, and water. But the hot button issues among the real players were the decline of the dollar as the world currency and the threat of a US recession. These merely reflects the corporate-heavy interests of the Davos “community”. Of the issue of the rights and interests of real people and peoples there was, of course, no sign. Or almost no sign. This report appeared this morning in the lower middle-class rag, the Sunday Express:-

EUROPEANS THINK ISLAM IS DANGEROUS

AN “overwhelming majority” of Europeans believe immigration from Islamic countries is a threat to their traditional way of life, a survey revealed last night. The poll, carried out across 21 countries, found “widespread anti-immigration sentiment”, but warned Europe’s Muslim population will treble in the next 17 years. It reported “a severe deficit of trust is found between the Western and Muslim communities”, with most people wanting less interaction with the Muslim world.

Last night an MP warned it showed that political leaders in Britain who preach the benefits of unlimited immigration were dangerously out of touch with the public.

The study, whose authors include the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, was commissioned for leaders at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. It reports “a growing fear among Europeans of a perceived Islamic threat to their cultural identities, driven in part by immigration from predominantly Muslim nations”.

Now, I’ve been all over the WEF’s brave new website and I can’t find a trace of the former Arch-Songster’s study. Which is odd. The only half-useful mention of migration which crops up via a word search on the site concerns this curious working session:-

The Workforce’s New Demographics

Panellists provided a cautionary discussion of the disparate yet convergent trends affecting the global labour market.

Some insights from this session include:

* Changes under way in workforce demographics have significant importance for the global agenda. The major trends include an ageing population, the return of women to the workforce and shifting migration patterns.

* The dominant demographic event of this century is what is known as the “demographic transition” in which high rates of fertility and mortality have been replaced by low rates of both. One panellist noted that world population has doubled since 1945 but in the next 50 years, Europe will experience population decline and population ageing.

* The general age structure is a powerful influence on workforce demographics since the productive capacity of an economy is inextricably linked to the proportion of people able to work.

* No single demographic cycle governs the global labour force; each region has a distinct demographic pattern. While Europe is a haven of jobs looking for workers, Africa is a repository of workers looking for jobs. Replacement migration could be a solution to shortages in the labour force, i.e. international migration to offset population decline and ageing. However, such measures cannot be adopted in the face of current entrenched political resistance in destination countries.

* On average, human beings are living longer today. Life expectancy could potentially reach 100 sometime between 2060-2100, according to projections. Moreover, the “compression of morbidity” as people reach old age in a healthy condition is also affecting more and more societies.

* The transformative nature of demographic change is akin to an earthquake. Figures from the US show that in the 1980s and 1990s, the US enjoyed a positive demographic dividend, i.e. a rise in the rate of economic growth as a result of the number of working-age people. Women entering the workforce, baby boomers entering the labour market and a higher fraction of people with secondary education all contributed to this positive development. However, since 2000 the US has witnessed no net increase in native-born Americans and birth rates are extremely low among educated women.

* The answer to the oft-posed question of whether there is a labour shortage is therefore a categorical “yes,” declared one panellist. But the labour shortage itself is not the whole problem. There is also a skills shortage expressed differently in different regions, e.g. an absence of sales positions in US and a lack of manual labour in Europe.

* Another panellist urged employers to recognize the dearth of talent. To compound the problem, it was noted, members of the 25-34 age group stay only an average of 2.9 years in their place of employment. For long-term success, companies must engage in concerted efforts to retain good staff and redirect traditional conceptions of career to take into account the shifting expectations of this workforce, going so far as to redefine the “corporate ladder” as a “corporate lattice”.

* Panellists bemoaned the fact that in spite of the importance of demographics, the subject is not at the forefront of public discourse. They exhorted the World Economic Forum to convene further meetings on the topic. It was also remarked that although trade can rely on a world system, there is a conspicuous absence of a world regime governing the movement of people. Novel approaches to education must also be introduced, and the key lies in a “change to the deep structure”.

So here’s the real Davos question: What the hell does that last sentence mean ... what is not being plainly said here, and why?

Tags: Globalisation

Comments:

Posted by skeptical on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:07 | #

...Novel approaches to education must also be introduced, and the key lies in a “change to the deep structure”.

So here’s the real Davos question: What the hell does that last sentence mean ... what is not being plainly said here, and why?

It means that our people will continue to be toyed with by the international [cough] “elite” for the interim. What else is new.

Posted by Blue Baron on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:52 | #

The only way to assuage Europe’s fear of Muslims is to increase their numbers. Only be living by and with more Muslims from Africa, Indonesia, and ME will Europeans realize these immigrants too can be English, German, Dutch and French.

Just look how well this model has worked in Brazil and the US.

Posted by GT on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:29 | #

According to my son’s Calculus I teacher, deep structure mathematics is about “proving the proofs.” Proving proofs is done in English, compositional style. Points are lost for correct answers using traditional math proofs. Points are gained for compositional proofs reflecting (an arbitrarily determined) “understanding” of how a problem should be solved. Every White boy, two White girls, and several East Asians enrolled in this class were forced to repeat Calc I with a traditional teacher.

The teacher, a white male, had a huge problem with traditional “either-or” logic - too White and patriarchic, according to the teacher.

Posted by Steve Edwards on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:56 | #

“Replacement migration could be a solution to shortages in the labour force, i.e. international migration to offset population decline and ageing….”

“Replacement migration” indeed! That is only one noun away from forming the more accurate compound. But they have essentially admitted all we need to know - the elites want to “replace” indigenous people with aliens. That seems like a pretty big change to me, no? How about a referendum on the issue, clearly stating that this is exactly what the elites would like to carry out? Is that too much to ask?

Posted by Lurker on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:50 | #

Its also interesting as we find the elite ‘know’ what the correct size of population is for a given country.

Posted by Prozium on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:47 | #

The Big Boyz at Davos aren’t so bullish this year.

Asian Markets Drop, Tracking Wall Street

Financial crisis to hit 20,000 London jobs

Crisis grips European hedge funds

Who is going to be the next Long-Term Capital Management?

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:50 | #

Steve, that same pair of words caught my eye last night when I read the entry, and the same interpretation struck me: they’re admitting they’re deliberately replacing races.

Of course they’ve always known what they’re doing. This carelessness in divulging it in plain words means simply they feel highly confident no one can stop them at this stage.

The worst crime in the history of civilization — the past ten thousand years, let’s say (figuring the first towns began something like that long ago) — is being perpetrated right before our eyes in broad daylight and still insufficient numbers of Euros have awoken to call it off. We largely have women’s suffrage to thank for that —for it all having been such a cake-walk for the Jews (and for lots of other crap as well).

You cannot permit women anywhere within a mile’s radius of a voting booth without first putting in place an array of iron-clad protections, otherwise your society will be blown to smithereens in short order, absolutely guaranteed. Women will never vote to preserve nation and race because women don’t see nation and race.

Posted by Astrid on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:31 | #

Fred,

I don’t think anyone would argue with me that men are the first line of defense against an enemy attack, before women and children. At this time, I have to ask, where the hell are the White men? Except for ranting, raving, grumbling and arguing amongst themselves on the internet, I see and hear few of them trying to save the US.

In light of this, to turn and blame women for the current situation is truly shameful. I can’t imagine that what you claim about women voting is true.

Before women got sucked out of the home and into the ‘workplace,’ I doubt that many woman would have dreamt, in their wildest dreams, of being disloyal to family and therefore race. Now, I guess, so many are brainwashed. But men are brainwashed too, apparently, to feel helpless and do nothing.

Astrid

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:51 | #

“men are the first line of defense against an enemy attack, before women and children. At this time, I have to ask, where the hell are the White men? Except for ranting, raving, grumbling and arguing amongst themselves on the internet, I see and hear few of them trying to save the US.” (—Astrid)

Astrid makes an excellent statement. I wish more like her would speak up. The guilty parties among white men are those whose hands were on the levers of power when the present catastrophe was just starting decades ago and those whose hands are right now on those levers. Men like President Bush and his father. They’ve not only failed to act in our defense, they’ve not only failed even to simply sound the alarm so we could act in our own defense, they’ve actually collaborated with the enemy in actively lying to us and threatening us, and in helping to suppress us and keep us from acting.

“Where are white men?” The answer is the ones whose hands are nowhere near the levers of power are clearing their heads, figuring out what’s going on, getting angry like the other side cannot imagine (because if they understood how angry we’re getting they’d immediately drop what they’re doing and head for the hills out of pure terror), communicating with one another, and building consensus, the consensus that will be the basis for finally overthrowing all this.

It takes time, unfortunately. But this war will have only one outcome ... and that’s not the outcome the other side is even now preening itself in anticipation of celebrating.

(If the other side is reading this, it’s not too late to head for the hills, guys ... but I won’t be able to guarantee that for much longer ....)

Posted by skeptical on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:46 | #

Astrid,

I am just adding to what Scrooby wrote in his post above:

I don’t think anyone would argue with me that men are the first line of defense against an enemy attack, before women and children. At this time, I have to ask, where the hell are the White men?

The older more traditional male-dominated society, which put White men at the forefront of their family’s defense, has slowly been decimated over the past few decades via the artifices of gender egalitarianism, anti-majoritarianism, and media brainwashing.

Society has, at every turn hindered, the traditional male roles and (when possible) spat upon them in the news & entertainment media (when is the last time you saw a traditional White male father favorably protrayed in a movie?). The White male remnant who still in their hearts hold to the old traditionalist archetypes that informed their fathers have been reduced to a state of bewilderment and are not sure how to proceed in both our public society and their private homes.

The spirit of the traditionally minded White man has at the very least been temporarily suppressed. And it will not return until our race wants it to.

Posted by skeptical on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:50 | #

That picture that I posted in my first comment to this thread is one of the last White farming family’s in what was once known as Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

When Whites are under assault once more (like they are now in Rhodesia) they’ll demand leadership from their men once more.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:41 | #

Here‘s what the open-borders “Down-with-Whites!” people want the United States, the Anglosphere, and every country in Europe to become.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:26 | #

And they’re off to a good start.