Economy
Heritage Foundation president tells Davos: Future Trump admin must reject all WEF ideas

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos
From LifeSiteNews
The Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts said that everyone in the next administration must ‘compile a list of everything thatās ever been proposed at the World Economic Forum’ and object to ‘all of them, wholesale.’
The president of the conservative Heritage Foundation in said in his appearance at Davos that the next Republican administration needs to reject āeverything thatās ever been proposed at the World Economic Forum.ā
Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation, the leading conservative think tank in the U.S., said during aĀ panel discussionĀ called āWhat to Expect from a Possible Republican Administration?ā that āthe kind of person who will come into the next conservative administration is going to be governed by one principle and that is destroying the grasp that political elites and unelected technocrats have over the average person.ā
BREAKING – @Heritage President @KevinRobertsTX calls out globalist elites at WEF
He said the next Republican administration needs to ācompile a list of everything thatās ever been proposed at the World Economic Forum and object [to] all of them, wholesale.ā #WEF24 pic.twitter.com/DXmlZUoCOA
— Andreas Wailzer (@Andreas_Wailzer) January 18, 2024
āAnd if I may, I will be candid and say that the agenda that every single member of the administration needs to have is to compile a list of everything thatās ever been proposed at the World Economic Forum and object [to] all of them, wholesale.ā
āAnyone not prepared to do that and take away this power of the unelected bureaucrats and give it back to the American people in unprepared to be part of the next conservative administration.ā
Trump admin will ātrust the scienceā and reject push of gender ideology
Roberts said that the idea that the WEF is defending āliberal democracyā and the suggestion that Trump would be a ādictatorā are both ālaughable.ā
My message to the self-appointed global elites: Your time is up. pic.twitter.com/Wj2Bntjztz
— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) January 18, 2024
āWhoever is the next conservative president is going to take on the power of the elites,ā he declared.
āPolitical elites tell the average people on three or four or five issues, that the reality is X, when in fact reality is Y.ā
Roberts went on to list five things as examples that President Trump will take on if he is elected:
āTake immigration: elites tell us that open borders and even illegal immigration are okay, the average person tells us in the United States that both rob them of the American way of life.ā
āElites also tell us that public safety isnāt a problem in American cities. Just travel to New York or Washington or Dallas, Texas. The average person will tell you that the lack of public safety damages not just the American way of life but their life.ā
āThirdly, I guess the favorite at the World Economic Forum, is climate change. Elites tell us that we have this existential crisis with so-called āclimate change,ā so much so that climate alarmism is probably the greatest cause for [the] mental health crisis in the world. The solutions, the average person knows, based on climate change are far worse and more harmful and cost more human lives, especially in Europe during the time that you need heating, than to the problems themselves.ā
āThe fourth: China. The number one adversary not just to the United States but to free people on planet Earth. Not only do we at Davos not say that, we give the Chinese Communist Party a platform. Count on President Trump ending that nonsense.ā
āAnd fifth, another supernational organization, the World Health Organization, is discussing foisting gender ideology upon [the] Global South. These are practices that are under review if not being rejected, by countries in Northern Europe.ā,
āThe new president, especially if it is President Trump, will, as you like to say, ātrust the science.ā He will understand the basic biological reality of manhood and womanhood.ā
āI think President Trump, if in fact he wins a second term, is going to be inspired by the wise words of Javier Milei, who said that he was in power not to guide sheep but to awaken lions,ā Roberts concluded.
Roberts: āIāll probably never be invited backā to the WEF
In a video published on his X account shortly before his appearance in Davos, Roberts said that āfor too long, the self-appointed globalist elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland have lorded over you and me.ā
This morning, I'll be joining #WEF24 to usher the Davoisie into early retirement. Tune in live at 10:15 a.m. EST.
š: https://t.co/VIJtdayL8b pic.twitter.com/Oozlr19HmW
— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) January 18, 2024
āAnd youāll never guess, the president of the Heritage Foundation was invited this year to go, and against my preference, Iām going, on your behalf, to read those people the riot act.ā
āTheir time of lording over us has come to an end, whether itās COVID lockdowns, riding over there in their beautiful fancy private jets while lecturing us at the same time, sometimes while on the plane, that climate change is an existential threat.ā
āIām going to talk about all of it. Iāll probably never be invited back, but considering I never wanted to go in the first place, I look forward to it.ā
Bjorn Lomborg
The stupidity of Net Zero | Bjorn Lomborg on how climate alarmism leads to economic crisis

From spiked on YouTube
Note: This interview is focused on Europe and the UK.Ā It very much applies to Canada. The 2025 Federal Election which will see Canadians choose between a more common sense approach, and spending the next 4 years continuing down the path of pursuing “The Stupidity of Net Zero”.
European industry is in freefall, and Net Zero is to blame.
Here, climate economist Bjorn Lomborg ā author of Best Things First and False Alarm ā explains how panic over climate change is doing far more damage than climate change itself.Ā Swapping cheap and dependable fossil fuels for unreliable and expensive renewables costs our economies trillions, but for little environmental gain, Lomborg says.
Plus, he tackles the myth of the āclimate apocalypseā and explains why there are more polar bears than ever.
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Business
Scott Bessent Says Trumpās Goal Was Always To Get Trading Partners To Table After Major Pause Announcement

From theĀ Daily Caller News Foundation
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Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent told reporters Wednesday that President Donald Trumpās goal was to have major trading partners agree to negotiate after Trump announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for many countries after dozens reached out to the administration.
Trump announced the pause via a WednesdayĀ postĀ on Truth Social that also announced substantial increases in tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States, saying 75 countries had asked to talk. Bessent said during a press event held alongside White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt that Trump had obtained āmaximum leverageā to get trading partners to negotiate with the April 2Ā announcementĀ of reciprocal tariffs.
āThis was his strategy all along,ā Bessent told reporters during an impromptu press conference at the White House. āAnd that, you know, you might even say that he goaded China into a bad position. They, they responded. They have shown themselves to the world to be the bad actors. And, and we are willing to cooperate with our allies and with our trading partners who did not retaliate. It wasnāt a hard message: Donāt retaliate, things will turn out well.ā
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ChinaĀ imposedĀ retaliatory tariffs on American exports to the communist country Wednesday, imposing an 84% tariff on U.S. goods after Trump responded to a 34% tariff by taking American tariffs to 104%.
āBased on the lack of respect that China has shown to the Worldās Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately,ā Trump said. āAt some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable.ā
āThey kept escalating and escalating, and now they have 125% tariffs that will be effective immediately,ā Bessent said during the press conference.
Bessent said that Chinaās actions would not harm the United States as much as it would their own economy.
āWe will see what China does,ā Bessent said. āBut what I am certain of, what Iām certain of, is that what China is doing will affect their economy much more than it will ours, because they have an export-driven, flood the world with cheap export model, and the rest of the world now understands.ā
The Dow Jones Industrial average closed up 2,962.86 points Wednesday, with the NASDAQ climbing by 1,755.84 points and the S&P 500 rising 446.05 points,Ā accordingĀ to FoxBusiness.
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