Thoughts from the asylum

Thoughts from the asylum

They are all connected

One Organization Inserted into Power

May 29, 2026
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Welcome once again to the Asylum, as we continue the detailed breakdown of the system I outlined at the beginning of this series. We have discussed the what with the article on programming, and we discussed the how with the article on the trackable 5-tiered system of narrative control. Today, we will go over the who. I am going to walk you through the people connections and organizational origins as far as they are documented. I will show you how seemingly independent governments suddenly do the exact same things in the exact same way. This is because those governments are led by very tightly connected people acting in concert. I will endeavor to show how they are acting as agents of an NGO, not representatives of their people. By the end, you will either conclude that the convergence of goals, funding, personnel, and stated intentions across these institutions is the most extraordinary coincidence in the history of modern governance, or you will conclude something else. I am not going to tell you which conclusion to reach. The facts will do that.

Let us start with the World Economic Forum (WEF) because it is the most visible node of the network and because its founder made the mistake, from his perspective, of saying the quiet part out loud on camera. Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in 1971 (The same year the US Dollar went fully fiat, coincidence maybe). Has spent the past fifty years building it into the most influential private organization on earth, bringing together heads of state, central bankers, technology executives, pharmaceutical CEOs, media owners, and cultural figures at the annual Davos summit and through a year-round program of meetings, publications, and policy initiatives. The WEF describes itself as the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. What that means in practice is worth examining, because public-private cooperation is the operational description of the governance model to which your tax dollars and your elected representatives have been subordinated.

The WEF’s origins are less European and more American than its official history suggests. Schwab attended Harvard University in the 1960s, where his professor and mentor was Henry Kissinger, who was then running the Harvard International Seminar. On April 16, 1967, the Harvard Crimson reported that various Harvard programs had been receiving funding from the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA had provided $135,000 to Kissinger’s International Seminar, the program through which Schwab was educated and connected to the American foreign policy establishment via George Bush Sr. Kissinger introduced Schwab to John Kenneth Galbraith and Herman Kahn, two of the most influential figures in American foreign policy thinking. Galbraith flew to Europe to help Schwab convince the European establishment to back the first World Economic Forum in 1971 and delivered its keynote address. Swiss Policy Research, a nonpartisan research institute, documented the conclusion directly: the World Economic Forum was born out of a CIA-funded Harvard program headed by Henry Kissinger.

The organization whose founder says it penetrates national cabinets was itself built by a man whose education and network were funded by the CIA. Whether that represents deliberate design, fortunate coincidence, or simply the way power works in the world is a question you can answer for yourself. The documented origin is not disputed.

Schwab built the WEF’s influence through a specific program that he has described in his own words with a candor that should give every voter in every Western democracy pause. Speaking at Harvard University in 2017, Schwab stated, “What we are very proud of now is that we penetrate the cabinets. So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau, and I know that half of his cabinet, or even more than half of his cabinet, are actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.” Penetrate the cabinets (not in a good way). Those are his words. Not a critic’s characterization. Not an interpretation. The founder of the World Economic Forum, speaking at Harvard, described the relationship between his organization and sovereign national governments as penetration. He cited Trudeau’s cabinet. He cited Macron as a Young Global Leader. He cited Argentina. He said he was “very proud” of it.

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