Argentina's 'chainsaw' president tells the UN to shove its 'socialist' 'Pact for the Future'



Javier Milei, Argentina's self-proclaimed "anarcho-capitalist" president, took office in December 2023. In the months since, he has taken a "chainsaw" to his predecessors' failed leftist policies as well as to some critics' doubts.

This week, he shredded globalist hopes that the Argentine Republic would be party to the United Nations' "Pact for the Future," telling the General Assembly, "Argentina will not back any policy that implies the restriction of individual freedoms or trade, nor the violation of the natural rights of individuals."

Milei — whose debut address to the U.N. took place within hours of reports indicating that Argentina's economic activity beat estimates, growing 1.7% in July — invited other nations to join him not only in "opposing this pact, but in the creation of a new agenda for this noble institution: the freedom agenda."

After noting that the U.N. served a noble purpose in the wake of World War II, Milei stated it has since "stopped upholding the principles outlined in its founding declaration and begun to mutate" — from an organization that once defended human rights to "one of the main drivers of the systematic violation of freedom."

Milei dragged the U.N. for its support of "global quarantines during the year 2020," which he suggested qualify as crimes against humanity, as well as its appeasement of "bloody dictatorships," such as Venezuela, and criticism of Israel.

According to the Argentine president, the U.N. was created "as a shield to protect the realm of men" but has "transformed into a multi-tentacled leviathan that seeks to decide not only what each nation-state should do but also how all the citizens of the world should live."

'It is basically an attempt to build a totalitarian system of conformity across the business sector.'

Milei suggested that instead of seeking peace, the U.N. now seeks to impose an ideology on its members.

Distinguishing himself from a great many onlookers as a "libertarian liberal economist" rather than a politician, Milei warned of the threat posed by "collectivist policies" baked into the U.N.'s doomed 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The U.N.'s 2030 agenda includes 17 interlinked global goals designed to "transform the world."

Paul Tice, an adjunct professor of finance at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, indicated in his recent book, "The Race to Zero: How ESG Investing Will Crater the Global Financial System," that:

Climate action (SDG #13) provides the intersectional glue for the entire progressive agenda embedded in the UN's sustainability program, with each individual cause drawing strength and further validation from the moral imperative of saving the planet from fossil fuels because, in the UN's telling, climate change also affects global health, poverty, hunger, and national security, and 'its adverse impacts undermine the ability of all countries to achieve sustainable development.

Tice emphasized that sustainability is part of a broader anti-capitalist campaign that "borrows elements from both the totalitarian and reformist approaches of the past."

"It is basically an attempt to build a totalitarian system of conformity across the business sector based on moral suasion, thereby avoiding the administrative cost and public sector responsibility associated with outright state ownership or direct government intervention," wrote Tice.

'[The sustainability agenda] is nothing more than a super-national socialist government program.'

The professor noted further that "it embraces both state and progressive priorities but is mainly the fabrication of a permanent supranational bureaucracy of technocrats residing at multilateral agencies led by the UN and international NGOS such as the WEF, which effectively insulates it from accountability at the ballot box."

Sharing similar concerns about the U.N. agenda and its broader sustainability push, Milei suggested that the U.N. is now effectively a model of "super-national governance by international bureaucrats who intend to impose a certain way of life on the citizens of the world."

According to Milei, the "Pact for the Future," which 143 countries approved Sunday, is par for the course.

The pact overlaps with the 2030 sustainability agenda, laying out objectives for a multilateral approach to addressing changing weather patterns, so-called reproductive rights, and digital cooperation.

"Although well-intentioned in its goals, [the pact] is nothing more than a super-national socialist government program that aims to solve the problems of modernity with solutions that undermine the sovereignty of nation-states and violate the right to life, liberty, and property of individuals," said the Argentine president. "It is an agenda that aims to solve poverty, inequality, and discrimination with legislation that only deepens these issues."

Milei suggested that the pact is another poorly conceived utopian program that will not withstand or tolerate humans' incompatible nature and choices.

"We want to officially express our dissent regarding the 'Pact of the Future' signed on Sunday," said Milei, concluding with a version of a quote from Thomas Paine: "Those who wish to reap the blessings of freedom must, as men, endure the fatigue of defending it."

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Investors optimistic about Milei's ability to bring Argentina back from the brink



In the early 20th century, Argentina was one of the world's richest nations. After six major military coups and decades of reckless spending, the nation was reduced to a shambles such that when libertarian economist Javier Milei replaced outgoing leftist President Alberto Fernandez on Dec. 10, 2023, inflation was set to reach 211%; 45% of the population was impoverished; and Argentina owed $44 billion to the International Monetary Fund.

The South American country's problems have not gone away — inflation, for instance, reportedly reached a 12-month rate of 254.2% in January and poverty now affects nearly 60% of the populace — but investors have begun expressing newfound optimism about Argentina's future.

"It seems the market is starting to believe," financial analyst Mariano Sardans of FDI Argentina told Reuters.

This belief is fueled in part by the apparent efficacy of Milei's shock measures and his committment to seeing them through.

Within hours of taking power, the self-proclaimed "anarcho-capitalist" took his metaphoric "chainsaw" to half of Argentina's government ministries; his government allowed for its peso currency to devalue by 50%; and his economy minister Luis Caputo revealed Argentina would be cutting spending by 3% of GDP.

Extra to cutting government spending and making strides toward dollarizing the currency, Milei's government has purchased over $5 billion in dollars to build up their reserves and issued "Bopreal" bonds to tackle import debts. In discussions with the IMF over Argentina's debt, the Milei government has also advocated pursuing even tougher fiscal measures than those deemed reasonable by the international body.

"The market is becoming very optimistic about Javier Milei's conviction," Javier Casabal, a fixed income strategist at Adcap Grup Financiero in Buenos Aires, told Reuters. "It's a real shift worth celebrating, given that most investors did not have confidence in his ability to reduce the deficit just a few weeks ago. If anything, perhaps he's going overboard in some ways."

Milei's follow-through on his austerity scheme has pushed Argentina's risk index to a two-year low and driven some bonds to four-year highs. However, to succeed in his turnaround of the Argentine economy, Milei will likely have to overcome street opposition, provincial protests, and legislative setbacks.

Milei's economic reform bill was, for instance, thwarted in the nation's Congress earlier this month, preventing Milei from privatizing various state entities, reworking myriad regulations, and reducing state subsidies outright.

Reuters reported that the oil-rich province Chubut recently threatened to cut off the nation's energy supply because the Milei government withheld roughly $16 million to pay down some of Chubut's outstanding federal debt.

Extra to the caltrops laid before his austerity agenda by lawmakers and provincial leaders, leftist groups have worked to further paralyze the country. Late last month, the General Confederation of Labor, Argentina's largest trade union, organized a 12-hour general strike to voice anger at the country's rescue from oblivion.

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VIRAL: Watch Javier Milei eviscerate Klaus Schwab and other globalists at WEF annual summit



The World Economic Forum is finishing up its week-long summit in Davos, Switzerland. Among the many speakers was Argentina’s newly elected president, Javier Milei – a man who’s come to represent the idea of liberty in a day when freedom is on the decline in the Western world.

During his speech, Milei took the opportunity to tell “Klaus Schwab and the rest of them to their faces ... ’You guys are the problem, not the solution,”’ reports Sara Gonzales before playing a clip of the president’s speech.

“Today, I'm here to tell you that the Western world is in danger,” Milei began, “and it is endangered because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty.”

“The main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom — for different versions of what we call collectivism. We're here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world; rather, they are the root cause,” he continued.

“Everyone should watch it,” says Jason Buttrill, who calls the speech “a machine gun middle finger." “It is amazing.”

“He's a big-time thinker,” he continues, likening Milei to Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman, “and he has the balls to say what needs to be done.”

To see Milei eviscerate the global elites of the WEF, watch the video below.


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Javier Milei eliminates half of Argentina's government ministries on first day as president



Javier Milei, Argentina's new libertarian president, has wasted no time amputating various bureaucratic tentacles.

Within hours of being sworn into office on Sunday, Milei made good on his vow to take a "chainsaw" both to government spending and to what he called his country's "political caste," signing an executive order to cut the number of government ministries from 18 to nine.

What's the background?

Argentina is suffering 143% annual inflation. Four in 10 Argentines are living in poverty. The country has a trade deficit of over $43 billion and a $45 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund, reported the Associated Press.

Milei, keen to stop the bleeding, proposed his so-called Chainsaw Plan in June 2022, detailing how he would sell off state-owned companies, slash public spending, reduce and simplify taxes, and eliminate the various government agencies seen to be exacerbating the country's financial crisis. Additionally, he suggested the country would adopt the U.S. dollar and shut down Argentina's central bank.

Milei reiterated part of his plan in a video that went viral ahead of the election.

"Ministry of Tourism and Sports — out!" he said, tearing a ministry name tag off a whiteboard. "Ministry of Culture — out! Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development — out! Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity — out! Ministry of Public Works — out, even if you resist!"

Milei also tore off the tags denoting the Ministries of Science, Technology, and Innovation; Labor, Employment, and Social Security; Education; Transportation; Health; and Social Development.

The president-to-be concluded the video by stressing, "The thievery of politics is over. Long live freedom, damn it!"

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Adios, big government

While convention dictates the newly elected president give his inaugural speech to an assembly of lawmakers, Milei instead addressed supporters outside the National Congress building in Buenos Aires, stressing that now is the time for austerity and tough love.

"There's no money," the economist told the crowd.

"We don't have margin for sterile discussions. Our country demands action, and immediate action," said Milei. "The political class left the country at the brink of its biggest crisis in history. We don't desire the hard decisions that will need to be made in coming weeks, but lamentably they didn't leave us any option.

"In the last 12 years, GDP per capita fell 15% in a context in which we accumulated 5,000% inflation. As such, for more than a decade we have lived in stagflation. This is the last rough patch before starting the reconstruction of Argentina," he continued.

Milei added, "It won't be easy; 100 years of failure aren't undone in a day. But it begins in a day, and today is that day."

A century of failure might take some time to undo, but Milei nevertheless got a decent head start Sunday. Milei issued a presidential decree titled "Decree of Necessity and Urgency," which eliminated eight government ministries.

DPA International reported that the Ministries of Social Development, Health, Labor, and Education will all be collapsed and rolled into a new Ministry of Human Capital. What remains of the Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity will be subordinated to this new ministry.

According to the Buenos Aires Herald, a special commission will analyze whether the decree is valid. Afterward, it will go to a vote in the Argentine Senate and Chamber of Deputies. For the decree to be annulled, both chambers must vote to reject it.

The Milei administration characterized the cut as a means "to rationalize the actions of the nation-state and make them more efficient."

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Calculated chaos: The blueprint of collectivism



Chaos is a state in which those on the left thrive best, which is why they’re creating it.

They’ve discredited the press, intelligentsia, and the experts — all while forcing us to listen to them.

“How easy would it be to regain the trust of our doctors and our scientists if they would just come out and say, ‘Yeah, we really blew it here and we’re finding the people responsible for it; we know it was Fauci’?” Glenn Beck asks.

However, as Glenn is aware, they won’t do it.

According to him, this is “because they want experts to continue to be discredited by the average, so that way when there’s chaos on the street — do you trust the police? Do you trust the FBI? Do you trust the medical association? Do you trust the media? Who’s coming for you if there’s real trouble?”

And they’re succeeding in creating a world where no one knows whom to trust, which is why Javier Milei in Argentina is the newly elected president.

He seems like an antidote to the chaos, truth in a political landscape shrouded in lies.

“You can’t give left-tards an inch,” Milei told a news anchor. “If you think differently from them, they will kill you. This is the point, you can’t give ... leftists an inch. If you give them an inch, they will use it to destroy you. You can’t negotiate with left-tards.”

Stu Burguiere thinks Milei — while rather crudely spoken — is being dismissed by people at “their own peril.”

Glenn agrees, noting that everything Milei is saying is focused on “standing up against an ideology of collectivism.”

“I hope he does exactly what he says he’s going to do,” he adds.


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The BIGGEST takeaway from Argentina's 'SHOCKING' presidential election



Javier Milei — an anarcho-capitalist libertarian — has just shocked the world by winning the presidency in socialist Argentina.

Glenn Beck is shocked along with the rest of the world.

“He is the exact opposite of really anything, any kind of politician, that we have seen here that is even close to being president of the United States — even Donald Trump,” he says.

While Milei has been exhaustively compared to Donald Trump by the media, Beck and Stu Burguiere don’t believe they’re that alike at all.

Stu notes that Milei’s closest similarity to Trump is that “he’s super outspoken” but also describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist, “which is not how Donald Trump would describe himself at all.”

The new president's plan apparently includes completely uprooting the current state of the Argentinian government and shutting down different government agencies.

“Is he going to do those things?” Stu asks, adding, “I hope so.”

Argentinian President Javier Milei isn’t the only freedom-loving winner as of late.

On November 22, Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom won 37 seats out of 150 in the Dutch government. Like Milei, Wilders is painted by the opposition as a far-right extremist.

“There’s two people now that the press say, ‘Out of control, worse than Hitler,’” Glenn says, noting that while the press isn’t fond of them — the world seems to be moving more toward a freedom mindset.

“Here’s what you should take away from all of this movement politically, cause it’s happening in Europe, and it’s happening in South America. It is moving away — hard — from the left and going right,” Glenn explains.

“These guys, if they work,” he continues, “this is going to be a huge move for the world, back to more freedom and common sense.”



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