TRUTH about Davos? World Economic Forum is REALLY an Illuminati gathering - claims

THE Davos World Economic Forum is a meeting of the alleged sinister Illuminati global elite, who are plotting to create a global government, conspiracy theorists have claimed.

"What the people want" is just a way to justify whatever the elites want.

It looks like it's not just Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party who are trying to re-brand themselves as populists: the Illuminati are at it, too. At this year's World Economic Forum at Davos – a semi-secretive event held annually in the Swiss Alps where members of the global political and business elite meet to discuss how many tons of human flesh they're going to process for meat in the next year, or whatever – the event's founder, Klaus Schwab, has announced that "it's important to listen to the populists", and expressed a desire for incoming US President Donald Trump to attend next year.

The Republicans Go Full Illuminati

If you're fortunate enough not to be a regular consumer of Fox News, conservative talk radio, or the more colorful outposts of conspiracy theorizing popular on the right, you might think that Robert Mueller is an experienced prosecutor leading a methodical investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. At the end of that investigation, you probably think, Mueller will present his findings, there either will or won't be evidence of serious wrongdoing, some people might be indicted (a couple already have), and whatever the outcome of those criminal cases, our political system will have to sort out what to do about the whole matter, if anything.

But if you do watch Fox or listen to Rush Limbaugh or read websites like Breitbart, you're living in an entirely different reality, in which there's a massive and sinister conspiracy at work and the only appropriate response is to live every moment of every day on the verge of outright panic.

What is the point of Davos?

This week the great and the good will gather at the World Economic Forum in Davos. But do taxpayers actually get any benefit from this gigantic economic shindig?

What do Angela Merkel, Prince Andrew, Al Gore and Pharrell Williams have in common? The answer is that they are all expected in Davos, Switzerland, later this week for the annual gathering held by the World Economic Forum.
While the German Chancellor will no doubt give delegates her views on deflation and the looming return of the eurozone crisis, the Queen’s son is there to promote trade in a speech that might also touch on his own recent difficulties. Meanwhile, the failed US presidential candidate Al Gore will share a stage with Pharrell Williams to discuss climate change.

Mr Williams is the American songwriter and producer famous for the rather controversial hit Blurred Lines. At Davos, all manner of lines are blurred as an unlikely mix of business bosses, bankers, senior politicians, heads of state, tech billionaires, popstars, Nobel Prize-winning economists, media moguls and journalists get together for four days in an Alpine resort.
So what exactly is Davos for? Is anything concrete achieved amid all the glitzy networking and corporate backslapping?

If the secretive and much smaller Bilderberg Group, a rival outfit, is the equivalent of the global elite’s closed board meeting, then Davos is the noisier affair held with the media in attendance – the annual general meeting where shareholders meet their fellow investors and hear what developments are in store.

Davos elite promise global solutions, but they’re part of the problem

Each year in late January, global leaders — politicians, bureaucrats, corporate executives, and public intellectuals — make a pilgrimage to the Swiss town of Davos for the World Economic Forum. Demand is so great, and growing, available accommodations soon may not be sufficient.

These 2,000 or so elites (0.00003% of the world’s population) are the Davos Men (and comparatively few women), a term coined by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington. The average age of the participants is a bit over 50. They are predominately male, with only one in five being female. They represent around 1,000 organizations from 100 countries, although the largest proportion are from Western Europe and North America. Over the course of several days, their views, strategies, and policies will be captured by the paparazzi and an adoring media.
In recent years, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has focused on economic matters and the new global context, encompassing conflicts, instability, and political, economic, and technological changes. But in truth, little of consequence happens at Davos. The real genius of Davos is the concept itself. Founded in 1971 by economist Klaus Schwab, it taps into the world’s voyeurism and innate shallowness.
For 2016, the WEF’s theme was “Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” designed to prepare leaders for a future shaped by technological change. Yet participants ignored the fact that much of what passes for new technology destroys jobs and wages, and exacerbates income inequality, as owners of the technology benefit at the expense of others. It was also unclear where this future technological wonderland fits into a world of unsustainable debt levels, the intractable trajectory of climate change, the slowdown in Europe, Japan and emerging markets, conflict-driven immigration and geopolitical risk.

This year, the focus, ironically, is on “Responsive and Responsible Leadership” — code for confronting the rise of populism that threatens attendees’ control of their societies and economies. Over canapés and mineral water, WEF participants will discuss concepts such as geostrategic competition, new antagonists, global solidarity, exponentially disruptive change, a shared sense of uncertainty, the transformation of human identity, and the shift from traditional hierarchies to networked hierarchies.

Richest 1 percent bagged 82 percent of wealth created last year - poorest half of humanity got nothing

Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase in their wealth, according to a new Oxfam report released today. The report is being launched as political and business elites gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
‘Reward Work, Not Wealth’ reveals how the global economy enables a wealthy elite to accumulate vast fortunes while hundreds of millions of people are struggling to survive on poverty pay.

Billionaire wealth has risen by an annual average of 13 percent since 2010 – six times faster than the wages of ordinary workers, which have risen by a yearly average of just 2 percent. The number of billionaires rose at an unprecedented rate of one every two days between March 2016 and March 2017.
It takes just four days for a CEO from one of the top five global fashion brands to earn what a Bangladeshi garment worker will earn in her lifetime. In the US, it takes slightly over one working day for a CEO to earn what an ordinary worker makes in a year.

It would cost $2.2 billion a year to increase the wages of all 2.5 million Vietnamese garment workers to a living wage. This is about a third of the amount paid out to wealthy shareholders by the top 5 companies in the garment sector in 2016.

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