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Davos
Jan 26, 2018 0:30:10 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 26, 2018 0:30:10 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/world/europe/davos-trump.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"If he was not exactly entering the lion’s den, it was nonetheless a fraught moment for both sides as the America First president ventured into the lair of the we-are-the-world banking titans, corporate magnates and international leaders who have spent decades preaching the virtues of global integration. Rather than confrontation, both sides labored for conciliation, at least to a point. For one afternoon and evening, at least, Mr. Trump threw no protectionist grenades and even broached the possibility, however remote, that he would re-enter a Pacific trade agreement that he scrapped last year, if it were renegotiated. For its part, the Davos crowd welcomed its top critic with a reception and warm words. The mood was strikingly different from a year ago, when Mr. Trump was about to take office and the globalists meeting in this mountaintop getaway reeled in shock, panicked that his campaign promises meant the end of the movement they had nurtured for decades. A year later, many of the business and political elites remain dismissive of him, privately rolling eyes and using words like “madman,” but there was excitement about economic growth, and the tax cuts and regulatory rollback he has ushered in." Sounds like the amoral minions of Davos and Trump are a match made in Heaven. Or Hell.
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Davos
Jan 26, 2018 16:34:54 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 26, 2018 16:34:54 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/world/europe/donald-trump-davos-speech.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"Still, he was right that stock markets have soared to remarkable heights on his watch and that the American business community had responded to his tax cuts and regulatory rollback with enthusiasm. His surprisingly warm reception here, despite the schism over trade and global affairs, underscored the optimism of many corporate leaders. Klaus Schwab, who founded the World Economic Forum in 1971, not only praised Mr. Trump on stage, but also seemed to exonerate the myriad incendiary actions that have troubled many in the corporate community. ”I’m aware that your strong leadership is open to misconceptions and biased interpretations,” Mr. Schwab said." Well, I knew the Davos crowd was corrupt and hypocritical. I just was not aware how much. I'm done with Davos.
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Davos
Jan 29, 2018 15:13:49 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 29, 2018 15:13:49 GMT -5
I'll always remember 2018 as the year Davos kissed Donald Trump's ass. Like I remember 2016 as the year I killed my manzanita. And 2010 as the year of the Great Christmas Lasagne Disaster.
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Davos
Jan 23, 2019 2:21:42 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 23, 2019 2:21:42 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/world/americas/bolsonaro-populist-davos-forum.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage"Mr. Bolsonaro’s keynote address set the tone for a Davos gathering shorn of its usual retinue of American and European leaders, wrestling with political forces, from Latin America to Europe, that are starkly at odds with this conference’s ethos of global cooperation and a liberal world order. With his nationalist instincts, strongman style, and history of making crude statements about women, gay people and indigenous groups, Mr. Bolsonaro is in many ways the very antithesis of a “Davos Man” — the term once used to describe the type of person who attends the annual conference. A 63-year-old former Army officer whose victory symbolized the frustration of Brazilians with their corrupt governing elite, he has acted swiftly since taking power to loosen restrictions on guns, curb lesbian and gay rights, and put civil-society groups under tighter control." So who should show up at Davos this year? Not Trump, praising nationalism, or Xi, defending globalism, but the latest populist demagogue from Brazil. May he not live long and not prosper.
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Davos
Jan 26, 2019 13:40:50 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 26, 2019 13:40:50 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/automation-davos-world-economic-forum.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Business"DAVOS, Switzerland — They’ll never admit it in public, but many of your bosses want machines to replace you as soon as possible. I know this because, for the past week, I’ve been mingling with corporate executives at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. And I’ve noticed that their answers to questions about automation depend very much on who is listening. In public, many executives wring their hands over the negative consequences that artificial intelligence and automation could have for workers. They take part in panel discussions about building “human-centered A.I.” for the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” — Davos-speak for the corporate adoption of machine learning and other advanced technology — and talk about the need to provide a safety net for people who lose their jobs as a result of automation. But in private settings, including meetings with the leaders of the many consulting and technology firms whose pop-up storefronts line the Davos Promenade, these executives tell a different story: They are racing to automate their own work forces to stay ahead of the competition, with little regard for the impact on workers." There has always been tension between employers and employees. Maybe replacing them with automation is a good thing. Who wants to do a job a robot can do? And it will motivate more people to become self-employed, which is the final solution to the employer/employee problem.
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Davos
May 4, 2019 1:41:46 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on May 4, 2019 1:41:46 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/opinion/joe-biden.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Is Donald Trump an aberration? If he is, Joe Biden is the perfect Democratic candidate to defeat him next year, the steady hand that can restore decency, steer a middle course between Wall Street and Main Street, and reinvigorate the shaken liberal democratic order. I don’t think Trump is an aberration. On the contrary, he’s the face, however duplicitous, of a revolution against the Party of Davos, the network of elites whose economic and cultural prescriptions came to be seen by myriad voters across the United States and Europe as camouflage for a self-serving heist. Biden has been a regular attendee at Davos. Trump’s brilliance lay in seeing that he could become the perfect impostor, the wealthy and highly visible figurehead of a 21st-century movement of the dispossessed and the invisible. He could be their voice. He could say the unsayable. He could disrupt. He could restore violence to a wan political stage of PowerPoint slides. He could take on the China that had put millions of people to work on the cheap in its factories and so, from the Midwest to the British Midlands, de-industrialized much of the West." Wasn't Trump a big hit at Davos a couple of years ago? That's what I remember.
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Davos
Jan 22, 2020 21:22:43 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 22, 2020 21:22:43 GMT -5
I've been so out of touch I totally missed this year's Davos. I guess Fearless Leader was there patting himself on the shoulder.
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Davos
Jan 29, 2020 14:21:05 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 29, 2020 14:21:05 GMT -5
Ha-ha! Davos is now becoming the object of a bit of contempt in the media. They even have a term for it: Davos Man, a rich globalist elitist flying into Davos on their personal plane, partying between lectures on how to make the world safe for billionaires. Which means prolonging the Age of Excess as long as possible.
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Davos
Jan 31, 2020 1:22:23 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 31, 2020 1:22:23 GMT -5
Also, the billionaire geezer who started Davos is on his last legs. It may not survive his demise.
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Davos
Feb 25, 2021 21:46:18 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Feb 25, 2021 21:46:18 GMT -5
Wow, Davos came and went without a peep. Is it because the elites couldn't party because it was all virtual? Or is it because the credibility of the globalists has waned so much?
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Davos
Jan 25, 2022 1:28:53 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 25, 2022 1:28:53 GMT -5
Just when we thought Davos has been forgotten, the conspiracy nuts like Glenn Beck have picked up on the theme of the last year’s meeting which was “The Great Reset.” Whatever that is. I guess I have to do more (yawn) research.
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Davos
Apr 9, 2023 0:55:09 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Apr 9, 2023 0:55:09 GMT -5
When I started this thread ten years ago I had no idea Davos would become so notorious. Now it is the center of all sorts of conspiracy theories, like the Council on Foreign Relations was when I was in college. Now people want to forget how Trump was feted at Davos in 2016.
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Davos
Jan 19, 2024 20:23:32 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 19, 2024 20:23:32 GMT -5
Yes, Davos is back. I listened to Milel make his case for Libertarianism.
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Davos
Jan 20, 2024 0:45:33 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 20, 2024 0:45:33 GMT -5
I know that people don’t give a rats ass about Davos, but it amuses me and that’s what matters. Right now I’m listening to Biden’s boy Blinky make his spiel. Lots of Neocon platitudes. Nice hair, dude. Hair is destiny.
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Davos
Jan 20, 2024 3:18:34 GMT -5
Post by jdredd on Jan 20, 2024 3:18:34 GMT -5
Now I’m listening to Jake Sullivan spew the Biden party line. Predictable cliches, but I guess that’s an apparatchik’s job. And what a baby. And his hair sucks.
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