Thew Economic forum at Davos represents no one but the rich and the industrialists of the world the politicians are their cap in hand at their beckoning to pay lip services to the world business community `s edicts. It has no democratic mandate from any nation let alone any democratic world context. For the last 44 years it has been the unaccountable ruler of the world markets Disguising its operations behind Blink and luxury of the Swiss Alps. It is no wonder that the bulk of the people of this planet feel disenfranchised and without any voice and resort to terrorism, rioting and civil disobedience! It is time the elected representatives of the people across the world speak for the people and stopped this sort of sucking up to the rich.
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Davos Draws Social Media Scrutiny
By CHRISTINE HAUSER
It’s January, and for some of the movers and
shakers in business and banking, that means it’s time to meet with other
members of the global elite at an Alpine ski resort in Switzerland.
But even before it starts, the World Economic Forum — which gets rolling Wednesday, after an opening ceremony on Tuesday, and runs through Jan. 25
in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland — is being scrutinized on social media
with an especially sharp eye on one of this year’s themes: economic
inequality.
Some of the online discussion focused on how few delegates are women — only 15 percent of the more than 2,500 participants attending — and whether the profile of the attendees adequately represented the world.
In a series of remarks on Twitter, Kumi Naidoo, the executive director
of Greenpeace, suggested the gathering was no more than an exercise in
self-preservation, and he linked to a 2011 article by Mr. Sorkin that laid out the costs of attending the forum, which reaches about $70,000 for membership and an attendance ticket.
Lets face facts Davos is just a big jolly for the unelected rich and powerful to have a party at our expense while they decide how they are going to bleed us dry this year. A better Idea would be if the world economic forum was a meeting of the workers of the world to make suggestion to the politicians on how the world should be run. It would at least be more democratic than it currently is.
