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A Tempting Target -- World’s Filthy Rich to meet at Davos
by fleet Wednesday, Jan 26 2011, 10:34pm
international / social equality/unity / commentary

According to Forbes, the world’s wealthiest ‘criminals’ (there is no other way to accrue such vast amounts of money) are soon to have their regular gathering at Davos, Switzerland. [“It may well be the greatest concentration of wealth in any one place,” is how Forbes reporter, Luisa Kroll, describes the ‘gathering.’]

It was all I could do to refrain from contacting some Air Force buddies to see what they could do with one well placed missile! There is no doubt that this confab of parasitic scum presents, in today’s world, as an extremely tempting target for the oppressed starving masses and freedom loving people everywhere – I wonder what the starving and EXPLOITED are doing while these parasites discuss various means to enhance their already OBSCENE wealth and the power it affords them?

Those in attendance at Davos represent a large part of the element that has hijacked the world’s, OUR, Democracies! Make no mistake, every politician in the West is OWNED by these Plutocrats. Isn’t it about time we ceased with the inaccuracies, ‘Obama this or the Premier that?’ Obama, like every other politician does what he is told and reads from a policy script largely determined by the filth that attends Davos.

If you wish to know the identities of the men and women that maintain the hardship, wars, starvation, inequality, inequities and HUGE disparities of wealth that exist in the world today, then take a long, hard look at the faces at Davos.

But here’s the crucial take on the situation: the ‘wealth’ these people appear to possess largely consists of abstract commodities; digital and toilet paper money, inedible metallic commodities, stolen Real Estate, as no human being can claim any part of this Earth as ‘private property;’ it has clearly been gifted by the Universe for every living creature to share and thrive on! In FACT these people are ‘rich’ or wealthy simply because we subscribe to a specific wealth fantasy that is culturally sold to us from birth.

Ask the question, what is REALLY VALUABLE to YOU? Allowing a tiny group of filthy, murdering parasites to feed off the blood and misery of humanity or to REJECT THEIR destructive values and work cooperatively with each other for the COMMON GOOD? Social harmony and mutual cooperation is achievable if we replace the manufactured, frustrated, consumerist ‘self’ with the natural, sharing, helpful, LOVING human being – we all know it!

Withdraw your subscription to the perverse values/world these avaricious, murdering pigs create daily, with great effort I might add. B-E-G-I-N (a marvellous word) to THINK and ACT for yourselves. Following another’s prescription or pre-scribed course leads to slavery and misery, don’t we know it?

Forbes article follows:

Davos: Where The (Big) Money Is
by Luisa Kroll

By Forbes' count, 69 billionaires from 20 countries are expected to attend the annual World Economic Forum confab, which starts tomorrow in the Swiss Alps town of Davos. The helicopters whirring above this afternoon suggest that some may have already arrived.

It may well be the greatest concentration of wealth in any one place. Their total net worth, as tracked by Forbes: $427 billion, greater than the combined gross domestic product of Israel and Egypt.

The U.S. has at least 20 billionaires expected to make the trip, more than any other country. Most of them are from the tech and finance industries. Among notables are Hedge Fund managers George Soros, Steven A. Cohen and Louis Bacon; heads of private equity firms Stephen Schwarzmann and Henry Kravis, and tech luminaries like Google’s Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt.

India is a close second with 17 including its two richest citizens, Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi Mittal. Russia whose president, Dmitry Medvedev, is scheduled to make the opening speech tomorrow night, has 9 of its wealthiest.

Some of these billionaires have been coming to the conference for years. For Bill Gates, it will mark his 16^th year. Gates explained why he makes the trip in his 2010 remarks

When I started going in the 1990s the focus was on the wonders of technology and the hot panels were the ones where engineers like myself would discuss how things would improve using technology.

There is some focus every year on reducing the inequities between the rich and the poor which is why the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has found it a good place to discuss new health initiatives.

This year Gates will be participating in a session on Redefining Sustainable Development on Friday, where he’ll be joined by Jim Balsillie, the chairman of Blackberry maker Research in Motion, who is also a billionaire. Gates’ wife Melinda will be a panelist at a session later that day on Raising Healthy Children that will also feature U2 singer Bono and Coca-Cola’s Chief Executive Muhtar A. Kent.

Rahul Bajaj has been coming to the retreat for 33 years, according to an interview in last year’s Economic Times, and will host his annual nightcap at the Hotel Steigenberger Belvedere on Wednesday night; German media baron Hubert Burda and Forbes will host parties at the same time.  

The full list of Davos billionaires, which appears below, only includes people who have appeared on Forbes various wealth lists with a net worth of $1 billion or more. There are others in attendance who we expect will make their debut among the world’s billionaires in March when we release our annual list. Stay tuned,

The billionaires, by country: net worth ($bil)

Bill Gates usa 54.00
Sergey Brin usa 15.00
George Soros usa 14.20
Michael Dell usa 14.00
Steven A. Cohen usa 7.30
Jim Goodnight usa 6.90
Rupert Murdoch usa 6.20
Eric Schmidt usa 5.45
Charles W. Ergen usa 5.20
Stephen Schwartzman usa 4.10
Henry Kravis usa 3.40
Nicholas Berggruen usa 2.20
H. Fisk Johnson usa 2.00
David Rubenstein usa 2.00
Marc Benioff usa 1.80
Louis Bacon usa 1.70
Thomas Pritzker usa 1.60
Henry Ross Perot Jr. usa 1.40
Jonathan Nelson usa 1.35
Scott Cook usa 1.20
Mukesh Ambani india 27.00
Lakshmi Mittal india 26.10
Azim Premji india 17.60
Ravi Ruia india 15.00
Kushal Pal Singh india 9.20
Sunil Mittal india 8.60
Kumar Birla india 8.50
Adi Godrej india 7.50
Malvinder Singh india 4.20
Uday Kotak india 3.40
Rahul Bajaj india 3.00
Ajay Piramal india 1.75
Baba Kalyani india 1.72
Nandan Nilekani india 1.60
Kris Gopalakrishnan india 1.50
Vijay Mallya india 1.45
Naresh Goyal india 1.20
Vladimir Lisin russia 15.80
Oleg Deripaska russia 10.70
Vagit Alekperov russia 10.60
Alexei Mordashov russia 9.90
Vladimir Yevtushenkov russia 7.50
Viktor Vekselberg russia 6.40
Leonid Mikhelson russia 4.40
Dmitry Pumpyansky russia 2.90
Roustam Tariko russia 1.40
Elizabeth Mohn Germany 4.40
Hubert Burda Germany 2.50
Friede Springer Germany 2.50
Stefan von Holtzbrinck Germany 1.80
Sri Prakash Lohia indonesia 2.65
Chairul Tanjung indonesia 1.25
Ernesto Bertarelli switzerland 10.00
Thomas Schmidheiny switzerland 4.30
Ferit Sahenk turkey 2.10
Tuncay Ozilhan turkey 1.30
Jim Balsillie canada 2.30
Zhang Xin china 3.10
Mario Moretti Polegato italy 2.40
Timur Kulibaev Kazakhstan 1.10
Najib Mikati lebanon 2.50

http://blogs.forbes.com/luisakroll/2011/01/25/davos-where-the-big-money-is/

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Blast rocks hotel near Davos meeting
by chela Thursday, Jan 27 2011, 12:30pm

Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:50AM

An explosion has rocked a hotel in close proximity to the venue of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the second day of talks is taking place.

No one was wounded in the blast which occurred around 9 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.

The blast happened in a storage room of the Posthotel Morosani, Thomas Hobi, a regional police spokesman, said.

The shock waves released by the blast shattered two windowpanes of the building.

Police cordoned off the area after the incident and launched an investigation to find out whether the blast had a criminal origin.

MP/MRS

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/162228.html