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Mutiny erupts among WEF staff over role of ‘Mr Davos’

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Re: Mutiny erupts among WEF staff over role of ‘Mr Davos’

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The World Economic Forum is just a company with a specific tax efficient corporate structure that has built a great deal of wealth for the bloke who owns it. Pretending it's something amazingly different to Cannes Film Festival or the Golden Globes would be a mistake. It's just networks + publicity rolled up as a VIP access event. (N.B. Didn't check if Cannes, GG, etc are privately held. Doesn't change my point)

Is it just a company? Or is it also a club similar to Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Club, Le Cercle and others that drawn in powerful elites that collude as a group to coordinate changes to corporate structures and policy that ultimately shape bits and pieces of society and laws of all the first world nations? Companies ultimately fund lobbyists and if most companies are on the same page then these groups of companies c…

The sets intersect, partially at least.

Would make for an interesting Venn diagram.

Edit: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/WEF

Re: Mutiny erupts among WEF staff over role of ‘Mr Davos’

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

By liberal, I mean free-market liberalism (like FDP in Germany). I'm European. It didn't occur to me that people in the U.S. would misunderstand and think "liberal" means "left". Is that the miscommunication that's happening here?

Ha, yes. However I’m a New Zealander in New Zealand.

What do you make of this, then? Third row, on the right side:

https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community?class_year=&pag...

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