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Davos Man:

Harvard professor and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund Kenneth Rogoff told Bloomberg that following WEF 2016 he “started to grow concerned” then-candidate Donald J. Trump would become the next president of the U.S. because his fellow frequent attendees of the gathering in the Swiss town of Davos were certain that Mr. Trump would not win.

“A joke I’ve told 1,000 people in the months since leaving Davos is that the conventional wisdom of Davos is always wrong,” said the former IMF chief who is scheduled to attend Davos again this year along with some 3,000 other members of the political, business, media, and academic elite.

“No matter how improbable, the event most likely to happen is the opposite of whatever the Davos consensus is,” he added.
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Davos also failed to predict the rise of populism in Europe, Italy’s rejection of constitutional change that led to the resignation of Prime Minister Mattheo Renzi, or the UK voting to leave the European Union (EU) which Forbes described as the “populist revolt against Davos Man”.

“Davos Man” was coined by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington who described “these transnationals” as “[having] little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite’s global operations”.
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sounds like the views of some of our posters, who as a result of such views proved to be equally lacking in prescience

With populism high on the agenda at Davos, one of the sessions will include a panel of psychologists offering thoughts on “cultivating appropriate emotions in a time of nationalist populism”.
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can you believe what snowflakes these globalist elite are?


http://www.breitbart.com/london/201...rong-wef-globalism-fuelled-populist-backlash/
 
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‘Silent Fear’: Party of Davos Founder Plans Emergency D.C. Meeting to Discuss How to Handle Donald Trump
Klaus Schwab, who in 1971 founded the group that eventually became the World Economic Forum which hosts the annual retreat for business, political and cultural elites in the Swiss Alps, told Bloomberg that the event in Washington, D.C.—which was previously not planned—is going to be meant to address globalist concerns with the rise of populism as evidenced by the election of Trump to the presidency.

Schwab said that the Davos gathering is not supposed to be about the glamorous parties and receptions for the elites present, or about the “outrageous excesses of life” exhibited by them there, but rather his goal is to create a “global village” where in the words of Morris and Schatzker “participants can mull weighty issues facing the world without the distractions of a large city.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ency-d-c-meeting-discuss-handle-donald-trump/
 
According to the NYT:

Most of the events center on talking. But beyond lectures and panel discussions, the agenda also features more esoteric attractions. One notable event is a simulation of a refugee’s experience, where Davos attendees crawl on their hands and knees and pretend to flee from advancing armies.
 
simosfrostyone said:
According to the NYT:

Most of the events center on talking. But beyond lectures and panel discussions, the agenda also features more esoteric attractions. One notable event is a simulation of a refugee’s experience, where Davos attendees crawl on their hands and knees and pretend to flee from advancing armies.
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Sounds realistic. Did the article mention if this authentic refugee experience simulation will be before of after the foie de gras, Beluga caviar, Dom Perignon, and Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1945?
 
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simosfrostyone said:
According to the NYT:

Most of the events center on talking. But beyond lectures and panel discussions, the agenda also features more esoteric attractions. One notable event is a simulation of a refugee’s experience, where Davos attendees crawl on their hands and knees and pretend to flee from advancing armies.
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LOL! Millionaires and billionaires feel your pain.
 
BobStackFan4Life said:
Trump would never get on the floor and crawl around on his hands and knees. He's a well known germophobe.
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You can get much more control of your piss standing up. Especially when, like trump, you got dat dicky do disease.
 
The whole simulation nonsense reminds you of Marie Antoinette and her maids playing peasant at the Trianon Palace in the gardens of Versailles. Wonder what comes next?
 
sailordeac said:
The whole simulation nonsense reminds you of Marie Antoinette and her maids playing peasant at the Trianon Palace in the gardens of Versailles. Wonder what comes next?
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We put the rich in guillotines?
 
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