What is Davos 2018?
- Express
A global political get-together for around 2,500 movers and shakers from the worlds of business, politics, finance and media, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is held annually each year in the town of Davos, Switzerland.
Davos 2018 runs from January 23 to 26 under the theme of “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World” and will be the the 48th forum to date.
WEF’s mission statement says it is “committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas”.
In short, these group of (powerful) people sit and chat and decide what's good for you and the rest of the 7 billion people.
So you get the idea.
Some interesting (and weird) reports have come out from the meet.
Take this one for instance of George Soros, a highly controversial figure of a man, whom I read somewhere sometime ago was arrested and even dead, but yet there he was in Davos talking about the evils of Facebook and Google!
Hmm...Facebook, Google, Soros?
Weird... at least I thought so.
Oh btw ....and coincidentally, I just read yesterday how "they" successfully cloned monkeys (no pun intended).
George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society
- The Guardian- Billionaire says social media companies’ ‘days are numbered’
- Soros warns of ‘far-reaching adverse consequences’ for democracy
“Mining and oil companies exploit the physical environment; social media companies exploit the social environment,”
- George SorosW H A T ?
Really. He said that. Read the transcript of his speech.
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