Davos. Whom do you serve?
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Davos. Whom do you serve?
I watched the UKs Channel 4 Evening News tonight. The report (which lasts for about 1 hour if you don't watch it), opened up a bit of a special report about the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, a resort in Switzerland (I've never been).
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Its a power meeting, an awful lot of whom are the real shakers and movers of the world>apparently.
C4 tried to link Davos meeting to how it may help and affect ordinary British people in real terms - it did this by going to a street in the Staffordshire area (Davos Way) - an area that has fallen on a bit of a hard time, meeting ordinary Britains, what affected them, what did they need?
Watching it (the report), it struck me forcibly how far reaching decisions about the world, how it is ran, how it is divided up, who will be rich and who will be poor, who will be at war and who will not, will be decided upon by people who we will have not direct or indirect influence upon, ever.
One of the Davos mighty spoke on the programme - this man.
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Incredibly clever, cold, arrogant and focused would be my first impression of him. Him, and a few thousand others (including of course the creature Blair) are among the invited attendees.
C4 estimated that Davos power people types represent 0.01% of the globes population.
Did any one else see the clip? Their thoughts upon it?
My question. Who now, are you people of the military really serving? Do you feel a sense of serving the people of your country? Are you still loyal to them?
Or simply, are you slowly getting the feeling you are serving and helping, most of all, the people at the meeting in Davos?
Or are you now somehow, becoming a tool of the very rich, the Davos types who really seem to running and shaping the modern world - the super rich, the super industrialists, the super media moguls, the unelected. Do you feel manipulated, used?
I'll start of then. I never took any sort of oath of allegiance to the crown or the UK people as a rating. In the RN, even the national anthem is never sung, ever. Its hard to feel any sort of real loyalty, in some ways other than to your own branch, shipmates or indeed the RN at times. Yet we were constantly used to represent GB, and do her bidding.
So no - I never felt as sense of allegiance to the UK, and yes, I think things have moved on to the extent in the world that control seems to be slipping away from sovereign nations own making.
Best regards, HS.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014
Its a power meeting, an awful lot of whom are the real shakers and movers of the world>apparently.
C4 tried to link Davos meeting to how it may help and affect ordinary British people in real terms - it did this by going to a street in the Staffordshire area (Davos Way) - an area that has fallen on a bit of a hard time, meeting ordinary Britains, what affected them, what did they need?
Watching it (the report), it struck me forcibly how far reaching decisions about the world, how it is ran, how it is divided up, who will be rich and who will be poor, who will be at war and who will not, will be decided upon by people who we will have not direct or indirect influence upon, ever.
One of the Davos mighty spoke on the programme - this man.
Martin Sorrell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Incredibly clever, cold, arrogant and focused would be my first impression of him. Him, and a few thousand others (including of course the creature Blair) are among the invited attendees.
C4 estimated that Davos power people types represent 0.01% of the globes population.
Did any one else see the clip? Their thoughts upon it?
My question. Who now, are you people of the military really serving? Do you feel a sense of serving the people of your country? Are you still loyal to them?
Or simply, are you slowly getting the feeling you are serving and helping, most of all, the people at the meeting in Davos?
Or are you now somehow, becoming a tool of the very rich, the Davos types who really seem to running and shaping the modern world - the super rich, the super industrialists, the super media moguls, the unelected. Do you feel manipulated, used?
I'll start of then. I never took any sort of oath of allegiance to the crown or the UK people as a rating. In the RN, even the national anthem is never sung, ever. Its hard to feel any sort of real loyalty, in some ways other than to your own branch, shipmates or indeed the RN at times. Yet we were constantly used to represent GB, and do her bidding.
So no - I never felt as sense of allegiance to the UK, and yes, I think things have moved on to the extent in the world that control seems to be slipping away from sovereign nations own making.
Best regards, HS.
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May I suggest they go fishing somewhere else.
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I thought a lot of the problems presented were irrelevant to Davos. The world's rich and powerful aren't the reason there's a housing shortage blocking young and low-income earners from buying a house in this country, neither are they the reason nobody wants to buy skull ceramics for that matter.
I think the primary focus of the summit at the moment will probably be the continued restructuring of neo-liberal financial markets and the future distribution of world aggregate demand. Many of our problems are unique to us or Europe, like high youth unemployment owing to crap education and a culture of entitlement; so no, I don't think it's some sort of conspiracy. You have to remember that everybody has gotten richer over the past 3 decades, it's just the rich have gotten richer quicker than the average punter.
I do fret at the influence some heads of multinationals, that are richer than most countries have over elected leaders, however.
I think the primary focus of the summit at the moment will probably be the continued restructuring of neo-liberal financial markets and the future distribution of world aggregate demand. Many of our problems are unique to us or Europe, like high youth unemployment owing to crap education and a culture of entitlement; so no, I don't think it's some sort of conspiracy. You have to remember that everybody has gotten richer over the past 3 decades, it's just the rich have gotten richer quicker than the average punter.
I do fret at the influence some heads of multinationals, that are richer than most countries have over elected leaders, however.
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PM of Australia, Tony Abbott, spoke at Davos. From the Australian point of view it is all about developing good trade relations with the major players down here in South East Asia, including China.
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The world's rich and powerful aren't the reason there's a housing shortage blocking young and low-income earners from buying a house in this country,
high youth unemployment owing to crap education and a culture of entitlement
You could pay for everyone to have a phd in rocket science, but if nobody wants to buy any rockets, you will need to lay people off.
The culture of entitlement probably stems from the lack of job vacancies and very low wages due to corporate greed or a poor performing economy... Some people want to work but can't find any work, while others have no incentive if they only get paid a few £'s more than their benefits payment.
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"Incredibly clever, cold, arrogant and focused"
We don't want any of that sort running the world!!
We want stupid warm self-effacing and scatterbrained!! they are far more suitable!
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/open_letter.png
We don't want any of that sort running the world!!
We want stupid warm self-effacing and scatterbrained!! they are far more suitable!
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/open_letter.png
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