- Associated Press via Yahoo: "Davos conspiracy theories thrive online"
The annual event in the Swiss ski resort town of Davos, which opens Monday, has increasingly become a target of bizarre claims from a growing chorus of commentators who believe the forum involves a group of elites manipulating global events for their own benefit.
- Reuters, also via Yahoo: Big Oil in sights of climate activist protests
Big oil firms came under pressure at the start of the World Economic Forum (WEF) from activists who accused them of hijacking the climate debate, while a Greta Thunberg-sponsored "cease and desist" campaign gained support on social media.Major energy firms including BP, Chevron and Saudi Aramco are among the 1,500 business leaders gathering for the annual meeting in the Swiss resort of Davos
So which one is it? Are the business leaders in Davos meeting for their own benefit or not?
Alternately, why the hell does Greta the Granola Cumdumpster et al. not get attacked for their "conspiracy theories" that BP and Chevron are not meeting to solve the worlds' problems from the goodness of their hearts but rather are "manipulating things for their own benefit"? And if you think I'm putting words in their mouth, I'm not:
"We are demanding concrete and real climate action," said Nicolas Siegrist, the 26-year-old organiser of the protest who also heads the Young Socialists party in Switzerland."They will push for their interests". Now contrast from the other article:The annual meeting of global business and political leaders opens in Davos on Monday.
"They will be in the same room with state leaders and they will push for their interests," Siegrist said of the involvement of energy companies during a demonstration attended by several hundred people on Sunday.
Theories about influential global leaders are not new, she said, but scrutiny of the forum and its chairman, Klaus Schwab, intensified in 2020 in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. That year, the theme of the annual meeting was “The Great Reset.” The initiative envisioned sweeping changes to how societies and economies would work to recover from the pandemic and build a more sustainable future.Now, in increasingly mainstream corners of the internet and on conservative talk shows, “The Great Reset" has become shorthand for what skeptics say is a reorganization of society, using global uncertainty as a guise to take away rights. Believers argue that measures including pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates are tools to consolidate power and undercut individual sovereignty.
One of those rights we are worried about is our fundamental human right to use our property (including resources extracted by private firms and then purchased by us on the free market) how we, and not useless pieces of shit like Greta and Seigrist and their ilk see fit. Meanwhile, retarded and delusional young people are using a fake emergency to demand an immediate end to all oil and gas exploration. There was no mention in the article about the socialists believing in "conspiracy theories", despite making the same claims.
Yahoo and the major wire agencies are willing to praise a group demanding Davos (where delegates control the world to their own benefit) do more to restrict your human rights while at the same time ridiculing anybody who expresses concern that Davos (where delegates control the world to their own benefit) might actually listen to them.