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Meet The Fortress Hotel That Separates The Davos Billionaires From The Peasants
The theme of this year's Davos meeting where the world's wealthiest and most powerful people meet to enjoy each other's company, a fawning media, and of course the best food and entertainment that money can buy, is social stability, class hatred, and how to fix a world torn by a record wealth inequality.
An ambitious task to be sure, especially for the very people who have benefited the most from the record wealth transfer of the past 5 years. Still, while these true Robin Hoods of the modern gilded age are desperate for a few minutes of humanitarian TV exposure, or at least a soundbite or two, their advice to the peasants out there is quite clear: don't get too close.
And just to make sure the appropriate distance of at least a few hundred meters to every member of the great unwashed class they are "saving" is maintained, here is the hotel in which the bleeding heart Davos billionaires are staying: a $170 million fortress surrounded by barbed wire, security cameras, motion sensor and even its own helipad.
Oh, and for those dignitaries of the non-private sector staying here, guess who is picking up the bill dear taxpayers.
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We're going global this time!
Sure sure .. 19th century defenses in a drone drone world. How hard would it be to get a dozen or so cheap drones with some payload to bust through some windows at high speed.
What's with all the drone shit? Ever hear of a Cessna?
here here.. :-)
I am trying to discern the parepets with the .50's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZrgxHvNNUc
Where have I seen this before? Oh ya, the Hunger Games movie!!
Jump you fuckers.
Or worse.
Maybe?
What a spectacle of hypocritical self indulgence by the very same who claim their chair at the governing table of the NWO to enslave humanity
This. ladies and gentlemen is a pure and clear display of the ongoing battle between good and evil existent in the world today.
I wish I could go.
I would wreck Goldie's old ass like Hitlery on Gaddafi.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-20/at-davos-rising-stress-spurs-go...
Wall Street advisor: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, ‘misery index’ worst in 40 years
To make sure? A few hundred meters is well within the range of the average Swiss citizen.
Oswald did not have a problem at 88 yards with about a dot of holdover..
"Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir!"
sorry basturds have to be around each other....thats torture
the guilty have fear of their victoms, because they know who the guilty are.
the guilty both need and make barbed wire.
When "leaders" require Praetorians for their protection, they are doing it wrong.
That is one uniquely ugly building.
The good ole' 'neutral' country which made its riches supplying the nazis and later stealing jewish gold, now the occasional headquarters of the worlds criminal elite. Spectre bitchez.
With a multitude of multi-billionaires in the world what is the cut-off for not being invited?
Would someone with a measly 1 billion in assets be considered part of the club now days"
I would think 5 billion is still a paltry sum.
Hence why all the witnesses scurried over to the Grassy Knoll to look for the gunman, right?
And Jackie went backwards to collect the brains. Which flew ...backwards.
Although the Zapruder film shows the bullet exiting out the front.
Bullets make tiny holes when entering and leave large holes when exiting.
(Sorta like the government, they tell you you'll only feel a pin prick, but when they're done with you you know for sure you've been reamed a new asshole.)
Wrong name of Assasin.
The ultimate "let them eat cake" statement.
Geez, she looks like a cadaver a la Joan Rivers.
My greetings to the folks who prepare and serve their food. You know what to do.
Project Mayhem catering services?
cream of mushroom soup is our speciality.
Much more effective line of thought. Microbes have a smaller radar profile. Though It would be a shame (not to mention a waste of taxpayer's money!) if their party got spoiled like a cruise ship with a norovius outbreak.
Nobody is ever truly safe.
You rail against drugs including useful drugs like psychedelics yet then quote from one of the great drug novels of all time?
NEWSFLASH: Dune is fiction. The consequences of abusing mind-altering substances are non-fiction.
PS: I don't rail against the use of drugs by adults. Do as you please. Do not expect me to save you from the consequences.
Dune is all about oil. Spice = oil.
HTH.
No. Herbert himself wrote that 'water was to be an analogy for oil and also for water itself...'
ok fine. It's still an allegory.
"ok fine. It's still an allegory"
No Sir it's a metaphor...
There's a miffed microbiologist around here somewhere isn't there.
Who'll wisely chose not to comment.
Couple of kitchen staff with some Ebola virus flowing through them?
No. They bumped them all off years ago.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/deadbiologists.html
If you were Buffet, Soros, Fink or whoever, would you malinvest the money of your clients?
Those guys are just doing what everybody else does: investing their time in something they like and are good at. No need for envy.
If you were a central banker in 2008, hadn't you felt the need to intervene?
If Zerohedge is right, things are going to change. Those times usually get tough. Prepare yourself and your family accordingly. That is what everybody else would do, including those guys in Davos.
What do you mean "if"?
Once the propaganda channels either cannot deny the truth or their reporting gives a true picture of the sad state of affairs, it is too late to do anything.
The time to prepare is now and that window is closing fast.
Those channels will go dark before ever telling the truth. One or two might go dark immediately after, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Nmewn can help. LOL
Just imagine how bad the smell of sulphur must be inside, and it's too cold to open the windows to let it air out afterwards.
A little more income inequality hypocrisity USA style the house Democrats will be discussing it a Posh Hotel where the cheapest room is $695 a night!
Kehlsteinhaus
me, to .. parapets :-)
some moar pleeeeeze Mr. Warbucks.
'Let them eat shit'
Are you volunteering? Drones can be a lot smaller and less noticeable than a Cessna. I'm sure that the sky around the "castle" is covered by radar, but what the hell, go for it.
very much so.
on every mountain there is the swiss military with special radar stations. 24/7 in air F18 surveillance. Newest lasers installed to take care of drones.
Flir night vision military grade installed everywhere. Several entry check points in all valley entries. hundreds of undercover security personel. Very little chance to interrupt the elite.
Swiss tax payer must love it....
interestingly enough, at the 2011 bilderberg meeting in neighboring St. Moritz, hardly any security for far more influential people.
Or a LearJet. Oh wait, Bombadier is well into round X of layoffs in Wichita - and elsewhere. The rich and famous aren't holding up their end of the spending deal.
http://www.kansas.com/2014/01/21/3240586/bombardier-to-lay-off-550-at-wi...
This really is /sarc - I think.
Fuck Cessna, someone fly a jetliner into that building. I've heard the Israelis are good at that, or so the conspiracy theory goes.
Food testers are on high alert. Fire extinguishers are all up to date. What could go wrong?
Norovirus + a plumbing and transportation strike sounds good.
Drones? Cesnas? We're not talking 'Alabama' here. We're talking about (a) Switzerland, (b) road-block/screened access to Davos area, etc. and (c) every damn spy agency in the US, EU and the ME listening and looking for ANY anomalies.
Plus the Swiss are by now "genetically conditioned" to tattle on anyone or anything 'suspicious' to their authorities. They don't like strangers. Only their money. They love "Ordnung" even more.
Dream on, cowboy. You'll need a fuck of a lot more skill, savvy and language skills than what you get from a few years with the US Army or Prepper training.
You do understand what the alternative for Switzerland is to buying the Grippens? (public referendums on defense expenditure being rather rare and all these days)
Hint- even MOAR anti-aircraft weapons...
As much as I detest my tax dollars funding these ass-clowns' protections, that strategy might be more successful against the Hollandaise dough boy or Mutti, since the gaping flaws in their security measures have been well documented recently.
Ever hear of hijacking a military drone?
Cruise missle, please.
And make it something in the 20-40kt range. It's the only way to be sure.
A MIRVed ICBM with a HE payload raining down on that place like a merry burst of automatic fire to a pumpkin ought to do the trick....rogue radionuclides are abundant enough as it is.
merry christmas from Russia?
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2...
I dream of Daisy Cutters and MOABs.
Funny how at the end of the day, these filthy rich scum are doing the same things I do. They just do it behind barbed wire with a bunch of assholes.
Drink, eat, smoke, sleep...
It just shows the limits of money...
Oh yeah, I forgot the last one, drop dead.
they are archons.
Yeah, but there is one more thing they are doing which you are not - they are conspiring to murder.
They have everything but a beautiful planet overrun by poor desperate people who remind them of their evil ways and make some of them feel guilty. A more perfect world would be a planet with about 2 billion people, only enough to service them and their robots. Yes they have a plan. The idea that they give a shit about anyone but themselves is BS.
There's no building strong enough to stop the wrath of Irish dudes like me when the economy collapses, california turns into a desert, people start starving.... in about 3 years time.
It's good to be a MOTU.
Maybe they get sucked into a black hole from the Large Hadron Collider.
..may their particles revert to waves..
in two places at once.
it is a maggot infested nasal cavity. lulz
I stayed there in 2010. It's not as nice as it looks there. The inside actually needs some work done. It has that musty smell too. I was really unimpressed.
Wait...that was the Courtyard Marriot in Ocean City Md. Sorry nevermind.
i have better things to do with my time than that. if i were as rich as they are i would damn sure have A LOT better things to do.
No you would not.
If you were that rich, you would think about nothing but money and influence 24 hours a day.
Just like they do.
Because that is the only way anyone ever gets to be just that rich.
What does a 0.01% have for lunch...other than the sheeple..
The sheeple's children!
Student loans are working for them.
I'll email you the menu next year as a billionaire attendee... after I win 'Buffet's Billion Dollar Basketball Bracket ' challenge < odds 1 in 9.2 quintillion >
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/92892/buffet-a-billion-dollars-for-perfect-bracket
Are those the real odds, hahaha? Doesn't surprise me that Warren would throw a $billion towards somethnig he has no way of losing, douche
Those are the odds if you just do random pics. If you know something about the game then the odds are just this side of never instead of the other side of never lol.
If you promise half the winnings to a bunch of NBA players, I bet the odds could approach unity.
Nice.
And, sounds like the plot to a really interesting movie.
My guess is fetuses! Sick ole bastards!
My guess is fetuses! Sick ole bastards!
Siberian tiger fetus stewed in milk of the giant panda with a sauce of truffles after the ritual sacrifice of children.
Why do they need all that security? They are all such nice people. I wonder if the place comes with food tasters too.
Well rich people expect security, and that goes with the entrance fee, so you can figure about $1k/person is being spent on security. But that's cheap, ... when you figure that any of them could be randsomed for $$$$ I would be really surprised that somebody smart not randsom a collection this big of rich people, but in reality, its not really that rich, ... maybe some nerd with a big EGO put's down $5k for the meeting, but the real meetings are all private, they got all kind of tiered meetings, ..
They have press, they invite scholars, ... its really not so much about 'rich' as its about SMART/RICH/LIBERAL.
Too bad the right-wing (ZH) can't pull off an event like this, ... I guess they have 'burning man' right? :)
Well anything come of this ? Fuck no, ... they all meet, talk and eat expensive and dine and wine, and whores from all over europe make $2k/night, and everybody goes home and says "NEW YEAR" YES :)
Rich people expect security. What they get is the illusion of security. I know people who work security for events like this. It's a blast. Truly a good time. They get hooked up. Many of these people are very nice. Why wouldn't they be? They are living the dream. If something ever truly went down these "security" people would be grabbing stuff on their way out while calling 911...if they even bother to call.
real rich people don't go to DAVOS, ... guys like the WINKELVOSS twins "new money' goes to DAVOS, its just another business, and they give out enought tickets to the media that the media want to come and cover,...
Like anything else enough good food, good booze, and clean pussy, and everybody wants to join, but the real fucking "ELITE" don't go to DAVOS,
I said "like Davos". You seem to be a serious follower of the elite. It seems like it is your passion.
I think his passion is crazy pills myself.
good point.
I hear Zuckerfuck is sending his smarmy assed sister . . .
dupe
sorry
How about ALL us ZH morons have a small tent at burning-man and we all lube each other?
Just a thought, and we could put a big sign and CALL it ZH@DAVOS
Apart from the "morons" part -- and I don't take any lubbing from anyone without a functioning vagina -- it's not a bad idea.
Fair description. There is no conspiracy in Davos, but for a tendency to be pro-political globalization/centralization.
Inexistant output. No substance in the panels (the good old tales about "creative economy", "the fragile recovery", "abenomics", "non-conventional MP" and so on).
But a deccent plateform for diplomats & officials to shake hands.
Overall the World would keep turning without the WEF.
thanks its just an expensive TED meeting,
but the RUSH LIMBAUGHS that own ZH would like the morons here to not look at aipac bis or mormons, or nsa
anyone know how to ignore these trolls? there needs to be a block feature for wankers.
Handle it like graffiti, or anything else that is unsightly but always a part of the landscape.
As they say, dont feed the trolls.
I suppose they're concerned that the people outside the fences might be a lot like them.
Without the security, they might discover that nobody outside gives a fuck.
The cover story for the security is that they need it because billionaires like to keep the unwashed masses at a distance.
The real reason for the security, and the reason they all attend, is that some of the real bosses show up at these meetings.
One does not pass up a chance to meet the real bosses. Not twice, anyway.
I am a proud Swiss. Those summits are a pain in the ass. Empty suits all around the place.
FUCK THEM. Hopefully the SVP initiative goes through february the 9th.
What amazes me is that anyone -- I mean, anyone -- does not see the utter absurdity in a group of people who deliberately created the wealth disparity, meeting to decide what can be done to "correct" it. You just can't make this stuff up.
Correct it...Lol. I assume by correct it you mean that they are busy tring to figure out how there is any left.
Yeah right.. They're meeting to coordinate how to KEEP all the wealth they have amassed now seeing that the world is about to explode in a global war,
That plus the finest hookers in the world are there!
They are working on plans to enslave the next generation of serfs.
More commonly known as a new monetary unit, controlled by private banks and lent at interest to us.
pods
i didn't see the stable for the dogs and ponies...
More likely, they are trying to take credit for fixing the problem by stealing more dwindling middle class resources.
Agreed. And also how to pull the veil back over the eyes of the oppressed. That damn genie keeps squeezing out of the bottle as they tighten their grip...
I don't think its that clear, I would even say that the TED people not only see themselves as the solution, but they don't see themselves as the problem.
One thing universal about assholes is that they all believe the other guy is an asshole.
This DAVOS is reall a left wing SOROS klusterfuck, and in their own way yeh, they do have solutions.
ZH is a rush limbaugh right wing ron-paul repug-tard group that is too dumb to get rich yuppies to pay $10k for a circle jerk.
Go figure why ZH is jealous?
Some people aren't smart enough to figure out that their discussion of "income inequality" is a front. It is all a big lie to make it look like they care..kind of like the US's "two party system."
SEE this is the FUCKING problem,
NOBODY at this meeting gives a RATS ass about the USA,
The USA is 2-bit penal colony that has seen its best day, and the purpose of the DAVOS meeting is to make the world, better, and that means building a wall around the USA and keeping them confined and let them kill each other.
COMPECHE?
Forget this BS that anybody at DAVOS gives a fuck about the USA, ... we dont'
Boehner and Cantor are there and they care about the US.
boner and cantor care about sushi, booze, pussy, and little boyz, and I'm not sure which order.
One thing about 'politicians' and I learned this a long time ago,
I remember I asked "Why do you do this?" and they said "For the food and women", and I said, "Why not just get a job?" ... See you have to understand that all politicians are just people that have figured out how to get booze, pussy, and sushi and not have to work, it stays in their blood, so when they get to cantors age, ... they still GO
OK, I'll tell you why CANTOR goes, he gets a free invite its how they play, and CANTOR gets to meet all these blue-blood new-money liberals or other wack-jobs who will donate to his party or election,... I know its far fetched, but politicians go to these events to find DONORS and get laid :)
"money's honey sonny... and a rich man's joke is always funny."
It really boils down to preservation of lifestyle. No one wants to give up thier station for a lower one. Most everybody will fight to avoid being "downgraded." It is this simple dynamic, not some overarching conspiracy, that is why the world experiences cycles. Is just human behavior, which on the collective level is still herd behavior.
a woman i dated once many moons ago responded to some crazy utopian fantasy i had in my head at the time regarding people better conserving energy resources:
"Human beings will never willingly accept any contraction of the lifestyle to which they have already become accustomed, even if it means trampling on another." will never forget that line.
it's going to be kicking & screaming all the way down the far side of the parabola.
No doubt. Been trying to explain this to the wife for years now.
Shit, we are just rolling off the top right now in real terms and most people think the world is coming to an end.
This is what revolution is for. Every once in a while we get overrun with vermin and they have to be hunted down and exterminated root and branch in all their generations. Billions of the rest of us will be incidentally lost in the process.
Did you forget to take your thorazine again?
The only thing more absurd would be all of us meeting to decide the same thing.
Like it or not, the problem while created by the oligarchs can only be solved by the oligarchs. Will they? Hell no of course not. They'll pretend the problems are too great, the solutions unworkable, compromise impossible, and so on. That is the entire purpose of the event. It allows them to ask a deep, searching question about the proper distribution of wealth and power and then answer that same question in a way that allows them to keep all the wealth and power to themselves for another year.
It is 100% about them saying how perfect is the world after all.
Kings and emperors did the same thing. They had their advisers around them all the time helping them to decide what is the best thing to do for the kingdom/empire, and of course the advisers knew that the correct answer was always that the leader should do whatever he wanted, using whatever power he felt like, and attaining any benefits he could in the process. Consistently providing that kind of advice was how one became an adviser to royalty in the first place.
It does not have to make any sense to work. And please notice, we have even more kings and emperors today than at any time in the past. They are financial titans and captains of industry now rather than heads of sovereign states, but it makes no practical difference in the end what title they have or how they attain position. They wield the same power as kings, have the same rule by fiat, and cop the exact same attitudes. And it is open to debate which empire had the greatest reach; the British Empire, the Empire of Spain, or The Empire of General Electric Inc.
Don't see any way around it. People seem to like it this way. At worst they are indifferent. The machinations of the kings and emperors take place in a far away land, and only rarely impose their will on common people, and when they do it is via death, which has the useful benefit for the king of erasing the misdeeds of power.
Too many eggs in one basket...
Omelet anyone?
.
Perhaps scrambled eggs?
Can you imagine all the private security mixing with hotel security? What a clown show. Imagine all the fear involved because you need that security.
We hate them for their freedom.
They are just as free as you or I to suffer a stress-induced pulmonary embolism. Although in the event they do, they can count on effective heath coverage.
Please tis just an expensive TED meeting, I'm sure that maybe even a few here are going.
This is not so much a meet for elite, its its a meeting for nerds who have exceptional ego's and they all want to circle-jerk each other.
Here's the funny thing, look to the NSA or USA-/365 MIL, or even look to BIS, or AIPAC, to but to suggest that DAVOS is anything else than a bunch of geeks with egos is a fucking joke.
So at the end of the day, this story fills the crying tears of many a BIT-TARD, think of it this way anybody here that used REAL USD to buy BTC's could have just as well bought a ticket to DAVOS with that real money.
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24/7/365 ZH fills the internet with shit just dumb enough to deliver the product they promise a large collection of morons that just might buy newsletters and 'chart' services, and premium gold, and bitcoin mining hw, another words this site is for morons and posts are for morons, and the advertisers are paying for morons.
I like you. Can we be friends?
I "liked" him on BitBook. But I didn't ask him to join my "circle" of BitFriends. Seems that word has a bit of a double meaning to him.
I think I'll call him BitBrain.
I just call him asshole
You're too kind.
"another words this site is for morons and posts are for morons"
Welcome to the club.
Oh well please do enlighten us if you would?
At least we aren't smart enough to see all of this.
As for you, why would you be here if you know all of this? Shouldn't you be doing something more productive than teaching us sheep to sing?
If your thesis is correct, shouldn't it be that ZH delivers shit just smart enough to deliver the product, you know, because we are dumb?
pods
Well one only has to look at the ad's here to know who the target advertisters are, ... russian-brides (losers), franklin mint 'gold coin' ( suckers ), newsletters ('idiots'),... Just saying.
The constant 'sky is falling' certainly attracts a certain kind of person, who needs to be part of a 'sky is falling' circle-jerk. Morons attract morons. Get a bunch of them in one place and you have an advertisters paradise.
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Sorry but calling the DAVOS 'elite' the TPTB is BULLSHIT, a more apt description is the "zerds that want to be the power that be", and a certain number of 'doo gooders' who are stupid enough to think that 'hope&change' can alter WHAT-IS.
The ruling-elite ROCKEFELLER, BUSH-TRIBE, AIPAC, ADL, BIS, NSA/CIA, FBI/DEA, US-MIL, they only have secret meetings and they never invite the press.
Here is WHY ZH posts this inspid story about DAVOS, its cuz 'davos' is a keyword that generates ton's of clicks cuz the media gets to go for free, and DAVOS wants the advertising, as DAVOS is a business, and the business is 1,000's of people paying $10k/each to sit for a week and listen to boring TED TALKS.
Bill Gates goes to a ton of meetings, and its just to PLUG his Gates Foundation, think about it, what better place to buy fresh blood?
Tony Blair aka THE POODLE also will speak any where on earth for $500/day, .... its his gig.
NOBodY at DAVOS rules the fucking EARTH, cuz a conspiracy is secret, and DAVOS is in the LIGHT.
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So GIVE it up folks and find the REAL PTB dark source of meetings and put a light on them.
@ Satoshi101. I know that your bio states "If you want to talk about grammar and spelling go eat some shit with the mil-bots", but your command of the english language makes your posts as unintelligible as a sobbing 3-year old. Please communicate more clearly, post in your native tongue and let us interpret it (I hope english isn't it), or go play and let the grownups talk. If posting on ZH is for morons, why have you posted so much in your short tenure here? Your posts take up way too much space and make my scroll finger hurt trying to get past them.
Also, you have an awkward affinity for circle jerks.
That is all.
I'm quite happy to be a moron with a large cache of physical gold at the bottom of some lake around here...somewhere....where did I put that...
If that's how you feel, then why are you here instead of off fondling Bitcoin's somewhere or something?
Wealth trickles down nicely through barbed wire... then again, so does blood.
with so many people despising the 1%, looks like one big juicy target for someone...
Don't bunch up so close, men. One grenade will kill us all.
Bingo!!
Classic cluster fuck!
Maintain your dispersion troops!!
Six months at "Benning School for Boys" back in the day would have straightened them out!!
I showered this morning...does that mean I am "washed"?
They are washed masses too, cancers on society.
Agreed. Pustules on the arse of humanity.