Freedom News: **StS sabotage snow machines at Davos**
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/01/19/sts-sabotage-snow-machines-at-davos/
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#News #Davos #DirectAction #ShuttheSystem #Switzerland #WEF
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"Billionaire wealth jumped by over 16 per cent in 2025, three times faster than the past five-year average, to $18.3 trillion – its highest level in history, according to a new Oxfam report today as the World Economic Forum opens in Davos.
Billionaire wealth has increased by 81 per cent since 2020. This comes as one in four people don’t regularly have enough to eat and nearly half the world’s population live in poverty."
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Political leaders, CEOs and opinion-makers arrived at #Davos in Switzerland ahead of the World Economic Forum ( #WEF ),
with mounting trade tensions between the US and Europe set to dominate discussions after Donald Trump’s renewed tariff threats.
Trump, who is expected to deliver a keynote address later this week,
is attending with what organisers say is the largest US delegation ever at the forum.
It includes treasury secretary Scott Bessent, secretary of state Marco Rubio, and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
Organisers say 3,000 participants from more than 130 countries are expected this year,
including 850 chief executives and at least 60 heads of state or government, a record for the event.
The annual gathering comes as Europe scrambles to respond to Trump’s threat that the US will impose escalating tariffs on Denmark, Germany, France, UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands unless Washington is allowed to take over Greenland.
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen said Europe “will not be blackmailed”
while Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni described the tariff threat as “a mistake”.
The US president’s latest threats have rattled markets.
The Euro and the Pound fell against the dollar in early trading,
with analysts warning that a fresh trade conflict could knock growth in export-dependent economies such as the UK and Germany.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/davos-trump-tariff-iran-russia-b2902936.html#Echobox=1768802569
Political leaders, CEOs and opinion-makers arrived at #Davos in Switzerland ahead of the World Economic Forum ( #WEF ),
with mounting trade tensions between the US and Europe set to dominate discussions after Donald Trump’s renewed tariff threats.
Trump, who is expected to deliver a keynote address later this week,
is attending with what organisers say is the largest US delegation ever at the forum.
It includes treasury secretary Scott Bessent, secretary of state Marco Rubio, and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
Organisers say 3,000 participants from more than 130 countries are expected this year,
including 850 chief executives and at least 60 heads of state or government, a record for the event.
The annual gathering comes as Europe scrambles to respond to Trump’s threat that the US will impose escalating tariffs on Denmark, Germany, France, UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands unless Washington is allowed to take over Greenland.
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen said Europe “will not be blackmailed”
while Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni described the tariff threat as “a mistake”.
The US president’s latest threats have rattled markets.
The Euro and the Pound fell against the dollar in early trading,
with analysts warning that a fresh trade conflict could knock growth in export-dependent economies such as the UK and Germany.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/davos-trump-tariff-iran-russia-b2902936.html#Echobox=1768802569
"Billionaire wealth jumped by over 16 per cent in 2025, three times faster than the past five-year average, to $18.3 trillion – its highest level in history, according to a new Oxfam report today as the World Economic Forum opens in Davos.
Billionaire wealth has increased by 81 per cent since 2020. This comes as one in four people don’t regularly have enough to eat and nearly half the world’s population live in poverty."
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Six years ago there is a good chance that i got infected with COVID at a protest against the #WEF in Davos (i had a severe infection after, but another one a few months later, so COVID could be either of them) and i have not recovered since.
#LongCOVID has radicalized me in the sense that i understand now who my actual comrades are. It's not the people i thought for many years, who i had been organizing that protest with. Large parts of the so-called radical left are ableist and ageist.
A normalized pandemic, because capitalism, that hits minorities to a disproportionate degree, widens the rich-poor gap, ushers in fascism and leaves many of us former comrades disabled and/or chronically ill, should be a prime issue to gather and mobilize our resistance around.
But no one fucking cares.
Six years ago there is a good chance that i got infected with COVID at a protest against the #WEF in Davos (i had a severe infection after, but another one a few months later, so COVID could be either of them) and i have not recovered since.
#LongCOVID has radicalized me in the sense that i understand now who my actual comrades are. It's not the people i thought for many years, who i had been organizing that protest with. Large parts of the so-called radical left are ableist and ageist.
Jonathan Schofield
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➤ Making Argentina Great Again
it is incredibly suspicious to me that the US Treasury fund #Bessent wants to use to bail out #Argentina and Javier #Milei is almost exactly the same size as the amount of money #Tether is suddenly trying to raise via a “private placement”.
Tether is one of the most profitable companies in the history of the world, at least according to their own unaudited / unverified numbers. There should be no reason for them to need to raise capital and no desire on their part to sell off part of their cash cow.
Puting aside for a moment the absurdity of the idea that the central bank of international criminal finance considers itself to be in the same league as companies like Google, Nvidia, and Tesla, I can think of 3 possible explanations:
1. Tether is (somehow) out of cash. This is lent some credence by the fact that they are failing to pay their electricity bill in #Uruguay and had their power turned off a few weeks ago.
2. Tether wants to get some shares into the hands of corrupt government officials (other than Howard “Nutlick” #Lutnick, who already has some) for protection.
3. Now that the #Fed has pivoted and cut rates Tether’s income is about to start dropping (and the more the fed cuts, the more it will drop) so they are just cashing out the founders at the top. This is the most charitable interpretation.
it’s also worth mentioning that:
1. Tether’s #USDT token is very popular with #Argentinians trying to avoid that country’s hyperinflation. While technically illegal because of capital controls, it’s still a “crime” I have some sympathy for. But it does mean there’s an important connection between Tether and Argentina.
2. Tether is a major shareholder in south american agriculture business #Adecoagro which does a lot of work in Argentina.
more on Tether: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
#uspol #MAGA #uspolitics #ScottBessent #treasury #finance #economics #bailout #IMF #WEF #WorldBank #howardLutnick #stablecoins
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➤ Making Argentina Great Again
it is incredibly suspicious to me that the US Treasury fund #Bessent wants to use to bail out #Argentina and Javier #Milei is almost exactly the same size as the amount of money #Tether is suddenly trying to raise via a “private placement”.
Tether is one of the most profitable companies in the history of the world, at least according to their own unaudited / unverified numbers. There should be no reason for them to need to raise capital and no desire on their part to sell off part of their cash cow.
Puting aside for a moment the absurdity of the idea that the central bank of international criminal finance considers itself to be in the same league as companies like Google, Nvidia, and Tesla, I can think of 3 possible explanations:
1. Tether is (somehow) out of cash. This is lent some credence by the fact that they are failing to pay their electricity bill in #Uruguay and had their power turned off a few weeks ago.
2. Tether wants to get some shares into the hands of corrupt government officials (other than Howard “Nutlick” #Lutnick, who already has some) for protection.
3. Now that the #Fed has pivoted and cut rates Tether’s income is about to start dropping (and the more the fed cuts, the more it will drop) so they are just cashing out the founders at the top. This is the most charitable interpretation.
it’s also worth mentioning that:
1. Tether’s #USDT token is very popular with #Argentinians trying to avoid that country’s hyperinflation. While technically illegal because of capital controls, it’s still a “crime” I have some sympathy for. But it does mean there’s an important connection between Tether and Argentina.
2. Tether is a major shareholder in south american agriculture business #Adecoagro which does a lot of work in Argentina.
more on Tether: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
#uspol #MAGA #uspolitics #ScottBessent #treasury #finance #economics #bailout #IMF #WEF #WorldBank #howardLutnick #stablecoins
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Basic Income must not become a new power play tool. Our historic challenge is before 2030 to contribute to ensure that #UBI will be UNconditional Basic Income as opposed to the opposite effect of #WEF 's "universal" suggestion.
Basic Income must be:
a) 100% #UNconditional, for all
b) 100% under #democratic control
c) A #global fair solution
This is a fundamental transition to a new macro- and micro-economical reality that #automation / "A.I." is bringing via the inescapable coming #BasicIncome
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Basic Income must not become a new power play tool. Our historic challenge is before 2030 to contribute to ensure that #UBI will be UNconditional Basic Income as opposed to the opposite effect of #WEF 's "universal" suggestion.
Basic Income must be:
a) 100% #UNconditional, for all
b) 100% under #democratic control
c) A #global fair solution
This is a fundamental transition to a new macro- and micro-economical reality that #automation / "A.I." is bringing via the inescapable coming #BasicIncome