Posted on 07/09/2021 11:04:36 AM PDT by rktman
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public.”
This 18th-century warning against cartels and corporate collusion from Adam Smith is worth considering in light of the gathering of billionaires, entertainment moguls, and the corporate media in Sun Valley, Idaho, this week.
As Breitbart’s Lucas Nolan reports, the estimated total wealth of attendees is over $588 billion, a number that is no doubt buoyed by the record profits made by billionaires during the pandemic while small businesses were forced to shut down.
The guest list includes tech titans like Jeff Bezos and Sheryl Sandberg, entertainment and media chiefs like Disney CEO Bob Iger, and figures from the mainstream corporate media including CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and Shari Redstone, the chairwoman of ViacomCBS.
There will doubtless be plenty of conspiring going on at this confab for the megawealthy and powerful, although there may also be a celebration of a conspiracy. The outcome of the 2020 election was in no small part determined by the open collusion of the wealthy and powerful, most blatantly Big Tech and Big Media, which now seek to legally cement their ties through the deceptively-named Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Easier there than at Davros, I suppose.
Bkmrk
One tactical nuke or a big FAE...
“Many of the last shall be first, and the first last.” Things will be very different in God’s kingdom.
I’m thinking they moved it to Idaho at last min.
Someone probably found out people had already staked out Davos with cameras.
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