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  • UPDATE: Davos elites warm to Trump, recoiling at the prospect of a Sanders or Warren presidency

    01/23/2020 8:44:52 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 19 replies
    MarketWatch ^ | Thursday, January 23, 2020 | Caroline Baum
    The attendees' acceptance of Trump is all the more surprising given the theme of this year's annual WEF meeting: "Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World." Trump, after all, is a climate-change denier, although he seems to have kept his denial under wraps in his prepared address. He limited his barbs at environmentalists (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-world-economic-forum-davos-switzerland/) to urging a rejection of "the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse," including "an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the '70s and an end of oil in the 1990s." The change of heart toward Trump may have something to...
  • Pilgrims' Progress, or the Story of Thanksgiving: Caroline Baum (Capitalist Roots of Thanksgiving)

    11/26/2003 10:42:54 PM PST · by Timesink · 6 replies · 414+ views
    Bloomberg ^ | November 26, 2003 | Caroline Baum
    <p>Caroline Baum is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own.</p> <p>Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- It is the tradition of this column every year at this time to relate the story of Thanksgiving. For source material, I am grateful to the accounts of William Bradford, governor of the Plymouth Bay Colony beginning in 1621. (Bradford's History ``Of Plimoth Plantation'').</p>