{"id":19555,"date":"2015-02-06T16:37:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19555"},"modified":"2015-02-06T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T21:41:25","slug":"davos-summit-the-pitchforks-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/02\/06\/davos-summit-the-pitchforks-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Davos summit: &#8216;The pitchforks are coming!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In trying to track down an interview I saw about Davos 2015, my search started here.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Socialist Party<\/em> in the UK has the article <a title=\"The Soicalist Party article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistparty.org.uk\/articles\/19996\" target=\"_blank\">Davos summit: &#8216;The pitchforks are coming!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a packed Davos session a retired hedge fund manager made an interesting revelation. His former peers are planning their escapes. They&#8217;ve been buying airstrips and farms in remote locations just in case they need to make a quick getaway! Perhaps they&#8217;re heeding the advice of multi-millionaire Nick Hanauer who warned fellow oligarchs last year that &#8220;the pitchforks ARE coming!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The interview I am looking for is with this unnamed hedge fund manager. I finally tracked down the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sriuwxwols8WEF\" title=\"YouTube post of the video\" target=\"_blank\">WEF Davos 2015 Hub Culture Interview Robert Johnson of the Institute for New Economic Thinking<\/a> which featured the video below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRobert Johnson of the Institute for New Economic Thinking feels that this Davos is quiet, people aren&#8217;t talking. And explains why, and what they should do about it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Sriuwxwols8?rel=0\"  style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is also the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-JlTvghCYaU\" title=\"RT interview\" target=\"_blank\">Davos Economist: Elite Are Afraid of Ferguson-Style Riots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDavos economist Robert Johnson, who made headlines this week for revealing that the wealthy are buying secret boltholes as a hedge against global instability, warned in a subsequent interview that the elite are also afraid of more riots in the mould of Ferguson, Missouri.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-JlTvghCYaU?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Along the way of my search, I found a number of other articles.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> in the UK has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/public-leaders-network\/2015\/jan\/22\/world-leaders-failing-social-cohesion-davos\" title=\"The UK Guardian article\" target=\"_blank\">Davos 2015: world leaders &#8216;failing on social cohesion&#8217;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/public-leaders-network\/2015\/jan\/25\/davos-2015-overriding-pessimism-over-growing-inequality\" title=\"The UK Guardian article\" target=\"_blank\">Davos 2015: overriding pessimism over growing inequality<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/public-leaders-network\/2015\/jan\/23\/nervous-super-rich-planning-escapes-davos-2015\" title=\"The UK Guardian article\" target=\"_blank\">As inequality soars, the nervous super rich are already planning their escapes<\/a>. CNBC has many video in the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/102314545\" title=\"CNBC article\" target=\"_blank\">Davos 2015 &#8211; World Economic Forum<\/a>.  Many of the article themselves have links to other article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In trying to track down an interview I saw about Davos 2015, my search started here. The Socialist Party in the UK has the article Davos summit: &#8216;The pitchforks are coming! At a packed Davos session a retired hedge fund manager made an interesting revelation. His former peers are planning their escapes. 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