{"id":1133578,"date":"2021-12-20T08:34:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T13:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1133578"},"modified":"2021-12-20T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T13:34:42","slug":"global-elites-told-to-stand-down-davos-canceled-again-over-coronavirus-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/global-elites-told-to-stand-down-davos-canceled-again-over-coronavirus-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Elites Told to Stand Down: Davos Canceled (Again) over Coronavirus Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fglobal-elites-told-to-stand-down-davos-canceled-again-over-coronavirus-fears%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1133578&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The World Economic Forum (WEF) is ditching its annual meeting of world leaders, business executives and assorted elites in Davos, Switzerland, for the second year in a row, citing uncertainties about the omicron variant of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-europe-switzerland-60cb6ae436fecd313cc35e72a4990f92\">reports<\/a> the gathering at the luxury ski resort, planned for Jan. 17-21,&nbsp; will now take place in \u201cearly summer\u201d \u2014 without giving further specifics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCurrent pandemic conditions make it extremely difficult to deliver a global in-person meeting,\u201d the forum said in a statement. \u201cPreparations have been guided by expert advice and have benefited from the close collaboration of the Swiss government at all levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Founder Klaus Schwab said the forum still plans to host a \u201cdigital convening of leaders from business, government and civil society.\u201d The forum said a \u201cheadline series of State of the World sessions\u201d would bring them together online to address global challenges.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2831685\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/davos-protest-AP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2831685 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/davos-protest-AP.jpg\" alt=\"A topless Ukrainian protester is arrested by Swiss police after climbing up a fence at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has have become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. (AP Photo\/Anja Niedringhaus)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A topless Ukrainian protester is arrested by Swiss police after climbing up a fence at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (AP Photo\/Anja Niedringhaus)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the WEF virtual summit in January this year, French President Emmanuel Macron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/01\/28\/davos-great-reset-french-prez-macron-declares-modern-capitalism-can-no-longer-work\/\">declared<\/a> in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus modern capitalism \u201ccan no longer work\u201d and an alternative must be found.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Appearing before a question and answer session conducted with \u201cGreat Reset\u201d architect Schwab, the French leader said while capitalism has historically driven down poverty globally, he claimed it came with the cost of furthering inequality.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5555555555556\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;The Great Reset&#8217; is upon us. French President Macron declared that in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus modern capitalism &#8220;can no longer work&#8221; at the Davos summit. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LQFI8aNzgz\">https:\/\/t.co\/LQFI8aNzgz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1355865185706242050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe will get out of this pandemic only with an economy that thinks more about fighting inequalities,\u201d Macron enthused. \u201cThe capitalist model together with this open economy can no longer work in this environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macron further applauded President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Accords \u2014 which the United States left under the leadership of former President Donald Trump \u2014 while demanding leaders \u201crevise upwards\u201d their green agenda goals.<\/p>\n<p><em>AP contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Economic Forum (WEF) is ditching its annual meeting of world leaders, business executives and assorted elites in Davos, Switzerland, for the second year in a row, citing uncertainties &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}