DAVOS WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: It's A Party!

They are breaking out the Camembert, breaking out the Brie, breaking out the pâté, Rothschild vintage red wine, champagne, caviar, and Liebfraumilch. They are offloading the victuals on pallets. It's a PARTY!

"Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" EPISODE FOR LIVE BROADCAST? HARDLY!

This is DAVOS, LA SUISSE (Switzerland)- second home to the GLOBAL COSMOPOLITAN NOMENCLATURA... and P*R*I*V*A*C*Y as only the SWISS can provide.

What is the event?

It is the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, 2006.

2,000 of the world's CEOs, CFOs, MINISTERS OF STATE, and a few "CONTRIBUTING" GUESTS will dine, wine, ski, hot tub, be manicured and massaged...

And, oh yes, confer on the challenges facing GLOBAL CORPORATIONS and their FIRST WORLD home-headquarter NATIONS in the face of the desperate poverty of THIRD WORLD GHETTOIZATION.

These LEADERS OF COMMERCE will ignore THIRD WORLD GHETTOIZATION in their FALSE HOPE SPEECHES and STATISTICAL DISTORTIONS.

FALSE STATISTICS and DISTORTED VISUAL AND PRINT MEDIA make for COMPLACENCY, SELF-SATISFACTION AND INDIFFERENCE TO HUMAN ASPIRATION AND SUFFERING.

I would wish that German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel might "rock the boat" in her opening remarks to the PLENARY SESSION on January 25, but I expect her remarks will merely serve to reassure an audience focussed on culinary delights and vacation camaraderie that they and their corporate entities may justifiably be excused from extending a hand of help and EARNEST SUPPORT TO NATIONS AND PEOPLES AT-RISK.