Davos Exploiters Exposed

You won't read about it in all the masturbatory articles about the crumbs thrown to 99.9 percent of the world by the rich, fat countries at luxury resort Davos, but somebody there actually called the fuckers on their hypocrisy.

Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars has it:

The Yes Men have done it again. They infiltrated the World Economic Forum at Davos and announced a united strategy to end world poverty. (As if!) They issued this press release and set up a fake website, featuring carefully-dubbed fake interviews with various leaders (including Bill Clinton, shown above) admitting past exploitative economic policies and pledging to change them.

But the press corps attending the event largely ignored them, more's the pity:

In a series of diabolically stupid video manipulations, a cabal of anti-poverty filmmakers have performed an elaborate slander of the World Economic Forum, showing its "leading lights" taking a dramatic departure from the litany of meaningless pledges they usually make at the annual gathering in the Swiss resort town.

In response, WEF spokesperson Adrian Monck could barely contain himself. "The only defense to satire is common sense!" he sputtered, before racing back into the WEF war room to deal with the burgeoning crisis.

Fortunately for the WEF, few media outlets picked up on the WEF's fantastic but fictional approach to world poverty ("World Leaders Pledge Strategy to End Poverty Now").

Instead, the media was dominated by coverage of a real WEF press release warning of "Over Regulation of the Financial Sector" (sic).

The forged videos showed eight of "leading lights of Davos" outlining a few clear strategies to end poverty.

Read the whole thing and watch the video here.