3418-ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? | View Thread

As hunger mounts, Venezuelans turn to trash for food

Jun. 8, 2016 3:09 PM EDT

Autoplay: On | Off

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Until recently, Julio Noguera worked at a bakery. Now he spends his evenings searching through the garbage for food.

"I come here looking for food because if I didn't, I'd starve to death," Noguera said as he sorted through a pile of moldy potatoes. "With things like they are, no one helps anyone and no one gives away meals."

Across town, unemployed people converge every dusk at a trash heap on a downtown Caracas sidewalk to pick through rotten fruit and vegetables tossed out by nearby shops. They are frequently joined by small business owners, college students and pensioners — people who consider themselves middle class even though their living standards have long ago been pulverized by triple-digit inflation, food shortages and a collapsing currency.

Venezuela's poverty had eased during the administration of the late President Hugo Chavez. But a study by three leading Caracas universities found that 76 percent of Venezuelans are now under the poverty line, compared with 52 percent in 2014.

Staples such as corn flour and cooking oil are subsidized, costing pennies at the strongest of two official exchange rates. But fruit and vegetables have become an unaffordable luxury for many Venezuelan families.

"We're seeing terrible sacrifices across many sections of society," said Carlos Aponte, a sociology professor at the Central University of Venezuela. "A few years ago, Venezuela didn't have the kind of extreme poverty that would drive people to eat garbage."

While some hunt through the garbage piles for food they can eat, many more are drawn by the opportunity to fetch a few bolivar bills by rescuing and reselling bruised produce.

On a recent evening, Noguera managed to retrieve a dozen potatoes.

"I'm a trained baker, but right now there's no work anywhere here. So I make do with this," he said.

The trash pickers aren't just people who've lost their jobs.

Jhosriana Capote, a vocational student, comes to the trash heap to supplement her pantry. She recently completed an internship with a Coca-Cola subsidiary.

"I used to be able to find food, but not anymore. Everything is lines," she said after an evening picking through the refuse.

Dumpster diving isn't a new phenomenon in Venezuela, but it is a growing one. Venezuela was once South America's richest nation, but a fall in oil prices combined with other economic problems has sparked desperation.

Nearly half of Venezuelans say they can no longer afford to eat three meals a day, according to a recent poll by the local firm Venebarometro. The poll surveyed 1,200 adults at their homes the first week in April and had a margin of error of plus or minus of about 2 percentage points.

The government blames the political opposition, accusing it of waging an "economic war" to stir unrest and oust President Nicolas Maduro from power. The administration has launched an aggressive program to build urban farms in an effort to address food shortages.

One recent night, two young girls found some cilantro, lemons and remains of a cabbage in the garbage. Their mother, Monica Espinosa, said the scavenging helps them get by since her husband walked out on the family. Espinosa said she still owns two apartments, but makes ends meet by cooking sauces from the vegetables she finds and selling them to stores, earning about $6 a week.

"I'm a single mother with two children, and this is helping me get by," she said.

___

Follow Sanchez on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fisanchezn

Bunyadi: London's first naked restaurant opens - here's what customers think about nude dining

12:10, 8 JUN 2016
UPDATED 14:55, 8 JUN 2016
BY KIRSTIE MCCRUM

Offering a natural dining experience, The Bunyadi's customers are free from phones, electric lights - and even clothing

A restaurant where people shed their clothes to dine in the nude has thrilled diners on its first service in London.

The Bunyadi, set to open to the public on June 11, is London's first nude restaurant, offering an entirely natural eating experience, free from the trappings of modern life.

This includes phones, electric lights and even clothing.

A 42-capacity venue, it currently has almost 44,000 people on its waiting list, but it's only open for three months.

The first diners at the undisclosed venue - invited as part of its 'soft opening' - have praised the food, ambiance and freedom as they shed their threads.

A hint.

Harriet Starling wrote on the restaurant's Facebook page: "I didn't want it to end! Was absolutely incredible - every moment.

"Pure freedom, the best staff and atmosphere, flawless food. To whoever gets to go, you will never forget it."

Another, Lizzie West, wrote: "I felt so relaxed, comfortable, free!... it just worked."

Others said the food was "inspired" and "delicious" and the the whole experience was "perfection".

(mirror.co.uk)

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 6/9/2016 2:09:13 PM
	As hunger mounts, Venezuelans turn to trash for food By FABIOLA SANCHEZ · Jun. 8, 2016 3:09 PM EDT Autoplay: On \| Off In this June 3, 2016 photo, a boy carries two pineapples he found in the trash area of the Coche public market in Caracas, Venezuela. Staples such as corn flour and cooking oil are subsidized, costing pennies at the strongest of two official exchange rates. But fruit and vegetables have become an unaffordable luxury for many Venezuelan families. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Until recently, Julio Noguera worked at a bakery. Now he spends his evenings searching through the garbage for food. "I come here looking for food because if I didn't, I'd starve to death," Noguera said as he sorted through a pile of moldy potatoes. "With things like they are, no one helps anyone and no one gives away meals." Across town, unemployed people converge every dusk at a trash heap on a downtown Caracas sidewalk to pick through rotten fruit and vegetables tossed out by nearby shops. They are frequently joined by small business owners, college students and pensioners — people who consider themselves middle class even though their living standards have long ago been pulverized by triple-digit inflation, food shortages and a collapsing currency. Venezuela's poverty had eased during the administration of the late President Hugo Chavez. But a study by three leading Caracas universities found that 76 percent of Venezuelans are now under the poverty line, compared with 52 percent in 2014. Staples such as corn flour and cooking oil are subsidized, costing pennies at the strongest of two official exchange rates. But fruit and vegetables have become an unaffordable luxury for many Venezuelan families. "We're seeing terrible sacrifices across many sections of society," said Carlos Aponte, a sociology professor at the Central University of Venezuela. "A few years ago, Venezuela didn't have the kind of extreme poverty that would drive people to eat garbage." While some hunt through the garbage piles for food they can eat, many more are drawn by the opportunity to fetch a few bolivar bills by rescuing and reselling bruised produce. On a recent evening, Noguera managed to retrieve a dozen potatoes. "I'm a trained baker, but right now there's no work anywhere here. So I make do with this," he said. The trash pickers aren't just people who've lost their jobs. Jhosriana Capote, a vocational student, comes to the trash heap to supplement her pantry. She recently completed an internship with a Coca-Cola subsidiary. "I used to be able to find food, but not anymore. Everything is lines," she said after an evening picking through the refuse. Dumpster diving isn't a new phenomenon in Venezuela, but it is a growing one. Venezuela was once South America's richest nation, but a fall in oil prices combined with other economic problems has sparked desperation. Nearly half of Venezuelans say they can no longer afford to eat three meals a day, according to a recent poll by the local firm Venebarometro. The poll surveyed 1,200 adults at their homes the first week in April and had a margin of error of plus or minus of about 2 percentage points. The government blames the political opposition, accusing it of waging an "economic war" to stir unrest and oust President Nicolas Maduro from power. The administration has launched an aggressive program to build urban farms in an effort to address food shortages. One recent night, two young girls found some cilantro, lemons and remains of a cabbage in the garbage. Their mother, Monica Espinosa, said the scavenging helps them get by since her husband walked out on the family. Espinosa said she still owns two apartments, but makes ends meet by cooking sauces from the vegetables she finds and selling them to stores, earning about $6 a week. "I'm a single mother with two children, and this is helping me get by," she said. ___ Follow Sanchez on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fisanchezn
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
	+1

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 6/9/2016 3:18:37 PM
	How to End the Massacre in the Med Hundreds of thousands of refugees are at risk this summer, attempting a dangerous crossing from Libya to Italy. Here's how they can be saved. BY MATTEO GARAVOGLIA \| JUNE 8, 2016 With more than 700 deaths reported over three days last week, and with a confirmed 800,000 more migrants waiting in Libya to attempt the crossing into Europe, it is becoming increasingly clear that Italy could become the new Greece in the global refugee crisis, and that the central Mediterranean could become the new Aegean. The dirty deal cut between the European Union and Turkey this spring seems to be working: It’s effectively shut down the eastern Mediterranean route to Europe. But it has also pushed those attempting to reach the continent onto the arguably more dangerous central Mediterranean route, which claimed thousands of lives last summer. Now we’re seeing the consequences. It’s clear that this crisis will not be resolved in Libya. The country may be ground zero for migration from North Africa to southern Europe — the result of a power vacuum left by Western powers after the fall of Muammar al-Qaddafi in 2011 — but coming up with a solution that involves this troubled country will be difficult, to put it mildly. Libya is a failed state. Or rather, it is a jigsaw of four ethnic groups (Arab, Berber, Tuareg, and Toubou) and several dozen Ashraf tribes with no serious central authority to speak of. While a unity government and a draft constitution are in place, the former effectively controls only parts of Tripoli, while the latter is littered with both procedural deficiencies and substantive flaws. Libya is also a security nightmare. The Islamic State controls over 150 miles of the coast around the city of Sirte, while dozens of militias vie for supremacy in localized, low-intensity conflicts throughout the country. The increasing military involvement of both the United States and its European allies in Libya is testimony to the concern elicited by the Islamic State's presence. Were this not enough,Libya has a terrible record when it comes to its treatment of migrants and asylum seekers. The country never signed up to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol; it is host to detention centers where migrants survive in atrocious conditions; and it has signed up to appalling migration deals with Italy under Silvio Berlusconi. Multiple reports talk of the regular abuses, which include abysmal sanitary conditions, beatings, torture, hard labor, and even murder, which migrants have suffered in the country. Up until recently, European officials appeared to be discussing plans to strike a deal with Libya similar to the one cut with Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government in Turkey. Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano, for example, repeatedly claimed that what Europe needed was a migration compact with Libya along the lines of the one Brussels signed with Ankara in March. But such a deal, for the time being at least, is hardly a likely prospect. The deal with Turkey rested on the assumption that, with the right incentives in place, Ankara could exercise a baseline level of control over its borders. Brussels should not worry about Libya’s willingness to fulfill the key provisions of a similar migration compact. What Europeans should be concerned about, rather, is that the Libyan state — with its malfunctioning government, which lacks a bare minimum of administrative capacity — has no ability to fulfill them. In the long run, Libya and Europe need to seek a comprehensive solution to this migration crisis. But with the high season for smuggling and trafficking across the Mediterranean almost upon us, an interim solution is critical. Libya, which sits 280 miles from the southernmost point of mainland Italy, is the primary launching point for those seeking to cross from Africa to Europe. But it remains only one variable within the broader migration equation. An interim solution for the current crisis needs a broader focus and should involve three geographic areas: Libya, the countries sharing land borders with Libya, and the Mediterranean Sea itself. In Libya, EU governments should pressure the unity government to immediately sign up to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 protocol. These would provide a firm legal framework within which all stakeholders would have to operate. Signing them would make it clear that Libya is ready to respect the rights of migrants under international law. And, crucially, it would mandate Libya to respect refugees’ right, in particular, to non-refoulement — that is, to not be returned to countries where they risk physical harm or abuse. Secondly and where the security situation allows, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Organization for Migration, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees should be provided with all necessary means to massively scale up their presence in the country. By doing so, they would be able to become crucial representatives for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. Finally — and with the explicit permission of the unity government — the European Union should start patrolling Libyan territorial waters, while international humanitarian organizations must take over the management of Libyan detention centers where migrants are held. Because Libyan authorities do not exercise any meaningful control over the coastline and because they lack the resources to adequately administer the detention centers they are supposedly managing, these measures would only technically — but not substantively — infringe upon the central government’s sovereignty. Europe must also seek to form partnerships with Libya’s neighbors — a strategy it appears to be beginning to pursue. Countries sharing land borders with Libya have a significant comparative advantage over Tripoli when it comes to being candidates for partnerships: They have (relatively) stable governments. Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Niger, Sudan, and Tunisia face tremendous challenges in a variety of policy areas, yet they have the bare minimum of what it takes to resolve those challenges: established state structures. These countries are often the countries of origin or earlier transit for the sub-Saharan migrants who converge on Libya as a springboard to Europe. Crucially, the European Union has a well-established relationship with all these governments through the second revision of the Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. More specifically, theKhartoum Process for East Africa, the Rabat Process for West Africa, and the EU strategy for the Sahel provide regional frameworks within which Europe and its partner countries can address migration issues. These regular and structured dialogues between European and African governments provide a system of financial and diplomatic rewards for African countries that proactively engage with migration issues. In particular, they’ve resulted in concrete projects that aim to discourage irregular migration by establishing readmission agreements while providing legal avenues for those trying to get to Europe, such as temporary migration plans. It is high time for Brussels to further increase cooperation by providing additional resources to address migration issues: Europe must enable its African partners to set up projects that contribute to creating employment opportunities, ensuring food and nutrition security, improving migration management, and promoting conflict prevention. The EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa should substantially be boosted for this purpose. Europe appears to be taking steps to make migration control a cornerstone of its relationship with its African neighbors. Ad hoc migration compacts are in the works with selected origin and transit countries, including Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal, and proposals are being made to launch a comprehensive €62 billion investment plan to tackle the long-term root causes of economic migration. The EU has renewed its focus on re-admissions to these countries, prioritizing speedy returns for those whose asylum claims are rejected over establishing formal readmission agreements, which is a sign of Europe’s determination to push this through — though also a warning of the potential dodginess of the various deals in the making. Lastly, Brussels must do its homework where it is most able to bring about change: in the Mediterranean Sea and along Europe’s southern coast. The EU’s navalOperation Sophia in the south-central Mediterranean is trying to tackle migrant smuggling at sea. Its geographic scope, however, is significantly more limited compared with the Operation Mare Nostrum carried out by the Italian Navy and later superseded by Frontex’s Operation Triton. This should be expanded again. At the same time, the mandate of the operation should be widened to explicitly encourage search-and-rescue operations on top of its primary aim of disrupting smugglers’ networks. On its Italian shores, Europe should intensify its support for Italian authorities engaged in the establishment and management of so-calledmigrant hot spots. Indeed, while Rome has fulfilled most of its obligations by setting up new headquarters and boosting its processing rates, its European partners are struggling to make available specialized personnel for the hot spots and to relocate migrants already in Italy. The ideas above are only a short-term interim solution, however. In the medium to long term, the international community needs to address the tremendous underlying challenges producing chaos in Libya. The newly established Government of National Accord must secure the support of all ethnic groups and major tribes. Having done that, the Islamic State must be rooted out through a very high-intensity but hopefully brief and localized conflict. Finally, a minimum degree of administrative capacity must be re-established beyond Tripoli. All of the above require meaningful engagement with Libya on the part of Europe that will probably take years to reap benefits. Until that is forthcoming, an interim solution must be found, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of lives at risk. Photo credit: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images (foreignpolicy.com)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
	+1

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 6/9/2016 5:12:52 PM
	U.S. Navy Sends Two Aircraft Carriers to the Med in Throwback to Iraq Invasion BY PAUL MCLEARY \| JUNE , 2016 The Obama administration has deployed two aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. The ships are expected to launch strikes on the Islamic State across Syria and Iraq — the very country President Barack Obama promised to disentangle the United States from when he was running for office in 2008. The returning double punch brings some much-needed firepower against the Islamic State as U.S. aircraft back up Iraqi forces in reclaiming the cities of Fallujah and Mosul, and Sunni rebels and Kurdish fighters who are battling it out with the Islamist group across northern Syria. The presence of two carrier strike groups will “support European allies and partners, deter potential threats and are capable of conducting operations in support of the counter-ISIL mission,” Lt. Col. Dave Westover, U.S. European Command spokesman, said in a statement Wednesday. ISIL is an acronym for the Islamic State. Thirteen years ago, the USS Harry S. Truman and USS Theodore Rooseveltbombed Iraqi army targets from the Med in the opening days of the U.S. invasion. They were part of a force of six U.S. carriers in Mideast waterways for the battle. Now the Truman is back in the Med, where it was joined Wednesday by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower,which U.S. defense officials expect will soon begin striking the Islamic State. The Truman left the Persian Gulf last week after a seven-month tour and was stationed in the eastern Mediterranean by Friday. Over the weekend, it began hitting Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, and its aircraft have flown 40 sorties and dropped 35 bombs on insurgent positions, a Navy official told Foreign Policy. The Truman is scheduled to head back to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, in July. The Eisenhower, meanwhile, will take over the Truman’s mission, but based in the Gulf. During its tour in the Gulf, the Truman contributed about 25 percent of the firepower in the ongoing air war, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson told reporters at the Pentagon last month. It was so critical that earlier this year, the Navy extended its deployment by 30 days, which it is now finishing up with its handoff to the Eisenhower. The two ships operating together comes just months after Washington ran out of flattops to send to the fight. After the Roosevelt left the Gulf in October, there was a two-month gap — the first since 2007 — between carrier deployments there. Navy officials said the gap was necessary to shorten sailors’ deployments after years of extending them, and to do critical repairs and refitting that were prevented earlier by requirements to have two carriers continuously stationed in the Persian Gulf between 2011 and 2013. Photo Credit: U.S. Navy/ Michael W. Pendergrass/Getty Images (foreignpolicy.com)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
	+1

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 6/9/2016 5:27:11 PM
	Bilderberg 2016: What Are The Global Elite Plotting This Time Around? By Michael Snyder, on June 8th, 2016 Later this week, dozens of the most important men in the world are going to gather at an ultra-luxury hotel in Dresden, Germany to discuss the future of the planet. What will happen at this meeting will not be televised, and the mainstream media in the United States will almost entirely ignore it, but decisions will be made at this conference that will affect the lives of every man, woman and child on the entire globe. Of course I am talking about the Bilderberg Group, and for decades you were labeled a “conspiracy theorist” if you even acknowledged that it existed. Every year since 1954 the elite of the world have gathered at this time of the year to “discuss global events”, and since the Bilderberg Group operates under Chatham House Rules, everyone that participates is banned from revealing what goes on during the conference. But what takes place at these conferences really matters. For example, it has been documented that the Bilderberg Group played a key role in the development of the European Union and in the decision to create the euro. The elitists that attend these meetings are not the kind of people that would waste their time having tea and exchanging small talk. The list of previous attendees includes Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Prince Charles, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, Angela Merkel, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Rick Perry, David Rockefeller and Joe Biden. I have included a list of those attending Bilderberg this year at the end of this article. The Taschenbergpalais Hotel In Dresden has been transformed into a heavily armed camp for this year’s conference, which only adds to the aura of mystery surrounding Bilderberg. The following comes from the Guardian… You know Bilderberg’s about to begin when you start seeing the guns. The Taschenbergpalais hotel in Dresden is filling up with pistol-packing plainclothes security as the last guests are ushered out. The frowning gunslingers head up and down the corridors with their hotel maps, trying door handles and checking the lay of the land while, down in the hotel lobby, corporate goons gather in muttering huddles. I don’t know why everyone’s so antsy. According to the local newspaper DNN, at least 400 police officers will be surrounding the venue for the three days of the talks. There’s already a ring of concrete blocks around the entrance. Is that not enough? What are they expecting? The charge of the light brigade? So what precisely is going on that is so incredibly important that it needs such protection? Well, the following list of “key topics” for discussion at this year’s conferencecomes directly from the official Bilderberg website… Current events China Europe: migration, growth, reform, vision, unity Middle East Russia US political landscape, economy: growth, debt, reform Cyber security Geo-politics of energy and commodity prices Precariat and middle class Technological innovation The term “precariat” definitely caught my attention. I didn’t know what that term meant, so I had to look it up. Here is how one source defines it… The precariat is similar to the blue-collar workers of yesteryear in that they earn less than what Standing calls the salariat, but they are unique in that workers in manufacturing jobs, for instance, tended to have job security, benefits, and often union protection (which played a large part in the presence of the first two). Today’s precariat usually has none of that, and spans income and education levels, from sub-minimum-wage illegal migrant work and low-wage retail or service work to highly educated but contract- and freelance-dependent industries (like, ahem, journalism). Members of the precariat also, unlike their working-class forebears, have to put in an alarming amount of work that no one considers “work” or compensates them for. But of course there will certainly be other things not on the official agenda that will be discussed by the elitists that gather in Dresden. Two topics that will definitely be on the minds of most attendees will be the upcoming Brexit vote and the Donald Trump phenomenon… The attendance of anti-Trump Senator Lindsey Graham is an obvious sign that Bilderberg will be scheming on how to prevent Trump from defeating Bilderberg’s chosen candidate – Hillary Clinton. As we reported during last year’s conference, Bilderberg was confident that Clinton could shake off her GOP challengers, but Trump’s self-funded campaign and his public opposition to globalism and internationalist trade deals like NAFTA has shocked the Bilderberg elitists. Bilderberg will obviously be discussing Brexit – Britain referendum vote to leave the EU – because it threatens the future of the European Union federal superstate that was the brainchild of Bilderberg in the first place. Ultimately, key decisions regarding the future of the European Union, U.S. politics and the global financial system will be made at this conference, but we are not supposed to know what takes place at Bilderberg and the mainstream media in the United States has always had a policy of virtually ignoring these meetings. But some things have changed. In the past, it always took a good bit of detective work to figure out who was attending these meetings, but in recent years an official list of participants has been published on the Bilderberg website. Below is the official list for this year. Do you recognize any familiar names on this list?… CHAIRMAN Castries, Henri de (FRA), Chairman and CEO, AXA Group Aboutaleb, Ahmed (NLD), Mayor, City of Rotterdam Achleitner, Paul M. (DEU), Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG Agius, Marcus (GBR), Chairman, PA Consulting Group Ahrenkiel, Thomas (DNK), Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence Albuquerque, Maria Luís (PRT), Former Minister of Finance; MP, Social Democratic Party Alierta, César (ESP), Executive Chairman and CEO, Telefónica Altman, Roger C. (USA), Executive Chairman, Evercore Altman, Sam (USA), President, Y Combinator Andersson, Magdalena (SWE), Minister of Finance Applebaum, Anne (USA), Columnist Washington Post; Director of the Transitions Forum, Legatum Institute Apunen, Matti (FIN), Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA Aydin-Düzgit, Senem (TUR), Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, Istanbul Bilgi University Barbizet, Patricia (FRA), CEO, Artemis Barroso, José M. Durão (PRT), Former President of the European Commission Baverez, Nicolas (FRA), Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Bengio, Yoshua (CAN), Professor in Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal Benko, René (AUT), Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board, SIGNA Holding GmbH Bernabè, Franco (ITA), Chairman, CartaSi S.p.A. Beurden, Ben van (NLD), CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc Blanchard, Olivier (FRA), Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute Botín, Ana P. (ESP), Executive Chairman, Banco Santander Brandtzæg, Svein Richard (NOR), President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA Breedlove, Philip M. (INT), Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe Brende, Børge (NOR), Minister of Foreign Affairs Burns, William J. (USA), President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Cebrián, Juan Luis (ESP), Executive Chairman, PRISA and El País Charpentier, Emmanuelle (FRA), Director, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology Coeuré, Benoît (INT), Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank Costamagna, Claudio (ITA), Chairman, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti S.p.A. Cote, David M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Honeywell Cryan, John (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Bank AG Dassù, Marta (ITA), Senior Director, European Affairs, Aspen Institute Dijksma, Sharon A.M. (NLD), Minister for the Environment Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), CEO, Axel Springer SE Dyvig, Christian (DNK), Chairman, Kompan Ebeling, Thomas (DEU), CEO, ProSiebenSat.1 Elkann, John (ITA), Chairman and CEO, EXOR; Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Enders, Thomas (DEU), CEO, Airbus Group Engel, Richard (USA), Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News Fabius, Laurent (FRA), President, Constitutional Council Federspiel, Ulrik (DNK), Group Executive, Haldor Topsøe A/S Ferguson, Jr., Roger W. (USA), President and CEO, TIAA Ferguson, Niall (USA), Professor of History, Harvard University Flint, Douglas J. (GBR), Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc Garicano, Luis (ESP), Professor of Economics, LSE; Senior Advisor to Ciudadanos Georgieva, Kristalina (INT), Vice President, European Commission Gernelle, Etienne (FRA), Editorial Director, Le Point Gomes da Silva, Carlos (PRT), Vice Chairman and CEO, Galp Energia Goodman, Helen (GBR), MP, Labour Party Goulard, Sylvie (INT), Member of the European Parliament Graham, Lindsey (USA), Senator Grillo, Ulrich (DEU), Chairman, Grillo-Werke AG; President, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and Anchor “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV Hadfield, Chris (CAN), Colonel, Astronaut Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Professor of Economics, Leiden University Harding, Dido (GBR), CEO, TalkTalk Telecom Group plc Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO, DeepMind Hobson, Mellody (USA), President, Ariel Investment, LLC Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn Höttges, Timotheus (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG Jacobs, Kenneth M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Lazard Jäkel, Julia (DEU), CEO, Gruner + Jahr Johnson, James A. (USA), Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners Jonsson, Conni (SWE), Founder and Chairman, EQT Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. (USA), Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC Kaeser, Joe (DEU), President and CEO, Siemens AG Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies Kengeter, Carsten (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Börse AG Kerr, John (GBR), Deputy Chairman, Scottish Power Kherbache, Yasmine (BEL), MP, Flemish Parliament Kissinger, Henry A. (USA), Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. Kleinfeld, Klaus (USA), Chairman and CEO, Alcoa Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group Lagarde, Christine (INT), Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Levin, Richard (USA), CEO, Coursera Leyen, Ursula von der (DEU), Minister of Defence Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, KBC Group Logothetis, George (GRC), Chairman and CEO, Libra Group Maizière, Thomas de (DEU), Minister of the Interior, Federal Ministry of the Interior Makan, Divesh (USA), CEO, ICONIQ Capital Malcomson, Scott (USA), Author; President, Monere Ltd. Markwalder, Christa (CHE), President of the National Council and the Federal Assembly McArdle, Megan (USA), Columnist, Bloomberg View Michel, Charles (BEL), Prime Minister Micklethwait, John (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist Mitsotakis, Kyriakos (GRC), President, New Democracy Party Morneau, Bill (CAN), Minister of Finance Mundie, Craig J. (USA), Principal, Mundie & Associates Murray, Charles A. (USA), W.H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD) Noonan, Michael (IRL), Minister for Finance Noonan, Peggy (USA), Author, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal O’Leary, Michael (IRL), CEO, Ryanair Plc Ollongren, Kajsa (NLD), Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam Özel, Soli (TUR), Professor, Kadir Has University Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), CEO, Titan Cement Co. Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chairman, KKR Global Institute Philippe, Edouard (FRA), Mayor of Le Havre Pind, Søren (DNK), Minister of Justice Ratti, Carlo (ITA), Director, MIT Senseable City Lab Reisman, Heather M. (CAN), Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. Rutte, Mark (NLD), Prime Minister Sawers, John (GBR), Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners Schäuble, Wolfgang (DEU), Minister of Finance Schieder, Andreas (AUT), Chairman, Social Democratic Group Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chairman, Alphabet Inc. Scholten, Rudolf (AUT), CEO, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG Schwab, Klaus (INT), Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Senior Fellow, Harvard University; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Simsek, Mehmet (TUR), Deputy Prime Minister Sinn, Hans-Werner (DEU), Professor for Economics and Public Finance, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Skogen Lund, Kristin (NOR), Director General, The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise Standing, Guy (GBR), Co-President, BIEN; Research Professor, University of London Svanberg, Carl-Henric (SWE), Chairman, BP plc and AB Volvo Thiel, Peter A. (USA), President, Thiel Capital Tillich, Stanislaw (DEU), Minister-President of Saxony Vetterli, Martin (CHE), President, NSF Wahlroos, Björn (FIN), Chairman, Sampo Group, Nordea Bank, UPM-Kymmene Corporation Wallenberg, Jacob (SWE), Chairman, Investor AB Weder di Mauro, Beatrice (CHE), Professor of Economics, University of Mainz Wolf, Martin H. (GBR), Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times About the author: Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of End Of The American Dream. Michael’s controversial new book about Bible prophecy entitled “The Rapture Verdict” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. (End Of The American Dream)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
	+1

Menu

Forums

As hunger mounts, Venezuelans turn to trash for food

Bunyadi: London's first naked restaurant opens - here's what customers think about nude dining

Offering a natural dining experience, The Bunyadi's customers are free from phones, electric lights - and even clothing

Bilderberg 2016: What Are The Global Elite Plotting This Time Around?

Like us on Facebook!