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While the president delivered his State of the Union address last night, the major headline on Drudge this morning is: "The Patriots used underinflated footballs on Sunday night."

 

And that pretty much sums up the degree of interest most people would have in hearing another delivery of veto threats, new ideas in redistributing wealth, increased taxation and an upside-down interpretation about how well things are working in the US and around the world. It’s likely that the only ones tuning in to the drivel were the media, politicians, or students required to write essay’s about the topic.

 

In other news, a major example of double-standards appeared on.breitbart.com today, whereas, “A squadron of 1,700 private jets are rumbling into Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss global warming and other issues as the annual World Economic Forum gets underway."

 

The influx of private jets is so great, the Swiss Armed Forces has been forced to open up a military air base for the first time ever to absorb all the super rich flying their private jets into the event, reports Newsweek.”

 

Furthermore, “Another big theme of the mega-rich confab will be combating “income inequality” and how the world’s rich can pay their fair share to reduce the gap between top earners and the lower class. Admission price for Davos: roughly $40,000 a ticket.”

 

And lastly, “The World Economic Forum will also feature discussions on gender equality and opportunities for women. According to the World Economic Forum’s own statistics, just 17% of all 2015 participants are women.”

 

So, here in the year 2015, the world's wealthiest executives are gathering in one of the planet’s most exclusive resorts to discuss issues they claim are of the most importance to civilization. And yet, the major topic, global-warming doesn’t even exist.

 

At the same time, these same individuals not only pay top dollar to advisors and specialists that protect every cent they earn or possess, if they didn’t they’d be mentally certifiable and broke on top of it. 

 

Which brings us to women and opportunity, a favorite subject for forum’s like these. Yet, after every meeting, confab and discussion that have taken place over many, many years, the statistic regarding women executives stays pretty much the same, and these top guys in business obviously don't hire them.

 

Nonetheless, although women seem to continue having problems gaining significant numbers at the top of the earning charts, one of them; Bill Clinton’s wife seems to have beaten the odds.

 

According to nycnews.net, “This week, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is going to deliver two speeches in Canada for events sponsored by the Toronto-based Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).”

 

In this case, it seems that Bill’s wife is remaining consistent with long-held family traditions regarding the types of organizations they tend to relate to, perhaps having a lot in common with them, as follows:  

 

“The bank has been subject of many corruption investigations and a class action lawsuit for its link with the corruption energy firm Enron and also for its role in the subprime mortgage crisis. On Wednesday, Clinton will deliver speech in Winnipeg and Saskatoon as a part of the Global Perspective speaker’s series that are sponsored by the Bank. 

 

“The bank has made various multi-million dollar settlements with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations of wrongdoing. But for those settlements, the bank never admitted to wrongdoing. Both a Clinton spokesperson and a bank spokesperson have not said anything whether Clinton was getting paid for the speeches. Clinton is known for getting $200,000 or more for earlier speeches.”

 

So, perhaps the Clinton plan calls for amassing enough cash that, in the event that Bill’s wife doesn't run for president for any reason, they’ll be able to build and pay for a White House of their own in Harlem or Chappaqua.

 

That's it for today folks.

 

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