SUNDAY 1/15/17; Israeli-Palestinian Peace Conference; Davos World Economic Forum

World leaders meet in Paris for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Conference. Israel PM Netanyahu calls the conference, “Useless.” France sides more with the Palestinians than Israelis.

The World Economic Forum conducts its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The global elite discuss the lives of the peasants while sipping expensive brandy and smoking Cuban cigars. The Davos aristocrats will 








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The famous Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is shut down after 146 years. Excessive regulation claims another victim. Animal rights activists are successful in removing the elephants from the circus but ticket sales have plummeted and the show will no longer go on. The circus has to shut down placing workers in the unemployment line; elephants were more important than humans. The jobless will have difficulty finding new employment since bearded ladies, sword swallowers, jugglers and clowns are not exactly in high demand.