Posted on 01/23/2011 3:06:08 PM PST by FromLori
Where the influential people meet and talk.
“YOU can do nothing against a conspiracy theory,” sighs Etienne Davignon. He sits in a lofty office with a stupendous view over Brussels, puffing his pipe. He is an aristocrat, a former vice-president of the European Commission and a man who has sat on several corporate boards, but that is not why some people consider him too powerful. He presides over the Bilderberg group, an evil conspiracy bent on world domination. At least, that is what numerous websites allege; also that it has ties to al-Qaeda, is hiding the cure for cancer and wishes to merge the United States with Mexico.
In reality, Bilderberg is an annual conference for a few dozen of the world’s most influential people. Last year Bill Gates and Larry Summers hobnobbed with the chairman of Deutsche Bank, the boss of Shell, the head of the World Food Programme and the prime minister of Spain. One or two journalists are invited each year, on condition that they abstain from writing about it.
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Up The Irons...
“One or two journalists are invited each year, on condition that they abstain from writing about it.”
There wouldn’t be so many conspiracy theories if they were a little more...shall we say...transparent? /sarc
I haven’t heard any Iron Maiden in years I forgot all about them its been so long :)
“One or two journalists are invited each year, on condition that they abstain from writing about it.”
So what’s the point? That’s like hiring a stripper and telling her to keep her clothes on.
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