http://www.freemarketnews.com/Feedback.asp?nid=191 BILDERBERG DRIVEN TO PR BY NET? Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com by staff reports
The head of the powerful and ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group of billionaires and national leaders, has granted a rare interview. The reason? To make sure the public understands his group is nothing more than a kind of rich man's debating society. In an interview with the BBC, Viscount Etienne Davignon, Bilderberg chairman returns again and again to the point he wishes to make - that the world has nothing to fear from the Bilderberg's annual conclave. There is little doubt that the World Wide Web has raised the volume of allegations about Bilderberg from a nuisance to a firestorm - one that Davignon must be trying douse, hence the astonishing interview. With millions of queries on the Net, and thousands of cites and articles, many of them assuming the worst, any idea that the billionaire's club can continue to function in its accustomed secrecy must be seen, even by members themselves as increasingly unrealistic. More and more Net bloggers and hi-tech reporters penetrate the groups' formidable security at its annual meetings and leak comprehensive reports of its innermost dealings. Secrets are revealed and and high-level strategies become chat-room fodder. Davignon begins by admitting that, "There will always be people who believe in conspiracies," but claims that "things happen in a much more incoherent fashion. . What can come out of our meetings is that it is wrong not to try to deal with a problem." However, a real consensus or action plan is out of the question. "People are much too sensible to believe . that," he says dismissively. "Bilderberg does not try to reach conclusions - it does not try to say 'what we should do.'" He does admit, "Business influences society and politics influences society - that's purely common sense. [However] it's not that business contests the right of democratically-elected leaders to lead." The BBC reporter notes that Bilderberg's secretive profile continues to give critics ammunition to impute malevolent intent. American Free Press editor Jim Tucker, he says, is convinced that the group organizes wars, and elects and deposes political leaders, and describes it as simply "evil." Davignon responds by pointing out what he believes are common sense fallacies of those who allege a Bilderberg conspiracy. "When people say this is a secret government of the world, I say that if we were a secret government of the world we should be bloody ashamed of ourselves." The reporter also notes that, "Bilderberg meetings feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names," and lists Bill Clinton (1991) and Tony Blair (1994), who both attended meetings about a year before their ascensions to national power-positions. Additionally, he says, "all the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed." Davignon's response: He and his colleagues are "excellent talent spotters." - ST ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
