The PIS is alive and kicking, and even though only four of us remained on topic, our noise level nearly emptied the pub. A cornucopia of ideas spilled across the room, which should probably inspire some articles for the next AAP.
But to keep it up short, I just like to throw in some missing links. One of our topic was Depleted Uranium, an environmental hazard and toxic legacy that is increasingly used all over this planet.
While taking about war segueing into the evil overlords comes natural. Ari had not heard about the Bilderberg Group, which might come closest to be something like the secret rulers of this planet. I started investigating the mysterious group myself, and tried to research the participants. It's definitely work in progress, yet global politics and events appear already in a different light.
The last referral is to the background of ubiquitous terror theme. Somehow, links to Google Video seem not to work here, so simply search for terrorstorm and enjoy an alternative analysis of events of global events.
And the club website got a small makeover to create a bit more of corporate identity for our advertising efforts. Hope you like it, because you have live with it :)
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Hey Lutz,
Well done on the redesign of the PIS website - for someone who must find the whole concept rather distressing, your search for a corporate identity for the club has indeed been worthwhile.
As to your musings on the Bilderberg Group, I suspect that paranoia is getting the better of judgement. Not every meeting is intended for public consumption. Meetings of Cabinet are held in confidence. Groups of diplomats meet under Chatham House Rules. To those on the outside, it can be frustrating, but those on the inside recognise that for commercial, political or security reasons, this needs to be the case.
This is not to say, of course, that the meetings are devoid of scrutiny. A rigourous press doing its job will track the progress of the meeting. Non-sensitive documents from the meeting ought to be released. And most importantly, participants are ultimately held accountable to their constituents: politicals to voters, business people to shareholders and consumers.
It's tempting to get a head full of steam and demand to know all that goes on. Whether this leads to the best outcome, though, is doubtful.
As to your musings on the Bilderberg Group, I suspect that paranoia is getting the better of judgement.
It's not paranoia, it's curiosity. The hundred biggest companies have bigger budgets than most countries. I guess we agree that companies are hierarchical, but not democratically organised.
Allowing companies to very directly influence political leaders on a global scale undermines the idea of sovereign nation states.
A rigourous press doing its job will track the progress of the meeting.
No, it's not, and that's why you never heard about the Bilderberg group before. Simply do a Factiva search for the term, you will be surprised how few articles have been released, especially if you search over the last 50 years.
It's tempting to get a head full of steam and demand to know all that goes on. Whether this leads to the best outcome, though, is doubtful.
Hear, hear! This sounds like Don't ask too many questions to me. I think it's never wrong to try to comprehend what's happening around us.
Government doesn't come for free, and once in office the populous can not stop them from going to war. Maybe the Australian people don't want to spend 20 billion $ on their part of the war of terror, but they have never been asked if they want to pay for their loss of civil rights.
However, if those few people who profit most from war, chaos and disaster meet on a regular basis, together with heads from media empires, think tanks and universities, it raises suspicion in an independently thinking mind.
Better to let the poorly informed members of the mass confusion continue their rantings. The truth is best hidden behind good intentions and outright lies.
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