Super Secret Friends
Did a quick Drudge surf just moments ago and clicked on World's who's who hold secret talks in Ottawa… where I found this info in the last paragraph of an AFP item:
Former New York governor George Pataki, Iraq's deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi, the heads of Coca-Cola, Credit Suisse, the Royal Bank of Canada, several media moguls, and cabinet ministers from Spain and Greece, were also expected to attend.
Emphasis mine. Looks like the foreign "presse" wants to start interfering in domestic politics early this round, as according to George Pataki dot com: "George E. Pataki, the 53rd Governor of New York State, is currently the longest serving Governor in the United States."
As they're signing up volunteers for his campaign here and taking contributions here it doesn't look like he wants to leave the Governor's Mansion anytime soon.
So what's the hubbub about in the first place? It's the "annual, ultra-secretive Bilderberg conference" in Ottowa. The conference is so secret that the AFP had to use its secret powers to find a globetrotting "conspiracy theorist" at the airport to quote for the international article:
[S]keptic Daniel Estulin, who flew from Spain to try to cover the conference, said their intent is to "create a world government ruled by an elite group of people whose main objective is to control all the natural resources on the planet."
I personally thought that was the aim of China and Venezuela, not to mention OPEC, the Trilateral Commision, the Masons, the UN and George Bush. I'm so confused. Agence France-Presse: reporting the absurd with a straight face since1835.
Update: If you're still reading, continuing my link perusal from Drudge I find an example of an American 'news' agency delivering up the goods; after the jump.
Not wanting to be seen as singling out the French for idiotic reporting I need to include this gem from the Associated Press, which is ostensibly an American 'news' agency.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on the scene after an airstrike that led to the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi told Associated Press Television News that he saw American troops beating a man who had a beard like the al-Qaida leader.The witness said he saw the man lying on the ground, badly wounded but still alive. He said U.S. troops arriving on the scene wrapped the man's head in an Arab robe and began beating him. His account cannot be independently verified.
Again, with a straight face the "news" reports that a man with "a beard" had his head wrapped in cloth and was beaten. Just maybe, if the witness was reporting the God's honest truth, the troops were administering life saving treatment. Otherwise why wrap his head? That this 'admittedly' unverifiable account of US troops beating to death an injured man whose face would be plastered all over the world's media within hours is delivered up as 'news' without any context is simply incomprehensible.
