Re: <nettime> Bilderberg papers revealed

["Peter Lunenfeld" <peterl@artcenter.edu>]

Hello All --

Like Christmas pudding and Champagne for New Year's Eve, it's a holiday
tradition the whole net.family can cherish -- the annual Bilderberg Summit
posting. 

I hope that we're a bit further along in our analyses of transnational power
structures than the "Lines of black limousines, unmarked except for a 'B' on
the windscreen" would indicate. For the record: shadowy secret conspiracies
tend to drive about in unmarked limos (it's part and parcel of the whole
shadowy secret thing).

I seem to remember a <nettime> post last year that was a fairly concise
refutation of the whole Bilderberg myth (which bears too many echoes of
anti-semitic rhetoric to be considered innocuous). Perhaps it could be
reposted or dredged up from the archives.

Peter Lunenfeld


[[ moderator's note: I approved this because it came from the Big Issue --
which I occassionally buy on the street -- even though personally I am not
a fan of such conspiracie. You can note many inconsistencies, such as, 24
countires yet no Asian participation (G22 includes Singapore, Malaysia),
why invite tiny European countries ahead of others which you have
significant trade and investment links to; why would Blair be at 1993
Bilderberg, he wasn't even Opposition Leader then I think; and so on.
Nevertheless, I thought it might provoke some discussion, which it did.]]


>"Lines of black limousines, unmarked except for a 'B' on the windscreen,
>swept in, sometimes accompanied by police escorts, sometimes not," says an
>eyewitness of this year's meeting in Portugal. "A helicopter was overhead,
>and other security officers were prudently patrolling the hillsides. The
>policy on duty at the gates made it crystal clear that they were only the
>tip of the security iceberg."

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