"Where I get disgruntled is when people - the discussers - bemoan practically the whole darn world's involvement with every dadgum crime that arises - and nobody ever talks."

I can certainly understand that, Ebbie, because that's how I feel about tinfoil hats and remarks of that nature. It is an attempt to ridicule and not address the more serious concerns. The Bilderbergers exist under that name since 1954. That seems to be contested by no one. So why do the meetings--that have some of the more influential people in the world--never get discussed in main stream media? Never mind what was discussed behind closed doors (and funded from the public purse), the personages themselves don't even get pictures in the papers. At least not pictures posted by main stream media. Strange, that. Some starlet drops her drawers or some movie actor is DUI and THAT makes the main stream media. So why not people much more 'important'?

We have people here who will on one had imply that the groups don't exist and then in a few sentences talk about the groups as though they DO exist. It gets real confusing for an ol' guy like me.

We accept that main stream media played a role in getting the Iraq War off to a good start. And we have seen the death of investigative journalism happening over the past seven years or so. Hell, on stories like this, why does no one do an expose? Some heavy members of the press have attended, including Conrad Black and lo, never a word in his papers.



"Rwanda to Receive US$810 Million in Debt Service Relief: The IMF and World Bank Support Debt Relief for Rwanda Under the Enhanced HIPC Initiative"


Oh, such news. Because for the first time in years--over a decade--Rwanda's military expenditures are likely to be over 13% of its GDP in 2007. It has seldom risen above 3% for over a decade.

Rwanda's GDP is about two billion dollars. Their traditional expenditure on the military has been about $60,000,000 per year (that being 3% of their GDP. So, the loan for debt relief comes in at $800,000,000. Their new military expenditure is to be $260,000,000. I doubt that one thing has anything to do with the other. So, I'll just say it's curious.

What to do? If I knew, Ebbie, I'd have the Nobel Prize within three years. I too can only help change the small things. And notice the big things. In a world where people want to trust politicians like Cheney/Bush, trust the word of multi-nationals, believe that rich folks are interested in really helping poor folks--and when we see precious bloody little changing in terms of world poverty--there really isn't much I can do. Just the way it is.