Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00392)

Morten,
You might like this post about "Aliens" as the topic at the "Davos Summit."



Davos Summit Discusses ETs 
And Government Leaders
ET Edge Helps The Balance Sheet
By A. Craig Copetas
Bloomberg News
1-24-4



A galactic mystery hovers over the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, 
Switzerland: How many of the 2,280 global leaders, including 31 heads of state, 
gathered in this Alpine resort conduct business with extraterrestrials? This 
is no whimsy for Davosians. It's on the agenda of the annual powwow of the 
influential and affluent who will ask forum participants such as Vice President 
Dick Cheney, Coca-Cola Chairman Douglas Daft and De La Rue Chief Executive 
Ian Much if the aliens have landed and are collaborating with them to concoct 
government policy, brew soda pop and mint Iraq's new bank notes. "The 
extraterrestrials have yet to make contact with me," said Much, who will help moderate 
tonight's dinner seminar (closed except to forum participants) on The 
Conspiracy Behind Conspiracy Theories: Have Extraterrestrials Made Contact With 
Government Leaders? The British moneymaker is confident - at least for now - that 
De La Rue remains the largest nongovernment printer of bank notes in the 
Milky Way. "If the aliens are here," Much reckoned, "I'd absolutely expect them 
to call me to have their currency printed." Despite the twilight zone topic 
arching many an eyebrow along the snow-covered strip of fashionable hotel 
bars, forum officials maintain their five-day program on Partnering for Security 
and Prosperity requires an unambiguous examination of extraterrestrial presence 
on Earth. "The panelists are the best in their domain; they all have 
expertise in specific fields," explained Philippe Bourguignon, the forum's co-chief 
executive officer and a former CEO of Club Mediterranee. "The themes and 
sessions at Davos reflect the global agenda." And the public's pulse. A 1996 
Gallup Poll found that 71 percent of Americans believe the government knows more 
about UFOs than it has disclosed. A Roper poll found that some 80 percent of 
those questioned think Wall Street and Washington are hiding knowledge of 
extraterrestrial contact. And the Internet search engine Google turns up as many Web 
pages dedicated to UFOs as it does for investment banking. "It is possible 
that UFOs really do contain aliens, and the government is hushing it up," 
Cambridge University physicist Stephen Hawking told British television viewers in 
a 1998 interview. President Bush's recent call to put a man on Mars before 
2030 has swelled investor interest in exotic technologies, last week boosting 
the Bloomberg Aerospace Index 1.9 percent, its biggest gain since October. 
Earth's leaders prospecting extraterrestrial commerce as part of the forum's 
agenda has set off anticipation not seen among UFO analysts since Close 
Encounters of the Third Kind was released on DVD.




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