Ivan Seeking
Jan23-04, 04:36 AM
Extraterrestrial edge helps the balance sheet
By A. CRAIG COPETAS
Bloomberg News
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? [continued]
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2365195
This should have gone in the Politics and World Affairs forum but I just couldn't make myself do it. [*(]
Maybe this will turn out to be bogus. I didn't spot Bloomberg laying claim to this...but it looks legitimate for now.
By A. CRAIG COPETAS
Bloomberg News
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? [continued]
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2365195
This should have gone in the Politics and World Affairs forum but I just couldn't make myself do it. [*(]
Maybe this will turn out to be bogus. I didn't spot Bloomberg laying claim to this...but it looks legitimate for now.