Bilderberg: Evil cabal or harmless old boys club?

Officially, the annual Bilderberg meeting doesn’t even happen.  There are no press releases, no coverage by the mainstream media, and no swarm of paparazzi outside the hotel door to catch the luminaries as they dash inside.  Timothy Geithners’s public schedule was oddly empty for two days, but if he was at Bilderberg, his staff is mum.

If Bilderberg really did happen in Greece last week, it should have been the media draw of the year.  When else can you find all the world’s richest people, plus all the world’s most powerful people, checking into a five star resort that is guarded by F-16s overhead and the Greek navy off the coast? 

(Yes, two intrepid reporters tried to get close to the action by taking the sea approach – only to be stopped three miles from shore by the Greek navy.)

Besides, if Bill Clinton, Ben Bernanke, Henry Kissinger, Condoleeza Rice, the King of Spain and the heads of Google, the Wall Street Journal and the World Bank did get together in one room, what on earth would they have to talk about?

It’s a question that has more than a few people concerned.

Mere fame will not bring an invite – you won’t find Britney Spears on the guest list.  Running a major corporation, university, media empire or a country – those are the kind of credentials required.

Legend has it that Bilderberg is a confab of rich and powerful conspirators plotting ways to fleece the unsuspecting public and thereby become even more rich and powerful.  There are reports that George W. Bush made an appearance at Bilderberg before taking office, as did Clinton prior to his successful bid for the presidency, and Tony Blair prior to becoming Prime Minister of Britain.  This has led to speculation that these leaders were not so much elected by the public, as appointed by the Bilderbergers. 

The Metropolitan of Glastonbury and Head of the British Orthodox Church believes the Bilderbergers represent a “criminal cabal of world Zionism and its efforts to set up a cruel world dictatorship under the headship of Lucifer.” 

But former British Cabinet Minister Lord Denis Healy, one of the founders of Bilderberg, said that was “crap,” and that the group’s aims were high-minded.  “Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless.  So we felt a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.”

A skeptical observer might note that after 55 years of Bilderberg meetings, wars and homelessness are still going strong.  What exactly has this coterie accomplished?  And if their goals are pure, why the overbearing secrecy?

One answer:  If anything more serious than who goes up next on the parasail is being negotiated, it’s a felony and a violation of the U.S Logan Act, which forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments.  A conviction, of which there have been zero, could bring a prison sentence of up to three years.   

There are reports that Bilderberg was responsible for both the EU and the Euro.  Paul Joseph Watson reported: “…Belgian viscount and current Bilderberg-chairman Étienne Davignon bragged that Bilderberg helped create the Euro by first introducing the policy agenda for a single currency in the early 1990’s. Bilderberg’s agenda for a European federal superstate and a single currency likely goes back even further. A BBC investigation uncovered documents from the early Bilderberg meetings which confirmed that the European Union was a brainchild of Bilderberg.”

There is also widespread speculation that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama met secretly at Bilderberg in Chantilly, VA last year.  Obama’s traveling press corps was loaded onto a plane that they assumed would also contain Obama; it wasn’t until the plane was heading down the runway for takeoff that the reporters realized they’d been conned.  They angrily confronted Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs, who stated obliquely: "Senator Obama had a desire to do some meetings, others had a desire to meet with him tonight in a private way and that is what we are doing."

Daniel Estulin, author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, reported that the 2009 discussion centered around a disagreement about how quickly the world economy should crash. According to Estulin’s sources, we are looking at “Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty … or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.”

Estulin’s previous predictions, based on the same Bilderberg sources, have been eerily accurate.  He predicted the housing crash and the 2008 economic meltdown.  He says now that unemployment in the US will double by the end of the year, and that there will be another push to enact the Lisbon treaty, which is key to solidifying the power of the European Union as a superstate.  The Irish will be forced to vote on the treaty again in September or October, despite having already rejected it.

British comedy writer Charlie Skelton covered the 2009 meeting for the Guardian with daily dispatches from sunny Greece.  He started out in a light-hearted mood, captioning a photo of the car behind him with:  Tailed from the airport, by this and hundreds of other different cars at different stages. 

But his experience quickly soured, as he was followed, found evidence that his hotel room had been searched, and was arrested for taking a photo of the sea.  After repeated detentions and angry confrontations with Greek feds, he packed and fled the area.  In his final post, six days after his oh-so cheery beginning, he wrote: 

“My experience over the last several days in Greece has granted me a single, diamond-hard opinion…we must fight, fight, fight, now – right now, this second, with every cubic inch of our souls – to stop identity cards.

“I can tell you right now that the argument ‘If I've done nothing wrong, why would I worry about showing who I am?’ is hogwash. Worse than that, it's horse hockey. It's all about the power to ask, the obligation to show, the justification of one's existence, the power of the asker over the subservience of the asked.

“I don't care if you don't love liberty. For the love of yourself: fight identity cards. Don't let them happen. STOP IDENTITY CARDS. Stop identity cards. And while you're about it: stop identity cards. And that's all I have to say, you will be delighted to know, about Bilderberg 2009.”

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Sheila posted, "If Bilderberg really did happen in Greece last week, it should have been the media draw of the year."

As all professional journalists well know, it is what the media fails to tell us that is the most telling (because few people can connect missing dots).

Many 2nd- and 3rd-tier professional journalists make a living by going slightly beyond what the highest-ranking MSM journalists will talk about, but none of them go all the way...

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God Bless all the attendess of the Bildaberg Group for their noble effort in bringing unity to a work that lacks so much of it.