Posted on 05/14/2009 12:21:48 PM PDT by TaraP
The world’s elite will meet in Greece today in an annual gathering of the "Bilderberg Group" the source of many conspiracy theories and books on the “New World Order”.
Security officials in the Greek capital are reported to have locked down the area around the meeting, reported in The Times as the luxury 5 star hotel Nafsika Astir Palace in the Voulgiameni district of Athens which will last for two days.
A bomb attack by the "Revolutionary Struggle" has already been reported at 3:30pm on Tuesday 12 May on the Vouliagmenis Avenue in the Greek capital within the vicinity of the location of the Bilderberg meeting on the Greek Eurobank branch with a 5 kilo bomb.
The President of the World Bank Robert Zoellick and Tim Geittner the US Treasury Secretary are reported by sources in The Times report as having "unspecified business" in Europe for the next two days.
The agenda of the Bilderberg Group this year is reported to be looking at a "prolonged agonising depression that dooms the world for 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".
The UK is sending representatives from the government, who may include it is reported past participant Lord Mandelson. Other past attendees of the Bilderberg Group from the UK have included Ed Balls (2006),Tony Blair (1993),Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (Steering Committee member) Kenneth Clarke (1993, 1998,[23] 2006[24] & 2007[25]), former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey (founder and Steering Committee member) George Osborne (2006)[26] (2008) Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 2004-Present; member of the opposition 2001-Present, Eric Roll (1964, 1966, 1967, 1973-1975, 1977-1999) (Bilderberg Steering Committee),[27] Department of Economic Affairs, 1964, later Bilderberg Group Chairman, Edward Heath, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher [29].
A London Daily News correspondent based in Athens Evangelos Andreotis who is based near the Athens Astir Palace has said that "security in Athens is especially tight with Anarchist groups and protests already mobilised to try and disrupt the meeting of this group. Greek police and the government have ordered a no tolerance ethos to policing the event, with heavily armed soldiers and police in the streets of Athens".
Will there be cheeseburgers?
If I were part of a super secret society that ruled the world, I think I would.. I don’t know ... maybe meet in secret. World’s worst super secret society ever. Just based on the “can’t meet in secret” part.
The Russians and Chinese see the Bliderberger group as a joke, to be swept from the Earth when the Communist world order comes into play.
are bombs the customary greeting for important visitors in Greece?
anyone from FR invited???
Nothing like an early afternoon chuckle......whenever I read things like this I always remember the scene from ‘So I Married An Axe Murderer” when Mike Myers’ scottish dad is talking about the “Pentaborate”.
You've already broke rule#1: You can't apply logic, reason, or common sense when discussing conspiracy theories. You're just a blind minion if you don't believe that secret societies control all things that happen to all the billions of people in the world.
Yeah, I got one. I’m rearranging my sock drawer that day so I won’t be able to make it.
Seems like these guys plus the illuminati, the CFR and the free masons are all incompetent. They have been trying to take over the world for years and still cannot get er done!
MORE HERE:
This year the club is going to talk about depression. “According to the pre-meeting booklet sent out to attendees, Bilderberg is looking at two options,” says the Bilderberg-watcher Daniel Estulin — “either a prolonged, agonising 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.”
Since Bilderberg does not officially exist, it cannot deny anything and is therefore manna from heaven for the conspiracy theorist. Eurosceptics are convinced that the future development of the European Union was plotted here — EU commissioners have always been welcomed into the coven, with Peter “We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich” Mandelson a particular favourite. Margaret Thatcher, it is said, was a shy debutante at a Bilderberg meeting in 1975.
Jim Tucker, veteran stalker of the Bilderberg club meetings, claims that Mrs Thatcher was ordered “to dismantle British sovereignty, but she said, ‘no way’, so they had her sacked”. Left-wing conspiracy theorists believe that Bilderbergers form a capitalist nucleus, and there is a germ of truth in this. The meetings were started in the Netherlands, in the Hotel de Bilderberg, near Arnhem, by the Polish exile Joseph Retinger. He was worried about growing anti-Americanism and the advance of Communism in Western Europe. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands agreed to sponsor the idea, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Walter Bedell Smith, threw his weight behind it and so did the White House.
The Bilderberg consensus is that national problems are best solved by an internationally oriented elite, that a global network of decision-makers should have a common language and that the boundaries are fluid between the monied and the political classes.
And so there has been a natural bias towards inviting conservatives and market liberals. The only socialists invited are those who “understand money”.
Ed Balls has taken part and the most indiscreet Bilderberger of all time was Denis Healey, the former Labour Chancellor and fierce Atlanticist.
“To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair,” Lord Healey told the author Jon Ronson for his book Them: Adventures with Extremists. “Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on for ever fighting one another for nothing. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.”
Another way of viewing the club is that of Metropolitan Seraphim, the bishop of Piraeus, who said that the Bilderbergers represented a “criminal cabal of world Zionism and its efforts to set up a cruel world dictatorship under the headship of Lucifer”. This line is quite common on the blogosphere, where the club’s secrecy is taken as evidence of evil intentions.
Whether Lucifer will be down there on the sun-loungers remains to be seen. But what we have been able to establish from a World Bank spokesman, Alexis O’Brien, is that the organisation’s president, Robert Zoellick, will be in Athens on unspecified business on May 14. And that US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s public schedule is mysteriously empty for the next two days. Jo Ackermann, head of Deutsche Bank, will be travelling “somewhere in Europe”. Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, will not be around until the end of the week.
At least they are in tune with society and pop culture, reverting back to The “illuminati” just as Dan Brown’s movie is being released.. one sign of a good, super secret, all powerful, secret society- following pop culture for your marketing campaign. :->
Chasing each other around the Acropolis bare-a55ed?
“If I were part of a super secret society that ruled the world, I think I would.. I don’t know ... maybe meet in secret. World’s worst super secret society ever. Just based on the “can’t meet in secret” part.” quotes techor
Techor, why meet in secret? They could get on all media outlets and tell the public every evil intention they plan to implement, and still be safe as babies. Wait, “they” already have been doing this.
Nobody will stand up and get violent so why try to even hide their agenda or what they are about.
Thanks.
My tour group missed bombs, grenades, machine guns in Athens by 5 minutes—went off where we were 5 minutes earlier.
LOL!! True...true...! As far as super-secret organizations go, this one does seem to be lacking a little something, doesn't it.
Thank GOD Quix!
Please update if you can on this....
IMHO Tim Geithner looks like a Reptillian..his ears, forehead,mouth and nose seem very suspect...
Just sayin....
Yeh, I'm off as soon as I get packed. They promised me I wouldn't have to dance nekkid with Henry Kissinger at this one. Got any developing nations you want placed under the iron boot-heel of capitalist oppression?
Besides anyone who knows anything about it knows that I’m in charge of it all I just let them think they are. Hold on there’s a knock at the door. Aaaaack!
I was, but I am cleaning the barn this weekend, and I am allergic to Feta cheese.
I hear that all these buildacheeseburger bankers and CEOs are just sick and tired of being rich.. they are so tired of being rich, they want to destroy the country that makes them rich, the US.
I think they are the equivalent of 'booing' in this country.
Well, if you can hang onto your pile and make everybody else poor it makes you feel richer.
What kind of tour are you on? Is it one of those Bible Tour Groups?
Is this when they make the new inductees stand naked in front of the gathering and the members get to strike the newbies with the sacred cat-o-nine tails? Then they administer the oath and make them sign it in their own blood? And then they take them to the secret chamber where God only knows what happens? Then they come out smiling and tell the world that it is just a social club?
Don’t know what to say here..., my brain keeps locking on “build-a-burger” at one of the hamburger joints I’ve been to. I must be hungry or something... LOL...
No, but they might have kolokithia keftedes which, apparently, is sort of like meatballs without the meat. I’m sure it all tastes like chicken anyway. Seems appropriate for the chicken.... attendees, eh? No meat in the balls? That’s about right.
No big mystery. The Illuminati are turncoats and Satanists.
what better place to hide than right out in the open?
History has offered many examples of secrecy becoming a breeding ground for bad ideas. Why keep these meetings secret if they are for the betterment of mankind?
People always say things like that. Personally I think a better place to hide would be on my underground lair on my own private island in the middle of the ocean. At least then I wouldn't have to worry about crazy anarchists trying to bomb it. I think the build-a-burgers and their enemies like the attention. I mean what's the use of belonging to a super-secret society if nobody knows about it.
How was I supposed to know that everyone was going to tighten their belts? The downturn didn't seem to be that bad at the time.
Personally I like the Cthulu deftedes which is like squid with bat-wings and tastes like squid with bat-wings.
Can it be deep-fried and dipped in raspberry compote? No wonder the Greeks drink a lot of ouzo!
Taxes ? What taxes ?
I'm betting they choose the less sovereignty option.
Yes, my flight leaves in an hour(hitchin’ on Bill Gates plane)...anything you would like me to put on the agenda?
You are too generous.
LOL...
I see your point!
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