Posted on 05/26/2009 11:12:53 AM PDT by BGHater
A handful of high-ranking Obama administration officials this month delivered private briefings at the annual invitation-only conference held by an elite international organization known as the Bilderberg group.
The closed meeting of some of the most powerful business , media and political leaders in North America and Western Europe heard from top Obama diplomats James Steinberg and Richard Holbrooke, who detailed the administration’s foreign policy, while economic adviser Paul Volcker, chairman of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, also gave a presentation at the heavily guarded seaside resort in Greece that hosted the event.
The Bilderberg group, which takes its name from the Dutch hotel where it held its first meeting in 1954, exists solely to bring together between 100 and 150 titans of politics, finance, military, industry, academia and media from North America and Western Europe once a year to discuss world affairs.
Its ultra-exclusive roster of globally influential figures has captured the interest of an international network of conspiracists, who for decades have viewed the Bilderberg conference as a devious corporate-globalist scheme.
This year’s closed-press meeting, held at the five-star Astir Palace hotel in Vouliagmeni on the Aegean Sea about 25 miles south of Athens, marked the 57th gathering of the opaque organization.
The publicity-shy Bilderberg group – which in a rare mass-circulation press release last year described itself as “a small, flexible, informal and off-the-record international forum in which different viewpoints can be expressed and mutual understanding enhanced” – has no website and participants are asked not to publicly discuss the proceedings.
But a meeting attendee tells POLITICO that Holbrooke, a State Department special envoy, briefed attendees on the Obama administration’s unified approach to dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Steinberg, the deputy secretary of state, gave a presentation on the administration’s broader foreign policy and National Security Agency Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander also participated in the conference.
An assistant to Volcker said she did not know the subject of his presentation at this year’s meeting. A White House official stressed that Volcker is not a full-time employee and wasn’t representing Obama in Greece. The White House, State Department and NSA did not respond to questions about whether Alexander, Holbrooke and Steinberg – all repeat Bilderberger attendees – were representing the Obama administration at the meeting and whether tax dollars paid for their travel.
Steinberg, it should be noted, was in the region on official business for talks with officials from Greece, Macedonia and Montenegro, on the eve of Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to other Balkan states: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Serbia.
Though Bilderberg tends to attract mostly former U.S. government officials, it’s not uncommon for sitting officials to attend.
Bilderberg stalwart Henry Kissinger, who’s attended more than half of its meetings, reportedly went at least twice during his stint as Secretary of State, while Alexander attended last year’s session as NSA director. In 2004, then-Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) attended the Bilderberg conference in Stresa, Italy, and both TIME magazine and the New York Times reported that his performance at a debate there played a role in his selection one month later as the vice presidential running mate for Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
But any suggestion that Bilderberg is secretly anointing world leaders or plotting global policy is the provenance of “the black helicopter crowd,” the attendee of this year’s conference told POLITICO.
The meetings are “one of the least well-kept secrets in the world” and “don’t have any decision-making authority,” said the attendee, who did not want to be identified breaching Bilderberg’s off-the-record rule. The attendee called Bilderberg “a useful group of people who are well-connected and thoughtful who put on these meetings and usually invite a few people from the [U.S.] administration to come so they understand what the administration is doing.”
Obama’s Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, who attended the 2007 and 2008 Bilderberg meetings and until recently sat on the steering committee that picked invitees, did not respond to a request for comment about how invitees are selected.
Other American participants at this year’s conference included World Bank President Robert Zoellick, billionaire Bilderberg regular David Rockefeller, academic Barnett Rubin and leading neoconservatives Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, according to the attendee, who added that Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis and Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis also attended.
British press confirmed that top U.K. official Peter Mandelson was there.
Representatives of Obama economic advisor Larry Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner – both of whom have participated in past Bilderberg meetings – refuted foreign press reports predicting their presence last weekend.
Geithner was in New York, said Treasury spokeswoman Heather Wong. “I don’t know how that [Bilderberg rumor] got out there. I had some foreign press calls asking me where he was last weekend, but I didn’t have any domestic calls.”
Indeed, the gathering produced barely a blip in the American mainstream media, with the only notable dispatches coming from a Wall Street Journal reporter who was barred entry to the usually publicly accessible Astir Palace hotel, and an Associated Press reporter who noted that it was being protected by “hundreds of police, navy commandos, coast guard speedboats and two F-16 fighter planes.”
As in past years, the near-absence of mainstream media coverage left Bilderberg-veil-piercing duties to a group of self-styled Bilderberg hunters whose reporting and speculation fill fringe, libertarian-leaning websites, newspapers and AM radio shows popular with those whose worldview is characterized by a deep and angry suspicion of the ruling class rather than any prevailing partisan or ideological affiliation.
“Leaked Agenda: Bilderberg Group Plans Economic Depression,” blared a headline early this month on the popular website Infowars, which is run by syndicated radio talk show host Alex Jones.
The story was based on reporting by veteran Bilderberg sleuth Daniel Estulin, whose sources told him Bilderbergers were torn between whether to initiate “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, the author of “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group,” claims to have infiltrated Bilderberg, and he told POLITICO that “in the end, the shorter-intense crowd within the Bilderbergers won out and so we’re going to be looking at a year, a year-and-a-half of really intense financial meltdown.”
Estulin, who was the first to report the precise location of Bilderberg 2009 (though in late 2007 he also reported that U.S. intelligence was considering assassinating Texas GOP Congressman and libertarian icon Ron Paul), declined to email POLITICO a copy of the pre-meeting booklet on which his story was based.
Both Estulin and Jim Tucker, another veteran Bilderberg hunter, insisted that Geithner—who Infowars reported was “to take orders from global elite at Bilderberg”—attended this year’s conference.
Tucker, who edits the nationalist American Free Press newspaper, traveled to Greece to report on last weekend’s Bilderberg meeting. He says he’s been on the sidelines of about 30 of the meetings. At this year’s event, two of his reporters were confronted by the Greek Navy when they rented a boat to try to take photographs of beachside Bilderbergers from the sea, he said.
“They don’t want the world to know how they’re planning our lives,” Tucker contended. “Obama is Bilderberg’s obedient little boy. He’ll follow orders.”
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A Third Way Production
I wonder if Obama will be heading to Bohemian Grove in July to worship Moloch. Google it, I thought it was some kook conspiracy theory until I saw the ceremony of Cremation of Care in a hidden video. Like Freemasonry on steroids, every prez since Cleveland has gone there and will put a chill down your spine about all these New World Order stuff like The Bildeberg Group, etc.
George Soros - Bilderberg Member...finger on the self destruct button for our economy and Mack Daddy of 0bozo!!
waiting for the Alex Jones types to show up...
Exclusive = ELITIST
This is a secret cabal of internationalists and globalists who are NOT patriots but who have a far wider goal in mind than the best interests of America. Its their own pocketbooks.
Mark me down as one of the “cosnpiracists” who doesn't trust a group of people who meet in secret, have international connections and loyalties and who try to influence the way my government works and don't tell me how.
Yep, but they have influence.
Everyone better stop talking about Bilderberg or else you’ll be called a John Bircher!
I’ll believe a truther over a TARPer any day.
Thanks for the info
Birchers are right on this one.
hehe...I was thinking the same thing..
If US officials gave private individuals information of a non-public nature which could be used to provide an advantage in their making investment decisions, then somebody needs to go to jail.
The list of things the Birchers have been right about is growing by the second.
Of course, the 9/11 idiots are now being lumped in with the Birchers to discredit them... but that was the purpose of the 9/11 idiots to begin with.
This is the 1st time I've ever heard that story. Does anyone know any more about this?
I bet that would make a lot of neo-cons & Paul haters happy.
The establishment types and Rino’s usually jump into these threads with name calling and ridicule.
It’s hard to tell whether the Guardian’s reporting is of the Onion variety. Our own press liars act like they never heard of this group.
These people are very bad news.
Global elite spoke of agenda to create Euro nearly 40 years before it was first codified in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, May 8, 2009
Leaked documents from the 1955 Bilderberg Group conference held in Germany discuss the agenda to create a European Union and a single EU currency, decades before they were introduced, disproving once again debunkers who claim that Bilderberg has no influence over world events.
Leaked papers from the meeting which took place from September 23-25 1955 at the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, were released by the Wikileaks website yesterday.
The full document can be read here (the password is ‘dynbase’).
As we first reported in 2003, a BBC investigative team were allowed to access Bilderberg files which confirmed that the EU and the Euro were the brainchild of Bilderberg. They were probably reading from the same documents that were released by Wikileaks.
It was only last month that 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.
However, the documents show that the agenda to create a European common market and a single currency go back decades earlier.
The summary report of the 1955 meeting talks of the “Pressing need to bring the German people, together with the other peoples of Europe, into a common market.”
The document also outlines the plan, “To arrive in the shortest possible time at the highest degree of integration, beginning with a common European market.”
Just two years later, in 1957, the first incarnation of the European Economic Community (EEC) was born, which comprised of a single market between Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The EEC gradually enlarged over the next few decades until it became the European Community, one of the three pillars of the European Union, which was officially created in 1993.
The 1955 Bilderberg summary outlines a consensus that, “It might be better to proceed through the development of a common market by treaty rather than by the creation of new high authorities.” The EEC was duly created via the Treaty of Rome, which was signed on 25 March 1957.
The same process is still being followed to this day with the Lisbon Treaty, which hands over vast swathes of national sovereignty to the EU by means of the consent of Presidents and Prime Ministers of European countries, rather than by the arbitrary creation of new authorities, a method that would more obviously lay bare the fact that the creation of a federal EU superstate is totalitarian by its very nature.
Even so, debunkers will probably still try and claim that the idea of a common European market was floating around in the early 1950’s and that Bilderberg were merely debating contemporary political ideas.
However, the same cannot be said for the single European currency, which wasn’t even introduced in the form of notes and coins until January 2002, having been first codified in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. The documents prove that Bilderberg members were pushing for its introduction nearly 40 years earlier.
“A European speaker expressed concern about the need to achieve a common currency, and indicated that in his view this necessarily implied the creation of a central political authority,” states the summary document.
True to form, the single European currency, the Euro, was not introduced until after the creation of a central political authority - the EU itself.
The document also stresses, “The necessity to bring the German people into a common European market as quickly as possible,” adding that the future was in danger without a “United Europe”.
We also learn that, “A United States participant confirmed that the United States had not weakened in its enthusiastic support for the idea of integration, although there was considerable diffidence in America as to how this enthusiasm should be manifested. Another United States participant urged his European friends to go ahead with the unification of Europe with less emphasis on ideological considerations and, above all, to be practical and work fast.”
Despite the plethora of manifestly provable examples of where Bilderberg’s agenda has later played out in actual policies and geopolitical developments on the world stage, establishment media debunkers still scoff and sneer at independent researchers who dare claim that 150 of the world’s most influential powerbrokers meeting in secret to discuss the future of the planet might equate to something more than an informal talking shop, calling such assertions “conspiracy theories”.
Indeed, the sheer stupidity of debunkers to suggest that an event that attracts the titans of government, industry, banking, business and academia, at which the most pressing global issues of the day are vigorously discussed under the cloak of a mutually agreed media blackout, has no bearing on future world events, is the most laughable “conspiracy theory” ever uttered.
Bilderberg’s 2009 agenda has already been leaked before their May 14-17 meeting in Vouliagmeni, Greece. According to investigative journalist Daniel Estulin, one of Bilderberg’s aims is to smear anti-Lisbon Treaty activists and politicians by planting derogatory stories in the media, enabling them to silence opposition to an EU federal superstate that Bilderberg has been carefully cultivating since their very first meetings in the 1950’s - a fact, not a conspiracy theory, proven by Bilderberg’s own internal documents.
Ron Paul may be a kook, but he is an outspoken opponent of the Fed, that might be enough to get him HIT.
Look at the video of his after cession speech. The link is listed below
“Is this reality or just a bad dream?”
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Did you get the Ron Paul statement in the same article. Long verbage, troubling, but contains some real grasp of what is happening.
I have never been a Ron Paul supporter, but this video on which the long quote in the article was based is worth viewing.
“Is this reality or just a bad dream?”
“a government out of control, unrestrained by the Constitution, the rule of law, or morality; bickering over petty politics as we collapse into chaos; the philosophy that destroys us is not even defined.”
outwardly the crooks like bama seem against capitalism, but in reality, they just want to decimate their enemies and enrich their friends (and themselves).
do we as peasants really have homes/iras/401s/cds/cars/jewelry/ etc or do we own nothing?
when you have a dictatorship, its their call....sadly.....
“They don’t want the world to know how they’re planning our lives,” Tucker contended. “Obama is Bilderberg’s obedient little boy. He’ll follow orders.”
Reminds me, gotta buy more ammo!
The SIGMA Protocol.
don’t you wish biden ‘plugs’ was there? they would have to silence him before he left the meeting or within 2-4 hrs we would know what really goes on in there.
Been trying to find out when Soros joined Bilderberg. Finding a number of currency-oriented connections like the single Euro currency and Soros’ breaking of British banking.
Soros was born in ‘30 and Bilderberg is 40 yo. When did Soros connect with the Bilderbergers?
Wonder how much of this rising stock market is due to foreign investment by this group?
Better not be having any of those meetings at Augusta National.
I am actually looking back at some of that now...I show Soros attending Bildenberg back through the 80's but mostly through blogs and unsubstantiated links. I am looking for something hard...I'll ping you when/if I get it!!!
Unfortunately John Birch was pretty much correct...
He was prescient!
Politicians are bought by these people (some ARE politicians), and in their various vocations, they have enormous influence over industry, commerce, banking and government.
The best to hide a conspiracy is to include it among so many fake ones.. Start some or many bogus conspiracys and your real conspiracy will be laughed at along with the bogus ones.. Brilliant actually..
Welcome to the people with open eyes.
“This is a secret cabal of internationalists and globalists who are NOT patriots but who have a far wider goal in mind than the best interests of America. Its their own pocketbooks.”
These are the people who have gone to the end of wealth and found - - - POWER to be the next level of satisfaction. That’s why they’re there.
Both sides could play at that game.
Hmmm.
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Speaking of Holbrooke & Volcker and an underqualified self-appointed “ruling class” :
2004 late or early JANUARY 2005 : (NY : GAGGLE OF WINDBAGS CONVENE AT RICHARD HOLBROOKE’S REQUEST - PLAN TO SAVE KOFI ANNAN’S ARSE...-— See NORM COLEMAN OP ED, VOLCKER {See UN OIL FOR FOOD CORRUPTION INQUIRY}, GEORGE SOROS, TED TURNER, JOHN KERRY, John Ruggie, Leslie Gelb, CFR, Tim Wirth, Kathy Bushkin, United Nations Foundation ) When the stink threatens to make even bureaucrats gag, somebody has to mop up some of the mess. When a gaggle of special pleaders met the other night in New York to talk about the puddle in the parlor at the United Nations, it wasn’t clear whether they were interested in shaping up the U.N. or merely saving the job of Kofi Annan, the bureaucrats’ favorite bureaucrat. .......What frightened the coterie to action then, and no doubt Mr. Annan yesterday, is the growing sentiment in Congress to do something about corruption at the U.N., or else. .......
There was considerable wetting of well-tailored pants at the U.N. last month with the publication of Mr. Coleman’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he asked the pointed question obvious to everyone: “If this widespread corruption had occurred in any legitimate organization around the world, its CEO would have been ousted long ago. Why is the U.N. different?”
Why, indeed. Mr. Coleman, a moderate Republican in only his second year in the Senate, is not through yet. He is the chairman of the Senate’s permanent investigating subcommittee and intends to hotly pursue the scam artists who stole much of the $60 billion — that’s “billion” with a “b” — in oil profits meant for food and medicines to be waved through the U.N. sanctions. ...Mr. Annan reassured the U.N. Security Council that Mr. Volcker’s conclusions “will be made available to the public in a form that will take into account the rights of staff members and, where necessary, respect any undertakings as to confidentiality that may have been granted by the inquiry.”
Translation to plainspeak: “The fix is in. If you don’t like the stink, get a bigger clothespin.” (Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...-———— “Kofi gets a cuddle from his friends,” Wesley Pruden, Washington Times, 1/04/05
"My sense is that if we are to have a truly globalized economy, with free movement of goods, services and capital, a world currency makes sense," Volker said. "That would be a world in which the objectives of growth, economic efficiency and stability can best be reconciled." - Paul Volker WSJ 2000 via 26 posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:59:16 AM by politicket
This is exactly how the American citizen has lost control of his government, and why we have no representation at the federal or state level anymore.
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