Posted on 06/10/2011 3:38:04 AM PDT by billflax
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. Thomas Jefferson
The annual Bilderberg Conference will convene this weekend, thus throwing the Internet into a tizzy. One hundred forty or so of the worlds most powerful persons or their proxies, titans from industry, banking, media and a host of nongovernmental organizations, will covertly huddle at a ritzy Swiss resort.
The Bilderbergers ostensibly meet each year to brainstorm about the days great international issues. Their discussions remain off the record so that politicians and others in sensitive roles can speak candidly without risking gotcha exposés.
Conspiracy theorists believe the Bilderbergers control the course of world events. That through crisis and uncertainty they steer societys great developments with an ultimate goal of establishing a New World Order. Naturally led by them, of course.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.forbes.com ...
Wonder what ever happened to that document?
There exist far too many that believe that they have the answer to the worlds every problem (ref. National Debt) and far too many that believe the world has the answer to their every problem.
And as long as the attendees insist on that, the conspiracy theories will flourish. Most people think that a gathering of all these leaders and influential people and what they have to say is a newsworthy story.
As long as they want everything "without attribution", they should stop whining and accept the predictable reaction to their secrecy.
Barry Goldwater on the CFR and Trilaterals, the Bildegergers off-shoots:
“the Council on Foreign Relations and its ancillary elitist groups are indifferent to Communism. They have no ideological anchors. In their pursuit of a new world order they are prepared to deal without prejudice with a communist state, a socialist state, a democratic state, monarchy, oligarchy it’s all the same to them.” (With No Apologies p.278)
“What the Trilaterals truly intend is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved As managers and creators of the system they will rule the future.” (With No Apologies, p. 285)
Bildegergers = Bildebergers
Think the ivory tower elites weren't working through media to brainwash the public, for example, to keep Bill Clinton in power?
Think no one conspired to turn the public off Bush after he surged forward in public opinion after 9/11?
The social engineers do, as you say, stumble around and fail fairly often...but many of their plans DO succeed as well.
FYI — US attendees
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Alexander, Keith B., Commander, USCYBERCOM; Director, National Security Agency
Altman, Roger C., Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
Bezos, Jeff, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com
Collins, Timothy C., CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
Feldstein, Martin S., George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Hoffman, Reid, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
Hughes, Chris R., Co-founder, Facebook
Jacobs, Kenneth M., Chairman & CEO, Lazard
Johnson, James A., Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
Jordan, Jr., Vernon E., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Keane, John M., Senior Partner, SCP Partners; General, US Army, Retired
Kissinger, Henry A., Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Kleinfeld, Klaus, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
Kravis, Henry R., Co-Chairman and co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis, Roberts & Co.
Kravis, Marie-Josée, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.
Li, Cheng, Senior Fellow and Director of Research, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution
Mundie, Craig J., Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Orszag, Peter R., Vice Chairman, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Perle, Richard N., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Rockefeller, David, Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
Rose, Charlie, Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose
Rubin, Robert E., Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
Schmidt, Eric, Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
Steinberg, James B., Deputy Secretary of State
Thiel, Peter A., President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
Varney, Christine A., Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust
Vaupel, James W., Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Warsh, Kevin, Former Governor, Federal Reserve Board
Wolfensohn, James D., Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC
http://www.infowars.com/bilderberg-2011-full-official-attendee-list/
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Breaking: Secret Bilderberg Agenda Leaked by Mole
http://www.infowars.com/breaking-secret-bilderberg-agenda-leaked-by-mole/
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Bilderberg 2011: The curtains are drawn
Blog home Bilderberg 2011: The curtains are drawn
Charlie Skelton wakes to find a security fence blocking his view of the venue, and brings news of the Bilderbus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jun/09/bilderberg-2011-curtains-drawn
bfl
Thanks for the ping SW (haven’t seen you around...hope all is ok)
I’m good, thanks... just tons of stuff going on
all at once .. ;)
Good point. The true conspiracies are probably those theories that governments and their medias will rarely touch let alone give credibility by publishing counter opinions.
The US media rarely mentioned the NWO or Bilderbergs except as a scoffing example of the irrationality of those who would believe in conspiracies. Anyone in power that discussed it was marginalized as eccentric or worse.
If the Bilderbergs have nothing to hide, why then are they hiding?
Aw, yer just gherkin my chain...
Thank you for the ping, and for this list of attendees.
They are going there to play the beta of Diablo 3, they can’t fool me.
Quite a mish-mash.
I wonder if the folks (can we call these people “folks”?) from other nations are as strangely diverse?
Thank you for sharing the list, Starwise.
For me, this is ironic, as the founder of Facebook I believe was on the list from the United States.
So the founder of Facebook attends a meeting to limit Internet Freedom? Does not sound good... Or maybe I am wrong...
I should know the answer to this, but who is the founder of Facebook?
Hughes, Chris R., Co-founder, Facebook
The Founder of Facebook is:
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984)
A movie was made about him: The Social Network
He has attended G8 meetings, so I imagine he delegated this meeting to an underling...
The Chief Executive Officer of Google attended, though...
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