Posted on 05/29/2012 6:59:39 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
Every time a Bilderberg Meeting takes place, important things happen. The last time they met in the US was an election year, 2008 – and the world got Obama. This year they’re back in the US: will they decide who the next president will be?
When in 2008 they gathered from June 5 to 8 in Chantilly, Virginia – just a stone’s throw from the Washington DC – Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were neck-in-neck in the battle for the Democratic Party’s presidential candidacy.
On June 5 of that year, Barack and Hillary mysteriously “disappeared” for some hours “somewhere in the DC area.” Their agendas blocked out, they clearly sneaked off to “Meet the Bilderbergers.”
The media kept mum about that, save for an Associated Press report on the campaign trail saying that, "reporters traveling with Obama sensed something might be happening between the pair (i.e. Obama and Hillary) when they arrived at Dulles International Airport after an event in Northern Virginia and Obama was not aboard the airplane.
Asked at the time about the Illinois Senator's whereabouts, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs smiled and declined to comment." (The AP dispatch “Obama and Clinton meet, discuss uniting Democrats” is, strangely, “no longer available” on their website).
Be that as it may, two days later, Hillary withdrew from the race and Obama became the presidential candidate. Did Bilderberg make Hillary “an offer she couldn’t refuse” to clear the way for Obama to the White House? Did they promise her that she would become his Secretary of State?
Although most Bilderberg annual meetings are held in Europe – France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Denmark, England, Scotland, Norway – this US election year they’re again gathering at the Westfield Marriott Hotel in Virginia from May 30 to June 3. Either they’re very fond of that place… or of US elections… or both…!
So the question is: will “key presidential candidacy decisions” be made again this year? Will a Republican wildcard appear? A “God-inspired Burning Bush” of some sort, perhaps?
Exerting Global Leverage
A favorite Bilderberg method consists of inviting wannabe future heads of state to their meetings to determine whether they will go along with their agenda.
We thus saw George H. W. Bush attend their 1985 meeting, Bill Clinton attend their 1991 meeting, Tony Blair in 1993, and Romano Prodi, former head of the EU Commission, in 1999.
So what exactly is Bilderberg? It’s neither an organization nor a lobby. The “Bilderberg Meetings,” as they dub themselves in their (apparently) official website www.bilderbergmeetings.com, is a “by-invitation-only” club of around 140 very high-power people from business, finance, oil, politics, media, industry, academia and nobility who come together in a very private no-media / no cameras / extremely-tight-security surroundings to discuss… Well… there’s the rub: what exactly do they discuss?
They describe themselves as “a small, flexible, informal and off-the-record international forum in which different viewpoints can be expressed and mutual understanding enhanced. Bilderberg's only activity is its annual Conference. At the meetings, no resolutions are proposed, no votes taken, and no policy statements issued.”
True enough. Actually, they don’t need to because each individual member’s power is so very vast that whatever they agree will forcefully span the globe through their far-reaching leverage and clout.
A Global Web of Private Power
Though very high up on the Pyramid, Bilderberg is not the Global Elite’s power center.
Rather, Bilderberg is a key group within a much more vast, more complex, less centralized, and highly effective Global Power Network, where they interact and overlap with other organizations, clubs, lobbies and groups, all having common economic, financial, social and (geo)political objectives in the Globalist Agenda.
This includes such key entities as the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations (long-term geopolitical planners), its London-based sister entity Royal Institute of International Affairs (aka “Chatham House”), RAND Corp., CSIS, the American Enterprise Institute (strategic affairs specialists), Tavistock Institute in London (mass psychology research), the Carnegie Endowment, and the Trilateral Commission “umbrella” entity (founded 1973 by Rockefeller / Morgan / Rothschild interests, geared to coordinating the Americas, Europe and the East).
These so-called “Think Tanks” in turn interact with consultancies like Kissinger Associates, The Carlyle Group (specializing in oil strategies and having the Bush, Bin Laden and Baker families as key shareholders), or Trilateralist Claus Schwab’s World Economic Forum.
Thus, Bilderberg is basically part of that very powerful Global Private Power Web; a “node” so to speak… And a very powerful one at that!!
It’s therefore no surprise to see that last year’s attendee list looks like a Who’s Who of banking, industrial and media CEO top brass: Deutsche Bank, HSBC, CitiCorp, European Central Bank, US Federal Reserve Bank, Lazard Frères, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, World Bank, Bank of Canada, AXA, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Fiat, Nestle, Novartis, Coca-Cola, Airbus, Eni, Telecom Italy, ExxonMobil, Alcoa, Marks & Spencer, Die Zeit, The Economist.
As their website points out about Meeting participants, “about one-third is from government and politics, and two-thirds from finance, industry, labour, education and communications. Participants attend Bilderberg in a private and not an official capacity.”
European nobility regularly attend too: the Dutch Queen, the Spanish King and Queen, Norway’s Crown Prince…
Bilderberg’s high-power participants interact with, and are cross-represented on, the global private power web through membership and directorship in the Trilateral Commission, CFR, AEI, governments, corporations, banks, media and others.
Interestingly, also in attendance are founders and top executives of giant Internet management and intelligence gathering companies as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Microsoft.
Clearly, they run countries around the world, not voting citizens…
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Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina. www.asalbuchi.com.ar
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in the story are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
agitprop from its inventors.
Cheers!
be interesting to watch and see what happens around bambi following the mtg.
Has Momma Grizzly Sarah Palin ever been invited to one of these gatherings?
I bet not.
Only usefull idiots get invited.
Who exactly sets the agenda for this meeting, and who decides on the guest list?
Who are the caterers?
Interestingly, also in attendance are founders and top executives of giant Internet management and intelligence gathering companies as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Microsoft.
And this is why I don’t believe any of these “founders” are the actual founders. They’re front people. The people the public gets to see and gets fooled into believing these geeks got together in a garage or a dorm room and dreamed up these brilliant ideas. Then they started these companies with a hundred bucks they borrowed from their family. And then they get invited to dine with the president and get invited to Bilderberg meetings. I just don’t buy it.
Don't know why not. It's a more plausible scenario than some kind of gigantic global cabal, with a dozen old farts meeting in the redwoods conspiring to control the world economy and the fate of nations.
Think real hard, assholes.
Last chance.
“It’s a more plausible scenario than some kind of gigantic global cabal, with a dozen old farts,,,,, conspiring to control the world economy and the fate of nations.”
Fascinating. I want some of what you smoke. You -actually- believe that the Royals, EU leaders, heads of international finance and banking, the Kissingers of the world, and captains of the oil industry, etc,,, are content to allow the peoples of nations to direct where nationals policies head? Most people on earth don’t even have a significant voice. None of those members ever show the slightest regard to the desires of the people, except as an obstacle to overcome.
And if i can accept that they are obviously not content to let us run things in open honest elections, within constitutional limits, it is a natural conclusion that they DO exercise the immense power they find themselves with.
Foolish people ridicule it by making into a straw man James Bond supervillian meeting,,with votes, and sweeping orderly plans. Nothing of the sort is needed because they all share the same agenda. Reduce the USA into servitude,,to never exceed the size needs of a global government. That, and to bring the earth under some sort of global political system that only answers to member nations, not to any electorate.
And of course they have annual meetings,, and of course they bring in young punk politicians, and make them feel “in the club”. And of course the financiers explain how things “work” and the politician walks away feeling accepted, and knowing exactly what the money crowd wants.
It’s amazing that anyone could think the global elite do NOT have a loose agreement as to the direction everything will take, and will not use their power to reward and punish to make those directions come true.
That they might talk about it, even lay plans, I've no doubt.
But do they control events? No. Events control them.
As free individuals, we can't wield complete control of our own lives for so much as a week. Indeed, most of our life is spent in hasty improvisation.
To think that a small cabal of wealthy and powerful individuals exert firm and unyielding control over the entire chaotic world is to assign them more power -- and wisdom -- than they have.
They are as subject to the butterflies of chaos as we.
Occupy Bilderberg Song (Sheeple drinking Kool Aid) 2012
Common people on the street are waking up. LOL !
ding.
Thanks. I remember now seeing a special on these people and the “control the world” idea. I think they want to control only the circumstances that will give them the most money.
Looks like the Bilderator removed Comment 17. Someone must have been close to the truth.
[Mr] T
Well put.
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