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Thursday is the opening day of the influential three-day summit and it's also the 60th anniversary of the Bilderberg Group's first meeting, which took place in Holland on 29 May 1954. So this year's event is a red-letter occasion, and the official participant list shows that the 2014 conference is a peculiarly high-powered affair.
The [British] chancellor, at his seventh Bilderberg, is spending the next three days deep in conference with the heads of MI6, Nato, the International Monetary Fund, HSBC, Shell, BP and Goldman Sachs International, along with dozens of other chief executives, billionaires and high-ranking politicians from around Europe. This year also includes a visit from the supreme allied commander Europe, and a return of royalty Queen Sofia of Spain and Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, the daughter of the Bilderberg founder Prince Bernhard.
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The Bilderberg Group says the conference has no desired outcome. But for private equity giants, and the heads of banks, arms manufacturers and oil companies, there's always a desired outcome. Try telling the shareholders of Shell that there's "no desired outcome" of their chairman and chief executive spending three days in conference with politicians and policy makers.
Try telling that to the lobbyists who have been working so hard to push the Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal that is being negotiated. Bilderberg is packed to the gills with senior members of powerful lobby groups. Will members of BritishAmerican Business's international advisory board, such as Douglas Flint and Peter Sutherland, express BAB's fervent support of TTIP when discussing "Is the economic recovery sustainable?" Or will they leave their lobbying hats at the door?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/29/bilderberg-60-inside-worlds-most-secretive-conference
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)and trying to invoke images of tinfoil-hatted extremists imagining lizard-skinned alien Illuminati. I would not even be surprised if this post were alerted on and juried.
It's happened before here just at the mention of the Bilderbergs.
We are to believe that meetings of the wealthiest, most powerful individuals and groups on Earth do not naturally involve planning for the interests of the wealthiest, most powerful individuals and groups on Earth.
2naSalit
(86,507 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)admit it!
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)but the article gives good information on just who is collaborating with whom and while it may come across as "conspiracy-theory bs", there is much about Bilderberg that ordinary people should be disturbed about.
djean111
(14,255 posts)party.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)When a subject gets into the pages of The Guardian, DU moderating protocols should really be changed.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Any mention of Bilderberg, Zeitgeist movies, chem trails, etc.
Chem trails and their effects on health and plant growth, drought, rain propagation etc, are now investigated by decent Scandinavian scientists. And we see today that the Guardian is into discussing Bilderbergs.
mopinko
(70,069 posts)obxhead
(8,434 posts)It was and has been well known as a trusted source here from the time when I was just a lowly lurker.
I guess things really have changed since 2009. Prior to that year any Guardian post would be celebrated for its factual truth. Now its a ct rag.
Change, it really did happen, but not like we expected.
jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)like common core and you still complain. What do you really want? a pony?
Octafish
(55,745 posts)[font color="green"]One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money." - Catherine Austin Fitts[/font color]
A big shot in Poppy's crew, Fitts got fed up with the corruption at the highest levels of government, business and finance. She's doing all she can to document corruption on Wall Street and Washington and helping those who give a damn do something about it. Her Narcodollars for Beginners deserves a Pulitzer.
Integrity is an alien concept to the plutocrat. Like the Bilderbergers. Like at Davos. Like at Bohemian Grove. Aspens all.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)nyabingi
(1,145 posts)are indeed "conspiring" to arrange the world for their benefit.
Many people have problems with even acknowledging that these meetings take place and that calling them out places you in a category of crazy people who are mentally unstable.
The attendees to these meetings (and the World Economic Forum) aren't really hiding the fact that they are "conspiring" to dominate the globe, and they count on the label "conspiracy theory" to drive off the curious and concerned.
The last post here about this group caused one person to warn those who questioned these powerful people with excommunication of sorts if they went into "conspiracy theory" territory.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)...I mean, I just know that when I think of the most powerful people on the face of the planet, who collectively have more money than God and haven't had a real smile, laugh, or emotion in their vampiric bodies for a couple of centuries, the first thing I think of is how -relaxing- and -unguided-, how agendaless a gathering of them must be.
I'll bet they sit around and watch reruns of Labyrinth and the Goonies! Or maybe Mr. Bilderberg pulls out a copy of the First Edition D&D handbook and screen and they have a rousing dungeon crawl, complete with 25mm lead minis! No no, wait, they're modern folks too. Got it!
The Bilderberg's -real- 'agenda' is to troll camping points in Call of Duty. I should have know.
But I'm sure it has -nothing- to do with power, control, the dispensation of wealth, or how to screw over the remaining 99.99999% of humanity!
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)hatrack
(59,583 posts)I'll bet the sequins are all real diamonds, washed in the tears of Syrian refugees for that extra special sheen!!
Awesome!
randys1
(16,286 posts)Especially the righty, but they worry that the 5 billion they have might just not be enough and they need to destroy another union or bankrupt another city to make sure they have enough
pa28
(6,145 posts)Henry Kissinger
David Petraeus
Peter Thiel (Hedge Fund)
Henry Kravis (KKR)
Richard Perle (neocon scumbag)
Robert Rubin
Larry (what would Goldman think) Summers
Plus many other players from the world of government, industry and finance. Nothing to see here . . . nope.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)On others who will be in attendance.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<sarcam alert for above statement>
The list includes:
Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will also be in attendance, along with American diplomat Henry Kissinger and ECB Executive Board Member Benoît Coeuré.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101713621
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)a group of the One Percent, then people here should be allowed to.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Infowars came out first against the Bilderbergers, but not Reagan or Reaganomics. Alex shown here:
He supports all ALEC and Koch initatives, verbatim from the Koch list:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
He's for guns for any time and everywhere, both the Pauls and Putin. BTW, that thing in Santa Barbara?
Another false flag to steal the guns! They all are!
And the NRA is not far right enough for him. He only supports Larry Pratt's GOA. He's against emigrants, taxes, public schools, gay and women's rights, liberals, banksters, Zionists all of that.
So... Look! SHINY!
Don't worry, Alex, our Libertarian hero will get the big bad Bilderbergers for us at the same time:
Although he always misses seeing the Koch corporatist agenda, somehow...
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)Where is Droney when we need him?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
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cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
arikara
(5,562 posts)There is one there again that I can never figure out, and she's attended every meeting for years. That's Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo books. It's kind of a nothing operation, never has been much to my knowledge, it's obviously a front for something else she's up to.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The key topics for discussion this year include:
Is the economic recovery sustainable?
Who will pay for the demographics?
Does privacy exist?
How special is the relationship in intelligence sharing?
Big shifts in technology and jobs
The future of democracy and the middle class trap
Chinas political and economic outlook
The new architecture of the Middle East
Ukraine
What next for Europe?
Current events
SOURCE: My good friend, Wayne.