Bilderberg Conference 2008

[SloopJohn 0]

Ben Bernanke, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton amongst a host of other global power brokers have all convened in Chantilly Virginia to secretly discuss the future of the world - yet not one mainstream U.S. corporate media outlet has uttered a single word about the 2008 Bilderberg conference.

 

Bilderbergers seem to enjoy visiting the U.S. because they can be assured that in the "land of the free," the American "free press" are certain to follow orders and not print even a puff piece about a confab of over 125 of the globe's most influential movers and shakers.

 

A Google News search on "Bilderberg," which is now in its third day, returns 47 results, all of which consist of reprints from this website and a smattering of other alternative media reports, in addition to a few snippets out of the Netherlands and Turkey.

 

Compare that to a Google News search about "G8" and you'll get over 4,000 results a month before Bilderberg's sister conference has even begun.

 

Even if you accept the ludicrous claim of the debunkers - that Bilderberg is a mere "talking shop" that contributes nothing towards actual policy - do you still not think it odd that not one mainstream U.S. press outlet has even mentioned it in passing?

 

A mere book signing by an ex-politician would generate at least a few headlines, yet we have dozens of CEO's, European and Federal Reserve banking and finance kingpins, Prime Ministers, European royalty, NSA officials, professors from top Universities, NATO and UN officials, oil company chairmen, and foreign policy luminaries meeting behind closed doors and yet not one single U.S. media report! Not one!

 

Take a look at the list and think how many headlines each of these individuals generates in just one day - some of them can barely pick their nose without it being reported on - yet we have over 125 of them meeting together during the same 3 day period and the silence is deafening!

 

As oil prices continue to skyrocket wildly out of control towards Bilderberg's stated goal of $200, hitting a whopping $139 a barrel yesterday, the contention that Bilderberg is somehow unworthy of coverage is completely asinine.

 

On every front, from the timing of the Iraq war to the selection of presidential candidates' running mates in 2004 and 2008, to the economy - Bilderberg sets the agenda and the future pans out exactly as they had planned.

 

The outright complicity of the corporate media in blackballing Bilderberg coverage reminds us why the elite encounter little hindrance in conspiring in such a secretive and undemocratic manner every single year without facing any substantial public scrutiny.

 

a little bias towards conspiracy theorists but still, interesting non?

Edited June 7, 2008 by SloopJohn

[Park Life 71]

Ben Bernanke, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton amongst a host of other global power brokers have all convened in Chantilly Virginia to secretly discuss the future of the world - yet not one mainstream U.S. corporate media outlet has uttered a single word about the 2008 Bilderberg conference.

 

Bilderbergers seem to enjoy visiting the U.S. because they can be assured that in the "land of the free," the American "free press" are certain to follow orders and not print even a puff piece about a confab of over 125 of the globe's most influential movers and shakers.

 

A Google News search on "Bilderberg," which is now in its third day, returns 47 results, all of which consist of reprints from this website and a smattering of other alternative media reports, in addition to a few snippets out of the Netherlands and Turkey.

 

Compare that to a Google News search about "G8" and you'll get over 4,000 results a month before Bilderberg's sister conference has even begun.

 

Even if you accept the ludicrous claim of the debunkers - that Bilderberg is a mere "talking shop" that contributes nothing towards actual policy - do you still not think it odd that not one mainstream U.S. press outlet has even mentioned it in passing?

 

A mere book signing by an ex-politician would generate at least a few headlines, yet we have dozens of CEO's, European and Federal Reserve banking and finance kingpins, Prime Ministers, European royalty, NSA officials, professors from top Universities, NATO and UN officials, oil company chairmen, and foreign policy luminaries meeting behind closed doors and yet not one single U.S. media report! Not one!

 

Take a look at the list and think how many headlines each of these individuals generates in just one day - some of them can barely pick their nose without it being reported on - yet we have over 125 of them meeting together during the same 3 day period and the silence is deafening!

 

As oil prices continue to skyrocket wildly out of control towards Bilderberg's stated goal of $200, hitting a whopping $139 a barrel yesterday, the contention that Bilderberg is somehow unworthy of coverage is completely asinine.

 

On every front, from the timing of the Iraq war to the selection of presidential candidates' running mates in 2004 and 2008, to the economy - Bilderberg sets the agenda and the future pans out exactly as they had planned.

 

The outright complicity of the corporate media in blackballing Bilderberg coverage reminds us why the elite encounter little hindrance in conspiring in such a secretive and undemocratic manner every single year without facing any substantial public scrutiny.

 

a little bias towards conspiracy theorists but still, interesting non?

 

They plan/guide a lot of stuff. Pretty much a gathering of 'free market' nutters and leaders of countries in waiting. A good spread of reps on many steering comimitees etc as well. One little known member is our current EU rep who was given about 3 chances by the Labour Party after losing his job in less than rosy circumstances....Any guesses??

[SloopJohn 0]

it's just bizarre that if it is just a meeting of minds. why isn't reported in any major media outlet? and why is it so secretive as to who is there?

 

you don't see that with the G8 Summit.

[Park Life 71]

it's just bizarre that if it is just a meeting of minds. why isn't reported in any major media outlet? and why is it so secretive as to who is there?

 

you don't see that with the G8 Summit.

 

Cause the attendees don't like publicity and some are technically not really allowed to attend by their own countries rules for public reps.

 

The other meeting of minds is Bohemian Grove another secretive gathering of nutters/meglomanics/liars/greed artists/big business stooges. The only differance being here they worship an Owl god.

 

 

The answer to the q is PETER MANDHELSON BTW:

Edited June 7, 2008 by Park Life

[Sonatine 11542]

it's just bizarre that if it is just a meeting of minds. why isn't reported in any major media outlet? and why is it so secretive as to who is there?

 

you don't see that with the G8 Summit.

 

Cause the attendees don't like publicity and some are technically not really allowed to attend by their own countries rules for public reps.

 

The other meeting of minds is Bohemian Grove another secretive gathering of nutters/meglomanics/liars/greed artists/big business stooges. The only differance being here they worship an Owl god.

 

 

The answer to the q is PETER MANDHELSON BTW:

 

 

Jon Ronson had a series on Channel 4 about all that a few years ago, was a good watch iirc. The episode with David Icke and his concerns about the shape-shifting, blood drinking lizards who rule the world certainly stuck in my mind

[Fop 1]

A good rule of thumb is anything Hillary Clinton attends is a front for world domination.

[Jimbo 175]

Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory

 

By Jonathan Duffy

 

BBC News Online Magazine

 

The Bilderberg group, an elite coterie of Western thinkers and power-brokers, has been accused of fixing the fate of the world behind closed doors. As the organisation marks its 50th anniversary, rumours are more rife than ever.

 

Given its reputation as perhaps the most powerful organisation in the world, the Bilderberg group doesn't go a bundle on its switchboard operations.

 

Telephone inquiries are met with an impersonal female voice - the Dutch equivalent of the BT Callminder woman - reciting back the number and inviting callers to "leave a message after the tone".

 

Anyone who accidentally dialled the number would probably think they had stumbled on just another residential answer machine.

 

On Thursday the Bilderberg group marks its 50th anniversary with the start of its yearly meeting.

 

For four days some of the West's chief political movers, business leaders, bankers, industrialists and strategic thinkers will hunker down in a five-star hotel in northern Italy to talk about global issues.

 

What sets Bilderberg apart from other high-powered get-togethers, such as the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), is its mystique.

 

Not a word of what is said at Bilderberg meetings can be breathed outside. No reporters are invited in and while confidential minutes of meetings are taken, names are not noted.

 

The shadowy aura extends further - the anonymous answerphone message, for example; the fact that conference venues are kept secret. The group, which includes luminaries such as Henry Kissinger and former UK chancellor Kenneth Clarke, does not even have a website.

 

In the void created by such aloofness, an extraordinary conspiracy theory has grown up around the group that alleges the fate of the world is largely decided by Bilderberg.

 

In Yugoslavia, leading Serbs have blamed Bilderberg for triggering the war which led to the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic. The Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the London nail-bomber David Copeland and Osama Bin Laden are all said to have bought into the theory that Bilderberg pulls the strings with which national governments dance.

 

And while hardline right-wingers and libertarians accuse Bilderberg of being a liberal Zionist plot, leftists such as activist Tony Gosling are equally critical.

 

A former journalist, Mr Gosling runs a campaign against the group from his home in Bristol, UK.

 

"My main problem is the secrecy. When so many people with so much power get together in one place I think we are owed an explanation of what is going on.

 

Mr Gosling seizes on a quote from Will Hutton, the British economist and a former Bilderberg delegate, who likened it to the annual WEF gathering where "the consensus established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide".

 

"One of the first places I heard about the determination of US forces to attack Iraq was from leaks that came out of the 2002 Bilderberg meeting," says Mr Gosling.

 

But "privacy, rather than secrecy", is key to such a meeting says Financial Times journalist Martin Wolf, who has been invited several times in a non-reporting role.

 

"The idea that such meetings cannot be held in private is fundamentally totalitarian," he says. "It's not an executive body; no decisions are taken there."

 

As an up-and-coming statesmen in the 1950s, Denis Healey, who went on to become a Labour chancellor, was one of the four founding members of Bilderberg (which was named after the hotel in Holland where the first meeting was held in 1954).

 

His response to claims that Bilderberg exerts a shadowy hand on the global tiller is met with characteristic bluntness. "Crap!"

 

"There's absolutely nothing in it. We never sought to reach a consensus on the big issues at Bilderberg. It's simply a place for discussion," says Lord Healey.

 

Formed in the spirit of post-war trans-Atlantic co-operation, the idea behind Bilderberg was that future wars could be prevented by bringing power-brokers together in an informal setting away from prying eyes.

 

"Bilderberg is the most useful international group I ever attended. The confidentiality enabled people to speak honestly without fear of repercussions.

 

"In my experience the most useful meetings are those when one is free to speak openly and honestly. It's not unusual at all. Cabinet meetings in all countries are held behind closed doors and the minutes are not published."

 

That activists have seized on Bilderberg is no surprise to Alasdair Spark, an expert in conspiracy theories.

 

"The idea that a shadowy clique is running the world is nothing new. For hundreds of years people have believed the world is governed by a cabal of Jews.

 

"Shouldn't we expect that the rich and powerful organise things in their own interests. It's called capitalism."

[peasepud 59]

JUst got back, you didnt miss much tbh

[Tom 14013]

Bastards wouldn't listen to me .

 

Power mad they all said.

 

Power.Mad.

 

They'll see.

 

You'll all see

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Bastards wouldn't listen to me .

 

Power mad they all said.

 

Power.Mad.

 

They'll see.

 

You'll all see

 

Hillary?

[Park Life 71]

A good rule of thumb is anything Hillary Clinton attends is a front for world domination.

 

All American to be presidential candidates have been elected pres..Bush, Reagan, Carter (the peanut farmer from nowhere ha ha).

 

Hence my surprise at Obama's victory.

[Fop 1]

A good rule of thumb is anything Hillary Clinton attends is a front for world domination.

 

All American to be presidential candidates have been elected pres..Bush, Reagan, Carter (the peanut farmer from nowhere ha ha).

 

Hence my surprise at Obama's victory.

 

I suspect Hillary realised she could get away with more by standing behind him and threatening to have sex with him, just like with Bill.