Alex Newman
New American
June 9, 2011
A secretive cabal of some of the world’s most influential people
known as the Bilderberg group will be meeting from June 9 to the 12th in
St. Moritz, Switzerland — but this year, more attention than usual is
being afforded to the gathering in the world press.
The shadowy organization — made up of about 120 central bankers, top
CEOs, academics, European royalty, big bankers, high-ranking
politicians and even representatives of the establishment media — has
been getting together once a year since the mid-1950s. The group of
“leading citizens,” as attendees are described on the group’s
purported official website, gets its name from the Bilderberg Hotel in Holland where the first meeting was held in 1954.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Until recently, almost the entire international media establishment
maintained an apparent information blackout of the yearly gatherings.
Despite the fact that representatives of some of the world’s largest
news outlets are always present at the conference, the vast majority of
event coverage has generally come from the
alternative press.
The rise of the Internet and widespread media choice, however, appear
to have had a major effect. This year, the Bilderberg conference is
attracting far more scrutiny than past gatherings — in line with a
steady trend over the last few years of increasing awareness surrounding
the affair.
Several major media outlets around the world have already
picked up the
story. And news of the gathering is expected to continue making
headlines in the coming days as the conference kicks off Thursday. Some
of the mainstream press coverage thus far, however, has focused
primarily on downplaying the meeting’s importance and painting its
critics in a negative light.
In a June 8
BBC article,
the government-funded media outlet attempted to ridicule concerns
about the Bilderberg meeting and the massive power wielded by
attendees. Citing various authors, the state reporter desperately tried
to link critics of the secretive meetings to “anti-Semitism,” a
psychological feeling of alienation or powerlessness, and even belief
in a world “governed by alien, reptilian shape shifters” expounded by a
former sports journalist named David Icke.
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“In fact, many conspiracy theories surrounding cabals hint at an
anti-Semitic worldview,” the BBC Bilderberg piece claimed, citing the
discredited
Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Eventually the
article quotes one expert who acknowledges that there could be some
kernel of truth to Bilderberg theories about power-hungry conspirators
out to rule the planet — and that there is indeed a “very strong move”
to erect a one-world government.
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A secretive cabal of some of the world’s most influential people
known as the Bilderberg group will be meeting from June 9 to the 12th in
St. Moritz, Switzerland — but this year, more attention than usual is
being afforded to the gathering in the world press.
The shadowy organization — made up of about 120 central bankers, top
CEOs, academics, European royalty, big bankers, high-ranking politicians
and even representatives of the establishment media — has been getting
together once a year since the mid-1950s. The group of “leading
citizens,” as attendees are described on the group’s
purported official website, gets its name from the Bilderberg Hotel in Holland where the first meeting was held in 1954.
Until recently, almost the entire international media establishment
maintained an apparent information blackout of the yearly gatherings.
Despite the fact that representatives of some of the world’s largest
news outlets are always present at the conference, the vast majority of
event coverage has generally come from the
alternative press.
The rise of the Internet and widespread media choice, however, appear to
have had a major effect. This year, the Bilderberg conference is
attracting far more scrutiny than past gatherings — in line with a
steady trend over the last few years of increasing awareness surrounding
the affair.
Several major media outlets around the world have already
picked up the
story. And news of the gathering is expected to continue making
headlines in the coming days as the conference kicks off Thursday. Some
of the mainstream press coverage thus far, however, has focused
primarily on downplaying the meeting’s importance and painting its
critics in a negative light.
In a June 8
BBC article,
the government-funded media outlet attempted to ridicule concerns about
the Bilderberg meeting and the massive power wielded by attendees.
Citing various authors, the state reporter desperately tried to link
critics of the secretive meetings to “anti-Semitism,” a psychological
feeling of alienation or powerlessness, and even belief in a world
“governed by alien, reptilian shape shifters” expounded by a former
sports journalist named David Icke.
“In fact, many conspiracy theories surrounding cabals hint at an
anti-Semitic worldview,” the BBC Bilderberg piece claimed, citing the
discredited
Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Eventually the
article quotes one expert who acknowledges that there could be some
kernel of truth to Bilderberg theories about power-hungry conspirators
out to rule the planet — and that there is indeed a “very strong move”
to erect a one-world government.
But the piece closes with yet another quote blasting critics of the
cabal, with a newspaper columnist claiming that a “strong belief in the
Bilderberg Group means believing in a fantasy” and is “anti-scientific.”
Of course, not believing in the Bilderberg group would be to deny
reality and the facts, but presumably the columnist was referring to
thinking that the meeting is powerful or nefarious.
Other mainstream reports, however, were more friendly to Bilderberg
critics. “It's a shame the attendees are still so phobic of attention,
seeing as how this year there's shaping up to be more press interest
than ever. People and the media have finally started noticing this quiet
little conference at the centre of the storm,”
noted a piece in the U.K.
Guardian, pointing out that the cabal played a crucial role in the creation of the European Union.
While very little information is ever publicly released following the
conferences, general topics on the agenda have been compiled on an
official website cited by numerous media outlets. In 2007, for example,
the first item on
the list
was “The New World Order.” And with some of the most powerful people on
earth attending the meeting, most objective analysts realize that the
group wields enormous collective influence.
Last year, as the cabal was gathering in Spain,
The New American's
Charles Scaliger noted that "the Bilderberg gathering is obviously a
nerve center of the world’s power-elite network; the security and
secrecy are evidence enough of its significance. Whether planning the
occupation of Iran or charting the course of the ongoing European
financial, economic, and political merger, the men meeting right now
behind sniper rifles and locked doors ... are planning for their own
best interests, which are not likely to coincide with yours or mine."
Though Bilderberg touts itself as a sort of forum where attendees can
discuss ideas freely without the spotlight of the press, anecdotal
evidence suggests that there is much more going on. Consider:
Then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton
attended the 1991 Bilderberg conference. He was virtually unknown at that time. The following year, Clinton was elected President.
Numerous other relatively obscure figures who have attended the meetings
have ended up meteorically rising to power in a spectacular fashion.
Tony Blair is another good example. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack
Obama were reported to have attended the 2008 Bilderberg meeting in
Chantilly, Virginia. Current Treasury Secretary Timothy “TurboTax”
Geithner and Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke were there that year,
too.
The
attendee lists for
the meetings consist of the veritable “who’s who” of the global elite
from across the political spectrum. Bilderberg luminary David
Rockefeller, for example, who
admitted
in his autobiography of conspiring to erect a global economic and
political system, is intimately involved with the formal organizational
structure. Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who
constantly and openly
advocates
what he calls a “New World Order,” is almost always there too. Supposed
“conservatives” and even some “libertarians” are often welcomed as
well.
But this year, Kissinger and other members of the world elite are
attracting some unwanted attention for the conference. A senior
center-right Swiss lawmaker from the nation’s largest political party
sent a
letter to
prosecutors asking them to consider arresting Kissinger — and George W.
Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, if they attend — for war
crimes. The legislator also requested that prosecutors consider applying
the charge of treason for Swiss attendees.
Other critics of the cabal have also argued that Americans who attend should be arrested by U.S. authorities. Citing the
Logan Act,
which makes it a felony for Americans to formulate government policy
with foreign officials, Bilderberg opponents have called for the
prosecution of Texas Gov. Rick Perry — who will reportedly also attend
the 2011 meeting — and many other American officials.
A small handful of activists around the world have been steadily
attempting to expose the influential cabal for decades. And in addition
to increased media coverage, this year appears on track to attract a
great deal of protesters, too — also in keeping with the awareness trend
sparked by the Internet and alternative media sources.
At the 2011 meeting, being held at a luxurious hotel Suvretta House
(picture, above), a prominent line-up of notorious critics and anti-New
World Order reporters also plan to greet the global power brokers from
the moment they start arriving. Among them are author Daniel Estulin,
who wrote a book about the Bilderberg group; American Free Press
journalist Jim Tucker, who has tracked the meetings for decades;
WeAreChange activist Luke Rudkowski; and many others.
One of the
Facebook
groups organizing protesters has over 750 people listed as “attending,”
though it’s unclear how many actually plan to show up. A mini-bus
dubbed the “
Bilderbus”
will be transporting anti-Bilderberg activists from the U.K. to the
meeting. Swiss activists from across the political spectrum will
reportedly be out in force as well.
Speculation about what may be discussed at the 2011 meeting has been
running rampant, as always. Since the Bilderberg group maintains extreme
secrecy and meets behind closed doors guarded by heavily armed guards,
however, not much concrete information generally gets out. But
The New American will be following developments as they emerge and will carry at least one more report later this week. Stay tuned.
Mike Adams
According
to AFP journalist and legendary Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker’s inside
sources, the agenda now under review includes a number of critical
issues at the top of the elite’s to-do list. These breakdown as follows:
