More fun with conspiracy theories
Posted by nahummer May 16, 2009
World Bank president Robert Zoellick has been in Greece on unspecified business since May 14th, US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s public schedule is mysteriously empty for the next couple days, Jo Ackermann, head of Deutsche Bank, will be travelling “somewhere in Europe” while Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, will not be around until the end of the week. Yep, it’s conspiracy theorists’ wet dream time again, the Bilderburg Group is meeting this weekend at a hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece, just south of Athens. Do 140 of the world’s most powerful people meet every year to make key decisions on international policy that essentially control the world?
Named after the Bilderberg hotel in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands, where the first meeting was held in 1954, the group operates under the Chatham House Rules, meaning that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. Adding more fuel to the conspiracist’s view is the total media blackout maintained at these meetings; it’s truly amazing that a group of names like this could have met just outside Washington, DC last year with almost no mainstream press coverage. Therefore, like any good conspiracy story, we’re forced to mostly rely on rumor and coincidence to piece most of the Bildeberg story together.
So how does a group that doesn’t even have a web page control the world? Seems the groups origins can be linked to the Knights of Malta, whose Hospitaller’s connections are almost as strong a conspiracy magnet as the Templars, through its organizer, Joseph Retinger, a Pole who effectively forged ties with the European Council of Princes, the CIA, and Britain’s MI6 to create the New World Order (NWO) think-tank. Bill Clinton was just a governor from Arkansas when he was invited in 1991, Margaret Thatcher’s first appearance in 1975 was a near disaster as she needed to be prodded to join the discussion. When she finally did, she was marked for higher office. That other Clinton, Hillary, may have been convinced to let Obama become the next president at the 2008 event, privacy being ensured by locking reporters in the bathroom of a plane! Wars don’t simply happen either, many say Bildeberg at the very least set the timeline for the latest Iraq war, facilitated the Falklands war by determining sanctions should be imposed on Argentina and perhaps triggered the war to bring down Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia.
Finance and politics mix freely at Bilderberg, of that there can be no doubt. This year’s focus will more than likely be the global economy, pushing to the backseat the North American union plans feared by many a loony. Who am I calling loony? Bilderberg did put together the European Union after all. Working on ways to get the Lisbon Treaty to pass will be on the agenda, with bets being placed on thinking they will focus a smear campaign on “Libertas”, an anti-treaty group led by Declan Ganley. One of the Bilderberger supposed planned moves is to use a whispering campaign in the US media suggesting that Ganley is being funded by arms dealers in the US linked to the US military. Having come so far, the EU project now numbers 27 countries (and of course the Eurovision song contest this weekend) they will find a way to get the treaty ratified, with or without Ireland’s ‘yes’ vote. Retinger didn’t bring Bildeberg into existence by himself, his strongest supporter was Prince Bernhard from the Netherlands. German-born Bernhard was a card-carrying Nazi and member of the SS, a fact that makes another conspiracy about the group, that it is a zionist organization, hard to swallow. Alden Hatch wrote a biography of Prince Bernhard where he insists that Bilderberg was the cradle of the European Community - later rebranded European Union. He describes Bilderberg’s ultimate goal as a one-world government.
Of course most of the rumors this year are swirling around the economic crisis. Bilderberg ‘guru’ Daniel Estulin claims the pre-meeting booklet sent out to attendees stated they are looking at two options: Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline, and poverty … or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency. Credence to Estulin’s claims are strengthened by his previous claims of using leaked information from his sources of what was said at the 2006 meeting in Canada and 2007 in Turkey to correctly predict the housing crash and the 2008 financial meltdown in his book The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
This latest admission seems all the creepier as this super secret society has been taking steps towards more transparency going so far as issuing a press release for the first time last year. How else could the acceptance of the public to the handing over of the economy to the banksters over the past 6-months be explained than the fact that we are actually want to be controlled by these people. As far back as 1991, permanent Bilderberg member David Rockefeller said:
The club is strictly European and American, very white and very male. According to Bilderberg founder member Dennis Healy: “Bilderberg is a way of bringing together politicians, industrialists, financiers and journalists. Politics should involve people who aren’t politicians. We make a point of getting along younger politicians who are obviously rising, to bring them together with financiers and industrialists who offer them wise words. It increases the chance of having a sensible global policy.” Are they Satan preparing the ground for a NWO through economic collapse, the coming food shortage and the ensuing war leading to the global government’s birth to restore order? Do they want to create a global department of health out of the World Health Organization, a global treasury with a global currency out of the IMF? Are they telling the Americans to sign onto International Criminal Court treaty? Is climate change simply part of a plan to impose a global carbon tax to fund it all? Probably not, but whether it’s the Bilderberg’s who are marching us down the path toward the corporate autocracy or not, we seem to be going on our own anyway.
May 17th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Your conspiracy theorist “wet dream” reference is one I will certainly retain and recycle. There is an irony that “finance” folks can and do meet to decide yet escape the disparaging cartel title. Whoa be to any other business group unwise enough to try it.
May 18th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Thanks Richard, you know what they say about imitation and flattery. Must say, it’s good when we can agree on something!!!
May 20th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Afshin Rattansi and Daniel Estulin and the Bilderberg Conspiracy http://www.presstv.com/programs/player/?id=95371
May 20th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Well, after reading this I now have a good idea of the subject for Oliver Stone’s next film.
It’s very interesting, this tale of the Financial Freemasons. I can certainly see why conspiracy theories abound, but I can’t say I’m too worried about it. CIA, MI-6 and Mossad probably have had these meetings bugged for years and have ample dossiers on the proceedings. I think if there were actually any sinister plans to rule the world from the Netherlands, some high level people would quickly find themselves in dark rooms re-enacting the dentist chair scene from Marathon Man. I suppose if you really want to know what’s going on with Bilderberg bad enough, you can always hope they invite Joe Biden to join them next year.
One interesting note: Regarding the club being “very white and very male,” it may interest you to know that according to Haaretz.com, Condoleeza Rice was in attendance this year. Not that that means the group is still not very white and male, but I thought her being there was worth mentioning.
Do you suppose Jesse Jackson is deeply offended he hasn’t been asked to attend? If you were to ask him why, he wouldn’t scream racism at all…..Noooooo!
May 21st, 2009 at 3:57 am
Hey Joker. Funny enough I think I remember reading that Joe attended somewhere, just a foggy memory though, and if true it is somewhat surprising he hasn’t spilled the beans yet. As to the ‘very white and very male’ quote, you’re right, Condi was there. Even more interesting I found this article http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20010.html which sheds some light on why Kathleen Sebelius became an up and comer a couple years back. Main point of the line was to point out the main shortcoming of the theory, the group has no representation from China, Japan, etc… even very little from Russia, only a couple anti-Putin types apparently.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
“So how does a group that doesn’t even have a web page control the world?” good question, there are British influences who are acting in the tradition of Ruskin, Rhodes and Milner, their objectives were and still are to expand the British Empire through a number of established Rhodes trusts, trusts that continue to help finance the New World Order, which is really one world EMPIRE…. There are many interesting tactics that they use, one of them is to create a number of common world wide threats, through the sensational use of the media, ie.. Aliens invading the planet ( War of the worlds) or abductions, global warming, the war on terror, H1N1, Nukes, Biowarfare, world fianacial collapse, etc…. All of these Hollywood type stories are created for psychological effect as people begin to fear a perceived global threat and once a global threat has been established through their media corporations then they can begin to establish organizations like the United Nations, NATO, etc… which are set up to protect the world, ha, ha, but in reality they were set up to aid in the expansion of the EMPIRE
We willingly give away our national sovereignty for the fight against a Hollywood crafted enemy.
Sad but true. American politicians in Washington are acting on behalf of the British throne and turning this world into one world EMPIRE, a world in which any true American attempted to escape from.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:11 am
It’s getting harder and harder to control my conspiracy leanings following events such as the financial crisis and bailouts, the Lisbon Treaty and of course the H1N1 scare that seems to be taking over the American consciousness. But it takes yet another leap of faith to believe that it’s all the doings of the British throne, although they could be a part of it of course.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Jonathon, sorry but I just deleted your last comment… the system sent me two of the same and I deleted one, which of course deleted both. Purely unintentional, sorry again!
October 29th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
There’s a lot of evidence that suggests that specific Ruskin ideologies influenced Rhodes and Milner, who were determined to carry forth the traditions of British imperialism to the rest of the world. These influences are still with us, and firmly entrenched in the American establishment and is the cause of many of our lost liberties.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:51 am
Nahummer, “bailout”, is the name of the conspiracy game.
October 31st, 2009 at 11:03 am
Here’s another peice of the conspiracy puzzle, watch this interview with Norman Dodd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYCBfmIcHM