Research on Bilderberg Meetings 2008 - 2009
Anyone who considers themselves open minded could do worse than read a David Icke book or two (for example Children of the Matrix) for an exercise in discernment and pre-conception challenging! One of the (many) things he talks about is a group of some of the most influencial people on the planet who meet for three days every year to discuss...well, they don't release the minutes of those meetings so no-one is terribly sure what they discuss.
I decided to do a little digging to see what I could find and came across an article linked from the front page of the BBC News Website about the Bilderberg Group: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4290944.stm
This paragraph in particular stood out for me:
Interesting that this article was apparently written in 2005 and yet yesterday appeared in their "Most popular" links section. Something must be stiring up interest in this organisation - or perhaps I'm just being handed a synchronicity by the Universe. [Note: I didn't realise it at the time, but I suspect that the sudden rise in interest in the Bilderberg group was due to the fact that this year's meeting had finished just a few days previously!]
What seemed relevant to me was not so much this group being openly discussed (which tells me that they're not directly associated with the upper echelons of whoever is really in charge around here), but that the idea of such a group existing would be socialised in mainstream media at all. Personally significant to me that the posting time of the BBC article had a 42 in it. I didn't notice that until I was halfway through writing this page.
I found some brief coverage of the 2008 Bilderberg meeting:
www.nolanchart.com/article3995.html
www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=9794
This paragraph quite amusing (article dated 06/06/2008)
also a list of attendees from 2008 on the same site www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=9770
These guys are really coming out of the closet now, Wikipedia even has a list - although much reduced - of the 2009 attendees:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Bilderberg_Meeting
14 names instead of the 140 listed the previous year.
So OK that list may be a complete smoke screen, but I thought most of the names made sense - if they weren't actually there then these people might be entitled to feel a tad snubbed. Something that stood out for me (2008) was the double representation from The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, looks like they gave a presentation or something.
www.aei.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute
Looking at the attendees (assuming they were) from the UK made for interesting reading:
Ken Clark
MP since before I was born, conservative...pro-Europe (makes sense), former Chancellor of the Exchequer. Appointed back into the shadow cabinet in January 2009 making him Lord Mandelson's opposite number.
Martin J. Taylor
Chairman, Syngenta International (into biotech, pesticides, genomic research and opposing GM regulation)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngenta
Former CEO of Barclay's Bank (see Barclaycard), member of another Public Policy Research group, this time a Left Wing UK variety: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research
From Banking to GM Crops, what a career!
Found this quote attributed to Martin J. Taylor by www.bilderberg.org
Tom McKillop
Chairman, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Interestingly a PhD in Chemistry.
Few skeletons in his pharmaceutical company's closet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstraZeneca#Corporate_sexual_harassment
John Kerr
Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc. Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. Executive committee member of the Trilateral Commission...man, this chap's biography is a conspiracy theory jumping off point!
George Osborne
Another conservative (ie currently shadow cabinet) and another Chancellor of the Exchequer. Young, media friendly (ie reasonably attractive as far as politicians go).
Ahh, apparently he attended in 2006 and 2007 as well. I'm putting money on the Conservatives for the next General Election. Doubt I'll get decent odds though.
Guardian reporter Charlie Skelton seems to have really given it a go this year. Brave boy.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/charlie-skeltons-bilderberg-files
This one was particularly vivid:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/14/bilderberg-charlie-skelton-dispatch
It oftens happens that once I've written an essay or an article I find that someone has already written something similar and done a much better job of it. Sometimes it turns out that they've published several hundred years before I put pen to paper (or fingers to keys) and sometimes - as happened this time - it's a few hours. Wish I'd see this excellend article by Andrew Marshall before I started:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/185323-The-Bilderberg-Plan-for-2009-Remaking-the-Global-Political-Economy
I decided to do a little digging to see what I could find and came across an article linked from the front page of the BBC News Website about the Bilderberg Group: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4290944.stm
This paragraph in particular stood out for me:
Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still governor of Arkansas, Tony Blair was there two years later while still an opposition MP. All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed.
Interesting that this article was apparently written in 2005 and yet yesterday appeared in their "Most popular" links section. Something must be stiring up interest in this organisation - or perhaps I'm just being handed a synchronicity by the Universe. [Note: I didn't realise it at the time, but I suspect that the sudden rise in interest in the Bilderberg group was due to the fact that this year's meeting had finished just a few days previously!]
What seemed relevant to me was not so much this group being openly discussed (which tells me that they're not directly associated with the upper echelons of whoever is really in charge around here), but that the idea of such a group existing would be socialised in mainstream media at all. Personally significant to me that the posting time of the BBC article had a 42 in it. I didn't notice that until I was halfway through writing this page.
I found some brief coverage of the 2008 Bilderberg meeting:
www.nolanchart.com/article3995.html
www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=9794
This paragraph quite amusing (article dated 06/06/2008)
There is also speculation that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama met at the Bilderberg Meeting yesterday. Jim Johnson the former Fannie Mae CEO and 2008 Bilderberg attendee is one of the individuals tasked to choose Obama’s running mate so an appearance at Bilderberg by Obama and Clinton makes perfect sense. Despite that, the media has been running a story saying that Clinton and Obama met at Senator Dianne Feinstein’s house which flies in the face of logic. There is a distinct possibility that this story is actually cover so Obama and Clinton could briefly attend Bilderberg and possibly work out a deal. Of course, we will probably never know the entire truth. Despite that, both Clinton and Obama were in the Washington DC area yesterday, and Obama’s campaign actually misdirected the press core that follows him. While Obama stayed in the Washington DC area, the media was told to fly out to Chicago only to find out Obama did not fly out with them.
also a list of attendees from 2008 on the same site www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=9770
These guys are really coming out of the closet now, Wikipedia even has a list - although much reduced - of the 2009 attendees:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Bilderberg_Meeting
14 names instead of the 140 listed the previous year.
So OK that list may be a complete smoke screen, but I thought most of the names made sense - if they weren't actually there then these people might be entitled to feel a tad snubbed. Something that stood out for me (2008) was the double representation from The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, looks like they gave a presentation or something.
www.aei.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute
Looking at the attendees (assuming they were) from the UK made for interesting reading:
Ken Clark
MP since before I was born, conservative...pro-Europe (makes sense), former Chancellor of the Exchequer. Appointed back into the shadow cabinet in January 2009 making him Lord Mandelson's opposite number.
Martin J. Taylor
Chairman, Syngenta International (into biotech, pesticides, genomic research and opposing GM regulation)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngenta
Former CEO of Barclay's Bank (see Barclaycard), member of another Public Policy Research group, this time a Left Wing UK variety: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research
From Banking to GM Crops, what a career!
Found this quote attributed to Martin J. Taylor by www.bilderberg.org
"I don't think it's true to say that we want to keep it [Bilderberg] out [of the public consciousness], we never wanted to get it in. We don't encourage people to mention it in the mainstream press because we don't encourage idle speculation about what we do. ...... We forbid individual attendees from giving press meetings at our conferences, and we do that not because we're secrecy mad, but because we want to control the politicians who come."
Martin Taylor - Secretary General, Bilderberg - interviewed by Jon Ronson for the UK Channel 4 TV programme 'Secret Rulers of the World' transmitted 27Jun01
Martin Taylor - Secretary General, Bilderberg - interviewed by Jon Ronson for the UK Channel 4 TV programme 'Secret Rulers of the World' transmitted 27Jun01
Tom McKillop
Chairman, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Interestingly a PhD in Chemistry.
Few skeletons in his pharmaceutical company's closet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstraZeneca#Corporate_sexual_harassment
John Kerr
Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc. Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. Executive committee member of the Trilateral Commission...man, this chap's biography is a conspiracy theory jumping off point!
George Osborne
Another conservative (ie currently shadow cabinet) and another Chancellor of the Exchequer. Young, media friendly (ie reasonably attractive as far as politicians go).
Ahh, apparently he attended in 2006 and 2007 as well. I'm putting money on the Conservatives for the next General Election. Doubt I'll get decent odds though.
Guardian reporter Charlie Skelton seems to have really given it a go this year. Brave boy.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/charlie-skeltons-bilderberg-files
This one was particularly vivid:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/14/bilderberg-charlie-skelton-dispatch
It oftens happens that once I've written an essay or an article I find that someone has already written something similar and done a much better job of it. Sometimes it turns out that they've published several hundred years before I put pen to paper (or fingers to keys) and sometimes - as happened this time - it's a few hours. Wish I'd see this excellend article by Andrew Marshall before I started:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/185323-The-Bilderberg-Plan-for-2009-Remaking-the-Global-Political-Economy