*Bilderberg: Where Richard Perle, Henry Kissinger, Charlie Rose,
Robert Rubin, David Rockefeller and Robert Gates get to cut secret
deals in the name of America
<http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25247> *
*Alex Newman, Global Research *- The amount of publicity garnered by the
secretive Bilderberg conference this year in St. Moritz, Switzerland,
far surpassed the coverage afforded to past gatherings of the elite
cabal, with major media outlets and international news wires finally
reporting on the yearly event after refusing to do so for over five
decades. Protests, the alternative media, and anti-Bilderberg
politicians played an important role in spreading the news.
Bilderberg, named after the Dutch hotel where members first met in 1954,
brings together some of the most influential figures on Earth. More than
120 top-level officials in government, banking, media, finance,
business, think-tanks, armed forces, and even European royalty attend
the confab every year.
Among the confirmed 2011 European and Canadian attendees were the
British Chancellor of the Exchequer ("in his official capacity,"
according to the Treasury), the President of the European Central Bank,
the head of Canada's central bank, the queens of the Netherlands and
Spain, the Crown Prince of Norway, a representative of the unimaginably
vast Rothschild banking empire, finance ministers, heads of state, and
many more.
A reporter on the scene for the U.K. Guardian said there were also
individuals in attendance who were not on the official list a regular
occurrence discovered almost every year. Among them were German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, NATO Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen, and
Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain.
Microsoft founder and multi-billionaire Bill Gates was reportedly
spotted as well.
A handful of non-Westerners also attended, including Turkish business
moguls and members of the political class in Turkey. A senior
representative of the brutal Communist dictatorship ruling mainland
China was there as well. So was a Russian oligarch.
More than two dozen prominent members of the American elite attended,
too. An especially interesting cadre at the 2011 event included some of
the masters of the internet world: The co-founder of Facebook; the
executive chairman of Google; the co-founder and executive chairman of
LinkedIn; the founder and CEO of Amazon.com; the commander of the
American military's "cyber command"; Microsoft's Chief Research and
Strategy Officer; and others.
Representatives of the non-digital American elite were out in force as
well. Among them were former Ghaddafi adviser and Bush-era neo-con
extraordinaire Richard Perle; billionaire David Rockefeller, who openly
boasted in his autobiography of conspiring to erect a global political
and economic system; Robert Rubin, former Treasury Secretary and current
co-chairman of the immensely powerful, world-government-promoting
Council on Foreign Relations; the vice-chairman of Citigroup; TV
personality Charlie Rose; former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who
frequently and publicly calls for what he refers to as a "New World
Order"; the president of the World Bank; and others.
Top officials in the Obama administration were also there including
quite ironically the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust. Deputy
Secretary of State James Steinberg and Director of the National Security
Agency Keith Alexander were also on the official list, as were former
Federal Reserve and military chiefs. Not on the public list but spotted
at the conference, according to unconfirmed reports from correspondents
in St. Moritz, was Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
By any objective standard, a meeting of over 120 of the world's most
powerful individuals would seem to be extraordinarily newsworthy. But
until recently, the confab rarely attracted even a passing mention in
the establishment press. The eerie silence fueled deep suspicion and
innumerable theories about what the group may be plotting in secret.
This year, however, was different, at least in terms of media coverage...
Analysts speculated that the so-called "mainstream media" establishment
which is rapidly losing its market share as news consumers
increasingly turn to alternative sources was essentially forced to
cover the conference in an attempt to salvage what remains of its
credibility. . . .
Some Bilderberg opponents have also suggested arresting U.S. attendees,
citing the Logan Act. That law prohibits Americans from negotiating
policy with foreign officials.
Critics of the confab are, of course, routinely derided as conspiracy
"theorists" or worse by establishment apologists. The government-funded
BBC recently ran a vicious smear piece against people suspicious of
Bilderberg, trying to link opposition to secret meetings of global
policy makers with anti-Semitism and other unsavory associations. . .
But leaks and public statements by attendees over the years reported
on by the BBC, ironically reveal that the cabal was instrumental in
more than a few world-changing occurrences. The continental super-state
known as the European Union and the failing regional "euro" currency,
for example, are just a few of the developments in recent decades
attributed to Bilderberg.
Anecdotal evidence also suggests the group plays an important part in
the seemingly unexplainable rise to power of national leaders. Bill
Clinton, for example, attended the conference in 1991 as a virtually
unknown state governor. The following year he became President.
Then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was reportedly there in 2008.
British Prime Minster David Cameron and former PM Tony Blair both went
to Bilderberg before rising to the top as well. So did a multitude of
global power brokers too long to list.
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