Bilderberg Wrap
*Charlie Skelton, Guardian, UK -* This year, Bilderberg was bigger than
ever. Bigger crowds, bigger names, more coverage. So here, starting with
about the least most important thing, is what I've learned from this
year's Bilderberg summit in St Moritz. I've got a bit of a crush on the
Chinese vice-minister for foreign affairs. . .
Bilderbergers look down on things. I've looked at hundreds of photos of
the delegates on their nature walk through one of the world's most
stunning valleys, and this is honestly the case: they don't look at the
view. They walk with their heads down. They stare at their shoes. . .
This year for the first time, elected public representatives are
queueing up to find out what's going on in their turf. An Italian MEP (a
member of the European parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties,
Justice and Home Affairs), Mario Borghezio, was beaten up and arrested
by Bilderberg private security. The next day Swiss MP Dominique Baettig
was denied entry for after dinner drinks. He probably had an inkling he
wasn't going to share a cognac with Kissinger that evening, but it spoke
volumes that he tried.
The police and secret services keep the cameras at bay. The pegged-up
shower curtain hides the hotel. Blackened windows and security escorts
protect the delicate, quivering participants from the horror of being
identified. The coyest are never seen at all, and never make the
delegate list.
Now compare that with your life. CCTV cameras with face-recognition
software scan your daily life. Travel cards log your journeys. And
online, you'll have noticed -- particularly in the last year -- how your
accounts are all being linked, and how you're having to constantly prove
your identity.
And here's the irony. In secret, with no public oversight, a group of
politicians, billionaires and corporate CEOs are discussing (we're
told): Social Networks: Connectivity and Security Issues.
The global policy concerning the transparency of our social life is
being thrashed out in an untransparent forum by people whose "social
network" includes people like Henry Kissinger and the chairman of
Goldman Sachs International. . .
The Bilderberg summit is a gathering of the richest, most powerful
people in the western world. They can afford helicopters, hundreds of
police, security personnel, secret servicemen, floodlights, fencing,
portacabins, limousines, chauffeurs, chefs, catering, entertainment, and
the hire of a massive luxury hotel for an entire week ...
I found that many of the Swiss activists were keen to flag up (often
with giant flags) the shady roots of the Bilderberg group. It's perhaps
wrong to judge present delegates on Bilderberg's past, but the Swiss
seemed particularly attuned to this aspect of the group's history: that
it was founded in the early 1950s by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands,
a former SS officer and executive in IG Farben's notorious NW7 Berlin
espionage centre. That's the IG Farben that manufactured Zyklon B and
bankrolled Hitler.
Look to the hosts, and you find Bernhard's daughter Beatrix running
Bilderberg, alongside "philanthropist" banker David Rockefeller and the
saviour of world football (and wanted war criminal) Henry Kissinger.Look
to the delegates, and inside the same conference you've got two people
with the nickname "The Prince of Darkness": Lord Mandelson, and Richard
Perle (the Washington uber-hawk). Read up about the chairman of Nestlé.
Then read Jon Ronson's important new book on psychopaths. . .
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