Bilderberg meeting attracts prominent pols, media, & business leaders. And conspiracy-minded paranoid speculation.
The 56th Bilderberg Meeting, an annual conference of influential politicians and businessmen, began Thursday in Chantilly, Virgina, according to a press release from the organization.
The Conference will end Sunday and deals mainly with a nuclear free world, cyber terrorism, Africa, Russia, finance, protectionism, US-EU relations, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islam and Iran.
According to the press release, the meeting is private in order to encourage frank and open discussion.
About 140 participants will attend, of whom about two-thirds come from Europe and the balance from North America. About one-third is from government and politics, and two-thirds are from finance, industry, labor, education and communications.
An official list of the attendees can be found at Alex Jones’ Infowars.
Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing points to the History Channel:
Steve Lodefink says: A lot of my favorite fringe/kook information sites are chattering about the Secret Bilderberg meeting that is going on in the D.C. suburbs this week. Here is what the History Channel says. This is Wikipedia on the topic.
Ken Layne posts footage of the 2008 Bilderberg protests.
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Alex Jones AKA Alex James sends me unsolicited and anti-Semitic SPAM.
Hooly.,
I consider the comments by TruthIsTreason to be spam, as well.
Bravo, JWindish!
BTW – Holly_In_Cincinatti, if Alex Jones is such an anti-semite then maybe you should tell his very JEWISH wife about it?
Man, you people are so blind it's incredible…
“Man, you people are so blind it's incredible…
Wow, now that's a characterization designed to win friends and influence people-
NOT. !!
It's the hysteria and fear mongering that puts people off in the the first place, FYI.
We've had WAY, WAY too much of that already, thanks very much.
Whatever the message is, this sort of presentation is not going to wrork on anyone but the intellectually deficient and the gullible.
Perhaps that is your target group in the first place?
If not, you'll have to rethink your strategy.
Whatever Runasim. The point is I shouldn't have to win you over and influence you. It should be obvious that elitists with a well documented globalist agenda meeting in secret with heads of industry, government, media and royalty should be of concern to everyone that believes in an open government and free society. There is a law against this sort of secrecy in place called the Logan Act for very good reason.
I don't want to be your friend buddy or be a part of your club OK? I'm just providing information. Choose to ignore it if you will but you're wasting your time by attacking the messenger.
You know, I don't typically use words like “paranoid” in the titles of my posts and I regret that I used it in the title of this one because it seems to have caused this comment thread. I will say this, though… I did pick the word purposefully for a couple reasons and I will one day expand upon these two themes in extensive and ongoing posts:
1.) I find it interesting that the same people who insist that they need the freedom to be anonymous on the internet (where nobody knows you're a dog!) insist that others must make everything public. Yes, yes, yes, I understand power. I also understand that there is a difference between “public” as in “not secret” and “public” as in “make accessible every single word/document/agenda…” We all know this meeting is being held, who is there, etc., and we can all pretty well imagine what they're up to. What is more important to me is all that they do day in and day out in broad daylight that we do nothing about!!! If the American way of life here was sold out to corporate and elite interests, it happened long ago.
2.) We live in an age of information promiscuity. I know well that Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once said that “Sunshine is the best disinfectant.” My answer back is that if you go outside without sunscreen you'll get sunburn. Stay out and you'll die. We have to learn what we're doing with all this information! I'm all for transparency and openness but it seems to me that we've got to learn how to use these new information tools we've got. Just throwing a lot of information out there without context and perspective and some understanding of the impact does not foster knowledge and can be as manipulative as withholding information.
Ideas to be developed. Thought through. For another time… And I'm just saying… Not attacking anyone!
Bravo, JWindish!
Oh bravo indeed!
I don't know why I'm bothering to argue with such ridiculous notions because obviously your idea of government is far different to my idea where government is limited and designed to serve the public. That at least is the American idea of government as opposed to the European ideal where the public serves the state and the common good.
The government (in my idea of a free society) is not a private individual, it is a servant of the public and so should hold no secrets from the public. The reason is that there is far too much opportunity for abuse of power behind a veil of secrecy. We already see the abuse of “national security” for keeping secrets from the public.
I should not have to tell you this. It should be common sense but obviously there's not a lot of that floating around here.
Anyway, it's time for me to leave you two be. I'm going to have to leave you two to redefine the role of government in a free society to yourselves…
I was only trying to add to the discussion on the Bilderberg Group and try to define the purpose of the group. Obviously we're to busy dealing with the basics of the role of government here and not prepared to research the background of the group and the special interests that inhabit Washington DC.