Bilderberg meeting attracts prominent pols, media, & business leaders. And conspiracy-minded paranoid speculation.

Oh yeah, it's really "koooooky" to question why prominent government officials, European royalty, notorious globalist figures like Kissinger, Rockefeller, Brzezinski, representatives of the international banks, chief editors and CEOs of major establishment media organizations are all meeting in high secrecy under a media blackout and have been for 56 years.

Really freakin "kooooky" man! Maybe it's the so called "conspiracy theorists" that actually have a deeper understanding of how the world really works. Is it so far fetched to think that elite, powerful, wealthy individuals protect their own interests and pull strings behind the scenes?

How can anyone with half a brain deny that there is a push towards a global government under the control of these elite individuals when we see heads of state pushing for further integration between the USA, Canada and Mexico via the SPP, the recent developments with the South American Union, the European Union, Kevin Rudd pushing for an Asian Union just this week? How can anyone deny that there is a push towards global government with socialist tendencies when it only takes the most cursory glance at the publications of very influential organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations to see that they are also pushing for further integration and the dissolving of national sovereignty.

We're talking about the American way of life here being sold out to corporate and elite interests. This is the very battle between tyranny and freedom but the too cool, know it all, cynical crowd are too blind to step out of their mainstream media supported comfort zone to see this.

Why has a media blackout existed on this organization for over 50 years even though we know that chief editors and prominent media personalities like Bill Moyers and Tom Brokaw have attended?

Yeah, really "koooooky" man!

Oh, and let's not forget that it's been confirmed that Ben Bernanke is attending the Bilderberg Group meeting. Why on earth is the Federal Reserve (our *private* central bank) chairman meeting with international bankers in secret when the US dollar is in rapid decline due to the inflationary, socialist policies of the Fed? Why is there this unjustified faith in the conduct of these private central bankers that conduct their discussions in high secrecy?

Y'know, the idea of a central bank is a Marxist, a socialist idea not a concept for a free economy or free society. It gives the state the ultimate power to counterfeit money via the printing press and tax the population incessantly via inflation. Why do we have so much faith in these private bankers that have so much influence over the economy?

I'm tired of cynical articles from media outlets that dismiss these questions as "kooooky" or as "conspiracy theory". "Conspiracy theory" is a meaningless term anyway. Every idea in your head is a "theory" and a "conspiracy" is simply individuals working together in private (isn't that how most private businesses operate?).

I'm certaily curious about this group.

It's a long jump from being interested to constructing imaginary explanations , though, and it's a jump I'm not willing to make.

It's akin to what attracts people to religion. Not knowing is a much less comfortable position to live with than a ready-made recipe that claims to explain all.
I'm much more comfortable with not knowing + interested in learning more than jumping to conclusions for the sake of artificial comfort

Considering the broad andi ntellectually challenging topics they address, I can understand their wish to be insulated from the shallow, ideology and partisan driven, commentry of the media , old and new.

I would not want to have nuclear physics debated by washer women.

I'm wondering, though, if there might not be a better balance between total secrecy and total exposure of people-related propositions.

Alex Jones AKA Alex James sends me unsolicited and anti-Semitic SPAM.

Hooly.,
I consider the comments by TruthIsTreason to be spam, as well.

Well the truth is to all of you that have complete faith in the wheeling and dealings of those we call the elite that there are many researchers that have investigated the backgrounds of the individuals that are involved in the Bilderberg Group meetings and have also come to the conclusion that they do not have the best interests of humanity at heart. What an astounding thought - that the wealthy and powerful would collude to promote their interests over the interests of the rest of humanity. What a crazy idea!

For example, we're talking about individuals that have heavily influenced foreign policy over decades like Brezinzski (the man who is Barak Obamas foreign policy advisor) and Kissinger (a man many would call a war criminal), leading Neoconservatives like Perle, Wolfowitz, Haass et al and David Rockefeller who admits in his own autobiography that he has been working towards establishing a one world government and eroding US national sovereignty. Don't believe me - just go read his book yourself. Rockefeller also praises Mao and the authoritarian Chinese model of government as the model for humanity.

Memoirs by David Rockefeller
http://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-David-Rockefeller...

These are arrogant, powerful individuals that expect you not to read their own publications and books because they know that the population at large is ignorant and barely literate.

As usual, the folks here would rather bury their heads in the sand and attack the messengers like Alex Jones than do the research themselves. Look people, history has shown that there is ALWAYS an elite group of individuals that have a disproportionate amount of power over the rest of society. Freedom from tyranny is a rarety in history, a "precious jewel" that was to be protected at all costs as the Founding Fathers called it.

But hey, ignore the Bilderberg Group - it's far more fashionable to call it a "conspiracy theory" anyway. That's the "cool" thing to do.

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.