This article was written by Jeff
Berwick.
I have just returned from my 3rd
Bilderberg conference and… wow, that was different!
The first Bilderberg I attended was in 2015 in Telfs, Austria and the entire town was turned into a military zone. You couldn't walk five feet without out seeing a police van, humvee, tanks and black helicopters. And, we were tracked, detained and searched constantly.
Last year was in Dresden, Germany and while they did not shut down the entire town, the area surrounding the Bilderberg hotel was clearly a militarized zone and we really couldn't walk a block without being stopped, searched, photographed and threatened by the police. They even searched our room while telling us when no cameras were near that they were going to physically hurt us.
So, when I found out two weeks ago that Bilderberg was going to be held in Washington, District of Criminals (or just outside it in Virginia) I was not looking forward to going.
That, though, was the first change. Normally, Bilderberg announces the location of its meetings months in advance. This year we found out about it from a tip from Charlie Skelton of The Guardian who had somehow heard from an insider.
The agenda, too, is normally released weeks in advance. This time it was released just a few days prior detailing the attendees and discussion points.
It was held at the Marriot hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, and as per tradition I booked a room for the night before lockdown for myself, Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change and Dan Dicks of Press For Truth.
The first Bilderberg I attended was in 2015 in Telfs, Austria and the entire town was turned into a military zone. You couldn't walk five feet without out seeing a police van, humvee, tanks and black helicopters. And, we were tracked, detained and searched constantly.
Last year was in Dresden, Germany and while they did not shut down the entire town, the area surrounding the Bilderberg hotel was clearly a militarized zone and we really couldn't walk a block without being stopped, searched, photographed and threatened by the police. They even searched our room while telling us when no cameras were near that they were going to physically hurt us.
So, when I found out two weeks ago that Bilderberg was going to be held in Washington, District of Criminals (or just outside it in Virginia) I was not looking forward to going.
That, though, was the first change. Normally, Bilderberg announces the location of its meetings months in advance. This year we found out about it from a tip from Charlie Skelton of The Guardian who had somehow heard from an insider.
The agenda, too, is normally released weeks in advance. This time it was released just a few days prior detailing the attendees and discussion points.
It was held at the Marriot hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, and as per tradition I booked a room for the night before lockdown for myself, Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change and Dan Dicks of Press For Truth.
There wasn't too much to note the
day before lockdown. There certainly wasn't 16,000 military and police in the
vicinity as it was in Austria. But, as we sat down at the bar a man who introduced himself as Patrick,
Head of Security, welcomed us, "Hello Dan, Luke and Jeff, I just want to
make sure we don't have any problems here." he said.
He then went on to tell us that his kids are big fans of ours and even as Dan and I finished a live stream, which he sat watching live at the bar, he proclaimed, "Great show!" to us.
"This is really, really weird," I said to Dan and Luke.
They looked around suspiciously and nodded.
As we were escorted out, with security even coming up to our room to make sure we had everything, there wasn't too much out of the ordinary.
As we walked out they were putting up the barricades and fences as security detail from numerous different companies all poured in.
It turned out it wasn't much needed though!
He then went on to tell us that his kids are big fans of ours and even as Dan and I finished a live stream, which he sat watching live at the bar, he proclaimed, "Great show!" to us.
"This is really, really weird," I said to Dan and Luke.
They looked around suspiciously and nodded.
As we were escorted out, with security even coming up to our room to make sure we had everything, there wasn't too much out of the ordinary.
As we walked out they were putting up the barricades and fences as security detail from numerous different companies all poured in.
It turned out it wasn't much needed though!
While thousands came to protest in
Austria and hundreds in Germany, this year there were… well, that guy.
One thing stayed mostly the same though. And that was the secrecy of the attendees. Luke Rudkowski put together a perfect montage of some of the world's most powerful people walking as fast as they can while trying not to make eye contact with the 3 or 4 independent media people who were there to ask questions.
One thing stayed mostly the same though. And that was the secrecy of the attendees. Luke Rudkowski put together a perfect montage of some of the world's most powerful people walking as fast as they can while trying not to make eye contact with the 3 or 4 independent media people who were there to ask questions.
As usual, the mainstream Fake News
media made no mention of Bilderberg. That's mostly because they were actually
inside the meeting getting their marching orders for the year.
The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg and others were all there but will never tell you they went. Interestingly, mostly financial media, likely getting ready for the great planned collapse likely due this or next year.
The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg and others were all there but will never tell you they went. Interestingly, mostly financial media, likely getting ready for the great planned collapse likely due this or next year.
Bilderberg's old guard are all passing or about to pass, including
recently gone to hell David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski. And soon to be
turning into dust with a scent of sulfur, Henry Kissinger.
The new guard seems much more technocratic. Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, and even CERN attending for the first time this year. Commence conspiracy theories on that!
So, what's my take on all the changes at Bilderberg?
I think it is all the result of technological change.
As for there being no protestors… why physically protest in today's day and age? What does more damage to their agenda? A man getting sunburned and pepper sprayed while holding a "F*ck You Kissinger!" sign? Or a dank meme on the internet that might get seen by millions?
On that note, one of the main topics at Bilderberg was, "The War on Information," so expect continued censorship and AI removal of more anti-system memes, articles, and videos in the future. In fact, it's already well underway.
What about the dramatic lack of security? Well, as I pointed out, there weren't any protesters and there weren't even more than a handful of independent media.
The new guard seems much more technocratic. Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, and even CERN attending for the first time this year. Commence conspiracy theories on that!
So, what's my take on all the changes at Bilderberg?
I think it is all the result of technological change.
As for there being no protestors… why physically protest in today's day and age? What does more damage to their agenda? A man getting sunburned and pepper sprayed while holding a "F*ck You Kissinger!" sign? Or a dank meme on the internet that might get seen by millions?
On that note, one of the main topics at Bilderberg was, "The War on Information," so expect continued censorship and AI removal of more anti-system memes, articles, and videos in the future. In fact, it's already well underway.
What about the dramatic lack of security? Well, as I pointed out, there weren't any protesters and there weren't even more than a handful of independent media.
And, if they've done any research into Dan, Luke and I, anytime they attack us it makes them look really bad… so I think they decided to play nice this year. In the internet age the more you try to attack and censor people the bigger their audience will get.
And, as for the meeting itself… even it is fairly outdated. People like Eric Schmidt probably have access to the world's best cryptographic security. And, we saw when we snuck into the actual meeting room in Austria, on stage there weren't any podiums. It is a giant, bigger than we've ever seen, flat screen television… where key players likely teleconference in under the most secure channels to give the 120 or so attendees their agenda for the year.
You couldn't do that 20 years ago… which created the need for a Bilderberg conference.
Now, everything can be done virtually. Including enslaving the entire planet under a one world government, currency, religion, and tax system and that was surely the overarching topic of those in attendance this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQXu2ZCn8Xw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNkt9P3iTJA&t=9s
Every year, the
world's richest and most powerful business executives, bankers, media heads and
politicians sit down in some luxurious and heavily guarded venue, and discuss
how to shape the world in a way that maximizes profits for all involved, while
perpetuating a status quo that has been highly beneficial for a select few,
even if it means the ongoing destruction of the middle class. We are talking,
of course, about the annual, and always secretive, Bilderberg meeting.
And just like last
year's meeting in Dresden, the primary topic on the agenda of
this year's 65th Bilderberg Meeting which starts today and ends on Sunday, is
one: Donald Trump.
Ironically, this
year "the storm around Donald Trump" as the SCMP puts it, is
not half way around the world, but just a few miles west of the White House, in
a conference centre in Chantilly, Virginia, where the embattled president will
be getting his end-of-term grades from the people whose opinion actually
matters: some 130
participating "Bilderbergs".
The
secretive three-day summit of the political and economic elite kicked off
Thursday 1 June in heavily guarded seclusion at the Westfields Marriot, a
luxury hotel a short distance from the Oval Office.
As of Wednesday, the hotel was already on lockdown and an
army of landscapers have been busy planting fir trees around the perimeter, to
try protect "coy billionaires and bashful bank bosses" from prying
lenses and/or projectiles. Perched ominously at the top of the conference
agenda this year are these words: “The Trump Administration: A progress report”.
The White House was taking no chances,
sending along some big hitters from Team Trump to defend their boss: national
security adviser, HR McMaster; the commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross; and Trump’s
new strategist, Chris Liddell (curiously, neither Gary Cohn nor Steven Mnuchin
will be there although the controversial new Chairman of Goldman Sachs
International, Jose Barroso will be present). Could Trump himself show up to
receive his report card in person: we are confident he will tweet all about
it... which is probably why he will never be invited.
Still, none other than Henry Kissinger,
the gravel-throated kingpin of Bilderberg, visited the White House a few weeks
ago to discuss “Russia and other things”, and certainly, the Bilderberg
conference would be the perfect opportunity for the most powerful man in the
world to discuss important global issues with Trump.
Sarcasm
aside, what are among the "Trump agenda" items to be discussed?
The publicly list is as
follows:
o
The Trump Administration: A progress report
o
Trans-Atlantic relations: options and scenarios
o
The Trans-Atlantic defence alliance: bullets, bytes and bucks
o
The direction of the EU
o
Can globalisation be slowed down?
o
Jobs, income and unrealised expectations
o
The war on information
o
Why is populism growing?
o
Russia in the international order
o
The Near East
o
Nuclear proliferation
o
China
o
Current events
The US president’s extraordinary
chiding of NATO leaders in Brussels is sure to be first and foremost on the
Bilderberg discussing panel. The Bilderbergers have summoned the head of Nato,
Jens Stoltenberg, to give feedback. Stoltenberg will be leading the snappily
titled session on “The Transatlantic defence alliance: bullets, bytes and bucks”.
He’ll be joined by the Dutch minister of defence and a clutch of senior
European politicians and party leaders, all hoping to reset the traumatized
transatlantic relationship after Trump’s galumphing visit.
As
the Guardian puts it,
the guest list for
this year’s conference is a veritable “covfefe” of big-hitters from geopolitics,
from the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, to the king of Holland, but
perhaps the most significant name on the list is Cui Tiankai, China’s
ambassador to the US.
According
to the meeting’s agenda,
“China” will also be discussed at a summit attended by Cui, the US commerce
secretary, the US national security adviser, two US senators, the governor of
Virginia, two former CIA chiefs and any number of giant US investors in China,
including the heads of the financial services firms the Carlyle Group and KKR.
And for good reason: as last night's PMI numbers showed, the Chinese economy -
the global growth dynamo - is finally contracting. If China goes, the rest of
the world will follow.
Additionally, the boss of Google Eric
Schmidt, who warned in January that Trump’s administration will do “evil
things”, is expected to attend, too. The executive chairman of Alphabet,
Google’s holding company, has just come back from a trip to Beijing, where he
was overseeing Google AI’s latest game of Go against humans. He declared it “a
pleasure to be back in China, a country that I admire a great deal”. It’s
possible three days spent chatting to the Chinese ambassador could even be good
for business.
Several journalists are participating
in this year’s forum, including London Evening Standard editor George Osborne
and Cansu Camlibel, the Washington bureau chief for Turkey’s Hurriyet
newspaper. But per convention, news outlets are not invited to cover the event.
“There is no desired outcome, no
minutes are taken and no report is written,” the group stated. “Furthermore, no
resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are
issued.”
Ex-deputy secretary of state William
Burns and former deputy assistant secretary of defence Elaine Bunn, both
Obama-era officials, will also attend. Burns, the current president of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has warned that Trump “risks
hollowing out the ideas, initiative and institutions on which US leadership and
international order rest.”
With
one of the agenda items titled simply enough "can globalisation be slowed down?" it is no surprise that anti-globalisation protesters have
already descended on the location of the meeting.
Below is a full list of this year's participants:
CHAIRMAN
o
Castries, Henri de (FRA), pictured above, Former Chairman and CEO, AXA; President
of Institut Montaigne
PARTICIPANTS
o
Achleitner, Paul M. (DEU), Chairman of the Supervisory Board,
Deutsche Bank AG
o
Adonis, Andrew (GBR), Chair, National Infrastructure Commission
o
Agius, Marcus (GBR), Chairman, PA Consulting Group
o
Akyol, Mustafa (TUR), Senior Visiting Fellow, Freedom Project at
Wellesley College
o
Alstadheim, Kjetil B. (NOR), Political Editor, Dagens Næringsliv
o
Altman, Roger C. (USA), Founder and Senior Chairman, Evercore
o
Arnaut, José Luis (PRT), Managing Partner, CMS Rui Pena &
Arnaut
o
Barroso, José M. Durão (PRT), Chairman, Goldman Sachs
International
o
Bäte, Oliver (DEU), CEO, Allianz SE
o Baumann, Werner (DEU), Chairman, Bayer
AG
o
Baverez, Nicolas (FRA), Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
o
Benko, René (AUT), Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board,
SIGNA Holding GmbH
o
Berner, Anne-Catherine (FIN), Minister of Transport and
Communications
o
Botín, Ana P. (ESP), Executive Chairman, Banco Santander
o
Brandtzæg, Svein Richard (NOR), President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
o Brennan, John O. (USA), Senior Advisor,
Kissinger Associates Inc.
o
Bsirske, Frank (DEU), Chairman, United Services Union
o
Buberl, Thomas (FRA), CEO, AXA
o
Bunn, M. Elaine (USA), Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense
o
Burns, William J. (USA), President, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
o
Çakiroglu, Levent (TUR), CEO, Koç Holding A.S.
o
Çamlibel, Cansu (TUR), Washington DC Bureau Chief, Hürriyet
Newspaper
o
Cebrián, Juan Luis (ESP), Executive Chairman, PRISA and El País
o
Clemet, Kristin (NOR), CEO, Civita
o Cohen, David S. (USA), Former Deputy
Director, CIA
o
Collison, Patrick (USA), CEO, Stripe
o Cotton, Tom (USA), Senator
o
Cui, Tiankai (CHN), Ambassador to the United States
o
Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), CEO, Axel Springer SE
o
Elkann, John (ITA), Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
o
Enders, Thomas (DEU), CEO, Airbus SE
o
Federspiel, Ulrik (DNK), Group Executive, Haldor Topsøe Holding
A/S
o
Ferguson, Jr., Roger W. (USA), President and CEO, TIAA
o
Ferguson, Niall (USA), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford
University
o
Gianotti, Fabiola (ITA), Director General, CERN
o
Gozi, Sandro (ITA), State Secretary for European Affairs
o Graham, Lindsey (USA), Senator
o
Greenberg, Evan G. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Chubb Group
o
Griffin, Kenneth (USA), Founder and CEO, Citadel Investment Group,
LLC
o
Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and Anchor "Otto e
mezzo", La7 TV
o
Guindos, Luis de (ESP), Minister of Economy, Industry and
Competiveness
o Haines, Avril D. (USA), Former Deputy
National Security Advisor
o
Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Professor of Economics, Leiden
University
o
Hamers, Ralph (NLD), Chairman, ING Group
o
Hedegaard, Connie (DNK), Chair, KR Foundation
o Hennis-Plasschaert, Jeanine (NLD),
Minister of Defence, The Netherlands
o
Hobson, Mellody (USA), President, Ariel Investments LLC
o
Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder, LinkedIn and Partner, Greylock
o
Houghton, Nicholas (GBR), Former Chief of Defence
o
Ischinger, Wolfgang (INT), Chairman, Munich Security Conference
o
Jacobs, Kenneth M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Lazard
o
Johnson, James A. (USA), Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners
o
Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. (USA), Senior Managing Director, Lazard
Frères & Co. LLC
o Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir
Technologies
o
Kengeter, Carsten (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Börse AG
o Kissinger, Henry A. (USA), Chairman,
Kissinger Associates Inc.
o
Klatten, Susanne (DEU), Managing Director, SKion GmbH
o
Kleinfeld, Klaus (USA), Former Chairman and CEO, Arconic
o
Knot, Klaas H.W. (NLD), President, De Nederlandsche Bank
o
Koç, Ömer M. (TUR), Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
o
Kotkin, Stephen (USA), Professor in History and International
Affairs, Princeton University
o Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Chairman and
Co-CEO, KKR
o
Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
o
Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group
o Lagarde, Christine (INT), Managing
Director, International Monetary Fund
o
Lenglet, François (FRA), Chief Economics Commentator, France 2
o
Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, KBC Group
o
Liddell, Christopher (USA), Assistant to the President and
Director of Strategic Initiatives
o
Lööf, Annie (SWE), Party Leader, Centre Party
o
Mathews, Jessica T. (USA), Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
o McAuliffe, Terence (USA), Governor of
Virginia
o
McKay, David I. (CAN), President and CEO, Royal Bank of Canada
o McMaster, H.R. (USA), National Security
Advisor
o
Micklethwait, John (INT), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP
o
Minton Beddoes, Zanny (INT), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
o
Molinari, Maurizio (ITA), Editor-in-Chief, La Stampa
o Monaco, Lisa (USA), Former Homeland
Security Officer
o
Morneau, Bill (CAN), Minister of Finance
o
Mundie, Craig J. (USA), President, Mundie & Associates
o
Murtagh, Gene M. (IRL), CEO, Kingspan Group plc
o Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD)
o
Noonan, Peggy (USA), Author and Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
o
O'Leary, Michael (IRL), CEO, Ryanair D.A.C.
o
Osborne, George (GBR), Editor, London Evening Standard
o
Papahelas, Alexis (GRC), Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper
o
Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), CEO, Titan Cement Co.
o Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chairman, KKR
Global Institute
o
Pind, Søren (DNK), Minister for Higher Education and Science
o Puga, Benoît (FRA), Grand Chancellor of
the Legion of Honor and Chancellor of the National Order of Merit
o
Rachman, Gideon (GBR), Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, The
Financial Times
o
Reisman, Heather M. (CAN), Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music
Inc.
o
Rivera Díaz, Albert (ESP), President, Ciudadanos Party
o
Rosén, Johanna (SWE), Professor in Materials Physics, Linköping
University
o Ross, Wilbur L. (USA), Secretary of
Commerce
o Rubenstein, David M. (USA), Co-Founder
and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group
o Rubin, Robert E. (USA), Co-Chair,
Council on Foreign Relations and Former Treasury Secretary
o
Ruoff, Susanne (CHE), CEO, Swiss Post
o
Rutten, Gwendolyn (BEL), Chair, Open VLD
o
Sabia, Michael (CAN), CEO, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
o
Sawers, John (GBR), Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners
o Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Deputy Assistant
to the President, National Security Council
o Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive
Chairman, Alphabet Inc.
o
Schneider-Ammann, Johann N. (CHE), Federal Councillor, Swiss
Confederation
o
Scholten, Rudolf (AUT), President, Bruno Kreisky Forum for
International Dialogue
o
Severgnini, Beppe (ITA), Editor-in-Chief, 7-Corriere della Sera
o
Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Senior Fellow, Harvard University
o
Slat, Boyan (NLD), CEO and Founder, The Ocean Cleanup
o
Spahn, Jens (DEU), Parliamentary State Secretary and Federal
Ministry of Finance
o Stephenson, Randall L. (USA), Chairman
and CEO, AT&T
o Stern, Andrew (USA), President
Emeritus, SEIU and Senior Fellow, Economic Security Project
o
Stoltenberg, Jens (INT), Secretary General, NATO
o
Summers, Lawrence H. (USA), Charles W. Eliot University Professor,
Harvard University
o
Tertrais, Bruno (FRA), Deputy Director, Fondation pour la
recherche stratégique
o Thiel, Peter (USA), President, Thiel
Capital
o
Topsøe, Jakob Haldor (DNK), Chairman, Haldor Topsøe Holding A/S
o
Ülgen, Sinan (TUR), Founding and Partner, Istanbul Economics
o
Vance, J.D. (USA), Author and Partner, Mithril
o
Wahlroos, Björn (FIN), Chairman, Sampo Group, Nordea Bank,
UPM-Kymmene Corporation
o
Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chairman, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
AB
o
Walter, Amy (USA), Editor, The Cook Political Report
o
Weston, Galen G. (CAN), CEO and Executive Chairman, Loblaw
Companies Ltd and George Weston Companies
o
White, Sharon (GBR), Chief Executive, Ofcom
o
Wieseltier, Leon (USA), Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and
Policy, The Brookings Institution
o
Wolf, Martin H. (INT), Chief Economics Commentator, Financial
Times
o
Wolfensohn, James D. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn &
Company
o
Wunsch, Pierre (BEL), Vice-Governor, National Bank of Belgium
o
Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT), President, Turner International
o
Zients, Jeffrey D. (USA), Former Director, National Economic
Council
o
Zoellick, Robert B. (USA), Non-Executive Chairman,
AllianceBernstein L.P.
The Bilderberg is a group
of rich and powerful kingmakers seeking to impose a one world government and one
thing is clear: the members are connected to virtually every important and
relevant organization, media outlet, company and political entity in the world.
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