Jun 15, 2009 17:51
Who has ever heard of Bilderberg?
I had never heard of it until today. Now, the more I read about it, the more fascinated I am by it.
Here's some quick information on it:
It originated in 1954 as a conference to be held at the Bilderberg Hotel in The Netherlands. The aim of the conference was to bring world leaders from Europe and the United States together and to promote cultural understanding around the world. Whatever happened at that meeting was decided as being a success, and it led to being an annual event, that changes its location every year.
Over the next decade or so, it would evolve into something else entirely. What it is now and has been for at least the last twenty years, has been a yearly meeting of the most powerful people in the world to meet totally in secret and to have zero press on it. There is no mention made ahead of time where they will meet, when they will meet, what they will be discussing, or even who will be there. None of this is made available publicly, let alone to the media. Everything is kept as quiet and as secret as possible.
It's been kept so secret for so long, that even though some people (including Bill Clinton) have publicly said that they've attended Bilderberg, there are people in the press that say that it doesn't even exist. There are journalists that treat it like the political boogeyman that's only used to scare new reporters.
Well it is very real. People who have attended include Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Henry Kissinger, Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, Condoleezza Rice, Gerald Ford, Tony Blair, Helmut Schmidt, William McDonough, Peter Sutherland, and Lord Browne of Madingley, among others. I'm certainly willing to bet that Obama attended this year.
It has been investigated by Jim Tucker for nearly thirty years. In the late 90s, a writer for the Guardian by the name of Jon Ronson tracked down the meeting place and was followed and intimidated by local police in Portugal for trying to take pictures of the conference. Just this year, something very similar happened to another reporter for the Guardian named Charlie Skelton. When he got near the meeting place, he was harassed by police officers, and then he was followed for the whole rest of the week. He chronicled all of it in a series of reports for the Guardian just last month. They're certainly worth reading.
Remember that name:
BILDERBERG