BILDERBERG 2016: The Political Conference The Mainstream Media Just Will Not Touch
Little facts are public ken about the world’s most secretive political gathering that is obtusely named “The Bilderberg Conference”. The premises of the conference is always vacated and sealed of, and police protection is always heavy. Attendance to the conference is strictly invitation only. No journalists are ever allowed in and the attendees must operate under a strict Chatham House Rule.
Accordingly, the official website from the states:
Participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor of any other participant may be revealed.
As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights. There is no detailed agenda, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.
The group gets its name intuitively from their first meeting in 1954 at The Hotel De Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Netherlands.
Since then, every year, between 120–150 political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media gather in secret to discuss contemporary events and the future of global affairs.
The Bilderberg meeting is an annual three-day forum for informal discussions designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. The pioneering meeting grew out of the concern, expressed by leading citizens on both sides of the Atlantic, that Western Europe and North America were not working together as closely as they should on issues of common interest.
Throughout the years, the annual meetings have become a forum for discussion on a wide range of topics — from trade to jobs, from monetary policy to investment and from ecological challenges to the task of promoting international security. In the context of a globalised world, it is hard to think of any issue in either Europe or North America that could be tackled unilaterally.
On the 7th of June, in a press release, which can be found on the official Bilderberg website, it was announced that this year’s conference would be held in Dresden, Germany from 9th June to 12th June. Therefore, at the time of the publication of this article, the conference has already been concluded. The conference took place at the Taschenbergpalais Kempinski Hotel.
Some Notable attendees of the conference were Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state of the US; Henri De Castries, chairman and CEO of the global insurance group AXA; Sir Jon Sawers, former head of the MI6 intelligence agency; David Petraeus, former director of the CIA and James Jonson, Goldman Sachs board member.
The topics for this year’s conference were:
- Current events
- China
- Europe: migration, growth, reform, vision, unity
- Middle East
- Russia
- US political landscape, economy: growth, debt, reform
- Cyber security
- Geo-politics of energy and commodity prices
- Precariat and middle class
- Technological innovation
With topics like these and a guest list with members like the one’s which I have mentioned, is it too hard to imagine the kind of sinister schemes these individuals must be plotting ?
Just a decade ago, it was an impossibility to get even a nod of acknowledgement on the existence of the group by the mainstream media. This year, once again, it was only the alternative media outlets like Alex Jones’ Infowars, Rebel Media and Luke Rudkowski’s that spearheaded journalistic inquiry into the event.
Although, outlets like Time Magazine reported the event, almost no organization pursued it seriously. Only The Guardian and The Daily Mail had some presence but that too was limited to one or two journalists only. The Independent, on the other hand, had no reporters on the scene whatsoever and CNBC only mentioned the conference in passing.
The coverage given to the Bilderberg conference by the mainstream media was characterized by the utmost frivolity and callousness, an attitude best summed up by The Independent’s own words:
It’s hard to think of a more brazen affront to democracy, of a more squalid global elite stitch-up, isn’t it? Shouldn’t we be demanding an end to this secrecy?
Well, actually, no.
Sometimes, just sometimes, it might be a good idea for the rich and powerful to talk without us knowing what they’re saying.
