The Bilderbergers and Why You Should Care
Earlier this week, the Justice Integrity Project tackled similar contentious issues in a column, Don't Be Fooled By 'Conspiracy Theory' Smears. We reported the extreme measures by government and the establishment media to discredit those who fear Big Brother-style secret plots.
The annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group beginning May 28 fuels fears of those on both the right and left that an elite cabal of the world's wealthiest CEOs are discussing in secret the economic and political future of humanity. Among the fears fostered by this kind of secret process is that economic austerity could worsen the majority's condition under free trade policies, a "One World" government, and increased surveillance and police state tactics to suppress political dissent.
Bilderberg participants have included royalty from both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. For decades, the group operated in absolute secrecy. That wall of silence has been breached thanks to the pioneering reporting of Daniel Estulin, the Spain-based author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, first published in 2005.
His work and its popular reception have been the primary reason the conference's organizers have started making limited disclosure about attendees and topics of discussion. The attendees are typically 120 to 150 each year, with two-thirds from Europe and the rest predominately from the United States and Canada.
Radio broadcaster Alex Jones has become a leading popularizer of attacks on the Bilderberg Group and available information, which is excerpted below. The brash theatrics of the controversial, raspy voiced Jones have appalled traditionalists and helped them portray critics of the Bilderberg Group as wild-eyed conspiracists. The host of a BBC program last year told Jones that he was the worst guest the program had ever hosted.
Years ago, I might have been inclined to agree with the host. Now I can see that we would know little about the Bilderberg Group and those like it without the bold initiative of those like Jones and Estulin. Ironically, such groups -- including Chatham House, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Bohemian Grove -- are heavily populated by media CEOs of both old and new media and prominent academics who are failing their supposed obligation to keep us informed.
The guest lists reveal a heavy concentration of intelligence, banking, energy, and other elite figures whose presence in effect confirms suspicion that this is precisely the kind of gathering that deserves intensive scrutiny.
At the Bilderberg meetings, longtime U.S. NSA Director and Cyber Command Commander Keith Alexander, for example, was listed as resuming his attendance following his retirement to the private sector this spring. He has been a repeated guest for years. It is reasonable to wonder why he has been briefing foreign potentates when the operations of the NSA have historically been super-secret even from the American public until former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's revelations a year ago.
Similarly, the repeat presence of former CIA Director David Petraeus, now the CEO of a Wall Street subsidiary of KKR, raises a question about the revolving door. My research connects the dots to evidence that Petraeus entertained career advancement offers from powerful Republicans while he served in the Obama administration.
Promoted to leadership of the CIA, Petraeus resigned in disgrace shortly after the 2012, both for the public reasons of a sex scandal and for more important -- and secret reasons relating to Benghazi, as I report in Presidential Puppetry. Discovery of electronic evidence of his scandal with Broadwell was a convenient cover story for public dissemination, thereby obscuring the far more interesting and important machinations.
But America's puppet masters could not let the story, known primarily to themselves and their vassals, end there. To maintain discipline and proper incentives for the long term, they had to commemorate their power by elevating Petraeus to the world of wealth even after his disgrace.
KKR, whose name partner Henry Kravis is one of the dynasties with vast and largely unreported power over government, named Petraeus CEO of one of its Wall Street subsidiaries last year. With two years in a row of Bilderberg invitations, the Petraeus status is secure.
(Article changed on June 5, 2014 at 09:52)
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