Need a conspiracy?

I recently talked with a few friends who did not know the "Bilderberg" Group, so I figured my return from vacation could be readily fulfilled by cut and pasting stuff on this crowd.

The first meeting was held in the Bilderberg hotel, see photo, so lacking imagination they adopted the name. If only they had met at the Red Roof Inn.

My hope is to encourage more conspiracy theorists as I can't seem to figure out who is pushing and pulling our politicians into making irrational and personally self-destructive decisions, as I mentioned regarding the immigration issues. So, for now, let us posit the conspirators are the Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission, Foreign Affairs magazine and all of Yale University, for starts.

Some reading material for conspiracy-think taken from the highest of sources - Wiki. There are no really good sources, except for a few articles, here and there, because the conspirators include major media persons (this is actually true!). It is a bit odd that the vast majority of well-read people have no idea who the Bilderbergers are. For my part, any group of world movers who meet in secret without any reportage by the media leaders who are in attendance is worthy of concern. The media will go ballistic if a Bush VP meets with an oil man, but if CEOs hang with Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld for three days, once a year, there is no mention.

Some Background is below. There is an extensive list of invitees on the main Wiki page HERE. In 1991 some obscure governor from Arkansas was invited - Bill Clinton. Hillary was invited two years ago. When you see the list of invitees, consider who is it who is inviting them? And why?

Purpose

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The original intention of the Bilderberg Group was to further the understanding between Western Europe and North America through informal meetings between powerful individuals. Each year, a "steering committee" devises a selected invitation list with a maximum of 100 names.^{[citation needed]} Invitations are extended only to residents of Europe and North America. The location of their annual meeting is not secret, but the public and press are strictly kept at distance by police force and private security guards so the group can work their agenda. Although the agenda and list of participants are openly available to the public, it is not clear^{[weasel words]} that such details are disclosed by the group itself. Also, the contents of the meetings are kept secret and attendees pledge not to divulge what was discussed. The group's stated justification for secrecy is that it enables people to speak freely without the need to carefully consider how every word might be interpreted by the mass media.

A critic of the Bilderberg meetings, Alex Jones, claims that they serve to further plans for a New World Order ruled by a small elite by dissolving the sovereignty of nation-states in supra-national structures such as the European Union or a possible North American Union structured around the NAFTA trade agreements^[5]. However an alleged unofficial copy of the account of the 1999 Bilderberg meeting reads like quite ordinary political material^[6].

Attendees

Main article: List of Bilderberg attendees

Attendees of Bilderberg include central bankers, defense experts, mass media press barons, government ministers, prime ministers, royalty, international financiers and political leaders from Europe and North America.

Some of the Western world's leading financiers and foreign policy strategists attend Bilderberg. Donald Rumsfeld is an active Bilderberger, as is Peter Sutherland from Ireland, a former European Union commissioner and chairman of Goldman Sachs and of British Petroleum. Rumsfeld and Sutherland served together in 2000 on the board of the Swedish/Swiss engineering company ABB. Former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary and former World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz is also a member, as is Roger Boothe, Jr. The group's current chairman is Etienne Davignon, the Belgian businessman and politician.^[7]

It is said David Rockefeller were upset that the Japanese were not in the group, so he co founded the "Trilateral Commission." The philosophy one keeps hearing in this world is "internationalization" which could also be called creating the world known in the film "Rollerball" - the good version with James Caan.

Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission

A lifelong globalist, due to the strong influence of his father, he (David Rockefeller) had at an early age further spread his connections when he was invited to attend the inaugural elitist Bilderberg Group meetings, starting with the Holland gathering in 1954. He has been a consistent attendee through the decades and has been a member of the "steering committee", which determines the invitation list for the upcoming annual meetings. These have frequently included prominent national figures who have gone on to be elected as political leaders of their respective countries.

Rockefeller maintains that, although Bilderberg's role is not to resolve disputes, because of the wide-ranging experience of the various attendees participants are 'free to report on what they have heard' to their respective heads of government.^[36]

It was a dissatisfaction with the failure of this group to include Japan that subsequently led to him forming the Trilateral Commission (TC) in July 1973, influenced by, among others, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the National Security Advisor under Carter and the author of Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, published in 1970. They discussed forming the organization at a Bilderberg Group meeting in Belgium in 1972; Brzezinski subsequently became the inaugural US director. The Commission also launched its own magazine, the Trialogue.

It held the founding session of its Executive Committee in Tokyo in October, 1973. In May 1975, the first plenary meeting of all of the Commission's regional groups – North America, Europe and Japan, comprising some 300 members – took place in Kyoto. In its Third Annual Report, released in mid-1976, the Commission noted that there was a "noticeably increased emphasis on trilateral ties as the cornerstone of American foreign policy".^[37]

This Commission was to come under media scrutiny when it was later disclosed that Carter appointed 26 former Commission members (who must resign before taking up government positions) to senior positions in his Administration. Moreover, it also came out that Carter himself was a former Trilateral member. (The Clinton Administration, by contrast, had close to a dozen Commission members, including Clinton himself; both Gerald Ford and George Bush Sr were also Trilateralists.)^[38]

An important aspect of the Commission is their sending of delegations to visit foreign leaders. In 1989, to cite just one instance, Rockefeller visited the then USSR at the head of a high-powered Commission delegation which included Henry Kissinger, former French President Giscard d'Estaing, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, and William Hyland, editor of the CFR's prestigious journal Foreign Affairs. In their meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, the delegation sought and received an explanation on how the USSR would integrate into the world economy. The information thus gained through such delegations is then relayed back in reports to both the TC members and, where appropriate, to US political leaders.[^39]

Conspiracy aside, there is a massive hand at work here. One that guides business, countries, universities, and so on. And, as we all know, the real work accomplished at conventions is in the hallway and over a drink, not in the crowded ballroom.

A massive hand is not be an asset to the world where it is controlled by massive heads with massive bellies.