The Bilderberg Group meets once every year. The last meeting, at the time of this writing, was held in June 2016 at the Taschenbergpalais hotel that is located in Dresden. Up to 150 of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful political leaders attend the annual event. The attendees include royalty, presidents, prime ministers, chief executives of major international conglomerates, media moguls, and world bankers.
The first Bilderberg meeting was held during 1954. The organization was founded with the intent to create powerful connections between European countries and North Americans. The meeting is a secretive, informal discussion about global trends with open communication between the elite members of the world who have massive influence in world affairs.
No statements of any kind are allowed to be made to the press regarding the proceedings or what is talked about at the meeting. There are no meeting minutes taken and no reports of the discussions or official statement about the discussions is produced or made. Anything learned at the meeting can be freely used by any of the members; however, no one is permitted to talk about it.
More than 400 heavily armed guards are there protect the attendees. The event space is hardened with physical barricades and high levels of security. It is this level of high security combined with the extreme secrecy, which makes the conspiracy theorists go wild with speculation about what they actually do at the Bilderberg meetings.
Only those who are invited are permitted to attend the meeting. Everyone invited sees a major career boost after attending a Bilderberg meeting. Bill Clinton attended while he was the Governor of Arkansas and within a year he was President of the United States. Tony Blair became Prime Minister of the UK, four years after going to his first Bilderberg meeting.
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FOUNDED BY AN EX-NAZI AND AN AGENT OF THE VATICAN
The co-founders of the Bilderberg Group were two historical figures with checkered backgrounds. They were Prince Bernhard from the Netherlands and Józef Retinger who was a political advisor, originally from Poland, who worked with the Vatican.
Even though throughout his later adult life, up until his death in 1984, Prince Bernhard claimed he was never a Nazi. A historian, Annejet van der Zijl, found documents at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which prove Prince Bernhard was indeed a Nazi Party member until 1934 when he left school to work for the huge German chemical company named IG Farben. IG Farben did atrocious things in support of the Nazis including making the poisonous gas used to kill people in the German death camps.
Józef Retinger was a secret spy for the Vatican. He was expelled from allied countries for his activities in association with the Jesuits. He later went on to create the Council of Europe during 1949, which became part of the foundational movement, which eventually led to the formation of the European Union.
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SERIOUS CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
The Bilderberg Group publishes on its website a simple list of the items that will be discussed at an upcoming meeting, without giving any further details.
For the 2016 meeting here is the list of the topics up for discussion:
China, current events, cybersecurity, Europe (growth, immigrants, reform, unity and vision), geopolitics of energy and commodities, lower classes and the middle class, Middle East, Russia, technological innovation, US political climate, economy, debt, growth, and reform.
The Bilderberg Group also publishes a list of the attendees. By comparing the attendees with the proposed agenda is it easy to see the potential conflicts of interest. A high probability must exist of shady “back-room” deals and influence peddling. Hilary Clinton always attends and she has received millions of dollars in “speaker’s fees” from other attendees.
The Chairman of BP, Carl-Henric Svanberg, and the group chief executive of BP, Robert Dudley, the vice-chairman of Galp Energia from Portugal, and the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell all met with finance ministers and top political leaders. After the Bilderberg Group meeting, they do not report back to their respective governments about what happened.
Other attendees of the 2016 meeting included former European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, Christine Lagarde who is the Director of the International Monetary Fund, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, a former head of the CIA, General David Petraeus, and a former head of MI6, Sir John Sawers.
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THE WHO’S WHO OF THE WORLD
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