by virgincrude » Wed 24 Oct 2007, 06:42:33
Carlhole, you are once again jumping to conclusions. Just because every book you’ve ever read about the Bilderbergs has included mere speculation does not mean that this particular book is the same. The author has been investigating the Bilderberg meetings for 12 years and presents plenty of ‘solid tangible rock’ evidence to support the theory of global plans.
Almost all prominent members of mainstream media in the US are either members of the CFR or the TC. In fact, Estulin's research reveals that "the Council on Foreign Relations creates and delivers psycho-political operations by manipulating people's reality through a 'tactic of deception', placing Council members on both sides of an issue. The deception is complete when the public is led to believe that its own best interests are being served while the CFR policy is being carried out."
No one could have said it better than David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, a Bilderberg member and board member of the Council On Foreign Relations in his Memoirs:
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure-one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
Unlike books on the Illuminati or other super-elite you can think of, this book details and quotes extensively from historic records such as interviews, national security releases, and the accounts of those themselves involved. You assume the secrecy of the Bilderberg meetings is based on some almost supernatural ability to keep a secret. There’s nothing supernatural about it all, once you understand the network of control involving ALL major media. The press are invited to the Bilderberg meetings (rather, the owners or editor-in-chief such as Murdoch, Berlusconi, Conrad Black, and a surprising string of mainstream US TV journalists) on the understanding that nothing they discuss shall be made public. The meetings are conducted in a series of separate round table discussions, members from each then going on to form different discussion groups on a set agenda of topics. These meetings generally serve the purpose of keeping the ultimate goal hidden from immediate scrutiny by most of the participants, who are invariably guided towards a particular conclusion, which then becomes ‘policy’.
An example of what can happen to journalists who breach the code of silence:
In the 'Lombard' column of the Financial Times, C. Gordon Tether wrote on May 6 1975: 'If the Bilderberg Group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one.' In a column written almost a year later, for the March 3 l976 edition, Tether wrote: 'The Bilderbergers have always insisted upon clothing their comings and goings in the closest secrecy. Until a few years back, this was carried to such lengths that their annual conclave went entirely unmarked in the world's press. In the more recent past, the veil has been raised to the extent of letting it be known that the meetings were taking place. But the total ban on the reporting of what went on has remained in force....Any conspiratologist who has the Bilderbergers in his sights will proceed to ask why it is that, if there is so little to hide, so much effort is devoted to hiding it.'
This column never appeared: it was censored by the Financial Times editor Mark Fisher (himself a member of the Trilateral Commission), and Tether was finally dismissed from the 'Lombard' column in August 1976.
You said: “I think that The Bilderberger conferences are annual events in which prominent, influential people throughout the world get together without the hassle of the press reporting on them - so that they can express ideas freely without having to answer to their constituencies or watchdog groups for each little verbal infraction.” –
Well done, that’s EXACTLY what they want you to think.
Elite organizations like the Council on Foreign relations and the Bilderberg, covert players like M16, CIA and NSA, and the dual role Secret Service, the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary fund, the private global financial/banking system - all these are influential, powerful elements of the System. Critically important to them all, is the media as formal propaganda and information control system.
Founder member of the Bilderberg and CFR David Rockerfeller said:
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."- David Rockefeller Baden-Baden, Germany 1991
“Our plans for the world”- what right does a world class BANKER have to decide and plan on the future of the WORLD?
This subservient media is now feeding all of us the version of events which the CFR and Bilderbergers WANT us to receive.
Your opinions (like mine) are formed by information gathered and exchanged, it is very unlikely that you suspect your opinions are actually the result of subtle manipulation, just as public opinion is the result of manipulation planned and carried out by the Council on Foreign Relations and sister groups. Did you know that from 1928-1972 every single President of the United States has been a member of the CFR, or administrations (such as Regan’s) made up of 313 members of the CFR? Do you know, or care what the CFR do/have done, or perhaps the fact that you don’t get to vote on who is a member of the CFR doesn’t bother you either, because surely, they’re only looking after your best interests, hmm?