Is it the Bilderberg conference – or conspiracy?

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Is it the Bilderberg conference – or conspiracy?



The world’s most powerful people begin their annual meeting on Thursday. So what have they got to hide?

TOM HARPER Author Biography INVESTIGATIONS REPORTER Wednesday 28 May 2014




Conspiracy theorists may chuckle when they learn a debate entitled “Does Privacy Exist?” is to feature at this year’s Bilderberg conference, the notoriously secretive gathering of the world’s most powerful bankers, politicians and business people.



There may be a further shaking of heads when they discover one of the participants at the heavily fortified, five-star Marriott Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark, will be Keith Alexander, the former director of the National Security Agency (NSA), which was embarrassed by the mass-surveillance revelations leaked by Edward Snowden. In fairness to the Bilderberg, the organisers of this year’s conference – which starts on Thursday – have made efforts to be more transparent by publishing a list of all the prime ministers, chief executives and military chiefs in attendance, as well as the topics up for discussion.



Chancellor George Osborne and his Labour counterpart, Ed Balls, are among the hand-picked group of British politicians who will visit Copenhagen to hob-nob with the global elite behind closed doors.



Other guests from the political sphere include the former “Third Man” of New Labour, Lord Mandelson, the current International Development Secretary, Justine Greening, and the veteran American foreign policy expert, Henry Kissinger.



Billionaire captains of industry who landed invitations include the heads of Shell, BP, Airbus, HSBC, Saab, AXA, Google, and Linkedin. They will sit alongside key global powerbrokers such as Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, and senior officials from the European Central Bank.



The chairmen from Goldman Sachs and Lazards will perhaps reflect on how their investment banks “advised” Whitehall over the controversial flotation of Royal Mail, which left the UK taxpayer £1bn out of pocket.



Keeping a discreet eye over the exchanges will be the intelligence chiefs such as Mr Alexander from the United States and Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, who was pictured on Facebook in his swimming trunks in 2009.



Items on the agenda include “The future of democracy and the middle-class trap”, “The new architecture of the Middle East” and the major geopolitical crisis of the moment: “Ukraine”. The secretive nature of the Bilderberg Conference has triggered suspicions that the event is used to shape global policy at the expense of democratic oversight. The idea of the euro was said to have been spawned at one meeting in the Nineties.



Paul Flynn, Labour MP for Newport West, asked a series of parliamentary questions about Bilderberg last year when the conference was held at a five-star hotel near Watford. He told The Independent: “I don’t regard the Bilderberg as a great threat but we would all like to know what is going on with these things. Secrecy inspires concern.”



Despite its new efforts at transparency, the conference is still acutely sensitive about radical infiltration. On Tuesday night, three journalists – self-styled “InfoWarriors” – were arrested by Danish police after they tried to ambush the organisers outside the Marriott.



Unfortunately for Hannah Borno, a British freelance journalist staying in the hotel, she was spotted exchanging words with the “InfoWarriors” earlier in the day, which caused her stay to be prematurely cut short. She said: “As my husband and I prepared to go to bed we were confronted by a hotel member of staff and a member of security. They said we had been seen talking to some people earlier who had been asked to leave, and for the safety of the staff they had been advised to ask us to leave.”

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BILDERBERG 2014: REPORTERS ARRESTED AS CLOAK OF SECRECY DESCENDS

Agenda for Copenhagen confab illustrates global elite in panic



by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | MAY 28, 2014



A cloak of secrecy has descended around the site of the 2014 Bilderberg Group conference in Copenhagen after two reporters were arrested inside the Marriott Hotel for refusing to delete footage of Bilderberg organizers who were confronted about their role in planning the clandestine meeting.







Having safely checked into the Marriott two days before 120 of the world’s most influential power brokers gather for their annual confab, it was soon made very apparent that security preparations were in full swing, with the second floor of the hotel completely out of bounds for guests, as security staff working on behalf of Bilderberg made regular patrols around the both inside and outside the premises.



People with cameras, whether they were taking photos or not, were harassed and ordered not to take pictures, as Bilderberg organizers began to gather in the lobby of the Marriott.





Independent reporters Luke Rudkowski and Dan Dicks decided to take the opportunity to confront the organizers, who at first denied any knowledge of Bilderberg before becoming visibly irate at being asked polite questions. Security staff soon arrived on the scene and demanded that everyone in the vicinity delete their footage.







When Dicks and Rudkowski refused to delete their footage and asked to leave the hotel, security staff attempted to physically detain them and called the police. Although police admitted that a judge’s permission is required to delete footage, they were arrested for merely acting suspiciously and taken to jail before being released an hour later.







London Guardian reporter Charlie Skelton and myself were later ordered to leave the hotel on orders of the secret service despite having already checked in for the night.



The arrests served to highlight the fact that there is such a paucity of mainstream coverage of Bilderberg that independent reporters have to risk being thrown in prison simply to ask questions about a meeting, the security for which is taxpayer funded, that has a huge impact on global affairs.



Other security procedures illustrate the paranoia which routinely surrounds Bilderberg, including ice cream sellers a mile away from the hotel being told by police to watch out for “suspicious individuals.” Large barricades were being erected around the site of the Marriott this morning as the Bilderberg wall of secrecy began to descend.







2014 Agenda Revealed



Bilderberg’s official list of discussion topics for the 2014 confab were revealed yesterday, confirming our earlier report that much of the weekend would focus around the crisis in Ukraine, the crushing victories enjoyed by anti-EU political parties across Europe and Bilderberg’s desperate bid to rescue their unipolar world system.



Other topics on the official agenda include the chillingly posed question of “Does privacy exist?” as well as, “The future of democracy and the middle class trap,” an ironic item given Bilderberg’s inherently undemocratic nature, and the ominous question of, “Is the economic recovery sustainable?” In 2006, leaked information confirmed that Bilderberg were knew two years ahead of time about the 2008 economic collapse and were positioning themselves for the downturn.



The participant list, which always fails to include some of the most prominent attendees, nevertheless exemplifies the importance of the delegates, which this year show a significant NATO presence, expected given the crisis in Ukraine, including Secretary General Anders Rasmussen and Supreme Allied Commander of Europe Philip Breedlove.



Other notable names on the list include IMF chief Christine Lagarde, who recently oversaw the asset stripping and looting of Ukraine, the Queen of Spain, Goldman Sachs Chairman Peter Sutherland, British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne as well as Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls (illustrating the illusion of choice between the Conservative Party and Labour).



Mayor of Atlanta Kasim Reed is also in attendance, suggesting Bilderberg big wigs may be grooming him for a more prominent political position and possibly even President as they did when Bill Clinton attended as a little known Governor of Arkansas back in 1991.



Meanwhile, Bilderberg sleuth Daniel Estulin was also told by sources close to Bilderberg that there are a number of other topics up for discussion which are not included on the official list.



These include Iran nuclear diplomacy, the consequences of the recent Russia-China gas deal and the question of whether Obama’s foreign policy is doomed given his actions with regard to Syria and Ukraine.



Privacy regulations and the continued effort to censor free speech on the Internet under the guise of cybersecurity will also be covered, as will the global warming agenda which is a cover for further deindustrialization and the introduction of a carbon tax on individuals.



Infowars reporters are on the ground in Copenhagen all week to cover Bilderberg 2014.









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