Preview: The Bilderberg Group

"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 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, speaking at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting in Baden, Germany


Wow. If David's last quote didn't get you thinking, I hope this one did. Did you know that Dan Quayle, then Vice-President to George H.W. Bush was there listening? More interesting, did you know that the next President of the United States, Bill Clinton was there, too? So who are the Bilderbergs? What is David's "plan for the world," anyway? Even scarier is his assumption that, "The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." Translation: a world governed by people who are richer and "smarter" that you is better than one ruled by the people. Before I read this quote I admit I still had my doubts that any of the freedoms I enjoy were under any real threat. After I read it, I realized I needed to look into this a little further. So the question remains: who are the Bilderbergs?
    Their story starts with a Polish politician named Jozef Hieronim Retinger. A leading proponent of European unification, he played a major part in founding the Council of Europe and the European Movement, which later led to the European Union, or the EU. After World War II, Jozef believed it was necessary for Europe and America to be brought closer together by reaching a better understanding of each others cultures. He brought his ideas to Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who shared his beliefs. Prince Bernhard contacted some major players in America, including David Rockefeller, Walter Bedell Smith (head of the CIA), and Charles Douglas Jackson, President Eisenhower's adviser on psychological warfare. The first Bilderberg meeting was attended by fifty top Europeans and eleven delegates from the U.S., including Rockefeller and Charles D. Jackson. Prince Bernhard served as Chairman of the meetings until 1976, when his part in the Lockheed affair was revealed. (Lockheed had received $195 million in government bailout money before it was revealed they had bribed foreign officials to guarantee contracts for their newest fighter plane.) Bernhard had accepted $1.1 million in bribes from Lockheed. Among the Bilderberg members who accepted bribes were Franz Josef Strauss of West Germany and Mariano Rumor of Italy. Another notable name in the matter was Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi arms dealer, who received $106 million in commissions from Lockheed bribes over a five year period, essentially serving as their go-between with major Middle-Eastern countries. His commission started at 2.5% and eventually went as high as 15%. Even at a 5% commission rate it's safe to say that at least $2 billion of Lockheed money went through Khashoggi from 1970 to 1975. Keep his name in mind; he comes up later in connection with the Bilderberg Group.
    Whether or not the original Bilderberg meetings were truly intended to serve the innocent purpose of bringing the U.S. and Europe closer together is debatable. At best, they were started and attended by crooked politicians who stole funds straight out of the U.S. treasury. The way they set up the meetings is simple, but genius. There's no official membership of the Bilderberg Group, since it only meets once a year and is attended mostly by different delegates each time. Every "member" is known as a "member of the Steering Committee." Then there is a separate group within the organization which serves as an advisory board, comprising different official posts, but who are all members of the Steering Committee. At their yearly meeting, they hold several conferences which are attended by different levels of the organization (i.e. one meeting would comprise of all the Steering Committee; one later in the day might comprise of only the advisory board, or the addition of select Steering Committee members.) This way information discussed is withheld on a need-to-know basis.
    The Bilderberg meetings are so secretive that no members of the press are allowed in and they hold no press conference, while high-ranking media moguls are in attendance every year. Thus no word gets out, which is probably why you had no idea David Rockefeller was speaking in secret to the next president, the vice-president, and over a hundred top world officials about a government run by "an intellectual elite and world bankers."  Here's a short list of some prominent Bilderberg attendees:

Joseph E. Johnson (1954), President of The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Henry Kissinger (1957, 1964, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 2008, 2010), Former Secretary of State

Gerald Ford (1964, 1966), President of the United States (1974-1977)

Paul Volcker (1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1997), former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Prince Charles (1986), Prince of Wales

Gordon Brown (1991), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007-Present)

Bill Clinton (1991), then governor; President of the United States (1993-2001)

Tony Blair (1993), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007)

Colin Powell (1997), Former Secretary of State

John Edwards (2004), Senator

Timothy Geithner (2009), Treasury Secretary

Bill Gates (2010), Chairman of Microsoft

    There's some names you probably recognize. There's many more you probably don't, who hold positions of power all around the world. I'll get into the Bilderbergs in a lot more depth later: this is kind of a preview.  If you don't believe this organization actually exists, feel free to check out their website: www.bilderbergmeetings.org You won't find much there, except some proof that, yes, they're real. Let's read that Rockefeller quote again and see how far away from the truth it sounds now...

"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 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, speaking at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting in Baden, Germany

    Hang in there while I give you some background on David's other behind-the-scenes organizations. Trust me, this is just starting to get interesting...