Bilderberg 2016: Another Obama No-Show
The 64th Bilderberg Meeting Deals with a Turbulent World
By Will Banyan, Copyright © 10 June 2016
After a remarkable delay, the Bilderberg Steering Committee finally issued its standard
pre-meeting press release and
list of participants, on 6 June, just days before the start of the 64th Bilderberg Meeting, now underway at the luxury
Grand Hotel Taschenbergpalais in Dresden, Germany. The press release was also notable for its rather soothing language about the private nature of the conference enabling its participants to “take time to listen, reflect and gather insights.” In an attempt at media outreach, Bilderberg’s current chairman, Henri de Castries agreed to an interview with
German Press Agency just about Bilderberg. His language was also reassuring as he took issue with the “myth of Bilderberg.” Though admitting many of its participants were powerful people with “great responsibility”, de Castries attributed to the Bilderberg Group the noble aim of trying “understand our world” by facilitating “conversations between these people.” Bilderberg’s nameless official spokesperson also told
The Independent (
Jun. 08, 2016) Bilderberg functioned more as a “summer school of influentials”; it was “a place to gain insights and gather information.”
Not everyone has been placated by these charming obfuscations. To Charlie Skelton, for instance, the
Guardian’s Bilderberg correspondent, the private conference is obviously a “corporate lobbying event”, where the “financial, industrial and high-tech establishment” retained enough power to have “ministers and European commissioners come running” (
Guardian, Jun. 07, 2016). For corporate representatives it was all about “getting a competitive edge”, to lobby the politicians and officials they now had access to; while for the people being lobbied it was “a chance to line up future employment” (
Guardian, Jun. 08, 2016). Paul Joseph Watson, a reporter for Alex Jones’
Infowars, described Bilderberg as a “powerful lobby group” and a meeting of the “most powerful people on the planet.” According to Alex Newman, from the John Birch Society, Bilderberg is “essentially a secret meeting of Big Business and Big Government” (
The New American, Jun. 09, 2016). ...
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