Have you heard about the shadow government that is the real power behind most of the major decisions in the world today? This secretive group is rumored to actually make the key decisions that affect all aspects of our lives including the price of gasoline, how the prices of stock and commodity markets will be manipulated, and even which countries will be attacked or invaded. This is the Bilderberg Group, the whos who of political leaders, international bankers, and the power brokers of world commerce. Every year, over 100 of these people meet secretly to discuss and even create global policy. Most of the members are believed to come from Western Europe and the United States. Regulars include names like Rockefeller and Rothschild, although guests have included Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton (even before he became President), Bill and Melinda Gates, and many other names that are immediately recognizable. Beginnings of the Bilderberg Group The group is believed to have taken its name from the hotel in Osterbeek, Holland, where its first conference was held in May 1954. The initial rationale for this conference was that the U.S. and Europe were not united enough in their global policies. The idea was to foster more agreement on how to better promote ‘Atlanticism,’ or closer cooperation on political, economic, and military issues. Ever since this time, the group has met regularly (at least annually), usually behind armed guards and always in total secrecy about the agenda and what is actually discussed. Attendees are not permitted to give any quotes or talk on the record about anything that happens behind those closed doors. There is also very little press or news media coverage of these three-day events, although this is beginning to change over the last few years, as more people are becoming aware of the groups existence. On occasion, the Bilderberg Group does release some of its decisions, although this is usually quite cryptic and given to very few sources. There is a lot of speculation that the few media outlets which accurately predicted events like the downfall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, or even the timing of the Iraq invasion, were given the inside scoop directly from a Bilderberg source. Indeed, it would appear that being well connected can offer a glimpse into the future. Campaign of Secrecy In this day and age, how is it possible to keep such a secret? One thought is that many of the members of the media elite have been bribed. High ranking members of prominent papers like the Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, along with leaders of all the national television networks, have been allowed attendance at these secret events many times in exchange for their agreement to not report anything about them. The Bilderberg Group has also grabbed control of the news wire services. Sadly, almost all of the news reported throughout the U.S. initially comes from these wire services and the major newspapers or television networks. Theoretically and practically, control over just a few news media outlets could be enough to keep the actions of an ultra-secretive and influential group of global elites out of the mainstream press. Long Range Goals The most important question that people have been asking about the Bilderberg Group for years is what they ultimately want. An examination of the facts and the record reveals that the ultimate goal of such a group is two-fold: power and control. They want to have near total control over the entire world, and with it, ultimate power. In practice this could translate into the overriding goal of a one-world government with a single, global marketplace. This would be controlled by a single world army and financially regulated through the use of a single global currency under the auspices of a World Central Bank. Taking this a step further, the implementation of this goal might mean your life would be the way these elites desire. They would have total control over all media and press, making it quite easy to control (or at least strongly influence) public opinion. No more middle class, no more democracy. There might be manufactured crises and wars, centralized control over education (indoctrination) to train those chosen for specific roles, and possibly even a tax on all ‘world citizens.’ Think these goals and ideals are far away in some distant future? Consider the fact that the U.S. financial system is already a world power; those governments who do not follow the wishes of our leaders are quickly exorcised from the international financial system. All that would need to happen is a slight expansion and more complete integration. There is even some speculation that after the passage of NAFTA, the Bilderberg Group has been secretly influencing policy throughout North America in an effort to create a more unified block. This would be something along the same lines as the EU, only with Canada, the USA, and Mexico. The Bottom Line No matter how you look at the Bilderberg Group, it is eerily disturbing. Just the fact that a global power elite with representatives from politics, finance, and industry is meeting behind closed doors, in almost total secrecy on a regular basis, should be enough to cause concern and public outcry. The fact that they feel the need to control everything which occurs at these meetings, allow NO public attendance or reporting of any kind, and stay behind armed guards seems suspicious to say the least. Hopefully, as more and more people become aware of their existence and possible explanations regarding their activities, the true desires and agenda of this influential group will come to light. By Joseph Carducci, Outsider Club; Complete List of Members (as of 2013): (businessmen, politicians and defence officials) Chairman: Henri de Castries, Chairman and CEO, AXA Group Paul M. Achleitner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Board, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd Marcus Agius, Former Chairman, Barclays plc Helen Alexander, Chairman, UBM plc Roger C. Altman, Executive Chairman, Evercore Partners Matti Apunen, Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA Susan Athey, Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Columnist, Milliyet Newspaper Ali Babacan, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA Nicolas Barré, Managing Editor, Les Echos José Manuel Barroso, President, European Commission Nicolas Baverez, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Olivier de Bavinchove, Commander, Eurocorps John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford Franco Bernabè, Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia S.p.A. Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon Carl Bildt, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anders Borg, Swedish Minister for Finance Jean François van Boxmeer, CEO, Heineken Svein Richard Brandtzæg, President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA Oscar Bronner, Publisher, Der Standard Medienwelt Peter Carrington, Former Honorary Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings Juan Luis Cebrián, Executive Chairman, Grupo PRISA Edmund Clark, President and CEO, TD Bank Group Kenneth Clarke, Cabinet Minister Bjarne Corydon, Danish Minister of Finance Sherard Cowper-Coles, Business Development Director, International, BAE Systems plc Enrico Cucchiani, CEO, Intesa Sanpaolo SpA Etienne Davignon, Belgian Minister of State; Former Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings Ian Davis, Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company Robbert H. Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study Haluk Dinçer, President, Retail and Insurance Group, Sabancı Holding A.S. Robert Dudley, Group Chief Executive, BP plc Nicholas N. Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute Espen Barth Eide, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Investor AB Thomas Enders, CEO, EADS J. Michael Evans, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co. Ulrik Federspiel, Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S Martin S.Feldstein, Professor of Economics, Harvard University; President Emeritus, NBER François Fillon, Former French Prime Minister Mark C. Fishman, President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Douglas J. Flint, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc Paul Gallagher, Senior Counsel Timothy F Geithner, Former Secretary of the Treasury Michael Gfoeller, US Political Consultant Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company Ulrich Grillo, CEO, Grillo-Werke AG Lilli Gruber, Journalist - Anchorwoman, La 7 TV Luis de Guindos, Spanish Minister of Economy and Competitiveness Stuart Gulliver, Group Chief Executive, HSBC Holdings plc Felix Gutzwiller, Member of the Swiss Council of States Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Simon Henry, CFO, Royal Dutch Shell plc Paul Hermelin, Chairman and CEO, Capgemini Group Pablo Isla, Chairman and CEO, Inditex Group Kenneth M. Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Lazard James A. Johnson, Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners Thomas J. Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co. LLC Robert D. Kaplan, Chief Geopolitical Analyst, Stratfor Alex Karp, Founder and CEO, Palantir Technologies John Kerr, Independent Member, House of Lords Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa Klaas H.W. Knot, President, De Nederlandsche Bank Mustafa V Koç,. Chairman, Koç Holding A.S. Roland Koch, CEO, Bilfinger SE Henry R. Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Hudson Institute André Kudelski, Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group Ulysses Kyriacopoulos, Chairman, S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund J. Kurt Lauk, Chairman of the Economic Council to the CDU, Berlin Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School Thomas Leysen, Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group Christian Lindner, Party Leader, Free Democratic Party (FDP NRW) Stefan Löfven, Party Leader, Social Democratic Party (SAP) Peter Löscher, President and CEO, Siemens AG Peter Mandelson, Chairman, Global Counsel; Chairman, Lazard International Jessica T. Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Frank McKenna, Chair, Brookfield Asset Management John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist Thierry de Montbrial, President, French Institute for International Relations Mario Monti, Former Italian Prime Minister Craig J. Mundie, Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft Corporation Alberto Nagel, CEO, Mediobanca H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands Andrew Y.Ng, Co-Founder, Coursera Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, plc David Omand, Visiting Professor, Kings College London George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer Emanuele Ottolenghi, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Soli Özel, Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University; Columnist, Habertürk Newspaper Alexis Papahelas, Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper Şafak Pavey, Turkish M Valérie Pécresse, French MP Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute David H. Petraeus, General, U.S. Army (Retired) Paulo Portas, Portugal Minister of State and Foreign Affairs J. Robert S Prichard, Chair, Torys LLP Viviane Reding, Vice President and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, European Commission Heather M. Reisman, CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. Hélène Rey, Professor of Economics, London Business School Simon Robertson, Partner, Robertson Robey Associates LLP; Deputy Chairman, HSBC Holdings Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman,Techint Group Jacek Rostowski, Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister Andreas Schieder, Austrian State Secretary of Finance Eric E. Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google Inc. Rudolf Scholten, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG António José Seguro, Secretary General, Portuguese Socialist Party Jean-Dominique Senard, CEO, Michelin Group Kristin Skogen Lund, Director General, Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter 66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International Martin Taylor, Former Chairman, Syngenta AG Tidjane Thiam, Group CEO, Prudential plc Peter A. Thiel, President, Thiel Capital Baroness Williams (Clara Molden) Craig B. Thompson, President and CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Jakob Haldor Topsøe, Partner, AMBROX Capital A/S Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish Minister of Finance Daniel L. Vasella, Honorary Chairman, Novartis AG Peter R. Voser, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc Brad Wall, Premier of Saskatchewan Province, Canada Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB Kevin Warsh, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University Galen G.Weston, Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited Baroness Williams of Crosby, Member, House of Lords Martin H. Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company David Wright, Vice Chairman, Barclays plc Robert B. Zoellick, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics Member Source: The Telegraph; - See more at: humansarefree/2013/12/exposing-bilderberg-group-complete-list.html?m=0#sthash.i0TDqxKw.dpuf
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