Bilderberg. Relevant?

[don]

Does this mean anything? Is it relevant to securing our personal assets? Is it real? The link leads to a long look at whatever this is :confused:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=13738

[World Traveler]

Re: Bilderberg. Relevant?

"Whatever this is" is something to pay attention. High, high levels of government officials, bankers, and industrialists whose power and money control much of the globe, do not take times from their busy schedules, just for a yearly vacation. And the enforced secrecy (no reports in mainstream news on this meeting, harassment of independent journalists who dare to show up) that the Guardian reporter notes, also happens every year.

I do not see it as necessarily nefarious, but more as a co-ordinating of strategies, a discussion of policies that they think are best for 1. themselves 2. the rest of us. The real issue is that what is best for vast majority of planet's inhabitants is secondary.

To me this was the most interesting:

" ...Further, Tucker reported that, “Treasury Secretary Geithner and Carl Bildt touted a shorter recession not a 10-year recession ... partly because a 10 year recession would damage Bilderberg industrialists themselves, as much as they want to have a global department of labor and a global department of treasury, they still like making money and such a long recession would cost them big bucks industrially because nobody is buying their toys.....the tilt is towards keeping it short.”[2]...
After the meetings finished, Daniel Estulin reported that, “One of Bilderberg’s primary concerns according to Estulin is the danger that their zeal to reshape the world by engineering chaos in order to implement their long term agenda could cause the situation to spiral out of control and eventually lead to a scenario where Bilderberg and the global elite in general are overwhelmed by events and end up losing their control over the planet.”[3]"...


Bilderberg investigative reporter Daniel Estulin reportedly received from his inside sources a 73-page Bilderberg Group meeting wrap-up for participants, which revealed that there were some serious disagreements among the participants. “The hardliners are for dramatic decline and a severe, short-term depression, but there are those who think that things have gone too far and that the fallout from the global economic cataclysm cannot be accurately calculated if Henry Kissinger's model is chosen. Among them is Richard Holbrooke. What is unknown at this point: if Holbrooke's point of view is, in fact, Obama's.” The consensus view was that the recession would get worse, and that recovery would be “relatively slow and protracted,” and to look for these terms in the press over the next weeks and months.

Estulin reported, “that some leading European bankers faced with the specter of their own financial mortality are extremely concerned, calling this high wire act "unsustainable," and saying that US budget and trade deficits could result in the demise of the dollar.” One Bilderberger said that, “the banks themselves don't know the answer to when (the bottom will be hit).” Everyone appeared to agree, “that the level of capital needed for the American banks may be considerably higher than the US government suggested through their recent stress tests.” Further, “someone from the IMF pointed out that its own study on historical recessions suggests that the US is only a third of the way through this current one; therefore economies expecting to recover with resurgence in demand from the US will have a long wait.” One attendee stated that, “Equity losses in 2008 were worse than those of 1929,” and that, “The next phase of the economic decline will also be worse than the '30s, mostly because the US economy carries about $20 trillion of excess debt. Until that debt is eliminated, the idea of a healthy boom is a mirage.”[9]... "

[Slimprofits]

Re: Bilderberg. Relevant?

Amazingly, Skelton made the pronouncement that what he learned after the Bilderberg conference, was that, “we must fight, fight, fight, now – right now, this second, with every cubic inch of our souls – to stop identity cards,” as, “It's all about the power to ask, the obligation to show, the justification of one's existence, the power of the asker over the subservience of the asked.” He stated that he “learned this from the random searches, detentions, angry security goon proddings and thumped police desks without number that I've had to suffer on account of Bilderberg: I have spent the week living in a nightmare possible future and many different terrible pasts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act

With 23 states, as of May 26, 2009, having approved resolutions not to participate in the program and Obama's selection of Janet Napolitano, a prominent critic of the program, to head the Department of Homeland Security, the future of the law remains uncertain,[2] and bills have been introduced into Congress to amend or repeal it.[3]

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll031.xml

GW Bush, most of the Congressional Republicans and presumably many in the voter base love(d) this thing. The bill passed with only eight of them in the House opposing it. As the defacto leader of the party, Candidate McCain professed to loved it.