The 2017 Bilderberg Meeting takes place from 1–4 June in Chantilly VA, USA. A press release including the list of topics and participants will be published a few days in advance.
From the official Bilderberg website (as it appeared moments ago).
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This year’s announcement is a late one – the notice above published just days ago – and as of now, 48 hours before commencement, Bilderberg is holding back its token release of the list of attendees (reliably incomplete) and its other ritual tease in the form of a bullet-point “agenda”.
Of course, Bilderberg kept itself fully in the shadows for nearly fifty years, and only thanks to Jon Ronson’s exposé on Channel 4 in 2001 was an impenetrable press silence finally breached at all. Charlie Skelton has subsequently picked up where Ronson left off, posting accounts of his yearly stake-out in the form of ‘Bilderblog’ updates in the Guardian, but the rest is (almost total) silence: spasmodic and apathetic coverage of what is, after all, a sui generis event.
Indeed, the dependable lack of mainstream curiosity in Bilderberg is a wonder to behold. For had they been paying just the slightest attention, one clear and unsavoury trend would surely have been brought to our attention – a pattern repeated again in the recent French elections. Thatcher, Clinton, Blair (amongst others – see my fuller list below) and, a fortnight ago, Emmanuel Macron; all attended Bilderberg at least once in the years preceding their rise to power. So can anyone doubt the role of Bilderberg as kingmakers? And why should this surprise us given how even the most perfunctory investigation uncovers a club of inestimable power and influence?
At this very minute, Kenneth Clarke is meeting in secret with Peter Mandelson. The de facto head honchos of our two main political parties are rubbing shoulders right alongside Richard Perle, Robert Rubin, Henry Kissinger, and Garry Kasparov… yes, that’s right, the Russian chess master. They are also putting their heads together with chiefs from many of the world’s corporate giants including BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Fiat, Airbus, Dow Chemicals, Unilever, AXA, Barclays, Siemens, Citigroup, Microsoft, Google, Vodaphone, to name but a few, and not forgetting, Peter Sutherland, the Chairman of Goldman Sachs.
So begins an earlier post during the last visitation to the Westfield Marriott hotel in Chantilly, Virginia by the Bilderbergers in 2012. It continues:
Bilderberg…? What’s that, I hear some mumbles. Well, it’s this meeting I’ve been talking about. The meeting between Ken Clarke and Pete Mandelson and the hundred or so other hangers-on such as H.R.H Prince Philippe of Belgium and H.M. the Queen of the Netherlands.
Look, if this strikes you as odd then please rest assured that it isn’t. A Bilderberg meeting takes place in a different five-star hotel every year around this time. It’s like clockwork, and has been happening now for more than half a century. Although if you’d never before heard about these Bilderberg meetings, then it’s in part because the heads of the mainstream media outlets have also been in regular attendance – this year’s crop including representatives from Le Monde, El País, Die Zeit, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Economist, as well as talkshow host Charlie Rose. Rest assured that they won’t be spilling the beans later – they did not come to report on the meeting!
Back in 2012, a protest movement against Bilderberg was still in its early stages. During the weekend, more than a hundred concerned individuals gathered outside the gates of the Westfield Marriott to shadow the limousines and vent collective outrage against this secretive elitist gathering. Subsequent meetings have seen the numbers of protesters wax and wane – at Watford in 2013, the protests swelled to an estimated three thousand.
Charlie Skelton and the late Michael Meacher (Labour MP) at the Bilderberg protests in Watford addressing the crowds on Saturday 8th June 2013:
A mere five years on, however, and with the public announcement of this year’s event so long withheld, it is evident that the spectral hounds of Bilderberg have gone to ground again. But then, it is extremely burdensome task to maintain pressure and force into the light any organisation which the media so determinedly ignores.
Our press is again dutifully shtum this time around, and will be trusted to hold their tongues throughout the course of next weekend, respecting and endorsing the authorised line: “move along please – nothing to see here…” In turn, and as always, I encourage whoever is able to join the protests, just as I did when, in 2013, Bilderberg hid behind the high and distant fences at Watford.
I shall also endeavour to produce a review of events as I have for each and every meeting since I started this blog in 2011 – although last year, due to complications, I held back my main post about the meeting in Dresden. Belatedly, I am publishing last year’s report on the eve of this year’s conference (the post is up already in fact). It covers a lot of ground: and all the issues are more relevant today than when I produced the article twelve months ago. †
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Here is a list of western leaders groomed by Bilderberg prior to their election:
Gerald Ford attended Bilderberg 1964, 1966 appointed as US President 1974
Margaret Thatcher attended Bilderberg (at least 1975, 1977, 1986) became Prime Minister 1979
Bill Clinton attended Bilderberg 1991 became US President 1993
Tony Blair attended Bilderberg 1993 became Prime Minister 1997
Paul Martin attended Bilderberg 1996 became Prime Minister of Canada 2003
Stephen Harper attended Bilderberg 2003 became Prime Minister of Canada 2006
Angela Merkel attended Bilderberg 2005 became Chancellor of Germany (Nov) 2005
Emmanuel Macron attended Bilderberg 2014 became President 2017 *
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† The original version has been very slightly updated with inclusion of reference to the following article: https://news.vice.com/story/the-u-s-is-waging-a-massive-shadow-war-in-africa-exclusive-documents-reveal
No other substantive alterations have been made to the article since last June.
* All dates published by wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_participants#United_Kingdom
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