Sunday, June 2, 2019

Clubs, Cartels, And Bilderberg

The Bilderberg gathering, a transatlantic annual meeting convened since 1954, fuels speculation for various reasons, not least of all because of its absence of detail and off-the-record agendas.

"If the Bilderberg Group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one."

Often, the more entertaining assumptions about what happens at the Bilderberg Conference have come from outsiders keen to fantasise.

A Bilderberg report, describing the Bürgenstock Conference in 1960, saw the gatherings as ones "Where arguments not always used in public debate can be put forth." As Joseph Stiglitz summarises from The Price of Inequality,.

Gauging the influence of the Bilderberg Group in an empirical sense is not a simple matter, though WikiLeaks has suggested that "Its influence on postwar history arguable eclipses that of the G8 conference." An overview of the group, published in August 1956 by Dr. Jósef H. Retinger, Polish co-founder and secretary of the gathering, furnishes us with a simple rationale: selling the US brand to sceptical Europeans and nullifying "Anxiety".

A security guard is seen May 29 above the entrance of the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace hotel in the Swiss town of Montreux, which is set to host the annual Bilderberg Meeting.

Former US ambassador to West Germany, George McGhee, put it this way: "The Treaty of Rome [of 1957], which brought the Common Market into being, was nurtured at Bilderberg meetings."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-01/clubs-cartels-and-bilderberg

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