Another conference over. Charlie Skelton talks to some of the 800 activists outside the gates to find out what they learned
What a Bilderberg it’s been. Big names, big money, big decisions, big crowds. Somewhere around 800 activists outside the gates (up from about a dozen in 2009), and inside? Well, here’s what we learned.
A Mitt Romney attendance? So, was he being crowned, or singing for his supper? Will Mitt Romney follow in the august footsteps of Clinton, Cameron and Blair to have attended Bilderberg and then shortly become leader? Four years ago, Senator Obama shook off his press detail and nipped (many think) into Bilderberg. This exact same hotel.
Four eyewitnesses on the hotel staff told me Willard Mitt Romney was here at Bilderberg 2012. My four eyewitnesses place him inside. That’s one more than Woodward and Bernstein used. Romney’s office initially refused to confirm or deny his attendance as Bilderberg is “not public”. They later said it was not him.
So, was he being crowned, or singing for his supper? Will Mitt Romney follow in the august footsteps of Clinton, Cameron and Blair to have attended Bilderberg and then shortly become leader? Four years ago, Senator Obama shook off his press detail and nipped (many think) into Bilderberg. This exact same hotel.
Did Romney have to get down on one knee in front of David Rockefeller? This sounds flippant, but it’s a serious question: has Bilderberg switched allegiance? Are they going to toss away Obama after just one term?
I put this question to author and Bilderberg expert Webster Tarpley. Is Wall Street going to throw its chips in with Romney? “I think there’s a frisson that’s gone through the ruling class against Obama,” he says. The leak we had from the flirty hotel staffer corroborated this. “They don’t seem to like Obama very much,” he said.
Tarpley’s conclusion is this: “They want Romney and Mitch Daniels, who will run together as moderate rightists.” Governor Daniels of Indiana was on the official list.
The official list is nonsense
The Washington Post saw Bill Gates come in. And I’ve got three eyewitnesses from inside who confirmed he was here. This is his ear:
You won’t see the names Mitt Romney or Bill Gates on the officially released Final List of Participants because, well, the list is a nonsense. It’s nothing like a complete list of people who attend Bilderberg. It’s a smokescreen, a bit of spin. So can we all, please, stop repeating it as gospel?
The Syrian war is on
Attending Bilderberg 2012 as an ‘international’ participant was Bassma Kodmani.
So who is Bassma Kodmani? The answer to that question is also the answer to the question: what the hell is happening in Syria? This is where it gets interesting (and worrying) for Bilderberg followers.
Kodmani was at Bilderberg in 2008, the last time it was here in Chantilly. She is a member of the European Council on foreign relations – its parent group, the council on foreign relations, is a sort of über lobby group, a couple of rungs down from Bilderberg, but still hugely powerful.
There’s a lot of CFR/Bilderberg crossover. Honorary chairman of both is David Rockefeller; co-chairman of the CFR is Robert Rubin (he was here); and on the CFR’s board of directors are Fouad Ajami and Henry Kravis, both at Bilderberg 2012.
Bassma Kodmani is also the executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative. This body, set up in 2004 by the CFR, is helping to steer “a comprehensive process” of “democratic reform” in the region. In 2005, the Syrian National Council came into being. Bassma Kodmani was a founding member, and is on the executive committee. Kodmani is one of the SNC’s two spokespeople, alongside Radwan Ziadeh (who has a flawless Washington pedigree – look him up). According to its website, the SNC is a non profit public policy research organization register in the District of Colombia and headquartered in Washington DC. Just up the road.
I asked Tarpley about Kodmani. He doesn’t mince words. “She’s a Nato agent, a destabilizer, a colour revolution queen. The fact that Kodmani was there is a scary one for Syria”, says Tarpley.
To those gathered outside, at least, it looks increasingly like, at this year’s Bilderberg, the war of regime change got signed off. In the airport lobby, on the way home from Bilderberg, I looked up at a TV monitor to see Bilderberg attendee and CFR board member Fouad Ajami talking about how Syria is about to become another Libya. That sound you can hear? It’s all those juicy defence contracts being scratched out around Chantilly. Fuel the jets and open the champagne, boys. We’re going in.
Occupy Bilderberg turned up
A statement of support from Occupy London was read out at Occupy Bilderberg. A symbol of Anglo-American unity, like Bilderberg itself. The statement protested against (amongst other things): the rise of an undemocratic “technocracy” – a “network of cronies” in which financial “experts”, largely from the international banking community, who have been appointed rather than elected, are handed the reins of government.
So here you’ve got the (broadly speaking) liberal left protest movement, with its anti-corruption and pro-transparency agenda, finding common ground with US libertarians and an anti-Obama, anti-fascist, pro-union New Deal American like Webster Tarpley.
As Tarpley says: “Bilderberg creates a singularity, where a lot of seemingly disparate things come together.” That applies not just to the people inside – megabank money and government – outside the security cordon you’ve got Occupy Bilderberg rubbing shoulders with US veterans, German students who’ve flown over for the event, truckers from Michigan, Orthodox Jews, Ron Paul supporters, anarcho-syndicalists, academics and grandmothers.Why? In the words of the statement from Occupy London: “the profound denial of a participatory, direct democracy which the Bilderberg Conference represents.”
Mainstream news turned up
Finally. The Washington Times sent Ben Wolfgang, the Guardian sent Ryan Devereaux and the Times of London actually tried to get a journalist inside – Alexandra Frean was turned away at the gates. But she tried. At least she tried. That’s a start. We can work with that.
Internet ID
There was speculation before the conference that on the Bilderberg agenda this year would be how to implement a unique EU internet ID. Who would be pushing that through? Step up Neelie Kroes, EU commissioner for digital agenda.
Presumably Eric Schmidt (Google) and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) would have been sharing podium-space with Bill Gates at that session. That’s if there was one, of course.
Collin versus the new world order
I’m not sure global governance stands a chance against Collin Abramowicz. Here – by popular request – is a last blast from the frontline of the resistance:
Hopefully Collin and I will see you all again in 2013. You can email me atbilderberg2013@yahoo.co.uk – if we had 800 this year, I think we could be having ourselves a party. The Bilderburgers are on me.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/06/bilderberg-2012-mitt-romney-and-bill-gates-were-there/
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...part1/4....THE HOULA AFFAIR ....HIGHLIGHTS WESTERN INTELLIGENCE GAP, IN SYRIA.Posted By: IZAKOVIC ( E-Mail).Date: Wed, 6-Jun-2012 10:47:46. http://www.voltairenet.org/The-Houla-affair-highlights****Text by Thierry Meyssan. Given that the West is never wrong,it is unlike-ly it will acknowledge its errors over the Houla massacre.What matters,however,is not whether or not it will rectify the false image portrayed by its propaganda on Syria,but the way in which the balance of power between NATO and SCO,is chan-ging.For the Houla affair shows that the West is incapable of knowing the situation on the ground,whereas Russian military intelligence is privy to exactly what is happening. //Voltaire Network | Damascus (Syria) | 5 June 2012.//108 bodies were laid out by the Free’Syrian’ Army/ FSA [1] in a mosque in Houla.According to the rebels,these were the remains of civilians mas-sacred on 25 May 2012,by pro-government militia known as ‘Shabbihas’. The Syrian government ap-peared completely shocked by the news.It imme-diately condemned the killings,which it attri-buted to the armed opposition (FSA)....(....) The Syrian government lost control of Houla many weeks ago.Syrian magistrates are therefore una-ble to go to Houla,and even if some journalists are able to do so,this is only with the permis-sion of,and under close surveillance by the FSA. There is however one exception: a team from Ros-siya 24,the 24-hour Russian news channel,was able to move around the area,without an escort, and produce an exceptionally detailed report. The official Syrian Commission claims to have collected several witness statements, but has declared that these shall only be presented to the press,once the final report has been esta-blished.At present,the identity of these wit-nesses,remains protected by investigation se-crecy.However,several of the accounts were broadcast on public television,on 1st June.The investigators are also in possession of videos provided exclusively by the FSA. Lastly, since the FSA amassed the bodies in a mosque,and began burying them the very next day,it was not pos-sible for UN observers to carry out forensic assessments on many of the dead.Voltaire Net-work’s conclusions,'Victims of the Houla slaughter':Houla is not a town,but an adminis-trative area made up of three villages,each with about 25,000 residents but which today lie lar-gely abandoned.The Sunni market town of Tal Daw, has been under rebel control for many weeks. The Free "Syrian" Army had imposed its rule there. The national Army was securing transport routes by maintaining several posts on roads within the area,but did not venture beyond these roads.Cer- tain individuals kidnapped children and attemp-ted unsuccessfully to extort ransoms.[5] In the end,these children were killed a few days before the Houla massacre,but their bodies were brought by the Free "Syrian" Army to be laid out amongst the others. In the evening of 24 May, the Free "Syrian" Army launched a very large-scale ope-ration to reinforce its control over the region, and to make Tal Daw,its new base.In order to do this,600-800 combatants from various districts gathered in Rastan and Saan,and proceeded to launch simultaneous attacks on the military bases.At the same time,a team was fortifying Tal Daw,by installing five anti-tank missile batte-ries,and purging the town of some of its inhabitants.
...part2.....The first victims in Tel Daw were a dozen people related to Abd al-Muty Mashlab – a legislator of the recently elected Baas party who was appointed Secretary of the National Assembly;following this, the family of a senior official –Mouawyya al-Sayyed –was killed. Subse-quent targets, were families of Sunni origin,who had converted to Shiite Islam.Other victims in-cluded the family of two journalists for TopNews and NewOrientNews,press agencies associated with Voltaire Network.Many people, including chil-dren,were raped before being killed. With only one of the Army’s bases having fallen,the as-sailants changed strategy.They transformed a military defeat into a communication operation, attacking the al-Watani hospital,and setting fire to it.They took corpses from the hospital morgue and transported them along with those of other victims,to the mosque,where the bodies were filmed.The theory of a single massacre per-petrated by pro-government militia,does not stand up to the facts......(....)//****NOTES: [1] Voltaire Network has chosen to write FSA with ’Syrian’ in inverted commas,to indicate that this militia is largely composed of foreigners,and that it’s commander,is not Sy-rian.[2] "Irreversible divisons in Syria," VoxClamantis, 26 May 2012.[3] Global Research translated to English the transcript of extracts from this programme, see "Opposition Terrorists “Killed Families Loyal to the Government”", Voltaire Network 1 June 2012.[4] “Syria: What the Security Council Said”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network, 6 June 2012.[5] This is cur-rently a security problem in the country. Many of the thugs that had been recruited to swell the ranks of the Free "Syrian" Army, were demobilized, due to lack of funding. Remaining in the possession of arms provided by the West, they are turning to crime - mainly .**********
..............and...........The Houla Massacre: Opposition Terrorists "Killed Families Loyal to the Government".The massacre in Houla is being blamed on the Syrian government,without a shred of evidence.Based on the comprehensive inves-tigation into the events carried out by Russian news channel Vesti24,this incisive report con-firms that crimes against humanity, are being committed by terrorist militia. The objective is not only to isolate the al-Assad government politically and economically, but to develop a pretext and a justification for waging an R2P humanitarian war on Syria.
http://www.voltairenet.org/THE-HOULA-MASSACRE-Opposition ..(and http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=241860 )
...part3.....Syria: What the Security Council Said. by Thierry Meyssan.// It is a classic propaganda technique, to present a particular opinion,as a consensually agreed-on truth, such, all that those who contest it, are made to feel marginalized. Applying this mechanism to Syria, the press outlets of both the West and the Gulf, falsely attribute to the UN all kinds of posi-tions that it has never taken.In response to mail from readers,Thierry Meyssan traces these manipulations of vocabulary.//VOLTAIRE NETWORK | DAMASCUS (SYRIA) | 6 JUNE 2012.// "Press: Do not swallow this " //The Western and Gulf media have long had the habit of using the expression “in-ternational community”, to designate groups of states led by the United States,to the exclusion of others.One reads with regard to Syria,for example,that “Russia and China oppose the international community.....(...) http://www.voltairenet.org/a174515*************
THE ART OF WAR, EU’s possessive partner. by Manlio Dinucci."Keep the Russians out,the Ame-ricans in, and the Germans down" was the role of NATO in Europe, in the words of its first Secretary General,Lord Hastings Ismay. Manlio Dinucci explores the prospects of Atlanticist vassalage that lie ahead, following the Chicago summit in May 2012.//VOLTAIRE NETWORK | ROME (ITALY) | 5 JUNE 2012 //NATO has a "unique and essential partner":the European Union. This declaration was made by the ChicagoSummit,which also called for a "stronger and more capable European defence." Provided, of course, it is in NATO’s hands, and that NATO remains under U.S. command.What kind of "defense" will NATO provide Europe? To begin with, 22 of the 27 EU member countries are, belong to an alliance where the "supreme commander in Europe" is still a U.S. national, and is appointed by the President of the USA.Moreover, the Summit confirmed that "NA-TO’s door remains open to all European democra-cies that share the Alliance’s values." In other words,after having taken in nine countries from the former Warsaw Pact(including three from the former USSR)and three from the former Yugosla-via,NATO is extending further east,as far as Russia. ....(...) http://www.voltairenet.org/EU-s-possessive-partner ///
...part4......NATO glorifies its decline, by Thierry Meyssan.//The 25th NATO summit, ignored the nagging question which has haunted the Organization, since the collapse of the Soviet Union:what is its real utility to the ensemble of its members,outside the United Kingdom and the U.S.Any questions concerning the massacre of 160,000 Libyans,or a cessation of the attack on Syria,having been disallowed,the heads of state were simply commanded...to finance the military industrial complex of the U.S.//VOLTAIRE NETWORK | DAMASCUS (SYRIA) | 2 JUNE 2012 //French عربي ITALIANO ESPAÑOL //The NATO summit draws toge-ther not only the heads of state of its 28 member states,but also the delegates of 32 other countries,revealing the global dimensions of the Organization. Officially, it was to consider three main issues: How to exert control over Central Asia? How to deal with [impose?] more efficiently [with] the budget restraints imposed by the financial crisis? How to deploy an offensive weapon system against Russia and China? The choice of Chicago for the NATO summit is obvious, given President Obama’s political origins and that it is today governed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former Obama chief of staff, hawk and Israeli army officer......(...)In recent years,Moscow created a military pact with its old Soviet partners, the Collective Treaty Security Organization,the CTSO. Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan joined, though without Azerbajan(friend to USA). Moscow and Bejing then established the Shanghai Cooperation Organization/SCO. Its initial goal was narrowly conceived to prevent Anglo-Saxon interference in Central Asia, but it is evolving into a military pact. The SCO came to include, either as observers or partners, Mongolia and the states of the Indian sub-continent,still without Azerbajan.....(...)This year, drones were at a premium.The summit approved a purchase program of aerial surveillance,that has been under discussion for a decade [9].The idea of combining drones with the purchase of cargo planes built by Euro-American consortiums, was abandoned exclusively in favor of drones made in USA. This is a long-expected catastrophe for the firms EADS (Germany), Thales (France), Indra (Spain), Galileo Avionica (Italy), Dutch Space (Netherlands) and General Dynamics (Canada). The great victors of the summit were the U.S. firms, Northrup Grumman and Raytheon, which received 3 billion Euros in orders. ....(...)
http://www.voltairenet.org/NATO-glorifies-its-decline*********** http://www.voltairenet.org/en ...for more....
Bilderberg 2012: Mitt Romney and Bill Gates were there. By Charlie Skelton, The Guardian. Wednesday, June 6, 2012 2:59 EDT
Another conference over. Charlie Skelton talks to some of the 800 activists outside the gates, to find out what they learned.
source is: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=241872 ***
Charlie Skelton is a comedy writer, journalist and olive farmer. He is script editor of Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live, and writes on various similar sorts of things for television and radio. www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charlie-skelton ..for more...///
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/jun/05/bilderberg-2012-chantilly-occupy ...73 comments....
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