“The True Story
of the Bilderberg Group” and What They May Be Planning Now
A Review of
Daniel Estulin's book
Global Research, May 25, 2014
Global Research 1 June 2009
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For over 14 years, Daniel Estulin has investigated and researched
the Bilderberg Group’s far-reaching influence on business and finance, global
politics, war and peace, and control of the world’s resources and its money.
His book, “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group,” was published
in 2005 and is now updated in a new 2009 edition. He states that in 1954, “the
most powerful men in the world met for the first time” in Oosterbeek,
Netherlands, “debated the future of the world,” and decided to meet annually in
secret. They called themselves the Bilderberg Group with a membership
representing a who’s who of world power elites, mostly from America, Canada,
and Western Europe with familiar names like David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger,
Bill Clinton, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Larry
Summers, Tim Geithner, Lloyd Blankfein, George Soros, Donald Rumsfeld, Rupert
Murdoch, other heads of state, influential senators, congressmen and parliamentarians,
Pentagon and NATO brass, members of European royalty, selected media figures,
and invited others – some quietly by some accounts like Barack Obama and many
of his top officials.
Always well represented are top figures from the Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR), IMF, World Bank, Trilateral Commission, EU, and
powerful central bankers from the Federal Reserve, the ECB’s Jean-Claude
Trichet, and Bank of England’s Mervyn King.
For over half a century, no agenda or discussion topics became
public nor is any press coverage allowed. The few invited fourth estate
attendees and their bosses are sworn to secrecy. Nonetheless, Estulin undertook
“an investigative journey” that became his life’s work. He states:
“Slowly, one by one, I have penetrated the layers of secrecy
surrounding the Bilderberg Group, but I could not have done this withot help of
‘conscientious objectors’ from inside, as well as outside, the Group’s
membership.” As a result, he keeps their names confidential.
Whatever its early mission, the Group is now “a shadow world
government….threaten(ing) to take away our right to direct our own destinies
(by creating) a disturbing reality” very much harming the public’s welfare. In
short, Bilderbergers want to supplant individual nation-state sovereignty with
an all-powerful global government, corporate controlled, and check-mated by
militarized enforcement.
“Imagine a private club where presidents, prime ministers,
international bankers and generals rub shoulders, where gracious royal
chaperones ensure everyone gets along, and where the people running the wars,
markets, and Europe (and America) say what they never dare say in public.”
Early in its history, Bilderbergers decided “to create an
‘Aristocracy of purpose’ between Europe and the United States (to reach
consensus to rule the world on matters of) policy, economics, and (overall)
strategy.” NATO was essential for their plans – to ensure “perpetual war (and)
nuclear blackmail” to be used as necessary. Then proceed to loot the planet,
achieve fabulous wealth and power, and crush all challengers to keep it.
Along with military dominance, controlling the world’s money is
crucial for with it comes absolute control as the powerful 19th century
Rothschild family understood. As the patriarch Amschel Rothschild once said:
“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.”
Bilderbergers comprise the world’s most exclusive club. No one
buys their way in. Only the Group’s Steering Committee decides whom to invite,
and in all cases participants are adherents to One World Order governance run
by top power elites.
According to Steering Committee rules:
“the invited guests must come alone; no wives, girlfriends,
husbands or boyfriends. Personal assistants (meaning security, bodyguards, CIA
or other secret service protectors) cannot attend the conference and must eat
in a separate hall. (Also) The guests are explicitly forbidden from giving
interviews to journalists” or divulge anything that goes on in meetings.
Host governments provide overall security to keep away outsiders.
One-third of attendees are political figures. The others are from industry,
finance, academia, labor and communications.
Meeting procedure is by Chatham House Rules letting attendees
freely express their views in a relaxed atmosphere knowing nothing said will be
quoted or revealed to the public. Meetings “are always frank, but do not always
conclude with consensus.”
Membership consists of annual attendees (around 80 of the world’s
most powerful) and others only invited occasionally because of their knowledge
or involvement in relevant topics. Those most valued are asked back, and some
first-timers are chosen for their possible later usefulness.
Arkansas governor Bill Clinton, for example, who attended in 1991.
“There, David Rockefeller told (him) why the North American Free Trade
Agreement….was a Bilderberg priority and that the group needed him to support
it. The next year, Clinton was elected president,” and on January 1, 1994 NAFTA
took effect. Numerous other examples are similar, including who gets chosen for
powerful government, military and other key positions.
Bilderberg Objectives
The Group’s grand design is for “a One World Government (World
Company) with a single, global marketplace, policed by one world army, and financially
regulated by one ‘World (Central) Bank’ using one global currency.” Their “wish
list” includes:
– “one international identify (observing) one set of universal
values;”
– centralized control of world populations by “mind control;” in
other words, controlling world public opinion;
– a New World Order with no middle class, only “rulers and
servants (serfs),” and, of course, no democracy;
– “a zero-growth society” without prosperity or progress, only
greater wealth and power for the rulers;
– manufactured crises and perpetual wars;
– absolute control of education to program the public mind and
train those chosen for various roles;
– “centralized control of all foreign and domestic policies;” one
size fits all globally;
– using the UN as a de facto world government imposing a UN tax on
“world citizens;”
– expanding NAFTA and WTO globally;
– making NATO a world military;
– imposing a universal legal system; and
– a global “welfare state where obedient slaves will be rewarded
and non-conformists targeted for extermination.”
Secret Bilderberg Partners
In the US, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is dominant. One
of its 1921 founders, Edward Mandell House, was Woodrow Wilson’s chief advisor
and rumored at the time to be the nation’s real power from 1913 – 1921. On his
watch, the Federal Reserve Act passed in December 1913 giving money creation
power to bankers, and the 16th Amendment was ratified in February creating the
federal income tax to provide a revenue stream to pay for government debt service.
From its beginnings, CFR was committed to “a one-world government
based on a centralized global financing system….” Today, CFR has thousands of
influential members (including important ones in the corporate media) but keeps
a low public profile, especially regarding its real agenda.
Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called it a “front organization
(for) the heart of the American Establishment.” It meets privately and only
publishes what it wishes the public to know. Its members are only Americans.
The Trilateral Commission (discussed below) is a similar group
that “brings together global power brokers.” Founded by David Rockefeller, he’s
also a leading Bilderberger and CFR Chairman Emeritus, organizations he
continues to finance and support.
Their past and current members reflect their power:
– nearly all presidential candidates of both parties;
– leading senators and congressmen;
– key members of the fourth estate and their bosses; and
– top officials of the FBI, CIA, NSA, defense establishment, and other
leading government agencies, including state, commerce, the judiciary and
treasury.
For its part, “CFR has served as a virtual employment agency for
the federal government under both Democrats and Republicans.” Whoever occupies
the White House, “CFR’s power and agenda” have been unchanged since its 1921
founding.
It advocates a global superstate with America and other nations
sacrificing their sovereignty to a central power. CFR founder Paul Warburg was
a member of Roosevelt’s “brain trust.” In 1950, his son, James, told the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee: “We shall have world government whether or not you
like it – by conquest or consent.”
Later at the 1992 Bilderberg Group meeting, Henry Kissinger said:
“Today, Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los
Angeles to restore order; tomorrow, they will be grateful. This is especially
true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or
promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of
the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this
evil….individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of
their well-being granted to them by their world government.”
CFR planned a New World Order before 1942, and the “UN began with
a group of CFR members called the Informal Agenda Group.” They drafted the
original UN proposal, presented it to Franklin Roosevelt who announced it
publicly the next day. At its 1945 founding, CFR members comprised over 40 of
the US delegates.
According to Professor G. William Domhoff, author of Who Rules
America, the CFR operates in “small groups of about twenty-five, who bring
together leaders from the six conspirator categories (industrialists,
financiers, ideologues, military, professional specialists – lawyers, medical
doctors, etc. – and organized labor) for detailed discussions of specific
topics in the area of foreign affairs.” Domhoff added:
“The Council on Foreign Relations, while not financed by
government, works so closely with it that it is difficult to distinguish
Council action stimulated by government from autonomous actions. (Its) most
important sources of income are leading corporations and major foundations.”
The Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations to name three, and they’re
directed by key corporate officials.
Dominant Media Partners
Former CBS News president Richard Salant (1961 – 64 and 1966 – 79)
explained the major media’s role: “Our job is to give people not what they
want, but what we decide they ought to have.”
CBS and other media giants control everything we see, hear and
read – through television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, films, and
large portions of the Internet. Their top officials and some journalists attend
Bilderberg meetings – on condition they report nothing.
The Rockefeller family wields enormous power, even though its
reigning patriarch, David, will be 94 on June 12 and surely near the end of his
dominance. However, for years “the Rockefellers (led by David) gained great
influence over the media. (With it) the family gained sway over public opinion.
With the pulse of public opinion, they gained deep influence in politics. And
with this politics of subtle corruption, they are taking control of the nation”
and now aim for total world domination.
The Bilderberger-Rockefeller scheme is to make their views “so
appealing (by camouflaging them) that they become public policy (and can)
pressure world leaders into submitting to the ‘needs of the Masters of the
Universe.’ ” The “free world press” is their instrument to disseminate
“agreed-upon propaganda.”
CFR Cabinet Control
“The National Security Act of 1947 established the office of
Secretary of Defense.” Since then, 14 DOD secretaries have been CFR members.
Since 1940, every Secretary of State, except James Byrnes, has
been a CFR member and/or Trilateral Commission (TC) one.
For the past 80 years, “Virtually every key US National Security
and Foreign Policy Advisor has been a CFR member.
Nearly all top generals and admirals have been CFR members.
Many presidential candidates were/are CFR members, including
Herbert Hoover, Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Richard
Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter (also a charter TC member), George HW Bush,
Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and John McCain.
Numerous CIA directors were/are CFR members, including Richard
Helmes, James Schlesinger, William Casey, William Webster, Robert Gates, James
Woolsey, John Deutsch, George Tenet, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, and Leon
Panetta.
Many Treasury Secretaries were/are CFR members, including Douglas
Dillon, George Schultz, William Simon, James Baker, Nicholas Brady, Lloyd
Bentsen, Robert Rubin, Henry Paulson, and Tim Geithner.
When presidents nominate Supreme Court candidates, the CFR’s
“Special Group, Secret Team” or advisors vet them for acceptability.
Presidents, in fact, are told who to appoint, including designees to the High
Court and most lower ones.
Programming the Public Mind
According to sociologist Hadley Cantril in his 1967 book, The
Human Dimension – Experiences in Policy Research:
Government “Psycho-political operations are propaganda campaigns
designed to create perpetual tension and to manipulate different groups of
people to accept the particular climate of opinion the CFR seeks to achieve in
the world.”
Canadian writer Ken Adachi (1929 – 1989) added:
“What most Americans believe to be ‘Public Opinion’ is in reality
carefully crafted and scripted propaganda designed to elicit a desired
behavioral response from the public.”
And noted Australian academic and activist Alex Carey (1922 –
1988) explained the three most important 20th century developments – “The
growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate
propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”
Web of Control
Numerous think tanks, foundations, the major media, and other key
organizations are staffed with CFR members. Most of its life-members also
belong to the TC and Bilderberg Group, operate secretly, and wield enormous
power over US and world affairs.
The Rockefeller-Founded Trilateral Commission (TC)
On page 405 of his Memoirs, David Rockfeller wrote:
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against
the best interests of the United States characterizing my family and me as
‘internationalists’ and conspiring with others around the world to build a more
integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If
that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
In alliance with Bilderbergers, the TC also “plays a vital role in
the New World Order’s scheme to use wealth, concentrated in the hands of the
few, to exert world control.” TC members share common views and all relate to
total unchallengeable global dominance.
Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Washington, its powerful US,
EU and East Asian members seek its operative founding goal – a “New
International Economic Order,” now simply a “New World Order” run by global
elites from these three parts of the world with lesser members admitted from
other countries.
According to TC’s web site, “each regional group has a chairman
and deputy chairman, who all together constitute the leadership of the
Committee. The Executive Committee draws together a further 36 individuals from
the wider membership,” proportionately representing the US, EU, and East Asia
in its early years, now enlarged to be broadly global.
Committee members meet several times annually to discuss and
coordinate their work. The Executive Committee chooses members, and at any time
around 350 belong for a three-year renewable period. Everyone is a consummate
insider with expertise in business, finance, politics, the military, or the
media, including past presidents, secretaries of state, international bankers,
think tank and foundation executives, university presidents and selected
academics, and former senators and congressmen, among others.
Although its annual reports are available for purchase, its inner
workings, current goals, and operations are secret – with good reason. Its
objectives harm the public so mustn’t be revealed. Trilaterals over Washington
author Antony Sutton wrote:
“this group of private citizens is precisely organized in a manner
that ensures its collective views have significant impact on public policy.”
In her book, Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite
Planning for World Management, Holly Sklar wrote:
Powerful figures in America, Europe, and East Asia let “the
rich….safeguard the interests of Western capitalism in an explosive world –
probably by discouraging protectionism, nationalism, or any response that would
pit the elites of one against the elites of another,” in their common quest for
global dominance.
Trilateralist Zbigniew Brzezinski (TC’s co-founder) wrote in his
Between Two Ages – America’s Role in the Technotronic Era:
“people, governments and economies of all nations must serve the
needs of multinational banks and corporations. (The Constitution is)
inadequate….the old framework of international politics, with their sphere of
influence….the fiction of sovereignty….is clearly no longer compatible with
reality….”
TC today is now global with members from countries as diverse as
Argentina, Ukraine, Israel, Jordan, Brazil, Turkey, China and Russia. In his
Trilaterals Over America, Antony Sutton believes that TC’s aim is to
collaborate with Bilderbergers and CFR in “establishing public policy objectives
to be implemented by governments worldwide.” He added that “Trilateralists have
rejected the US Constitution and the democratic political process.” In fact, TC
was established to counter a “crisis in democracy” – too much of it that had to
be contained.
An official TC report was fearful about “the increased popular
participation in and control over established social, political, and economic
institutions and especially a reaction against the concentration of power of
Congress and of state and local government.”
To address this, media control was essential to exert “restraint
on what newspapers may publish (and TV and radio broadcast).” Then according to
Richard Gardner in the July 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs (a CFR publication):
CFR’s leadership must make “an end run around national
sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece,” until the very notion disappears from
public discourse.
Bilderberg/CFR/Trilateralist success depends on finding “a way to
get us to surrender our liberties in the name of some common threat or crisis.
The foundations, educational institutions, and research think tanks supported
by (these organizations) oblige by financing so-called ‘studies’ which are then
used to justify their every excess. The excuses vary, but the target is always individual
liberty. Our liberty” and much more.
Bilderbergers, Trilateralists and CFR members want “an
all-encompassing monopoly” – over government, money, industry, and property
that’s “self-perpetuating and eternal.” In Confessions of a Monopolist (1906),
Frederick C. Howe explained its workings in practice:
“The rules of big business: Get a monopoly; let Society work for
you. So long as we see all international revolutionaries and all international
capitalists as implacable enemies of one another, then we miss a crucial
point….a partnership between international monopoly capitalism and
international revolutionary socialism is for their mutual benefit.”
In the Rockefeller File, Gary Allen wrote:
“By the late nineteenth century, the inner sanctums of Wall Street
understood that the most efficient way to gain a monopoly was to say it was for
the ‘public good’ and ‘public interest.’ “
David Rockefeller learned the same thing from his father, John D.,
Jr. who learned it from his father, John D. Sr. They hated competition and
relentlessly strove to eliminate it – for David on a global scale through a New
World Order.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Trilateralists and CFR members
collaborated on the latter’s “1980 Project,” the largest ever CFR initiative to
steer world events “toward a particular desirable future outcome (involving)
the utter disintegration of the economy.” Why so is the question?
Because by the 1950s and 1960s, worldwide industrial growth meant
more competition. It was also a model to be followed, and “had to be strangled
in the cradle” or at least greatly contained. In America as well beginning in
the 1980s. The result has been a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich,
shrinkage of the middle class, and plan for its eventual demise.
The North American Union (NAU)
The idea emerged during the Reagan administration in the early
1980s. David Rockefeller, George Schultz and Paul Volker told the president
that Canada and America could be politically and economically merged over the
next 15 years except for one problem – French-speaking Quebec. Their solution –
elect a Bilderberg-friendly prime minister, separate Quebec from the other
provinces, then make Canada America’s 51st state. It almost worked, but not
quite when a 1995 secession referendum was defeated – 50.56% to 49.44%, but not
the idea of merger.
At a March 23, 2005 Waco, Texas meeting, attended by George Bush,
Mexico’s Vincente Fox, and Canada’s Paul Martin, the Security and and
Prosperity Partnership (SPP) was launched, also known as the North American
Union (NAU). It was a secretive Independent Task Force of North America
agreement – a group organized by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives
(CCCE), the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, and CFR with the following
aims:
– circumventing the legislatures of three countries and their
constitutions;
– suppressing public knowledge or consideration; and
– proposing greater US, Canadian and Mexican economic, political,
social, and security integration with secretive working groups formed to devise
non-debatable, not voted on agreements to be binding and unchangeable.
In short – a corporate coup d’etat against the sovereignty of
three nations enforced by hard line militarization to suppress opposition.
If enacted, it will create a borderless North America, corporate
controlled, without barriers to trade or capital flows for business giants,
mainly US ones and much more – America’s access to vital resources, especially
oil and Canada’s fresh water.
Secretly, over 300 SPP initiatives were crafted to harmonize the
continent’s policies on energy, food, drugs, security, immigration,
manufacturing, the environment, and public health along with militarizing three
nations for enforcement.
SPP represents another step toward the
Bilderberg/Trilateralist/CFR goal for World Government, taking it one step at a
time. A “United Europe” was another, the result of various treaties and
economic agreements:
– the December 1951 six-nation European Coal and Steel Community
(ECSC);
– the March 1957 six-nation Treaty of Rome establishing the
European Economic Community (EEC);
also the European Atomic Energy Commission (EAEC) by a second
Treaty of Rome;
– the October 1957 European Court of Justice to settle regional
trade disputes;
– the May 1960 seven-nation European Free Trade Association
(EFTA);
– the July 1967 European Economic Community (EEC) merging the
ECSC, EAEC and EEC together in one organization;
– the 1968 European Customs Union to abolish duties and establish
uniform imports taxing among EEC nations;
– the 1978 European Currency Unit (ECU);
– the February 1986 Single European Act revision of the 1957
Treaty of Rome; it established the objective of forming a Common Market by
December 31, 1992;
– the February 1992 Maastricht Treaty creating the EU on November
1, 1993; and
– the name euro was adopted in December 1995; it was introduced in
January 1999 replacing the European Currency Unit (ECU); euros began
circulating on January 2002; they’re now the official currency of 16 of the 27
EU states.
Over half a century, the above steps cost EU members their
sovereignty “as some 70 to 80 per cent of the laws passed in Europe involve
just rubber stamping of regulations already written by nameless bureaucrats in
‘working groups’ in Brussels or Luxembourg.”
The EU and NAU share common features:
– advocacy from a influential spokesperson;
– an economic and later political union;
– hard line security, and for Europe, ending wars on the continent
between EU member states;
– establishment of a collective consciousness in place of
nationalism;
– the blurring of borders and creation of a “supra-government,” a
superstate;
– secretive arrangements to mask real objectives; and
– the creation of a common currency and eventual global one.
Steps Toward a North American Union
– the October 4, 1988 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US
and Canada, finalized the previous year;
– at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting, David Rockefeller got governor
Bill Clinton’s support for NAFTA if he became president;
– on January 1, 1994, with no debate under “fast-track” rules,
Congress approved WTO legislation;
– in December 1994 at the first Summit of the Americas, 34
Hemispheric leaders committed their nations to a Free Trade of the Americas
agreement (FTAA) by 2005 – so far unachieved;
– on July 4, 2000, Mexican president Vincente Fox called for a
North American common market in 20 years;
– on February 2001, the White House published a joint statement
from George Bush and Vincente Fox called the “Guanajuato Proposal;” it was for
a US-Canada-Mexico prosperity partnership (aka North American Union);
– in September 2001, Bush and Fox agreed to a “Partnership for
Prosperity Initiative;”
– the September 11, 2001 attack gave cover to including “security”
as part of a future partnership;
– on October 7, 2001, a CFA meeting highlighted “The Future of
North American Integration in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks; for the first
time, “security” became part of a future “partnership for prosperity;” also,
Canada was to be included in a “North American” agreement;
– in 2002, the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) was
established in Montreal “to address the issues raised by North American
integration as well as identify new ideas and strategies to reinforce the North
American region;”
– in January 2003, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE
– composed of 150 top CEOs) launched the “North American Security and
Prosperity Initiative” calling for continental integration;
– in April 2004, Canadian prime minister Paul Martin announced the
nation’s first ever national security policy called Securing an Open Society;
– on October 15, 2004, CFR established an Independent Task Force
on the Future of North America – for a future continental union;
– in March 2005, a CFR report titled Creating a North American
Community called for continental integration by 2010 “to enhance, prosperity,
and opportunity for all North Americans;” and
– on March 23, 2005 in Waco, Texas, America, Canada and Mexico
leaders launched the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) – aka North
American Union (NAU).
Secretive negotiations continue. Legislative debate is excluded,
and public inclusion and debate are off the table. In May 2005, the CFR
Independent Task Force on the Future of North America published a follow-up
report titled Building a North American Community – proposing a borderless
three-nation union by 2010.
In June and July 2005, the Dominican Republic – Central America
Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) passed the Senate and House establishing
corporate-approved trade rules to further impoverish the region and move a step
closer to continental integration.
In March 2006, the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC)
was created at the second SPP summit in Cancun, Mexico. Composed of 30 top
North American CEOs, it serves as an official trilateral SPP working group.
Secret business and government meetings continue so there’s no way
to confirm SPP’s current status or if Barack Obama is seamlessly continuing
George Bush’s agenda. In an earlier article, this writer said:
SPP efforts paused during the Bush to Obama transition, but “deep
integration” plans remain. Canada’s Fraser Institute proposed renaming the
initiative the North American Standards and Regulatory Area (NASRA) to disguise
its real purpose. It said the “SPP brand” is tarnished so re-branding is
essential – to fool the public until it’s too late to matter.
Bilderbergers, Trilaterists, and CFR leaders back it as another
step toward global integration and won’t “stop until the entire world is
unified under the auspices and the political umbrella of a One World Company, a
nightmarish borderless world run by the world’s most powerful clique” –
comprised of key elitist members of these dominant organizations.
In April 2007, the Transatlantic Economic Council was established
between America and the EU to:
– create an “official international governmental body – by
executive fiat;
– harmonize economic and regulatory objectives;
– move toward a Transatlantic Common Market; and
– a step closer to One World Government run by the world’s most
powerful corporate interests.
Insights into the 2009 Bilderberg Group Meeting
From May 14 – 17, Bilderbergers held their annual meeting in
Vouliagmeni, Greece, and according to Daniel Estulin have dire plans for global
economies.
According to his pre-meeting sources, they’re divided on two
alternatives:
“Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to
decades of stagnation, decline and poverty (or) an intense but shorter
depression that paves the way for a new sustainable world order, with less
sovereignty but more efficiency.”
Other agenda items included:
– “the future of the US dollar and US economy;”
– continued deception about green shoots signaling an end to recession
and improving economy later in the year;
– suppressing the fact that bank stress tests were a sham and were
designed for deception, not an accurate assessment of major banks’ health;
– projecting headlined US unemployment to hit 14% by year end – way
above current forecasts and meaning the true number will be double, at minimum,
with all uncounted categories included; and
– a final push to get the Lisbon Treaty passed for pan-European
(EU) adoption of neoliberal rules, including greater privatizations, fewer
worker rights and social benefits, open border trade favoring developed over
emerging states, and greater militarization to suppress civil liberties and
human rights.
After the meeting, Estulin got a 73-page report on what was
discussed. He noted that “One of Bilderberg’s primary concerns….is the danger
that their zeal to reshape the world by engineering chaos (toward) 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.”
Estulin also noted some considerable disagreement between
“hardliners” wanting a “dramatic decline and a severe, short-term depression
(versus others) who think that things have gone too far” so that “the fallout
from the global economic cataclysm” can’t be known, may be greater than
anticipated, and may harm Bilderberger interests. Also, “some European bankers
(expressed great alarm over their own fate and called the current) high wire
act ‘unsustainable.’ ”
There was a combination of agreement and fear that the situation
remains dire and the worst of the crisis lies ahead, mainly because of
America’s extreme debt level that must be resolved to produce a healthy,
sustainable recovery.
Topics also included:
– establishing a Global Treasury Department and Global Central
Bank, possibly partnered with or as part of the IMF;
– a global currency;
– destruction of the dollar through what longtime market analyst
Bob Chapman calls “a stealth default on (US) debt by continuing to issue
massive amounts of money and credit and in the process devaluing the dollar,” a
process he calls “fraud;”
– a global legal system;
– exploiting the Swine Flu scare to create a WHO global department
of health; and
– the overall goal of a global government and the end of national
sovereignty.
In the past, Estulin’s sources proved accurate. Earlier, he
predicted the housing crash and 2007 – 2008 financial market decline, preceded
by the kind of financial crisis triggered by the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Watch for further updates from him as new information leaks out on what the
world’s power elites have planned going forward.
Estulin will be the featured guest on The Global Research News
Hour Tuesday, June 2. He can be heard live or afterwards through the program
archive.
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate
of the Centre of Research for Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be
reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net
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