Conspiracy Theories: What Is The Bilderberg Group?
Darren Taylor -- SooNews.ca -- Sunday, August 6, 2006, 8:45PM
It is secretive and consists of the world’s most financially and politically powerful people. It is the Bilderberg Group. Just what are they up to?
The members meet at least once a year at the most expensive hotels, and their meetings are behind closed doors, unlike the annual G8 Summits, which are little more than photo opportunities for the political leaders of the world’s top eight industrialized nations.
Its members include U.S. President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, retired banker David Rockefeller and others.
The Bilderberg Group can trace its roots to Joseph Retinger, a Polish-born, British-based political advisor, who, among many others of his mindset, believed that world affairs should be controlled by one world government, one world currency and one world leader.
After discussing his ideas with Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in 1952, world leaders met at the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, in the Netherlands, in 1954. The group has kept the name “Bilderberg” and has met at least once a year, in expensive hotels around the world.
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In 1955, the Bilderberg Group called for a unified Europe. The Bilderberg Group was not the first to envision such an entity (Winston Churchill called for a “United States of Europe” to keep the Soviet-controlled Eastern Bloc in check during the early Cold War years). But not long after the Bilderberg call for European unification (a year and a half, in fact) the European Common Market was born. That Common Market has grown into the ever-more-powerful, ever-expanding European Union which we know today. Some European Union leaders have, in fact, called for the EU membership to expand to well over 100 countries, and to eventually divide the entire world into 10 Free Trade zones (our NAFTA zone being one of them), with a European-based One World Government calling the shots.
The Bilderbergers, The Illuminati and those advocating a “New World Order” (like former U.S. President George Bush, father of current President George W. Bush) are all free traders. Start dismantling economic barriers, which has happened in the EU and NAFTA nations, and you therefore start destroying national identities—and sovereignty.
Free trade, it can be argued, is a bloodless way of conquering the globe and paving the way for a New World Order, or One World Government, something which Joseph Retinger dreamed of.
Just another conspiracy theory?
One thing is certain.
When the world’s most powerful people meet amid such tight security and utter secrecy, when their meetings are not allowed to be covered by the media, and when their bodyguards’ authority overrides that of the police of the countries that host their meetings—something odd, perhaps something very sinister--is going on.
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