Ah, Bilderberg...

[badgevvrecker]

Bilderberg mystery: Why do people believe in cabals?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13682082

the amount of doublethink is staggering.

[SAUSAGES!!!!!!!!!!]

>implying there are no cabals

[badgevvrecker]

"Hey guys nothing fucked up here is happening, ok? we're just gonna put up this giant sheet fence......."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/20 ... ains-drawn

Breaking news. There's been a bomb. Sorry, a "bomb". A "tubular device" has been "found" by the police, two people have been cuffed and whisked off, and the security is tightening fast. The bomb business has only kicked off in the last hour, but a photo of the arrest is winging its way down the mountain towards me. I'll post it up when it gets here.

So yes – seems that I spoke too soon about a chilled-out Swiss Bilderberg. The happy proximity of cameras and conference had already been broken, overnight, by a long white security fence, which blocked our view of the venue. No one seems to know who put it up, but the smart money says that it was hammered in at 3am by Jorma Ollila, the Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, while Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, held the nails.

Now of course, when I describe what's gone up as a "security fence", what I actually mean is "privacy fence". It's a shower curtain, not a ring of steel. And of course, by "privacy" what I actually mean is "shame". It's a shame fence. A massive white fence of embarrassment. Privacy is what the delegates get when they close the door of their conference hall. Privacy is a Chatham House agreement not to discuss in public what was discussed at the various presentations and seminars of Bilderberg.

But this isn't privacy. It's hiding. It's a child hiding behind the curtains in case the monsters see it, and I find it weirdly infantile. Oddly unconfident. Grown-ups, happy in what they're doing, don't slide down in their car seats and slip in through side doors. You've got the world's most powerful people sneaking around like naughty kiddies. Naughty kiddies with secret service spotters on their hotel roof, and armed men on motorbikes flanking their limousines.

This is the bit about Bilderberg that I really don't get. It's an old chestnut, but let's just take another bite at it. Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that Bilderberg benefits us all. The citizens of the world are made safer, or happier, or healthier, or better off as a result of this meeting. Let's just say that the head of Deutsche Bank spends four days with the head of BP in order to improve our lives.

Let's suppose, shall we, that the amiable hosts – David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and the Queen of the Netherlands – have the interests of the general public written in big red letters at the top of their conference agenda.

Suppose all that. Then why the fence? Why do delegates fling themselves across the back seats of their limousines rather than be seen attending this helpful gathering of the juggalos? Why the blacked-out windows and the newspapers held in front of their faces? And why the big white fence? I don't get it.

Why isn't Josef Ackermann, the CEO of Deutsche Bank, waving benignly to the crowds? Why aren't the excited participants pausing at the hotel gates to speak to the invited press? "Yes, thank you, we're hoping to solve Europe's financial crisis this year – so finger's crossed!" Why are German plane clothes policemen following members of the public around Swiss streets...? Sorry – different question. Important, but different.

But listen, I know what you're wondering. You're wondering: whatever happened to the Bilderbus? Did it ever arrive? TELL US ABOUT THE BILDERBUS!

OK, OK, calm down – give me a moment to collect my thoughts.

Ah yes, the Bilderbus ...

The noble 15-seater Bilderbus rolled into a St Moritz garage forecourt at just gone midnight. Right around when Peter Voser was rummaging around the hotel shed for some nails (see above). Four bald tyres squelched to a halt on the clean Swiss tarmac. A last shudder of the engine, a dimming of the lights, and for a moment – silence.

Then open slid the minibus door and a vast sigh of relief escaped into the night, a sigh so deep and so long that it blew birds from their nests, twanged the wires of the cable car, and echoed up, up, up into the mountains, where it is still living in a cave somewhere – cold, hungry, but content that it never has to set foot in that minibus ever again.

The drizzly Swiss forecourt filled with stretching travellers. Hips were clicked back into their sockets and glances were exchanged. Glances rich in pain. "Picaresque" is how one hollow-eyed soul described the journey. "Kafkaesque" hissed another through drawn lips. "We had trouble at customs," muttered a third. "And hit a bollard". "And the brakes don't work". "We haven't eaten". "We haven't slept". "I'm not even sure he's got a license."

But they made it. As steam rose from the bus's reeking wheels, these brave souls could bask in the knowledge that the human spirit will never, ever – "Sorry to interrupt, but could you show us to the campsite? We really need to sleep". OK, sorry. We'll talk tomorrow.

Tomorrow (today) has been spent at a Swiss garage getting the brakes fixed. If you're in the market for a visual metaphor that encapsulates the forces that are weighed against each other at Bilderberg – the secrecy of wealth and power versus the concern and curiosity of the powerless – then here it is:



Changing the brake pads on a vehicle that can barely shudder itself above 50 mph might seem like fitting wings to a cactus, but better to be safe than Swiss cheese. Most of what happened on the bus will be taken to the grave by the survivors. A veil of privacy has been drawn over the horrors. Once a year, they will meet in a mountain resort to discuss, in a darkened room, how they are recovering. They will erect a tall white nylon fence around the venue, lest anyone catch a glimpse of the pain in the eyes. A glimpse like that? It could kill you.

[T-1000]

it´s like springbreak for old powerful people. live and let live! that´s what I say!

[badgevvrecker]

it´s like springbreak for old powerful people. live and let live! that´s what I say!

[T-1000]

[badgevvrecker]

yes, because powerful people meeting together and discussing future public policy out of the eyes of the governed is EXACTLY like thinking that extradimensional-demon-lizards secretly run the DMV.....

[T-1000]

nah dude you get me all wrong. I´m all about that stuff. I´ve been checking infowars all day actually...

Fucking rockefeller is there again, he´s 94 now, can´t get enough of it...

[SAUSAGES!!!!!!!!!!]

yes, because powerful people meeting together and discussing future public policy out of the eyes of the governed is EXACTLY like thinking that extradimensional-demon-lizards secretly run the DMV.....

its not like that the way i understand it. basically its just the fact that the people in power are making decisions based on different motives than the people they are supposed to be serving. they are just different people really, and their views are not nessecarily in line with my best interest. and if you think about it makes sense, because there they are living in luxury cut off from the rest of the world, what they see is not 'my reality' they are not living in 'my reality', therefore theyre not human. i say that in quotes because i realize it makes me look insane, but i think at the root of all this talk about conspiracies and all that there is actually some truth.

[badgevvrecker]

things are changing pretty fast.

[T-1000]

yes, because powerful people meeting together and discussing future public policy out of the eyes of the governed is EXACTLY like thinking that extradimensional-demon-lizards secretly run the DMV.....

its not like that the way i understand it. basically its just the fact that the people in power are making decisions based on different motives than the people they are supposed to be serving. they are just different people really, and their views are not nessecarily in line with my best interest. and if you think about it makes sense, because there they are living in luxury cut off from the rest of the world, what they see is not 'my reality' they are not living in 'my reality', therefore theyre not human. i say that in quotes because i realize it makes me look insane, but i think at the root of all this talk about conspiracies and all that there is actually some truth.

also consider what kind of people get into these positions. they´re psychopaths and opportunists.

[SAUSAGES!!!!!!!!!!]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-develo ... tter-audio

its shit like this

[T-1000]

Those bilderberg assholes would most likely argue that reducing the world population is a good way to get rid of that problem lol.
...

[SAUSAGES!!!!!!!!!!]

i mean you realize the entire monetary system, is fabricated in such a way to benefit the people who control it: the bankers, financial institutions, etc. but who built it in the first place? no suprise. so we're at this point now where you can just generate money by having money, pick any commodity invest in futures, drive up the price, eventual market bubble, invest in shorts, you would always win. so first its housing, then oil, and now food. they just pick something, that there will always be demand for. so people will have to buy at any price. the way i see it that puts them in conflict with the rest of the world

[T-1000]

uhm I know all that yes. I´m not joking. I´m all about anti establishment.

[Frickin' Slayer]

iv been going back n forth debating with my Cancer cousin who lives n atlanta. i told him the address of the federal reserve building n atlanta is 999 peachtree street. and that to the illuminati, 999 is the same thing as 666. just like they inverted it. he doesnt want to believ me wen i tell him the bankers n globalists r all part of an international satanic cabal. so its just by chance that the fed reserve building n atlanta is 999 peachtree street and n nyc its 33 liberty street? 33?????

[SAUSAGES!!!!!!!!!!]

im not saying theres a conspiracy or anything, i mean i dont read the websites. im just saying they are doing what people do on their own: follow self-interest, either unconsiously or not. what they have to do is keep all this in check, especially as we're approaching a global economy situation. you know its great if you can keep power in check in a local scenario, but you have to be able to scale all that in line with the times. im just saying

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

yes, because powerful people meeting together and discussing future public policy out of the eyes of the governed is EXACTLY like thinking that extradimensional-demon-lizards secretly run the DMV.....

Let's take away their freedom of assembly!

That will show those facists!!!

[Frickin' Slayer]

it´s like springbreak for old powerful people. live and let live! that´s what I say!

i hav a signed copy of this book! well,sort of. i waited n line at her book signing for like 5 hours,and i (like it says n my location) wuz prety much last n line,and sarah palin left before signing every1's book that wuz n line. so the bookstore ppl gave us a white sticker with her signature on it to put n the book instead

[badgevvrecker]

yes, because powerful people meeting together and discussing future public policy out of the eyes of the governed is EXACTLY like thinking that extradimensional-demon-lizards secretly run the DMV.....

Let's take away their freedom of assembly!

That will show those facists!!!

just their freedom of privacy. oh, wait, nobody has that anymore.

when you're a Public Servant you should be held to both a higher standard of behavior and a stricter eye of public scrutiny than the average person in public because (SUPRISE) you AREN'T the average person in public. you're the person who's (supposed to be) saying "sure, i'll give up time and energy in my private life to work in the public sector, with all of the massive power and benefits that entails". As for power players in the corporate/business sphere: we've got anti-trust/racketeering/insider trading/collusion laws for a reason.

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

just their freedom of privacy. oh, wait, nobody has that anymore.

No one.

"Some of the more notable and controversial documents posted on Wikileaks includes 570,000 pager messages from September 11, 2001, reports of meetings of the secretive Bilderberg Group posted in May 2009"

when you're a Public Servant you should be held to both a higher standard of behavior and a stricter eye of public scrutiny than the average person in public because (SUPRISE) you AREN'T the average person in public.

All the people who attend this are, all the time, held to various standards of behavior and scrutinized. Bill Clinton?

As for power players in the corporate/business sphere: we've got anti-trust/racketeering/insider trading/collusion laws for a reason.

None of it would happen at all if it weren't for that damned annual conference!!!!!

[badgevvrecker]

as usual.

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

A group of rich and powerful people who control the world are conspiring to be rich and powerful and control the world!!!

Their dastardly secret plot has been exposed!!!!

We must break down their walls of secrecy!!!

http://www.cfr.org/publication/

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[badgevvrecker]

so what, exactly, are you under the impression you're railing against now?

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

look man, all I know is that Hitler, Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill and Mussolini all at one point or another, wore hats.

And that every president since Adams has resided in a mysterious white house surrounded by guards.

these things can't just be a coincidence, dude.