Financial Oligarchs and Their Representatives Gather for Bilderberg Group Summit
- Dougal MacDonald -
In attendence ( Member of the Executive Bureau and Head of Foreign Affairs of the so-called rebel Syrian National Council. This suggests discussions were held regarding the imperialists' future war plans against Syria.)
Source the Marxist Leninist Daily -
http://www.cpcml.ca/From May 31 to June 3, Alberta Premier Alison Redford met in secret with top members of the world financial oligarchy at the annual Bilderberg Group summit held this year in Chantilly, Virginia. The 120-140 attendees are mainly from the U.S. and Western Europe.[1] Attendance is only by invitation; two other Alberta premiers have been invited in past years: Peter Lougheed (1973) and Ralph Klein (1995). No other Canadian premiers were invited this year, however, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Chief of Staff Nigel Wright attended along with Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada.
Noteworthy this year at Bilderberg was the large number of politicians and government officials that participated, for example, Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, the first "Rust Belt" right-to-work state. Also invited was Bassma Kodmani
, Member of the Executive Bureau and Head of Foreign Affairs of the so-called rebel Syrian National Council. This suggests discussions were held regarding the imperialists' future war plans against Syria. Overall, it seems logical to assume that politicians in attendance were there to receive their updated marching orders from their masters, who represent some of the largest monopolies in the world (e.g., Alcoa, Dow, Siemens, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Shell Oil, Michelin, TD Bank.
The annual Bilderberg Group was initiated in 1954 by German Prince Bernhard of Lieppe-Biesterfield (born 1911 in Jena, central Germany), a member of Hitler's Nazi Party and Himmler's S.S. The aim was to build tighter alliances between U.S. and Western European monopolies as part of waging the Cold War against the Soviet Union and communism. Walter Bedell Smith, head of the CIA, and Joseph Retzinger, an anti-communist Polish politician, assisted Prince Bernhard who became Bilderberg chairman in 1959 until 1975.
Prior to this, in 1935, Bernhard became Secretary to the Board of Directors of Farben Bilder in Paris from which he took the name of the conference. Farben Bilder's parent company, I.G. Farben, was vital to the Nazi war machine and produced the Zyklon B gas that the German authorities used to execute millions of prisoners. In 1937, Bernhard married Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and became her prince consort, a very cushy position indeed with influence and connections in both Nazi Germany and among the Western allies.[2] After the Second World War, Bernhard was made a director of KLM Airlines, which was accused of helping transfer Nazi war criminals to Argentina. In 1975, Bernhard resigned his Bilderberg chairmanship under a cloud, having accepted a $1.1 million bribe from Lockheed Corporation to influence the Dutch government's purchase of fighter aircraft. Another Bernhard scandal emerged in 1995 when it was revealed that mercenaries he had hired, supposedly to help the World Wildlife Fund -- which he founded in 1961 -- stop wildlife poachers, were actually planning assassinations of South African resistance fighters in battle against the apartheid regime.
No mystery surrounds why Premier Redford and other Alberta premiers have received invitations to the Bilderberg Group Summit to hob nob with many of the richest and most influential leaders of the imperialist world. Alberta has huge reserves of petroleum, the world's most important strategic product, which is essential to the functioning of the U.S. war machine and its industries. U.S. imperialist leaders were major participants in Bilderberg 2012. For example, one attendee was White House National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon.
There is also no mystery as to the position the Redford government always takes regarding the financial oligarchy's ease of access to Alberta's energy resources. The May 24 Throne Speech of the Redford government states more emphatically than ever that Alberta's doors are wide open to the monopolies:
"This province is the most economically free jurisdiction in North America. Nowhere else do businesses have so much room to operate without interference and adapt to market conditions. Your government will further these freedoms and find new ways to simplify regulatory burdens."
Spokespersons for Bilderberg claim that only "informal" discussion takes place at the annual summits and that no decisions are made or acted upon as a result. However, insiders suggest that when Bilderberg participants reach a consensus about what is to be done, they have at their disposal powerful international and national instruments for achieving their goals. For example, the Bilderberg Group meeting in May 2009 was attended by the Greek Minister of Finance, the Governor of the National Bank of Greece, the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, various Greek capitalists, and three former heads of the World Bank. It seems more than a coincidence that following the meeting the Eurozone countries and the IMF agreed to a $110 billion bailout of the Greece economy, with most of the money to be transferred to the international lenders and holders of Greek debt. The bailout demanded massive attacks on social programs, public services and the Greek standard of living and a commitment to continue to use Greek social product to pay international lenders. Such consensus of the financial oligarchs, amongst whom so many contradictions exist, suggests a leading group such as the Bilderberg Group wields enormous influence backed up by a big stick.
The Bilderbergers may also meet outside the annual summit to achieve an immediate aim. On November 12, 2009, the group hosted a dinner meeting at Brussels' Château de Val-Duchesse to promote former Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as their chosen candidate for President of the European Council. One week later, Van Rompuy was unanimously voted president.
Notes
1. An official list of 2012 participants is here:
http://www.infowars.com/bilderberg-2012-the-official-list-of-participants/2. An ongoing mystery is why declassified U.S. State Department documents show that Juliana and other members of the Dutch Royal Family were at Chatham, Cape Cod on August 26, 1944, at the same time that a large German Type XI-B U-Boat was said to be operating in the area. Possibly the Dutch aristocrats were to be intermediaries for German-U.S. negotiations dealing with how to end the war in Europe and block the people from overthrowing imperialism and opting for communism.
