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The Bilderberg meeting (also known as the Bilderberg Group) is an annual conference established in 1954 to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. The group’s agenda, originally to prevent another world war, is now defined as bolstering a consensus around free market Western capitalism and its interests around the globe. Participants include political leaders, experts from industry, finance, academia, and the media, numbering between 120 and 150. Attendees are entitled to use information gained at meetings, but not attribute it to a named speaker. This is to encourage candid debate, while maintaining privacy – a provision that has fed conspiracy theories from both left and right.

Criticisms and conspiracy theories

Proponents of Bilderberg conspiracy theories in the United States include individuals and groups such as the John Birch Society,^[40][44] political activist Phyllis Schlafly,^[44] writer Jim Tucker,^[45] political activist Lyndon LaRouche,^[46] conspiracy theorist Alex Jones,^[2][47][48] and politician Jesse Ventura, who made the Bilderberg group a topic of a 2009 episode of his TruTV series Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura.^[49] Non-American proponents include Lithuanian writer Daniel Estulin^[50] and British politician Nigel Farage.^[51]

Concerns about lobbying have arisen.^[52][53] Ian Richardson sees Bilderberg as the transnational power elite, “an integral, and to some extent critical, part of the existing system of global governance“, that is “not acting in the interests of the whole”.^[54] An article in The Guardian in June 2017 criticized the world view expressed in an agenda published by the Bilderberg group.^[55]

Partly because of its working methods to ensure strict privacy and secrecy,^[35] the Bilderberg Group has been criticised for its lack of transparency and accountability.^[36] The undisclosed nature of the proceedings has given rise to several conspiracy theories,^[37][17][38] which have been popular at both extremes of the political spectrum, although there is disagreement about the exact nature of the group’s intentions. Some on the left accuse the Bilderberg group of conspiring to impose capitalist domination,^[39] while some on the right have accused the group of conspiring to impose a world government and planned economy.^[40]

19 Shocking Facts And Theories About The Bilderberg Group

The first Bilderberg meeting was held during 1954. The organization was founded with the intent to create powerful connections between European countries and North Americans. The meeting is a secretive, informal discussion about global trends with open communication between the elite members of the world who have massive influence in world affairs.

No statements of any kind are allowed to be made to the press regarding the proceedings or what is talked about at the meeting. There are no meeting minutes taken and no reports of the discussions or official statement about the discussions is produced or made. Anything learned at the meeting can be freely used by any of the members; however, no one is permitted to talk about it.

More than 400 heavily armed guards are there protect the attendees. The event space is hardened with physical barricades and high levels of security. It is this level of high security combined with the extreme secrecy, which makes the conspiracy theorists go wild with speculation about what they actually do at the Bilderberg meetings.

Only those who are invited are permitted to attend the meeting. Everyone invited sees a major career boost after attending a Bilderberg meeting. Bill Clinton attended while he was the Governor of Arkansas and within a year he was President of the United States. Tony Blair became Prime Minister of the UK, four years after going to his first Bilderberg meeting.

The co-founders of the Bilderberg Group were two historical figures with checkered backgrounds. They were Prince Bernhard from the Netherlands and Józef Retinger who was a political advisor, originally from Poland, who worked with the Vatican.

The Bilderberg Group publishes on its website a simple list of the items that will be discussed at an upcoming meeting, without giving any further details. The Bilderberg Group also publishes a list of the attendees. Members of the Bilderberger Group are some of the richest, most powerful, and most famous people in the world.  The Bilderberg Group is a conspiracy theorist’s dream scenario. Since no one except the attendees of the Bilderberg meetings knows what is said or done, anything imaginable might be going on.

Paul Warburg founded the Council on Foreign Relations during 1921 and David Rockefeller founded the Trilateral Commission. These organizations are similar to the Bilderberg Group. David Rockefeller is a member of all three. Just like the Bilderberg Group, the extent and reach of the powerful members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission have influenced the globe for decades. It makes very little difference who is the President in the White House because these power brokers are the ones really in charge. In most cases, without their approval and support, there is no way to get elected.

The common goal of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Group is the creation of a one world government with a central global financial system. The two groups work together. The Council on Foreign Relations works on the U.S. side with the Bilderberg Group working on the European side. In order to create a new world economy, the Bilderbergers believe that they need to destroy the separate national ones. They plan to achieve this by causing either a long depression that generates decades of decline and poverty or they plan to use sudden intense economic shocks. These shocks will be similar to the 2006 American housing market collapse. This will allow them to re-set national economies into a new alignment with reduced national sovereignty and increased efficiency.

The Bilderberg Group understands that the destruction of the U.S. dollar is necessary in order to replace it with a world currency. The bankers have been eroding the value of the U.S. dollar for a very long time. A dollar is worth less than 2% of what a U.S. dollar was worth one hundred years ago. U.S. government officials have been participants in this process, making a mountain of debt that can never be paid back. 

The enormous growth in the global population and its continued increase is not sustainable over the long term. One way the Bilderberg Group can reduce the human population is by causing pandemics. Biological agents can be intentionally used to cause a major outbreak of illness, which kills millions. Many of the super elite have so little concern for the masses that they consider this the same as culling a herd of animals.

Media is controlled very heavily by very few companies. Governments actively participate in the censorship of media, as well as promote disinformation if it serves their purpose.  These are propaganda campaigns that are carefully designed to create public opinion in order to protect corporate power.

The Bilderberg Group starts its process to build its empire by the creation of Trade Zones and Trade Agreement that benefits the multinational corporations. They have little interest in any improving the economic levels for the lower classes as long as there are enough of them are able to buy their products. The jobs all move to the places with the lowest wages, no benefits, and bad working conditions. This allows the multinational corporations to maximize profits.