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International News • The Bilderberg Conference Secretive Gathering Of Elites

Published June 7, 2013 | By admin

The History Of The Bilderberg Conference — The Most Famous Secretive Gathering Of Elites That Happens Every Year
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Today, over 100 masters of the universe will assemble at the swanky Grove hotel in Watford, England for one of the most clandestine and controversial meetings in the world — the Bilderberg Conference.
Bilderberg has been around for almost 60 years, bringing together the most powerful people in the United States and Europe.
From CEOs to political bigwigs, it’s an opportunity for the global elite to gather every year and have an open dialogue about world affairs, no reporters allowed.
And since the first rule of the Bilderberg club is you don’t talk about the Bilderberg club, the historic hangout session enjoys more conspiracy theories than the moon landing — Bilderberg lore blames the meeting’s attendees for everything from the most recent financial crisis to global money laundering.

The History Of The Bilderberg Conference — The Most Famous Secretive Gathering Of Elites That Happens Every Year

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The first Bilderberg Conference took place in 1954 and was intended to start a dialogue across the Atlantic to prevent another world war.

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Western elites held it at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands. The idea was to foster better ties across the Atlantic in order to prevent another World War. They also gossiped about the Soviets.
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Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, and other big names were early Bilderberg members.

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The group was started by Polish activist Jozef Retinger, who went on to be a major advocate of European unification. Eleven Americans, recommended by the Eisenhower administration, attended the first meeting. Some have stuck around — Kissinger and Rockefeller were at last year’s conference.

Bill Clinton, Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, and Donald Rumsfeld are all Bilderberg alumni.

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Also Lloyd Blankfein, George Soros, Rupert Murdoch, and Alan Greenspan. Basically if you’re a head of state or an influential mover-and-shaker, check your mailbox.
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Even Rick Perry got the call in 2007.

When questioned about it on an Iowa radio show in 2011, Perry explained, "I talked about the energy industry in America when I was there, and I hadn’t been invited back and that was 5 years ago so I guess I didn’t impress any of them."
Sorry, Rick.

This year’s conference is at the swanky $400-per-night Grove hotel.

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The luminaries will descend on Watford, England from June 6-9 and spend their time at the luxurious Grove hotel. The secluded countryside paradise boasts a croquet lawn, outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts, golf, and 70 chefs to help keep the world’s most powerful focused on the tasks at hand.

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, PayPal founder Peter Thiel, and former CIA director David Petraeus are going.

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Timothy Geithner, Mario Monti, and Google’s Eric Schmidt will be in the house too. You can check out the full list of global VIPs who made the cut here.

What goes on is secret. Period.

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Bilderberg describes itself as a "forum for informal, off-the-record discussions about megatrends and the major issues facing the world."

Discussion topics are public, however, and range from the economy to big data.

Can the US and Europe grow faster and create jobs?
Jobs, entitlement and debt
How big data is changing almost everything
Africa’s challenges
Cyber warfare
Developments in the Middle East
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No journalists are allowed inside.

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Security is airtight, for the purpose of keeping out expected protesters and reporters. Even residents living nearby will reportedly be forced to present their passports at police checkpoints
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That secrecy invites conspiracy theorists, of course, and they say Bilderberg runs the world.

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From the left of the political spectrum, Fidel Castro once cautioned against Bilderberg’s attempt at a centrally coordinated political landscape. Then there’s right-winger Alex Jones, 9/11 and Boston Marathon truther, whose on the ground coverage you can follow this week.

Some say the group is hiding the cure for cancer.

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It’s one of the crazier theories out there.

Also that they engineered the credit crunch.

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In order to further control the global order.

And are hell-bent at controlling 3D printing.

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It’s the future!

They also contend that Bilderberg sponsors government killings and international crime.

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That’s according to the website The Truth Seeker: "It becomes clear that Bilderberg uses Swiss banks for money laundering activities, funding of government overthrows, killings and bankrupting countries"

"The True Story of the Bilderberg Group" is the seminal book on the matter.

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Every good Bilderberg truther should carry around Daniel Estulin’s The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, available here. "After reading this book, it finally all comes together," wrote one conspiratorial Amazon reviewer.

For the first time in its history, this year Bilderberg will allow a press zone nearby.

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It’s a major concession, offering the public more access to Bilderberg than ever before. Thousands of journalists, bloggers, and activists are expected.

So is a "Bilderberg Fringe Festival."

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Activists are preparing for the festival to run alongside the coference with "a jam-packed weekend of speakers, comedy, music, workshops, arts and entertainment."
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Learn more about the secret conference, if you can, at Bilderberg’s terse website.

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Technology and the Internet • Inside Apple: one of the world most secretive organisations

Published January 30, 2012 | By admin

A 12,000-person mile-round glass mothership is about to land in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Futuristic, with its own self-contained electricity plant: plans for Apple’s new disc-shaped headquarters encompass the lasting legacy of the late Steve Jobs – a slick design, with an uber-efficient core.
Over the years dozens of technophiles, seduced by three decades of technological smut, have made the pilgrimage to One Infinite Loop, Apple’s current base in Cupertino, in the hope of getting under the skin of the highly-secretive company.
Few make it inside the main Apple building. A throng of security guards greets them instead, escorting them back onto the sidewalk, sometimes pointing them in the direction of the on-campus shop where they can buy a token Apple T-Shirt.
But a new book, released in the UK this week, finally gives a non-partisan insight into life as an Apple employee. And it isn’t what most expect.

According to Inside Apple, Apple is a glut of windowless offices, a neutering of egos and an ethos of fear with “cultish” overtones.
“Apple doesn’t talk about Apple. Apple talks about Apple products,” Adam Lashinsky, author of the book and editor of Fortune Magazine, told The Daily Telegraph.
Perhaps for good reason; the illusion of a free-spirited workforce sitting around on bean bags playing on the latest gizmos before they have their free lunch would be shattered.
Instead, a dictatorial CEO rules with an iron fist, Mr Lashinsky said. Employees don’t ask questions and they leave their egos at the door. There is only one person who was allowed to have a public ego and that was Steve Jobs, he said.
“It is a tough place to work. It is a very demanding work environment. It is not a joyous place the way Google presents itself,” Mr Lashinsky said. “It’s not a particularly happy place but it breeds people who can thrive in that environment. It’s a pressure cooker and some people like that.”
Apple employees are like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle and the only person who knows how to fit the pieces together is the CEO, a role Steve Jobs held until it was handed to Tim Cook last year.
Amid the wires, nodules and circuit board designs, is a company that is so clandestine, its own workers don’t know what they are creating, he said.
Windowless chambers, called lock-down rooms, are the only place where the next iPad or iPhone can be discussed, and even then senior vice presidents only enter the room to discuss their part in a design before being asked to leave, he said.
Information is strictly restricted to a select 100, hand-picked by Steve Jobs himself.
When it comes to product launch day, Apple employees gather around the television in the cafeteria to find out about the new product. They will be as surprised as everyone else despite having helped build it, said Mr Lashinsky.
Secrecy is engrained into every employee, Mr Lashinsky said. Anyone caught revealing Apple secrets whether accidental or intentional is dealt with swiftly: immediate termination from the company.
In the book, one employee recalled how he had nightmares over threats made to employees about breaching confidentiality.
"[Jobs would] say, ‘Anything disclosed from this meeting will result not just in termination but in the prosecution to the fullest extent that our lawyers can.’ That made me very uncomfortable. You have to watch everything you do. I’d have nightmares," the employee told Mr Lashinsky.
Even staff members who have left the business live in fear of retribution, Mr Lashinsky said.
“Jobs’s brutality in dealing with subordinates legitimised a frighteningly harsh, bullying, and demanding culture at Apple. Under Jobs a culture of fear and intimidation found roots throughout the organisation,” Mr Lashinsky wrote.
For a company so revered for its innovation, the neutering of entrepreneurial spirit might seem counterproductive, but Apple’s draconian treatment of its workforce is actually part of its formula for success, Mr Lashinsky explained. It creates a loyal ethos among the staff, protecting the products.
Tim Cook once said: "That’s part of the magic of Apple. And I don’t want to let anybody know our magic because I don’t want anybody copying it."
Cultish overtones or not, the Apple juggernaut shows no sign of stalling. This week Apple was valued at $415 billion – putting it neck and neck with Exxon Mobil as the world’s most valuable company.

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