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The 68th Bilderberg Meeting took place between June 2nd and June 5th 2022 in Washington, D.C., USA. Around 120 participants from 21 countries attended. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia, labour and the media were invited.The key topics for discussion this year were:1. Geopolitical Realignments2. NATO Challenges3. China4. Indo-Pacific Realignment5. Sino-US Tech Competition6. Russia7. Continuity of Government and the Economy8. Disruption of the Global Financial System9. Disinformation10. Energy Security and Sustainability11. Post Pandemic Health12. Fragmentation of Democratic Societies13. Trade and Deglobalisation14. UkraineFounded in 1954, the Bilderberg Meeting is an annual secretive meeting...

Last year it took place in Chantilly , Virginia . But this year the Bilderberg group chose Turin for its usual annual meeting, strictly behind closed doors. Among the Italians in the list of 128 participants are John Elkann , president of FCA and Exor , the journalist Lilli Gruber , the director general of the Bank of Italy Salvatore Rossi and the secretary of the Vatican State , Cardinal Pietro Parolin. There are twelve key topics for discussion. In the first place populism in Europe , follow the challenge of disparity, the future of work, artificial intelligence. And still...

Bilderbergers, the Iraq invasion, Alex Jones—the GOP senator has routinely flirted with America's paranoid fringe.This past summer, Rand Paul, the libertarian senator from Kentucky and a potential 2016 presidential wannabe, was the GOP's It Girl. The New York Times Magazine splashed his mug on the cover and asked, "Has the 'Libertarian Moment' Finally Arrived?" It noted that Paul possessed a "supple mind" and was a "preternaturally confident speaker." Washington Post political prognosticator Chris Cillizza pronounced Paul the "most interesting voice in the GOP right now," and Politico gave him the No. 1 spot on its list of the 50 "most...

People in the "anti globalization" movement don't see the irony. Last week in Washington DC, a protest against the World Bank was joined by an anti-war march, as well as one against Israel. In the end, 65,000 merged in "the largest Palestinian solidarity demonstration in US history." It seems that if you are anti-globalization, you are automatically anti-war, anti-World Bank, and anti-Israel. But wait a minute. Last week, in Cyprus, the same World Bank cobbled together $1.2 billion dollars for the embattled Palestinian Authority. This is in addition to the $4.7 billion the World Bank has already provided to...

Drove by and saw them.

<p>Ron Paul got a great birthday present Saturday, as the 76-year-old defeated 11 other Republicans in Saturday's New Hampshire Young Republicans Straw Poll.</p> <p>Paul, a congressman from Texas, won a commanding 45 percent of the vote and bested runner-up Mitt Romney by 35 percent votes despite not actually attending the event, which was held in New Castle and also included a lobster bake.</p>

NEW YORK – The computer graphics expert Fox News relied upon to claim the birth certificate the White House released April 27 was legitimate insists that the network must retract the story, claiming it deliberately misquoted him and continues to ignore his repeated requests. Jean Claude Tremblay told WND that that none of his comments would permit the conclusion that the Obama birth certificate is an authentic document. "I no longer trust Fox News," he said, expressing anger verging on distain for the way he feels the network treated him. "Despite my protests, Fox News will not allow me to...

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Splash! Could that be the sound of Lord Mandelson hitting one of the Dolce hotel’s four pools? Or Robert Zoellick of the World Bank? Paul Volcker of the US Economic Recovery Advisory Board? Or merely the euro taking another dive? That is the thing about the Bilderberg group’s top secret meetings: you never know quite what is going on behind the police checkpoints. Across the world, secretaries to the rich and the powerful have blocked out the next three days in their bosses’ calendars for their annual gathering, this time at the Dolce in Sitges, one of Spain’s most exclusive...

On March 20, 1969, Dr. Richard Day, the National Medical Director of the Rockefeller-sponsored "Planned Parenthood" told a meeting that American industry will be sabotaged and shown to be uncompetitive. In view of the recent bankruptcy of General Motors, his remarks are especially pertinent. "The stated plan was that different parts of the world would be assigned different roles of industry and commerce in a unified global system. The continued preeminence of the United States and the relative independence and self-sufficiency of the United States would have to be changed... in order to create a new structure, you first have...

Russian President may push 'new world currency'