War, AI and more war: the 2024 Bilderberg agenda is sure to set off alarm bells

The Guardian ^ | June 1 | Charlie Skelton

[RandFan]

This year the Bilderberg summit, now under way in Madrid, turned 70 years old. But the controversial and secretive gathering of the world’s elites shows no signs of slowing down.

For decades the Bilderberg meeting, where the rich and the powerful gather behind closed doors to talk about what ails the world, has been the subject – understandably – of conspiracy theories. In recent years, Bilderberg has sought to remake itself and open up a little: more Davos than Illuminati.

But it still raises hackles from many observers. Its beady eyes, twinkling with billionaires, are this year fixed firmly on the future. Specifically, the “future of warfare”. And with conflicts raging from Sudan to Ukraine to Gaza, it feels like it is the spirit of the age.

This grim subject is being thrashed out under the hum of police drones hovering over the hotel, making sure such luminaries as the king of the Netherlands and the head of Nato are safe inside. Even by Bilderberg standards, the security at this year’s conference is intense, but it managed to gear up even more when the Spanish king’s entourage swept into the venue past a traffic jam of police vans.

The heightened security is perhaps a reflection of the threats and “challenges” packed into the conference agenda: Russia, China, the Middle East, the climate – while the session on Ukraine, titled Ukraine and the World, has a worrying hint of a wider world war. And when the topic of the Changing Faces of Biology is being discussed by the CEO of Pfizer, the head of the EU Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and the man who led the Human Genome Project, you can almost hear the alarm bells over the police sirens.

[RandFan]

War is a racket, Freepers

Who said that?

[rey]

It’s the title of Smedley Butler’s book.

[BobL]

The Russians are now talking about detonating a nuke - I wonder if this hotel is an option?

[dforest]

Smedley Butler fella?

[RandFan]

That’s the one a great title for a book (not a quote as such)

[RandFan]

I meant to reply to you dforest, got the wrong d

It was a great title for a book

[newfreep]

War is a racket

War, what is it good for?

[dforest]

Absolutely nothing.

[RandFan]

It’s no surprise the elites are all for it and agitate accordingly

[RandFan]

I just looked up Butler’s wiki and I didn’t realize he’s one of the most decorated officers in history or was at the time of death.

That one must hurt the warmongers.

[dfwgator]

Like Colonel Hackworth. (RIP)

[RandFan]

There’s no way they allow those types to advance now but then this pops up (from X) on my screen:-

https://x.com/DougAMacgregor/status/1796934984034398692

Again, this one will hurt the warmongers. Mac is highly decorated during the Gulf War and even wrote a book while active but (says wiki) ‘The head of the Army, United States General Dennis Reimer, passed out copies of the book, but its reforms failed to win the support of the general officer corps’

Actually ‘97 isn’t that long ago when his book came out but compared to now would that be allowed to happen?

[rey]

Yes. One of only two Marines to win two Medals of Honor. Raised a Quaker. There’s a book concerning his exposing a coup attempt. His dissatisfaction with the war machine was well known. A group of bankers approached him to lead a coup and literally take over the White House. Despite his dissatisfactions with the government, he immediately marched to the Capitol and exposed the plot.

Remarkable individual.