Ask the media why no Bilderberg coverage

[ernie]

I have just asked the BBC and ITV on their 'contact Us' Pages, why they haven't covered anything about the current Bilderberg Group Meeting in Greece and that surely, as there are US government officials attending in breach of the Logan Act, this in itself is extremely newsworthy.

I wonder if we all bombard the mainstream news and papers with the same questions, we might get some response? Email, Contact Us forms, Tel numbers.

[burnttoast]

I have just asked the BBC and ITV on their 'contact Us' Pages, why they haven't covered anything about the current Bilderberg Group Meeting in Greece and that surely, as there are US government officials attending in breach of the Logan Act, this in itself is extremely newsworthy.

I wonder if we all bombard the mainstream news and papers with the same questions, we might get some response? Email, Contact Us forms, Tel numbers.

"They" won't bite the hand that feeds them....Bilderberg meetings aren't touched by the MSM because they OWN the media.....perfect example of the free press illusion...ain't nuthin' free...the MSM is bought and paid for and does it's job well at keeping the sheep docile...what the people don't know, they don't worry about.

[ernie]

We know this, I think it would be useful for them to know how many people are on to it. There will at some stage become a critical mass where they don't see how they could maintain their credibility as news reporters to even the mainstream viewers. If they know that a huge amount of people want an answer, they will give one, even if it is a load of BS. I'd certainly be interested in knowing what their responses would be.

[wchen99]

cos it's really not that big a deal to me, as some meeting in greece doesnt affect my job, or my football team, or where i eat my meals, etc etc.

[ernie]

Ahh, I see where you're coming from now.

What would be the point in trying to hold our mainstream media to account over failing to report a secret meeting of some of the worlds most powerful people or their representatives. Yes, you're right, we shouldn't bother, it's irrelevant. More about Jordan and Peter Andre please.

[ex sheep]

cos it's really not that big a deal to me, as some meeting in greece doesnt affect my job, or my football team, or where i eat my meals, etc etc.
Maybe not now :D

[cor9]

Oh My God! You guys wont believe this. "De Telegraaf", one of the most popular newspapers in the Netherlands had an article on the Bilderbergs today!
Link here:http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/3925398/___Bilderberg_is_criminele_bende___.html

Title means: ' Bilderberg is a criminal organisation'

It basicily talks about it being very secret and that our world-leaders talk about the economical crisis and other important stuff. Al last! Maybe this could be the beginning of more of these articles. I hope tomorrow more papers have something on this subject.

[sukyspook]

Alex Jones (sorry, can't help myself lol) had Charlie Skelton on his show tonight. Charlie, a freelance reporter on The Guardian had asked the paper if he could go to Greece to do a 'is there, isn't there' kind of piece on Bilderberg....

Charlie was taking photos with a bog-standard digital camera of attendees arriving and was arrested twice - once yesterday, again today....

The show can be heard in its entirety beginning again at 2100 UK time tonight on:

http://www.infowars.com/32k.asx

Charlie is on mainly in hour 2.

Here is an article from today's UK Times on Bilderberg:


May 14, 2009
Shadowy Bilderberg group meet in Greece — and here’s their address

Roger Boyes and John Carr in Athens

Don’t tell anyone, don’t breathe a word, but the world’s most powerful men are meeting secretly again to save the planet from economic catastrophe. Oh, and their address, should you want to send them your opinions, is: c/o Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel, Apollonos Avenue 40, 16671 Vouliagmeni, Greece.

Bed space is a bit tight there for the next two days while the Bilderberg illuminati hold their private conclave in the five-star Greek hotel. Every year since 1954 a club of about 130 senior or up-and-coming politicians gather at the fireside of a secluded hotel with top bankers and a sprinkling of royalty to discuss burning issues, to trade confidences and just stay abreast of the I-know-something-you-don’t-know circuit. No lists of participants are disclosed, no press conferences are held; spill the beans and you’re out of the magic circle.

For those of us standing outside the locked gates all that is left is to hope that they will sleep well, avoid jet ski injury and solve our problems for us. For the Bilderbergers it is a little like that recent MI5 recruitment ad: “See all your best work go unnoticed!”

Each country delegates two people to the steering committee that is the intellectual hub of Bilderberg. In the past Kenneth Clarke, the Shadow Business Secretary, and Martin Taylor, formerly head of Barclays Bank, have had their hand on the British tiller.

This year the club is going to talk about depression. “According to the pre-meeting booklet sent out to attendees, Bilderberg is looking at two options,” says the Bilderberg-watcher Daniel Estulin — “either a prolonged, agonising depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty — or an intense but shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.”

Since Bilderberg does not officially exist, it cannot deny anything and is therefore manna from heaven for the conspiracy theorist. Eurosceptics are convinced that the future development of the European Union was plotted here — EU commissioners have always been welcomed into the coven, with Peter “We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich” Mandelson a particular favourite. Margaret Thatcher, it is said, was a shy debutante at a Bilderberg meeting in 1975.

Jim Tucker, veteran stalker of the Bilderberg club meetings, claims that Mrs Thatcher was ordered “to dismantle British sovereignty, but she said, ‘no way’, so they had her sacked”. Left-wing conspiracy theorists believe that Bilderbergers form a capitalist nucleus, and there is a germ of truth in this. The meetings were started in the Netherlands, in the Hotel de Bilderberg, near Arnhem, by the Polish exile Joseph Retinger. He was worried about growing anti-Americanism and the advance of Communism in Western Europe. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands agreed to sponsor the idea, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Walter Bedell Smith, threw his weight behind it and so did the White House.

The Bilderberg consensus is that national problems are best solved by an internationally oriented elite, that a global network of decision-makers should have a common language and that the boundaries are fluid between the monied and the political classes.

And so there has been a natural bias towards inviting conservatives and market liberals. The only socialists invited are those who “understand money”.

Ed Balls has taken part and the most indiscreet Bilderberger of all time was Denis Healey, the former Labour Chancellor and fierce Atlanticist.

“To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair,” Lord Healey told the author Jon Ronson for his book Them: Adventures with Extremists. “Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on for ever fighting one another for nothing. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.”

Another way of viewing the club is that of Metropolitan Seraphim, the bishop of Piraeus, who said that the Bilderbergers represented a “criminal cabal of world Zionism and its efforts to set up a cruel world dictatorship under the headship of Lucifer”. This line is quite common on the blogosphere, where the club’s secrecy is taken as evidence of evil intentions.

Whether Lucifer will be down there on the sun-loungers remains to be seen. But what we have been able to establish from a World Bank spokesman, Alexis O’Brien, is that the organisation’s president, Robert Zoellick, will be in Athens on unspecified business on May 14. And that US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s public schedule is mysteriously empty for the next two days. Jo Ackermann, head of Deutsche Bank, will be travelling “somewhere in Europe”. Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, will not be around until the end of the week.

You get the drift. Something is going on. If only somebody would let us in on the secret.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6283373.ece

Considering the current state of British "politics" and the appearance of Bilderberg articles in the Times and on the Guardian Internet pages, it can't be long before more print and TV "journalists" wake up and begin asking questions too....Charlie Skelton made the point that we wouldn't believe how naive mainstream journos are to 'the agenda'.

[the itinerant shrubber]

I've asked this same question before on the BEEBS "Have your say" page. Needless to say,it wasnt taken up.:rolleyes:

[gripit]

Canada's top paper 'the Globe and Mail' had a small write up (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090512.REXPLAINER12ART1848/TPStory/Business) in the business section a couple days ago.


The rich, shadowy Bilderberg group

RICHARD BLACKWELL

May 12, 2009

I hear the Bilderberg group is meeting this week. What is it?

The Bilderberg group consists of about 140 wealthy and powerful people who meet annually to discuss key global issues. Named after the Bilderberg hotel in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands, where it held its first meeting in 1954, the group is highly secretive, doesn't let journalists attend unless they agree beforehand not to report on the proceedings, and won't even say who is a member.

It's known that attendees include politicians, royalty, wealthy industrialists and back-room power brokers. Conspiracy theorists say the group essentially controls the world and makes key decisions on international policy.

Canadians who have gone to the meetings in the past include Heather Reisman, chief executive officer of Indigo Books & Music Inc., former Torstar Corp. CEO Robert Prichard, former prime minister Jean Chrétien and former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna. Conrad Black has attended many times and he organized the 1996 meeting that was held just north of Toronto. The last time the Bilderberg group met in Canada was in June, 2006.

When and where is it meeting this year?

This year's session is set to start this Thursday in Vouliagmeni, Greece, just south of Athens. The global financial crisis will undoubtedly be on the agenda. Needless to say, Lord Black won't be in attendance.

Superstar investor George Soros says Asia will lead the world out of recession. How likely is this to happen?

While China and other Asian countries have been hit hard by the recession, economies in the region are continuing to grow while the West has been shrinking. The International Monetary Fund recently forecast 6.5-per-cent growth in China in 2009 (down from 13 per cent in 2007 and 9 per cent in 2008). The advanced economies of the West are expected to shrink 3.8 per cent on average this year.

Mr. Soros said yesterday that Asia will be the first region to pull out of the crisis and that China could overtake the United States as the engine of global growth. Still, China represents only about 7 per cent of the global economy, so there needs to be a more widespread recovery for the world to pull out of its funk.

Are developing countries really improving that much faster than the West?

BMO Nesbitt Burns economist Douglas Porter noted last week that some indicators in China and India are showing solid gains relative to similar markers in the West. Retail and auto sales statistics in China, for example, are much better than in North America, and industrial purchasing in both India and China is on the rise. Stock markets in developing countries have also risen much more quickly than those in Europe and North America.

[the itinerant shrubber]

Just sent this to "Have your say" -

What about debating the reasons why the BBC and other outlets of the "free press" wont mention this years Bilderberg meetings.
Considering this meeting involves some of the most powerfull people in the world meeting under strict security and secrecy,it would be assumed that the event would be of great interest to the press.
Maybe our free press is not so free after all but in the pocket of a few powerful oligarchs and you,the person reading this right now,by regecting this debate,are actually helping to bring in the global,fascist state your masters are so keen to bring into existence;the very same people who are at that meeting.
Just tell yourself,"I'm only taking orders". ;)

Hell,it makes me feel better anyway.:p

[ernie]

I watched UK Question Time tonight and wept. Every single question was about the false claims of MPs on their expenses. Normally, I would applaud the voracity of the British people at pursuing the filth of politics today. This is small potatoes.

Tonight, I realised what the expenses diversion was about. It was to divert the attention of the people away from the earth changing decisions made at this years Bilderberg, or even its very existence. Many people are now aware of the Bilderberg anathema, even my local bobby on the beat, as I talked to him whilst cutting the hedge tonight. He had a fair idea.

It would take something of great importance to redirect our attention from the Bilderberg Meeting. That has happened here in the UK. A magician's best trick is diversion from what is really going on.

Oh, how clever are they and how powerful. How stupefied and dumb are we to be diverted in our attention. We are at war, but few of us know we are at war, fewer still know the enemy.

If there is a 'common sense' out there, please prove to be right, prove to us that there is not a quickening going on right now and the enemy is not doubling it's efforts and that it knows it's time is short, show us that we are stupified conspiracy theorists with empty lives and that we are wrong, that we are deluded. Someone convince us all that there is no enemy.

I do not believe that the Bilderberg leaks reveal the full agenda. I believe that they will be discussing that they should sieze the opportunity and accelerate their agenda. I have been present at many UK gov department and Vendor meetings with the most powerful departments in UK Gov, where the word from the top on both sides has been 'Accelerate'. This has been the buzz word for the last 4 years.

The 2nd world war was only 70 years or so ago. How many of us can recall our parent's memories of when they used to watch, as children, how London, Coventry or Liverpool burned in the night sky and they feared for the very continuity of mankind? It's not impossible, it can happen again. It's not enough for us to simply say."I told you so" after the event. It is upon us, are we undone?

[halftheworldaway]

Alex Jones (sorry, can't help myself lol) had Charlie Skelton on his show tonight. Charlie, a freelance reporter on The Guardian had asked the paper if he could go to Greece to do a 'is there, isn't there' kind of piece on Bilderberg....

Charlie was taking photos with a bog-standard digital camera of attendees arriving and was arrested twice - once yesterday, again today....

The show can be heard in its entirety beginning again at 2100 UK time tonight on:

http://www.infowars.com/32k.asx

Charlie is on mainly in hour 2.

Here is an article from today's UK Times on Bilderberg:


May 14, 2009
Shadowy Bilderberg group meet in Greece — and here’s their address

Roger Boyes and John Carr in Athens

Don’t tell anyone, don’t breathe a word, but the world’s most powerful men are meeting secretly again to save the planet from economic catastrophe. Oh, and their address, should you want to send them your opinions, is: c/o Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel, Apollonos Avenue 40, 16671 Vouliagmeni, Greece.

Bed space is a bit tight there for the next two days while the Bilderberg illuminati hold their private conclave in the five-star Greek hotel. Every year since 1954 a club of about 130 senior or up-and-coming politicians gather at the fireside of a secluded hotel with top bankers and a sprinkling of royalty to discuss burning issues, to trade confidences and just stay abreast of the I-know-something-you-don’t-know circuit. No lists of participants are disclosed, no press conferences are held; spill the beans and you’re out of the magic circle.

For those of us standing outside the locked gates all that is left is to hope that they will sleep well, avoid jet ski injury and solve our problems for us. For the Bilderbergers it is a little like that recent MI5 recruitment ad: “See all your best work go unnoticed!”

Each country delegates two people to the steering committee that is the intellectual hub of Bilderberg. In the past Kenneth Clarke, the Shadow Business Secretary, and Martin Taylor, formerly head of Barclays Bank, have had their hand on the British tiller.

This year the club is going to talk about depression. “According to the pre-meeting booklet sent out to attendees, Bilderberg is looking at two options,” says the Bilderberg-watcher Daniel Estulin — “either a prolonged, agonising depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty — or an intense but shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.”

Since Bilderberg does not officially exist, it cannot deny anything and is therefore manna from heaven for the conspiracy theorist. Eurosceptics are convinced that the future development of the European Union was plotted here — EU commissioners have always been welcomed into the coven, with Peter “We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich” Mandelson a particular favourite. Margaret Thatcher, it is said, was a shy debutante at a Bilderberg meeting in 1975.

Jim Tucker, veteran stalker of the Bilderberg club meetings, claims that Mrs Thatcher was ordered “to dismantle British sovereignty, but she said, ‘no way’, so they had her sacked”. Left-wing conspiracy theorists believe that Bilderbergers form a capitalist nucleus, and there is a germ of truth in this. The meetings were started in the Netherlands, in the Hotel de Bilderberg, near Arnhem, by the Polish exile Joseph Retinger. He was worried about growing anti-Americanism and the advance of Communism in Western Europe. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands agreed to sponsor the idea, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Walter Bedell Smith, threw his weight behind it and so did the White House.

The Bilderberg consensus is that national problems are best solved by an internationally oriented elite, that a global network of decision-makers should have a common language and that the boundaries are fluid between the monied and the political classes.

And so there has been a natural bias towards inviting conservatives and market liberals. The only socialists invited are those who “understand money”.

Ed Balls has taken part and the most indiscreet Bilderberger of all time was Denis Healey, the former Labour Chancellor and fierce Atlanticist.

“To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair,” Lord Healey told the author Jon Ronson for his book Them: Adventures with Extremists. “Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on for ever fighting one another for nothing. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.”

Another way of viewing the club is that of Metropolitan Seraphim, the bishop of Piraeus, who said that the Bilderbergers represented a “criminal cabal of world Zionism and its efforts to set up a cruel world dictatorship under the headship of Lucifer”. This line is quite common on the blogosphere, where the club’s secrecy is taken as evidence of evil intentions.

Whether Lucifer will be down there on the sun-loungers remains to be seen. But what we have been able to establish from a World Bank spokesman, Alexis O’Brien, is that the organisation’s president, Robert Zoellick, will be in Athens on unspecified business on May 14. And that US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s public schedule is mysteriously empty for the next two days. Jo Ackermann, head of Deutsche Bank, will be travelling “somewhere in Europe”. Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, will not be around until the end of the week.

You get the drift. Something is going on. If only somebody would let us in on the secret.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6283373.ece

Considering the current state of British "politics" and the appearance of Bilderberg articles in the Times and on the Guardian Internet pages, it can't be long before more print and TV "journalists" wake up and begin asking questions too....Charlie Skelton made the point that we wouldn't believe how naive mainstream journos are to 'the agenda'.

Here's Skelton's third Guardian dispatch from near the Bilderberg venue. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/13/in-search-of-bilderberg

His first two can be read from links near the top of the story.

He's trying his best to make the event seem as harmless as possible. But as the thread starter intimated, the Logan Act is a federal law banning US government officials from having clandestine meetings with officials of foreign states. He and his colleagues at The Times are either unaware of it, and the possible jail time involved, or are pretending to be ignorant.

They claim that no guest lists are ever published. They have been occasionally, including last year's. That one featured the names of Mandelson and Osborne. Their papers made much of the fact that the pair were together on some oligarch's yacht last Summer but nothing of the Bilderberg link a few weeks later.

That there's no small army of TV reporters based near the hotel or umpteen press telephoto lenses pointed at it trying to spot attendees or the fact that the whole US MSM media along with the BBC will once again find the occasion totally unnewsworthy (which is a story in itself) isn't remarked upon.

[kweli]

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[zetetic0void]

Here in Canada, the CBC site is all about former PM Mulrooney (back in the Reagan, Thatcher era) . I saw nothing about Bilderberg.


I added a note on a story about the Pope and questioned why we are hearing about the Pope's opinion on a Palistinian state but not a word about the Bilderberg meeting.

Nice to see I had like 12 thumbs up and 3 thumbs down from readers so at least some people agree haha!