IMAGE: Photo composite from image by Charlie Skelton (Twitter)
This
year’s Bilderberg Meeting looks as big and as bold as ever, as
transatlantic elites arrive In Turin, Italy this week to discuss the
Atlanticist global agenda for the coming year and beyond.
Founded
in 1954 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (a former member of
the Nazi
Party), the annual meeting is described by
the organization itself as “an annual forum for informal
discussions, designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North
America.”
Journalist
and veteran Bilderberg correspondent, Charlie
Skelton,
has been on the ground covering Bilderberg this week for The
Guardian and
other news outlets, as well as surveying this year’s somewhat
predictable conclave of globalists administrators and corporate
monopolists:
“Like
Kissinger, Bilderberg shows no signs of slowing down or
complacency. Its
recent flirtationwith artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley
seems to have blossomed into a full-blown affair. This year a Twitter
board member, Patrick Pichette, has got the nod, and returning for
the second time is Divesh Makan, who has links to Mark Zuckerberg and
whose clients include Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder and
Bilderberg veteran.”
Also
reporting for Newsweek,
Skelton further explains the international scope of the event, and
its highly controlled PR apparatus:
“If
you’re a fan of elite policy conferences, then this is your lucky
weekend. The political planets have aligned, and the two most
important meetings of the year are taking place at the same time: The
G7 summit in Quebec and the Bilderberg conference in Turin. Both are
heavily guarded, influential affairs; both are attended by prime
ministers with government staff and both will tackle some of the most
pressing issues of the day. But that’s pretty much where the
similarity ends. One of them is surrounded by about 4,000
journalists, feeding hungrily off the multi-million dollar PR
operation that tosses them constant juicy press releases and footage
from the event. The other is surrounded by scowling Italian police
who tell you to delete your photos if you get too close to the
security cordon.”
Skelton
aptly describes the annual globalist confab as the “Superbowl of
Corporate Lobbying”:
“The
Bilderberg conference is the Super Bowl of corporate lobbying. It’s
where the heads of giant corporations get to chew over policy with
the policymakers; where the billionaire owners of colossal
conglomerates get to mingle with ministers in glorious privacy.”
As
usual, Bilderberg’s guestlist is a who’s who of the top positions
of control across all majority sectors in the transatlantic
establishment:
More
shockingly however, is that this is the first year in which the
Vatican has dispatched a delegation to the Bilderberg meeting,
with Cardinal
Pietro Parolin,
Vatican Secretary of State, scheduled
to meet with “130 carefully selected individuals” at
this year’s private conference (and likely not for confessions).
Apparently,
this year’s agenda sees elites somewhat under siege from perceived
threats by the proverbial unwashed masses, such as the rise of
“populism” in both the US and Europe, and too many suffering from
“inequality”, followed by a predictable list of familiar
mainstream talking points. This year’s agenda is as follows:
Bilderberg’s
current boss, banking mogul Henri de Castries, arriving for this
week’s meetings in Turin, Italy:
Britain’s
newest tabloid
mogul and propagandist, George
Osbourne,
now a regular Bilderberg fixture, arriving in Italy to help grease
the wheels of corporate progress and represent to the interests of
the City of London
Bilderbergers have reserved the elite NH Lingotto Hotel in Turin for the week’s events:
Skelton
also explains to the intense security at Bilderberg, and the lack of
any journalist access other than appointed embeds:
“In
my 10 years of covering Bilderberg I’ve never had a gun pulled on
me, but I’ve been surrounded by a circle of yelling cops, been
taken out of my room by armed police at 1 am and made to stand under
a searchlight for half an hour, and I’ve tussled with an undercover
Greek policeman in the Athens underground. It’s been fun.”
“The
G7 pampers its vast army of reporters with free food and booze. At
Bilderberg, the only journalists who get a free buffet are the ones
actually taking part in the conference. Every year, a select group of
friendly columnists and editors are invited to attend Bilderberg.”
Here
we can see the usual heavy security contingent that follows the
Atlanticist luminaries during their evening wining and dining tours
and special parties:
Bilderberg
top table operative, Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security
Conference, arrives to discuss European war plan for Russia, Iran and
other lucrative initiatives:
Here
is French spook chief, Bernard
Émié,
making his way from the airport to the lavish settings at NH Lingotto
Congress Hotel in Turin:
Once
again, the dominance and control of Artificial Intelligence systems
and harnessing Big Data is at the top of this year’s discussion
list at Bilderberg, represented by Silicon Valley operative, Alex
Karp,
here in Turin to receive his orders for the coming year from European
and American elites:
Here
is top UK cabinet official, Home Secretary Amber
Rudd,
meeting in secret behind closed doors with global heads of finance,
politics and industry to discuss policies, laws and corporate
dictates which will be descending down on the public in the coming
years:
Arch-warhawk
and military industrial mandarin, Michael
Horowitz,
touched down in Turin before the weekend.
And
bringing up the rear in this year’s line-up is American Neocon
journalist and anti-Russia campaigner, Anne
Applebaum,
probably facing east:
Here
is the full
list of ‘official’ attendee for this year’s 2018
Bilderberg Meeting in Turin:
CHAIRMAN
STEERING COMMITTEE
Castries,
Henri de (FRA), Chairman, Institut Montaigne
PARTICIPANTS
Achleitner,
Paul M. (DEU), Chairman Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG;
Treasurer, Bilderberg Meetings
Agius, Marcus (GBR), Chairman, PA
Consulting Group
Alesina, Alberto (ITA), Nathaniel Ropes Professor
of Economics, Harvard University
Altman, Roger C. (USA), Founder
and Senior Chairman, Evercore
Amorim, Paula (PRT), Chairman,
Américo Amorim Group
Anglade, Dominique (CAN), Deputy Premier of
Quebec; Minister of Economy, Science and Innovation
Applebaum,
Anne (POL), Columnist, Washington Post; Professor of Practice, London
School of Economics
Azoulay, Audrey (INT), Director-General,
UNESCO
Baker, James H. (USA), Director, Office of Net Assessment,
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Barbizet, Patricia (FRA),
President, Temaris & Associés
Barroso, José M. Durão (PRT),
Chairman, Goldman Sachs International; Former President, European
Commission
Beerli, Christine (CHE), Former Vice-President,
International Committee of the Red Cross
Berx, Cathy (BEL),
Governor, Province of Antwerp
Beurden, Ben van (NLD), CEO, Royal
Dutch Shell plc
Blanquer, Jean-Michel (FRA), Minister of National
Education, Youth and Community Life
Botín, Ana P. (ESP), Group
Executive Chairman, Banco Santander
Bouverot, Anne (FRA), Board
Member; Former CEO, Morpho
Brandtzæg, Svein Richard (NOR),
President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
Brende, Børge (INT),
President, World Economic Forum
Brennan, Eamonn (IRL), Director
General, Eurocontrol
Brnabic, Ana (SRB), Prime Minister
Burns,
William J. (USA), President, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
Burwell, Sylvia M. (USA), President, American
University
Caracciolo, Lucio (ITA), Editor-in-Chief, Limes
Carney,
Mark J. (GBR), Governor, Bank of England
Cattaneo, Elena (ITA),
Director, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, University of
Milan
Cazeneuve, Bernard (FRA), Partner, August Debouzy; Former
Prime Minister
Cebrián, Juan Luis (ESP), Executive Chairman, El
País
Champagne, François-Philippe (CAN), Minister of
International Trade
Cohen, Jared (USA), Founder and CEO, Jigsaw at
Alphabet Inc.
Colao, Vittorio (ITA), CEO, Vodafone Group
Cook,
Charles (USA), Political Analyst, The Cook Political
Report
Dagdeviren, Canan (TUR), Assistant Professor, MIT Media
Lab
Donohoe, Paschal (IRL), Minister for Finance, Public
Expenditure and Reform
Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), Chairman and CEO,
Axel Springer SE
Ecker, Andrea (AUT), Secretary General, Office
Federal President of Austria
Elkann, John (ITA), Chairman, Fiat
Chrysler Automobiles
Émié, Bernard (FRA), Director General,
Ministry of the Armed Forces
Enders, Thomas (DEU), CEO, Airbus
SE
Fallows, James (USA), Writer and Journalist
Ferguson, Jr.,
Roger W. (USA), President and CEO, TIAA
Ferguson, Niall (USA),
Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford
University
Fischer, Stanley (USA), Former Vice-Chairman, Federal
Reserve; Former Governor, Bank of Israel
Gilvary, Brian (GBR),
Group CFO, BP plc
Goldstein, Rebecca (USA), Visiting Professor,
New York University
Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and
Anchor “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV
Hajdarowicz, Greg (POL), Founder
and President, Gremi International Sarl
Halberstadt, Victor (NLD),
Chairman Foundation Bilderberg Meetings; Professor of Economics,
Leiden University
Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO,
DeepMind
Hedegaard, Connie (DNK), Chair, KR Foundation; Former
European Commissioner
Helgesen, Vidar (NOR), Ambassador for the
Ocean
Herlin, Antti (FIN), Chairman, KONE
Corporation
Hickenlooper, John (USA), Governor of Colorado
Hobson,
Mellody (USA), President, Ariel Investments LLC
Hodgson, Christine
(GBR), Chairman, Capgemini UK plc
Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder,
LinkedIn; Partner, Greylock Partners
Horowitz, Michael C. (USA),
Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Hwang,
Tim (USA), Director, Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI
Initiative
Ischinger, Wolfgang (INT), Chairman, Munich Security
Conference
Jacobs, Kenneth M. (USA), Chairman and CEO,
Lazard
Kaag, Sigrid (NLD), Minister for Foreign Trade and
Development Cooperation
Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir
Technologies
Kissinger, Henry A. (USA), Chairman, Kissinger
Associates Inc.
Kleinfeld, Klaus (USA), CEO, NEOM
Knot, Klaas
H.W. (NLD), President, De Nederlandsche Bank
Koç, Ömer M. (TUR),
Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
Köcher, Renate (DEU), Managing
Director, Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research
Kotkin,
Stephen (USA), Professor in History and International Affairs,
Princeton University
Kragic, Danica (SWE), Professor, School of
Computer Science and Communication, KTH
Kravis, Henry R. (USA),
Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, KKR
Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Senior
Fellow, Hudson Institute; President, American Friends of
Bilderberg
Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski
Group
Lepomäki, Elina (FIN), MP, National Coalition Party
Leyen,
Ursula von der (DEU), Federal Minster of Defence
Leysen, Thomas
(BEL), Chairman, KBC Group
Makan, Divesh (USA), CEO, ICONIQ
Capital
Mazzucato, Mariana (ITA), Professor in the Economics of
Innovation and Public Value, University College London
Mead,
Walter Russell (USA), Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute
Michel,
Charles (BEL), Prime Minister
Micklethwait, John (USA),
Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP
Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR),
Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Mitsotakis, Kyriakos (GRC),
President, New Democracy Party
Mota, Isabel (PRT), President,
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Moyo, Dambisa F. (USA), Global
Economist and Author
Mundie, Craig J. (USA), President, Mundie &
Associates
Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD)
Neven,
Hartmut (USA), Director of Engineering, Google Inc.
Noonan, Peggy
(USA), Author and Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
O’Leary,
Michael (IRL), CEO, Ryanair D.A.C.
O’Neill, Onora (GBR),
Emeritus Honorary Professor in Philosophy, University of
Cambridge
Osborne, George (GBR), Editor, London Evening
Standard
Özkan, Behlül (TUR), Associate Professor in
International Relations, Marmara University
Papalexopoulos,
Dimitri (GRC), CEO, Titan Cement Company S.A.
Parolin, H.E. Pietro
(VAT), Cardinal and Secretary of State
Patino, Bruno (FRA), Chief
Content Officer, Arte France TV
Petraeus, David H. (USA),
Chairman, KKR Global Institute
Pichette, Patrick (CAN), General
Partner, iNovia Capital
Pouyanné, Patrick (FRA), Chairman and
CEO, Total S.A.
Pring, Benjamin (USA), Co-Founder and Managing
Director, Center for the Future of Work
Rankka, Maria (SWE), CEO,
Stockholm Chamber of Commerce
Ratas, Jüri (EST), Prime
Minister
Rendi-Wagner, Pamela (AUT), MP; Former Minister of
Health
Rivera Díaz, Albert (ESP), President, Ciudadanos
Party
Rossi, Salvatore (ITA), Senior Deputy Governor, Bank of
Italy
Rubesa, Baiba A. (LVA), CEO, RB Rail AS
Rubin, Robert E.
(USA), Co-Chairman Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations; Former
Treasury Secretary
Rudd, Amber (GBR), MP; Former Secretary of
State, Home Department
Rutte, Mark (NLD), Prime Minister
Sabia,
Michael (CAN), President and CEO, Caisse de dépôt et placement du
Québec
Sadjadpour, Karim (USA), Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace
Sáenz de Santamaría, Soraya (ESP),
Deputy Prime Minister
Sawers, John (GBR), Chairman and Partner,
Macro Advisory Partners
Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Former Deputy
National Security Advisor for Strategy
Schneider-Ammann, Johann N.
(CHE), Federal Councillor
Scholten, Rudolf (AUT), President, Bruno
Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue
Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL),
Senior Fellow, Harvard University; Former Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Poland
Simsek, Mehmet (TUR), Deputy Prime
Minister
Skartveit, Hanne (NOR), Political Editor, Verdens
Gang
Stoltenberg, Jens (INT), Secretary General, NATO
Summers,
Lawrence H. (USA), Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard
University
Thiel, Peter (USA), President, Thiel Capital
Topsøe,
Jakob Haldor (DNK), Chairman, Haldor Topsøe Holding A/S
Wahlroos,
Björn (FIN), Chairman, Sampo Group, Nordea Bank, UPM-Kymmene
Corporation
Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chairman, Skandinaviska
Enskilda Banken AB
Woods, Ngaire (GBR), Dean, Blavatnik School of
Government, Oxford University
Yetkin, Murat (TUR),
Editor-in-chief, Hürriyet Daily News
Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT),
President, Turner International
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