{"id":28760,"date":"2013-06-03T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=28760"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:52:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:52:58","slug":"june-6-9-bilderberg-meeting-behind-closed-doors-on-the-agenda-domestic-spying-diffusing-social-protests-war-on-syria-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/06\/june-6-9-bilderberg-meeting-behind-closed-doors-on-the-agenda-domestic-spying-diffusing-social-protests-war-on-syria-and-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"June 6-9: Bilderberg Meeting behind Closed Doors. On the Agenda: Domestic Spying, Diffusing Social Protests, War on Syria and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bilderberg.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28841\" alt=\"bilderberg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bilderberg.jpg\" width=\"107\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>Its four-day meeting occurs annually. It\u2019s a rite of spring. British political economist Will Hutton calls the group the \u201chigh priests of globalization.\u201d <\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>Powerful movers and shakers have their own agenda. They discuss key issues. <\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>They do it year round. Once annually they meet face-to-face. They plot strategy to exploit the world\u2019s riches. They want them for themselves. <\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>They try to keep meeting dates, locations, and issues to be discussed secret.\u00a0<\/i>Word gets out. It\u2019s official. Britain\u2019s five-star Grove Hotel is this year\u2019s venue. It\u2019s a Hertfordshire, England hotel resort. It calls itself \u201cLondon\u2019s cosmopolitan country estate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s 18 miles from London. It\u2019s 30 minutes from Heathrow Airport. It\u2019s ideal for secluded meetings. Great pains are taken to keep journalists, activists, and other uninvited guests away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On May 13, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/google-berg-global-elite-transforms-itself-for-technocratic-revolution\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Infowars<\/a> reporters Paul Joseph Watson and Jon Scobie visited the Grove Hotel. They claim to have \u201cgroundbraking\u201d information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Google\u2019s CEO Eric Schmidt is a regular Bilderberg attendee. Watson and Scobie said his company is \u201cmerging\u201d with Bilderberg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cGoogle\u2019s annual Zeitgeist conference, which has been based at the Grove since 2007, immediately precedes the Bilderberg Group conference by a matter of days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBacked up by prior research, we were able to confirm in conversations with hotel managers and others that the Grove is now a central base for Google\u2019s agenda to control the global political and technological landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bilderberg\u2019s \u201cbeing recast as \u2018Google-Berg\u2019 \u2013 partly because of efforts on behalf of activists to tear away the veil of Bilderberg\u2019s much cherished secrecy, and partly as a means of re-branding authoritarian, undemocratic secret gatherings of elites as trendy, liberal, feel-good philanthropic-style forums like Google Zeitgeist and TED.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In May 2012, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/eric-schmidt\/9285690\/Google-invites-the-best-and-brightest-into-its-Big-Tent.html\"  target=\"_blank\">London\u2019s Telegraph<\/a> headlined \u201cGoogle invites the best and brightest into its Big Tent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s Google\u2019s annual Zeitgeist conference. The Telegraph compared it to annual Davos World Economic Forum meetings. Major global figures participate in both.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eric Schmidt thinks \u201cprivacy is a relic of the past,\u201d said Infowars. He \u201cplans to turn Google into the ultimate Big Brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He and Bilderberg members share a common agenda. In part, it reflects a \u201ccollectivist, permanently networked world (without) individuality and privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bilderberg\u2019s grand design is one-world government comprised of rulers and serfs. It wants total unchallenged global control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Infowars said its \u201cinside source\u201d listed the following June issues for discussion:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>destroying Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities within three years;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>prolonging war on Syria by arming anti-Assad elements;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>the threat of a global pandemic;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>controlling 3D printing;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Internet control through \u201ccyber resilience;\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>establishing a ministry of truth; Orwell explained its mission and more, saying:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThese contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Other Bilderberg topics include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>smart cities for mass surveillance;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>diffusing austerity induced social protests;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>preventing Britain from leaving the EU;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>propping up the euro to keep the Eurozone intact;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>minimal 2013 economic growth;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>increasing central bank power;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>transferring more wealth from ordinary people to corporations and super-rich elites; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>preventing a growing credit bubble from popping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2007, Privacy International\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.privacyinternational.org\/reports\/a-race-to-the-bottom-privacy-rankings-of-internet-service-companies\"  target=\"_blank\">Race to the Bottom<\/a>\u201d report addressed privacy rankings of Internet service companies. A previous article discussed its comments on Google, saying:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201c\u2026.throughout our research we have found numerous deficiencies and hostilities in Google\u2019s approach to privacy that go well beyond those of other organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s \u201can endemic threat to privacy. This is in part due to the diversity and specificity of Google\u2019s product range and the ability of the company to share extracted data between these tools, and in part due to Google\u2019s market dominance and the sheer size of its user base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIts aggressive use of invasive or potentially invasive technologies and techniques\u201d is unmatched.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s able to \u201cdeep drill into the minutiae of a user\u2019s life and lifestyle choices.\u201d It has no qualms about doing it irresponsibly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It retains volumes user information. No limitations are placed on its subsequent use or disclosure. Users aren\u2019t able to delete or withdraw it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It retains all \u201csearch strings and associated IP-addresses and time stamps for at least 18 to 24 months, and does not provide users with an expungement option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It has other personal information on hobbies, employment, addresses, phone numbers, and more. It retains it after users delete their profiles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It \u201ccollects all search results entered through Google Toolbar, and identifies all Google Toolbar users with a unique cookie that allows Google to track the user\u2019s web movements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Information is retained indefinitely. It provides a permanent record. Doing so spurns OECD Privacy Guidelines and EU data protection law provisions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Users can\u2019t edit or delete records and information. They can\u2019t access log information generated through various Google services, such as Google Maps, Video, Talk, Reader, or Blogger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2004, Google also acquired the CIA-linked company Keyhole, Inc. It maintains a worldwide 3-D spy-in-the-sky images database.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Its software provides a virtual fly-over and zoom-in capability. It does so within a one-foot resolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s supported by In-Q-Tel. It\u2019s a venture capital CIA-funded firm. It \u201cidentif(ies) and invest(s) in companies developing cutting-edge information technologies that serve United States national security interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2003, its CEO, John Hanke, said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cKeyhole\u2019s strategic relationship with In-Q-Tel means that the Intelligence Community can now benefit from the massive scalability and high performance of the Keyhole enterprise solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2006, former CIA clandestine services case officer, Robert Steele, said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI am quite positive that Google is taking money and direction from my old colleague Dr. Rick Steinheiser in the Office of Research and Development at CIA, and that Google has done at least one major prototype effort focused on foreign terrorists which produced largely worthless data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI think (Google is) stupid to be playing with CIA, which cannot keep a secret and is more likely to waste time and money than actually produce anything useful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On April 29, 2009, Willem Buiter\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/maverecon\/2009\/04\/gagging-on-google\/#axzz2TTTCTQfH\"  target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a> article headlined \u201cGagging on Google,\u201d saying:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cGoogle is to privacy and respect for intellectual property rights what the Taliban are to women\u2019s rights and civil liberties: a daunting threat that must be fought relentlessly by all those who value privacy and the right to exercise, within the limits of the law, control over the uses made by others of their intellectual property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It should be strictly regulated, \u201cand if necessary, broken up or put out of business.\u201d It \u201clays the foundations for corporate or even official Big Brotherism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Google Street View\u2019s addition to Google Maps, \u201cprovides panoram(ic) images visible from street level in cities around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe cameras record details of residents\u2019 lives.\u201d They do so without permission. Personal privacy is violated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s also done through tracking cookies or \u201cthird-party persistent cookies.\u201d They assist interest-based advertising. It\u2019s known as behavioral targeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the wrong hands, information can be used \u201cto put a commercial squeeze on people, but also to extort and blackmail them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In government hands, it enhances \u201ca pretty effective and very nasty police state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Can Google be trusted to use this information responsibly? \u201cOf course not.\u201d It\u2019s a business run by \u201camoral capitalists.\u201d It seeks profits by any means.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Google and other Internet search engines \u201cshould not be trusted because they cannot be trusted.\u201d Because of its size and dominance, Google\u2019s \u201cthe new evil empire of the internet.\u201d It\u2019s a menacing \u201cLeviathan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If true, partnering (merging) with Bilderberg enhances the threat. Institutionalized spying endangers everyone. Today\u2019s technology exceeds the worst of what Orwell imagined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Big Brother isn\u2019t fiction. It\u2019s watching everyone all the time for any reason. It does so with sweeping technological effectiveness. It makes Bilderberg\u2019s ideal world more possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">____________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is titled <\/em>\u201cBanker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.\u201d <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html\"  target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html. <\/a>Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/june-6-9-bilderberg-meeting-behind-closed-doors-on-the-agenda-domestic-spying-diffusing-social-protests-war-on-syria-and-iran\/5335324\" >Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its four-day meeting occurs annually. It\u2019s a rite of spring. British political economist Will Hutton calls the group the \u201chigh priests of globalization.\u201d Powerful movers and shakers have their own agenda. They plot strategy to exploit the world\u2019s riches. They want them for themselves. They try to keep meeting dates, locations, and issues to be discussed secret. Word gets out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,57,51,55,146,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america","category-militarism","category-europe","category-capitalism","category-economics","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}