{"id":43693,"date":"2014-06-09T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=43693"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:33:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:33:46","slug":"i-wasnt-invited-to-bilderberg-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/06\/i-wasnt-invited-to-bilderberg-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wasn\u2019t Invited to Bilderberg 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Press is suffering from conspiracy theory fatigue. Sixty years on, the economic para-state continues to meet, now at the Marriott Hotel in Copenhagen, for its annual jamboree, gathering bankers, industrial and business moguls, their press lapdogs and the politicians who can deliver the profits for the arms manufacturers by starting wars masquerading as humanitarian interventions.<\/p>\n

Repeating they are not \u201csecretive\u201d but rather \u201cdiscreet\u201d, every year the display for the benefit of the press gets more stage managed. Better than hiding is to show what they would like us to see. Like Sir John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, current vice-chairman of Scottish Power and central Bilderberg insider giving George Osborne, UK chancellor of the exchequer (the man supposedly in charge of the UK economy, that is) a 25 minutes lecture during which the latter barely opened his mouth just towards the end (The Guardian<\/a>). Another picture also from the Guardian shows Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, \u201cdiscussing fiscal policy with the economist Kevin Warsh, who\u2019s on the board of logistics giant UPS\u2026and Paul Achleitner, the chairman of Deutsche Bank and board member of Bayer pharmaceuticals. He\u2019s at Bilderberg to make sure that whatever Lagarde does at the IMF, it\u2019s for the best. The best for Deutsche Bank and Bayer pharmaceuticals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like during the cold war, when spying was absolutely necessary to ensure both sides had the information about their capability for mutually assured destruction (MAD) \u2013 what they hoped would be the real deterrent, rather than the weapons per se \u2013 Bilderberg 2014 is giving the world a loud and clear message: \u201cWe are in charge, resistance is futile, you have been<\/strong> assimilated<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n

This year they are discussing quite critical issues. No doubt assessing and making decisions about Ukraine and Syria, perhaps not so much about \u201cdemocracy\u201d but rather about war profits, and The Transatlantic and Transpacific \u201cfree\u201d trade zones being promoted at present by the mainly but not exclusively American based international financial system in order to tie in knots any government that attempts to defy multinational companies\u2019 right to increasing their gains ad infinitum<\/em>. The contents of these proposed trade agreements and their drive to lower environmental and health and safety standards, as well as more privatisation of health, education, housing, more austerity, more deregulation, leading of course to more tax havens, have been seen as a disaster for the general population. But Bilderbergers do not represent the general population, as they are wholly unelected (other than the politicians they extend special invitations to, so that they can be told what to do). China? The BRICS? Edward Snowden? They cannot be off the menu.<\/p>\n

There is absolutely no need to speculate, the consequences of what is being discussed in these meetings are visibly clear: economic, physical, psychological and moral violence.<\/p>\n

The only mystery, at least to me, is whether some, or many, of those gathered realise that the sensibility of the epoch is changing, that new waves of fresh thinking and feeling are happening away from the centres of power, that it all may look the same, business as usual, but they must know that this soulless world they have created will continue to experience crashes, each one of them opening more eyes to other possibilities, to a nonviolent world of compassion and solidarity, where life has meaning.<\/p>\n

___________________________<\/p>\n

Silvia Swinden – Author of <\/em>From Monkey Sapiens to Homo Intentional: The Phenomenology of the Nonviolent Revolution \u2013 Adonis & Abbey, London 2006.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The only mystery, at least to me, is whether some, or many, of those gathered realise that the sensibility of the epoch is changing, that new waves of fresh thinking and feeling are happening away from the centres of power, that it all may look the same, business as usual, but they must know that this soulless world they have created will continue to experience crashes, each one of them opening more eyes to other possibilities, to a nonviolent world of compassion and solidarity, where life has meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693","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=43693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}