The Guardian: The Bilderberg Group (lol!)

[Dover]

The Bilderberg group

The Bilderberg group of the world's elite, currently meeting in northern Italy and celebrating its 50th anniversary, casts an extensive shadow on the net.

Mark Oliver
Friday June 4, 2004

1. At the annual meetings of the Bilderberg group, a clique of some of the world's most powerful people scheme and plot, carving up the globe for themselves, while occasionally cackling like Dr Evil in Mike Myers' Austin Powers films.
2. That, at least, is the view of the conspiracy theorists, whose opinions are widely expressed on the internet. Indeed, the web positively crackles with Bilderberg-related websites, (although of course there is no official site by the organisers).

3. Those who run Bilderberg's annual four-day meetings, and some of the people who have been to them, insist that there is nothing sinister going on. The official line is that the meetings are no more than useful forums, talking shops for prominent people from various influential spheres (politics, business, royalty ... ) to chew the fat about big issues. And the only reason they are so secretive about what exactly goes on is to facilitate vibrant, uninhibited informal discussion. So no evil cackling.

. The more even-handed assessments usually outline qualms about how the meetings facilitate capitalism and support the current world order and all its sins. Former Observer editor Will Hutton, who has been invited in the past, called the group the "high priests of globalisation".

5. The Bilderberg group got its name from a hotel in Holland where the first meeting was held in 1954. The idea was to foster greater accord between the movers and shakers of North America and western Europe in the wake of the second world war. Every year the set-up is similar. Around 100 prominent figures are invited by a steering committee.

6. This year's Bilderberg meeting began yesterday in a luxury hotel in northern Italy and will run until Sunday. Present will be the odd press baron and media bigwig (sworn to secrecy like everyone else) but no reporters.

7. This year, apparently, BP boss John Browne, US senator John Edwards and Mrs Bill Gates are among the invitees. People who have been in the past include the likes of Henry Kissinger (a regular), Prince Charles, Bill Clinton, Donald Rumsfeld, Peter Mandelson, Kenneth Clarke, King Juan Carlos and Lord Black (although reportedly he's now off the guest list after his Telegraph travails). ...>>

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,1231830,00.html

[buycitgo]

1. that reminds me......Harry Shearer has a movie coming out, maybe

based on Bohemian Grove hijinks

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. He already did that one "Teddy Bear Picnic"

[buycitgo]

4. thats it......looked it up after you posted

Michael McKean was on Majority Report, and said it never got released, but Shearer bought it, and it may be coming out this summer, IIRC

hope so

you didn't see it, did you?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Yeah I did. It was released but didn't show for more than a month

think I saw it in winter of 2000...it was OK..not very funny..decent cast.

[buycitgo]

3. not been released yet, but might be soon, according to Michael McKean

What inspired your new movie, “Teddy Bears’ Picnic”?

It was inspired when two female film producers from San Francisco approached me with an idea to do a film about Bohemian Grove. I said, if I write it, I direct it, and it's a comedy. They agreed, and provided me access to a lot of former members, sons of members, prostitutes who serviced members, and so forth. Then, about two months after I'd completed the first script, they scrapped their partnership
and the script eventually reverted to me.

With a funny premise, star-studded cast and your name on it, how come more people haven’t heard of the film?

Many of the media outlets where I believed I had friends decided not to do stories about the film. I am still not convinced about the reason for their decisions

[seemslikeadream]

8. here's a photo of ronnie and dick at the club

[DebJ]

6. surely they conspire to use their vast power for the

betterment of all mankind....ha ha

[devilgrrl]

7. The movie is available on Netflix

http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?trkid=73&movieid=60022711

Should rent it?

[slaveplanet]

9. I'm not sure what to make of this

Guardian article. It's seems as if it another effort to paint all tinfoilers as loonies, much like the Bohemian Grove member Shearer tries to do with his movie attempt.

//The journalist and documentary maker Jon Ronson tried to get close to a Bilderberg meeting in 2001, joining forces with an oddball Washington journalist he referred to as "Big Jim". "They exist," Ronson quotes Big Jim as saying, "and they're not playing pinochle in there."//

The "big Jim" referred to here, has to be "Jim Tucker" of American Free Press.

Ole big Jim sets spys in these meetings and he gets gems in return.
He reported the "Iraq invasion" would start in Feb/march 2003. Not especially surprising except he reported it in July of 2002, after the BB meeting.

The BB meetings are a steering committee for the whole globe...they can make a joke out of it anyway they want , but that don't change the fact that some of the most important decisions come out of there.

[madfloridian]

10. Jon Corzine, D-N.J, must be going later....he was TBA conference on Thurs.

In DC...the Take Back America conference on June 3.. He must have skiddaddled out of there to rush to Italy.