[R-G] [BillTottenWeblog] Daniel Estulin's "True Story of the Bilderberg Group"

[Bill Totten]

and What They May Be Planning Now 

by Stephen Lendman

sjlendman.blogspot.com (June 01 2009)


For over fourteen years, Daniel Estulin has investigated and researched
the Bilderberg Group's far-reaching influence on business and finance,
global politics, war and peace, and control of the world's resources and
its money.

His book, The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, was published in 2005
and is now updated in a new 2009 edition. He states that in 1954, "the
most powerful men in the world met for the first time" in Oosterbeek,
Netherlands, "debated the future of the world", and decided to meet
annually in secret. They called themselves the Bilderberg Group with a
membership representing a who's who of world power elites, mostly from
America, Canada, and Western Europe with familiar names like David
Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel,
Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Lloyd
Blankfein, George Soros, Donald Rumsfeld, Rupert Murdoch, other heads of
state, influential senators, congressmen and parliamentarians, Pentagon
and NATO brass, members of European royalty, selected media figures, and
invited others - some quietly by some accounts like Barack Obama and many
of his top officials.

Always well represented are top figures from the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR), IMF, World Bank, Trilateral Commission, EU, and powerful
central bankers from the Federal Reserve, the ECB's Jean-Claude Trichet,
and Bank of England's Mervyn King.

For over half a century, no agenda or discussion topics became public nor
is any press coverage allowed. The few invited fourth estate attendees and
their bosses are sworn to secrecy. Nonetheless, Estulin undertook "an
investigative journey" that became his life's work. He states:

"Slowly, one by one, I have penetrated the layers of secrecy surrounding
the Bilderberg Group, but I could not have done this without help of
'conscientious objectors' from inside, as well as outside, the Group's
membership". As a result, he keeps their names confidential.

Whatever its early mission, the Group is now "a shadow world
government ... threaten(ing) to take away our right to direct our own
destinies (by creating) a disturbing reality" very much harming the
public's welfare. In short, Bilderbergers want to supplant individual
nation-state sovereignty with an all-powerful global government, corporate
controlled, and check-mated by militarized enforcement.

"Imagine a private club where presidents, prime ministers, international
bankers and generals rub shoulders, where gracious royal chaperones ensure
everyone gets along, and where the people running the wars, markets, and
Europe (and America) say what they never dare say in public".

Early in its history, Bilderbergers decided "to create an 'Aristocracy of
purpose' between Europe and the United States (to reach consensus to rule
the world on matters of) policy, economics, and (overall) strategy". NATO
was essential for their plans - to ensure "perpetual war (and) nuclear
blackmail" to be used as necessary. Then proceed to loot the planet,
achieve fabulous wealth and power, and crush all challengers to keep it.

Along with military dominance, controlling the world's money is crucial
for with it comes absolute control as the powerful 19th century Rothschild
family understood. As the patriarch Amschel Rothschild once said: "Give me
control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws".

Bilderbergers comprise the world's most exclusive club. No one buys their
way in. Only the Group's Steering Committee decides whom to invite, and in
all cases participants are adherents to One World Order governance run by
top power elites.

According to Steering Committee rules:

"the invited guests must come alone; no wives, girlfriends, husbands or
boyfriends. Personal assistants (meaning security, bodyguards, CIA or
other secret service protectors) cannot attend the conference and must eat
in a separate hall. (Also) The guests are explicitly forbidden from giving
interviews to journalists" or divulge anything that goes on in meetings.

Host governments provide overall security to keep away outsiders.
One-third of attendees are political figures. The others are from
industry, finance, academia, labor and communications.

Meeting procedure is by Chatham House Rules letting attendees freely
express their views in a relaxed atmosphere knowing nothing said will be
quoted or revealed to the public. Meetings "are always frank, but do not
always conclude with consensus".

Membership consists of annual attendees (around eighty of the world's most
powerful) and others only invited occasionally because of their knowledge
or involvement in relevant topics. Those most valued are asked back, and
some first-timers are chosen for their possible later usefulness.

Arkansas governor Bill Clinton, for example, who attended in 1991. "There,
David Rockefeller told (him) why the North American Free Trade
Agreement ... was a Bilderberg priority and that the group needed him to
support it. The next year, Clinton was elected president", and on January
01 1994 NAFTA took effect. Numerous other examples are similar, including
who gets chosen for powerful government, military and other key positions.


Bilderberg Objectives

The Group's grand design is for "a One World Government (World Company)
with a single, global marketplace, policed by one world army, and
financially regulated by one 'World (Central) Bank' using one global
currency". Their "wish list" includes:

-  "one international identify (observing) one set of universal values";

-  centralized control of world populations by "mind control"; in other
words, controlling world public opinion;

-  a New World Order with no middle class, only "rulers and servants
(serfs)", and, of course, no democracy;

-  "a zero-growth society" without prosperity or progress, only greater
wealth and power for the rulers;

-  manufactured crises and perpetual wars;

-  absolute control of education to program the public mind and train
those chosen for various roles;

-  "centralized control of all foreign and domestic policies"; one size
fits all globally;

-  using the UN as a de facto world government imposing a UN tax on "world
citizens";

-  expanding NAFTA and WTO globally;

-  making NATO a world military;

-  imposing a universal legal system; and

-  a global "welfare state where obedient slaves will be rewarded and
non-conformists targeted for extermination".


Secret Bilderberg Partners

In the US, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is dominant. One of its
1921 founders, Edward Mandell House, was Woodrow Wilson's chief advisor
and rumored at the time to be the nation's real power from 1913 to 1921.
On his watch, the Federal Reserve Act passed in December 1913 giving money
creation power to bankers, and the 16th Amendment was ratified in February
creating the federal income tax to provide a revenue stream to pay for
government debt service.