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Elite Group members realising that increased exposure means they can no longer hide<\/strong> A Bilderberg Group delegate who attended this past weekend\u2019s secretive elite meeting has discussed the organisation on record, in a move that signifies a shift toward more transparency, enforced by alternative media and activist exposure.<\/p>\n Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, a former leading British ambassador to Afghanistan, now a leading executive at arms manufacturer BAE Systems, spoke on record to The Watford Observer<\/a> today.<\/p>\n Predictably, Cowper-Coles merely repeated the establishment media hoax that Bilderberg has no influence and is merely a \u201ctalking shop\u201d or a golfing holiday.<\/p>\n \u201cI can honestly say, having been at the meeting, all the conspiracy theories are wrong.\u201d he said, adding \u201cIt was just a private discussion of the kind that takes place at conference centres all around the world, all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know [why people protest the meetings], I suppose one thing that distinguishes Bilderberg is it\u2019s pretty high level. But I am slightly at a loss to understand exactly why it should be controversial.\u201d the ex-diplomat stated.<\/p>\n On Saturday afternoon, close to 2000 protesters crammed into the designated campaign area in the grounds of the Grove Hotel in Hertforshire, England. Cowper-Coles claims that some Bilderberg members strayed from their rooms behind the ring of steel fencing, and actually walked down the grounds to look at protesters.<\/p>\n \u201cThe protest wasn\u2019t discussed during the meeting but everyone was aware of it and some parties actually went down to see the demonstrators and find out what was going on.\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n Infowars reported last week<\/a> that an unnamed Bilderberger would speak about the group on record, after a source close to the security operation surrounding the confab told our reporters that numerous Bilderberg Group members are aggrieved at the organization\u2019s obsession with secrecy and want to see more transparency.<\/p>\n Sherard Cowper-Coles also defended the secrecy surrounding the meeting, noting \u201cIt is the rule of the group that all these senior people are able to exchange views in private, it is no different from many other conferences where proceedings are conducted under what is called the Chatham House Rule.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI found the experience very interesting and very valuable. We covered a wide range of topics \u2014 everything from Syria to the economic situation to British membership of the EU and even big data, which is very topical.\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was two and a half very full days of discussion. We covered jobs and the global economic situation, growth, European politics, Africa, the Middle East, big data, medical research, nationalism, populism, online education, cyber warfare, America and the World, Syria.\u201d Cowper-Coles also stated.<\/p>\n Cowper-Coles also predictably claimed that anyone who attends Bilderberg does so in a personal capacity, and not as a representative of any government, organisation or corporation.<\/p>\n \u201cI am sure that was the case [that he was invited due to his diplomatic experience] I certainly wasn\u2019t there representing BAE.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Those claims run counter to comments made in 2011 by the office of British Chancellor George Osbourne, as aides disclosed to the London Guardian<\/a> that the head of the Treasury was there in an official capacity.<\/p>\n Osbourne was once again present at this year\u2019s meeting, along with his opposition counterpart, MP Ed Balls, and the Prime Minister David Cameron.<\/p>\n Labour MP Michael Meacher, who visited protesters at the weekend, today made good on his vow to officially quiz Osbourne on his Bilderberg attendance. However, it was MP Kenneth Clarke, a Bilderberg Steering Committee member who answered the question in the House of Commons, dismissing any theories that the group influences public policy, and claiming that the group is not beholden to public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Clarke stumbled and spluttered, however, when it was noted that as a trustee of the registered \u201ccharity\u201d that funds Bilderberg Group activities, he is beholden to fully to declare his role as a leading organiser of the secretive meetings, in order to avoid potential conflicts of interest that would impact his role as a public official. Clarke admitted that he may have failed to do this because he \u201cforgot\u201d that he was a trustee.<\/p>\n The London Telegraph quickly released a story on Clarke\u2019s admission, but it was removed from their website within an hour of publican. The link <\/a>now ends in a 404 error page.<\/p>\n As we have exhaustively documented, there are numerous examples to illustrate the fact that Bilderberg is not merely a \u201ctalking shop\u201d as some in the corporate press frame it, but a venue where consensus is formed for the implementation of both national and geopolitical policies.<\/p>\n Documents read by the BBC and later released by Wikileaks<\/a> divulge how Bilderberg members were discussing the creation of the euro single currency nearly 40 years before it was officially introduced in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty.<\/p>\n \u201cA meeting in June in Europe of the Bilderberg Group- an informal club of leading politicians, businessmen and thinkers chaired by Mr. Davignon- could also \u2018improve understanding\u2019 on future action, in the same way it helped create the Euro in the 1990s, he said,\u201d\u00a0reported the EU Observer<\/a> in March 2009.<\/p>\n In spring 2002, when war hawks in the Bush administration were pushing for a summer invasion of Iraq,\u00a0Bilderbergers expressed their desire for a delay<\/a> and the attack was not launched until March the following year.<\/p>\n In 2006, journalists who got leaked information from inside Bilderberg predicted that the U.S. housing market would be allowed to soar<\/a> before the bubble was cruelly popped, which is exactly what transpired.<\/p>\n In June 2008, we learned that Bilderberg were creating the conditions for a financial calamity, which is exactly what began a few months later with the collapse of Lehman Brothers.<\/p>\n Bilderberg has habitually flexed its muscles in establishing its role as kingmaker. The organization routinely selects presidential candidates as well as running mates and prime ministers.<\/p>\n Despite widespread expectation that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be announced as the first European Union President, the former Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy, was picked for the role\u00a0just days after he attended a Bilderberg Group dinner meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were both groomed by the secretive organization in the early 1990\u2019s before rising to prominence.<\/p>\n Barack Obama\u2019s running mate Joe Biden was\u00a0selected by Bilderberg luminary James A. Johnson<\/a>, and John Kerry\u2019s 2004 running mate\u00a0John Edwards was also anointed by the group<\/a> after he gave a glowing speech at the conference in 2004.<\/p>\n Despite the fact that the establishment media, many titans of which are Bilderberg members, routinely plays down the weight of the group\u2019s influence on world affairs, in a 2010 radio interview\u00a0former NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes admitted<\/a> that Bilderberg attendees are mandated to implement decisions that are formulated during the annual conference of power brokers.<\/p>\n Although the topics on the agenda are usually disclosed during the course of the Bilderberg meeting, we already know that the group will have an influence on picking Mitt Romney\u2019s running mate for the U.S. presidential election, with\u00a0Florida Senator Marco Rubio being the firm favorite<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rubio recently flaunted his \u201cforeign policy chops\u201d\u00a0during a Brookings Institution speech<\/a> in which he called for the U.S. to attack Syria and Iran.<\/p>\n The damn is breaking on Bilderberg secrecy, and\u00a0the group knows it. Thanks to sustained efforts by alternative media journalists and activists, the vast amount of mainstream media coverage of\u00a02013\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2s meeting represents an unprecedented breakthrough that should be celebrated as a victory by anyone and everyone who values government transparency and corporate accountability.<\/p>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Monday, June 10, 2013 at 12:30 pm<\/p>\n Tags: bilderberg<\/a><\/p>\n
Steve Watson<\/strong>
Infowars.com
June 10, 2013<\/p>\n
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