Bilderberg 2016: What Are the Global Elite Plotting This Time Around?

Bilderberg 2016: What Are the Global Elite Plotting This Time Around? - By Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/bilderberg-2016-what-are-the-global-elite-plotting-this-time-around

 

Later this week, dozens of the most important men in the world are going to gather at an ultra-luxury hotel in Dresden, Germany to discuss the future of the planet.  What will happen at this meeting will not be televised, and the mainstream media in the United States will almost entirely ignore it, but decisions will be made at this conference that will affect the lives of every man, woman and child on the entire globe.  Of course I am talking about the Bilderberg Group, and for decades you were labeled a "conspiracy theorist" if you even acknowledged that it existed.

 

Every year since 1954 the elite of the world have gathered at this time of the year to "discuss global events", and since the Bilderberg Group operates under Chatham House Rules, everyone that participates is banned from revealing what goes on during the conference.

 

But what takes place at these conferences really matters.  For example, it has been documented that the Bilderberg Group played a key role in the development of the European Union and in the decision to create the euro.

 

The elitists that attend these meetings are not the kind of people that would waste their time having tea and exchanging small talk.  The list of previous attendees includes Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Prince Charles, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, Angela Merkel, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Rick Perry, David Rockefeller and Joe Biden.  I have included a list of those attending Bilderberg this year at the end of this article.

 

The Taschenbergpalais Hotel In Dresden has been transformed into a heavily armed camp for this year's conference, which only adds to the aura of mystery surrounding Bilderberg.  The following comes from the Guardian...

 

You know Bilderberg's about to begin when you start seeing the guns. The Taschenbergpalais hotel in Dresden is filling up with pistol-packing plainclothes security as the last guests are ushered out. The frowning gunslingers head up and down the corridors with their hotel maps, trying door handles and checking the lay of the land while, down in the hotel lobby, corporate goons gather in muttering huddles.

 

I don't know why everyone's so antsy. According to the local newspaper DNN, at least 400 police officers will be surrounding the venue for the three days of the talks. There's already a ring of concrete blocks around the entrance. Is that not enough? What are they expecting? The charge of the light brigade?

 

So what precisely is going on that is so incredibly important that it needs such protection?

 

Well, the following list of "key topics" for discussion at this year's conference comes directly from the official Bilderberg website...

 

1.Current events

2.China

3.Europe: migration, growth, reform, vision, unity

4.Middle East

5.Russia

6.US political landscape, economy: growth, debt, reform

7.Cyber security

8.Geo-politics of energy and commodity prices

9.Precariat and middle class

10.Technological innovation

 

The term "precariat" definitely caught my attention.

 

I didn't know what that term meant, so I had to look it up.  Here is how one source defines it...

 

The precariat is similar to the blue-collar workers of yesteryear in that they earn less than what Standing calls the salariat, but they are unique in that workers in manufacturing jobs, for instance, tended to have job security, benefits, and often union protection (which played a large part in the presence of the first two). Today's precariat usually has none of that, and spans income and education levels, from sub-minimum-wage illegal migrant work and low-wage retail or service work to highly educated but contract- and freelance-dependent industries (like, ahem, journalism). Members of the precariat also, unlike their working-class forebears, have to put in an alarming amount of work that no one considers "work" or compensates them for.

 

But of course there will certainly be other things not on the official agenda that will be discussed by the elitists that gather in Dresden.  Two topics that will definitely be on the minds of most attendees will be the upcoming Brexit vote and the Donald Trump phenomenon...

 

The attendance of anti-Trump Senator Lindsey Graham is an obvious sign that Bilderberg will be scheming on how to prevent Trump from defeating Bilderberg's chosen candidate - Hillary Clinton.

 

As we reported during last year's conference, Bilderberg was confident that Clinton could shake off her GOP challengers, but Trump's self-funded campaign and his public opposition to globalism and internationalist trade deals like NAFTA has shocked the Bilderberg elitists.

 

Bilderberg will obviously be discussing Brexit - Britain referendum vote to leave the EU - because it threatens the future of the European Union federal superstate that was the brainchild of Bilderberg in the first place.

 

Ultimately, key decisions regarding the future of the European Union, U.S. politics and the global financial system will be made at this conference, but we are not supposed to know what takes place at Bilderberg and the mainstream media in the United States has always had a policy of virtually ignoring these meetings.

 

But some things have changed.  In the past, it always took a good bit of detective work to figure out who was attending these meetings, but in recent years an official list of participants has been published on the Bilderberg website.  Below is the official list for this year.  Do you recognize any familiar names on this list?...

 

CHAIRMAN

 Castries, Henri de (FRA), Chairman and CEO, AXA Group

 

Aboutaleb, Ahmed (NLD), Mayor, City of Rotterdam

 Achleitner, Paul M. (DEU), Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG

 Agius, Marcus (GBR), Chairman, PA Consulting Group

 Ahrenkiel, Thomas (DNK), Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence

 Albuquerque, Maria Lu�­s (PRT), Former Minister of Finance; MP, Social Democratic Party

 Alierta, César (ESP), Executive Chairman and CEO, Telefónica

 Altman, Roger C. (USA), Executive Chairman, Evercore

 Altman, Sam (USA), President, Y Combinator

 Andersson, Magdalena (SWE), Minister of Finance

 Applebaum, Anne (USA), Columnist Washington Post; Director of the Transitions Forum, Legatum Institute

 Apunen, Matti (FIN), Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA

 Aydin-Düzgit, Senem (TUR), Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, Istanbul Bilgi University

 Barbizet, Patricia (FRA), CEO, Artemis

 Barroso, José M. Durão (PRT), Former President of the European Commission

 Baverez, Nicolas (FRA), Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

 Bengio, Yoshua (CAN), Professor in Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal

 Benko, René (AUT), Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board, SIGNA Holding GmbH

 Bernabè, Franco (ITA), Chairman, CartaSi S.p.A.

 Beurden, Ben van (NLD), CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc

 Blanchard, Olivier (FRA), Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute

 Bot�­n, Ana P. (ESP), Executive Chairman, Banco Santander

 Brandtzæg, Svein Richard (NOR), President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA

 Breedlove, Philip M. (INT), Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe

 Brende, Børge (NOR), Minister of Foreign Affairs

 Burns, William J. (USA), President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cebrián, Juan Luis (ESP), Executive Chairman, PRISA and El Pa�­s

 Charpentier, Emmanuelle (FRA), Director, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

 Coeuré, Benoît (INT), Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

 Costamagna, Claudio (ITA), Chairman, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti S.p.A.

 Cote, David M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Honeywell

 Cryan, John (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Bank AG

 Dassù, Marta (ITA), Senior Director, European Affairs, Aspen Institute

 Dijksma, Sharon A.M. (NLD), Minister for the Environment

 Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), CEO, Axel Springer SE

 Dyvig, Christian (DNK), Chairman, Kompan

 Ebeling, Thomas (DEU), CEO, ProSiebenSat.1

 Elkann, John (ITA), Chairman and CEO, EXOR; Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles

 Enders, Thomas (DEU), CEO, Airbus Group

 Engel, Richard (USA), Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News

 Fabius, Laurent (FRA), President, Constitutional Council

 Federspiel, Ulrik (DNK), Group Executive, Haldor Topsøe A/S

 Ferguson, Jr., Roger W. (USA), President and CEO, TIAA

 Ferguson, Niall (USA), Professor of History, Harvard University

 Flint, Douglas J. (GBR), Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc

 Garicano, Luis (ESP), Professor of Economics, LSE; Senior Advisor to Ciudadanos

 Georgieva, Kristalina (INT), Vice President, European Commission

 Gernelle, Etienne (FRA), Editorial Director, Le Point

 Gomes da Silva, Carlos (PRT), Vice Chairman and CEO, Galp Energia

 Goodman, Helen (GBR), MP, Labour Party

 Goulard, Sylvie (INT), Member of the European Parliament

 Graham, Lindsey (USA), Senator

 Grillo, Ulrich (DEU), Chairman, Grillo-Werke AG; President, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie

 Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and Anchor "Otto e mezzo", La7 TV

 Hadfield, Chris (CAN), Colonel, Astronaut

 Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Professor of Economics, Leiden University

 Harding, Dido (GBR), CEO, TalkTalk Telecom Group plc

 Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO, DeepMind

 Hobson, Mellody (USA), President, Ariel Investment, LLC

 Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn

 Höttges, Timotheus (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG

 Jacobs, Kenneth M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Lazard

 Jäkel, Julia (DEU), CEO, Gruner + Jahr

 Johnson, James A. (USA), Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners

 Jonsson, Conni (SWE), Founder and Chairman, EQT

 Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. (USA), Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC

 Kaeser, Joe (DEU), President and CEO, Siemens AG

 Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies

 Kengeter, Carsten (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Börse AG

 Kerr, John (GBR), Deputy Chairman, Scottish Power

 Kherbache, Yasmine (BEL), MP, Flemish Parliament

 Kissinger, Henry A. (USA), Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.

 Kleinfeld, Klaus (USA), Chairman and CEO, Alcoa

 Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

 Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

 Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group

 Lagarde, Christine (INT), Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

 Levin, Richard (USA), CEO, Coursera

 Leyen, Ursula von der (DEU), Minister of Defence

 Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, KBC Group

 Logothetis, George (GRC), Chairman and CEO, Libra Group

 Maizière, Thomas de (DEU), Minister of the Interior, Federal Ministry of the Interior

 Makan, Divesh (USA), CEO, ICONIQ Capital

 Malcomson, Scott (USA), Author; President, Monere Ltd.

 Markwalder, Christa (CHE), President of the National Council and the Federal Assembly

 McArdle, Megan (USA), Columnist, Bloomberg View

 Michel, Charles (BEL), Prime Minister

 Micklethwait, John (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP

 Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist

 Mitsotakis, Kyriakos (GRC), President, New Democracy Party

 Morneau, Bill (CAN), Minister of Finance

 Mundie, Craig J. (USA), Principal, Mundie & Associates

 Murray, Charles A. (USA), W.H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

 Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD)

 Noonan, Michael (IRL), Minister for Finance

 Noonan, Peggy (USA), Author, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

 O'Leary, Michael (IRL), CEO, Ryanair Plc

 Ollongren, Kajsa (NLD), Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam

 Ã–zel, Soli (TUR), Professor, Kadir Has University

 Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), CEO, Titan Cement Co.

 Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chairman, KKR Global Institute

 Philippe, Edouard (FRA), Mayor of Le Havre

 Pind, Søren (DNK), Minister of Justice

 Ratti, Carlo (ITA), Director, MIT Senseable City Lab

 Reisman, Heather M. (CAN), Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.

 Rutte, Mark (NLD), Prime Minister

 Sawers, John (GBR), Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners

 Schäuble, Wolfgang (DEU), Minister of Finance

 Schieder, Andreas (AUT), Chairman, Social Democratic Group

 Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chairman, Alphabet Inc.

 Scholten, Rudolf (AUT), CEO, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG

 Schwab, Klaus (INT), Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

 Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Senior Fellow, Harvard University; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

 Simsek, Mehmet (TUR), Deputy Prime Minister

 Sinn, Hans-Werner (DEU), Professor for Economics and Public Finance, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

 Skogen Lund, Kristin (NOR), Director General, The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise

 Standing, Guy (GBR), Co-President, BIEN; Research Professor, University of London

 Svanberg, Carl-Henric (SWE), Chairman, BP plc and AB Volvo

 Thiel, Peter A. (USA), President, Thiel Capital

 Tillich, Stanislaw (DEU), Minister-President of Saxony

 Vetterli, Martin (CHE), President, NSF

 Wahlroos, Björn (FIN), Chairman, Sampo Group, Nordea Bank, UPM-Kymmene Corporation

 Wallenberg, Jacob (SWE), Chairman, Investor AB

 Weder di Mauro, Beatrice (CHE), Professor of Economics, University of Mainz

 Wolf, Martin H. (GBR), Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times