Over the next several days, more than a hundred of the most powerful people on the planet will attend a secret conference at a hotel in Chantilly, Virgina. Some of the biggest names in politics and business will be there. The hotel is going to be completely locked down and will be swarmed by hordes of security guards carrying machine guns. This conference is so important that even the U.S. Secret Service is rumored to be involved in providing security. These meetings have been held yearly since 1954, but no record of what goes on at them has ever been officially released to the public and all the attendees are sworn to secrecy. Decisions made at this conference will affect the lives of every man, woman and child on the planet. But the vast majority of Americans will have no idea that the Bilderberg Group is meeting about 20 miles from Washington D.C. this year because the mainstream media in the United States ignores the Bilderberg Group almost entirely year after year. Based on the coverage it gets from the U.S. media, you would think that the Bilderberg Group was a non-event. But if some of the most powerful people on the planet are getting together to discuss our future, don’t you think the mainstream media should be covering it?
The Bilderberg Group is much more than just a social club. It has played a major role in shaping the direction of the world since it was created in 1954. The Bilderberg Group helped create the European Union and it helped create the euro. This year efforts to save the euro are rumored to be high on the agenda.
And considering the big names that show up at this conference on a yearly basis you would think that the U.S. media would be extremely interested in it. The following is just a sampling of the big names that have attended Bilderberg in recent years….
Bill 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, Herman van Rompuy, Jean-Claude Trichet, Jeff Bezos, Chris R. Hughes, Eric Schmidt, Craig J. Mundie, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Richard Perle, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden
Isn’t that enough star power to get the attention of the mainstream media?
A complete list of the “official attendees” of the Bilderberg Group from last year can be found right here.
You would think that this would be big news.
But apparently there is so much else going on in the world that there isn’t any room to cover the Bilderberg Group.
For example, right now on USA Today you can find the following headlines on the front page….
-Trilogies spring up on reading lists
-Spelling still matters in era of texting, spell check
-Many chain stores now add a toy aisle for adults
Perhaps other news sources are discussing more important news.
Then again, perhaps not.
On the front page of CNN, you can currently find the following headlines….
-Airline seat squeeze: It’s not just you
-Group: Prove Romney’s not a unicorn
-Scientists confirm ‘old person smell’
No wonder CNN is experiencing record low television ratings.
The mainstream media may be ignoring Bilderberg, but based on the level of security around the hotel you would be tempted to think that it was the most important event in the United States this year.
A recent article by Paul Joseph Watson discussed some of the extraordinary security measures that are being implemented to protect this conference….
Undercover Fairfax police, secret service, hotel security, as well as diplomatic service personnel are all now rushing to finalize preparations for the arrival of Bilderberg members tomorrow morning.
According to London Guardian journalist Charlie Skelton, conference organizers were also using iPhones to film guests who had arrived for brunch. Regular guests as well as journalists are also having background checks run against their names.
Alex Jones also heard discussions between members of Bilderberg security about how sophisticated surveillance equipment using satellites was being used to tap phones of prominent activists and media personalities set to cover the event.
So why doesn’t the mainstream media want to cover this?
In the past, a number of top politicians (including future U.S. presidents) have attended Bilderberg prior to getting elected to very important positions. A recent WorldNetDaily article detailed a few examples of this phenomenon….
George H.W. Bush attended in 1985. He became president in 1988. Bill Clinton attended in 1991. He became president a year later. Tony Blair attended in 1993. He became prime minister of England in 1997. Romano Prodi attended in 1999. Later that year he became president of the European Union Commission. In 2004, Sen. John Edwards spoke to the group. He was later anointed the Democratic vice presidential nominee by presidential candidate John Kerry.
It is even rumored that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton held a secret meeting at Bilderberg back in 2008.
Amazingly, there are indications that Barack Obama may have held a little “pre-Bilderberg meeting” again this year. According to the Economic Policy Journal, Obama snuck away from reporters on Saturday for some mysterious reason….
Of note, President Obama disappeared this weekend.. Reporters were miffed. Was it a pre-Bilderberg meeting for the Prez?
On Saturday, West Wing Report had these odd tweets:
President arrived 1:10 ET at Andrews golf course. Playing today with regulars Marvin Nicholson; Walt Nicholson & Pete Selfridge
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President back at White House. In a breach of longtanding policy, his motorcade departed without hooking up with the waiting press vans.
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Pool does not know first hand when the president left Andrews, what route he took, or when he arrived at White House
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Press pool always accompanies the president wherever he goes. Decades-long tradition violated again.Remember, if the President meets someone outside the White House, it isn’t logged in on WH records amd there is no record if the press aren’t there to record it.
So where did Obama go during that missing time and why did he ditch the press?
They will probably never tell us.
The truth is that the mainstream media is the biggest “gatekeeper” of all.
They decide what is important and what is not important.
They decide what is going to be in “the news” and what the American people are going to be talking about.
They choose to totally ignore the Bilderberg Group and so most Americans will not even hear about it this year.
And that is really sad. The truth is that those that attend Bilderberg have big plans for all of us.
David Rockefeller, a regular attendee at Bilderberg meetings, wrote the following in a 2003 book entitled “Memoirs”….
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like the fact that a bunch of elitists are holding secret conferences where they discuss how to build a “more integrated global political and economic structure”.
The future of America should be in the hands of the American people – not in the hands of secretive global elitists that desire to shape the world in their own image.
Please share this information and other articles you can find about the Bilderberg Group with as many people as you can. The mainstream media is not doing their job, so it is up to all of us to get the truth out.
Video of #OccupyTheBanks protest in San Jose a few weeks ago, shutting down #BankOfAmerica ~ http://youtu.be/dqkR1f0f7zI?a ~ courtesy @pgoeltz #otb
Bank of America now has another PR disaster on its hands, one that was completely self-imposed.
By buying up hundreds of domain names like
and
and
Bank of America has generated way more bad publicity for itself and its executives than sites built on these domains ever would have.
(Who on earth would want to go to annemfinucanesucks.com? No normal people even know who Anne M Finucane is. In case you’re curious, she’s Bank of America’s chief marketing officer. That’s her in the middle of the picture to the right, with Sandy Weill and some other fellow.)
But now at least we know the reason Bank of America ordered some minion to think of and buy these hundreds of domain names—and probably paid him or her hundreds of dollars an hour to do it.
The reason?
A site called BANKOFAMERICASUCKS.com.
Bank of America doesn’t own that URL, although it presumably wishes it did.
BANKOFAMERICASUCKS.com is “the official Bank of America consumer opinion site.” It’s a forum you can go to to read and rant about how horrible Bank of America is. Unlike annemfinucanesucks.com, it’s a site you might actually think of searching for if you were feeling like reading or ranting about how much Bank of America sucks.
BANKOFAMERICASUCKS.com is, helpfully, organized into topics, so you can go rant and read about whatever Bank of America product you’re particularly pissed off about. It’s also home for a big, energetic community of similarly enraged Bank of America customers, so you can always find someone else to co-miserate with.
(When we visited this morning, there were 24 angry people there.)
Anyway, now that Bank of America has revealed its intention to try to corner the market on URLs that could be used to host sites that are critical of Bank of America and its executives, the value of BANKOFAMERICASUCKS.com just went way up.
So if we were the lucky owner of BANKOFAMERICASUCKS.com, we might think about cashing in on that.
We’d guess that, between the cost of domain name registration and minion-time, Bank of America has probably invested $10,000 or more in its URL-acquisition campaign. We’d further guess that Bank of America would be willing to pay all that and more for the granddaddy of Bank-of-America-sucks domain names: BANKOFAMERICASUCKS.com
So if we owned BANKOFAMERICASUCKS.com, we’d probably probably ask for at least $100,000…
See Also: Check Out The Hundreds of BANKOFAMERICASUCKS URLs That BOFA Just Bought
Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary (8 November 1777 – 17 December 1860), one-time fiancée of a young man named Napoleone Buonaparte, later married to a marshall of France who was then adopted by the Swedish king, making her Queen Desideria of Sweden.
Always loved her story - sounds like a movie, doesn’t it?
Meadham Kirchhoff’s S/S 2012 Pink Glitter Platforms in the Spring/Summer issue of Twin.
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What should I do with these? I can’t decide how I’d like to repurpose them. Maybe make them into a lamp? They’re from my stash of books that once belonged to now-deceased family members. Can you pick out the two very well-worn (and -loved) vintage Nancy Drew books?! And the old Boy Scout Handbooks? (Taken with instagram)
I interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this special note about using books as raw material for “reuse projects”:
When my Unconsumption colleagues and I (Molly) post ideas that involve the repurposing of books, these are examples of the books I envision using for such projects. Not new books, or books that someone may actually want to read. But books that are well past their reading prime. Regular readers of the Unconsumption blog know this. In fact, we Unconsumptioneers often add caveats — like this one, and this one and this one from Rob — about using unreadable or otherwise unwanted books as raw material.
So, back to the question of what will I do with the books pictured. (In case you’re wondering: The books are from my personal “collection”: the 1940s Scout books and “Treasure Island” were my father’s; the older Nancy Drew book — a 1930 edition of “The Hidden Staircase,” standing upright, with most of its blue spine disintegrated — my mother’s.)
Have you done something with old books — something you think will inspire me to finally do something with these (other than move them from shelf to shelf)? If so, let me know.
Related: I posted this photo via the @Unconsumption Instagram account. If you’re on Instagram and add the tag “#unconsumption“ to photos, I’ll check them out!
keep them
Method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere
United States Patent 4,686,605 / Eastlund / August 11, 1987
A method and apparatus for altering at least one selected region which normally exists above the earth’s surface. The region is excited by electron cyclotron resonance heating to thereby increase its charged particle density. In one embodiment, circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation is transmitted upward in a direction substantially parallel to and along a field line which extends through the region of plasma to be altered. The radiation is transmitted at a frequency which excites electron cyclotron resonance to heat and accelerate the charged particles. This increase in energy can cause ionization of neutral particles which are then absorbed as part of the region thereby increasing the charged particle density of the region.
May 30, 2012
The Spanish bank Bankia in Madrid has asked the government to inject $24 billion. The European Commission is proposing a “banking union” to help eurozone governments rescue banks.
There have been very few days lately when worries about Europe’s debt crisis weren’t growing.
As Spain struggles to shore up its third-largest bank with a $24 billion bailout, the country’s borrowing costs continue to go through the roof as fears lingered about a possible run on its banks.
Wednesday brought renewed signs that things could get even worse, and those fears spread to U.S. markets. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 1 percent in late-morning trading, but banking stocks were down even more sharply. Citigroup dropped 3 percent, JPMorgan Chase fell 1.5 percent and Bank of America was down 1.8 percent.
But there are also signs that European officials continue to look for new solutions.
The European Commission on Wednesday proposed a “banking union” for the 17-country eurozone. “The Commission has indicated the main steps towards full economic and monetary union, including a banking union; euro area financial supervision and euro-area wide deposit guarantees,” the European Union’s executive arm said.
Spain’s economy is weighed down by a 24 percent unemployment rate — Europe’s highest — and mounting budget deficits in its semiautonomous regions. And it faces higher and higher borrowing costs.
The rate on Spanish 10-year bonds, “a key indicator of market confidence in a country’s ability to pay down its debt, shot up 25 basis points Wednesday to 6.67 percent — matching the level it hit at the height of the eurozone crisis late last year, according to financial data provider FactSet,” the Associated Press said. The yield later fell back to 6.55 percent.
Reuters says investors “are worried that public finances in Spain, which is already struggling to cut it large budget deficit at a time of recession, will become unsustainable if it is forced to bail out is banks, after a real-estate market boom turned to collapse and left nearly all banks laden with bad property loans.”
As the Wall Street Journal explains, “The fear is that even if the government gets the required bank aid from the bailout fund, it would damage its efforts to raise money from the bond markets to finance the rest of its operations.”
So the European Commission suggested a central fund that would be in charge of paying for bank bailouts throughout the eurozone. “That would protect individual governments from having their public finances overwhelmed by the cost of rescuing a bank,” AP said.
Just how such a fund would work has yet to be determined and it isn’t clear whether it would be approved. But it does show that European officials haven’t run out of ideas for dealing with the Whac-a-Mole-like crisis.
In the meantime, the Commission said Wednesday it will recommend giving Spain until 2014 to meet the EU’s budget deficit targets. Spain is currently required to cut its deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product in 2013 from last year’s 8.5 percent.
(Avie Schneider is NPR.org’s business editor
