Conspiracy theorists claim the Bilderberg Group is a cabal of 130 of the world’s most powerful public and private crony leaders plotting for global domination, but this year’s meeting is all about leaders trying to save globalism from Brexit.
The “Bilderberg 16” conference opened at the Taschenbergpalais hotel in Dresden on June 19. More than 400 police surrounded the area to restrain protestors who believe the group wants maximizes profits for the elite while destroying the middle class.
The organization began with a 1954 meeting at Holland’s Hotel de Bilderberg. The goal was to curb socialist anti-Americanism by promoting “Atlanticism” that would to foster political, economic, and defense cooperation between the United States and Western Europe. The Bilderberg Group set out to “bolster a consensus around free market Western capitalism and its interests around the globe.”
The group succeeded beyond their wildest imagination with the 1989 implosion of the Soviet Union, the 1991 dismantling of the Warsaw Pact, and the opening of Western trade with communist China.
But rather than declaring victory and going out of business, the Bilderbergs simply began pushing globalized trade and interventions. They supported the 1992 passage of the “Maastricht Treaty” that rolled 28 nations and 508 million people into the European Union that featured unimpeded movement of people and products. They also encouraged the global expansion of NATO’s missions. READ MORE