Today marks the start of the annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group, a secretive gathering of “political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media.”
This year’s event meeting is being held in Dresden, Germany, and is certain to include discussion of the impending European Union referendum in Britain, with nearly all attending weighing in against the idea of Britain voting to leave the EU.
Many more topics are likely to be discussed. According to the people who keep a watchful eye on the mysterious group, proposals for an “Internet ID” and a “global tax” system are also on the agenda.
The Bilderberg group’s secretive and protective nature — reporters were detained outside the conference on Wednesday — has spawned a number of conspiracy theories about the group’s real agenda, and the true extent of its influence. Here are a few examples:
1) Choosing Obama over Hillary in 2008
In June 2008, the Bilderberg group met in Northern Virginia as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were battling it out for the Democratic nomination. This theory holds that both Obama and Clinton secretly attended the conference together, where it was decided that Obama would be the nominee. Hillary withdrew from the race two days after the alleged meeting took place. Coincidence?
2) Starting the Kosovo War
Some believe the group was secretly responsible for the 1998-99 war in Kosovo, having hatched a plan to create a “Balkan Vietnam” during its meeting in Scotland in 1996, the goal being to provoke a war between western powers and Russia. World leaders ranging from the queen of Spain to Margaret Thatcher and Henry Kissinger are implicated.
3) Creating a world government
This is sort of a catch all theory in terms of what the group is secretly trying to achieve. The group’s ultimate goal, some say, is to create a New World Order in which borders are eliminated, a universal currency established, and a global government is installed to impose the will of the corporate elites upon the masses.
4) Controlling the Republican Party
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, a prominent Donald Trump supporter, has been arguing for decades that the Republican Party in America, among other groups, is under the thrall of “Bilderbergers” and their alliance of “secret kingmakers” who were working feverishly — in vain, it turns out — to deny Trump the GOP nomination.
5) Being lizard people
David Icke, a left-wing political activist from Great Britain, has long posited that the world is controlled by an elite group of reptile descendants who have squirmed and shape-shifted their way into the upper echelons of power.
Icke rose to prominence in 1991 after declaring himself the son of God during an appearance on a television chat show.
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