Will Bildeberg End Privacy As We Know It? by MIKAEL THALEN | INFOWARS.COM | JUNE 1, 2014 Privacy discussed by architects of modern surveillance state The presence of several key figures at the 2014 Bildeberg Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark indicates that the future of privacy worldwide is in dire straights. According to the Bildeberg Group’s official press release, members discussed several key topics this weekend while also asking the question, “Does privacy exist?” Given the fact that the architects of the modern surveillance state were among the attendees, the real question is, will Bildeberg end privacy as we know it? Keith Alexander – Former Director of the National Security Agency
Keith Alexander, know for his motto “Collect it All,” is arguably the most brazen director to reside over the National Security Agency. Overseeing some of the agency’s most controversial domestic spying programs, Alexander’s total disregard for the Fourth Amendment has been bemoaned by countless people within the intelligence community. “Alexander tended to be a bit of a cowboy: ‘Let’s not worry about the law. Let’s just figure out how to get the job done,’” a former intelligence official told Foreign Policy in 2013. Despite his clear disregard for Constitutional law, Alexander repeatedly lied to media when confronted about his tenure with the agency. When asked if he had witnessed any illegal acts during an April interview with the Daily Show, Alexander strangely denied seeing any wrongdoing while admitting that multiple NSA employees had been engaged in unlawful activity. “In my time, no. Not that I know of. You know, one of the most impressive things that I’ve seen in my career was people who made a mistake, that could be a huge mistake, stepping up to say ‘I made a mistake,’” Alexander said. “And in every case, to my knowledge, everyone but 12 individuals stepped forward at the time they made those mistakes.”
In fact, top-secret documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the agency had “broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008.” Under the watch of Alexander, the agency also began using new collection methods in secret for months until the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled them unconstitutional. Alexanders attendance at the Bildeberg Conference reveals that the group is clearly more interested in protecting their own privacy than that of the American people. David Petraeus – Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
David Petraeus, pictured above jogging outside this year’s conference, has publicly rejoiced over the increase in household devices that connect to the internet, noting that the rise of the “Internet of Things” has allowed the CIA to spy in ways once thought unimaginable. During a speech at a 2012 summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm, Petraeus enthusiastically remarked on the ability to spy on targets through different home appliances. “Transformational is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies, particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft,” Petraeus said. “Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.” With the emergence of “smart meters,” which tie into the larger smart grid, all internet-connected appliances can be monitored remotely. In a 2012 study, researchers in Germany analyzed several smart meters and found that the devices transmitted unencrypted data, giving researchers incredibly detailed data which even included what was being watched on TV. Such information will undoubtedly be siphoned into the servers of intelligence agencies, allowing them to map every aspect of an individual’s or family’s life. With dishwashers, refrigerators and ovens now being released with built-in WiFi, the ability of the intelligence communtity to surveil or hack any private home is quickly approaching. Infowars detailed the attendance of Petraeus at the 2013 Bildeberg Conference in Watford, United Kingdom as well, where the group discussed, “How big data is changing almost everything.”
Eric Schmidt – Google CEO
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, pictured above eating lunch outside this year’s meeting, is a frequent attendee of Bildeberg. Schmidt has regularly commented on his belief that privacy is an archaic concept, proving that Bildeberg’s concern over privacy has to do with the fact that it hasn’t been completely eviscerated yet. “We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about,” Schmidt said in 2010. “We know everything you’re doing and the government can track you. We will know your position down to the foot and down to the inch over time.” Google’s near information monopoly has allowed the corporation to vastly expand it’s anti-privacy viewpoint into multiple aspects of everyday life. Just last January, a whistleblower revealed that Google’s Chrome browser was able to record conversations without the user’s knowledge. The whistleblower went public after Google ignored the “bug” for more than four months. Google’s engineering director announced last year that the company hoped to convince people to put microphones in their ceilings to allow easier access to the Google search engine. Similar to the Chrome browser, the microphones would undoubtedly record on a continual basis, allowing the data to be handed over to different intelligence agencies who have a classified relationship with the company. Google’s disdain for privacy is not only apparent in light of the company’s participation in the PRISM program, but also in their email policy. Last August, Google’s 425 million Gmail users learned that their emails were anything but private when a consumer watchdog revealed that the company was scanning every email in order to target ads toward users. Schmidt has also called for a Chinese-style internet ID system that would all governments to bring internet surveillance to a whole new level. ““We need a [verified] name service for people,” Schmidt said. “Governments will demand it.” Sources revealed to Infowars last year that Google has begun a literal merger with the Bildeberg group, solidifying the companies role as the most powerful private surveillance apparatus. The Future of Privvacy
Speaking exclusively with Infowars, NSA whistleblower Kirk Wiebe, who helped expose the agency’s unconstitutional Trailblazer program, detailed the current and fragile state of privacy. “Privacy is under attack from all directions. From the perspective of the little guy (average person), it us under attack by a rogue NSA, by foreign powers (especially Russia and China), by business (profiling habits), by FBI, DEA, hackers – the list goes on,” Wiebe said. “[The NSA] has operated outside the Constitution for some 60% of the time it has existed. And with it, the Fourth Amendment is being shredded. NSA says it’s legal, yet no one asked the Supreme Court if those ‘laws’ are Constitutional and no one asked “the People.” “At the same time, we have a Congress charged to do oversight, but does not do it and does not want to do it. In other words, Congress is abrogating its responsibilities. The U.S. Government is also after everyone’s health and financial data. There really is nothing left that is private.” Fortunately, according to certain NSA leaks, properly implemented encryption is one of the few tools left to safeguard information. If Bildeberg’s technocratic members have their way, privacy will be a thing of the past. All Aboard The Bilder-Bus VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qRuWrwYfGo
Bilderberg Actually Talks Nukes, Euro Nationalism And… Barack Obama – Leak by RT | JUNE 1, 2014
The officially released agenda of the prestigious Bilderberg club meeting is not true, claims RT show host Daniel Estulin, a longtime watcher of the ‘secret world govt’ group. He says he obtained the real agenda for this year’s gathering in Copenhagen. An insider leaked the list of talking points for the ongoing Bilderberg conference to the investigative journalist last week, he said. The list has nine items, seven of which he shared:
1. Nuclear diplomacy and the deal with Iran currently in the making. The club has long been cautious of a possible alliance between Russia, China and Iran. The deal that would lift Western pressure from the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program would affect this possibility. 2. Gas deal between Russia and China. It came amid a serious political crisis in Ukraine, which threatens Russia’s supply of natural gas to European nations. Moscow has diversified its gas trade by sealing a long-term contract with Beijing. Potentially, China may replace the EU as the prime energy trade partner for Russia, a situation which strengthens Moscow’s position in Ukraine by undermining Washington’s effort to isolate Russia and Kiev’s leverage through its control of transit gas pipelines. Princess Beatrix tries a smile for the cameras. Doesn’t quite manage it. #Bilderberg #RoyalDutchShell pic.twitter.com/J7Oedodheg — Charlie Skelton (@deYook) May 30, 2014 3. Rise of nationalist moods in Europe. The agenda was formed before the latest European Parliament elections, which cast a spotlight on the trend. Populist eurosceptic parties are winning the hearts of Europeans from the UK to Greece to Hungary, dealing a blow to the union’s unity. A nationally driven and divided Europe would be reluctant to take globalization for granted. F**k NWO! Protesters vs Bilderberg VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I_LspnLZAI 4. EU internet privacy regulations. Edward Snowden’s exposure of the scale of electronic surveillance on the part of the US National Security Agency and its allies worldwide sparked a major protest from privacy-seeking people. European politicians can’t ignore the calls to protect people’s communication from snooping, which potentially makes data collection more difficult. At least not immediately, as indicated by the apparent scaling down of Germany’s investigation into the NSA’s alleged surveillance. 5. Cyberwarfare and its potential effect on internet freedoms. The destructive potential of cyber attacks is growing rapidly as reliance on the internet in all aspects of life rises. But the threat of state-sponsored hacker attacks is what some governments may use as a pretext for clamping down on the internet, undermining its role as a medium for the sake of security. A bit of class from Evan Greenberg (Director, Coca-Cola) being driven up to #Bilderberg by a Barry Manilow lookalike: pic.twitter.com/0fMPnktZl7
— Charlie Skelton (@deYook) May 31, 2014
6. From Ukraine to Syria, Barack Obama’s foreign policy. Critics of the US president blame him for betraying America’s leadership overseas, citing failures to defend American interests in Syria and lately in Ukraine. Obama’s newly announced doctrine calls on scaling down reliance on military force and using diplomacy and collective action instead. Bilderberg members will discuss whether this policy is doomed. 7. Climate change. This is a regular topic for many high-ranking discussions, not only the Bilderberg conference in Denmark. People suspicious of the elites call climate change a euphemism for the artificial deindustrialization of some nations, with the goal of keeping the global economy under the control of transnational corporations and the expense of potential hubs of economic growth. The Bilderberg Group is a six-decades-old club for some of the world’s most influential individuals, politicians, officials, businessmen, academics and European royalty, regularly gathering to discuss global policy issues. Critics accuse them of acting as a shadow unelected government, would-be rulers of the world, which take decisions affecting billions of people behind closed doors, with little regard for the needs or wishes of the general population. Denmark: High security surrounds Bilderberg, the world's most secretive conference VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2QsR0FAsag In an apparent bid to dissipate these accusations, this time Bilderberg made its official agenda public. Among the 12 topics for this year’s conference were “the new architecture of the Middle East,” “Ukraine” and “The future of democracy and the middle class trap.”
Bilderberg On Ukraine: Military Chiefs, Arms Bosses And Billionaire Speculators by CHARLIE SKELTON | LONDON GUARDIAN | JUNE 1, 2014 A gathering of those who stand to make a killing out of knowing where and when the bombs might fall, how many and on whom The US supreme allied commander in Europe, General Philip Breedlove (left), leaves the Marriot
hotel in Copenhagen after discussing Ukraine Just before lunch on Friday, two cars left the Marriott hotel in Copenhagen in quick succession. First to leave was laden down with US military brass. It carried the supreme allied commander in Europe, General Philip Breedlove, and his aides. Four stars on his hat and a grim look on his face. Clearly he's annoyed to be missing the buffet. He can still smell those Danish meatballs. It's killing him. The general hadn't travelled to Bilderberg alone. Discussing the situation in Ukraine with this many senior government ministers makes it official military business. He was well accompanied.
A few minutes after the hungry general had been swooshed off, out popped the secretary general of Nato, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, aka "the Fogh of War".
Rasmussen always makes me chuckle, because in every photo we've got of him he looks so incredibly vain. Like a miniature Fonz. Rasmussen was travelling with quite an entourage, one of whose jackets flapped open to reveal his firearm.
Rasmussen's bodyguards were there, of course, to try and keep the heads of Airbus and Saab from throwing themselves at him, begging for a nice big war. I hope they managed to protect him. He's only little, and the CEO of Airbus, Thomas Enders, is tall with a kind of lanky strength. The head of Saab, Håkan Buskhe, has a low centre of gravity. Together they'd be unstoppable, especially with Kissinger behind them, pushing. Here's Buskhe of Saab, ordering his factories to step up the work rate. The way things are heading they'll soon have some extra fighter jets to deliver.
Now, we knew from the officially released agenda that Ukraine was scheduled to be discussed at this year's conference, and we know that the Friday morning session was on this topic, because one of the participants- the Dutch politician Diederik Samsom - told us so. It was lunchtime on Friday, not long after the two heads of allied forces in Europe had left the hotel. Samsom, the leader of his country's Labour party, was enjoying a quiet glass of champagne on the patio. Ed Balls squeezed past, clutching a huge wad of files – has he put them down the entire time he's been here? – and Samsom pirouetted out of his way. He found himself facing the security fence. He took a deep breath and strolled over to the clutch of reporters, bloggers and transparency campaigners behind it. "I remember what it was like," he said, taking a sympathetic sip of champagne. "I used to be a Greenpeace campaigner." We asked him if he felt flattered to get the invitation. "I'm a politician", he laughed. "I'm flattered all the time." Samsom confirmed that the morning meeting had been about what was happening in Ukraine, which explains why Rasmussen and Breedlove were hot-footing it out the door straight afterwards. Their job was done. Or just starting. And make no mistake. Bilderberg is part of their job. This wasn't a jolly. This was briefing papers, dress uniforms and military aides. Land Rovers packed with military bodyguards. This is Nato business. US military business. Government business. The Spanish government, for example, is represented here by their minister of foreign affairs, José Manuel García-Margallo. Here he is arriving on Thursday evening.
And because it's official government business that he's on, García-Margallo arrived with a member of his foreign ministry, the Spanish diplomat and Balkans expert Mercedes Millán Rajoy. She's partially visible on the right of the above image, and rather more visible here.
There she is, clutching her Balkans briefing notes. She looks wistful. She's imagining the wretched rumble of the war machine as it makes its way east. Either that or she's slightly regretting the trouser suit. What's obvious is that for the Spanish government – as for all the governments here, our own included – this is an official international summit. The discussion about Ukraine isn't chitchat over a cup of tea. It's international diplomacy, which makes the mix of people at Bilderberg such an unsettling one. Bad enough that you've got military chiefs briefing arms companies bosses - in private - about their hopes and dreams for Ukraine. But you've also got billionaire speculators and the heads of gigantic private equity funds listening in. People who stand to make a killing out of knowing where and when the bombs are going to fall, how many and on whom. People like David Petraeus, the former director of the CIA and now head of KKR's Global Institute, the
advisory wing of a multibillion dollar private equity company. Here's the general, cracking the glass on an expensive lens with his thousand-yard stare.
The KKR Global Institute prides itself on "knowing how to respond to emerging geopolitical and macro-economic trends", which enables "smart investing, portfolio management, and risk mitigation", in other words getting the inside tip. And once you're inside Bilderberg, you're hearing "emerging geopolitical and macro-economic trends" right from the secretary general of Nato's mouth. Very profitable, I'm sure. The Bilderberg conference is a five-star car crash of the public and private sectors. It's full of scenes like this: the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers having a cheery one-to-one with Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman of BP.
That might not matter a whole lot, except that a few minutes ago the head of Nato was carefully briefing them - and the heads of HSBC, Shell and Deutsche Bank - on the situation in Ukraine. Sawers is in charge of British foreign intelligence. Is he briefing Svanberg now? Who, as they say, is zooming who? Fortunately, the good civil servant that he is, Sir John is allergic to even the slightest whiff of corruption.
So nothing to worry about here. Here's fine. If you want to worry about anywhere, worry about Ukraine. Unless of course you're running Airbus or Saab or the KKR Global Institute, in which case you've nothing to worry about at all. Except where to stick your next billion. I've got an idea where I'd like to stick it ‌ The KKR Global Institute. They offer some amazing returns on your capital investment. Just ask Petraeus. Although if you do ask him, just be careful not to look him in the eye. It might tear your retina. Consider that a bit of risk mitigation from me, free of charge.
INFOWARS.COM BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND