Bilderberg 2010: Final (Official) List of Participants

Bilderberg MeetingsSitges, Spain 3-6 June 2010Final List of ParticipantsHonorary Chairman BEL Davignon, Etienne Vice Chairman, Suez-TractebelDEU Ackermann, Josef Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AGGBR Agius, Marcus Chairman, Barclays Bank PLCESP Alierta, César Chairman and CEO, TelefónicaINT Almunia, Joaquín Commissioner, European CommissionUSA Altman, Roger C. Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.USA [...] continue reading the breaking news

Autopsy Results Reveal That Gaza Flotilla Activists Were Shot In Head At Close Range

Exclusive: Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times, autopsy results revealCrowds at the funeral of one of the Turkish victims of the Gaza flotilla raid, at the Beyazit mosque in Istanbul. (AP) Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza [...] continue reading the breaking news

European Debt Crisis Worsens: Now Hungary Warns of Greek-Style Crisis

- Hungary Warns of Greek-Style Crisis (New York Times):PRAGUE — Fears that the debt crisis could migrate to central Europe were stirred Friday after a senior Hungarian government official said the previous government had manipulated budget figures and lied about the state of the economy, but most financial experts dismissed the remarks as a [...] continue reading the breaking news

Spanish PM to Open Secretive Bilderberg Club Meeting in Sitges

- Bilderberg 2010: The Shadowy Global Elite Is Meeting In Sitges (Guardian)- Times Archive, 1977: An exclusive club: On Thursday, 120 people will gather in Torquay. Henry Kissinger will be there, so will Helmut Schmidt, Baron Rothschild and Mrs ThatcherSpanish prime mininster Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is expected to open this year’s meeting of the [...] continue reading the breaking news

Worldwide annual military budget rose 5.9%, arms spending unaffected by financial crisis

Why? Because ‘they’ are spending your money, not theirs!!!Worldwide annual military budget rose 5.9% in real terms according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute The US’s decision to increase its F35 Joint Strike Fighters programme is in keeping with a wider global pattern that bucks the trend towards austerity. (AP)Governments around the world might be [...] continue reading the breaking news

Wall Street’s War

Congress looked serious about finance reform – until America’s biggest banks unleashed an army of 2,000 paid lobbyistsThis article originally appeared in RS 1106 from June 10, 2010.(Rolling Stone Magazine) — It’s early May in Washington, and something very weird is in the air. As Chris Dodd, Harry Reid and the rest of the compulsive [...] continue reading the breaking news

Former Bundesbank Head Karl Otto Pöhl: Bailout Plan Is All About ‘Rescuing Banks and Rich Greeks’

Unconstitutional:- France’s Europe Minister Pierre Lellouche: Eurozone Bailout Violates EU Laws“Against all its vows, and against an explicit ban within its own constitution, the European Central Bank (ECB) has become involved in financing states.”Karl Otto Pöhl was head of the German central bank, the Bundesbank, from 1980 to 1991.Bailout Plan Is All About ‘Rescuing Banks [...] continue reading the breaking news