Bilderberg 2013: The Official Attendees List

*Source: The Vigilant Citizen
 

The annual Bilderberg conference, a secretive meeting reuniting some of the world’s most powerful politicians, bankers, media moguls, CEOs and policy makers (in other words, the elite) is taking place from June 6 to June 9th. As usual, there’s a media blackout surrounding the event – except for some British papers as the meeting is taking place in Watford, UK.

This is one of the meetings where REAL decisions are taken and were policies are agreed upon. Elected politicians basically take orders from these types of elite circles.

Thanks to “conspiracy theorists”, the meetings get a little more attention every year. However, the few media sources that attempt to access the 5-star Grove Hotel won’t be able to see much. In fact, a “Great Wall of Watford” has been erected around the premises of the hotel.

Nothing says “we have nothing to hide” better than a giant wall around a perimeter.
Some notable attendees at this year’s conference are Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (he’s a regular at all these kinds of meetings).

Here’s the complete list.

FRA     Castries, Henri de     Chairman and CEO, AXA Group
DEU     Achleitner, Paul M.     Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG
DEU     Ackermann, Josef     Chairman of the Board, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd
GBR     Agius, Marcus     Former Chairman, Barclays plc
GBR     Alexander, Helen     Chairman, UBM plc
USA     Altman, Roger C.     Executive Chairman, Evercore Partners
FIN     Apunen, Matti     Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
USA     Athey, Susan     Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
TUR     Aydıntaşbaş, Aslı     Columnist, Milliyet Newspaper
TUR     Babacan, Ali     Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs
GBR     Balls, Edward M.     Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
PRT     Balsemão, Francisco Pinto     Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA
FRA     Barré, Nicolas     Managing Editor, Les Echos
INT     Barroso, José M. Durão     President, European Commission
FRA     Baverez, Nicolas     Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
FRA     Bavinchove, Olivier de     Commander, Eurocorps
GBR     Bell, John     Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford
ITA     Bernabè, Franco     Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia S.p.A.
USA     Bezos, Jeff     Founder and CEO, Amazon.com
SWE     Bildt, Carl     Minister for Foreign Affairs
SWE     Borg, Anders     Minister for Finance
NLD     Boxmeer, Jean François van     Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO, Heineken N.V.
NOR     Brandtzæg, Svein Richard     President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
AUT     Bronner, Oscar     Publisher, Der Standard Medienwelt
GBR     Carrington, Peter     Former Honorary Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings
ESP     Cebrián, Juan Luis     Executive Chairman, Grupo PRISA
CAN     Clark, W. Edmund     President and CEO, TD Bank Group
GBR     Clarke, Kenneth     Member of Parliament
DNK     Corydon, Bjarne     Minister of Finance
GBR     Cowper-Coles, Sherard     Business Development Director, International, BAE Systems plc
ITA     Cucchiani, Enrico Tommaso     CEO, Intesa Sanpaolo SpA
BEL     Davignon, Etienne     Minister of State; Former Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings
GBR     Davis, Ian     Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company
NLD     Dijkgraaf, Robbert H.     Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
TUR     Dinçer, Haluk     President, Retail and Insurance Group, Sabancı Holding A.S.
GBR     Dudley, Robert     Group Chief Executive, BP plc
USA     Eberstadt, Nicholas N.     Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute
NOR     Eide, Espen Barth     Minister of Foreign Affairs
SWE     Ekholm, Börje     President and CEO, Investor AB
DEU     Enders, Thomas     CEO, EADS
USA     Evans, J. Michael     Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co.
DNK     Federspiel, Ulrik     Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S
USA     Feldstein, Martin S.     Professor of Economics, Harvard University; President Emeritus, NBER
FRA     Fillon, François     Former Prime Minister
USA     Fishman, Mark C.     President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
GBR     Flint, Douglas J.     Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
IRL     Gallagher, Paul     Senior Counsel
USA     Geithner, Timothy F.     Former Secretary of the Treasury
USA     Gfoeller, Michael     Political Consultant
USA     Graham, Donald E.     Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company
DEU     Grillo, Ulrich     CEO, Grillo-Werke AG
ITA     Gruber, Lilli     Journalist – Anchorwoman, La 7 TV
ESP     Guindos, Luis de     Minister of Economy and Competitiveness
GBR     Gulliver, Stuart     Group Chief Executive, HSBC Holdings plc
CHE     Gutzwiller, Felix     Member of the Swiss Council of States
NLD     Halberstadt, Victor     Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary  General of Bilderberg Meetings
FIN     Heinonen, Olli     Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
GBR     Henry, Simon     CFO, Royal Dutch Shell plc
FRA     Hermelin, Paul     Chairman and CEO, Capgemini Group
ESP     Isla, Pablo     Chairman and CEO, Inditex Group
USA     Jacobs, Kenneth M.     Chairman and CEO, Lazard
USA     Johnson, James A.     Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners
CHE     Jordan, Thomas J.     Chairman of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank
USA     Jordan, Jr., Vernon E.     Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co. LLC
USA     Kaplan, Robert D.     Chief Geopolitical Analyst, Stratfor
USA     Karp, Alex     Founder and CEO, Palantir Technologies
GBR     Kerr, John     Independent Member, House of Lords
USA     Kissinger, Henry A.     Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
USA     Kleinfeld, Klaus     Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
NLD     Knot, Klaas H.W.     President, De Nederlandsche Bank
TUR     Koç, Mustafa V.     Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
DEU     Koch, Roland     CEO, Bilfinger SE
USA     Kravis, Henry R.     Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
USA     Kravis, Marie-Josée     Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Hudson Institute
CHE     Kudelski, André     Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group
GRC     Kyriacopoulos, Ulysses     Chairman, S&B Industrial Minerals S.A.
INT     Lagarde, Christine     Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
DEU     Lauk, Kurt J.     Chairman of the Economic Council to the CDU, Berlin
USA     Lessig, Lawrence     Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School; Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
BEL     Leysen, Thomas     Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group
DEU     Lindner, Christian     Party Leader, Free Democratic Party (FDP NRW)
SWE     Löfven, Stefan     Party Leader, Social Democratic Party (SAP)
DEU     Löscher, Peter     President and CEO, Siemens AG
GBR     Mandelson, Peter     Chairman, Global Counsel; Chairman, Lazard International
USA     Mathews, Jessica T.     President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
CAN     McKenna, Frank     Chair, Brookfield Asset Management
GBR     Micklethwait, John     Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
FRA     Montbrial, Thierry de     President, French Institute for International Relations
ITA     Monti, Mario     Former Prime Minister
USA     Mundie, Craig J.     Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft Corporation
ITA     Nagel, Alberto     CEO, Mediobanca
NLD     Netherlands, H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of The
USA     Ng, Andrew Y.     Co-Founder, Coursera
FIN     Ollila, Jorma     Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, plc
GBR     Omand, David     Visiting Professor, King’s College London
GBR     Osborne, George     Chancellor of the Exchequer
USA     Ottolenghi, Emanuele     Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
TUR     Özel, Soli     Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University; Columnist, Habertürk Newspaper
GRC     Papahelas, Alexis     Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper
TUR     Pavey, Şafak     Member of Parliament (CHP)
FRA     Pécresse, Valérie     Member of Parliament (UMP)
USA     Perle, Richard N.     Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
USA     Petraeus, David H.     General, U.S. Army (Retired)
PRT     Portas, Paulo     Minister of State and Foreign Affairs
CAN     Prichard, J. Robert S.     Chair, Torys LLP
INT     Reding, Viviane     Vice President and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, European Commission
CAN     Reisman, Heather M.     CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
FRA     Rey, Hélène     Professor of Economics, London Business School
GBR     Robertson, Simon     Partner, Robertson Robey Associates LLP; Deputy Chairman, HSBC Holdings
ITA     Rocca, Gianfelice     Chairman,Techint Group
POL     Rostowski, Jacek     Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister
USA     Rubin, Robert E.     Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
NLD     Rutte, Mark     Prime Minister
AUT     Schieder, Andreas     State Secretary of Finance
USA     Schmidt, Eric E.     Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
AUT     Scholten, Rudolf     Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
PRT     Seguro, António José     Secretary General, Socialist Party
FRA     Senard, Jean-Dominique     CEO, Michelin Group
NOR     Skogen Lund, Kristin     Director General, Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise
USA     Slaughter, Anne-Marie     Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
IRL     Sutherland, Peter D.     Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
GBR     Taylor, Martin     Former Chairman, Syngenta AG
INT     Thiam, Tidjane     Group CEO, Prudential plc
USA     Thiel, Peter A.     President, Thiel Capital
USA     Thompson, Craig B.     President and CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
DNK     Topsøe, Jakob Haldor     Partner, AMBROX Capital A/S
FIN     Urpilainen, Jutta     Minister of Finance
CHE     Vasella, Daniel L.     Honorary Chairman, Novartis AG
GBR     Voser, Peter R.     CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc
CAN     Wall, Brad     Premier of Saskatchewan
SWE     Wallenberg, Jacob     Chairman, Investor AB
USA     Warsh, Kevin     Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
CAN     Weston, Galen G.     Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited
GBR     Williams of Crosby, Shirley     Member, House of Lords
GBR     Wolf, Martin H.     Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
USA     Wolfensohn, James D.     Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company
GBR     Wright, David     Vice Chairman, Barclays plc
INT     Zoellick, Robert B.     Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

According to bilderbergmeetings.org, here’s the official agenda.
• Can the US and Europe grow faster and create jobs?
• Jobs, entitlement and debt
• How big data is changing almost everything
• Nationalism and populism
• US foreign policy
• Africa’s challenges
• Cyber warfare and the proliferation of asymmetric threats
• Major trends in medical research
• Online education: promise and impacts
• Politics of the European Union
• Developments in the Middle East
• Current affairs

Of course, this is the “official”, media-friendly agenda. Since none of the discussions are released to the public, discussions about NWO or police-state related issues can easily break out and nobody will ever know.

More Believe In Space Aliens Than In God According To U.K. Survey

*Source: Huffington Post















A new survey suggests that many people in the U.K. believe more in ETs than God, and according to the 2001 census in that country, 390,000 believe in the religion of the fictional Jedi knights -- like Obi-Wan Kenobi -- from the "Star Wars" movies.


More than 33 million U.K. citizens believe in extraterrestrial life, compared to just over 27 million -- less than half the country -- who believe in God.
That's the result of an online survey of 1,359 adults who were asked a variety of questions ranging from belief in alien visits to Earth, suspicions of UFO cover-ups, belief in extraterrestrials vs. belief in God, and whether or not men actually landed on the moon.
The survey, conducted by Opinion Matters, revealed the following statistics among those surveyed:

• 52 percent believe UFO evidence has been covered up because widespread knowledge of their existence would threaten government stability.
• 44 percent believe in God.
• One in 10 people has reported seeing a UFO.
• A quarter more men than women claim to have seen UFOs.
• 20 percent of respondents believe UFOs have landed on Earth.
• More than five million British citizens believe the Apollo moon landings were faked.

While the survey was conducted as part of a tie-in with a new video game, "XCOM: Enemy Unknown," it was a legitimate sampling of opinions that can be taken to represent the population of the U.K., according to the agency that conducted the survey.

"Yes, it has been done with an independent panel through a bonafide research company," said Karen Brooks, managing director of Opinion Matters, a well-known market research agency that created the survey.

"Surveys can be done face-to-face, over the telephone and online. This one was a U.K. adult sample, which is quite broad, and doing it online is a quick, effective way of getting to that audience," she continued. "We make sure that all of the questions are compliant from a research perspective."

But some are skeptical of the results, including Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff, an Anglican priest and director general of the World Dialogue Council, a group that promotes better relations between the West and Islamic cultures.

"Having done a certain amount of work with statistics on religion, I am inherently skeptical about what these statistics tell you, and particularly if there's a narrow, selective base. Something with about 1,000 people does set off alarm bells," Macdonald-Radcliff told HuffPost.

"I really do think the failure to define what they're asking people to believe here is a fairly critical failure for the survey," Macdonald-Radcliff said. "Because you've already set out quite a variety of possibilities as to what they might or might not suppose UFOs to be. I certainly think sliding extraterrestrial and UFO together is a particularly messy thing to do."

Macdonald-Radcliff suggested that people are "less inclined to be participants in traditional churches," which might represent a shift of general beliefs that they have about God and extraterrestrials.

"There may be some correlation there," he noted. "But I have to say the actual hard data has yet to be found. There may be a relationship between people becoming more credulous in UFOs and less credulous in traditional religion."

The results of the survey are not surprising to Nick Pope, a former U.K. Ministry of Defense UFO investigator. "It's important to bear in mind that people who believe in alien life don't necessarily think it's visiting us," Pope said in an email to HuffPost.

"The recent upsurge in the discovery of extra-solar planets may be a factor here; as we close in on 'shadow Earths,' people are more likely to think that if Earth isn't unique, neither is life," he added.

Pope also noted that many of the doubts people might have about religion or about extraterrestrial life are rooted in a similar problem: lack of hard evidence.

"In the case of religion, we have only faith -- faith based on some ancient texts where, despite the claims, no divine origin can be proven," Pope said. "Even where people claim to have had a first-hand experience, why should we believe accounts of miracles and visions any more or less than UFO sightings or claims of alien abduction?"

WATCH: Theologian Ted Peters on the implications of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life:

UK Approves Sale of Medicine with Embedded Microchip

*Source: Beginning And End

In yet another step to groom society to the everyday use of microchips on and in the body, the UK has now approved the sale of prescription “smart pills” that contain RFID microchips in them.

Patients take their drugs along with an extra tablet embedded with a tiny edible sensor which sends back information to a receiver in the form of a patch worn on the shoulder or arm.                                                                                                                             This tracks when the drugs were taken and the dose, as well as monitoring heart rate and body temperature. It also alerts a patient to when the next dose is due and records whether the patient is sleeping well or taking enough exercise. (source)

The proposed benefit of the smart pill is that it will keep track of pill dosage for medical patients who often forget or miss doses of their prescription medicine. The smart pills can even update the patient’s medical data to their smart phone to review and provide reminders of when the next dose is needed.

Steve Gray, healthcare services director of Lloyds pharmacy, said: ‘Anyone taking several medications knows how easy it can be to lose track of whether or not you’ve taken the correct tablets that day.
‘Add to that complex health issues and families caring for loved ones who may not live with them and you can appreciate the benefits of an information service that helps patients get the most from their treatments and for families to help them remain well.’

As the story mentions, there are also major privacy concerns as people will now have very personal medical information, that would normally be confidential, on a computer network and being completely tracked.

The Bible prophesies that in the final years before the Second Coming of Christ, also known as the Great Tribulation, almost the entire world will be using a system that will track every citizen all over the planet:

16And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Revelation 13).

The Mark of the Beast will be the ultimate societal control mechanism and it will all be controlled and administered via a “mark” in the right hand or forehead. Without, a person will not be able to buy or sell any goods since it tracks everyone’s finances and would obviously require knowing and identifying every individual in order to properly debit their bank accounts. The ease of purchasing, no longer carrying cash, credit cards or even worrying about PIN numbers will surely be seen as benefits of this system. But the Mark, (as we discuss in our article “The Mark of The Beast: Humanity’s Ultimate Choice”) will represent the ultimate rebellion against God. It will be a sign of full allegiance to the Antichrist, Satan’s false messiah, and worship of him. The sad aspect of this prophecy is that people of the world at that time who do not have faith in Jesus Christ as their Savior, will be deceived into wanting this technology and embracing the Antichrist as the Son of God. And Satan has been laying the groundwork to have the world receive his evil false christ subtly and steadily.

The amount of microchip technologies used to track human activity seems to be increasing exponentially.  While the “mark” may not be a microchip, these types of technologies make it clear that the ability to create the mark now exists in society. And the preparation of society to welcome and embrace this type of technology is well underway.
Here is a video for the new smart pill.

Big Brother or Peeping Tom? UK installs CCTV in School Bathrooms, Changing Rooms

*Source: RT

Over 200 UK state schools have installed cameras in bathrooms and changing rooms to monitor students, a recent surveillance survey reported. British parents will likely be shocked by the study’s findings.

­The survey is based on a freedom of information request conducted by Big Brother Watch, an anti-surveillance activist group. The group said they were shaken by the results, which was much higher and more extensive than expected.

The report "will come as a shock to many parents", Nick Pickles, Director of Big Brother Watch said. "Schools need to come clean about why they are using these cameras and what is happening to the footage”.

- 47,806 cameras used in 2,107 schools
- 207 schools have 825 cameras in changing rooms and bathrooms
- 90% of schools use CCTV cameras
- 54 UK schools have 1 camera or more per 15 pupils
- 106,710 CCTV cameras estimated in high schools and academies in England, Scotland and Wales

A total of 825 cameras were installed in the bathrooms and changing rooms of 207 different schools across England, Scotland and Wales, according to data provided by more than 2,000 schools.

It remains unclear where in the bathrooms and changing rooms the cameras are located, who watches the footage and whether any pupils were recorded while changing.

The principal of the Wildern School in southern England, however, said that the cameras in her school – one per bathroom – are located "nowhere near the toilet cubicles."

"The images are not looked at unless there has been a reported problem and all images are deleted after a maximum of 30 days," she said.

Video recording in toilets or changing rooms is legal, but recommended only for exceptional circumstances, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) reported. The ICO is an independent authority in the UK, whose duties include promoting privacy.

Research also showed that the extent of CCTV use varied widely from school to school. “With some schools seeing a ratio of one camera for every five pupils,” the report said. “CCTV appears to be used as a quick fix to much more complex problems and issues that simply cannot be solved with passive surveillance.”

UK schools so unsafe that surveillance needed in the most private spaces?

Since the 1990s, the UK’s Home Office has spent 78 percent of its crime prevention budget on CCTV installations, and schools have likewise invested significant resources in their own surveillance equipment, the Big Brother Watch report said.

No significant research has been done into whether CCTV cameras actually lower crime rates.

Big Brother Watch was able to locate a single study by the French Institut D’ Aménagement Et D’Urbanisme, which concluded that theft and burglary continued to increase after the 2007 installation of CCTV in the Île-de-France region. A marginal reduction in disorderly incidents in schools was also reported.

‘Shocking’ highlights

The Big Brother Watch report estimated that more than 100,000 cameras monitor students and teachers across Britain, with 90 percent of the schools surveyed acknowledging the use of some form of video surveillance.

Responses from 2,107 secondary schools showed that they used 47,806 cameras in total with more than half installed inside the schools. The Radclyffe School in Oldham surpassed all other schools in the survey, with 20 cameras total in bathrooms and changing rooms.

Sharon Holder, the GMB's national officer, told Newsvine that her trade union was disgusted with the findings.

"Placing CCTV in school bathrooms poses a worrying development in school policy and raises a number of questions,” she said. “How many parents have given headteachers permission to film their child going to the toilet or having a shower? What happens to the film afterwards? How much discussion has there been on governing bodies and to what extent have councils and councilors had any input into these developments? What problems are the schools trying to solve?”

London is Turning Into a Highly Militarized Police State in Preparation for Olympic Games

*Source: The Vigilant Citizen

Military exercises on Thames River in London in preparation for the Olympics.

The upcoming summer Olympics are turning London into a highly militarized zone. All kinds of weaponry are currently being tested and deployed in the city such as land-to-air missiles, fighter jets, amphibious assault ships and machine guns. These highly controversial measures are not welcomed by many Londoners as they create an unnecessary climate of fear and oppression in the city.

The weapons being tested do not only have a military purpose. New crowd control weapons will be deployed during the Olympics such as high powered “sonic gun”. Here’s an article on this new weapon.

Olympics-Britain to deploy “sonic gun” at Olympics

* UK military to have non-lethal sonic weapon at Olympics

* High-powered loudspeaker used against pirates and protesters

* Britain prepares for biggest peacetime security operation

Britain’s military will be armed with a sonic device that can be used as a high-volume loudspeaker or a non-lethal weapon to disperse crowds at this summer’s Olympic Games in London, the defence ministry said on Friday.

The equipment, which can project a piercing sound over hundreds of metres causing physical pain, has been used during protests at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh in 2009 and against pirates operating off the Somali coast.

The Ministry of Defence said it expected to use it primarily in loudspeaker mode to communicate with boats it wants to stop on the River Thames.

Defence chiefs have already caused controversy by announcing plans to put surface-to-air missiles on the top of residential buildings near the Olympics site in east London.

Fighter jets roared over the capital and helicopters were seen hovering over the Houses of Parliament this month during a nine-day military exercise to prepare for Britain’s biggest peacetime security operation.

The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device), made by U.S. company LRAD Corporation, can be mounted on the side of a ship or on the top of a vehicle. Some versions are roughly the same size and shape as a dustbin lid.

It can generate noises up to around 150 decibels, similar to a gunshot, and has a maximum range of 3 km or 1.8 miles.

The device can also emit a warning alarm that sounds like a police siren and “potentially prevents the use of harmful or deadly force”, LRAD says on its website.

Police and military planners say they are preparing for a range of security threats at the Olympics including protesters trying to disrupt events and attacks using hijacked airliners.

Around 13,500 soldiers will help the police during the Games, which run from July 27 to Aug. 12.

- Source: Reuters

The police state tactics surrounding the Olympics are not simply limited to the deployment of high-powered weapons. Many people considered “suspicious” or “undesirable” by UK authorities are being denied access from the country or have been banned from the games – some simply because they’ve objected the construction of Olympic facilities near their homes. These kinds of tactics are typical of police states where civilians are being punished for “thought crimes”. Here’s a report on these pre-Olympic bans.

The least we can say is that these 2012 London Olympics will be very interesting – and not because of the sporting events.