Capitalism: The Bilderberg Group safeguarding the future of Capitalism ?

The 67th Meeting of the secretive Bilderberg group was held from 30 May to 2 June 2019, with some 130 guests from all over the world. 23 countries that stayed in one of the most sumptuous places in Switzerland, the Montreux Palace Hotel.

Among the participants this year were the Dutch King Willem Alexander, Dutch PM Mark Rutte, Jared Kushner and Mike Pompeo from the USA.

The Bilderberg meetings began at the start of the Cold War as a discussion club of American and European leaders against communism or, more specifically, against the Soviet Union.

Bilderberg Hotel, Oosterbeek

The first event took place in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel (which remained as the name of the group), in the Dutch city of Oosterbeek. Since then its meetings have been in various places in the western world.

Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg Meeting was designed to foster warmer relations between the United States and Europe. The annual talk fest is considered secretive because guests are not allowed to reveal who said what at the meeting.

One of the permanent agenda items propagated by the Bilderbergers is the reduction of the world’s population, so that the few at the top can live better and longer with the world’s rapidly diminishing resources.

Switzerland has been one of the Group’s preferred host countries after the United States. Switzerland had hosted it five times before this occasion (1960, 1970, 1981, 1995 and 2011).

Bilderbergers conferences are secret events, run by those who pull the strings behind world leaders – politicians, CEOs, big financiers and other business executives, artists and personalities from the Western world.

They are almost always American and Euro-Western. This time there were a dozen from Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria and Estonia.

The most they get to the East is Turkey, perhaps in the hope of attracting it back to NATO from where it is slowly trying to move away from.

Yes indeed, call the "Bilderbergers" whatever you want to, but don't be mistaken, they  are not just any rich and influential people, they are the richest and most powerful people on the planet.

Among the members of this club are George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Paul Wolfowitz (former World Bank president and the godfather of the Iraq War), Henry Kissinger (who got the Nobel Peace Prize soon after he authorised chemical warfare against Vietnam), Tony Blair (best known for lying about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction), European royalty, CIA directors past and present, directors of the British secret service MI6, and other such figureheads.

This report was compiled  by EU-Digest from several published articles about the Bilderberg group .

Middle East - Iraq: After ISIS, Two Iraqs Emerge in Iran's Shadow

In describing the three years he spent fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group from the banks of the Tigris to the Makhoul mountains and Iraq’s desert frontier with Syria, Mohammed Jassem did not call himself a soldier.

Fresh from battle, flush with victory, Jassem is a Shiite holy warrior, a mujahid.

On his battered mobile phone, Jassem played a grainy video from November 2017 of fighting in the deserts around al-Qa’im, the last ISIS-held town in Iraq, before the vital strategic link in the militants’ once expansive supply network was liberated.

As ISIS overran vast swathes of the country and appeared poised to take the capital, Baghdad, the leader of Iraq’s highest Shiite religious authority, Ayatollah Sistani, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, compelling all the faithful to protect their homeland from ISIS.

The militias were joined by Sunnis, Yazidis, Christians and other minorities, but in far fewer numbers. As ISIS was pushed back from Tikrit and then from Sunni strongholds in Fallujah, Ramadi and finally Mosul, it was Shiite fighters—prominently backed by Iran—who led the way. Many Shiites now view the victory not only as a force of will but as an act of God.

Iraq’s Kurds also criticized Iran. Before the battle to defeat ISIS was over, the coalition against the militants—the Hashid, government soldiers, the international community and the Kurdish Peshmerga—imploded, with Iraqi forces driving the Kurds from Kirkuk, a contested city seized by Kurdish forces early in the war. Iraqi Kurdistan’s regional government accused Iran, and Soleimani in particular, of orchestrating the attacks.

Alkareem explained that the majority of the what he termed “interference” predominantly involved Shiite militiamen and Sunni residents. As far as he is concerned, in the Sunni heartlands that fueled and supported the ISIS advance, the hashid must be removed unless history is to repeat itself.
“The federal government, for their part, needs to strengthen the security forces,” he said. “We don't want people from the south coming and guarding our places. We can do that on our own.”

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