Wednesday.....Culture....."Welcome Bilderbergers!"

It was a dark and stormy night..... Sometimes I feel like Snoopy, sitting on his doghouse and trying to get past that first line. In fact it is a dark and stormy night as I write this as thunderstorms are passing through Western Pennsylvania and lightning is flashing out the window above the computer screen. I'm a rain person. I just turned off the radio, a rare thing, and opened the window to listen to it. My ancestry is mostly English and I evidence that as I can't cook, love English films, would rather have an MG than a Corvette and have always wanted to wear a pith helmet ( I looked at one in a store in Gettysburg the other day.) My favorite book is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, actor is (was) Richard Harris, movie is Chariots Of Fire followed by The Winslow Boy and then possibly Master And Commander. Although I know little about classical music (Ah... Bach!) I am most relaxed listening to Ralph Vaughan Williams as his compositions transport me the high seas with sails billowing and the waves of the deep raging. As for the sometimes posed question who would you like to be stranded on a desert isle with?, it would probably be Margaret Thatcher! But much more than these personal preferences and inclinations, I am an American, born into the privilege of its liberties and with a responsibility, that responsibility being to maintain and independent spirit and rebel against all tyrannies of the mind. It may have been a dark and stormy night in May, 1954 at the Hotel de Bilderberg in the Dutch village of Oosterbeek when eighty invited  participants of prominent politicians, industrialists, bankers, writers, unionists and scholars met for the first time. This group, the Bilderbergers, will be meeting again for four days starting tomorrow in a beautiful setting near Barcelona in Spain with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero giving the opening remarks. Secretary of the Treasury Geithner will be one of the Americans attending. I remember reading about this secretive group back in the early eighties and numerous books and conspiracy theories have come about. Most Christians in my age group are familiar with the theories. A partial  list of Americans who have participated in Bilderberger meetings is impressive and can be found in H. Paul Jeffers book The Bilderberg Conspiracy. The list includes the usual suspects such as Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and Bill Clinton but also names like Dan Quayle and Charles Krauthammer. Over the years, there has been substantial changes in world matters, both economic and governmental, as a result of these meetings but I'm not going to mention those for they can be researched in Mr. Jeffers book and a more recent offering The Bilderberger Group by Daniel Estulin. I will give my inclinations though. About 150 of the world's most influential people will gather and be bored to death in the full conference meetings but in the smaller get togethers, where the real meat of conspiracy is taking place, plans will be made apart from political processes to guide the currencies and economies of the world. It has been described by some as conspiracy, yes, but a conspiracy of silence. In other words, they indeed are setting initiatives, just not telling anyone who is not officially part of the elite of this world. The quest for a New World Order is no longer secretive for an army can move its men around and seek to give impressions of plans that are not and hide plans that are, but when the siege comes, secrecy is no longer a weapon and that siege is now in progress. Mr. Estulin, in a remarkable turnabout, has been invited to speak on the Bilderbergers to the European Parliament, the equivalent here of speaking to a joint session of Congress. Mr. Estulin quotes David Rockefeller in his book: Some even believe that we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure-one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it. The job of exposing a conspiracy of Bilderbergers has been advanced to the stage where we can now concentrate of polling our legislators on whether they have bought into a world ruled by elites serving their own purposes or whether they utterly reject the secrecy, the arrogance and the  aplomb of of those who think that they can continue on this course without, at least the American people, standing in their way.