PrisonPlanet: "According to a London Times report, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will probably be in attendance at this week's Bilderberg Group meeting, as top globalists meet to plot the financial future of the planet behind closed doors."
PrisonPlanet: "Charlie Skelton, the London Guardian reporter who has been detained and stalked by police officers on numerous occasions during his attempts to cover the 2009 Bilderberg meeting in Greece, states that a spontaneous protest broke out in the vicinity of Bilderberg's hotel earlier today."
TimesOnline: "The Bilderberg consensus is that national problems are best solved by an internationally oriented elite, that a global network of decision-makers should have a common language and that the boundaries are fluid between the monied and the political classes."
Guardian: "And your life is already pretty cool. You already own a newspaper or head a thinktank, or you're the UK secretary of state for business, enterprise and regulatory reform, or you run Fiat, or you're chairman of the Federal Reserve or Queen of the Netherlands, or president of Shell Oil. You run stuff. You have big ideas. You're in control, and control is fun.
Bilderberg is all about control. It's about 'what shall we do next?' We run lots of stuff already, how about we run some more? How about we make it easier to run stuff? More efficient. Efficiency is good. It would be so much easier with a single bank, a single currency, a single market, a single government. How about a single army? That would be pretty cool. We wouldn't have any wars then. This prawn cocktail is GOOD. How about a single way of thinking? How about a controlled internet?"
Infowars: "A Dutch Member of Parliament has formally petitioned Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende and his European Affairs Minister Frans Timmermans concerning their involvement with the Bilderberg Group, citing an article released by Prison Planet last week.
'In his web log on May 13, Member of Parliament of the Socialist Party, Harry van Bommel, refers to, and footnotes, (Paul Joseph) Watson's article on information confided to Bilderberg researcher Daniel Estulin concerning the agenda of the secretive meeting,' writes Jurriaan Maessen.
Prime Minister Balkenende attended the Bilderberg Group conference in Washington DC last year, before meeting with President Bush, along with Queen Beatrix and her son William-Alexander. Queen Beatrix is a regular attendee of the elitist confab and was photographed by our reporters arriving at Bilderberg last year.
In our original May 6 article, we reported on Bilderberg's leaked agenda for 2009, which according to investigative journalist Estulin was weighted heavily around the economy and whether Bilderberg would pursue, 'Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty ... or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.'
The agenda also spoke of efforts to be made to discredit anti-EU activists in anticipation of another Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty later this year.
According to Estulin, 'One of their concerns is addressing and neutralizing the anti-Lisbon treaty movement called 'Libertas' led by Declan Ganley. One of the Bilderberger planned moves is to use a whispering campaign in the US media suggesting that Ganley is being funded by arms dealers in the US linked to the US military.'
According to Maessen's translation, van Bommel writes, 'From the leaked agenda we learn that there will be discussed how to deal with the anti-Lisbon movement Libertas through a slander campaign against its leader Declan Ganley. It remains a serious setback for the elite, not just the European elite, that the treaty has still not been ratified', Van Bommel explains. 'They wish for a more powerful European Union, even if it is realised through undemocratic games.'"
Bilderberg played a role in the introduction of the European currency, the Euro. They play a role in deciding which wars to fight. In short they are an undemocratic bunch of ultraright-wing crooks.
Online voting tools that compare one's own position with that of parties are popular today in many European countries.
UK: Have you registered to vote for the 2009 European and local elections? The deadline is Tuesday 19 May 2009.
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WashingtonPost: "A month after making public once-classified Justice Department memos detailing the Bush administration's coercive methods of interrogation, President Obama yesterday chose secrecy over disclosure, saying he will seek to block the court-ordered release of photographs depicting the abuse of detainees held by U.S. authorities abroad.
Obama agreed less than three weeks ago not to oppose the photos' release, but he changed his mind after viewing some of the images and hearing warnings from his generals in Iraq and in Afghanistan that such a move would endanger U.S. troops deployed there."
The only thing that endangers U.S. troops is their presence in Afghanistan, you twit.
If, as Obama said, those photos are not spectacular then why refuse to publish them?
LATimes: "The Obama administration will announce plans today to revive the Bush-era military commission system for prosecuting terrorism suspects, current and former officials said, reversing a campaign pledge to rely instead on federal courts and the traditional military justice system."
Of course, there will be some changes in the system, but in the light of Obama's recent flip-flop we can expect more flops.
Yahoo: "Ninety-three children and 25 adult women are among a list of 140 names of Afghans who villagers say were killed in a battle and U.S. air strikes last week, causing a crisis between Washington and its Afghan allies."
UPI: "Human Rights Watch called President Barack Obama's plan to use military commissions to try some U.S. detainees a step back from his campaign promises.
Human Rights Watch said that even if Obama places new limits on hearsay evidence it is still dangerous to allow it."
AlterNet: "As the Obama administration continues to fight the release of some 2,000 photos that graphically document U.S. military abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, an ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the ever-emerging portrait of the torture inside and outside Guantánamo.
More significantly, however, the investigation could for the first time place an intense focus on a notorious, but seldom discussed, thug squad deployed by the U.S. military to retaliate with excessive violence to the slightest resistance by prisoners at Guantánamo.
The force is officially known as the the Immediate Reaction Force or Emergency Reaction Force, but inside the walls of Guantánamo, it is known to the prisoners as the Extreme Repression Force. Despite President Barack Obama's publicized pledge to close the prison camp and end torture - and analysis from human rights lawyers who call these forces' actions illegal - IRFs remain very much active at Guantánamo."
TheNation: "'Sometimes great presidents make mistakes,' declared Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern as he announced his intention to vote against $97 billion in 'emergency' supplemental funding for the continued U.S. occupation of Iraq and President Obama's dangerously misguided plan to surge 21,000 more U.S. troops and trainers into Afghanistan.
McGovern is a Democrat who supported Barack Obama for president last year.
But McGovern is not willing to write Obama a blank check for endless warmaking.
And he is not alone.
The congressman was one of five dozen House members who voted Thursday against the 'emergency' supplemental, which passed the House on a 368-60 vote. Of the 60 'no' votes, 51 came from Democrats, almost all of them members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Nine Republicans, some of them anti-war, some of them budget hawks, voted 'no'."
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