Bilderberg 70th Annual Conference Kicks Off: Meeting Agenda and Attendees List Released
The 2024 Bilderberg globalist confab is currently taking place Thursday, May 30 to Sunday, June 2 in Madrid Spain.
Check out a list of attendees and topics to be discussed below:
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 2024 – Madrid, 30 May – 2 June
Abrams, Stacey (USA), CEO, Sage Works Production
Adeyemo, Adewale (USA), Deputy Secretary, Department of the Treasury
Adlercreutz, Anders (FIN), Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering
Albares, José Manuel (ESP), Minister of Foreign Affairs
Altman, Roger C. (USA), Founder and Senior Chair, Evercore Inc.
Alverà, Marco (ITA), Co-Founder, zhero.net; CEO, TES
Amodei, Dario (USA), Co-Founder and CEO, Anthropic PBC
Anderlini, Jamil (DEU/USA), Editor-in-Chief, POLITICO Europe
Appathurai, James (INT), Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, NATO
Applebaum, Anne(USA) , Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Auchincloss, Murray (GBR), CEO, BP plc
Aydin, Mustafa (TUR), Professor of International Relations, Kadir Has University
Barbizet, Patricia (FRA), Chair and CEO, Temaris & Associés SAS
Barroso, José Manuel (PRT), Chair International Advisors, Goldman Sachs International
Baudson, Valérie (FRA), CEO, Amundi SA
Bengio, Yoshua (CAN), Professor in Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal
Bini Smaghi, Lorenzo (ITA), Chair, Societé Générale SA
Botín, Ana P. (ESP), Group Executive Chair, Banco Santander SA
Bourla, Albert (USA), Chair and CEO, Pfizer Inc.
Braathen (NOR), Kjerstin, CEO, DNB ASA
Buschmann, Marco (DEU), Minister of Justice
Calviño, Nadia (INT), President, European Investment Bank
Carney, Mark J. (CAN), Chair, Brookfield Asset Management
Carvalho, Charlene de (NLD), Executive Director, Heineken Holding NV
Castries, Henri de (FRA), President, Institut Montaigne
Castro, Ildefonso (ESP), Secretary International Affairs, Partido Popular
Cavoli, Christopher (INT), Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Champagne, François-Philippe (CAN), Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry
Chhabra, Tarun (USA), Senior Director for Technology and National Security, NSC
Chubays, Anatoly B. (RUS/ISR), Visiting Professor, London School of Economics
Corydon, Bjarne (DNK), CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Dagbladet Børsen
Coveney, Simon (IRL), Former Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Creuheras, José (ESP), Chair, Grupo Planeta and Atresmedia
Cuerpo, Carlos (ESP), Minister of Economy, Commerce and Business
Daurella Comadrán, Sol (ESP), Chair, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc
Della Vigna, Michele (ITA), Head, Natural Resources Research EMEA, Goldman Sachs
Domański, Andrzej, (POL) Minister of Finance
Donohoe, Paschal (INT), President, Eurogroup
Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), Chair and CEO, Axel Springer SE
Easterly, Jen (USA), Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Ek, Daniel (SWE), CEO, Spotify SA
Empoli, Giuliano da (ITA), Political Scientist and Writer, Sciences Po
Entrecanales, José M. (ESP), Chair and CEO, Acciona SA
Eriksen, Øyvind (NOR), President and CEO, Aker ASA
Ferguson, Niall (USA), Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Finer, Jonathan (USA), Principal Deputy National Security Advisor
Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna(CHE), Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, EPFL
Fraser, Jane (USA), CEO, Citigroup
Gabuev, Alexander, Director (INT), Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center
Gentiloni, Paolo (INT), European Commissioner for Economy
Gil, Isabel, Rector (PRT), Catholic University of Portugal
Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and Anchor, La7 TV
Gruyter, Caroline de (NLD), European Affairs Correspondent, NRC
Gürsel, Kadri (TUR), Journalist, Medyascope
Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Professor Em. of Economics, Leiden University
Harrington, Kevin (USA), Managing Director, Thiel Capital LLC
Hassabis, Demis (GBR), CEO, Google DeepMind
Hedegaard, Connie (DNK), Chair, KR Foundation
Hernández de Cos, Pablo (ESP), Governor, Banco de España
Hobson, Mellody (USA), Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments LLC
Hoekstra, Wopke (INT), European Commissioner for Climate Action
Johansson, Ylva (INT), European Commissioner for Home Affairs
Kaag, Sigrid (INT), Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, UN
Kadri, Ilham (BEL), CEO, Syensqo
Kalemli-Özcan, Sebnem (TUR), Schreiber Family Professior of Economics Brown University
Kallas, Kaja (EST), Prime Minister
Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc.
Kerameus, Niki (GRC), Minister for the Interior
Kieli, Kasia (POL), President and Managing Director, Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
Koç, Ömer (TUR), Chair, Koç Holding AS
Kotkin, Stephen (USA), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chair, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Chair, The Museum of Modern Art
Kudelski, André (CHE), Chair and CEO, Kudelski Group SA
Kuleba, Dmytro (UKR), Minister of Foreign Affairs
Lander, Eric S. (USA), Founding Director, Broad Institute
Lee, Peter (USA), President, Microsoft Research
Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chair, dsm-firmenich AG
Lighthizer, Robert (USA), Chair, Center for American Trade
Liikanen, Erkki (FIN), Chair, IFRS Foundation Trustees
Linde, Ann (SWE), Former Minister for Foreign Affairs
Luckey, Palmer (USA), Founder, Anduril Industries
Meeus, Tom-Jan (NLD), Journalist, NRC
Mensch, Arthur (FRA), Co-Founder and CEO, Mistral AI
Merz, Friedrich (DEU), Leader, CDU
Michel, Charles (INT), President, European Council
Micklethwait, John (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP
Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Monti, Mario (ITA), Senator for life
Moreira, Duarte (PRT), Co-Founder and CEO, Zeno Partners
Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD)
O’Leary, Michael (IRL), Group CEO, Ryanair Group
Pannier-Runacher, Agnès (FRA), State Secretary at Ministry of Agriculture
Papahelas, Alexis (GRC), Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper
Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), Chair, TITAN Cement Group
Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chair, KKR Global Institute
Philippe, Édouard (FRA), Mayor, Le Havre
Phillips, Richard H. (USA), Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Pind, Søren (DNK), Founder and CEO, Danish Cyber Defence
Pouyanné, Patrick (FRA), Chair and CEO, TotalEnergies SE
Rachman, Gideon (GBR), Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times
Ramírez, Pedro J. (ESP), Director, El Español
Rendi-Wagner, Pamela (AUT), Director, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Ruiz, José Juan (ESP), Chair, Elcano Royal Institute
Rutte, Mark (NLD), Prime Minister
Sawan, Wael (GBR), CEO, Shell plc
Sawers, John (GBR), Executive Chair, Newbridge Advisory Ltd.
Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Former CEO and Chair, Google
Schmidt, Wolfgang (DEU), Head of the Chancellery, Federal Minister for Special Tasks
Šefčovič, Maroš (INT), European Commissioner Green Deal, Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight
Sewing, Christian (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Bank AG
Sherman, Wendy R. (USA), Former Deputy Secretary of State
Siddall, Evan (CAN), CEO, Alberta Investment Management Corporation
Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Minister of Foreign Affairs
Şimşek, Mehmet (TUR), Minister of Finance
Stephens, Bret (USA), Opinion Columnist, New York Times
Stoltenberg, Jens (INT), Secretary General, NATO
Stubb, Alexander (FIN), President of the Republic
Suleyman, Mustafa (GBR), CEO, Microsoft AI
Thiel, Peter (USA), President, Thiel Capital LLC
Varadkar, Leo (IRL), Former Prime Minister
Verhoeven, Karel (BEL), Editor-in-Chief, De Standaard
Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chair, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
Ward, Jonathan (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Wolf, Martin H. (GBR), Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
Wright, Thomas (USA), Senior Director for Strategic Planning, NSC
Yläjärvi, Erja (FIN), Senior Editor-in-Chief, Helsingin Sanomat
Zadrazil, Robert (AUT), Country Manager Austria, UniCredit Group
Zakaria, Fareed (USA), Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS
Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT), President, Warner Bros. Discovery International
As usual, the meetings are conducted under the Chatham House Rule, meaning members are allowed to talk about ideas discussed, however are unable to identify who gave specific commentary.
Citizens should be on the lookout for unlisted participants attending the event, as was the case with World Economic Forum advisor Yuval Noah Harari’s attendance at the 69th annual Bilderberg Group meeting.
The key topics for discussion this year are:
- State of AI
- AI Safety
- Changing Faces of Biology
- Climate
- Future of Warfare
- Geopolitical Landscape
- Europe’s Economic Challenges
- US Economic Challenges
- US Political Landscape
- Ukraine and the World
- Middle East
- China
- Russia
More on this as it develops…
US Arms Sales Are a Clear and Present Danger
The Biden administration’s recent decision to pause an arms sale to Israel elicited predictable reactions from advocates for both sides of the Gaza War represented in the United States, and while that decision did not stop other arms shipments to Israel, it underscores the political significance of arms sales as an instrument of US foreign policy and intervention in foreign conflicts. Joe Biden’s Department of State recommended the pause in arms sales over concerns that Israel may have breached international law in conducting the war without due care for noncombatant casualties. I am not going to weigh the evidence here; instead, I consider this decision as a reminder of the legal, political, and moral implications of US arms sales to foreign governments.
In February 2024, the White House issued National Security Memorandum 20 at the request of Congress members concerned over the level of violence in the Gaza War and its relation to US arms transfers to Israel. National Security Memorandum 20 requires the administration to pause or halt arms sales to belligerents that may be committing human rights abuses in violation of international law. The Leahy Law amendments to the US Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 prohibit security assistance to foreign militaries that have committed gross violations of human rights, though the law has often been conveniently ignored. The US has delayed or terminated arms sales to foreign governments before due to human rights abuses committed by the military forces of those governments, such as in Nigeria in 2021 (only to renew sales in 2022) and Cameroon in 2019 (only to renew them in 2021). Sometimes the US continues the arms sales after reports of abuses without even a pause, such as to Saudi Arabia in its war against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Whether it halts arms sales or continues them, there is a legal basis in international law for ending such sales where a government arms purchaser targets noncombatants. The Fourth Geneva Convention, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1949 and ratified by the United States in 1955, prohibits states and nonstate belligerents from targeting noncombatants or failing to take due care to minimize noncombatant casualties in the conduct of war.
In spite of its endorsement of international human rights law, the US employs arms sales as a tool in its foreign policy, which may make the US an accomplice to human rights violations. Foreign military sales are approved by Congress and Departments of State and Defense, and they are a key component of US foreign policy. The US may use arms sales to develop political bonds with other countries, as it did throughout the Cold War in competition with the Soviet Union in the developing world. The US also uses arms sales to influence outcomes or fight proxy wars as it does today in the Middle East, Africa, and Ukraine. That there are also US special operations forces in at least some of these places deepens US involvement in foreign wars and threatens to escalate the US’s role to that of an active combatant in wars where the American interest is debatable and where, as in the case of US involvement in numerous countries in the Middle East and Africa, there is no real debate and little awareness of American voters to hold officials accountable.
But those officials are accountable to firms with a vested interest in war. American arms sales come in the form of foreign military sales, which are government-to-government transactions, private sales to foreign militaries, and US security assistance, which are transfers of weapons and equipment from the US to foreign militaries. Arms sales to foreign powers are big business, and US-based arms manufacturers sold a record $238 billion in 2023. Political action committees affiliated with arms manufacturers and exporters donated over $50 million to American politicians eager to keep the campaign money rolling in, including several hundred thousand dollars each to members of key congressional committees that influence the fortunes of arms dealers, and spent nearly $138 million in lobbying in 2023 alone. President Biden recently touted foreign arms sales as a way to stimulate demand in the US economy. Fueling war is a big business indeed for the US arms industry and its politicians.
The US cannot directly control the uses to which the weapons it sells are put, so the weapons it sells to foreign governments are sometimes used to commit human rights abuses that violate international law. There are good reasons for Americans to care about this. For one thing, the US aids and abets those crimes when its government permits arms sales to foreign governments, and it does so in the name of the American people. For another, foreign arms sales corrupt the political system by linking private profits with US foreign policy decisions. Finally, these sales involve the US in foreign wars, any of which could escalate to direct US involvement. World War III in 2024 is a real possibility. What President Dwight Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex is genuinely dangerous.
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Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”—Thomas Jefferson
If America’s schools are to impart principles of freedom and democracy to future generations, they must start by respecting the constitutional rights of their students
Take the case of Lucas Hudson.
With all the negative press being written about today’s young people, it’s refreshing to meet a young person who not only knows his rights but is prepared to stand up for them.
Lucas is a smart kid, a valedictorian of his graduating class at the Collegiate Academy at Armwood High School in Hillsborough County, Fla.
So, when school officials gave Lucas an ultimatum: either remove most of his speech’s religious references from his graduation speech—in which he thanked the people who helped shape his character, reflected on how quickly time goes by, and urged people to use whatever time they have to love others and serve the God who loves us—or he would not be speaking at all, Lucas refused to forfeit his rights.
That’s when Lucas’s father turned to The Rutherford Institute for help.
In coming to Lucas’ defense, attorneys for The Rutherford Institute warned school officials that their attempts to browbeat Lucas into watering down his graduation speech could expose the school to a First Amendment lawsuit.
Thankfully for Lucas, the school backed down, and he was able to deliver his speech as written.
It doesn’t always work out so well, unfortunately.
Over the course of The Rutherford Institute’s 42-year history, we have defended countless young people who found themselves censored, silenced and denied their basic First Amendment rights, especially when they chose to exercise their rights to free speech and religious freedom.
In case after case, we encounter an appalling level of ignorance on the part of public school officials who mistakenly believe that the law requires anything religious be banned from public schools.
Here’s where government officials get it wrong: while the government may not establish or compel a particular religion, it also may not silence and suppress religious speech merely because others might take offense.
People are free to ignore, disagree with, or counter the religious speech of others, but the government cannot censor private religious speech.
Unfortunately, you can only defend your rights when you know them, and the American people—and those who represent them—are utterly ignorant about their freedoms, history, and how the government is supposed to operate.
As Morris Berman points out in his book Dark Ages America, “70 percent of American adults cannot name their senators or congressmen; more than half don’t know the actual number of senators, and nearly a quarter cannot name a single right guaranteed by the First Amendment. Sixty-three percent cannot name the three branches of government. Other studies reveal that uninformed or undecided voters often vote for the candidate whose name and packaging (e.g., logo) are the most powerful; color is apparently a major factor in their decision.”
More than government corruption and ineptitude, police brutality, terrorism, gun violence, drugs, illegal immigration or any other so-called “danger” that threatens our nation, civic illiteracy may be what finally pushes us over the edge.
As Thomas Jefferson warned, no nation can be both ignorant and free.
Unfortunately, the American people have existed in a technology-laden, entertainment-fueled, perpetual state of cluelessness for so long that civic illiteracy has become the new normal for the citizenry.
In fact, most immigrants who aspire to become citizens know more about national civics than native-born Americans. Surveys indicate that half of native-born Americans couldn’t correctly answer 70% of the civics questions on the U.S. Citizenship test.
Not even the government bureaucrats who are supposed to represent us know much about civics, American history and geography, or the Constitution although they take an oath to uphold, support and defend the Constitution against “enemies foreign and domestic.”
For instance, a couple attempting to get a marriage license was recently forced to prove to a government official that New Mexico is, in fact, one of the 50 states and not a foreign country.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its citizens. The government’s purpose is to protect, defend and even enhance our freedoms, not violate them.
It was no idle happenstance that the Constitution opens with these three powerful words: “We the people.”
Those who founded this country knew quite well that every citizen must remain vigilant or freedom would be lost. As Thomas Paine recognized, “It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”
You have no rights unless you exercise them.
Still, you can’t exercise your rights unless you know what those rights are.
“If Americans do not understand the Constitution and the institutions and processes through which we are governed, we cannot rationally evaluate important legislation and the efforts of our elected officials, nor can we preserve the national unity necessary to meaningfully confront the multiple problems we face today,” warns the Brennan Center in its Civic Literacy Report Card. “Rather, every act of government will be measured only by its individual value or cost, without concern for its larger impact. More and more we will ‘want what we want, and [will be] convinced that the system that is stopping us is wrong, flawed, broken or outmoded.’”
Education precedes action.
As the Brennan Center concludes “America, unlike most of the world’s nations, is not a country defined by blood or belief. America is an idea, or a set of ideas, about freedom and opportunity. It is these ideas that bind us together as Americans and have kept us free, strong, and prosperous. But these ideas do not perpetuate themselves. They must be taught and learned anew with each generation.”
There is a movement underway to require that all public-school students pass the civics portion of the U.S. naturalization test—100 basic facts about U.S. history and civics—before receiving their high-school diploma, and that’s a start.
Lucas Hudson would have passed such a test with flying colors.
On graduation day, Lucas stepped up to the podium and delivered his uncensored valedictorian speech as written, without any interference by school censors.
As Lucas’s father relayed to The Rutherford Institute:
“In the end, Lucas got to give his entire speech the way he wanted to give it, and everybody was paying attention. Nobody got hurt. Nothing bad happened. It was just a young man using the First Amendment rights to speak his mind regarding his personal beliefs. [Lucas] never thought a few sentences in a speech would create such a controversy in his world, but this speech turned into a defining moment for him. He will never be the same after this experience, but this permanent change is a good thing. When it mattered, Lucas stood up for himself, and when those he stood up against tried to push him down, [The Rutherford Institute] came to his aide and backed him up to make it a fair fight. I am comforted to know you are defending the rights of the people. These fights matter. Every time you defend the rights of one person, you defend the rights of every person. You helped my son fight for his rights against the school, and, in doing so, Hillsborough County Public Schools will think twice before infringing on the rights of future students. Your defense of Lucas became an inspiration for the students in his school and sparked a healthy and meaningful debate among the teachers, students, and parents about the value of the First Amendment and the need for limits on government control over our personal beliefs. You are fighting for good and doing important work. Don’t ever stop. Thank you, Rutherford Institute, for being there for my son when he needed you most.”
America needs more freedom fighters like Lucas Hudson and The Rutherford Institute.
It’s up to us.
We have the power to make and break the government.
We the American people—the citizenry—are the arbiters and ultimate guardians of America’s welfare, defense, liberty, laws and prosperity.
We must act—and act responsibly.
A healthy, representative government is hard work. It takes a citizenry that is informed about the issues, educated about how the government operates, and willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stay involved.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s our job to keep freedom alive using every nonviolent means available to us.
As Martin Luther King Jr. recognized in a speech delivered on December 5, 1955, just four days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery city bus: “Democracy transformed from thin paper to thick action is the greatest form of government on earth.”
Know your rights. Exercise your rights. Defend your rights. If not, you will lose them.
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Watch: Dem Calif. State Senate Blasts Democrats for Protecting Pedophiles to Keep Black, Brown Men Out of Prison
A Democrat state senator in California called out members of her party for supposedly protecting pedophiles in order to keep black and brown men from filling prisons.
Speaking in favor of SB 1414 on Wednesday, seeking to make purchasing a child for sex a felony, Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (District 5, Stockton) blasted Democrats for, in her words, “protecting people who would buy and abuse our children.”
BREAKING: A Democrat in the California State Senate just STUNNED the entire floor with her fiery speech against her own party
— George (@BehizyTweets) May 30, 2024
“I’m done. I’m done with us protecting people who would buy and abuse our children.”
“I don’t want people buying little girls anymore. And I’m tired of… pic.twitter.com/IkiYTNm04v
“I’d like to say as a progressive proud member of this body for the last 12 years, I’m done,” Eggman said. “I’m done with us protecting people who would buy and abuse our children. I’m done.”
She continued: “I don’t want to send more black and brown men to prison. I don’t want more people in prison, but I don’t want people buying girls. I don’t want people buying little girls anymore. And I’m tired of saying it’s okay and that we have to protect the men who do it.”
Highlighting the documentary Escaping the Blade, exposing the underage sex trade in Sacramento, Eggman went on to explain the Democrat bail reform policies have essentially resulted in a catch-and-release system allowing pedophiles to re-enter society immediately following arrest.
“Men are being given a little slap in the hand or a couple of days and then they’re back out again and they do the same thing. They get caught over and over and over again and somehow that’s okay. It’s not okay. It is not okay anymore. And no more am I watching.”
The senator added that despite soon departing the legislature, due to term limits, she hoped her colleagues would continue the work to protect the children, stating, “They’re poor kids, they’re kids of color, but they shouldn’t have to live a life determined by what happens to them by others at a very young age and have the Democratic Party of California say, it’s OK.”
“It’s not okay. And I’m not doing it anymore. And I hope none of you do too. We have to be able to draw a line. And for me, I’m drawing a line. I urge your aye vote.”
Following the senator’s speech and the testimony of others, SB 1414 passed with a 36-0 vote.
The Daily Mail reports, “The bill will now go to the state assembly, where Grove and most others on both parties hope it will be beefed back up to its original form.”
Viral Video: Man Clobbers Two Women In “Gender Neutral” MMA Fight
A recent MMA fight in Romania featured two women fighting a man, resulting in the ladies being severely beaten.
Here’s a gender neutral MMA fight.pic.twitter.com/4lfTqygm9l
— Nopilled (@Nopilled16622) May 30, 2024
See a crowd angle of the fight below:
Internet users pointed out the event highlighted the difference between men and women, specifically when it comes to sports.
Radio host and former police officer Brandon Tatum wrote, “Coming soon to women’s boxing in America.”
Only in Romania. Coming soon to women’s boxing in America ? pic.twitter.com/L6yE97oKKy
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) May 30, 2024
Hilarious Video Exposes Mentally Retarded Democrats
A video created by the Dilley Meme Team roasts the Democrat Party idiots running America to the ground.
— Modern Warfare with Alex Jones (@AlexJonesMW3) May 29, 2024
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