The Bilderberg Group: 130 People Decide What You Will Watch on TV Tomorrow
Once a year, central bankers, defense secretaries, tech CEOs, and royals meet for three days under total media blackout. The press attends. The press reports nothing.
Founded in 1954 at the Hotel de Bilderberg in the Netherlands, the Bilderberg Meeting is an annual invitation-only conference of around 130 of the most powerful people in finance, government, defense, technology, and royalty. The meetings are conducted under the Chatham House Rule - what is said may be reported, but not who said it. In practice almost nothing is reported.
The 2024 meeting, held in Madrid, included CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, BlackRock, and the U.S. Treasury Secretary, NATO Secretary General, three sitting heads of state, and the King of the Netherlands. Topics published in advance: "AI", "Geopolitics", "Russia", "China", "Ukraine."
The Bilderbergers say it's "informal." They book entire luxury hotels for three days and surround them with private security, no-fly zones, and police checkpoints. That is not informal.
You are not invited. You are not allowed in. The decisions about your future are made over rare beef, six floors above a beach you can't walk on.