I don't watch TV news so no idea if it was broad casted.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Police heavily guarded a luxury resort in Greece on Saturday where a secretive annual rendezvous of top politicians and business leaders reportedly took place.
Several dozen Greek demonstrators gathered outside the Astir Palace hotel in the coastal town of Vouliagmeni to criticize the Bilderberg Group, an international group that was founded half a century ago in the Netherlands.
It has no widely known headquarters, meets secretly at luxury hotels and resorts throughout the world by invitation only, and generally makes no public announcements afterward.
The demonstrators, from Greece's right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally party, shouted slogans and held a large banner saying "Bilderberg Unwelcome" outside the hotel, which is 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Athens on the Aegean Sea. One demonstrator was arrested when the group tried to break through a police cordon.
"We came here to protest this anti-Greek meeting," Argyris Sideris, a regional party secretary, told the Associated Press. "We need to do something to protect our country."
The popular hotel was closed to the public.
A police officer told The Associated Press the resort was being protected by hundreds of police, navy commandos, coast guard speedboats and two F-16 fighter planes. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity, in keeping with his department's regulations.
Outside the hotel on Friday, Greek Communist Party members conducted a peaceful demonstration against the Bilderberg Group.
Greek newspapers said the secret meeting of the politicians and managers of world capitalism included Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis.
The papers said this year's invitees also included U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner; Larry Summers, the director of the U.S. National Economic Council; the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke; World Bank President Robert Zoellick; European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.
But those reports could not be independently confirmed.
The three-day meeting apparently ended Saturday.
Associated Press Writer Tom Stoukas contributed to this report.
It's full of prime ministers, queens, princes, finance ministers, etc.
They can sit down and talk with these people all day long.. nothing illegal about that. They can talk business, they can talk money, they can even talk about America.
They can sit down and talk with these people all day long.. nothing illegal about that. They can talk business, they can talk money, they can even talk about America.
Well that is the common misconception: that they are simply just "talking" and having tea.
I can't believe anyone would defend a Federal Reserve weasel like Timothy Geithner. Oh wait, I forgot I'm on the dumbass porn business board.
However, there is no record of any convictions or even prosecutions under the Logan Act.
the only one in history that comes to my mind violating this (if it would be an international law) is Rudolf Heß when he flew over to England to negotiate peace in 1941.
on the other hand that saved him from being hanged and "just" kept him in prison for 42 years.
Well that is the common misconception: that they are simply just "talking" and having tea.
I can't believe anyone would defend a Federal Reserve weasel like Timothy Geithner. Oh wait, I forgot I'm on the dumbass porn business board.
I'm not supporting the fraud/scam, and all the other b.s. going on in the U.S. But you post this as if it's something new, like it's a wow factor that people in power in our country went this meeting, you clearly didn't want to name, and then say he directly violated an act, simply because you read it from some lame ass website.... <-- That would be why I posted..
Originally posted by IllTestYourGirls
Yup. If you say something bad about Obama you must be a warmongering neo-con that supported Bush.
Lets bring on the rush of Obama neo-con Bush guys to backup a lame statement.
Originally posted by StickyGreen
If you do say anything you'll be labeled a "right-wing extremist."
At least we do technically still have freedom of speech in this country, but there are people who want to change that.
I'm pretty sure freedom of speech works both ways..
Originally posted by EscortBiz
no comment on this specific topic but in general obama and the whole team can do anything now and noone will say anything it is what it is
In General every president and the people in power could always do that. It's not like Bush didn't pretty much say fuck you and do what he wanted, when he wanted.
how mnay acts did Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzales etc etc violate? I've never heard of this Logan Act so it mustn't be a big deal. You're just being nit picky because you don't like having a black president.
the only one in history that comes to my mind violating this (if it would be an international law) is Rudolf Heß when he flew over to England to negotiate peace in 1941.
on the other hand that saved him from being hanged and "just" kept him in prison for 42 years.
Cool, I will check out more info on that.. so much history to cover.
how mnay acts did Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzales etc etc violate? I've never heard of this Logan Act so it mustn't be a big deal. You're just being nit picky because you don't like having a black president.
This post is a beautiful example of ignorance. I'm upset that Geithner attended Bilderberg, so your conclusion is that I don't like having a black president? lol.... jesus christ man...
I was pretty pissed off when Condoleeza Rice attended the 2008 Bilderberg meeting. Does that mean I didn't like having a white president? lmao
how mnay acts did Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzales etc etc violate? I've never heard of this Logan Act so it mustn't be a big deal. You're just being nit picky because you don't like having a black president.
I think StickyGreen hates them all equally.
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how mnay acts did Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzales etc etc violate? I've never heard of this Logan Act so it mustn't be a big deal. You're just being nit picky because you don't like having a black president.
This thread needs more Henry Kissinger, the NWO David Rockefeller right-hand-man every year Bilderberg attendee who gave Barack Obama his first job out of college.
Where's Rockefeller's other little bitch Zbigniew Brzezinski at? He didn't attend Bilderberg this year, something must be wrong, lol.
yep politicians violate it quit often, but no cares, they just let them do whatever... but when you get caught with a blunt you go to jail
Text of the Logan Act
§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply himself, or his agent, to any foreign government, or the agents thereof, for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004).
This post is a beautiful example of ignorance. I'm upset that Geithner attended Bilderberg, so your conclusion is that I don't like having a black president? lol.... jesus christ man...
I was pretty pissed off when Condoleeza Rice attended the 2008 Bilderberg meeting. Does that mean I didn't like having a white president? lmao
Fact is you're being a whiny bitch over nothing. it's obvious why. yes Geitehr works for a black Presideent and Rice is black. Hmmmm. In both situations a black government official is involved.
call me ingorant agian bitch. Go rape your mothers asshole and infect her with AIDS.
Fact is you're being a whiny bitch over nothing. it's obvious why. yes Geitehr works for a black Presideent and Rice is black. Hmmmm. In both situations a black government official is involved.
call me ingorant agian bitch. Go rape your mothers asshole and infect her with AIDS.
How's that smartass?
Wow, I was going to refrain but you are completely and utterly ignorant. Wow... Never once in his first post did he mention his President, never once did he mention anything about race. Way to go.
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Fact is you're being a whiny bitch over nothing. it's obvious why. yes Geitehr works for a black Presideent and Rice is black. Hmmmm. In both situations a black government official is involved.
call me ingorant agian bitch. Go rape your mothers asshole and infect her with AIDS.
How's that smartass?
LOL, you ignorant bastard. Out of all the government people who attended last year's Bilderberg meeting I guess I shouldn't have cited a "black" one.
Ben Bernanke was also there. He's white, and it actually pissed me off more that he was there than Rice, but I guess somehow everything is racial to you. lol
LOL, you ignorant bastard. Out of all the government people who attended last year's Bilderberg meeting I guess I shouldn't have cited a "black" one.
Ben Bernanke was also there. He's white, and it actually pissed me off more that he was there than Rice, but I guess somehow everything is racial to you. lol
It really didn't piss me off to find out Bernanke was at the meeting, kind of figured it. Seeing as the FED is just a corporation and owns a monopoly on the issuance and supply of the money we use, I guess him being there is no real concern because he's not actually apart of the Govt.
But yeah, when I hear that elected officials are there, that really does piss me off. HR 1207, that's our first step at getting back at these bastards.
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If you do say anything you'll be labeled a "right-wing extremist."
At least we do technically still have freedom of speech in this country, but there are people who want to change that.
Originally posted by IllTestYourGirls
Yup. If you say something bad about Obama you must be a warmongering neo-con that supported Bush.
As the official GFY representative of the Warmongering Neo-Cons I can say with absolute certainty that we don't agree with your absurd rantings about the Federal Reserve and the Bilderberg Conference.
As the official GFY representative of the Warmongering Neo-Cons I can say with absolute certainty that we don't agree with your absurd rantings about the Federal Reserve and the Bilderberg Conference.
I hope that helps
You should read the book "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin. It is about the history of central banking and the Federal Reserve. You might learn something about how it all works.
It really didn't piss me off to find out Bernanke was at the meeting, kind of figured it. Seeing as the FED is just a corporation and owns a monopoly on the issuance and supply of the money we use, I guess him being there is no real concern because he's not actually apart of the Govt.
But yeah, when I hear that elected officials are there, that really does piss me off. HR 1207, that's our first step at getting back at these bastards.
Well I used Bernanke as an example because most Americans believe that the Federal Reserve is indeed "Federal."
HR 1207 had about 70 or so co-sponsors and made it to committee, but I haven't heard anything about it since. It obviously won't pass, they would never allow that to happen.
You should read the book "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin. It is about the history of central banking and the Federal Reserve. You might learn something about how it all works.
I was just trying to back you up on your argument that you are not a warmongering neo-con. I certainly don't want to engage you on this subject lest whatever is wrong with you inflicts me as well.
I was just trying to back you up on your argument that you are not a warmongering neo-con. I certainly don't want to engage you on this subject lest whatever is wrong with you inflicts me as well.
Of course not, "neo-cons" would never admit that central banks like the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve are privately controlled. I guess understanding the history of central banking means something is "wrong with me." lol.
Turns out David Petraeus was also at this year's Bilderberg meeting. Wtf is he doing rubbing shoulders with the elite in Greece? Shouldn't he be watching over a war or something? lmao
Of course not, "neo-cons" would never admit that central banks like the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve are privately controlled.
I agree. There is no one who could be accurately described as a "neo-con" who supports your view of the nefarious nature of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England........ hence my point that is is unfair to call you a neo-con.
The Federal Reserve apparently can't account for $9 trillion in off-balance sheet transactions.
When Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Orlando) asked Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman of the Federal Reserve some very basic questions about where the trillions of dollars that have come from the Fed's expanded balance sheet, the IG didn't know.
Worse, nobody at the Fed seems to have any idea what the losses on its $2 trillion portfolio really are.
"I am shocked to find out that nobody at the Federal Reserve is keeping track of anything," Grayson says.
Grayson asked Coleman if her agency had done any research into the decision not to save Lehman Brothers, which “sent shockwaves through the entire financial system,” Coleman said it had not.
“What about the $1 trillion plus expansion of the Federal reserve’s balance sheet since last September?” Grayson asked.
“We have different connotations,” Coleman replied. “We’re actually conducting a fairly high-level review of the various lending facilities collectively.”
Translation: Nobody at the Fed knows where the money went.
Do you know what who got the $1 trillion or more in the Fed's expansion of its balance, Grayson pressed.
"I do not know. We have not looked at this specific area at the particular point on that specific review," Coleman answer.
What about the trillions of off-balance transactions since last September, Grayson asked.
Coleman demurred again, saying the IG does not have jurisdiction to audit the Federal Reserve.
Grayson pointed out that it was the inspector general's job to audit such spending and asked again if the office had done any investigation at all.
Coleman's answer: Not enough yet to even respond. "We are in not a position to say if there losses."
Grayson concluded, "I am shocked to find out that nobody at the Federal Reserve, including the inspector general, is keeping track of this."
Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the bank is working on ways to rein in the massive balance sheet commitments.
"A majority of the members who made these projections just recently took 2 percent as being an appropriate number" for inflation, Bernanke said Monday.
"Somewhere between 1-1/2 to 2 percent is basically the number that our committee has individually stated is the appropriate medium-term inflation rate.
"To achieve that we need to demonstrate that we will be able to exit from the balance sheet position that we currently have, and have been working on this intensively," Bernanke said in response to questions after a speech to a conference organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, reported by Reuters.
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