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67th Bilderberg: 30 May – 2 June 2019 in Montreux, Switzerland

Just a note for archival purposes of this event and its attendees. I may post opinions on the topics in later posts.
https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2019/press-release-2019

The key [public] topics for discussion this year are:

1. A Stable Strategic Order
2. What Next for Europe?
3. Climate Change and Sustainability
4. China (Ed note: faux enemy)
5. Russia (Ed note: faux enemy)
6. The Future of Capitalism
7. Brexit
8. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
9. The Weaponisation of Social Media (Ed note: censorship/deplatforming)
10. The Importance of Space
11. Cyber Threats

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 2019
BOARD
Castries, Henri de (FRA), Chairman, Steering Committee; Chairman, Institut Montaigne
Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), President, American Friends of Bilderberg Inc.; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Chairman Foundation Bilderberg Meetings; Professor of Economics, Leiden University
Achleitner, Paul M. (DEU), Treasurer Foundation Bilderberg Meetings; Chairman Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG
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BREXIT: EU Election Analysis by Prof John Curtice on the BBC

Prof [Sir] John Curtice provides a nugget of insight into the Conservative (blue) gang’s predicament.

On the result:

“so I think the honest truth is that neither side can claim on the base of these results that voters have sent a clear signal… extreme options of leaving without a deal and having a second referendum as the polls are suggesting two most popular options”

On Conservative Party options:

“brexit vote is not going to disappear unless and until the Conservatives deliver brexit …next Tory Prime Minister is probably going to have to try to work out a way of delivering brexit within the arithmetic of the current House of Commons because the option of going to the country …was unlikely to look very attractive”

In others words the blue gang will be decimated if they dare initiate a general election before Brexit is resolved! The blue gang members therefore have two options capitulate to the EU and a lookalike May deal or go for the “hard/WTO” Brexit!

What will it be? In, out, half out, half in? And you shake it all about , you do the hokey pokey,  you turn yourself around that’s what we’re all about. Forgive my humour, I could not resist it.

BBC – Transatlantic trade debate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-commons-30838066
16 January 2015 Last updated at 10:34 Help
MPs took part in a debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on 15 January 2015.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-30829562

Business, Innovation and Skills Minister Matthew Hancock is replying for the government.
“We are, as a nation, deeply committed to free and fair exchange,” he says.
He adds: “TTIP is about free and fair trade.”

TTIP is free and fair? Then why the secrecy?

Why are only a handful of MPs allowed into the reading room without recording equipment to see the documents.
Lord Livingston is amongst the few that has access to the documents. Lord Livingstone will be at the European Scrutiny committee meeting on 11th Feb 2015.

The UK has 90 International Trade deals involving Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism.

Caroline Lucas (Green, Brighton Pavilion)
Czech republic, Slovakia and Poland…are in trade agreements that include Investor Dispute mechanism and have been sued 170 times…