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Campbell's Bilderberg adventure remains mysterious

   

Why was B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell hanging out with global billionaires at the 58th annual Bilderberg Meeting in Sitges, Spain? And why didn’t he tell the world he was going?

After all, he went to a beautiful place, made some new friends, and the food had to be good. But Campbell hasn’t posted even a tweet’s worth about it on his Facebook page. Isn’t that something social media is for? To tell your friends about your latest neat trip?

A photo in today’s Guardian newspaper shows Campbell among a covey of other official Bilderburg participants. He was there with other political figures including the finance minister of debt bedeviled Greece (George Papaconstantinou), two past architects of U.S. war policies (Henry Kissinger and Richard Perle), and Larry Summers, top economic advisor to U.S. president Obama.

The list also includes powerful heads of giant multi-national corporations including Microsoft, Coca-cola, Google and Goldman Sachs International. The annual meeting of the Bilderberg group is secretive and by invitation only, and therefore ready fodder for conspiracy theorists.

The Georgia Straight first reported on June 6, that Campbell was on a "leaked list" of Bilderberg participants this year. (The Tyee today found the same list on the Bilderberg website.)

On Sunday, The Vancouver Sun gained what it termed a "brief interview" with Campbell, noting the premier would "not go into specific detail about what was discussed." Campbell did say, "We talked about the economy, we talked about trade, we talked about health care and the challenges that health care presents to all economies with the changing demographic." 


"We talked about how is it possible to feed the world and what are the barriers that are in the way of us actually accomplishing that goal."

"Everybody is connected now with international trade. Everyone will be affected by what happens with the European currencies and that's a significant issue everyone is concerned about."

UBC professor of international law Michael Byers, a federal New Democrat who has run for Member of Parliament in Vancouver, would like Campbell to be more forthcoming about the goal and results of his four days spent with the Bilderbergers, paid for by citizens of B.C.

"One doesn't need to be a conspiracy theorist to be concerned that the Premier of B.C. is attending secret meetings with the power brokers of global capitalism, including Henry Kissinger and Peter Sutherland, the chairman of Goldman Sachs International. These are people who see countries as commodities, available for take-over and trade -- along with their natural resources -- without regard for the interests or opinions of their citizens."

Byers added, "The parallel with Paul Gross' 2004 CBC drama ‘H20’ is particularly disturbing. There, the Bilderberg Group engineered the rise to power of a Canadian prime minister -- and the incorporation of Canada into the United States -- in return for the commercialization and export of Canada's freshwater. Gordon Campbell is commercializing B.C.'s fresh water so that multinational corporations can export hydroelectricity to California. So what's the quid pro quo? Does it only come later, in the form of lucrative positions on the boards of Bilderberg-associated companies? Or has some of it already arrived?"

Maybe CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge will have the story. He attended this year’s Bilderberg meeting, too, along with fellow Canadians Indigo Books chair Heather Riesman and TD Bank Financial Group Deputy Chair Frank McKenna.

David Beers is editor of The Tyee.

   

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  • circle A

    2 years ago

    this ultra wealthclass...

    of corporate power must think they`ve won the ultimate lottery when our own little man gordo shows up and gives away the property and any chance of an economic future for the foolish rubes he and his corporate paymasters hoodwinked into electing this turbo-neocon regime in victoria that treats the common property of bc citizens like their own private property.

  • Ramona777

    2 years ago

    If BC Taxpayers Footed His Foray ...

    We should hear all about it.
    It's rather disgusting that Campbell was shilling solo in Spain. I thought he'd closed all of those deals during the Olympics.
    As for Peter Mansbridge, can one call him a journalist anymore?
    Which is why I truly fear the planet's future.
    When you have journalists complicit in world domination by a group whose whole existence is to keep the rich, rich, the rest of us peons face an increasingly polluted, corrupt and unstable world.

  • Van Isle

    2 years ago

    Wonder if the mass-media

    Wonder if the mass-media will ask where Gordo has been and what was talked about when he gets home? Naw; they don't have the gonads.

  • Fiat lux

    2 years ago

    I'm sick of this constant

    I'm sick of this constant silly yakking about "conspiracy theorists", by self imagined superior minds.

    "Conspiracy theory" is an expression made up by professional mind benders, like the idiocies of "consumers" and "wealth creation", to divert attention from the facts and sordid realities to make people who question these secret get togethers by the biggest criminals of the corporate mafia, ridiculous.

    The word "conspiracy" originates from the Latin "cum" = "with" and "spiro" = "breathing" = "breathing together", which means that all special interest gatherings, religions, political parties, etc. are bona fide conspiracies.

    The ruling classes of the world, through history, have long discovered the simple physical fact that "wealth can not be created, only taken" and always have used their imaginary, or violence induced powers to "take" as much as they could, while covering up their actions with religions and ideologies.

    In other words, when the sole purpose of a group is to "take", it is criminal conspiracy, even if taught in our universities as "economics".

    The Bilderbergers and the Trilaterals, also NAFTA, "globalization" etc. are criminal plans and organizations to "take" everything they can, and the sole purpose of their gatherings is conspiring for legalized grand theft, while calling it "competition".

    The politicians are attending these secret meetings to get offers for the sale of their countries and peoples in to subservience and slavery, while calling it "freedom" and "wealth creation", and most important, to collect the best post politics directorship offers for their efforts.

    If these actions aren't conspiracies, what the hell are they ?

    What's the difference between conspiring to rob a business, or to destroy family farms and control the world's food supplies, while calling it "free trade" and "free enterprise"

    Ed Deak.

  • freebear

    2 years ago

    No need to comment

    Ed Deak says it all!

  • Notsure

    2 years ago

    Ed Deak/Fiat lux

    I've never said this to a man before, but I think I love you.

    On a similar note, is this not, throughout history, the consequence of central government? This will be our destiny until we rid ourselves of this monarchy complex (you can change the name, but what else is it when a singular person calls most of the shots and insists on adhering to a premeditated vision?)and get rid of these "leaders".

  • Jeffrey J.

    2 years ago

    What Ed Deak Says

    What Ed Deak Says.

    Couldn't agree more!

  • freebear

    2 years ago

    Probably also discussing how to silence those

    (or drown out; shift to periphery) who think like, and agree with, Ed Deak!

  • Sask Resident

    2 years ago

    Red Ed

    Notice that the Toronto Dominion Bank has two people attending, Red Ed Clark, who developed Trudeau's NEP and pulled a $billion out of BC plus McKenna. TD Bank has never been a friend of western Canadians but offers advice to Iggy and Campbell.

  • Skywalker

    2 years ago

    Agree.

    I agree with all previous posters. Ed Deak is right on. Thanks David for writing this. Let's have more on this sinister organization. It's bad enough but to have or Premier attend on our nickel and then not explain his role is outrageous.

  • BC Boy

    2 years ago

    Said it all

    "Ed Deak says it all!"

    [SNIDE COMMENT DIRECTED AT ANOTHER COMMENTER REMOVED. -MODERATOR.]

    Bilderberg isn't any more sinsister than a comparable on the left wing side, such as Socialist International.

    More conspiracy junque.

  • Ramona777

    2 years ago

    BC Boy ... Come Clean

    What is your occupation?
    Why is our world going down the tubes? It's because people like you continue to play along with the ones pulling the strings who are choking our world.
    Don't throw out a red herring, i.e. Socialist International.
    Ed Deak is eloquent.
    Because you don't agree with someone, don't insult them.
    (I feel like I'm talking to a child.)

  • Skywalker

    2 years ago

    Ramona777

    Please ignore him; he'll go away.

  • crankypants

    2 years ago

    The sad part

    The sad part is that he came back. Couldn't we have just paid for a one-way ticket?

  • cristina14

    2 years ago

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  • Fiat lux

    2 years ago

    "Faith conquers all

    "Faith conquers all !"

    Especially logical thought.

    Ed Deak.

  • cfvua

    2 years ago

    Full Report

    Campbell owes te people of BC a full report on this if it was a taxpayer funded trip. That is his job. What is he doing getting all cuddly in Europe with Harper? Who paid? Please don't say he's up for a federal posting after he gets punted at home. Write your letters to prevent this. People like this have no place in politics whatsoever.

  • max von smartt

    2 years ago

    New World Order.

    Bilderbergers are sworn to secrecy; look to Alex Jones' website and DVD's for the scoop on what they are about. For Campbell to be invited indicates his absolute loyalty to the New World Order and willingness to sell BC's natural resources, water, power etc. to insatiable Amerika.

  • Ramona777

    2 years ago

    Why Aren't The NDP Making Hay Out of This

    What's wrong with that party anyway?
    Do they even want to win the next election?

  • mopled

    2 years ago

    Bilderberg plans to continue

    the Climate Scam, and BC is an important part of it. Come 2012, all government agencies must be "carbon neutral" or they will have to buy "carbon offsets. That means schools and hospitals beside city halls and Provincial Government offices.
    http://www.pacificcarbontrust.com/Default.aspx

    The new commodity/currency just may be "carbon offsets" now that the financial structures have been deliberately destroyed.This 1995 article shows a "carbon currency" has been on the drawing board for at least 15 years.
    http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14619755.200-towards-a-single-carbon-currency.html

    It actually goes further back,to the 1930s and is the brainchild of, "The principal scientist behind Technocracy was M. King Hubbert, a young geoscientist who would later (in 1948-1956) invent the now-famous Peak Oil Theory, also known as the Hubbert Peak Theory."
    http://www.augustreview.com/issues/technocracy/carbon_currency:_a_new_beginning_for_technocracy?_20100125155/#comments

    No conspiracy here folks, keep moving, ignore the man behind the curtain.

    BTW
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/06/08/legal-beagle-says-manmade-global-warming-science-doesn’t-withstand-scrutiny/

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