Portuguese Newspaper Admits Bilderberg Kingmaker
Power
Sol reports on 2008 meeting, cowardly complicit American corporate
media silent about this week's confab of nearly 200 global
powerbrokers
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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A Portuguese newspaper has reported on something the American
corporate media remains cowardly complicit about and dare not even
mention - this week's confab of nearly 200 of the world's most
influential powerbrokers in Chantilly Virginia for the 2008
Bilderberg Group meeting.
The Sol newspaper carries a story today concerning two of the
Portuguese attendees of this year's conference, the mayors of Lisbon
and Porto - Antonio Costa and Rui Rio (pictured top).
Tellingly, the report highlights the fact that Bilderberg has
kingmaker power in vetting future Prime Ministers and Presidents,
noting how Pedro Santana Lopes and Jose Socrates attended the 2004
meeting in Stresa, Italy before both going on to become Prime
Minster of Portugal.
In addition, the report underscores how both Costa and Rio have
ambitions to lead their respective parties and potentially run for
Prime Minister in the future.
The clear implication is that Costa and Rio are being groomed by
Bilderberg for future "selection" as Portuguese Prime Minister in
the same way that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were vetted by the
secretive organization in the early 1990's.
The fact that there has been just one mainstream news report about
Bilderberg and not one single mention of this year's meeting in the
U.S. corporate media less than 48 hours before nearly 200 top
globalists will meet to set the agenda for the planet is another
damning indictment of the back-slapping cronyism that dominates the
national media.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the editors of
such newspapers as the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and
the New York Times are regular Bilderberg attendees and value
Bilderberg's strict secrecy rule over and above any responsibility
to their readers or the American people.
Bilderberg is routinely attended by the world's top CEO's, Prime
Minsters, Presidents, NATO officials, UN officials, Federal Reserve
members, European Central Bank heads, banking heads, oil heads,
University Professors, as well as people like Henry Kissinger, David
Rockefeller and Bill Gates.
If 200 football or basketball stars met in secret do you think the
media would be interested in finding out what they were talking
about?
Yet these people shape the destiny of our world and there's barely a
hint of a mention in the U.S. media.
The full translation of the Portuguese article appears below. Thanks
to Rui Garrido for sending it in.
Meeting in Washington: Bilderberg invites Antonio Costa and Rui Rio
By Helena Pereira
Mayors of Lisbon and Porto represent Portugal in the think-tank's
annual meeting which starts this Thursday
The mayors of Lisbon and Porto, Antonio Costa (PS), and Rui Rio
(PSD), are the Portuguese invitees at Bilderberg, which will have
its annual meeting by the end of this week in Washington.
Bilderberg is an exclusive think-tank which, every year, seeks to
invite influential personalities of the political and business
world. In 2004, for example, the Portuguese invitees were Pedro
Santana Lopes and Jose Socrates, who were to later become
prime-ministers.
Besides being mayors to the two biggest cities in the country, both
Antonio Costa and Rui Rio are seen as strong candidates to their
respective parties' leaderships, in the near future.
This year's Bilderberg meeting will take place between next Thursday
and Sunday in a hotel located in the vicinities of Washington.
Francisco Pinto Balsemão, the chairman of Impresa, is the only
Portuguese citizen in Bilderberg's board of directors.