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[webofevil]

Charlie Skelton’s Bilderberg dispatches for the Guardian have been well worth reading, whether or not you were previously aware of the shadowy “elite” group’s existence, and he’s on splendid form in his final transmission:

I'm baffled to the point of punching tree trunks to witness the determination of some folk to throw themselves in front of these heads of corporations and presidents of banks and to wave their arms protectively, yelping: "Leave them alone! Let them strategise for the good of the world in peace! How could they possibly have a frank discussion with our politicians if we were privy to it? Stop this unseemly prying!" I mean, seriously. The day that Marcus Agius, chairman of Barclays, strategises for my good is the day he repays me the hundreds of pounds of bank charges he's been levying on me since my schooldays. The day that Peter Voser, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, sits around a table with the express concern of making the world a better, more beautiful place for all of us, is the day that my arse grows teeth and eats my hat. [Guardian]

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[webofevil.livejournal.com]

If they're a group of like-minded harmless codgers, what does it matter that the paranoiacs turn up? If they're not harmless but are in fact able to take world-changing decisions behind closed doors without reference to the rest of us, then we have not only the right but the imperative to blow those doors open. Transparency or get out of the fucking game, you shadowy oligarchical nurks.