BILDERBERG 2008 : THREE MONTHS ON

Last week we saw the most momentous financial crash for decades. The US government bailed out some but not all of those in trouble. Merrill Lynch was one such institution that was allowed to die by the free market. Or was it?

It is therefore of interest that two members of the board of Merrill Lynch, William J McDonough and Harold E. Ford, Jr, were at Bilderberg this year, while there were no other representatives from any other major Wall Street bank. Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson also attended. But also of interest is the attendance of Ken Jacobs and Vernon Jordan, two members of the board of Lazard Freres, a specialist in mergers and acquisitions. The Lazard website has this to say on their current expertise;

“Lazard’s history as a preeminent financial advisor has contributed to its ability to secure key advisory roles in some of the most important, complex and recognizable mergers and acquisitions of the last 75 years. In recent years, we have advised on nearly 1,000 completed mergers and acquisitions, having a cumulative value in excess of $1 trillion.

Lazard has also advised on some of the largest and highest-profile corporate restructurings around the world. Since 1999, we have advised on more than 100 in- and out-of-court restructurings totalling over $300 billion of debt.”

Lazard sound like the sort of people to be involved in sorting out the nightmare on Wall Street we saw emerge into public view last week.

As a possible indication that the war between Georgia and Russia was ‘foreseen’, the following persons attended Bilderberg;
Knut Vollebaek - High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE, who were monitoring the Georgians in South Ossetia. Just why Bilderberg were interested in the OSCE this year is curious because a high ranking official from that organisation has never attended Bilderberg before!
Carl Bildt - who instantly flew to Saakashvili’s side.
Richard Holbrooke - who was given significant space in The Washington Post to instantly blame Russia for the war. Several other Bilderbergers were also allowed to blame Russia for the war in The Washington Post.
Donald Graham - Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company.
Jaap G. de Hoop Scheffer - Secretary General, NATO (nuclear armed terrorist organisation).