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Bilderberg, Bilderberg, Bilderberg Group.
Nos últimos dias as referências ao Bilderberg não me têm deixado em paz. O que é afinal o Bilderber Group? Depois de uma rápida investigação, eu poderia arriscar tentar dizer-vos. Mas prefiro deixar-vos a definição da BBC

The Bilderberg group, an elite coterie of Western thinkers and power-brokers, has been accused of fixing the fate of the world behind closed doors. As the organisation marks its 50th anniversary, rumours are more rife than ever.
Given its reputation as perhaps the most powerful organisation in the world, the Bilderberg group doesn't go a bundle on its switchboard operations.

What sets Bilderberg apart from other high-powered get-togethers, such as the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), is its mystique.

Not a word of what is said at Bilderberg meetings can be breathed outside. No reporters are invited in and while confidential minutes of meetings are taken, names are not noted.

The shadowy aura extends further - the anonymous answerphone message, for example; the fact that conference venues are kept secret. The group, which includes luminaries such as Henry Kissinger and former UK chancellor Kenneth Clarke, does not even have a website.

In the void created by such aloofness, an extraordinary conspiracy theory has grown up around the group that alleges the fate of the world is largely decided by Bilderberg.

In Yugoslavia, leading Serbs have blamed Bilderberg for triggering the war which led to the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic. The Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the London nail-bomber David Copeland and Osama Bin Laden are all said to have bought into the theory that Bilderberg pulls the strings with which national governments dance.

Na reunião do 50.º aniversário do grupo, em meados deste ano, estiveram presentes 4 portugueses. Pinto Balsemão, aparentemente o mais antigo membro de entre os lusitanos, Santana Lopes, ainda Presidente de Câmara, José Sócrates e António Vitorino... Notam alguma coisa estranha? Pois...

Aqui podem encontrar a lista completa dos participantes. Para além dos referidos Clarke e Kissinger, irão encontrar nomes como John Edwards (candidato a vice-presidente dos EUA), Richard Holbrooke, Melinda Gates (mulher do nosso conhecido Bill), Mario Monti, Beatriz da Holanda, David Rockefeller, Jean-Claude Trichet (Presidente do Banco Central Europeu) e mais uns quantos nomes conhecidos.

Mas não se preocupem! Isto é só uma teoria da conspiração...