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The Bilderberg meeting is an annual conference that brings together politicians, business leaders, financiers, lobbyists, academics, and some journalists from the U.S. and Europe. Participants at this year's Bilderberg meeting include Google's Eric Schmidt, VP of Engineering for Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis, libertarian venture capitalist Peter Thiel, UK Chancellor George Osborne, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg, and David Petraeus, who recently received a slap on the wrist after his powerful friends wrote letters of support urging a federal judge not to harshly sentence him for mishandling classified information.
There is no detailed agenda, with no resolutions or votes. "Thanks to the private nature of the conference, the participants are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions," Bilderberg says. "As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights." Critics argue its aim is more sinister and there are countless different flavours of conspiracy theory.
One topic not on the outline list to be discussed this year is the environment. The Breitbart website calls this "stupid". But the importance of the Bilderberg meeting is emphasised by the Guardian, which argues it's more influential than the G7 meeting of leading economies that took place at the weekend, finishing with a call for an end to the use of fossil fuels by the end of the century. The sense of importance is echoed in the Irish Times, which says the invitation for Michael O'Leary means he can now take "his place among the chieftains of the world". Bilderberg might be secretive, but it's unlikely to be quiet this year.
Lawrence Lessig attended the meeting in 2013.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:28PM
The kicker is gases like CO2 cause global climate change and not necessarily toxic gases. Knuckle-dragging right wingers can't wrap their heads around the idea that a gas that humans and animals expel could cause climate change and should be classified as pollution.
Climate change deniers are even more transfixed on a boogyman, climate researchers, which if you do any reading have been demonized as everything from Luddities to Marxists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @06:03PM
You obviously are a left-leaning right-hater.
Your accusation needs fixing. I believe what you meant to say would be more like...right wingers understand what sources make CO2 but don't believe for a minute that breathing makes you a polluter or that CO2 has respectable effect on the earth.
But yes we right wingers don't buy/drink the climate change Kool-Aid as much as the Left. Some of us deny climate change for non-political reasons, the smart ones deny it because of the data. There is less published data than published conclusions. They don't want Al Gore fluff charts, they want measurements from a source that wouldn't be suspect of doctoring it to support their view. (And maybe because all the published climate doom from the 70s was wrong.) All the evidence presented to me so far has the credibility of a re-tweet gone viral, it is everywhere with no substance.
To tie this to the story about rich people: There is hardly a 'scientist' that isn't paid by rich guy money or by money directed by rich guy influence. To get this money (and continue to not starve) you have to produce research that does not oppose rich guy views or agenda. When rich guys no longer care about climate change then the research dollars will run out. But since it makes such a good cult for the sophisticated moron, it isn't going away.
Al gore has a larger carbon foot print than me so I'm a good guy.