'Inside job'

'Inside job' film trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzrBurlJUNk

Wall Street's dirty, rotten scoundrels
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/05/i_am_but_a_naive.html

Main backer of non-profit group financing the Ground Zero mosque worked for security contractor with ties to CIA and counterterrorism

One of the earliest backers of the nonprofit group, the Cordoba Initiative, that is spearheading the Ground Zero mosque, is a 52-year-old Scarsdale, New York, native named R. Leslie Deak.

In addition to serving on the group's board of advisors since its founding in 2004 by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Deak was its principal funder, donating $98,000 to the nonprofit between 2006 and 2008. This figure appears to represent organization's total operating budget--though, oddly, the group reported receipts of just a third of that total during the same time period.

Leslie Deak's resume also notes his role as "business consultant" for Patriot Defense Group, LLC, a private defense contractor with offices in Winter Park, Florida, and in Tucson.

The only names listed on the firm's website are those of its three "strategic advisers."

These include retired four-star General Bryan "Doug" Brown[5], commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command until 2007, where he headed "all special operations forces, both active duty and reserve, leading the Global War On Terrorism," and James Pavitt, former deputy director for operations at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he "managed the CIA's globally deployed personnel and nearly half of its multi-billion dollar budget" and "served as head of America's Clandestine Service, the CIA's operational response to the attacks of September 11, 2001."

Besides Pavitt, Brown and a third advisor, banker Alexander Cappello, the Patriot Defense Group is so secretive it doesn't even name its management team, instead describing its anonymous CEO as a former Special Forces and State Department veteran, the group's managing director as a former CIA officer experienced in counter-terrorism in hostile environments and the group's corporate intelligence head as a "23-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service who worked on the personal security details of former Presidents Bush and Clinton."

So, to recap: From 2006 to 2008, R. Leslie Deak worked as a "business consultant" to this super-secretive security contractor with ties to the CIA and counterterrorism forces, and in those same three years he also donated nearly $100,000 in seed money to the foundation now advocating the construction of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque.

Interestingly, during the same three-year period during which the Deak Family Foundation was financing the Cordoba Initiative, Deak also donated a total of $101,247 to something called the National Defense University Foundation. The National Defense University is a network of war and strategy colleges and research centers (including the National War College) funded by the Pentagon, designed to train specialists in military strategy.
The organization recently announced a November 5 dinner gala[8] in honor of Defense Secretary and former CIA chief Robert Gates. Sponsors include Northrup Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and...the Patriot Defense Group.

http://911blogger.com/news/2010-09-10/untangling-bizarre-cia-links-ground-zero-mosque

Some comments about Bilderberg

Since we have no clue whatsoever as to what is discussed in these secretive sessions (unless we trust 'leaks'), and given that these people are globalists (which isn't necessarily bad), it would be quite reasonable to hypothesize that the reason for the secrecy is that the participants would be embarrassed if what they discussed in this meeting was made public.

In other words, certain stakeholders in society would probably be quite hostile to the content of these discussions.

Still nothing too tragic, as this is pretty much the definition of politics.

A problem could arise if it could be conclusively *proven* that policy decisions are being made in Bilderberg that are then being implemented.
But then again, politicians should be free to consult with whoever they want.
If their policies are bad or ineffective we can vote them out of office.

We should be more concerned with people who have immense power over the financial system and don't answer to anyone.

To conclude: it is quite easy with some basic research to get a good glimpse of what these globalist discussions are about as some relevant information is easily found in the public domain.

Carroll Quigley was a professor of history in Harvard, Princeton and Georgetown.
Obviously anyone who would dare dismiss him as some sort of a loon would have to provide some very serious evidence, which I somehow don't think is very likely.

In his magnum opus, 'Tragedy and Hope' (1966) he wrote (page 324):

The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.

The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations.

Each central bank sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.

In each country, the power of the central bank rested largely on its control of credit and money supply.

In the world as a whole the power of the central bankers rested very largely on their control of loans and the gold flows. They made agreements on all the major financial problems of the world, as well as on many of the economic and political problems, especially in reference to loans, payments, and the economic future of the chief areas of the globe.

The Bank of International Settlements, B.I.S. is generally regarded as the apex of the structure of financial capitalism whose remote origins go back to the creation of the Bank of England in 1694.

Other recommended sources with intellectual integrity:

1. Murray Rothbard (libertarian American economist):
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html

2. Explanation of what money is (debt) and how it is created:
Money as debt (found easily on YouTube)

And if you're into philosophy:
3. The Matrix and Plato's cave:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRNMZEDOBrM