AO Weekly News Round Up 5-17-9
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The A-O Report's
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Weekly News Round Up
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For 5-17-9
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Editor's Note: It's been a rather slow week for significant news developments due in part to the Bilderberg Meeting that took place May 14-16 and President Obama's upcoming meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu this week and Egypt's President Mubarak later this month. Every year, the news cycle for significant geo-political news slows down in advance of the Bilderberg meeting and it takes generally a week to to 10 days for the cycle to pick back up as Bilderberg attendees assimilate the results of the meetings. We expect the same this year, particularly as we move into a key holiday weekend coming up.
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The A-O Intelligence Digest this week will be featuring some startling accusations concerning the safety of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and mounting concerns by India's leaders that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal has either fallen into the hands of the Taliban and or that the Taliban will take over Pakistan in short order. The Digest will also be reviewing leaked reports from the Bilderberg Meeting and items on this year's agenda. The new Digest edition should be published on Monday.
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Bilderberg Meets in Greece
Bombs Explode in Athens
This year the club is going to talk about depression. “According to the pre-meeting booklet sent out to attendees, Bilderberg is looking at two options,” says the Bilderberg-watcher Daniel Estulin — “either a prolonged, agonising depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty — or an intense but shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.”
Since Bilderberg does not officially exist, it cannot deny anything and is therefore manna from heaven for the conspiracy theorist. Eurosceptics are convinced that the future development of the European Union was plotted here — EU commissioners have always been welcomed into the coven, with Peter “We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich” Mandelson a particular favourite. Margaret Thatcher, it is said, was a shy debutante at a Bilderberg meeting in 1975.
Jim Tucker, veteran stalker of the Bilderberg club meetings, claims that Mrs Thatcher was ordered “to dismantle British sovereignty, but she said, ‘no way’, so they had her sacked”. Left-wing conspiracy theorists believe that Bilderbergers form a capitalist nucleus, and there is a germ of truth in this. The meetings were started in the Netherlands, in the Hotel de Bilderberg, near Arnhem, by the Polish exile Joseph Retinger. He was worried about growing anti-Americanism and the advance of Communism in Western Europe. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands agreed to sponsor the idea, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Walter Bedell Smith, threw his weight behind it and so did the White House.
The Bilderberg consensus is that national problems are best solved by an internationally oriented elite, that a global network of decision-makers should have a common language and that the boundaries are fluid between the monied and the political classes.
And so there has been a natural bias towards inviting conservatives and market liberals. The only socialists invited are those who “understand money”.
Ed Balls has taken part and the most indiscreet Bilderberger of all time was Denis Healey, the former Labour Chancellor and fierce Atlanticist.
“To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair,” Lord Healey told the author Jon Ronson for his book Them: Adventures with Extremists. “Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on for ever fighting one another for nothing. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.”
Another way of viewing the club is that of Metropolitan Seraphim, the bishop of Piraeus, who said that the Bilderbergers represented a “criminal cabal of world Zionism and its efforts to set up a cruel world dictatorship under the headship of Lucifer”. This line is quite common on the blogosphere, where the club’s secrecy is taken as evidence of evil intentions.
Whether Lucifer will be down there on the sun-loungers remains to be seen. But what we have been able to establish from a World Bank spokesman, Alexis O’Brien, is that the organisation’s president, Robert Zoellick, will be in Athens on unspecified business on May 14. And that US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s public schedule is mysteriously empty for the next two days. Jo Ackermann, head of Deutsche Bank, will be travelling “somewhere in Europe”. Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, will not be around until the end of the week.
You get the drift. Something is going on. If only somebody would let us in on the secret.
For more on this year's meeting - LINK 1, LINK 2, LINK 3, LINK 4
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British Reporter Harrassed
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Greeks Protest Bilderberg Meeting
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Obama Faces Tricky Talks
With Netanyahu
President Barack Obama will face one of his toughest diplomatic tests so far on Monday when he seeks to persuade Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, to pledge to work towards a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The meeting, which has generated nervousness among Mr Netanyahu’s supporters in Washington’s influential pro-Likud lobby community, will be the most high-profile moment so far in the new president’s quest for a Middle East settlement.
Supporters of Mr Netanyahu argue that Mr Obama should first tackle Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme and only then embark on a peace process. “A lot of people want to hear the words ‘two-state solution’, but then a lot of people want to win the lottery as well,” says Jennifer Mizrahi, head of The Israeli Project, an advocacy group.
However, few predict that the normally pugnacious Israeli prime minister will risk alienating the highly popular US president on their first official meeting. White House officials have assiduously played down expectations. The two leaders met once before when Mr Obama stopped off in Israel during his presidential campaign last July.
“Short of the two men coming out of the White House bearing physical scars on their faces, the meeting will be adjudged a success,” says Daniel Levy, a former adviser to Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister, now at the New America Foundation, a Washington think-tank. “Netanyahu will probably find a form of words to satisfy the two-state pledge. The real question is what action will follow.” More - LINK HERE.
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USA-Israeli Summit...
Obama To Attempt To
Talk Israel Out of Air Strikes
Against Iran's Nuclear Sites
President Obama and Israeli PM Netanyahu meet for discussions on peace and war. LINK HERE.
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Concern Grows for Pakistan Nukes
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Obama Says Pak Nukes Safe
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Fierce Fighting In Pakistan Continues
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Violence Spreads Across N. Pakistan
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Pakistan To Attack Al Qaeda's Lair
The Pakistani Army is reportedly gearing up for an offensive into the heartland of Osama bin Laden's headquarters in an attempt to throw Al Qaeda and the Taliban off-balance as Taliban forces continue to apply pressure on Pakistani Army forces defending the capital city. For more details on a counter-offensive, LINK HERE.
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Swine Flu Resurgence????
Japan Sees New Cases Rise
WHO May Raise Alert Level to 6
Could Trigger Martial Law
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Flu Returns to NYC
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Swine Flu Evolved in Labs Not Nature
Evidence growing the Swine Flu has been engineered and is not a natural disease. More details, LINK HERE.
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666 ID Chip Gets Smaller
New Version 3mm Smaller
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Sour Commercial Real Estate
To Hit Economic Recovery Hard
Any economic recovery attempt may be set back by a problem with commercial real estate prices souring and damaging regional banks. More details, LINK HERE.
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Iran Deploys Missiles in Gulf
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