jueves, 4 de septiembre de 2008

Pulling some strings

Since the establishment of the VOC, we, the Dutch, although living in a land reclaimed from the sea, want to believe that we are the origin of everything. So, could we be pulling some strings?



We desperately deny to be patriots; we will kick against Shell, Philips, Unilever, ING, TNT, Heineken etc., and we only feel slightly hurt at the moment KLM becomes part of Air France. Our national pride is in football, as long as they win.


The multinationals that I mentioned before are pretty mighty but others in the world are more, so we can eliminate the idea of a single puppet player from Dutch origin. Nevertheless, the combination of these mighty multinationals in a tiny country is at least remarkable.


Money always rules. Thinking about money, people in the Netherlands don't immediately think about Bill Gates, probably they will think about their royal family. The family Van Oranje. But still, if money would rule the world, Bill Gates would probably have a bigger chance than Beatrix. And although officially unknown, the Rotschilds probably even have more money to rule.


Let us see how we can bring these names together with Google.


"Rothschild Oranje Gates Heineken Shell Philips Unilever ING TNT"


Limited to the English language, the first 9 hits are a sort of portal web sites but number 10 (now changed to number 11 because this blog suddenly takes the first place) is more interesting to look at: The Bilderberg Conference.

Added on September 7:

Strange thing happened. Clicking on above link does not longer show my blog as first item. Many other links are shown now. The Bilderberg link also disappeared. Am I seeing things thate are not there? Today I cliked on the link above and added manually "AKZO" to it. Bilderberg came up as number 3. Should I start investigating Google's search techniques a little bit more?

... minutes after having written above lines, I checked again. In the search results of Google, the link to a site about Bilderberg that I do not want to be associated with, has gone again. It is of no importance for my thoughts, it is merely strange. I am intrigued.... Other search engines (MSN, WikiSearch, Yahoo, AOL, Ask, Altavista) bring me immediately in connection with the link I found before on Google. Hey Google guys.....what are you doing? (Might this be the answer to my question?)

Added on September 24:

Uh.......forget about everything I mentioned above (or just keep it somewhere in mind). The link brings you back to this Blog again and none of the other search engines does. Thank you Google.

Let's Google to Wikipedia with "Wikipedia Bilderberg".


"The Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg conference, or Bilderberg Club is an unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of business, media and politics.
The elite group meets annually at luxury hotels or resorts throughout the world — normally in Europe — and once every four years in the United States or Canada. It has an office in Leiden in the Netherlands. The 2007 conference took place from May 31 to June 3 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. The 2008 conference took place in Chantilly, Virginia, United States"


Interesting group! Where do they come from?


Wikipedia:


"The original Bilderberg conference was held at the Hotel de Bilderberg, near Arnhem in The Netherlands, from May 29 to May 31, 1954. The meeting was initiated by several people, including Joseph Retinger, concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe, who proposed an international conference at which leaders from European countries and the United States would be brought together with the aim of promoting understanding between the cultures of United States of America and Western Europe.
Retinger approached Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who agreed to promote the idea, together with Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland, and the head of Unilever at that time, the Dutchman Paul Rijkens. Bernhard in turn contacted Walter Bedell Smith, then head of the CIA, who asked Eisenhower adviser C. D. Jackson to deal with the suggestion. The guest list was to be drawn up by inviting two attendees from each nation, one each to represent conservative and liberal (both terms used in the American sense) points of view."


Oops, back to Dutch roots! Could they really be pulling the strings? How do bread and games come together?


"Bread and games" (from Latin: panem et circenses) is an ancient Roman metaphor for people choosing food and fun over freedom. It often appears in commentary that accuses people of giving up their civic duty and following whichever political leader offers to satisfy their decadent desires. (Source: Wikipedia)

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