Bilderberg 2010: Don't call it a pow-wow!
A man under a hedge stretches, blinks, curses the pointy pebble under his hip, and down goes his finger on the shutter.
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Robert Zoellick, head of the World Bank, a former managing director of Goldman Sachs.
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Paul Volcker, former chairman of the US federal reserve, current chairman of Obama's economic recovery advisory board.
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Josef Ackermann, chairman of Deutsche Bank.
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Peter Voser, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.
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Dr Henry Kissinger at Bilderberg 2010. Photograph: Quierosaber Dr Henry Alfred Kissinger.
The photos we've seen from this year's conference, which we're showcasing in our big hitters Bilderberg Power Gallery , have been very revealing. You can see from the body language who runs Bilderberg. There's been a lot of power sloshing round the Dolce Sitges Hotel this past week, a lot of wealth, a lot of influence, but you can sense the Überpower when it shows up.
No one spends €10m policing a ping pong tournament. Not even Robert Zoellick. Of course, bear in mind €10m is small batatas compared with what Canada is about to spend on policing the G8/G20 circus later this month. A very uncool $1bn. (You read that correctly.) At least the press are invited. Lanyards for everyone!
And speaking of things being uncool, we're very pleased with our photograph of Nout Wellink, the president of the Dutch central bank. Now I'm not one to start throwing around advice about hairstyles, but really Nout. Get some product into it.
As you can see, the photohaul from Bilderberg 2010 has been remarkable, thanks in no small part to the intrepid Quierosaber, whose McNabbian determination and leafy lenswork provided so many of the images that are now zipping around the world. If you know someone who's never heard of Bilderberg, show them these photographs. And if you yourself don't know what "Bilderberg" is, start knowing. Start wondering.
And stop, once and for all, saying that it's a bunch of has-beens meeting up for cocktails and cribbage. You must really have to want Bilderberg not to be important if you chirp away that it's not important. Whistle hard enough with your hands over your ears and you won't hear the thunder.
Love it as he does, Robert Zoellick didn't come to Sitges for the table tennis. Stop perpetuating this idiotic untruth, stop with the lazy dismissals, the sneery, unfunny, tryhard cynicism that dismisses the conference as unimportant and anyone who says otherwise as a "loon". You're starting to sound stupid.
And speaking of sounding stupid, here's what Iain Hollingshead wrote about Bilderberg in the Daily Telegraph last week: "The reality of these conferences appears to boil down to a group of willy-waggling old men comparing their security details and dreaming of past glories." Does that describe Jyrki Catainen, Finland's 39-year-old finance minister? Or Microsoft's chief research officer, Craig Mundie? Or Bill Gates? Or the prime minister of Spain?
The premier of British Columbia, Gordon Campbell, is 62. Still a little young to be put out to grass, a little too spry to be waggling his willy at past glories, especially when you consider that a trip to Bilderberg often means a career leap is just round the corner. (David Cameron 2008, Tony Blair 1993, Bill Clinton 1991). Congratulations, Prime Minister Campbell!
Link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/jun/09/bilderberg-charlie-skelton-2010
Link to photo gallery:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/jun/09/bilderberg-spain?picture=363502554
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