Welcome. This is James Corbett of the Corporate Report with your Sunday update from the Center for Research on Globalization at global

research. C. A. And now for the real news. The annual meeting of royalty, politicians,

business moguls, and academics known as the Bilderberg Conference

is set to take place later this week. This year's Confab will run from June 9th

to the 12th at the Grand Hotel Campinski in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The conference is a yearly get-together of

the Who's Who of Europe and North America, from David Rockefeller to Joseph Ackerman to Queen

Beatrix. The group, which takes its name from the name of the

hotel where the first meeting was held, has traditionally convened under a media blackout

with those members of the press and media moguls in attendance agreeing to forego reporting on the proceedings.

Since the group's founding in 1954, however, a handful of researchers and independent journalists

have worked to expose the group and its activities, and it is only with the rise of the online alternative media in recent years

that Bilderberg has come to mainstream attention.

The organization has had to become more open in recent years and now operates an

official website, Bilderberg meetings.org, which lists the group's steering committee

membership, agenda of past meetings, and press releases repeating the official justification for the group's secrecy.

Bilderberg is a small, flexible, informal, and off-the-record international forum in which different viewpoints can be expressed

and mutual understanding enhanced, notes the official press release from the 2010 press conference,

before adding.

At the meetings, no resolutions are proposed, no votes taken, and no policy statements issued.

All participants attend Bilderberg in a private and not an official capacity.

This description is not merely a reflection of the group's modesty.

As the annual meeting brings together heads of state, finance and defense ministers, state

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