Via The Dollar Vigilante.

Personally, I find this video rather interesting, although I'm under no illusions that others on the sift will (or that it will do anything but flounder in my Pqueue). Nevertheless, if we put aside the "conspiracy theories" about Bilderberg and the New World Order (I see it more like a club for the Elite, and not as an organized "conspiracy" of any kind, but what do I know? After all, there's nothing to see here, but just a type of high-level "legal" insider trading, of a sort, and no conspiratorial machinations of any kind), it's interesting to note that Peter Thiel attended the event this year and promoted a libertarian view among the attending "power elites."

Here, the head of the Parliament in the Netherlands, Diederik Samsom, serves as the first ever face of Bilderberg. He says, among other things, "There are lots of outer circles, you are one of them," to the Libertarians that he's talking to.

He's such a politician! I rather enjoy his (what seems like) genuine amusement when he points out that "there are so many other meetings like this," essentially saying that it's pointless to pick on the Bilderberg conference when the power brokers meet "privately" all the time.

And as the video (more or less) points out, the "democratic vote" makes no one accountable. "If you don't like it, vote for someone else" (as if any one person's vote made any difference, or as if the "representatives" actually represented anyone's interests but their own)! I like the other reply better: "If you don't like it, then move to Somalia!" In essence, democracy has made revolutions obsolete, if not impossible. This is not a bad thing.

I also enjoy his genuine amazement that no one in his group of questioners thinks that CO2 is a problem! I think he's probably surprised that these questioners (which include many Americans) are disillusioned with the hoax that is "democracy."

I think "old school" politicians may be freaking out (at least a little) with all the new anti-government populism (coming out of America no less!), but spreading (like all things American) throughout Europe. I still have some questions about UKIP's (the UK party) xenophobia, but their huge success in the recent EU elections must have really freaked out the UK as well as the EU establishment.

I get the impression that Mr. Samsom knows he is part of "a great fiction by which everyone tries to live at everyone's expense" and he has just decided to play the game as he (like everyone else) has little choice but to be a part of it. An understandable position for anyone not contemplating exit.

In this video, he does do a good job of making it clear how the "democratic" system actually works: The rulers impose whatever regulations on you that they feel like imposing, and then tell you to "vote" if you want to get them repealed. (That, of course, almost never happens, for many reasons, and they know it. Once laws become part of the system, good luck getting rid of them.)