The True Story of the Bilderberg Group by Daniel Estulin
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Book Reviews of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
Book Review: Great Service
Summary: 4 Stars
I ordered 3 used books. All came to me in a timely manner and all were in very good condition. Just as good as new.Book Review: educational
Summary: 4 Stars
Mandatory reading for anyone who wants to know what's behind the workings of our politics and economy.Book Review: Important, But Not Really Written Well (2nd Edition)
Summary: 3 Stars
This review is on the 2nd or North American Union Edition of March, 2009. The additions since the first edition bring the Bilderberg meetings up through June, 2008, and author Estulin has added information on Obama's appointments into February, 2009.
If the reader is new to the activities of the Bilderbergs, Council for Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, this book is a "must" read. These organizations are relentlessly pursuing the creation of a New World Order, run by themselves. The common demoninator for these people is that they are wealthy, influential elites, mostly from Europe and the United States who wish to see a Supra-National Socialist World Government wherein national sovereignty is a thing of the past and nations are grouped into regional economic unions like the European Union. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPS) are the vehicle of choice for controlling economic activity, and the Bilderbergs see themselves on both the public and private sides. In the Western Hemisphere they are actively promoting a "North American Union" of the US, Canada (less Quebec) and Mexico. All this is well-documented by the author.
With respect to the recent economic crisis, a reader cannot fail to see the hand of Bilderberg Henry Paulson along with Bilderberg Timothy Geithner utilizing Bilderberg Chris Dodd and CFR Barney Frank to help bring about the economic crisis so that they could transfer billions of dollars to other Bilderbergers or their controlled financial institutions and begin building the PPPs so necessary to bring about their cherished goals. Author Estulin makes the point that the Obama Administration is controlled by Bilderbergs, CFR and Trilateral Commission members just like the Bush II Administration. Ahhh, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
The model for the North American Union is the EU, and it will be necessary to move the US into much more of a socialist state to bring it into line with Canada and Mexico. Obama has been and will be introducing legislation and policies to form PPPs and move the Federal Government into the private sector and move the US increasingly to Socialism. As the author notes, we may already be past the point of no return although this has not been noted by the public mostly due to the non-reporting of these activities by the media (even Fox News has a blackout on the Bilderbergs, the CFR & the TC.)
So why only three stars? Well, the writing is sometimes incoherent, and the author makes a number of statements of fact that are really pretty well founded speculation. He also apparently feels that being a Zionist is somehow meaningful for a New World Order type, and his sketches of the Obama appointees were obviously done in great haste.
In addition, the author should omit all the personal cloak and dagger stuff that may be important to him but really detracts from his general treatise. His work would be much more difficult to discredit -- if at all -- if he wouldn't make himself out to be a third-class James Bond saving the world. What is needed here is a scholarly treatment of the subject which certainly can be done from the vast amount of facts now in evidence. Every day the machinations of the Bilderbergs and their associates become more overt. Author Estulin needs to get past the idea that he is attempting to expose Hitler and his designs in 1934 -- it is now 1938 and Hitler has re-armed, re-occupied the Rhineland, announced the formation of the Luftwaffe and taken Austria into the Greater German Reich. Personal travels and difficulties in obtaining information may be interesting to some people, but they are not important -- what is happening, why, and where it is going is.
All that being said, this book should be on the shelf of every American, and readers should start hammering the media for their silence. Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity have never mentioned the Bilderbergs on their programs, and that should be a clear indication of the control of Fox by its owner Rupert Murdock, himself a Bilderberg.
If readers want to understand the need for Socialism to accomplish the Supra-National Socialist World Government, read F. A. Hayek's "The Road To Serfdom." Other important works include Ivan Eland's "The Empire Has No Clothes" which describes why the US has continued to expand its empire (and size of the Federal Government and its bureaucracy) even after the fall of the Soviet Union and how this is extremely counter-productive to US security and personal liberty. The US's current foreign policy will hasten its demise, create the ultimate crisis requiring the Bilderberg agenda to restore a modicum of prosperity and remake the world to the Bilderberg design. Like I said, it is really very late in the game.
Just a question for the reader: If the US Federal Government subordinates its sovereignty to a Supra-National governing body (like Carter did when he put the US National Park System under the UN) as Obama seems currently intent on doing, can the people revolt without committing treason since the government they are rebelling against is no longer the one established by the US Constitution? Food for thought, indeed.
This book is highly recommended, but please work past its many flaws.
Book Review: Can't see the truth for the author...
Summary: 3 Stars
After much online praise and seeing it referenced in a few documentaries, I picked up a copy of Daniel Estulin's book (updated and expanded in early 2009), The True Story of the Bilderberg Group.
The Bilderberg Group, formed in 1954, is a secretive combine of great political, financial and industrial influence that meets once a year to discuss global issues in a supposedly unofficial capacity and with no intent on forging policy. Mr. Estulin traces the history of the group as well as its myriad, deep-rooted connections to virtually every committee, think-tank, economic council and political office in the private and public sectors, both in America and abroad, and demonstrates the rather fortuitous coincidences of Bilderberg discussions becoming real-world policy.
The book is split into four parts: Part One, covering the Bilderberg Group; Two, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); Three, The Trilateral Commission; and Four, in my edition of the book, the North American Union.
Mr. Estulin begins each of these aforementioned parts with allegedly personal accounts of his forays into the shadowy world of tailed contacts and code-word rendezvous; unfortunately, these anecdotes read like hackneyed spy-novel excerpts or editorial chaff from Confessions of a Dangerous Mind than as convincingly true accounts of the author's run-ins with the Odd-Jobs of the globalist elite. They're disconnected from the chapters that follow them, detracting from the sourced material and analysis comprising most of the book.
The general structure of the book is disjointed at times, some chapters feeling like disembodied essays that break the reader's flow of interest, even though the material is germane. In places, he repeats quotations--verbatim--several times in the same chapter (which screams "filler"). He also relies on several authors for the bulk of his quotations, and I found myself pausing to visit Amazon for the cited works. Also quite apparent is his sympathetic view of Russia (Mr. Estulin is Russian-born) as particularly put-upon by these controlling forces.
Those criticisms aside, the book is a fascinating, if acronym-heavy, detailing of the origins, machinations and interconnectedness of the monied elites, intellectuals and insiders permeating world politics. The lists of past Bilderberg conferences and the documents leaked informers will madden you, being that many of the attendees have occupied (and still occupy) positions of power and influence in our own government, some for decades. If indeed the Bilderbergers, CFR and Trilateral Commission are set on destroying nation-states in favor of an oligarchical one-world system by manipulating wealth, resources, and even human psychology, The True Story of the Bilderberg Group makes a convincing case of it.
Book Review: Not the best, definitely not the worst though.
Summary: 3 Stars
After reading this book, a subject matter I have much interest in, I couldn't help but think the book was lacking depth. The beginning of the story kept me hooked, however as I kept reading, I found myself "going through the motions." More often than not, I would see a paragraph and instinctively know that it contained nothing important, thus skipping it. Also, "CFR/TC/Bilderberg" seems to be a catch phrase throughout the book, with strong emphasis placed on the CFR and Trilats. Good information to know but after a while Mr. Estulin seemed to speak in circles.
As a 25 year old reader with a general knowledge of history and good knowledge of politics, I felt some information did not apply to the story and I often caught myself asking, "who cares?"
Also, the way Mr. Estulin fused personal experience (with fiction-like story-telling) with fact seemed choppy, but that's a very small gripe.
I'm happy I read "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group" but this will be going straight on the shelf.