I have not contradicted myself at all, anywhere in this.
What two WB's? You post two links, one about Manning and one about Snowden. Were either present at any Wilderberg meeting? If so, what evidence is there?
You, however, continuously contradict yourself by claiming that the Bilderberg meetings are "secret", yet you know it's some kind of world-wide power conspiracy. If it's secret, you don't know what they're doing, do you? If you do, please enlighten the rest of the world. Tell us who said what, when. Tell us what decisions were made.
I have NEVER said they are or aren't up to something nefarious, merely that we do not know, and that not knowing is not proof of some conspiracy. I gave you other examples of meetings that are not public, from an IBM board meeting to HEXUS people getting together to chat over ideas. We're not planning to take over the world either, but nonetheless, our meetings aren't public, even when they're tasking place in public.
I keep saying the same thing, where is there ANY evidence, absolutely any at all, of what Bilderberg are doing, and all you come up with is things like Snowden and Manning. Well, what about the Kremlin meetings when they decided to invade Afghanistan? Was that Bilderberg? What about the revolutionary council meetings in Iran before they overthrew the Shah .... Bilderberg again? How about China and their alleged (and quite likely accurate) mass cyber-warfare attacks .... Bilderberg?
Referring to what the CIA, or KGB, or Mossad, or MI5, or the DGSE, or Bundesnachrichtendienst, etc, are allegedly up to, or have been in the past, tells us NOTHING about what is going on inside Bilderberg meetings unless you have evidence that they are involved. Otherwise, it's just a list of intelligence activities, past or present.
So I'll say it again, what evidence do you have of what is ACTUALLY said, done or agreed? Not random other events where you have no evidence at all of a link, but evidence of what is actually said.
Or, as I said, where do ANY of those protesters have evidence they know what is going on?
It's pretty clear what they believe, but believing it and having evidence of it are different. Lot's of people believe in God, but ... lots of other people believe in either an entirely different God, or the same God but believe in a different set of requirements, or no God at all.
Believing something does not make you right .... or wrong .... unless you can prove it.
All you've come up with by quoting links to Manning, etc, is the equivalent, logically, of this :-
a) Tigers kill people. We know this because one did it recently to a keeper.
b) A man was killed in Luton recently.
c) Therefore, a Tiger did it.
Mannning produced evidence of US military and diplomatic activities, some of it disgraceful. And the US government aren't happy about it. But, what would have happened, I wonder, to Manning had he been Chinese and releasing details of Chinese military activities, or Iranian, or .... well, the list is endless. In many of those countries, he'd have been given a 5 minute trial, no lawyer (or a state one), and shot.
But no matter how disgraceful some of the US activities revealed by Mannning were, there's NO evidence in that of Bilderberg, either them being involved or dictating what happened.
All you're coming up with is insinuation and assumption, that because someone (US government) did "this" wrong, they're guilty of "that", too ..... like the Tiger that killed the bloke in Luton.
No, I did not say they were not involved. I said, repeatedly, we don't know, because we don't know what is said or done. The difference is, because they don't allow public access, you assume it's malignant. All I assume is that they don't allow public access, and because of that, we don't know what they do.
But, and I'll say it again as you conveniently ignored it last time, just like like burglary example, lack of evidence is not evidence of guilt. It's merely lack of evidence.
The fact that you cannot prove that a given burglar didn't commit a given burglary doesn't mean he didn't do it, or that he did, just that you cannot prove it. And that fact that you know he committed loads before doesn't mean he did this one.
Do I trust the US government? No. Do I trust the UK government? Perhaps a little more than the US one, but still, no. Do I trust ANY government? No. Do they do things I abhor? Yes. Do they do things (like PRISM) that I find grossly offensive? Yes, though I'm sure they'd have their justifications. Particularly obnoxious to me is that they hide behind "we don't discuss intelligence matters" and use that to avoid justifying what I regard as gross invasion of privacy.
Let me try to make this very simple. My position is NOT that Bilderberg is not a conspiracy. Maybe it is. I find it rather implausible, but it could be. My position is that because we don't know, we simply do not know. Period.
Is it a cause for concern? Yes. But that does NOT equate to it being a conspiracy, because without evidence, we just don't know. It could be nothing more than they say it is, and frankly, I suspect that's the most likely.
What I am saying is basically Occam's Razor, or Ptolemy's ....or 1000 years later, and still nearly 1000 years ago, Thomas Aquinas ....We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.Or one more, another renowned Sage, Sherlock Holmes ....it is superfluous to suppose that what can be accounted for by a few principles has been produced by manyWhat facts do we have about this Bilderberg meeting ....It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
1) Meetings are not secret, but have been occurring for many years, and
2) Discussions are not made public, and
3) Lots of powerful people attend,
4) We'd like to know more, and don't.
That equates to a cause for speculation, perhaps even concern, but it does not amount to proof or even evidence of a conspiracy. It amounts to evidence, even proof, of powerful people having a series of meetings in private. And if you, or any of the protesters outside, have ANY knowledge, evidence-based knowledge I mean and not mere speculation, of what goes on in those meetings, what actually happens, please provide it.
Otherwise, we know the tiger killed the keeper, but speculation that it killed the bloke in Luton is merely evidence-less speculation. And in that case at least, flat out wrong.