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“You're obsessing over the wrong Peter Thiel conference: Forget Dialog. Bilderberg is where the actual masters of the universe meet. Three guesses who secretly funds it?”
by Carole Cadwalladr in How To Survive The Broligarchy on Substack
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“But what if I told you there is a secret masters-of-the-universe conference that Thiel helps fund, serves as a director of, and stacks with some of his closest business partners and allies?
[..]
And that this year’s attendees included the head of MI6, the Secretary General of NATO, a President (Finland), a brace of finance ministers, the head of French intelligence, a King and Queen (the Netherlands) Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, the chair of Goldman Sachs, the CEO of Deutsche Bank and the President of the European Investment Bank?”
https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/youre-obsessing-over-the-wrong-peter
#Press #SocialMedia #Thiel #Palantir #Bilderberg #Karp #Dialog #ConspiracyTheory #Leak #Schmipf #Anduril #Funding
arvind
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marxist voice from the imperial periphery biologist by training, jack of many things by vocation dialectical takes on society, science, technology, arts, geopolitics… longform blogs/essays at https://bahuroopi.bearblog.dev/ avatar pic: cross-section of a mushroom
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@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
Carole Cadwalladr's basic framework for today's world is that of liberal capitalism gone wrong. She doesn't think there is anything wrong with capitalism itself, or even with imperialism, as long as it is of the "liberal" variety. (Read her deleted tweet mentioned in this article, as one point of evidence.)
Her "expose" of present-day Bilderberg comes from the same perspective. She believes that the Peter Thiel coterie has hijacked the good old West, causing it to discard liberalism and "good capitalism", and that the coterie now pushes that agenda at Bilderberg.
Also note that in the same report (on Bilderberg), she flaunts her fandom of Anne Applebaum. This is the same Anne Applebaum who, all the way back in 2002, advocated for Israel to target and kill Palestinian journalists. Two years after that advocacy, Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize. She is today a highly decorated "journalist" and a purported historian. She sits on the board of Columbia University. You can read Adam Johnson's March 2025 piece for what that may signal to students of Arab origin. Cadwalladr is supposedly a fierce critic of Israel's slaughter of journalists today, but she cannot draw any line from her idol Applebaum's advocacy for precisely this kind of slaughter to its industry-scale implementation today.
All in all, I don't think Cadwalladr's perspective is helpful for anti-imperial and anti-capitalist folks. Frankly, @GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social , I am surprised that you consider Cadwalladr's work worth sharing, even if it sounds critical of the Peter Thiel coterie. Even as an investigative journalist, she is sloppy and bombastic. (A Kit Klarenberg she is not.) She is pretty much on the spectrum of what you call the "Vichy media". (You don't otherwise get nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.) She does not belong in the same league as a Ramzy Baroud or a Klarenberg or many of the other folks whose work you routinely share here. (I do appreciate your posts sharing all those perspectives.)
In June 2025, Nel Bonilla did, from a German perspective, a less dramatic but far more informative and perceptive deep dive into Bilderberg and other conferences of that ilk. I recommend that as a superior alternative to Cadwalladr's post.
@iriyan@kolektiva.social
#Bilderberg #Thiel #PeterThiel #Palantir #CaroleCadwalladr #Cadwalladr #Israel #Palestine
Emeritus Prof. Christopher May
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Retired Professor of Political Economy; now enjoying the fediverse.
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For years conspiracy theorists have wanted people to pay more attention to the annual Bilderberg Conference... and in this case I think they are right: this annual meeting of the powerful does look as if its malign influence is very real.
But now Carole Cadwalladr has joined the dots to link Bilderberg with Peter Thiel (and also Epstein) suggesting that we really *should* be examining Bilderberg's shadowy role in the global political economy.
#politics #Bilderberg
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/youre-obsessing-over-the-wrong-peter
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