On Charlie Skelton's Bilderberg Reporting

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you" - Oscar Wilde

One way in which Bilderberg 2009 was brought to the attention of a wider audience was via the "Bilderberg Files" of Charlie Skelton, a reporter for the Guardian.

At first, I thought that he was being used by the media to ridicule those who are aware of Bilderberg and other non-governmental round table groups that essentially provide the means for the shadow corporate government to function. Yes, his non-substantial style serves to make light of the whole situation.

The average person (unaware of the substantial influence of groups like Bilderberg) reading Mr Skelton's ramblings about what is in the hotel minibar or how unfriendly the police look, can only come to the sensible conclusion that all those conspiracy nuts are c-c-c-crazy, and that there's nothing to see here.

Then when Skelton was interviewed last year by Alex Jones (and was able to say a little more) it became clear that he was a genuine character, and was writing no more and no less than what he was allowed to write.

So he's back again this year with more on the hotel breakfast and ping pong tables, mixed in with real reporting. The best part is that those who still dismiss Bilderberg with that annoying crass laughter we have all come to know and hate (you know, the one that says "I was raised by TV and I trust that if TV doesn't say it, it must not be true") will read his mocking diary and as soon as they realise that, for instance, Tony Blair attended Bilderberg four years before his (s)election as PM, or that new Chancellor George Osborne is a coke snorting Bilderberg alumni, they will not find it quite so funny.

Probably a good time to mention Bilderberg.org.

Now that's Queen Beatrix, the Dutch Royalty. You know, as in Royal Dutch Shell?

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