Goofus, before you go off half-cocked, you need spend less time squeezing your zits and do a bit more fact-checking. Fact-checking is a skill I learned during my stint as a broadcast journalist.

". . . they (the Bilderberg group) have at their disposal powerful transnational and national instruments for bringing about what it is they want to come to pass. That their consensus design is not always achieved is a reflection of the strength of competing resisting forces outside the capitalist ruling class and within it." [Emphasis mine--DF]

Which is, in essence, what I said. Further:

"According to chairman Étienne Davignon, a major attraction of Bilderberg group meetings is that they provide an opportunity for participants to speak and debate candidly and to find out what major figures really think, without the risk of off-the-cuff comments becoming fodder for controversy in the media.

"However, partly because of its working methods to ensure strict privacy, the Bilderberg group is accused of conspiracies. This outlook has been popular on both extremes of the political spectrum, even if they disagree on what the group wants to do. Some on the left accuse the Bilderberg group of conspiring to impose capitalist domination, while some on the right have accused the group of conspiring to impose a world government and planned economy. [Emphasis mine--DF]

"Proponents of Bilderberg conspiracy theories in the United States include individuals and groups such as the John Birch Society, political activist Phyllis Schlafly, writer Jim Tucker, political activist Lyndon LaRouche, radio host Alex Jones, and politician Jesse Ventura, who made the Bilderberg group a topic of a 2009 episode of his TruTV series 'Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura.' Non-American proponents include Russian-Canadian writer Daniel Estulin."

And, of course, our own beloved Goofus.

The above gleaned from several articles on power groups and "conspiracy theories."

Don Firth