Collusion!? Why do Eurocrats pal up with Bilderberg tycoons!
Bilderberg Part 4. Who rules the Rule of Law? EU Commission is anarchic.
The European Commission publishes an annual Rule of Law report. It covers the whole EU. The Commission says it has responsibility, arising from the Lisbon treaties, to guarantee the Rule of Law as a part of these EU treaties, values and principles. The 2022 report was presented by Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders.
The Commission thus sets itself up as the judge of 27 national systems of Justice.
Judge! judge yourself!
Are the Commissioners, as judges, impartial and without the least suspicion of inappropriate conduct?
How about secretive meetings with the world’s richest and most powerful people? In June Mr Reynders and the Commission Vice President for promoting the European Way of Life, Margaritis Schinas, participated behind closed doors in a three-day meeting of the Bilderberg Group.
Judge for yourself. How would an impartial judge judge the conduct of these same European Commissioners canoodling with the Bilderberg billionaire oligarchs? Only western ones, of course. Russian oligarchs are under sanctions initiated by the Commission. (Russians do not get to present their opinions legally before sentence, whether in private or in public, as Russian media is banned in the EU.)
World energy, world power
Take, as an example a central issue of cartel bad practice: Energy.
In the first quarter — in spite of the Russian crisis or because of it — oil companies boosted profits by nearly $100 billion or 127%.
Would a national judge in a cartel case, or another suspicious case, be judged fair if he spent three days wining and dining with the accused party?
For half a century, the world has been held at the throat by a major multinational cartel, OPEC. It raised the price of oil from under $2 to nearly $150. Market manipulation is obvious.
At present oil is around $100 a barrel from under $10 in 2020. A cartel is illegal under European law. A cartel occurs when a group of companies or nations agree to limit competition, block the free market of certain goods and thus force unjustifiable high prices on the public. World cartels are a danger to world peace.
This one issue, energy, was highlighted as a central one for Bilderberg. It is just one of the 14 topics at the 2022 meeting. (Another is disinformation!)
Besides the EU Four and ex-Commission President Barroso who were present on the industrialist side?
A score of other attendees could be classified as top strategic investors, capitalists and bankers.
Whether they are working within the law, in the margin of the laws or outside the law, major companies want, above all, access to politicians. Why? Influence in avoiding criminal charges and opening up markets. Many of the world’s biggest companies have paid billions of euros in fines. They are organisations with criminal records. One role of a chief executive is to avoid further criminal charges and fines.
So what precautions of impartiality do Commissioners take when they mix with a band of Energy barons in private? I am still waiting for the Commission to answer my question.
Energy is perhaps the major concern of European citizens, petrol at the pump, house heating in the winter, supplies for all industries including fertiliser and food.
Gas prices, rising 120% in the last month, are pointing to a cold European winter.
Trading economics
The whole economy has been hit. The euro has plummeted to historic lows. Should Commissioners cosy up with world bankers and strategic investment financiers?
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So how does the Rule of Law report line up to establish rules of conduct and anticorruption measures for Commissioners?
Besides criticism of national judicial systems, the EU Commission Rule of Law report also analyses:
corruption and anticorruption measures,
attacks and abuse of the media and freedom of expression,
the checks and balances on the institutions and
abusive activities of lobbyists.
What criteria do the Commission use to criticise others? How does the conduct of the Commissioners acting as Europe’s super-judges attending Bilderberg meetings stand up to their own rules?
What conduct applies to ordinary judges should apply to all.
EU Commission Rule of Law Report 2022
Who judges the European Commission acting as judges?
The Commission, besides fining companies for breaking EU law, has to make legal and binding decisions on energy policy, energy tax, imports and policy on alternative energy sources. It also aims to ban the 60% of energy imports that come from Russia.
What are the report’s values by which we should also judge the Commission? Independence, free from undue one-sided influence, quality of justice, plus efficient behaviour in the pursuit of the goals of justice. That would include authenticating full facts and not attending meetings of one party to the exclusion of other citizens like workers and consumers who might point out errors and self-interest of energy barons.
EU Commission Rule of Law Report 2022
Commissioners take an oath before the Court to be independent and not take or seek instructions from any entity. That includes a Cartel of Oil Moguls or a Coterie of Trillionaire Tycoons.
Commissioners solemnly undertake:
“in the performance of my tasks, neither to seek nor to take instructions from any Government or from any other institution, body, office or entity;
to refrain from any action incompatible with my duties or the performance of my tasks.”
Yet a couple of Commissioners are invited by such people, via the Bilderberg secretariat, of course, to smooch for several days in secret, and make cordial contacts.
The question of why the Commissioners accepted such an invitation to a closed-door, three-day meeting is the first question to be posed.
The intention is clear. Meet the world’s most influential, richest and powerful companies and entities, think tanks and government ministers. Get their most up to date information and forecasts.
So let’s talk about two EU Commissioners (Vice-President Schinas and Commissioner for Justice Reynders) who are invited. What is the EU’s energy and tax policy they formulate at this moment of global disarray?
The Oil Giants lost scores of billions on withdrawing from their investments in Russia. On the other hand with the resultant rise in prices of gas and oil due to the resultant scarcity, they made many more billions in profits. So the Commission is recommending that the EU States should apply a windfall tax to take some of these profits.
In short, billions, perhaps trillions, are at stake for the companies and the consumers who pay.
Transparency is denied when public administrators meet tycoons in closed-door meetings and all records are denied.
See what openness the Rule of Law report specifies and what its lack entails:
EU Commission Rule of Law Report 2022
Others might envy this private chat about mega money trends with hand-picked people of power and/ or influence. The public in general are not seeking investment tips (if they have little money) but to see if all is fair and square about their tax money.
But is the public so cynical to suspect the unsackable Commission folk of having a conflict of interest, lack of integrity, and avoiding transparency rules? Who would suspect the EU’s judges of being tempted by promises of future jobs with multi-million euro salaries?
Not everybody is Mr Barroso.
Trust develops from conduct and action above suspicion. A just judge will shun all occasions that smell of anything corrupt.
EU Commission Rule of Law Report 2022
What anti-corruption measures does the Commission employ post-Bilderberg to assure public trust? What framework does the EU apply here to
prevent lobbying,
expose a conflict of interests,
provide independent judicial oversight,
list assets in a robust disclosure system,
encourage and protect whistle-blowers of such secret meetings,
publish political party funding?
The Bilderberg Group excludes the public from their activities, whether workers or consumers. It excludes the press from publishing and the public from their deliberations. It does not have to blacken the windows as no-one is allowed near the Washington Mandarin hotel.
With a number of top spies from foreign countries present, you can be sure that security against cyber attack is intense.
Lobbying? Perish the thought! This is in another dimension: it involves an exchange of information to set and reset the key issues of the planet. But Bilderberg tells the world (if the world wants to pay attention) what the Billionaires, bankers, industrialists, A.I. technologists and policy leaders across USA, Canada and Europe discuss. It publishes a list of topics, not the debates. They will affect us all.
EU Commission Rule of Law Report 2022
The Bilderberg has highly organised secrecy. No need, like Watergate, for echoing hotel garages. No surreptitious passing of brown envelopes in dark alleys. That scenario is for Hollywood! The world’s top spies attend. They lock down an entire hotel and make it secure and information tight. Totally untransparent for the public.
Who can prosecute corruption when no evidence can emerge?
Do Bilderbergers heed their own warnings?
What would have happened if EU’s present leaders had paid heed to some of the Bilderberg warnings — alas secret.
Take the 1979 and 1980 meetings following OPEC’s second Oil price hike blackmailing.
Energy Blackmail
In 1973 the Arab oil producers of the oil cartel OPEC wanted to change western foreign policy. The Arab attack on Israel during the Yom Kippur war failed. They did not wipe Israel off the map. They were humiliated in defeat. The West had given moral support to the Israelis and therefore the Arab States deployed their oil weapon. They refused to sell oil until the West changed their foreign policy position on Israel.
This did not work so the oil companies were nationalised. However the resultant four-fold rise in oil prices brought economic chaos and penury. It had the devastation of a bombing war.
Factories were shut.
Autobahns were emptied.
A further four-fold hike in oil prices occurred in 1979.
A Weapon to destroy NATO?
In 1980, Bilderberg discussed how an energy embargo with political aims could wreck NATO. It would be more effective than deploying the Soviet SS-20 intercontinental missiles. Were the Russians taking note?
It is far cheaper for Russia and China to turn off economic taps than launch nuclear missiles.
The EU was warned multiple times.
Relevant questions today for Bilderbergers:
How did the EU, a Peace Project giving the West unprecedented peace and prosperity, get again reduced to penury? The Arab States of OPEC did not attack it again. Neither did Russia. It was self-inflicted.
Who exactly declared war on Russia? How, where, when and WHY?