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Iranian soldiers take part in National Persian Gulf Day in the Strait of Hormuz on April 30, 2019. There is concern about a blockade of the Strait and the disastrous impact that could have on the price of oil and world financial markets.
If Tehran blocks the Strait of Hormuz it could send the price of oil soaring and cause a global recession
Unlike Deep Purple's legendary 'Smoke on the Water' - "We all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline", the 67th
Bilderberg group meetings produced no fire and no smoke at the luxurious Fairmont Le Montreux Palace Hotel.
The
130 elite guests had a jolly good - and theoretically quiet - time at the self-billed "informal discussion forum concerning major issues". As usual, at least two-thirds were European decision-makers, with the rest coming from North America.
The fact that a few major players in this Atlanticist Valhalla are closely associated with or directly interfering with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel - the central bank of central banks - is of course just a minor detail.
The major issue discussed this year was "A Stable Strategic Order", a lofty endeavor that can be interpreted either as the making of a New World Order or just a benign effort by selfless elites to guide mankind to enlightenment.
Other items of discussion were way more pragmatic - from "The Future of Capitalism", to "Russia", "China", "Weaponizing Social Media", "Brexit", "What's Next for Europe", "Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" and last but not least, "Climate Change".
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