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Highlights:
The Bilderberg meeting in Dresden
The Bilderberg Group was cofounded by two controversial figures: Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and Polish political adviser Józef Retinger.Prince Bernhard, the former German prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld, was an SS Intelligence officer attached to the Nazis’ main industrial supporter, I.G. Farben. The prince was also a member of the Nazi Party until 1934, when he resigned to marry Princess Juliana, the future queen of the Netherlands. Retinger was thought to be an agent of the Vatican.Prince Bernhard and Józef Retinger teamed up to found the Bilderberg Group primarily to drum up transatlantic support for the idea of a United States of Europe.
What is the Bilderberg agenda at the group’s 64th annual conference this week?Moscow is violating New START Treaty
In 2010, Russia and the United States signed a treaty to reduce their nuclear arsenals. A bombshell report this week revealed that Russia is violating its part of the deal.Critical components of Russia’s nuclear missiles were merely unbolted instead of severed completely. Inspectors could not verify if all of the missile caches marked for elimination actually were destroyed.“Whether it’s Russian violations of the Open Skies Treaty, the Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions, or multiple violations of the [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces] treaty, [the Obama] administration has proven singularly unconcerned with arms control compliance,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry told Washington Free Beacon.“Never having been made to pay a price, why wouldn’t Putin conclude that violations of the New start Treaty would go unpunished as well?”How Iran is using America’s $1.7 billion gift
It appears that United States taxpayers, as Bloomberg View’s Eli Lake noted, “are now funding both sides of the Middle East’s arms race.”“The U.S. is deliberately subsidizing defense spending for allies like Egypt and Israel. Now the U.S. is inadvertently paying for some of Iran’s military expenditures as well.”In January, the U.S. Treasury made a $1.7 billion settlement to Iran via the Islamic Republic’s central bank. In May, Iran’s Guardian Council asked its central bank to transfer $1.7 billion to its military.Iran’s chess game
Caroline Glick wrote June 3: “Israel’s strategic environment will be determined in great part by the results of Iran’s actions in Iraq and Syria.”“When isis is defeated in Anbar and in Raqqa in Syria, its forces are liable to turn west, to Jordan. … And if events in Iraq and Syria are any guide, where isis leads, Iran will follow.”“The entire Middle East is one great board,” Glick concluded. “When a pawn moves in Gaza, it affects the queen in Tehran. And when a knight moves in Fallujah, it threatens the queen in Jerusalem.”Other news:
Saudi Arabia is expanding its anti-Iran strategy beyond its allies in the Mideast. Reuters reported on Sunday that the Saudi kingdom is seeking more anti-Iran allies from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.Pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is mounting both from within and without. “Across the Atlantic,” wrote United Press International, “the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday voted 501-94 in favor of a resolution calling for the Venezuelan government to respect the ‘legal mechanisms recognized in the constitution’ that seek to recall Maduro.”Get more details on these stories and more by subscribing to the Trumpet Weekly!
