How Bilderberg Implements its 2013 Agenda (VIDEO)

The secretive and highly influential Bilderberg meetings, currently underway in the UK, are controlled by its Steering Committee, a core group of 34 members (plus honorary advisor David Rockefeller) who represent technology, industry, banking and politics from throughout the United States and Europe.

The Steering Committee sets Bilderberg's agenda and invites the 120-150 attendees that join discussions on a dozen or so major topics each year under Chatham House rules, which establish a closed door policy that demands attendees don't discuss what goes on inside.

The key topics for discussion this year include:
• Can the US and Europe grow faster and create jobs?
• Jobs, entitlement and debt
• How big data is changing almost everything
• Nationalism and populism
• US foreign policy
• Africa's challenges
• Cyber warfare and the proliferation of asymmetric threats
• Major trends in medical research
• Online education: promise and impacts
• Politics of the European Union
• Developments in the Middle East
• Current affairs