The Bilderberg Club

Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy. - who is pulling the strings behind the Oil Shocks of the 70s and the contemporary ones - the petro-dollar linkage of Saudi oil money and the US economy - the committee that rules the world meets once a year, is very secretive and involves political leaders, bankers and the excessively wealthy seeking to control the value of their assets via the linkage of the price of oil and the US dollar.

In the long term, this arrangement will see the take over of Saudi Arabia by the Americans. That fear could be behind the rationale of al-Qaeda to destabilise the US grip on the world economy.