When a young bespectacled academic set up something called the European Management Symposium in Davos, Switzerland more than fifty years ago, few could have guessed that it would become the most elite country club in the world. And now Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum is planning to ramp up its control over every aspect of our lives.
The Dutch National Archives in The Hague is releasing thousands of documents to the public on Tuesday, a process which happens annually in the Netherlands. In many cases, the documents were published after a 75-year period lapsed, meaning many papers date from 1948, the year Queen Juliana ascended the throne, but there is also new information about World War II and post-War periods in the Netherlands, the Japanese rule over the Dutch East Indies, why Henry Kissinger did not attend the 1973 Bilderberg Conference, and research into the perfect farmer's cheese.