Russia Today
Around 150 of the world’s elite approached the grounds of a suburban 
Virginia hotel on Thursday for the first day of the 2012 Bilderberg 
Conference, but also on hand were throngs of protesters who gathered to 
opposed the top-secret gathering.
Journalists and critics of the annual clandestine conference  
stationed themselves outside of a Chantilly, Virginia Marriott hotel  
near Washington, DC early Thursday to catch a glimpse of the government 
 officials, entrepreneurs and other assorted members of the privileged  
elite who had gathered for this year’s event.
In year’s past, it 
 is rumored that leaders of the United States and Britain were agreed on
  by global figureheads behind closed doors during the Bilderberg  
Conference; this week in Virginia, speculators have introduced the  
notion that international big-wigs will be brought with questions  
surrounding both who to back during the 2012 US presidential election  
and who will be picked to run alongside GOP nominee Mitt Romney.-[Full Article]