THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

The secretive Bilderberg Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Illuminati, is currently holding its annual meeting to determine what the marching orders for world leaders will be for the next year.

The secretive Bilderberg conference began Thursday in Copenhagen, where a diverse group of political leaders as well as experts from industry, finance, academia and media are meeting to discuss major issues facing the world.

The group’s annual meetings — which explicitly ban media coverage — have inspired conspiracy theories about the motives that bring together some of the richest and most powerful people in the world.

National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance and the Ukraine crisis are among the discussion topics this year, the Bilderberg group said in a brief press release.

The meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule — which means attendees are allowed to publicly discuss things that have been said during the conference without revealing the identity or affiliation of the speaker or any participant involved.

A spokesman for the 62nd Bilderberg conference — held from May 29 to June 1 — told Al Jazeera in an emailed statement that the secrecy is necessary to ensure that participants can “speak freely in an environment of trust.”

“The Bilderberg meetings are a forum for informal discussions. The conference neither has a desired outcome or closing statement, nor are resolutions proposed or votes taken,” the statement read.

Bilderberg was founded in 1954, according to its website, and was designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America.

Along with its extreme secrecy, Bilderberg also differs from other international business and political conferences — such as the annual World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland — in its small size. Many major conferences involve hundreds of participants, but the spokesman said only 120 to 150 are invited to attend Bilderberg.

Nice to know that it only takes about 150 people to rule the world.