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Thought for the year: The Bilderbergsecretariat in Leiden, Holland says these are 'private meetings'. Ifso, why do state intelligence agencies provide their security? Are our securityservices moonlighting? Bilderberg can't have it both ways.

[This site campaigns for a press conference at all Bilderberg venues - and a declaration from the steering committee that any consensus reached must be in our public, not their private interest]

07Jun02 - Bilderberg 2002 official Press Release and participant list

Bilderbergers in the news

Henry Kissinger is in the news so often - because of his international war consultation firm Kissinger Associates Inc. - he has his own page

26Dec02 - Guardian - Robertson says Nato 'morally obliged' to back war

20Dec02 - Telegraph - Bloody Sunday 'plot' denied by Carrington

12Dec02 - Associated Press - Bush names (Bilderberger) Friedman as top economic adviser

13Nov02 - Richard Greaves - Who Runs the World?

12Nov02 - Reuters - Kenneth Clarke cornered on Myanmar ties

26Oct02 - Court case against Bilderberg? Probably a hoax!

18Aug02 - VG, Norwegian newspaper - The Mysterious meeting place of power

01Jul02 - Skolnicks Report - The Bilderberg Syndrome

10Jun02 - Tony Gosling - Message to the Bilderbergers who ignored my previous letter

Jim Tucker - post Conference Article - Bilderberg Batters Bush; But Unity remains on NWO

01Jun02 - Conference reports

01Jun02 - American Free Press - Bilderberg meets!

31May02 - Chantilly Virginia Confirmed as 2002 Bilderberg Venue

31May02 - Turkish moneyman is there

30May02 - Bilderberg on the BBC World Service

April 2002 - Open Letter to Secretary-General of the Bilderberg Meetings - [still no reply]

29May02 - Bilderberg (unofficial, ie. before the conference) Press Release 2002

14May02 - Guardian - Lord Black of Crossharbour is a member of the secretive Bilderberg organisation

20May02 - Electronz -Bilderbergers A.G.M. in Washington

07Apr02 - AFP - Bilderberg Plotting To Bushwhack Iraq

[Source: AFP] Bilderberg Conference 2002 to be held close to Dulles International Airport, Washington DC

Bilderberg 2002 venue [confirmed] - Westfields Marriott - (AFP)
14750 Conference Center Drive, Chantilly, VA 20151
Phone: 1-703-818-0300
Fax: 1-703-818-3655
Reservations (from U.S. and Canada): 1-800-635-5666
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Take one of many Guided Tours of the Westfields Marriott Hotel and Conference Centre http://www.marriott.com/epp/tour.asp?MarshaCode=IADWF
How to find Westfields Marriott: the map http://www.marriott.com/epp/map.asp?MarshaCode=IADWF

How to get to Chantilly and a good picture of the hotel http://www.world-action.co.uk/terror.html

12Apr02 - Can the New Media bust the Bilderberg Meeting?

06Feb02 - My Dad is a Bilderberger!

15Jan02 - Bilderberg's Pat Cox voted head of European Parliament

Secrets of the Bilderberg - Eye Spy Magazine

PRESS RELEASE

BILDERBERG MEETINGS

31 May 2002

The 50th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S.A.,30 May-2 June 2002. Among other subjects the Conference will discuss Terrorism,Trade, Post Crisis Reconstruction, Middle East, Civil Liberties, US ForeignPolicy, Extreme Right, World Economy, Corporate Governance.
Approximately 120 participants from North America and Europe will attendthe discussions. The meeting is private in order to encourage frank and opendiscussion.

Bilderberg takes its name from the hotel in Holland, where the first meetingtook place in May 1954. That pioneering meeting grew out of the concern expressedby leading citizens on both sides of the Atlantic that Western Europe andNorth America were not working as closely as they should on common problemsof critical importance. It was felt that regular, off-the-record discussionswould help create a better understanding of the complex forces and majortrends affecting Western nations in the difficult post war period.
The cold war has now ended. But in practically all respects there are more,not fewer, common problems - from trade to jobs, from monetary policy toinvestment, from ecological challenges to the task of promoting internationalsecurity. It is hard to think of any major issue in either Europe or NorthAmerica whose unilateral solution would not have repercussions for theother.
Thus the concept of a European-American forum has not been overtaken by time.The dialogue between these two regions is still - even increasingly - critical.

What [check out this sentence ;-)] is unique about Bilderberg as a forumis the broad cross-section of leading citizens that are assembled for nearlythree days of informal and off-the-record discussion about topics of currentconcern especially in the fields of foreign affairs and the internationaleconomy; the strong feeling among participants that in view of the differingattitudes and experiences of the Western nations, there remains a clear needto further develop an understanding in which these concerns can be accommodated;the privacy of the meetings, which has no purpose other than to allowparticipants to speak their minds openly and freely.
In short, Bilderberg is a small flexible, informal and off-the-recordinternational forum in which different viewpoints can be expressed and mutualunderstanding enhanced.

Bilderberg's only activity is its annual Conference. At the meetings, noresolutions are proposed, no votes taken, and no policy statements issued.Since 1954, forty-nine conferences have been held. The names of the participantsare made available to the press. Participants are chosen for their experience,their knowledge, and their standing; all participants attend Bilderberg ina private and not an official capacity.
There are usually about 120 participants of whom about two-thirds come fromEurope and the balance from North America. About one-third are from governmentand politics, and two-thirds from finance, industry, labor, education,communications.

Participants have agreed not to give interviews to the press during the meeting.In contacts with the news media after the conference it is an establishedrule [ref. Chatham House Rule] that no attribution should be made to individualparticipants of what was discussed during the meeting.

There will be no press conference. A list of participants is appended.

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

BILDERBERG MEETINGS
Chantilly, Virginia, U.S.A.
30 May - 2 June 2002

FINAL LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Honorary Chairman
Davignon, Etienne
Vice Chairman, Société Générale de Belgique

[please use facilities such as Namebase.org to research these people for this site - thanks Tony]

USA Allaire, Paul A. -Former Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation

CDN Baillie, A. Charles -Chairman and CEO, TD Bank FinancialGroup

GB Balls, Edward -Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury

P Balsemão, Francisco Pinto -Professor of CommunicationScience, New University, Lisbon; Chairman of IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.

F Belot, Jean de - Editor-in-Chief, Le Figaro

USA Bergsten, C. Fred - Director, Institute for International Economics

N Bernander, John G. - Director General, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

CDN Black, Conrad M. - Chairman, Telegraph Group Ltd.

INT Bolkestein, Frits - Commissioner, European Commission

P Borges, António - Vice Chairman and Managing Director, GoldmanSachs

USA Boyd, Charles G. - President and CEO, Business Executives for NationalSecurity

F Castries, Henri de - Chairman of the Board, AXA

E Cebrián, Juan Luis - CEO, Prisa (El Pais)

F Collomb, Bertrand - Chairman and CEO, Lafarge

CH Couchepin, Pascal - Federal Councillor; Head of the Federal Departmentof Economic Affairs

GB Dahrendorf, Ralf - Member, House of Lords; Former Warden, St. Antony'sCollege, Oxford

USA Dam, Kenneth W. - Deputy Secretary, US Department of Treasury

GR David, George A. - Chairman of the Board, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A.

USA David-Weill, Michel A. - Chairman, Lazard Frères & Co.

TR Dervis, Kemal - Minister of Economic Affairs

USA Deutch, John M. - Institute Professor, MIT

USA Dinh, Viet D. Assistant Attorney General for Office of PolicyDevelopment linkto him

USA Donilon, Thomas E. - Executive Vice President, Fannie Mae

I Draghi, Mario - Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman SachsInternational [Chairman of the Deputies of the Group of Ten, Bank ofInternational Settlements]

USA Eizenstat, Stuart - Covington & Burling

DK Eldrup, Anders - Chairman of the Board of Directors, Danish Oil& Gas Consortium

USA Feldstein, Martin S. - President and CEO, NAtional Bureau of EconomicResearch

P Ferreira, Elisa Guimarães - Member of Parliament, Former Ministerof Planning

USA Foley, Thomas S. - Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld

INT Fortescue, Adrian - Director General, Justice and Internal Affairs,European Commission

CDN Frum, David - American Enterprise Institute; Former Special Assistantto President Bush

F Gergorin, Jean-Louis - Executive Vice President, Strategic Coordination,EADS

USA Gigot, Paul A. - Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal

USA Greenspan, Alan - Chairman, Federal Reserve System

NL Groenink, Rijkman W.J. - Chairman of the Board, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

A Gusenbauer, Alfred - Member of Parliament; Chairman, Social DemocraticParty

NL Halberstadt, Victor - Professor of Economics, Leiden University;Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings

USA Hills, Carla A. - Chairman and CEO, Hills & Company, InternationalConsultants

USA Hoagland, Jim - Associate Editor, The Washington Post

USA Hubbard, Allan B. - President, E&A Industries

USA Hutchison, Kay Bailey - Senator (Republican, Texas)

B Huyghebaert, Jan - Chairman, Almanij N.V.

D Ischinger, Wolfgang - Ambassador to the US

USA James, Charles A. - Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust

USA Johnson, James A. - Vice Chairman, Perseus, L.L.C.

USA Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. - Managing Director, Lazard Frères& Co. LLC

USA Kissinger, Henry A. - Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.

NL Kist, Ewald - Chairman of the Board ING N.V.

NL Kleisterlee, Gerard J. - President and CEO, Royal Philips Elecronics

D Kopper, Hilmar - Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche BankAG

USA Krauthammer, Charles - Columnist, The Washington Post

USA Kravis, Henry R. - Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &Co.

USA Kravis, Marie-Josée - Senior Fellow - Hudson Institute Inc.

CH Kudelski, André - Chairman of the Board & CEO, KudelskiGroup

USA LaFalce, John J. - Congressman (Democrat, New York)

USA Leschly, Jan - Chairman & CEO, Care Capital LLC

F Lévy-Lang, André - Former Chairman, Paribas

B Lippens, Maurice - Chairman, Fortis

USA Mathews, Jessica T. - President, Carnegie Endowment for InternationalPeace

USA McAuliffe, Terry - Chairman, Democratic National Committee

USA McDonough, William J. - President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bankof New York

E Miguel, Ramón de - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

USA Mitchell, Andrea - Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondant, NBC News

F Moïsi, Dominique - Deputy Director, French Institute ofInternational Relations

F Montbrial, Thierry de - Director, French Institute of InternationalRelations

USA Moskow, Michael H. - President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

N Myklebust, Egil - Chairman, Norsk Hydro ASA

FIN Ollila, Jorma - Chairman of the Board and CEO, Nokia Corporation

TR Özaydinlí, Bulend - CEO, Koç Holding A.S.

INT Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso - Member of the Executive Board, EuropeanCentral Bank

GR Papahelas, Alexis - Foreign policy columnist. TO VIMA

USA Pearl, Frank H. - Chairman and CEO, Perseus, L.L.C.

USA Perle, Richard N. - Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institutefor Public Policy Research

D Polenz, Ruprecht - Member of Parliament, CDU/CSU

USA Prestowitz, Jr., Clyde V. -President, Economic Strategy Institute

USA Racicot, Mark - Chairman, Republican National Committee

USA Raines, Franklin D. - Chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae

A Randa, Gerhard - Chairman and CEO, Bank Austria AG

USA Rattner, Steven - Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group LLC

CDN Reisman, Heather - President and CEO, Indigo Books and Music Inc.

USA Rockefeller, David - Member, JP Morgan International Council

E Rodriguez Inciarte, Matías - Executive Vice Chairman, BancoSantander Central Hispano

GB Roll, Eric - Senior Adviser, UBS Warburg Ltd.

USA Rose, Charlie - Producer, Rose Communications

F Roy, Olivier - University Professor and Researcher, CNRS

USA Rumsfeld, Donald H. - Secretary of Defense

TR Sanberk, Özdem - Director, Turkish Economic and Social StudiesFoundation

D Schrempp, Jurgen E. - Chairman of the Board of Management,DaimlerChrysler AG

D Schulz, Ekkehard - Chairman, ThyssenKrupp AG

F Schweitzer, Louis - Chairman and CEO, Renault S.A.

DK Seidenfaden, Tøger - Editor-in-Chief, Politiken

F Seillière, Ernest-Antoine - Chairman and CEO, CGIP

RUS Shevtsova, Lilia - Senior Associate, Carnegie Moscow Center

USA Siegman, Henry - Council on Foreign Relations

USA Soros, George - Chairman, Soros Fund Management

USA Steinberg, James B. - Vice President and Director, Foreign PolicyStudies Program

N Stoltenberg, Jens - Leader of the Opposition (Social Democratic Party)

USA Summers, Lawrence H. - President, Harvard University

IRL Sutherland, Peter D. - Chairman and Managing Director, GoldmanSachs International; Chairman BP Amoco

FIN Taxell, Christoffer - President and CEO, Partek Oyj

USA Thoman, G. Richard - Senior Advisor, Evercore Partners Inc.

USA Thornton, John L. - President and co-CEO, The Goldman Sachs GroupInc.

FIN Tiilikainen, Teija H. - Director of Research, Centre for EuropeanStudies

S Treschow, Michael - Chairman, Ericsson

F Trichet, Jean-Claude - Governor, Banque de France

CH Vasella, Daniel L. - Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG

USA Vink, Lodewijk J. R. de - Chairman, Global Health Care Partners;Credit Suisse First

A Vranitzky, Franz - Former Federal Chancellor

S Wallenberg, Jacob - Chairman of the Board, Skandinaviska EnskildaBanken

CDN Whyte, Kenneth - Editor, The National Post

GB Williams, Gareth - Leader, House of Lords; Member of the Cabinet

INT Wolfensohn, James D. - President, The World Bank

D Zumwinkel, Klaus - Chairman of the Board of Management, DeutschePost AG

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,865213,00.html

Staff and agencies

Thursday December 26, 2002

Nato has a "moral obligation" to support the US if it goes to war againstIraq, Nato secretary general George Robertson said today. Church leadersmeanwhile used their Christmas messages to appeal for peace.

Lord Robertson said it would be impossible for the US to go to war withoutthe support of its allies, although no decision had been made on what rolethe 19 Nato nations would play in any military action.

"What the Americans have done in Nato is to suggest a number of options whereNato could help in a military action and countries have been invited to considerthat, but no decisions have yet been taken on it," he said.

Lord Robertson defended the US president, George Bush, who he said was committedto acting through the United Nations to disarm the regime of the Iraqi president,Saddam Hussein.

"Up to now the United States has kept very rigidly to the United Nationsroute. They still do, the inspectors are still there," he told BBC radio.

Last month the UN security council approved resolution 1441, which callson Iraq to rid itself of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programmesand threatens the country with unspecified "serious consequences" if it failsto cooperate with UN weapons inspectors.

"The decision [on military action] won't be taken by America, the decisionwill be taken by Saddam Hussein," Lord Robertson said.

He added that Nato "is very, very supportive of the United Nations processand if that breaks down then clearly there is a moral obligation by Natoto give whatever support is required."

His comments came as Christian religious leaders around the world used theirChristmas addresses to call for peace.

Pope John Paul II, in his annual Christmas message, said the world shouldavoid war and not "yield to mistrust, suspicion and discouragement".

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, used a Christmas broadcastto warn of the unintended suffering caused by politicians. Referring to thebiblical story of the birth of Christ, the archbishop compared politicalstrategists to the three wise men who informed King Herod of the birth ofJesus.

"Telling Herod about the Christ child, they provoked the massacre of thechildren of Bethlehem," he said in the message, broadcast today on the BBC."The strategists who know the possible ramifications of politics miss thehuge and obvious things and wreak yet more havoc and suffering. Here we allare, tangled in the same net ... stepping deeper and deeper into tragedy."

Yesterday the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales also urged worldleaders to work toward a peaceful solution to the Iraq crisis.

"We must never give up and assume that war is inevitable," Cardinal CormacMurphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, told worshippers in Westminstercathedral.

"Let us pray today, therefore, that each one of us, particularly those involvedin international diplomacy and politics, will maintain our permanent commitmentto building and maintaining peace in our world."

The Iraqi government, meanwhile, said today it had increased food rationsto allow citizens to stockpile for a possible war.

The Iraqi trade minister, Mohammed Mehdi Saleh, told the Reuters news agencythat supplies distributed so far should ensure everyone had a three-monthsupply of food. He added that the quantity would be increased in the comingmonths.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,865213,00.html

By Joshua Rozenberg Legal Editor

(Filed: 20/12/2002)

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/20/nblud20.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/12/20/ixhome.html

Lord Carrington, who was Defence Secretary at the time of the Bloody Sundayshootings in 1972, told the official inquiry into the events yesterday that"there was never any question of the military opening fire on innocentcivilians".

Suggestions that their lives had been put at risk for political reasons were"disgraceful", he added under cross-examination.

The most senior politician to give evidence to the tribunal so far said itwas "ludicrous" to suggest that there was a deliberate policy to shoot civilians.It was "something that no politician would ever agree to".

In his opening statement to the inquiry, which is currently sitting in London,Lord Carrington dismissed suggestions that there was a "plan to deal withLondonderry by taking the sort of action which resulted in Bloody Sunday".

He also denied that the appointment of Gen Robert Ford as second-in-commandin Northern Ireland signalled a change of heart by the Government.

The former minister thought that Gen Ford's belief, expressed in a top secretmemo written three weeks before Bloody Sunday, that the best way to restorelaw and order was to "shoot a few Londonderry hooligans" would not have beencondoned by the Government or by Gen Michael Carver, Chief of the GeneralStaff.

"I am sure that no such plan was in existence and, even if it had been, theMinistry of Defence, the Government and Michael Carver would have had nopart in it," he said.

The suggestion simply did not comply with the Army's rules of engagementcontained in the Yellow Card issued to troops, Lord Carrington explained."All I can say is that we were 'yellow-carding' for all we were worth."

Lord Carrington, 83, added: "If civilians were nearby when the Army was firedupon and fired back, it was a tragedy for any innocents who were caught inthe crossfire.

"However, I can state quite categorically that it was never policy to shootunless a target had been identified as a threat. It is ridiculous to suggestthere was a plot. People always find plots in everything."

Troops from 1 Bn the Parachute Regiment insist they fired only at gunmenand bombers as they attempted to arrest rioters.

Lord Carrington told the inquiry that Bloody Sunday had been a "fairlydisastrous" operation. This had been Downing Street's opinion in the immediateaftermath of the killings. "A lot of people got killed and that was the lastthing we wanted to see," he said.

Lord Gifford, QC, for the family of one of those killed on Bloody Sunday,put it to Lord Carrington that the Government had been willing to risk thelives of innocent Catholics in order to appease Protestant opinion in NorthernIreland. "I think that is a disgraceful accusation," the former ministerreplied.

Summing up Lord Gifford's line of questioning, the inquiry chairman, LordSaville, said the QC was alleging that "the design of the British Governmentwas to shoot people on the streets of Derry that afternoon in the hope andexpectation that it would aid the political process".

"It did not seem very likely," was Lord Carrington's laconic reply. The tribunalwill resume sitting next month.

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Thu Dec 12, 4:58 PM ET

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer

by Richard Greaves

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SECRECY & PRIVATE FORUMS

Everywhere you look - government, big business and any other institutionseeking to exercise power - the key is secrecy. Meetings such as those ofthe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the G-8,World Trade Organisation, World Economic Forum, Central Banks, the EuropeanUnion Council of Ministers and the EU Commission, EU summits, governmentcabinet meetings, numerous think tanks etc. are always conducted behind closeddoors. The only possible reason for this is that they don't want you andI to know what they are really up to. That well worn excuse for keeping thingsunder wraps -"it is not in the public interest" really means that it is notin the interest of the powers that be that the public should know. Howeverthere is, in addition, a network of private forums and meetings that takeplace where the secrecy principle extends to the forums and meetings themselves- by and large, we don't even know that they are taking place, let alonewhat is being planned and discussed.

The Bilderberg Group

Did you know, for example, that some of the biggest names in world politics,media, banking and business met at Turnberry South Ayrshire from 14th. to17th. May 1998 under the chairmanship of Lord Peter Carrington? If you didn't,this is your introduction to the Bilderberg Group - a private forum wherepowerful and influential figures from Europe and North America meet in greatsecrecy amid very tight security to plan and discuss global strategy andreach consensus on a wide range of issues. What then seems to happen is thatensuing consensus on various issues are then promoted by powerful commercialand business interests in the media at the same time becoming the policyof governments of supposedly different political persuasions.

Bilderberg was formed in 1954, named after the hotel in Oosterbeek, Hollandwhere the first meeting took place. It has a main meeting annually in a heavilyguarded location in Europe or North America. It brings together top peoplefrom a variety of spheres of influence and power on both sides of the Atlantic.Participants include Heads of State, prime ministers, other leading politicalfigures, top corporate executives, industrialists, bankers, financiers, andan assortment of intellectuals, diplomats, influential representatives ofthe media and even the occasional trade unionist with demonstrated sympathyfor establishment views. One insider apparently has observed that "..today,there are very few figures among governments on both sides of the Atlanticwho have not attended at least one of these meetings."

What sets this private forum, (and others mentioned later) apart from othergatherings of the politically and economically powerful such as the G-8 meetings,European Union summits etc. is that they are little or almost unknown tothe public and they escape media attention. Much of the centralisation ofpower that is taking place in the world today - a process that has been goingon for many years, but is now accelerating into top gear - can very likelybe attributed to the agreements and consensus reached at these meetings.Human nature being what it is, there are people in power who would seek tobring about some form of centralised all powerful global government. Muchof what we see happening around us today is bringing that prospect ever closer,with increasing power of multi-national corporations, the surrender of nationalsovereignty in the EU, governments handing over complete control of moneysupply and monetary policy to unaccountable central banks, the rules andregulations of the World Trade Organisation, the ability of the InternationalMonetary Fund to dictate to national governments etc. - power concentratedin the hands of ever fewer people operating through more remote unaccountableinstitutions. Maybe that is O.K. if you trust the top people in power.. Howeverremember the saying "all power tends to corrupt".

Few journalists, reporters and news people in the mainstream media, untilvery recently, had even heard of Bilderberg, yet these are the people whoclaim to give us informed in-depth reporting of what is going on in the world.Even many M.Ps. in the House of Commons appear not to have heard of it, andthose that have do not speak publicly about it. However some of the moreprominent and "promising" ones will have actually attended its meetings.

It is claimed by the organisers to be an "informal" gathering. Attendanceis by invitation from the steering committee - an inner circle of permanentmembers, who meet regularly, setting the aims and agenda of the group, andreviewing progress. Everyone is invited to "speak freely" - which suggestsperhaps they can say what they really think and believe rather than whatthey tell the public they think and believe! And it is all off the record.

If you question anyone who has attended, about the group, the answers youget are either that it is just an informal airing of views in relaxedsurroundings with no votes or formal resolutions. (However, one can buildup consensus quite adequately without formal resolutions.) Alternativelyit is claimed to be a gathering of political "has beens" who no longer wieldany real power. An examination of the annual attendance lists reveals nothingcould be further from the truth. Many a rising star has attended and theso called "has beens" who do attend are in fact still active and influentialbehind the scenes. Former Observer Editor Will Hutton attended the 1997 meeting.He did not disclose the content of any discussions, but he expressed theview, privately, that it is Bilderberg that sets the agenda for the forumsand summits such as the G-8, Council of Europe and World Trade Organisationmeetings that follow.

Lord Carrington was chairman of the steering group until 2000, Lord Homewas a former chairman. Kenneth Clarke and Henry Kissinger are current steeringgroup members. Early steering group members included Denis Healey and ReginaldMaudling, followed more recently by EU Commission President Romano Prodi,EU Commissioner Mario Monti and former Labour leader John Smith. In the pastWilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher, Roy Jenkins, Jeremy Thorpe, David Steele,the Duke of Edinburgh, Cyrus Vance, George Shultz, Helmut Kohl, FrancoisMitterand have all attended. More recently it has been Bill and Hilary Clinton,Blair, Brown, Mandelson, Paddy Ashdown, Norman Lamont, William Waldegrave,Malcolm Rifkind, Alan Greenspan (Head of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank),numerous EU Commissioners, Lord Roll of Ipsden (Labour Peer and former Presidentof merchant bank Warburg, Dillon Read), Conrad Black (Chairman HollingerGroup which owns the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator), Andrew Knight (chiefexecutive of Rupert Murdoch's News International media empire), Umberto Agnelli(President of Fiat SpA). In 1996, T.U.C. General Secretary John Monks attended,and in 1999 former Friends of the Earth Director and current Forum of theFuture Director Jonathan Porrit attended. Ever since its inception, membersof the Rothschild and Rockefeller families have always attended.

What exactly has been going on here? There's certainly a wide range of prominentpeople attending these meetings, and, when hearing about Bilderberg for thefirst time, some people say isn't it great that so many different peoplecome together to discuss global issues. Another perhaps more realisticinterpretation is that it is the rich and powerful planning our future behindour backs without our knowledge and permission. Previous meetings in Britainhave taken place in Buxton, Cambridge, Torquay, and Gleneagles, right underour noses only we didn't know about them. Only in very recent years has theveil of secrecy surrounding the event begun to break, with limited mentionin the local press of the host country. Several Scottish newspapers madequite a splash that the 1998 meeting took place at Turnberry, but since thensilence has returned. Nothing on 1999's meeting at Sintra Portugal or 2000'smeeting at Chateau du Lac south of Brussels, or 2001's meeting at a secludedisland resort near Gothenberg, Sweden. The same applied to this year's meetingwhich has just taken place at Chantilly, Virginia, USA. [1]

Bilderberg is reckoned to be the most influential of the private forums,but there are other little known organisations such as the Trilateral Commission,the Pinay Circle, the Royal Institute of International Affairs- (RIIA issaid to be responsible for British foreign policy) and its United Statescounterpart, the Council on Foreign Relations. Except occasionally the RIIA,these organisations are almost never mentioned in the mainstream media, allmeet behind the usual closed doors, yet they are almost certainly closelylinked. Some of them are strongly Anglo-American in membership. Indeed itappears that the RIIA and the CFR may be essentially one and the sameorganisation, born at the same time in the early '20's, out of an earliergrouping known as the Round Table, set up by those advocates of globaldomination, Cecil Rhodes and Lord Alfred Milner. Perhaps this gives truemeaning to the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S.A.

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12 Nov 2002 03:45 BST

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=1719597

LONDON (Reuters) - Kenneth Clarke, former chancellor and deputy chairmanof British American Tobacco, has defended his company's business in military-runMyanmar despite revelations he criticised other firms investing there.

A human rights group pressuring BAT to pull out of Myanmar on Monday publishedextracts of a letter in which Clarke, an opposition party heavyweight, tolda constituent he felt "uncomfortable" about investment in Myanmar.

In the letter obtained by the Burma Campaign UK, Clarke said: "The problemwith Burma (as Myanmar was formerly known) arises when companies startcollaborating with an extremely unpleasant regime which is totally contraryto our notions of civil liberties."

BAT, whose brands include Rothmans, Dunhill and Lucky Strike, on Monday issueda statement in which Clarke said: "We employ more than 400 people in Burmaand I see no benefit to them in us simply pulling out."

BAT operates in Myanmar through its Rothmans of Pall Mall subsidiary, a 60/40percent joint venture with the Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings (UMEH).

UMEH is controlled by the military junta which has ruled Myanmar for thepast four decades. It has one of the worst human rights records of any governmentand faces allegations of widespread forced labour and torture.

Clarke, seen as a possible challenger for Conservative party leadership,said the Burma Campaign failed to publish an extract of his letter whichsaid: "I do not think we can have a blanket law which stops British companiesdoing business with dictators ... an international company cannot reformthe politics of the government of any country in which it does business."

BAT, which had revenues of 11.4 billion pounds in 2001, said its factoryworkers were among the highest paid in Myanmar, even though many get littlemore than 20 pence a day. It said it provided $50,000 (31,000 pounds) fora well project to provide clean water to villages.

The Burmese democracy movement argues that any business with Myanmar's militarygovernment keeps them in power.

It alleges the industrial area where the BAT cigarette factory is locatedwas upgraded in 1996 using child labour.

BAT acquired the business in 1999 through its acquisition of RothmansInternational.

Many Western firms have cut investment in Myanmar after pressure from theUnited States and European governments, which have been angered over themilitary's imprisonment of democracy movement leaders.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=1719597

WARRANTS FOR ARREST

http://www.twincities.indymedia.org:8081//front.php3?article_id=7449

by Jon Chance

12:30pm Sat Oct 26 '02 (Modified on 10:20pm Sun Oct 27 '02)

address: 72 Peterborough Street, Boston MA 02215 USA phone: 617-859-8155jpchance@egroups.com

All members of the Bilderberg Group are wanted on a material witness warrantissued on October 25, 2002, in connection with international racketeering,money laundering, theft, terrorism and other crimes.

Law enforcement personnel believe that members of the Bilderberg Group canprovide valuable information regarding these cases.

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE PERSONS, PLEASE CONTACT YOURLOCAL INTERPOL, FBI, DIA, OR INSA OFFICE OR THE NEAREST AMERICAN EMBASSYOR CONSULATE.

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August 18th 2002 - Dagens VG -http://www.vg.no Norway's largest newspaper

The Mysterious meeting place of power

Are John G. Bernander and Jens Stoltenberg part of a secret world government- or a nice forum for top executives and leaders?

A world without national states where everything is about money. This isthe 50-year-old Bilderberg-group's principal objective according to its critics,who don't hesitate to call it a conspiracy. According to them the initiationof the European Union, the idea of the Treaty of Rome and Euro as well wereall hatched during Bilderberger meetings.

Kare Willoch (comment: Norway's Prime Minister (Conservative) 1981-1986)has been present at several of them.

- KW: One can ponder upon the mix of businessmen and politicians. It doesa great service as long as the politicians make sure that the businessmenare only partly qualified.

- VG: Is Bilderberg democratic?

- KW: Well. No. It's more of an effort to be interdisciplinary. That's whyit is so important that the politicians know they represent democracy. Insightdoes not increase along with sales. I would say 'as opposed to' I thinkI would attend the meeting today with a lot more scepticism.

- VG: Why all this secretiveness?

- KW: Good question, because it serves no purpose, says Willoch.

In 1982 the prime of Norwegian politicians met with the Bilderbergers underheavy guard in Sandefjord [Norway].

- The hotel in Sandefjord was isolated. They had their own catering and allpersonnel had to get a security clearance. Armed Norwegian police functionedas guards. [even today a special permit is required for Norwegian policeofficers to use weapons on the street - gun laws have always been strictin Norway].

NRK's [similar to BBC] journalist Ebbe Ording is one of few Norwegians apartfrom the participants that know anything about Bilderberg. He has writtenthe book "Gardermoen - et nasjonalt bedrageri" [Gardermoen is Norway's tenyear old International airport and there were some 'unfortunate' episodesin relation to its planning and so forth. Et nasjonalt bedrageri translatesdirectly into "a national fraud".] In between the meetings at Sandefjordthe Bilderbergers might have talked about where Norway's national airportwas supposed to be.

- If anyone mentions what goes on during the meetings they are excluded fromthe good company. Anyone who has participated will probably minimize theimportance of the Bilderberg-conferences to something like a cozy gathering.

But Ording calls attention to the fact that when people of this stature spendtwo-three days on meetings, they attribute it much more conceit than that.The participants of Bilderberg meetings have little time to waste on unnecessarymeetings, he adds.

The most eager of the conspiracy theorists say that Bilderberg is part ofa bigger power network tied together in a supersecret round table conference.The Club of Rome and the United Nations are supposed to be the other participantsin the shadow government that want centralized control of the planet.

- There is little reason for any conspiracy theories, says John G. Bernander.

The Director of Broadcasting at NRK attended this years [2002] Bilderbergmeeting in the U.S.A.

- The group itself has no power. But yes, there are definitely importantpeople with a great responsibility who attend.

In June he flew to Virginia to listen to amongst others Alan Greenspan, HenryKissinger, The World Bank's James Wolfenson and Minister of Defence DonaldRumsfeld.

"When you have reached Bilderberg, you have arrived," The Economist wrotein a ranking of the world's power elites.

The Economist is itself solidly represented at the meetings, but rarely mentionsBilderberg.

Bilderberg has been labeled to be the world's premier boy's club. But "ironladies" like Margaret Thatcher and Gro Harlem Brundtland [Director Generalof WHO and 3x Prime Minister of Norway with the Norwegian Labour Party] havebeen admitted. Plus Kristin Clemet [Current Norwegian Minister of Educationfor the Conservative party]

It all started at the Bilderberg hotel in Oosterbeek Holland in 1954. TheDutch prince Bernhard had great ambitions for the group, which since thenhas gotten together hundreds of American and European top people every year.

The Prince himself officiated as chairman of the board. The board decideswho is invited for the next meeting and what to discuss.

The British journalist and activist Tony Gosling has also attended a meeting,although not being very welcome. He now runs one of the biggest websiteson Bilderberg.

- Bilderberg is a tool to convince the rulers about what is "right". Duringthe meetings the big companies can persuade and form a consensus for theirown interests without giving people a chance to object.

The High Priest's of globalization is what Will Hutton, editor of the Observer,called the group.

- No politics are modelled there. It's just talk. But the agreements thatare made there define a framework for international politics, he says accordingto the weekly newspaper The Big Issue.

In 1991 a relatively unknown Guvernor of Arkansas made his appearance atthe annual Bilderberger meeting. His good friend, lawyer Vernon Jordan,introduced him. The latter is known as an informal adviser for presidentsand people in high places within politics, but also as a repeated participantat Bilderberg-meetings.

One and a half year later the Governor turned President of the U.S.

Thorvald Stoltenberg [Former Minister of Foreign Relations for the SocialDemocrat's in Norway] has attended several Bilderberg-meetings, as a LabourParty delegate and UN observer [in Bosnia].

- TS: People have different perspectives in Bilderberg [sic]. Fortunately!But I have never experienced that anyone has tried to persuade anyone orpressure anyone into anything to make everyone agree.

- VG: So you are not a conspirator?

- TS: I don't even know what that means. My preoccupation is that peopleagree with me.

During the 1999 meeting, 14 respected mediapeople participated. None of themreported anything to their readers or listeners. The same thing happenedthis year.

- VG: Why the secrecy, John G. Bernander?

- JGB: There is none. Press releases are sent out on who is participatingand the agenda, but the discussions are not public.

Bernander emphasizes that the meetings are not public so that the participantscan speak freely.

- It's an informal meeting. If you are having a birthday party you don'tinvite the whole world, says Maja Banck at the Bilderberg secretariat,rhetorically.

- Don't believe everything you read on the Internet, is her comment on conspiracytheories.

But upon asking how the Bilderberg meetings function the answer is:

- I don't have to tell you.

All the guards with helicopters and what evidently is intelligence serviceusually overwhelm people who have come close to Bilderberg meetings.

"Special Branch and CIA was everywhere - they were running things," one ofthe police officers said to The Big Issue in 1999.

Tony Gosling tells stories of journalists arrested who ask questions, aboutcut up tires and dead pets.[does he????????]

The acknowledged Financial Times columnist during the '70s, C. Gordon Tether,wrote about Bilderberg several times. He was censored each time.

After two years he was fired when he wrote: "If the Bilderberg Group is nota conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a way as to give a remarkablygood imitation of one." He has now collected his texts in a leaflet.

The British weekly newspaper The Big Issue could in 1999, as the only newspaperin history, reveal parts of the discussions that took place at the Bilderbergmeeting.

A report from the 1999 meeting leaked to the paper, reveals that the groupwas consulted on the conflict in Kosovo.

Russia's acceptance of NATO's bombing seems to be a barter deal:

"Russia now has a carte blanche to intervene in Chechyna. NATO will not bombMoscow if Russia invades Chechyna."

The report also shows that a global currency, "dollarization", was discussedas the next step since the Euro was to be reality. Several of the attendantssaid that it was easier to cut welfare budgets if you were a socialist. Butlike German said:

"In many casses the real power is with the central banks."

P.S. The American Magazine "American Free Press" has offered a reward ofNKR 300,000 to the one that can prove that Bilderberg is not a conspiracy.For the time being no one has claimed the money.

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Translator's note:

I would like to comment on the article. First of all, this is the first bigarticle on Bilderberg in Norway since 1984. Mum being the word since then,would be an understatement. This is also the first time we have actuallygot some comments from the Norwegian delegates, although not too revealing,the journalist did a good job in letting the logical arguments come through.We have been several people trying to make a nuisance about it for the last9 months, and finally we pulled through.

It might be important to add, that since this is the Sunday issue, one canhope that maybe one tenth of the population has read it. A careful estimate:The newspaper's circulation for its Sunday issue is approximately 400,000.

Considering that 4 million people live here, we are very glad that VG tookthe job. Not too surprising though, since the two other big papers, Dagbladetand Aftenposten have had Bilderbergers.

There were several pictures there, but all of them, apart from the one ofKaare Willoch were downloaded from Tony Gosling's site, www.bilderberg.org

Thank you for your attention again.

Thomas Hegge (translator)
Son of a Bilderberger (SOB)

The below is from the original article - for those who might be searching in Norwegian!

En varierende gruppe folk fra Europa og USA som møtes årligfor å diskutere internasjonal politikk. Personer innen finans, shipping,Nato, media, politikk og forskning deltar.

Hvopr møtene holdes, er hemmelig for alle andre inntil møtetstarter, og hva som foregår bak de bevoktede dørene vet manlite om.

Møtene er sannsynligivs finansiert av familier som Rockefeller ogRothschild, i tillegg til store multinasjonale selskaper.

Bildeberg-gruppen har navnet sitt fra hotellet i Nederland hvor de førstegang møttes.

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by Sherman H. Skolnick 7/1/02

Every year, for almost half a century, they meet in a different country.Their first meeting was in Holland, in 1954. It was arranged by the DutchMonarchy. It took place in the Bilderberg Hotel, which became the name ofthis secret society, one of several, forbidden to be discussed by the oil-soaked,spy-riddled monopoly press.

Mutually pledged to sealed lips are those invited to the annual meeting.Members of the aristocracies attend of various nations, consisting of theelites of high finance, politics, espionage, academia, media, and other titles.

I once interviewed, on tape, the wire desk editor of the Chicago Sun-Times."Why does your paper censor stories about the secret society, the Bilderberg?"Most media honchos pretend never to have heard of this gang of plotters.But he responded candidly, a rarity, "Well, if we went and then told aboutit, we couldn't go anymore. What should we do? Go and talk about it, or notbe able to go?"

The meetings of the Bilderberg Group are about the only place that competingfinancial forces sit with one another. The Rockefellers, for example, arealways there. So are their apparent enemy, the French Rothschilds. Sittingas a sort of neutral intermediary always is a top official of the Wallenbergbanking monopoly of Sweden and northern Europe.

[In 1978, when John D. Rockefeller 3rd was assassinated on the road to theirupstate New York fortress, we were the ONLY journalists (unpaid, free lancejournalists, at that), who dared inquire. He was the father of John D. Rockfeller4th, who to be cute, calls himself "Jay", a supposed Democrat, U.S. Senatorfrom West Virginia. The Rockefellers like to dominate states with sizeablegeography and minerals, but a small population, such as also Arkansas. Ina pinch, to dominate the state it would not cost that much to buy most everyvoter and most every media propaganda instrument in the state.Returning the"favor" of political murder was eighteen years later when the top memberof the French Rothschild Family was murdered in Paris. The American monopolypress was ordered not to mention in detail, if at all, the death of Rothschild.Or, just run an innocent little item that the French International barondied of a "heart attack". Presslord/swindler Rupert Murdoch ordered his printand electronic media outlets to avoid, if at all, mentioning the death.

The hotel in different countries where they meet each year, are announcedas "closed", for "remodeling", or a "wedding party". One year they pickeda resort hotel on top of a Swiss mountain, difficult to reach except by air.The host nation agrees to supply a huge, almost secret security force preparedto brutalize intruders, follow any hardy reporters who may be encamped nearby,and by various brutality and trickery stop any public knowledge. Hotel employeesare likewise pledged to secrecy, which if they violated it, would be severelydealt with. Such as never to be able to work again in that nation.

When the Bilderberg met in 1991, in Baden-Baden, Germany, a purported healthresort, invited was a then obscure Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton. Theyanointed him as the next President of the United States. The election wouldbe a mere set up. The pressfakers present agreed not to mention, if at allpossible, what they all knew. That Clinton was a walking, talking scandal.Not every American voter can bring themselves to know or believe reality.Namely, every candidate for high office is selected because they areblackmailable. The Establishment has to reserve the right to pull on thechain, any time they felt like it, to shut down such a candidate if somehowelected to high office. This, anytime the "powers that be" deemed it necessary,to shut him or her up, to remove them, or, scare them into silence with weirdviolence directed against the candidate/president's circle.

Groomed since a teen-ager by the American CIA, Clinton in the1992 Presidentialelection shadow-boxed with his mentor, George Herbert Walker Bush, formerhead of the secret political police. Daddy Bush has been with the espionagecartel since 1959, when they helped set him up with six hundred worldwideaffiliates for "his" petroleum drilling empire, Zapata Oil, later, ZapataOffshore, later Pennzoil, still later, Pennzoil/Texaco.

Earlier, as Arkansas Governor, Clinton participated in the hundreds of millionsof dollars involved in the dope traffic through the southern states, runby the American CIA, in part through the espionage airport at Mena, Arkansas.Clinton's partners were Daddy Bush, Ollie North, and Congressman Henry Hyde(R., Ill.), who was also head of the CIA "black budget", funds for covertoperations including domestic and overseas political assassinations. Returnshipments of air-shipped weapons, went to unlawfully aid the Contras inNicaragua.

Clinton, as known to his handlers and partners, was clearly subject to blackmailand being terrorized.

He was selected to be an Oxford College, Great Britain student by the RhodesTrust. As not widely known, but nevertheless true, the Rhodes fortune ispledged to overthrow the American Republic, to return this continent to puppetcolonies, and the American inhabitants to be subjects of the British Monarchin London. [Visit our website series, "The Overthrow of the American Republic".]

While in England, Clinton, a sexual predator, suffering from having his flagup too often, priapism, raped a British woman. He was forced to terminatehis studies at Oxford and abruptly leave Great Britain, with the provisothat he would not be criminally prosecuted as long as he never returned.In the 1992 Presidential Election, Daddy Bush and Clinton agreed not to bringup each other's dirty laundry. Clinton would not mention the treasonous dealdone by the Elder Bush in Paris, October, 1980, to arrange weapons shipmentsto Iran, in return, Iran would refuse to return the 52 U.S. hostages fromthe Teheran Embassy, until the Reagan/Bush ticket was safely inauguratedin January, 1981. If incumbent President Jimmy Carter could have avoidedseeming to be a wimp and get the return of the hostages right before theelection, it would, to Bush, be the dreaded "October Surprise". And Clintonagreed not to mention Daddy Bush's treason in the Iran-Contra scandal.

Over and above the blackmailable items known as to both Clinton and Bush,was Clinton's position with the aristocracy that gathers each year as theBilderberg Group. The person using the name "Clinton" should rightfully becalled William ROCKEFELLER Clinton. Our interviews with middle-level membersof the Rockefeller Family, convinces us of the validity of our position.Namely, that "Clinton" is the illegitimate great grandson of old John D.Rockefeller, founder of the infamous petroleum monopoly, Standard Oil.[Othersuch details, see our website series on Wal-Mart, headquartered in Arkansas.]

Several terms prior to "Clinton", Winthrop Rockefeller was Arkansas Governor.He was known to have fathered, throughout the U.S., at least five illegitimatechildren. [The legitimate great grandson of John D., is "Jay" Rockefellerwhose wife, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, is a top mogul of public tv and radio.We call it National Petroleum Radio.]

Throughout his career as Governor and President, "Clinton" was kept on achain, by among other things, terror- tactics. A strange one-motor airplanewith an already dead pilot, somehow eluded all the measures to protect theWhite House, and came within a few feet of crashing right through PresidentClinton's White House bedroom window. The White House rooftop battery ofmissiles was somehow turned off that night. The plane had to be guided, thatis vectored, from accomplices on the ground, to steer around all the obstructionsand buildings in its path. Remote controlled? Perhaps. During his Presidency,more than a hundred of his confidants, friends, circle of friends, and suchwere murdered. His Little Rock campaign chief, Jerry Parks, was murdered,mobster-style. Various of his U.S. Marine and other guards, who knew a lotabout him, were one by one, snuffed out in strange, so-called "accidents".His pal, Vincent W. Foster, Jr., was murdered and explained away as a "suicide".Other websites have compiled a lengthy list of these happenings. In simpleterms, those who meet at the Bilderberg Group, are aristocrats, the handlersof their retainers, stooges, spy chiefs, bank bosses, and such. Seeminglylittle understood is the basic premise of aristocracy. When one nation'saristocracy, Establishment, whatever you want to call them, has a fallingout with that of another nation, that is grounds for war. If bad enough,it becomes a World War. One group plans to have more power, consolidate theirterritorial position, and silence the grumbling of unemployed ordinary people,through the drums of war, to the destruction and detriment of the opposingaristocracy. Used to foment bloody conflict are a massive media campaignof hate against the Establishment of the opposing Ruling Class, now designatedas an Enemy, previously having been business partners. To get the ordinarypopulace into the right mode, they become bombarded around the clock withmartial music, and appeals to flag, God, and such terms as Fatherland andMother Russia.. In plain terms, the aristocracy goaded, pumped up, poorlyinformed workers to murder, for flag and country, the counterpart workersof the opposing aristocracv. In some instances, one aristocracy still doesbusiness with the other, in the midst of the War. [See, "Trading With theEnemy", by Charles Higham.]

Depressions, on the other hand, are a combination of an orchestrated eventcombined with the cycles of circ*mstance. The aristocracy plans to grab upthe real estate, commercial and residential, the collapsed bank funds writtenoff, the bloated pie in the sky stock ownership, and other assets of thepowerless suckers, for a few pennies on the dollar. All the while, the ultrarich, through their press whor*s, falsely proclaim that the return of prosperityis just around the corner. [It may take fifteen years and another instigatedwar to do that.]

What is plotted and agreed upon, as shown by the circ*mstances of a secretsociety like the Bilderberg Group should NOT be described or labeled as merelya "conspiracy". And we are NOT "conspiracy theorists" [You do not succeedin putting bribe-taking judges in jail, as we have, for decades, by foolishnessand "conspiracy theories".] These are the known ways of the Establishment,the Ultra Rich, the Aristocracy, by whatever label. Bred into them from birthis this mindset for power and enrichment little-understood by generallygood-hearted, ordinary people who would not instigate a bloody war for profit.

So, sooner or later, the way the plutocrats conduct their horrors of bloodshedand financial smash-ups, leads to Revolution. Europe, to their credit, havehad more or less genuine upheavals, Revolutions. America never has had such.

[A useful primer is Ferdinand Lundberg's great documented work, "The Richand the Super Rich", first published in 1968, but timely even now. His earlierwork has a lot of even more revealing details, published in 1937, still onhand in some large lirbraries, "America's Sixty Families".]

To understand the ways of the Bilderberg Group, you have to have a sharpeye for calendar events and circ*mstances. You have to carefully notice whathappens usually in the month or so AFTER their annual secret meeting. Notethese happenings within thirty days of the Bilderberg Group meeting, May30 to June 2, 2002 (they actually adjourned a day earlier), at a hotel atChantilly, Virginia.

Suddenly the monopoly press, headed by those presslords who attended the meeting, such as Donald Graham, head of the Washington Post, Conrad Black, Canadian/U..S. press empire, and others, on behalf of the Ultra Rich started a series of scandal disclosures. Such as that the second largest long distance service in the U.S., WorldCom, parent of MCI, had concealed book-cooking of almost four billion dollars. And thus, WorldCom stock plummeted from about sixty dollars per share to eight pennies per share, and faces bankruptcy.. Such as, Xerox, the original copy machine empire, to apparently falsely show a profit instead of huge losses, cooked their books to the tune of six billion dollars. Such as Clear Channel Communications, owner of 1200 U.S. radio stations, had reportedly likewise cooked their books. "Clear Channel Says No Accounting Issues", Business-Reuters, Los Angeles, June 27, 2002. Another sudden revelation within the thirty days after the Bilderberg meeting in 2002, the advertising giant, OMNICOM, had reportedly likewise cooked their books by way of gobbling up other advertising and marketing agencies. "Omnicom gutted on debt review", CBS.MarketWatch.com, June 27, 2002.[OMNICOM are the parent of DDB Chicago, which represented the advertising and marketing, at the same time apparently, of supposedly competing soda pop companies, Coca- Cola and Pepsi-Cola. See the details, many in the court record, but little known, in our website series, "Coca- Cola, CIA, and the Courts.]
The British-owned newspaper now gaining large circulation as well in the U.S. is Financial Times of London. On a Chicago dateline story, by their correspondent Jeremy Grant, they opened up the reputed scandal that mammoth General Motors had cooked their books. For a while, General Motors stock was suspended in trading on the Big Board. "GM denies accounting problems", Financial Times, June 27, 2002.
A few weeks BEFORE the Bilderberg 2002 meeting, the New York Times suddenly attacked a previous sacred cow, General Electric, implying G.E. engages in book-cooking. New York Times bigshots often attend Bilderberg meetings. "Wait a Second What Devils Lurk in the Details?", by Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times, April 14, 2002.
And then there was the story that bigshots of Apple Computer sold millions of dollars of their shares in the company just before really bad news was disclosed.

These scandalous details, pave the way for foreign aristocracies to get anarmlock on American business. These details were apparently long-known tothe accounting firms, but not revealed until Bilderberg Group gave the signal,"Wreck them now! Get them!" Little known, most of the big accounting firmshave as their parent firm, a foreign enterprise. Such as Arthur Andersenis owned by a Swiss outfit. Deloitte & Touche is actually owned by aJapanese firm, Tohmatsu. As we have detailed, Great Britain, at least sincethe war of 1812 when they burned down our Capitol, has planned to grab thiscontinent back. And for that purpose, they were involved in the politicalassassination of three U.S. Presidents. [Visit our extensive website series,"The Overthrow of the American Republic".]

Of course, the Liars and whor*s of the press will not link up these happenings.Remember, if good witnesses or documents are hard to get, circ*mstances alone,on occasion, are even sufficient to send a criminal defendant to the electricchair.

Wars, Depressions, vast theft of properties and assets, and political murdersare not merely purely accidental. They are not a conspiracy. Just the dayto day, month to month, year to year, and decade to decade way of conductingmatters of the Establishment and their meeting clubs, their secret societies,of which Bilderberg is just one.

More coming. Stay tuned.

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11th June 2002

Dear Bilderbergers and Bilderberg staff,

Little or no mainstream press coverage of Bilderberg again. Is that goodor bad?

You really must consider sending out a Press Release a month or so beforethe meetings - so the press can write something about you if they want. Apress conference at the end of each annual meeting is the minimum your 'CorporateResponsibility' demands. That is if you want commentators and the publicto take the idea of 'Corporate Governance' seriously and not treat it asan empty PR spin term (a lie).

You could quite easily publish the list of participants after the meetinghas finished with absolutely no security risk. The STRICTLY CONFIDENTIALnonsense in the release is calculated to stifle discussion in the west ratherthan 'for reasons of security' as you have stated.

If you're going to make progress towards your World Government, EuropeanSuperstate, Global Currency or whatever it is you want, you must do it withthe consent of the people of the world. That, I'm afraid, means allowingat least some press scrutiny.

If you don't do that you open yourselves wide up to the allegation of beingtotalitarians. Something I would have thought you might want to avoid.

Press scrutiny is not an option. It is essential to democracy. Without itwe have totalitarianism.

Also, it seems that politicians are only invited from the NATO countries.Although all Western European and North American Countries have representativesat the conference. France, for example, has no political representatives.Do you have to join NATO before somebody from your government is allowedto come? Don't you even think the press has a right to ask these questions?

Democracy is a tried and tested, if old-fashioned, idea and you ignore itat your peril.

yours,

Tony Gosling
Campaign for press conference at Bilderberg
Bristol, UK

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The United States took its worst beating ever at the secret Bilderberg meetingbut there remains complete unity on the goal of establishing a world government.

Exclusive to American Free Press

By James P. Tucker Jr.

CHANTILLY. Va.'Bilderberg luminaries battered their American counterpartsover U.S Middle East policy, which they blamed for causing the need for a'war on terrorism' which could lead to bloody military misadventures.

However, most Bilderberg boys from both sides of the Atlantic were, for somereason, confident there would be no war between Pakistan and India. At thatmoment, both nations were on the brink of a nuclear holocaust.

It could have had something to do with the appearance of Defense SecretaryDonald Rumsfeld, who was hastily summoned to appear on Saturday, June 1.Rumsfeld had attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1975 at Cemse, Turkey, as anassistant to President Jerry Ford. Ford had attended Bilderberg as minorityleader of the House.

Rumsfeld is known to have been summoned to reassure the Europeans there wouldbe 'no immediate' U.S. invasion of Iraq as had been planned by the WhiteHouse (American Free Press, June 10). He was pressed, but refused to say,that the United States had no plans for future wars.

Whether Rumsfeld also helped reassure Bilderberg there would be no war betweenPakistan and India could not be determined.

01Jun02 - Latest reports

Salzburg newspaper

"After two days of meetings in Washington SPÖ (social democratic partyof Austria) chief Alfred Gusenbauer and his predecessor Franz Vranitzky takepart in the "Bilderberg Conference." At this meeting of high-rankinginternational personalities from politics, economy and culture, current topicsare being discussed. The meeting place has not been disclosed for securityreasons."http://www.salzburg.com/sn/02/06/01/artikel/270371.html

Dutch 'new right' politician Mat Herben at Bilderberg?

By an anon Dutch contributor - 01Jun02

Looks like Dutch politician Mat Herben is at Bilderberg. This could be ofvital importance because this man is a freemason and the new top man of thenew political party LPF, named after the murdered Pim Fortuyn. Is there someone,perhaps Jim Tucker, who can find out that he is there? For a photograph ofthis man, please try his name in the search engine.

The point is that in the Netherlands coalitiontalks are going on.

On Friday morning the three main political parties in the Netherlands talkedabout education. The radio said that Mat Herben was not present, 'he hadsomething else to do', litterally. In the evening the newspapers wrote that'he was somewhere else' no explanation, no critical questions.

The rest of the day his name was not mentioned at all wich is strange becausehe is a very important man at the moment. The fact that he is a freemasonwich was on television a week ago, and Bilderberg taking placeon thesame day of his absence is too much.

Herben is also a former spokesman of the secretary of defense and formerchief redactor of the ultra catholic magazine 'Mannah', last year he hadan audience with the pope. Now he has a keyrole in building the new dutchgovernment and changing politics, the three right wing parties agreed thisweek to launch mandatory ID cards with high priority and pass the idea throughthe parliament as quick as possible. They have now the chance to make theirprofit, the left wing parties (who will certainly oppose this propsal) arenow with only 49 candidates in the minority as a result of the electionsa few days after the murder on Pim Fortuyn.

Inside the LPF no one was willing to confirm the possible presence of Herbenat Bilderberg. Research is still going on.

01Jun02 - WorldNetDaily - THE NEW WORLD DISORDER - Bilderberg group meeting near D.C. - Secretive organization holds powwow in Virginia this weekend http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27814

30May02 - Propagandamatrix - A short report on Bilderberg security at the Westfield Marriotts hotel from somebody who tried to sneak in yesterday... plus lots of pictures of the hotel http://www.propagandamatrix.com/bilderberg_2002.html

http://www.americanfreepress.net/06_01_02/BILDERBERG_MEETS/bilderberg_meets.html

Bilderberg is hiding out in the posh Westfields near Dulles Airport in a Virginia suburb of Washington. This time it is less of a love-fest, with deep divisions among Americans and the European elite.

Exclusive to American Free Press - By James P. Tucker Jr.

CHANTILLY, Va. The issue of America going to war in Iraq has been delayed,with the White House agreeing to wait at least until next year, instead oflate summer or early fall, but many issues simmer at this year's secretBilderberg meeting.

President Bush lied when he said there were no plans for war on Iraq or anywhereelse 'on his desk' the plans were piled high. But military brass in the Pentagonwarned the president that the United States is unprepared for war. Europeanleaders were opposed. Only civilians at Defense and State wanted war.

The role of peacemaker is new to Europe. At the Bilderberg meeting in BadenBaden, Germany in June 1991, the Persian Gulf war was celebrated and enthusiasticcalls for more military action 'in five years' were heard.

It was at Baden Baden that the obscure governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton,attended his first Bilderberg meeting. The next year, he was elected presidentand the United States went to war, euphemistically termed United Nations'peace-keeping missions' in 16 countries.

But the warmongers aren't satisfied. In the May 29 Wall Street Journal, MichaelO'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, made a strong pleafor an invasion of Iraq in a commentary that amounted to an in-house memo.

Brookings is one of numerous Bilderberg torch-carriers. The 'conservative'Journal is always represented at Bilderberg meetings and its editorial policyis subservient to the globalist agenda. This war cry came just one day beforeBilderberg formally gathered for its annual secret session.

With the war issue momentarily delayed, other fights were emerging in probablythe most divisive Bilderberg meeting ever. On the basic agenda, the unitythat has prevailed for nearly half a century remains intact: Creating a worldgovernment in which this international elite will dominate.

Bilderberg boys from the European Union are outraged that Bush protectedthe domestic steel industry from overseas dumping. They are equally angryover the farm bills, which significantly increased agricultural subsidieseven though 'family farmers' who benefit include Bilderberg luminaries DavidRockefeller and Dwayne Andreas of Archer Daniels Midland.

European Bilderberg members, with many Americans agreeing, want the UnitedStates to change her tax laws to suit their pocketbooks. They call it 'taxequity.' Bilderberg also clings to its long-held commitment to create a globaltax payable by 'world citizens' (you and me) directly to the United Nations.

The paradoxes would be amusing if not so damaging to U.S. interests. Farmsubsidies are necessary for real family farmers, not to be confused withBilderberg boys, TV mogul Ted Turner or millionaire basketball players, becauseof what Bilderberg hath wrought: NAFTA and other 'free trade' laws. Wereit not for free trade, American farmers would need no subsidies.

The European Union countries also subsidize agriculture and other exportsbut object to America's protecting her domestic economy.

Europeans are also angry at the United States for rejecting the InternationalCriminal Court and the Kyoto Treaty on global climate control, which economistswarn would generate skyrocketing inflation here while requiring nothing of60 percent of the world. Another point of sharp disagreement is U.S. MiddleEast policy. Many Europeans object to America?s abject pro-Israel policy.This is in large part because the European media has far more balanced coverageof the turmoil there than the one-sided U.S. press.

SECURITY GROWS

As grim-faced armed guards and plainclothes security agents began encirclingWestfields, they were awaiting Bilderberg luminaries who also looked glum.One of the longest faces belonged to Kenneth Dam, deputy secretary of theTreasury Department, who faces a grim grilling from his European counterparts.

Never has Bilderberg met this close to Washington. In 1962, Bilderberg tookover all of Colonial Williams burg 'built by Rockefeller money' located severalmiles south of Richmond, Va.

Security experts have explained why: Bilderberg boys were afraid of MiddleEastern terrorists. Dulles and Washington Reagan National Airport are themost secure in the United States because of their heavy traffic in congressmenand high administration officials.

One security man was overheard telling his counterpart: 'If terrorists couldbag a Rockefeller, that would be one hell of a trophy.'

Westfields is situated seven miles south of Dulles Airport. When sealed offat the entrance, Westfields is out of sight. Luminaries can take short helicoptertrips from either airport to Westfields?s private heliport. Nevertheless,many of the pompous chose long black limos, complete with police escortsand sirens.

Westfields has enough of its own black limos to provide these parades. Tomake sure everything is in order, a black car with State Department tagswas parked outside Westfields five days in advance?on May 26.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/06_01_02/BILDERBERG_MEETS/bilderberg_meets.html

31May02 - Tony Gosling - www.bilderberg.org

No it wasn't 'a couple of weddings' as we were told yesterday by the staff.The Westfields Marriott hotel in Chantilly Virginia was today confirmed asthe venue for this year's secret Bilderberg meeting.

Security is very tight with FBI Secret Service and White House Security Staff,all paid from taxpayers money,on duty around the perimiter of thisso-called 'private' meeting. This year, for the first time, all securityhave coded symbols on their lapels to distinguish who they work for.

Hotel staff are always sworn to secrecy at these events but some still feelthe world has a right to know what is going on behind the cordon. They risktheir jobs, and possibly more, by telling those outside who is inside thehotel and what they're talking about.

Staff have told reporters at the gate that the much talked about attack onIraq must go ahead but will probably be delayed until Autumn 2003. To tryto persuade other western leaders to join in an attack on Iraq Donald Rumsfeld,U.S. Secretary of State for defence will be attending the Bilderberg conferencetomorrow (Saturday). He will almost certainly be giving a presentation tothe 120 or so power-brokers in attendance. Rumsfeld'sdeputy Secretaryof Defence Kenneth Dam has already been spotted in the hotel, he's attendingall four days of the conference.

It seems to have escaped both these so-called public servants that if theU.S. government agreed to lift Iraqi sanctions which are killing roughlysix thousand children a monthin the country, Iraq could return to relativenormality and war would be unnecessary. But Rumsfeld and Dam are in factlobbyists for the defence industry and lobbyists for U.S. expansionism. Theyconsider the growth of the U.S. defense industry, or 'military indusrtrialcomplex' as president Eisenhower described it, to be more important thantens of thousands or even millions of human lives.

Global banker and head of the Rockefeller dynasty David Rockefeller has beenspotted by Westfields Marriott staff as have Henry Kissinger and severalothers. Secretary-General of NATO, Lord Robertson, is aslo known to be inattendance this year.

When I contacted the hotel earlier today (Friday) the Bilderberg organisersrefused to confirm or deny anyone's presence - they said they would be producinga press release but declined to say when.

Hotel telephone +1 703 818 0300 just ask to be put through to'the conference'

It has now been confirmed on Turkish national TV that the Turkish Secretaryof State responsible for the Economy, Kemal Dervis will be attending the2002 Bilderberg Conference in Washington. I had been wondering as to whowould be attending from Turkey, and I thought you might like to know. KemalDervis is not a member of any political parties in Turkey, and he has notbeen elected as an MP, but appointed by the present coalition governmentto implement the IMF loan conditions in Turkey to restore the damage causedby the economical crisis in 2000 and in 2001.

Let's see what the future holds for him. He is an ex employee of the WorldBank in Washington. He resigned from his job at the World Bank to acceptthe current appointment. He was recently in London lecturing at the LondonSchool of Economics of which he is a graduate.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/europe/neweurope/

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(CUE: This weekend, in a luxury hotel outside Washington DC, Europe's secretrulers are meeting their American counterparts - or that's what some peoplebelieve. Today is the start of the annual gathering of the Bilderberg group.Never heard of it? that's the whole point. It's officially described as aprivate gathering but with a guest list including the heads of European andAmerican corporations, political leaders and a few intellectuals, it's oneof the most influential organisations on the planet. Bill Hayton has beentrying to find out more.)

(BAND ONE: sinister music)

A few miles outside Washington, lies the Westfields Marriott Hotel, an exclusiveplace with some fine golf courses. This weekend it's fully booked - you can'tget a bed or a round of golf. That's because around a hundred and twentyof the world's most important people are due to be there for this year'smeeting of the Bilderberg group. But not according to the hotel's management...

(BAND TWO: Westfield Marriot)

Ring tone

"Executive Office"

My name is Bill Hayton from BBC World Service. I just wanted to check, there'ssome kind of big event happening at your hotel this weekend.

Could you tell me what it is?

"there's a couple of weddings...."

But there's also a big conference going on as well?

"Not that I'm aware of."

There's nothing being organised by the Bilderberg group then?

"I'm sorry who?"

The Bilderberg group.

"I don't even know who they are."

Neither do most people - but last year this obscure organisation hosted,among many others, the Chairmen of ABB, France Telecom, ENI and DeutscheBank plus several European Commissioners, central bankers, newspaper editors,the Secretary-General of NATO and the Queens of Spain and the Netherlands.Plenty of people have alleged that Bilderberg - named after the Dutch hotelwhere it had its first meeting in 1954 - is a global conspiracy.

The British journalist Jon Ronson whose book on the subject first broughtBilderberg into polite conversation, says it's not quite as bad as that -but interesting nonetheless.

(BAND THREE: Ronson)

"I'm a sort of semi-conspiracy theorist when it comes to Bilderberg becauseI think they wouldn't go to that much trouble of having this incredibly expensiveinternational conference every year and they'd go to all this trouble tokeep themselves out of the press and be really secret and invite the world'smost powerful people if it was just a chat and a game of golf which is basicallywhat they say it is. So I do think they have some impact on world affairsbut I don't think they have as much of an impact."

But given that subjects such as the future of the European Union, a possiblewar in Iraq and the expansion of free trade are all on the agenda, shouldwe not know a bit more about what's going on? I approached the Bilderbergoffice for a comment, but sadly no-one was available. So if your boss hasslipped off for a few days golf this weekend, you might ask him or her ifthey've been anywhere near Chantilly, Virginia and if they know what thefuture has in store. But then again, they probably wouldn't tell you anyway.

(BAND FOUR: sinister music)

This is Bill Hayton for Europe Today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/europe/neweurope/

Tony Gosling
10-12 Picton Street
Bristol
BS6 5QA
+44 117 944 6219

Martin Taylor (Secretary-General)
Bilderberg Meetings
PO Box 3017
2301 DA Leiden
The Netherlands

Monday, 22 April 2002

Dear Mr. Taylor,

As you will certainly have noticed, the new millennium has brought increasingprotests against the globalisation policies of the IMF, World Bank, WEF,WTO, G8, etc. with needless loss of life. Such popular movements indicatethese unelected global institutions no longer have a mandate to act on behalfof ordinary people.

I, as many others, am concerned that powerful, unelected institutions areundermining democratic national governments across the world. Democracy,as press freedom, is not an option but a necessary safeguard againsttotalitarianism.

I am worried that alternatives such as debt relief, re-nationalisation andthe kind of monetary reform proposals detailed in The Monetary Reform Actare being ignored.

It is crucial that there is dialogue between pro-globalisation think-tankssuch as Bilderberg and the anti-globalisation movement. I hope you will giveeither me, or somebody else, the opportunity to present some of these positivealternatives to globalisation of capital for consideration at the forthcomingBilderberg Meeting.

I respectfully ask also that you arrange a press conference this year andan announcement to the world's media before the event. You cannot continueto claim that the meeting is private when so many internationally influentialpublic figures attend and secret services provide security.

Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours truly,

Tony Gosling

WORD and RICH TEXT copies of the press release available here

Transatlantic Elite to meet in secret on May 30th

Tony Gosling - www.bilderberg.org

The latest initiatives needed to usher in a United States of Europe and tobring about global domination for the Western powers are about to be revealedat a secret power elite conference West of Washington D.C..

If you ever wondered why so many nations signed up to the Euro currency withoutthe people in those countries being asked, or how the war on terrorism hasarrived just in time to save the gravely indebted U.S. economy you may needto look no further.

This year's Bilderberg Conference, featuring 120 or so of the most influentialmen in Europe and North America, looks certain to be taking place betweenThursday 30th May and Sunday 2nd June 2002 at The Westfields Marriott Hotelin Chantilly Virginia. In its Élite Conference Guide of Christmas1987, the Economist described Bilderberg as 'Ne plus ultra' or 'the top ofthe top.'

The élite that attend Bilderberg have real power to change the worldfor the better but the press are 'encouraged' not to cover the event becauseBilderberg's power centralising policies such the Euro, the war on terrorismand cuts in public spending are making things much, much worse. Bilderbergersare afraid that the global strategists who plan and force through thesegeostrategic policies will be identified and exposed as the real villainsof the world.

Venues for these annual élite meetings are consistently palatial.Hotels generally have their own golf course attached and are sealed off fromthe outside world behind high walls. Though the Bilderberg secretariat insiststhe meetings are private, national military agencies such as MI6 or the CIAprovide round-the-clock security at public expense.

But there have been leaks. Top of the agenda this year, we're told, is SaddamHussein's Iraq, and how to persuade a reluctant west to once more attackone of the world's weakest countries. Already ravaged by ten years of sanctionsand with an infant mortality rate currently at about five to six thousanda month an attack on Iraq is nevertheless deemed 'necessary' by the éliteto justify continued Western troop deployment and control of oil reservesin the Middle East.

The leaks come from Jim Tucker, a writer for American Free Press in WashingtonDC, who is the only journalist in the world to discover the venue and dateof the annual Bilderberg Meeting before the event. He is leaked informationfrom a concerned source very close to the Bilderberg steering committee.

Without Tucker there would be absolutely no press coverage. Even with theadvance warning he provides there is far less coverage than might be expected.Reuters, News International, Washington Post, Hollinger and other media inattendance encourage token or zero coverage within their own empires. Butit's not just the press and public who are kept in the dark. In 2000 theexasperated mayor of Genval near Brussels, where a Bilderberg conferencewas taking place, expressed disbelief when approached by a Belgian TV reporter."If Queen Beatrix were coming to Genval, somebody would have told me!"

Despite the enormous wealth and power wielded by the participants, Bilderbergis almost unknown amongst the general public. Many journalists or otherswho have heard of the meetings 'switch off' when Bilderberg is mentioned,expecting another wild conspiracy theory about meetings with aliens. Butthose who ignore these annual summits are playing into the hands of theconference organisers who will use any means, even encouraging madcap theories,to divert attention from what is being discussed inside. Critics have beenfalsely accused of anti-Semitism, disturbing when not many of the participantsare Jewish. To the Bilderbergers any bypassing of democratic processes andsuppression of legitimate media coverage is justifiable as 'good business'.

European political, financial and military union under corporate controlwill also be on the agenda this year. Chair of the commission Romano Prodiis now openly being called the 'president' of Europe yet he has never beenelected to the post. Prodi is not the first powerful person to be invitedto Bilderberg before making it to the top. Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, GeorgeRobertson and Jack Santer all attended just before a great leap forward intheir respective careers. Ex-government ministers such as Britain's KennethClarke have been ticked off for failing to declare their free Bilderbergtrips.

Ever since it began Bilderberg has promoted the integration of European nationsinto a United States of Europe run not by elected representatives but byappointed 'Commissioners' who many believe to be in the pockets of banksand big business. This is nothing new. European based multinationals suchas Philips and Volvo played a major part in designing the superstructureof the European State.

In Europe, the European Round Table of Industrialists or E.R.T. corporatelobby group works with the unelected European Commission to draw up legislation.The European Parliament only has a chance to rubber stamp or delay theseinitiatives before they become law. The growth of the Euro currency is amajor priority always at Bilderberg, the plan being to peg the Euro to theDollar when all E.U. nations have joined creating a de facto world currency.

The conferences began in 1954, an initiative of ex SS Nazi Prince Bernhardof the Netherlands, Bilderberg's first chairman. After the Lockheed briberyscandal in 1975 Bernhard resigned in disgrace but his daughter, Queen Beatrixof the Netherlands, still attends the conference regularly. Bilderberg hasbeen deciding policy since World War II which, along with NATO, is bringingabout the strongest ever U.S. influence over Europe and the whole continentof Eurasia.

The agenda at Bilderberg is set and invite list drawn up by a small steeringcommittee consisting of Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and a hand pickedrepresentative from each major economic nation in the western world. Althoughthere is no official membership, U.S. attendees at Bilderberg tend to bemembers of the Council on Foreign Relations, a private club that decidesU.S. foreign policy and/or David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission whichbrings together élitists from Europe, the USA and Japan.

Though big names are present: Kissinger, George Robertson, Conrad Black,Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, James Wolfenson, David Rockefeller etc.the Bilderberg Group usually manage to duck coverage and criticism by theworld's press. They refuse requests for interviews and prepare cover stories.In 2000 the conference was an 'international croquet tournament'. Even theselies are, it seems, better than the truth about what is being talked aboutinside getting out. Under Bilderberg's 'Chatham House' rules none of theparticipants are allowed to mention where they picked up the latest lineon Europe or whatever is being discussed. A request for a press conferencethis year has been ignored.

It is crucial that Bilderberg begin to open themselves up more fully to mediascrutiny. Only by knowing of the existence of such power networks can thepeople make a decision on their legitimacy. Although the Bilderberg officein Leiden, Holland issues a 'press release' of its own, it does so a fewhours after the last black Mercedes containing the last participant has leftthe conference area. Coldly calculated to ensure the press can't cover anything.

If you didn't get an invite to Bilderberg this year you're in good company- only quislings need attend.

Contacts:

Westfields Marriott Chantilly, Virginia +1 (703) 818 0300

Jim Tucker American Free Press, Washington D.C. +1 (202) 544 5977

Bilderberg Secretariat Leiden, Netherlands +31 71 5280 521

Tony Gosling www.Bilderberg.org, Bristol UK +44 117 944 6219

All references to information contained in this release can be found at www.bilderberg.org

WORD and RICH TEXT copies of the press release available here

Register reveals Archer's forecourt interest

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,715468,00.html

Readthe register of interests

Matthew Tempest, political correspondent

Tuesday May 14, 2002

An updated register of Lords' interests was published today - revealing thatthe disgraced peer Lord Archer has shares in a second-hand car dealershipand that Lord Black of Crossharbour, the owner of the Daily Telegraph, isa member of the secretive Bilderberg organisation.

Lord Wakeham, the former chairman of the press complaints commission, makesno mention of his role on the audit committee of the collapsed Enronorganisation, although he does list his vice-chairmanship of Wessex Water,formerly owned by Enron.

And the controversial former Conservative party treasurer, Lord Ashcroft,whose banking interests are based in Belize, is listed as a trustee of theCrimestoppers organisation.

The register has been published since 1995, although it is only since a newcode of conduct was approved last year that peers are mandated to include"all relevant interests". Until then, peers were permitted to judge forthemselves what declarations "may affect the public perception of the wayin which they discharge their parliamentary duties".

Further items of interest:

· Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare lists "rented urban property in London,Tyne & Wear, Northshields, Telford and Workington", shareholdings ina golf centre company and ownership of two art dealers among his interests.

· The former Liberal Democrat leader, Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon,is president of the Fitness Industry Association.

· Lord Birt, who is employed by the prime minister's "forward strategyunit" to carry out "blue skies thinking" on transport, lists himself as "strategyadviser to the prime minister".

· Conrad Black, the owner of the Daily Telegraph and Spectator magazine,who was ennobled as Lord Black of Crossharbour on October 31 last year, isa director of 10 companies, in addition to working for 11 voluntaryorganisations, including the Nixon centre in Washington.

· Lord Wakeham, who stepped down as director of the press complaintscommission following the collapse of Enron, is the director or chairman ofeight companies.

· Baroness Thatcher, who announced her retirement from public life earlierthis year, has no renumerated posts, but chairs the advisory body of theInstitute of United States Studies, as well as presiding over the Thatcherfoundation.

· Baroness Boothroyd, the former speaker, has also refused to capitaliseon her fame and popularity, only listing an unrenumerated two-week lectureshipon a cruise line.

· The planning minister, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, lists "homes inLondon and Nottinghamshire, joint ownership (with wife) of two flats in Londonoccupied by an employee and a member of wife's family (from whom rent isreceived). Also co-ownership of house inhabited by father".

· The Labour ex-leader of the Lords, Baroness Jay, lists three directorshipsand a second holiday home in County Cork, Eire, which she regularly letsfor periods of up to two months a year.

· Liberal Democrat Lord Razzall declares 21 directorships and a housein Treasure Cay, Abaco, Bahamas, whguardian- owner of telegraph is.ems ileLord Rea (Labour) lists "12 acres of rough forest (surrounding a holidayhome not let commercially) in Cumbria".

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,715468,00.html

Electronz - Issue 219- 20 May 2002

www.electronz.cjb.net

Weekly International Ezine focusing on the New Economics

While the public can be kept ignorant of secret agendas and such fundamentalmechanisms as the infinite capacity of uncontrolled credit (read debt) creationto transfer asset ownership and power to itself, the progress towards ademocratic Utopia will be painfully slow. Thanks to independent newslettersand the internet, the grip on the international information flows like Reutersis not so complete or effective as it once was.. for which we can be verygrateful.

Thanks to subscriber 'B. R.' of NZ.. drawing on details from the Aida ParkerNewsletter.. we can circulate, for passing along to anyone interested, thatnext month the Bilderbergers are having one of their international conferencesin Washington. The info reads..

-----quote-----

At the end of May, from the 30th until June 2nd, a shadowy, still largely anonymous group, the Bilderbergers, will assemble in Washington for their 48th annual meeting. That should strike terror into every loyal American heart, for when the Bilderbergers come to town, it is invariably bad news, very bad news for some. These are the creme de la creme of the long-planned New World Order, primarily international money monopolists, the global puppeteers.
As Professor Carroll Quigley disclosed in his famous work .. "Tragedy and Hope" p324.. these financial vultures seek ----- ".. nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country, and the economy of the world as a whole. The system (will) be controlled in a feudal fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in private meetings and conferences".
This year about 120 Bilderberg delegates will meet at the plush Westfields Marriot hotel, just seven miles south of Dulles International Airport. High on this year's agenda will be how to further exploit Bush's "war on terrorism" to increase their control of the much desired "world-without-borders" while, as ever, generating immense wealth for themselves.
There will of course be journalists and publishers there, but they won't be writing about it. The real point of their presence will be to prepare readers for policies already decided upon by the One World moguls.

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Our Comment : If undermining national sovereignty and allowing foreign powersto override democratic institutions is treason, then why are internationallysubversive organisations like the Bilderbergers treated as VIPs instead ofas traitors?

Ð. www.electronz.cjb.net

http://www.americanfreepress.net/04_07_02/BILDERBERG_PLOTTING_TO_BUSHWHA/bilderberg_plotting_to_bushwha.html

The super-secret Bilderberg gang wants a new war to generate immense profits and spend the world out of recession. And they just might get it.

Exclusive to American Free Press

By James P. Tucker Jr. - 07Apr02

When Bilderberg luminaries seal themselves off behind armed guards at theWestfields hotel in Chantilly, Va., May 30-June 2, a major topic will bepromoting a new war.

Sources within Bilderberg and its junior varsity, the Trilateral Commission,confirmed the war part of the agenda. The Trilaterals are meeting in WashingtonApril 5-7. The two groups have an interlocking leadership and a common agenda.

They believe that public outrage over the 9-11 attacks and the new waron terrorism make a new war on Iraq, with the intent of destroyingthe regime of Sad dam Hussein and seizing Iraqi oil, politically palatableto Americans. If Americans back a new war, they reason, a reluctant Europewill be dragged along.

Bilderbergs hand was first tipped March 24 when Jim Hoagland, a Bilderbergregular, called for and predicted all-out war on Iraq in a commentary inThe Washington Post.

Every Post publishernow it is Donald Grahamhas at tended thesesecret meetings since the elite first called itself Bilderberg in 1954. Hoaglandis also a Bilderberg regular.

President Bush has decided to remove you from power, Hoaglandwrote, addressing his words to Hussein. The Pentagon can now go aheadand draw up war plans very quietly for the right time, as it did in 1990.

Just how casually the Bilderberg-Trilateral troopers spill the blood of youngmen is demonstrated by Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser underPresident Jimmy Carter and long-time Trilateralist.

Brzezinski, in a 1998 interview with the French news paper Le Nouvel Observateur,said that, contrary to the official version of events, CIA aid to the mujahedeenguerrillas began six months before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Itwas intended to provoke the invasion, he said. Brzezinski boasted ofdrawing the Russians into the Afghan trap.

When asked about the wisdom of supporting Islamic fundamentalism, Brzezinskioffered this chilling dismissal: What is more important in world history?The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet Empire?

Henry Kissinger, a power in both Bilderberg and the Trilaterals, startedthe war drumbeat Jan. 13, also writing in the Bilderberg-controlled Post:

There is no possibility of a negotiation between Washington and Baghdadand no basis for trusting Iraqs promises to the international community. . .

But if the overthrow of Saddam Hussein is to be seriously considered,three prerequisites must be met: (a) development of a military plan thatis quick and decisive, (b) some prior agreement on what kind of structureis to replace Hussein and (c) the support or acquiescence of key countriesneeded for the military plan, Kissinger wrote.

The Bush administration already appears bent on war, according to Rep. LindseyGraham (R-S.C.), who is running for the Senate seat being vacated by StromThurmond (R).

Before the end of summer or fall well be in a major engagementwith Iraq, Graham was quoted by The Columbia State. Werelooking at going after Saddam Husseinnot to contain him but to replacehim.

Graham said he based his predictions on intelligence briefings, contactwith the Bush administration and his attendance at a recent internationalconference in Germany, the State said.

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Exclusive to American Free Press

By James P. Tucker Jr.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/03_31_02/BILDERBERG_FOUND/bilderberg_found.html

Bilderberg will seal off the Westfields Marriott, just seven miles southof Washingtons Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., forits annual meeting of the super-rich and super-famous on the weekend of May30-June 2.

While it is the closest Bilderberg has ever come to Washington for annualsecret meetings to plot the worlds future, Westfields is ideal forthe security-paranoid international elite. Westfields stands in lonely grandeurwith much space separating the resort from tall brick buildings in a luxuryoffice park.

Perhaps coincidentally, neighboring office buildings are home to numerousspy organizations.

The last time Bilderberg met in Virginia was 1962, when the secret gang ofinternational financiers and political leaders took over all of ColonialWilliamsburg in Williamsburg, Va. Bilderberg tends to meet on the same continentas the Group of Eight economic summits, which follow shortly afterwards,featuring heads of state from the worlds industrialized nations. TheG-8 will meet in Alberta, Canada June 26-28.

Bilderbergs junior varsity, the Trilateral Commission, will meet April5-7 in Washington at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Bilderberg and the TC have aninterlocking leadership and a common global agenda. David Rockefeller andHenry Kissinger are powers in both groups.

Trilaterals have about 320 participants while the more exclusive Bilderberghas about 120. The TC includes Japan, while Bilderberg draws only from Europeand North America. Both high-powered groups plan the future, together, ofthe entire world.

BILDERBERGS AGENDA

High on their common agenda this year is how to exploit the war onterrorism to increase their control of the world withoutborders while generating immense profits. The Trilaterals will meetbehind closed doors at the Ritz Carlton but not seal off the entire downtownhotel. Bilderberg will have armed guards blocking the entrance to Westfieldsand none but participants will be permitted inside. There will be no otherguests.

Sources inside both groups say they will try to exploit the new waron terrorism to advance an old agenda: Establishing NATO formally asthe United Nations standing army, imposing a direct UN tax on the world,global gun control and selling the Free Trade Area of the Americas as anecessary step to ward off future attacks.

It is all part of a grand design to establish a world government under theUN. As NAFTA expands through out the Western Hemisphere as the FTAA it isto evolve into the American Union and dollarizationis to be come the common currency, as the euro is in Europe. Bilderbergluminaries have directly acknowledged this to an American Free Press reporter.

Other Bilderberg sources said the site near Washington was chosen for severalreasons.

Dulles is considered one of the most secure airports in the wake of 9-11and it is a short ride in flag-draped limos to Westfields. While instantcommunication with the White House has always been easy, wherever in theworld Bilderberg hides, it is a 30-mile drive for any high official of theadministration who may be summoned on short notice. High officials of theadministration will be attending the full three-day session anyway.

But more are prepared to come like a dog to the whistle if called.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/03_31_02/BILDERBERG_FOUND/bilderberg_found.html

You are cordially invited...

The Bilderbergers are throwing a party, and we're all invited (not).

Well, at least we know where their secret bash will be held, which meansits not a secret any more.

Therfore, we should cordially invite ourselves, to meet with the puppetmasterswho control the IMF, G8, NATO, UN, US, World Bank, EU, and possibly Domino'sPizza and Hooters....

Bring party hats, party masks and raw vegatables for an ad hoc salad bar.

Would any group wishing to organise protest actions at Chantilly please contact me (Tony Gosling) ASAP and I will circulate your material

THE BILDERBERG GROUP

CAN THE NEW MEDIA BUST THEIR MEETING?

Joe Sansone 12Apri02

The Ether Zone http://www.etherzone.com

After many successes breaking news stories and scandals ranging from theMonica Lewisnky scandal to the Waco massacre, the "New Media", consistingmainly of Internet publications, may be facing its biggest challenge.

Recent alternate news reports have revealed that from May 30th to June 2ndthe Bilderberg Group will be holding its annual meeting in Chantilly Virginia,at the Westfields Marriott about seven miles south of Washingtons Dullesairport. This is the first meeting of the Bilderberg Group in Virginia since1962.

The Bilderberg Group and many media outlets have denied its existence fordecades and are still benefited by a virtual media blackout. Reportedlyconsisting of over one hundred participants, the Bilderberg Group is allegedlycomprised of international power brokers planning and implementing the variousstages and the development of a world government.

Supposedly on the agenda of these un-elected and self-appointed leaders ofthe new world, is the expansion of NAFTA throughout the Americas, thepolarization of the Western Hemisphere, and the development of an AmericanUnion. To figure out how to use the war on terrorism to furthers its goalof propping up the United Nations as a global political body by grantingit taxing authority and developing NATO into the United Nations standingarmy.

This world without borders can only be created through the erection of aglobal police state that would stifle humanity. It is being driven from thetop down and that is exactly how it will rule.

To prove the point, consider the issue of militarizing the United Statesborders to prevent illegal aliens and terrorists from entering the countryto commit the mass murder of more Americans. Politicians have said that ourmilitary is not equipped to protect our borders the same way that it protectsSouth Koreas. They have also expressed a fear that military personnelmight accidentally shoot unarmed civilians. Yet, a stroll to any U.S. airportwould reveal military personnel carrying M-16s.

The fact that international power brokers meet regularly in secret to plotout the destiny of the world would outrage millions of Americans if theywere being informed about it. The problem is that most people have nevereven heard of the Bilderberg Group and dont even know that it exists.

If a group of right wing extremist were meeting and plotting to over throwthe United States government, wouldnt the media consider it worthyto report on if they new about it? Isnt that exactly what the BilderbergGroup is plotting, but through different means? What else would you callsecretly meeting and planning the eradication of national independence orself-government?

For years prominent politicians and media personalities have attended thesemeeting without covering the event or mentioning it. Here lies the challengefor the new media and also an opportunity to show its growing muscle.

Priding itself on being a truly free press, the "New Media" has maintainedits independence and acted as the "Town Crier". The Bilderberg Meeting totake place in VA in late May and early June is the perfect opportunity forthe "New Media" to develop into a 21st century equivalent to the Committeesof Correspondence that were used by our founding fathers.

If the "New Media" makes a conscious decision to reveal the nature of theBilderberg Group and what goes on at the meetings it is likely that variousorganizations would rally demonstrators and protestors to the event.

How could the "old media" continue to cover up an event that drew the samenumber of protestors that were present to protest the Seattle meeting ofthe WTO in 2000?

Americans have a right to know what will transpire at this meeting, whatdeals will be made, what decisions, and how they will be implemented. Isntthat an essential element of a free society, to have an open debate on theissues, and more importantly to have an input on the decisions that willaffect your life?

Hopefully the "New Media" will have the courage and the tenacity to coverthis event and deliver the news by busting the Bilderberg meeting.

Joe Sansone is a columnist and the Vice-Chairman of the American Reformation Project. Joe has previously hosted a Central Jersey Talk Radio Show and is the former chairman of the Reform Party of New Jersey. He is currently active as a consultant for conservative Republican candidates and is a regular columnist for Ether Zone. http://www.etherzone.com

Joe Sansone can be reached at:jsansone@rcn.com

Published in the April 12, 2002 issue of Ether Zone. http://www.etherzone.com

Scandanavian Globalisation/Bilderberg roundup by Thomas Hegge - Son of A Bilderberger (SOB)

Greetings, warriors against the inhuman agenda of the Globalists.

My Dad is a Scandinavian Bilderberger

As one of the few 'anti-globalisation' activists with a family connectionto Bilderberg, I would like to give you my view of the Globalist-agenda,which is clearly managed by one special people and their 'religion'. Findout for yourself too, because if I tell you, I'll get killed (no joke). Ifone is to understand these Globalist fascists, one must understand theirmentality and personality, as well.

I am the Son of a Scandinavian newspaper editor at who participated at arecent Bilderberg meeting in Europe.

Dad, why the illogical statements?

First, about this meeting. Just recently I read that internally this meetingwas a flop, so excuse me Dad for coming so hard out on you. Still - you area globalist and weren't able to answer over half of the questions I recentlyasked you. You are doing the wrong thing, and when you get a hold of thisdocument, because someone will "tell on me", think about the consequencesit will have, if you want to 'do something about it.'

You might be surprised to learn that my father said that the Bilderberg-meetingwas boring. Don't be. In chapter 14 of Des Griffin's book "Fourth Reich ofthe Rich" (ISBN: 0941380068 (1998 edition) mentions that among the top 7excuses amongst Bilderbergers, the "boring" version is numero uno.

In the Norwegian Parliament, Steinar Bastesen, the leader for the Coast Party,is completely alone fighting against Globalism, and with at least twoBilderbergers in the Government, when writing this, Kristin Clemet and JanPetersen, it looks like we have our work cut out for us.

The thing is that Steinar Bastesen, at the Address Debate in the NorwegianParliament, on October 25th, 2001, talked about Bilderberger. Kristin Clemet,which is a real b***h, was furious after his contribution. Swedish and Danishreaders, since you are able to read Norwegian, you can check out the transcriptfrom this debate athttp://www.stortinget.no/stid/2001/si011025.html[if anyone can translate this article andemail it to me I will publish it here - Tony]{they did, thanks!}

Representative Bastesen's mention of the Bilderbergers during a speech in the Norwegian Parliament ran as follows : "What about the press' interest in the Bilderbergers, where central politicians are participating, an organization whose main goal is to end the nation state; Is it not high time the media start to take interest in such secret organizations ?"

By concidence, one week later, he had a cerebral infection. If you take thetime to read the patents mentioned below athttp://www.uspto.gov (U.S.Patent Office), you will see that this is possibly a deliberate attack.

The diabolical connection

My father being who he is has of course met a lot of people, highly placedpeople, mostly Norwegians. There is a connection between people that pushtheir pregnant wives down the stairs on purpose, while being employed inthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The newspapers wrote nothing. There is aconnection between the fact that in these families (highly-placed people)there's almost always one child that's a drug addict, committed suicide orwhatever. I can prove it! Just think about that the next time your promisedleader is on TV, and sits in studio laughing and chatting it up with thehost. They are sick people.

The information-hungered people of Norway

The papers don't write anything about Bilderberg. Dagbladethttp://www.dagbladet.notried when Bilderberg came to Norway in 1982, but after the first day witha huge first-page reading "Secret meeting in Sandefjord", the next day hadnothing. Absolutely nothing. The people of Norway have been deprived of thefact that Bilderberger exists. They know nothing about it. The press doesn'teven want to discuss it. I have had friendly and unfriendly discussions withjournalists in Norway's largest newspapers. These journalists have alwaysbeen eager to discuss and quarrel, but as soon as I mention Bilderberg, Inever receive a response.

The situation in Denmark

Denmark, a neighbouring country, is in the same situation. In the 70's thenewspaper Berlingske Tidende warned that they would now write everythingabout Bilderberg and their fascist agenda. By a "coincidence" there was astrike the day after that lasted for 3 - three - months!

Patents

Patents mentioned and of interest for those who want to understand the NewWorld Order agenda: 3,951,134 - 4,395,600 - 4,616,261 - 4,686,605 - 4,777,529- 5,017,143 - 5,027,208 - 5,128,765 - 5,134,484 - 5,159,703 - 5,170,381 -5,175,571 - 5,194,008 - 5,215,468 - 5,221,962 - 5,224,864 - 5,245,666 - 5,270,800- 5,644,363 - 6,017,302 and 6,122,322 check these out athttp://www.uspto.gov

You can contact me atvi_blir_lurt@yahoo.com , butplease note that you are commenting this article, as I use this e-mail addressfor other purposes as well.

Son of Bilderberg's Dossier:

Dad's Name: Per Egil Hegge

Dad's Newspaper: Aftenpostenhttp://www.aftenposten.noNorway's largest morning newspaper (267000 circulation)

Dad's Bilderberg attendance: 1999 (Portugal)

Is Dad a freemason or not? Not that I know of. But he's very activein Norway reviewing books and working for "a correct utterance of the Norwegianlanguage". He probably isn't a Freemason. Freemasonic membership in Norwayis open to the public. I checked the 1994/1995 book (Matrikkel), and he wasn'tin it.

Thomas's favourite/most visited websites:
http://www.adl.org
http://www.criminalpolitics.com/home.html
http://www.projectcensored.org
http://www.eastlundscience.com
http://www.buchanan.org
http://www.keystonereport.com/911.htm
Bilderberger is mentioned on page 34 in the PDF document pointed to by thelinkhttp://www.stortinget.no/stid/2001/si011025.html

20Jan01 - Followed by analysis and related Reuters releases

Pat Cox, Irish MEP, former RTE journalist, and attendee at the 2001 Bilderbergmeeting in Gothenberg, Sweden has just been voted President of the EuropeanParliament.

The President of the European Parliament is in many ways a figure head role,like a President. He or she presides over the Parliament sessions in Strasbourgand Bruxelles.

The President has an important political role in representing the Parliamentto the other Institutions, the Governments, the European Commission, andin particular the Council of Ministers. He or she gets to participate insome Ministerial meetings, and can influence the course of IntergovernmentalConferences, who's task it is to negotiate or change treaties. Given thatParliament has, at least theoretically, equal power with Council in manyareas of legislation, including the EU Budget, the role of European ParliamentaryPresident should not be underestimated.

Pat Cox is a very polished performer, and a media friendly personality. Hewill be quite influential in the development of European political life,as we move towards the Enlargement to the East, and the ConstitutionalConvention. His next crucial role will be to poke his nose into Irish nationalaffairs, and try to get the Irish to approve the Nice treaty. This is strictlyspeaking out of order, but Pat being the cutee he is, says he will do thisin his private capacity. Sorry Pat, but if you want to do that, resign.

What Will The Nice Treaty Do?

Integrate British Defence Forces within EU Command Structures.
Create an EU Police force empowered to enter the UK and arrest its citizens.
Institute an EU legal system which dispenses with trial by jury.
Allow the EU to set UK tax levels.
Override the (unwritten) British Constitution with an EU superstate constitution.

Sign along the dotted line to give up our national sovereignty
Why have we neither been told nor offered a referendum
Maybe because - we the people - wouldn't answer correctly

See the excellent Irish anti-Nice website
http://www.nationalplatform.org/

Still, if the Irish don't approve Nice, it's dead. It looks as though theywill either reject it the second time, or not have a second vote before December.Either way, hopefully, it's gone.

The Next EU Nightmare: The Charter of Fundamental Rights

There's also a Charter of Fundamental Rights, military, new powers for theEU without Eurpoean Parliamentary codecision (ie. no democratic accountability),etc. Big Quiet Changes. You can read it on the web:

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/search/search_treaties.html

Trouble is, they have now set up a Convention to go to the next step, beyondeven what Nice envisaged, by 2004. Some want a European Constitution, afederation of some sort. Others want more of the same 'United States of Europe'stuff as Nice, including the contents of Nice I imagine. It's like choosingbetween two blind goats.

Very handy for the anti-democratic elements in Europe that the Bilderberggot their man in in Denmark. And they hope to have their friends in in Irelandas well (John Bruton, Pat Cox et al) - even the green party is being usedas an elitist vehicle now

The guy given the dirty job of chairing the Convention is ex-French President,Valery Giscard d'Estaing. When he was French President, he met ChancellorHelmut Schmidt in 1978 in Aachen beside the tomb of Charlemagne in the Dom(cathedral). He said: "Perhaps when we discussed monetary problems, the spiritof Charlemagne brooded over us." (Bernard Connolly, "The Rotten Heart ofEurope", '95, p17)

Having such a sense of his importance in history, he has now asked for asalary of 20,000 euros per month tax free, plus staff, luxury hotel etc.for the privilege. That's about £16,000 Sterling! Yikes. Even some ofthe staff in the EU earn just over that in a year, not to mention the unemployedin the UK, or people who might never see that kind of money in their lifetimein the developing world - closer to the people my arse.

Applicable reading - background to the above

Mass Control, Engineering Human Consciousness by Jim Keith, Illuminet, 1999, ISBN 1881532208 - IllumiNet Press - Pulls together very neatly a lot of elite 'shadow government' strands. Publisher Ron Bonds died last year in slightly suspicious circ*mstances!!!http://www.steamshovelpress.com/fromeditor10.html

Irish liberal Cox elected EU Parliament president.
15Jan2002 FRANCE: 15:47 GMT

STRASBOURG, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Irish Liberal politician Pat Cox was electedpresident of the European Parliament on Tuesday, pledging to liven up politicaldebate in the European Union's only directed elected body and bring it closerto its citizens. His widely aniticaped victory is expected to mark the startof a more visible role for the EU's 626-member assembly. The outspoken formerjournalist, backed by the centre-right European People's Party and his ownLiberal Democrats, won 298 votes on the third ballot against 237 for ScottishLabour deputy David Martin and 33 for Jens Peter Bonde, with 18 invalid ballots.The threshold for victory was 285 out of a total 586 votes cast. Cox haspromised to enliven parliament's multilingual debates by allowing more directquestioning of European commissioners and taking some of the power to controlspeaking time out of the hands of political group leaders. "I sense thereis an appetite for change. There is a feeling in this house that we needto do more politics," he told parliament before members began the secretvoting. Reuters Limited 2002.

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Irish soundbite king is EU parliament's new chief.
15Jan2002 EU: 16:00 GMT

By Robin Pomeroy

BRUSSELS, Jan 15 (Reuters) - He's not from a big political party. He's fromone of the smallest countries in Europe. But Ireland's Pat Cox aims to becomethe first publicly recognisable head of the European Parliament for two decades.A former television journalist, Cox, 49, has a media-friendly, soundbitestyle that his supporters say is vital to raise the profile of the oftenunderestimated assembly, the European Union's only directly elected institution."Above all he's somebody who understands the need to sell the parliament'smessage to the outside world," said one of his aides. Thanks to a power-sharingdeal that his Liberal group struck with the centre-right European People'sParty in 1999, Cox takes over the reins from Nicole Fontaine, a Frenchconservative little known in her native country or beyond. Cox is betterknown, at least to his own countrymen, - although more for falling out withhis party, the centrist Progressive Democrats, in 1994 and successfully returningto the assembly as an independent than for any major policy success. Acombination of personal charm and luck led the father of six, whose familyhome is in Cork, to become leader of the Liberal Democrat grouping - theassembly's third largest - that year. With a position on the assembly's frontbench, Cox was one of the loudest and clearest voices demanding the resignationof the European Commission, the EU executive, in 1999 after a report implicatedit in fraud and mismanagement. Parliamentary pressure eventually forced theCommission, headed by Luxembourg's Jacques Santer, to stand down. Cox memorablytold them: "Go or be pushed."

GIVING PARLIAMENT MORE PROFILE

His supporters now hope he will use his eloquence to improve the visibilityof the European Parliament, which has the power to amend or veto a wide rangeof EU policies. Apart from Simone Veil of France, who was president of thefirst directly elected parliament in 1979-82, most of the body's leadershave been largely unknown to the European public. "We have high expectationsof Pat as a reforming president," Chris Davies, an English Liberal DemocratMEP, told Reuters. "We need a media man. Someone who can have a higher profilethan in the past - not because of being controversial but because they caneffectively promote the parliament's concerns." Cox would push for reformssuch as making the position of European Commission president a democraticallyelected one and securing more legislative powers for parliament in areaswhere it is now weak, such as agriculture and trade, Davies said. Cox relishesthe prospect of heading the EU parliament as the 15-country bloc is on theverge of a major enlargement to include eastern European countries, and facescrucial choices on its future at a constitutional Convention opening in March."It's a wonderful time to be involved in European politics," he told fellowLiberal Democrats at a Brussels New Year party. The European Parliament hadnow come of age, he said, and should face the future with greater confidence.After less than 50 percent of the electorate bothered to turn out to voteat the last European election, Cox will need to use his media savvy to convincevoters the institution is more than a well-paid talking shop. The fact thathe is Irish may help. As a native English-speaker, Cox may get more mediacoverage in northern Europe than his French predecessor, while his nationalityclears him of suspicions of British Euro-scepticism. "Pat's Irish - he cantalk the hind legs off a donkey," one supporter said. "The trouble is, hefinds it difficult to accept advice." Reuters 2002.

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Ireland's Cox elected European Parliament chief.
UPDATE 1 - 15Jan2002 FRANCE: 17:27 GMT

By Lisa Jucca STRASBOURG, France, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Irish Liberal Pat Coxwas elected president of the European Parliament on Tuesday and pledged togive the European Union's only directly elected body a stronger voice. Theoutspoken former television journalist, backed by the centre-right EuropeanPeople's Party and his own Liberal Democrats, won 298 out of 586 votes castin the third round. In his acceptance speech, some of which he deliveredin Irish, not a recognised EU language, Cox said the bloc's eastward enlargementwould be his top priority. He pledged to bring political debate back intothe parliament and to put the assembly at centre stage as a democraticcounterweight to the unelected European Commission. "I make a politicalcommitment to political leadership," Cox told the assembly. "We are buildingthe democratic part of Europe's future. We are the check and the balance- the counterpart of Europe's technocracy. We are indispensable to enrichEurope's future." Cox beat Scottish Labour deputy David Martin who secured237 votes and Danish eurosceptic Jens Peter Bonde with 33. There were 18invalid ballots. Communist Francis Wurtz and Green Gerard Onesta, both fromFrance, withdraw after the first round. Martin pledged to support Cox andvoiced hopes the election, more lively than many in the past, would helpmake parliament more visible.

ENLARGEMENT CRUCIAL

Cox said EU expansion to ex-communist countries was crucial. Up to 10 eastEuropean and Mediterranean states are due to conclude negotiations by theend of this year and join in 2004. "We are on the brink of the most importantevent of recent European history - the enlargement of the European Union.The successful completion of enlargement negotiations is the overarchingpolitical priority," he said in Irish. The election came as the 626-memberassembly struggles for greater acceptance among voters often apathetic onEU affairs. "We have been bad at telling our story," Cox said in a televisioninterview just before the vote. "One of the jobs of the newly elected presidentwould be to get this story and tell it to the European public in simple terms."He faces an uphill struggle since EU parliamentarians enjoy less media coveragethan their domestic counterparts and the assembly's growing powers are littleknown to the public. Turnout at European Parliament elections has fallenconsistently, with less than 50 percent of the electorate bothering to turnout to vote at the last European election. Yet with the 1991 Maastricht and1997 Amsterdam treaties, parliament gained power as a co-legislator - sharingpolicy-making powers with national governments in a wide range of areas affectingbusiness and the environment. Many parliamentarians consider their finesthour was in 1999, when they forced the Commission led by Jacques Santer toresign over allegations of corruption and mismanagement. Cox played a keyrole in the Commission's downfall and is remembered for having told the EUexecutive: "Go or be pushed." In more recent times, parliament demonstratedits muscle by killing long-awaited draft legislation on common EU rules fortakeovers last year, even though the law had been agreed by all but one EUmember states. Reuters 2002.

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One-World Altruist or the most Pernicious Cabal of the Twentieth Century?

Barry Robson investigates

Bilderberg Group, so called because of their first meeting in May 1954 atthe Bilderberg Hotel, near Arnhem in Holland, are, according to the ChristianUS based Jeremiah Project:

Shrewd and calculating, their hearts are filled with lust for powerand consumed with greed for money. Rich and aristocratic, they despise Christiansand they loathe the lowly working class. They control the worlds pressand virtually all our banks and financial institutions. They screen and choosewho Americas leaders will be and even determine who will run on theDemocratic and Republican Parties tickets.

Arrogantly, they plot the subversion and take-over of constitutionalgovernments everywhere. Their goal is a World Government run exclusivelyby their hand picked puppets.1

On the other hand to some, a world government might just be a better alternativeto the nationalist strife and religious fundamentalism that has belabouredour planet for the last millennium. One thing is sure; the Bilderbergersrepresent the most wealthy and powerful establishment of every Western nation.They include royalty, executives of multinational corporations, leadingstatesmen, ex-military top brass and other elite influence peddlers. Theirmeetings, which take place at a different venue every year, go unannounced,their speeches unreported and their decisions unrecorded. This seems likethe Mother of all Conspiracies and its been going on a long, long time.

The great conspiracy apparently goes back to the eighteenth century whenone Adam Weishaupt, who greatly admired the teachings of Plato, formed asecret fraternity called the Illuminati in Bavaria based loosely on the linesof the Freemasons. They claimed superior knowledge and access to the revealedtruths about the world.

This was all to be used to elevate the human race to a brotherhood abovefratricidal squabbling.

John Ruskin the noted English social critic and philosopher, revived theseideals in the 1870s through his teachings and writings at Oxford. He wantedto motivate the upper classes to use their education, breeding and moneyto civilise the world. Cecil Rhodes the founder of Rhodesia(Zimbabwe) and South African diamond millionaire, who was a devoted discipleof Ruskin used his fortune to promote this grand scheme of federating theEnglish speaking peoples around the globe and bringing all of it under theirbenign imperial control.

To this end Rhodes and other acolytes of Ruskin, formed a secret societyknown as the Round Table Group in 1881. This group of academics, dreamersand aristocrats were able to gain access to Rhodes fortune after hisdeath in 1902. Under the trusteeship of Lord Milner, another arch-imperialist,they sought to spread and carry out the ambitions that Rhodes derived fromRuskin.

John Ruskin, together with Cecil Rhodes, formed a secret society in 1881known as The Round Table Group

Milner was Governor-General of South Africa between 1897-1905 and used hiscontacts to recruit a group of young men, chiefly from the intellectual elitesof Oxford and Cambridge to assist him in fulfilling his dreams.

These men were able to win important posts in government and internationalfinance and became the dominant influence in British imperial and foreignaffairs up to the Second World War. They were originally known asMilners Kindergarten and after 1910 organised confidential,exclusive gatherings known as Round Table Groups, in the English speakingEmpire and in the United States.

Cecil Rhodes

After the turmoil of the First World War and the triumph of the Anglo-SaxonWest, it was at the Majestic Hotel in Paris during the peace conferencesthat the Round Table Groups emerged from their cloak of secrecy and officiallybecame the US Council on Foreign Relations and the UK Royal Institute forInternational Affairs.

This evolution, in the opinion of the Liberty Lobby, another Christianultra-conservative pressure group, based in Washington DC, was the beginningof what they call a Jewish-communist conspiracy to rule the planet by wayof a New World Order whose eventual goal is one world government- a sort of apocalyptic marriage between the Communist Manifesto and thefake Protocols of the Elders of Zion, (a supposed Judaic scheme to dominatethe human race). The Bilderbergers are, according to the Liberty Lobby, directdescendants of the Satanic-Marxist Illuminati, the Round Tablesand the two subsequent foreign-relations organisations.

The Bible of the conspiracy theorists is a book written in 1966called Tragedy and Hope by the late Dr Carroll Quigley, adistinguished professor at Georgetown Universitys School of ForeignService. In it he detailed how the complex financial and commercial relationsbetween the major powers, especially the British and Americans, before 1914influenced todays global markets. Quigley used his book as the textof his courses on western civilisation at the University.

The book has become very hard to locate. Quigley had trouble getting itpublished; the original plates disappeared and the banking authorities andthe higher echelons of finance voiced their displeasure about its revealingcontents. Quigley himself once remarked how his academic career in governmentinstitutions had been stunted because of the book. It is for these reasonsthat Tragedy and Hope became the Holy Grail of the conspiracytheorists, much to Quigleys annoyance, who disparaged its revelationsclaiming it was just the sort of book any assiduous researcher could produce.The publication is for sale though mail order book clubs that specialisein the world of paranoia.

The Bilderberger meetings were the brainchild of the remarkable Pole Dr.Joseph Retinger. He was according to Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands anextraordinary character who flitted through fifty years of European historyon close terms with prime ministers, trade unionists, industrial magnates,artists, intellectuals and even committed revolutionaries. His address bookof intimates and confidants read like a Whos Who of international Moversand Shakers. He was born in 1888 of gentry parents in pre First World WarKrakow, then part of Austrian Poland. He went to the Sorbonne in Paris tocomplete his education and was soon part of the citys literary andartistic circles. He was a fierce Polish patriot and this made him more thanunpopular with the Germans and Austrians, who during World War One put aprice on his head.

His machinations on behalf of the Polish people got him banned from Londonand jailed in the USA (he carried an enemy passport). These experiences sharpenedhis skills for both intrigue and diplomacy. He moved to England after theWar and found entrée into the political circles that included HerbertAsquith and Lord Balfour.

Lord Balfour

In London he worked as secretary to the famous novelist and fellow Polishnationalist, Joseph Conrad. Although Retinger was crippled by polio, he neverlet this interfere with his amazingly active life.

At the outbreak of WWII he became an aide to the Free Polish General Sikorskiand despite his painful disability parachuted into Poland to make contactwith the Home Army to arrange the transfer of several million dollars.

When the Red Army moved into Central and Eastern Poland and turned it intoa bastion of Stalinism, Retinger then devoted the rest of his life to unitingthe West against Marxist hegemony - he acted as a sort of EminenceGrise, a Talleyrand without Portfolio. Cardinal Richelieu would havebeen impressed.

Being a realist he knew that Western Europe, devastated by war could notstand alone against the rising tide of communism and also the growing tideof anti-Americanism in all social classes. This seemingly illogical fearof Uncle Sam threatened the Wests defences against the power of invasionfrom the East. Retinger devised a plan to address the situation, but neededpowerful allies to implement it. Convinced of the need to strengthen tiesbetween the USA and Western Europe, he approached through numerous contacts,leading politicians, businessmen and ex-military leaders who were concernedto cement Atlantic co-operation.

They asked Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands to act as Chairman designatebecause they rightly thought it would be difficult to find a politician whowould not be besmirched with partisanship and who could call on politiciansno matter what their party, without fear or favour (it was quietly forgottenthat as a German-born aristocrat, Bernhard had been an honorary member ofthe SS in the 1930s).

Thus was enhanced the cementing of the Atlantic movement, already foundedby the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the European movement, which has led totodays European Union. Both are the children of JosephRetinger. He has been called a True Renaissance Man, aMachiavellian Jesuit, and having a Borgian Brilliance forIntrigue.

Although his name is virtually unknown today, his influence has been tremendous- either for good or ill, depending on your world-view. Until his death in1960, Retinger devoted his life to strengthening the West against thethreat from the East. He would have been overjoyed at the collapseof communism, Polands entry into NATO and its application to join theEuropean Union.

Towards the end of May 1954 at a small hotel at Oosterbeek in the deeplywooded Arnhem area the most eminent and powerful men from the principal westernEuropean nations gathered. There was absolutely no publicity. Security personnelsurrounded the hotel and journalists, except those invited in a private capacity,were persona non grata. The participants sworn to secrecy, stripped of theirofficial titles for the three days of the forum were just simplecitizens of their respective countries. Everyone could say what heliked without fear of repercussions. That meeting and all subsequent oneshave had an enormous if impossible-to-validate effect on post-war history.

For the first 22 years of the Bilderberg meetings Price Bernhard was in theChair until forced to resign in 1976 because of a bribery scandal involvingLockheed. Then the former British Prime Minister Lord Home took over, thenhis political ally Lord Carrington. There are no members of Bilderberg. Eachyear the chairman in consultation with the international steering committeecompiles an invitation list. Individuals are chosen in the light of theirknowledge of, importance to and standing in the world. To ensure a full andcomprehensive discussion the list includes invitees from the full spectrumof political and economic points of view.

Of the 100 or so participants, approximately one third are from governmentand politics and the rest from a wide variety of fields including finance,journalism, academia and labour. They attend in a personal and not in anofficial capacity. From the beginning the conferencees are overwhelminglyfrom America and Western Europe and the two debating languages are Englishand French. The significance of the gathering can not be underestimated.

The participants on most definitions would be labelled as members of theRuling Class in Europe or the USA - the most powerful men (forthey have been overwhelmingly men) in the corridors of power of the westerndemocracies.

The meetings take place in a different venue every year, alternately in NorthernAmerica and Western Europe.

Officially, the discussion at each meeting is centred on ...topicsof current concern in the broad fields of foreign policy, world economy andother contemporary issues. Basic groundwork of the symposium is laid by meansof working papers for general discussion. In order to assure freedom of speechand frankness of expression, the gatherings are closed and off the record.No resolutions are proposed, no votes taken and no policy statements issuedduring and after the meetings.2

It is the Bilderberg custom to book a hotel for a weekend or more, with thewhole building being cleared of all other guests, no matter what their standingand status. Two days before the meeting the various secret service personnelmove in and go through the place with a fine tooth comb to make sure thereis complete privacy and safety for the delegates. All staff are thoroughlyvetted and any suspect ones are removed for the duration. To the outsider,this looks like a real cloak-and-dagger operation, where publicity shypower-brokers lock themselves into a tight security grid.

The meetings are never dull and not always with consensus. Sparks regularlyfly. At St Simons in 1957 the French, British and Americans almost came toblows over Suez. At another it was the Chinese offshore islands of Quemoyand Matsu. The Europeans could understand the American attitude about defendingTaiwan, but holding up the Big Stick to the Communists for a couple ofinsignificant outcrops seemed military madness for the sake of tweakingthe dragons tail. Other controversial issues have been the Americanand British attitudes to European unification and the USs heavy handedpolicy towards Cuba.

This is known as Son of Bilderberg and is more or less a globalversion of its bilateral parent, with the Japanese being invited. It hasan interlocking membership with Bilderberg and also holds closed-door meetings.Both George Bush and Bill Clinton were long-time members of the Commissionand got promoted to Bilderberg when the time was thought right. Havingconsecutive US presidents mixing with the same people puts the Bilderbergersin a win-win situation. Former President Bill Clinton is a member of theBilderberg Society

Obviously, considering the guest list, the Bilderberger/Trilateral get-togethersare certainly not an inconsequential gabfest. In recent years some conferenceeshave broken their Trappist-like silence and revealed some items on the agendas.In retrospect they read like a menu of the worlds most historic events:the USA and UN recognising Communist China was mooted before Nixon made itso; the idea of a single European currency was debated in the late 1980s.Apparently, Margaret Thatcher was removed as British PM because of her oppositionto surrendering British sovereignty to a federal Europe.

The invite list reveals that those in power or reckoned to be on its thresholdare immediately incorporated to the inner sanctum. All the Presidents ofthe US or their close aides since Eisenhower have attended; the same goesfor British Prime Ministers and senior Cabinet members. Lords Home and Carringtonheaded Bilderberg and Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and George Robertson wererecently there. Robertson, of course will be a regular attendee now he hasbeen appointed to the Secretary- Generalship of NATO. Every major bankerin America and Europe has turned up at one time or another and David Rockefellerwho heads the Chase Manhattan Bank is almost a permanent feature. Europeanroyalty active in public life such as Prince Charles, make frequent appearances.

More recent debates have started alarm bells ringing with both the Left andRight. Its claimed that NATO has decided to become a world policemanafter its intervention in Kosovo and it also promised to turn a blind eyeto Russias complete obliteration of Chechnyas attempt of secessionand the recent razing of Grozny, all at the behest of Bilderberg. Eventuallythere will be a unification of the dollar and the Euro making a de factoworld currency, and encouraging of socialist governments likeTony Blairs New Labour to implement New Right policies so as to appearto ameliorate their harshness. After all it might be easier for someone claimingto be a socialist to push the stringent changes through.

Past invitees claim that some of the speeches are so dull and esoteric thatthey would be instant cures for insomnia. One thing is certain: the participantscan be relied on to keep mum about what goes on at the Bilderberg. Even theworlds press barons and their editors who are regularly invited toattend, make sure that absolutely nothing is printed or broadcast in theirmedia. Excommunication would not be in their interests. Once you have beeninvited to Bilderberg you have arrived. You are a privileged member of theGrandees of the World; the Patricians with Pull or what thejournalist Tony Gosling calls The High Priests of Globalisation:a select forum whose talk results in the making of history.

Not everyone succumbs to the lure of the Bilderbergers though. Computerbillionaire and sometime US presidential candidate Ross Perot received aninvitation and gave them short shrift. He told them pointedly, Youboys dont want to know my views, you want to impose your views on me.If any of you have anything to tell me, write or give me a call.3

Those who are considered mavericks or gauche will not get the call. Pat Buchanan,the powerful leader of the American religious right is never likely to gothrough the hallowed portals, and interestingly, Rupert Murdoch has neverbeen invited - maybe he didnt want to be bound by the promise of silence.

The disquiet about Bilderberg has reached the level of European parliamentarians.Patricia McKenna MEP of the Irish Green Party tabled a question to the EuropeanCommission in December 1998 about the attendance of Commissioners at Bilderberg.Did their presence in any way conflict with their duties towards Europe?The reply was bland and resembled Bilderbergs own vague descriptionof the activities the Group involved itself in.

With concern about the amount of sleaze British MPs were involvedin during John Majors administration, the incoming Blair governmentassured voters that they would be a squeaky clean act. It came as a bit ofa surprise therefore to discover that the trip Tony Blair, then shadow HomeSecretary, and Kenneth Clarke, then a Cabinet Minister, took to the Athensmeeting in 1993 had not been declared by them in the Parliamentary Registerof Members Interests. Blair belatedly entered his details in 1995 butClarke never did.

In 1998, after the Labour election landslide, several questions were askedin Parliament about ministers attendance at Bilderberg meetings, theGroups influence on European policy and world agricultural prices.To all the questions the reply was either in the negative or evasive.

Magazines such as Freedom Today, published by the Freedom Association, aBritish right wing pressure group virulently opposed to European federalismand the single currency, regard Bilderberg as part of planning the deathof Britains independence, Ordinary people do not know Bilderbergexists, and hence are powerless to scrutinise the highly questionable activityof this treasonous, corporatist oligarchy of influence.4

Conspiracy theory is more than just a belief in just the occasional cabal.Simply put, it is a conviction which asserts that world events are beingcontrolled in secret by a group of ultra-powerful puppeteers behind the curtains.Is it the stuff of fiction that at once thrills and chills? The basic storylinesof conspiracy theory have a striking resemblance to the anti-Semitic propagandamanufactured by the Nazis in the 1920s and 30s. Indeed the Nazis accusationsagainst international bankers andZionist-Cosmopolitanists are echoed today by the American Militiaand Patriot movements. Similarly many of these latter-day savioursof sturdy independence openly revile Jews.

The fact that some of todays international bankers are Jews lends themmore ammunition. It is no coincidence that the Liberty Lobby, which publishesSpotlight Magazine is the same organisation which claims the Holocaust isa Jewish invention to milk compensation from the hapless Germans. The wildclaims of insider manipulation of the lives of millions go back to the beliefsabout the Illuminati - a group that divined special and secret knowledgenot available to the common people. The accusers have figured outthat if you do not see it then you are just one of the dupes controlled byThe Puppeteers who have the Concealed Enlightenment.

Of course, its not difficult to conclude that the magazines which existto expose schemes for world domination can find ammunition whenthey investigate Bilderberg. Most nationalists are hostile to supra-nationalattempts, which threaten a countrys sovereignty - some regard the EuropeanUnion as a Catholic conspiracy to resurrect the Holy Roman Empire in anotherguise! The Bilderberg group is attacked from both sides of the politicalspectrum. The far right regard them as a Zionist-Marxist plot, whilst thefar left see them as an offshoot of the Rothschild-Rockefeller Grand Designto Rule the World.

The length to which the Bilderbergers go to achieve the level of seclusionand solitude for their deliberations raises deep suspicions about thegroups motives and objectives. The critics may be not so far off thebulls-eye when they accuse the group of being supra-governmental, intenton re-educating governments to relinquish their sovereignty.

Their apparent power to manipulate global finances and monetary rates putsthem on a par with the IMF and the World Bank and the selection of importantfigures who are either groomed for power or removal is scary. The most damningindictment is that, rather than pursuing aims which would solve macroenvironmental and health problems, the group pursue goals which guaranteeto propagate their own influence and the enrichment of Bilderbergers at theexpense of human rights and the global ecology.

The Bilderbergers are protected from all forms of petty bureaucracy thatface ordinary citizens. Airport formalities disappear as if by magic, novisas are required. They travel around in armoured limousines with policeescort and their presence at a hideaway venue, screened by a phalanx of armedguards is hardly likely to be conducive to open disclosure. Therein liesthe problem.

There are many secret organisations in the western world todaywhose shibboleths are the subject of scrutiny by watchdog groupshoping to pick up evidence of plots and subversion. The Freemasons, the AfrikanerBroederbond and Opus Dei are three which have been powerful on the internationalstage. America itself, the centre of suspicion about the Bilderbergers, hasdozens of fraternal organisations with weird and dubious soundingnames: The Royal Arcanum, The Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, The Maccabeesetc. Most are harmless if not beneficial to society on account of theircharitable work. Conversely there are the Ku Klux Klan, The Militias andthe Mafia whose activities cause a shiver of revulsion. Even the respectablegroupings of the right, such as the John Birch Society are not to mostpeoples taste.

Yet, the doings of the ultra powerful have always been a part of the moderninternational scene since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which began tore-arrange Europe into its modern form. The concept of Bilderberg is notnew. Two years before its inception in 1952 field Marshal Bernard Montgomerysuggested to Eisenhower, NATOs European commander an extension to SupremeHeadquarters Allied Powers in Europe (SHAPE) to include other topics andexercises of mutual interest. Since then the SHAPEX meeting has been heldevery year at SHAPE near Mons in Belgium.

In 1957 the first of the Pugwash Conferences on science and world affairstook place with India hosting the inaugural meeting. Albert Einstein andBertrand Russell were its founder members. In the 1970s Pugwash took in arange of issues including wars around the world. One of the latest groupsto emerge is the Williamsburg Asian Window. Its first meeting was sponsoredby John D Rockefeller in 1971 and still continues today. It brings togetherAsian leaders and the Americans and was particularly effective in bringingthe Vietnam conflict to an end.

Today of course we have the annual winter meeting of the rich and omnipotentat Davos, the Swiss ski resort and G7/8 the meeting of the worlds seven- or eight if you include Russia - most industrialised countries. Both ofthese conclaves discuss themes of importance that affect the world but nonehas attracted and provoked global myths the way Bilderberg has. As Tony Goslinghas stated:

One cannot help but be suspicious when priorities for the future ofmankind are being considered by those who have real influence over that futurein total secret.5

The fate of the ordinary citizen is and always has been in the hands of thepowerful and secretive. They manipulate our daily lives and most of the timewe are not even aware of it. We can only be grateful up to a point that theBilderbergers see themselves as a force for stability and bourgeois valuesin a world of political violence and economic turmoil.

References

1 The Bilderbergers. http://www.jeremiahproject.com/prophecy/

2 The Bilderbergers - Invisible powerhouse. Armen Victorian Nexus MagazineVol 3#1 January 1996

3 The Bilderbergers. Spotlight Magazine. May 10 1993

4 Bliderbergers Aiming for World Government. Freedom Today Vol 22 The FreedomAssociation 1992

5 The Bilderberg Group; Planning the Worlds Future. Charles Overbrook.Matrix Magazine June 1998

Works Used
The Global Manipulators. Robert Eringer. Pentacle books 1980
The Time of My Life. Denis Healy. Penguin 1989.
Some Bilderbergers Break Silence. Tricia Katson. Spotlight Magazine. June1996
International Brokers Meet To Discuss Worlds Future. Portugal today.May 1999
Secret Society-Hidden Agenda. Gibby Zobel. Big Issue. Nov 1999

http://www.eyespymag.com/

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Bilderberg Conference 2002, Chantilly, Virginia, nr. Washington D.C. (2024)

Bilderberg Conferences

Bilderbergers in the news

This year's conference venue =>

[This site campaigns for a press conference at all Bilderberg venues - and a declaration from the steering committee that any consensus reached must be in our public, not their private interest]

07Jun02 - Bilderberg 2002 official Press Release and participant list

Bilderbergers in the news

Henry Kissinger is in the news so often - because of his international war consultation firm Kissinger Associates Inc. - he has his own page

26Dec02 - Guardian - Robertson says Nato 'morally obliged' to back war

20Dec02 - Telegraph - Bloody Sunday 'plot' denied by Carrington

12Dec02 - Associated Press - Bush names (Bilderberger) Friedman as top economic adviser

13Nov02 - Richard Greaves - Who Runs the World?

12Nov02 - Reuters - Kenneth Clarke cornered on Myanmar ties

26Oct02 - Court case against Bilderberg? Probably a hoax!

18Aug02 - VG, Norwegian newspaper - The Mysterious meeting place of power

01Jul02 - Skolnicks Report - The Bilderberg Syndrome

10Jun02 - Tony Gosling - Message to the Bilderbergers who ignored my previous letter

Jim Tucker - post Conference Article - Bilderberg Batters Bush; But Unity remains on NWO

01Jun02 - Conference reports

01Jun02 - American Free Press - Bilderberg meets!

31May02 - Chantilly Virginia Confirmed as 2002 Bilderberg Venue

31May02 - Turkish moneyman is there

30May02 - Bilderberg on the BBC World Service

April 2002 - Open Letter to Secretary-General of the Bilderberg Meetings - [still no reply]

29May02 - Bilderberg (unofficial, ie. before the conference) Press Release 2002

14May02 - Guardian - Lord Black of Crossharbour is a member of the secretive Bilderberg organisation

20May02 - Electronz -Bilderbergers A.G.M. in Washington

07Apr02 - AFP - Bilderberg Plotting To Bushwhack Iraq

[Source: AFP] Bilderberg Conference 2002 to be held close to Dulles International Airport, Washington DC

How to get to Chantilly and a good picture of the hotel http://www.world-action.co.uk/terror.html

12Apr02 - Can the New Media bust the Bilderberg Meeting?

06Feb02 - My Dad is a Bilderberger!

15Jan02 - Bilderberg's Pat Cox voted head of European Parliament

Secrets of the Bilderberg - Eye Spy Magazine

PRESS RELEASE

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

[please use facilities such as Namebase.org to research these people for this site - thanks Tony]

by Richard Greaves

More up to date versions in word or rich text

SECRECY & PRIVATE FORUMS

12 Nov 2002 03:45 BST

August 18th 2002 - Dagens VG -http://www.vg.no Norway's largest newspaper

The Mysterious meeting place of power

The below is from the original article - for those who might be searching in Norwegian!

01Jun02 - Latest reports

Salzburg newspaper

Dutch 'new right' politician Mat Herben at Bilderberg?

By an anon Dutch contributor - 01Jun02

31May02 - Tony Gosling - www.bilderberg.org

WORD and RICH TEXT copies of the press release available here

Transatlantic Elite to meet in secret on May 30th

WORD and RICH TEXT copies of the press release available here

Register reveals Archer's forecourt interest

Exclusive to American Free Press

THE BILDERBERG GROUP

My Dad is a Scandinavian Bilderberger

Son of Bilderberg's Dossier:

20Jan01 - Followed by analysis and related Reuters releases

What Will The Nice Treaty Do?

See the excellent Irish anti-Nice website http://www.nationalplatform.org/

The Next EU Nightmare: The Charter of Fundamental Rights

Applicable reading - background to the above

Irish liberal Cox elected EU Parliament president. 15Jan2002 FRANCE: 15:47 GMT

Irish soundbite king is EU parliament's new chief. 15Jan2002 EU: 16:00 GMT

By Robin Pomeroy

GIVING PARLIAMENT MORE PROFILE

Ireland's Cox elected European Parliament chief. UPDATE 1 - 15Jan2002 FRANCE: 17:27 GMT

One-World Altruist or the most Pernicious Cabal of the Twentieth Century?

Barry Robson investigates

References

References

See the excellent Irish anti-Nice website
http://www.nationalplatform.org/

Irish liberal Cox elected EU Parliament president.
15Jan2002 FRANCE: 15:47 GMT

Irish soundbite king is EU parliament's new chief.
15Jan2002 EU: 16:00 GMT

Ireland's Cox elected European Parliament chief.
UPDATE 1 - 15Jan2002 FRANCE: 17:27 GMT