Observer Editor Will Hutton and Viscount Cranborne, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords were amongst other top politicians and the heads of banks, industry and the media attending the AGM of the clandestine Bilderberg Group. Tony Blair, now British Prime minister, attended four years ago.
Many doubt the existence of the group, but articles by ex-participants, unhappy with initiatives that undermine democracy, and evidence of news wire service reports, including Reuters news agency each year, prove it to be no fiction. The meeting took place 12th - 15th June 1997 at the Renaissance Pine Isle Resort, Lake Lanier Island in the Appalachian mountains. The island is near the town of Gainesville, Georgia, 50 miles from Atlanta and 5 miles from Moody U.S. Air Force base.
The US/European group has been meeting
since 1954 but it is only in the last couple of years that its existence
has become more widely known outside the inner circle. Notice of the date
and location of the meeting was only revealed beforehand for the first
time last year. Sadly though media self-censorship still led to only scant
and localised news coverage in 1996.
Advance warning of the 1997 AGM location was leaked in the April edition of 'The Portman Papers' journal under the headline 'Bilderberg treason first decided it, single currency means the end of Britain'. In the article 'Bilderberg Revealed', Chairman of the US Amalgamated Bank and Bilderberg Steering Committee member Jack Scheinkman testifies to Bilderberg's influence: "The idea of a single currency was discussed several years back before it became policy." In the same article George McGhee, former US Ambassador to West Germany states: "The Treaty of Rome, which brought the Common Market into being, was nurtured at Bilderberg meetings." Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands maintains that Bilderberg was where the idea of the EEC was first mooted.
The unhappy result is a picture of western democracy subverted, with
decision makers getting together not for reasons important to ordinary
people: social justice; common interest; and quality of life, but to strengthen
economic austerity and bring even more private gain for the worlds political
and corporate elite. Bilderbergers talk openly of centralising power in
their own interests, which leaves the man in the street ever further away
from controlling his own destiny.
Last years Bilderberg AGM took place at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 'Leadership Centre' in Montreal and was hosted by Canadian press baron Conrad Black. In the chair was Britain's Lord Carrington and the attendance register of 120 included an impressive collection of high-powered men: Henry Kissinger; U.K. defence secretary, Malcolm Rifkind; James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank; David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank; William J Perry, U.S. secretary of defense; Andrew Knight, director of News Corporation; Martin Taylor, chief executive of Barclays Bank; Jean Chretien, prime minister of Canada; Ulrich Cartellieri, director of Deutche Bank; Stanley Fischer, managing director of the IMF; Morris Tabaksnlat, chairman of Unilever; Alexander Trotman, chairman of the Ford Motor Company and several royal heads of state.
With so many of the world's élite in attendance security at the venue will have been extremely tight. European and US secret services co-operate in enforcing a strict no-go area round venues helping to ensure a media black-out.
One of the reasons that the media have been so slow to investigate and report on the Bilderbergers is that many of the global press bosses, including Peter Job, Chief Executive of Reuters, are part of the group. Other mainstream media barons have corporate agendas themselves while many independent media, for legal reasons, are wary of revealing secrets of the rich and powerful without evidence, which in the past has been difficult to find.
So what vision, if any, is being pursued. We all have a right, indeed in an age of mass-starvation and with the continued threat of global destruction, a need to know.
One cannot help but be a little suspicious when priorities for the future
of mankind are being considered, by those who have real influence over
that future, in total secret.
As is the tradition since the first Bilderberg Meeting was held in the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland in 1954, no news conferences will be held or statements issued after the annual meeting. But frank talk will be encouraged among the delegates from Europe, the United States and Canada who are meeting for nearly three days at a $40 million ranch north of Toronto.
"There are no massive indiscretions, but the exchanges can be quite heated," Conrad Black, the Canadian press baron hosting this year's conference, told reporters on Wednesday. Conference organizers said of the 120 participants, one third are from government and the remainder from fields such as finance, industry, labor, education and the media.
The meeting will be chaired by Lord Carrington, former NATO secretary
general. He will be joined by a phalanx of leaders in power -- Canadian
Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Finland's President Martti Ahtisaari, U.S.
Defense Secretary William Perry and British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind.
The queens of the Netherlands and Spain and princes from the Netherlands
and Belgium make up the royalty contingent.
Other luminaries include Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of state; Lloyd Bentsen, former U.S. Treasury secretary; Jack Matlock, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Francisco Pinto Balsemao, former Portugese prime minister. Blue chip representatives include the heads of Ford Motor Co., Sarah Lee, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Xerox Corp, Barclays Bank Plc and Reuters Holdings Plc.
Discussions in the former luxury spa now owned by a Canadian bank are expected to range from the enlargement of the European Union to China, Russia and the former Yugoslavia.
REUTER NEWS SERVICE
An article on the 1996 meeting
Guests for the Bilderberg Meeting include Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Polish Foreign Minister Andrzej Olechowski, German Defence Minister Volker Ruhe and the Queens of the Netherlands and Spain. Others on the list of participants are GATT chief Peter Sutherland and business leaders including Fiat chairman Giovanni Agnelli and international investor George Soros. Also to attend the meeting, which is chaired by Britain's Lord Carrington, are Finland's President Martti Ahtisaari and Prime Minister Esko Aho.
Topics of discussion would include long term changes in the United States, the European Union, the world economy, employment creation, the political challenge of Islam, Russia, China and GATT, organisers said.
The 42nd Bilderberg Meeting is the latest in a series that began in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands as a forum for frank off-the-record talks among leading figures in North America and Western Europe.
REUTER NEWS SERVICE
The guest list included Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, NATO Secretary-General Manfred Woerner, Turkish Central Bank Governor Rusdu Saracoglu, the European Community's mediator on ex-Yugoslavia, Lord Owen, and Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt.
The meeting, held strictly behind closed doors, is the latest of a series which began in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands as a forum for frank discussions among leading figures in North America and Western Europe.
A news release said topics of discussion would include U.S.-European relations, the former Soviet Union, U.S. domestic problems, Japan's economy and prospects for global trade.
REUTER NEWS SERVICE
Atkinson, Rodney, 'Europe's Full Circle, Corporate Elites and the New Fascism', Compuprint, 1997, £7.95, ISBN 0 9525110 0 2 "Europe has come full circle. The UK faces the same political crisis as in the 1930's... suppression rather than expression of public opinion." From This England books: 01242 515156.
Domhoff, G. William. 'State autonomy or class dominance? : case studies on policy making in America'. Aldine de Gruyter 1996. ISBN 0202305112 & 0202305120 (pbk)
Eringer, Robert, 'Bilderberg Group, The Global Manipulators', Pentacle, Bristol, 1980. ISBN 0 906850 04 5 Chapter 1 is here for your delight!
Ewertverlag S.L. 'Secret Societies and Their Power in the 20th Century', 1995. ISBN 3-89478-654-X
Gill, Stephen, 'American Hegemony and the Trilateral commission', Cambridge University Press, 1990, ISBN 0521362865
Korten, David, 'When Corporations Rule the World', Earthscan, 1995, ISBN 1853834343 & 1853833134
Sklar, Holly, ed. 'The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management'. Boston: South End Press, 1980. 604 pages; includes a Who's Who from pages 90-131.
Van-der-Pijl, Kees, 'The making of an Atlantic ruling class', Verso, 1984, ISBN 0860918017
TREASON - The New World Order, Cassandra Press, 1996. ISBN 0-945946-14-7
The Robots's Rebellion, Gateway Books, 1994. ISBN 1-85860-022-7
... and the truth shall set you free, Bridge of Love Publications, 1995. ISBN 0-9526147-0-7 .
See also NWO intelligence update's books
and videos page
Do please send me some post if you want me to link to your site or have additions
Nexus Magazine. Armen Victorian's definitive, well researched article http://www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/Bilderbergers.html
New World Order Intelligence Update http://www.inforamp.net/~jwhitley
Two pages with general Bilderberg information and articles http://wwwcip.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~tky20848/docs/BILDER2.TXT http://wwwcip.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~tky20848/docs/BLDRBRGR.TXT
Excellent Bilderberg and elites analysis page http://www.sunz.com/tri.html
Sun.tzu's analysis of Bilderberg and other elite groups http://www.ccnet.com/~suntzu75/pirn9735.htm
George Ball talks about Ross Perot's attitude to Bilderberg http://pages.map.com/bkpowell/georgeball.htm (link down?)
The Jeremiah project Bilderberg Pages http://www2.southwind.net/~jeremiah/nworder04.html
The Bilder-Burger Vegetarian Sandwich http://www.happyclown.com/bilder.html
Articles by a tenacious man who followed the Bilderbergers around http://www.livelinks.com/sumeria/politics/bilders.html
Spotlight Magazine http://www.webbindustries.com/spotlight/
Complete list and pics. of some of the 1996 participants http://www.abbc.com/esa/eng/sections/contents.html
Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr.'s scary Bilderberg Page http://www.4rie.com/rie/rie3.html Old address: http://www.ld.centuryinter.net/rie/rie3.html
The Lobster journal http://www.knowledge.co.uk/xxx/lobster/index.htm
The end of the world and the New World Order by Tim Callahan http://www.skeptic.com/04.3.callahan-end.html
The 'Destroy Babylon' Bilderberg Page http://www.zipcon.net/isaiah/Meeting.HTM
An Australian Band, Black Lung, that sing about global elites http://www.webweaver.com.au/imcc/pages/blhome.html
Conspiracy booklist http://www.frugal.com/~ayli/30.con.html
David Icke has been talking about the Bilderbergers ever since he 'left' his job in television http://www.david-icke.com/newsspr9.htm
National Patriotic Front leader in Russia, Gennadi Zyuganov, blasts Bilderberg. http://web.bu.edu/ISCIP/content/digest/ed7.html
Eisenhower's diary describes Bilderberg http://sunsite.unc.edu/lia/president/EisenhowerLibrary/finding_aids/DDE's_Diary.html
List of International organisations http://www.uia.org/uialists/org/o15.htm
Article on 1996 Bilderberg AGM http://moneymaker.com/money/bildebrg.htm
Listed on the CV of the Prime Minister of Portugal http://www.primeiro-ministro.gov.pt/p-curriculo.html
The art of deception, including more background on secret societies http://www.thegrid.net/clear/huck.htm
Ark-hive, comprehensive world government and conspiracy pages http://www.netizen.org/arc-hive/hiv_sec.htm
Bilder-burglers http://www.iahushua.com/WOI/burglar.html
Greek site (in English) detailing Bilderberg activities from an insider's view and links page http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8604/index.html
Bilderberg and the new world order http://www.parascope.com/mx/bilder.htm
Peacemaking in action.. Greeks and Turks encouraged to have a drink together at Bilderberg http://www.turkey.org/news/e051496.htm
Bilderberg brings down the Turkish government? http://www.constitution.org/piml/96062507.txt
The Kennedy Arts Centre reiterates Wolfenson's key role in Bilderberg http://kennedy-center.org/home/html/jdwbio.html
Healing the hurts of nations http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/local/h-pages/palden/healhurt/hn-euro2.html#Bild
Comment on Richard Fletcher's essay 'Who Were They Travelling With?' http://www.pir.org/books.88
European Socialism must adapt to Bilderberg's new reality http://www.endoftheline.com/political/environ.htm
Collection of John Whitley's ground-breaking articles on the Bilderbergers http://www.nt.net/~russell/Bilder.htm
Some Bilderbergers break silence http://www.webbindustries.com/spotlight/f_bb_art004.html
'Civic' Bilderberg duties of James Wolfenson, President of the World Bank http://www.reedref.com/mww/greatamer10.html
Watcher Website on the New World Order http://www.marsweb.com/~watcher/nwobild.html
Conspiracy Nation comments on Rockefeller and the Bilderbergers http://www.europa.com/~johnlf/cn/cn8-51
International Herald Tribune / October 9, 1996 / By Max Jakobson http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8604/tribune.htm
A better approach? http://www.twibp.com/archives/18/1.html
See also Power Élite www links on my
bad page
Col. Barry Turner 01691 659138 (Writes for 'On Target!' magazine)
James RB Hinton 01935 873346 & Derek Tozer 01823 490590 (Portman Papers)
Donald Martin 01787 376374 (published 'Spotlight on the Bilderbergers')
Sabine McNeil 0171 287 2242, 0171 328 3701. (LETS co-ordinator)
John Whitley, Toronto journalist, 416-481 4868/fax: 416-322 7238 e-mail:
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