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Over the next 47 years the secret meetings have included most of the top ruling-class players from Western Europe and America. Until he was implicated in the Lockheed bribery scandal in 1976, [[Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands]] served as chairman.  Now, Bilderberg is a symbol of world management by [[Atlanticist]] elites.  Some observers feel that it borders on the conspiratorial, while others are primarily interested in its implications for power structure research. <ref>Val Burris [http://www.uoregon.edu/~vburris/whorules/ Who Rules?: An Internet Guide to Power Structure Research], University of Oregon 2007</ref> Bilderberg participants from the U.S. are almost always members of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]. Since 1973, Japanese elites have been brought into the fold through a third overlapping group, the [[Trilateral Commission]]." <ref> [http://www.namebase.org/sources/fC.html Bilderberg Group. Meeting Participants. June 3-6, 1999 in Portugal.], namebase.org, accessed February 2010</ref>  
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Over the next 47 years the secret meetings have included most of the top ruling-class players from Western Europe and America. Until he was implicated in the Lockheed bribery scandal in 1976, [[Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands]] served as chairman.  Now, Bilderberg is a symbol of world management by [[Atlanticist]] elites.  Some observers feel that it borders on the conspiratorial, while others are primarily interested in its implications for power structure research. <ref>Val Burris [http://www.uoregon.edu/~vburris/whorules/ Who Rules?: An Internet Guide to Power Structure Research], University of Oregon, 2007</ref> Bilderberg participants from the U.S. are almost always members of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] (CFR). Since 1973, Japanese elites have been brought into the fold through a third overlapping group, the [[Trilateral Commission]]." <ref> [http://www.namebase.org/sources/fC.html Bilderberg Group. Meeting Participants. June 3-6, 1999 in Portugal.], namebase.org, accessed February 2010</ref>  
  
 
Bilderberg is a highly secretive, international [[think tank]] and some say, policy-forming group which has been meeting annually since 1954.  Bilderberg was founded by [[Joseph Retinger]], [[Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands]] and Belgian Prime Minister [[Paul Van Zeeland]] and is comprised of representatives from North America and Western Europe.  The Steering Committee of approximately 30 members (with no official list available):
 
Bilderberg is a highly secretive, international [[think tank]] and some say, policy-forming group which has been meeting annually since 1954.  Bilderberg was founded by [[Joseph Retinger]], [[Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands]] and Belgian Prime Minister [[Paul Van Zeeland]] and is comprised of representatives from North America and Western Europe.  The Steering Committee of approximately 30 members (with no official list available):
  
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:"The group decided that it would invite 100 of the most powerful people in Europe and North America every year to meet behind closed doors at a different five-star resort. The group stresses secrecy: What's said at a Bilderberg conference stays at a Bilderberg conference. " <ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bilderberg-group/ In Depth: The Bilderberg Group: Informal forum or global conspiracy?], CBC News, June 13, 2006</ref>, <ref>Andrew G. Marshall, "[http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9270 Barack O’Bilderberg: Picking the President]", [[Global Research]], June 9, 2008</ref>
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:"The group decided that it would invite 100 of the most powerful people in Europe and North America every year to meet behind closed doors at a different five-star resort. The group stresses secrecy: What's said at a Bilderberg conference stays at a Bilderberg conference. " <ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bilderberg-group/ In Depth: The Bilderberg Group: Informal forum or global conspiracy?], CBC News, June 13, 2006</ref>, <ref>Andrew G. Marshall "[http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9270 Barack O’Bilderberg: Picking the President]", [[Global Research]], June 9, 2008</ref>
  
 
According to Richard J. Aldrich, a political lecturer at Nottingham University:  
 
According to Richard J. Aldrich, a political lecturer at Nottingham University:  
  
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:"The Bilderberg Group, an informal secretive transatlantic council of key decision makers, developed between 1952 and 1954... It brought leading European and American personalities together once a year for informal discussions of their differences... The formation of the American wing of Bilderberg was entrusted to (Gen.) Eisenhower's [[psychological warfare]] co-ordinator, [[C.D. Jackson]], and the funding for the first meeting, held at the Hotel de Bilderberg in Holland in 1954, was provided by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]. Thereafter much of its funding came from the [[Ford Foundation]]... The subjects over which the annual meetings ranged were wide... but it is clear that the 1957 Treaty of Rome <ref>[http://www.hri.org/docs/Rome57/ Treaty Establishing the European Community as Amended by Subsequent Treaties], Rome, March 25, 1957</ref> was nurtured by discussions at Bilderberg the previous year." <ref>Aldrich, Richard J. "OSS, CIA and European Unity: The American Committee on United Europe, 1948-1960." Diplomacy and Statecraft 8, no. 1 (Mar. 1997): 184-227.</ref>, <ref>[http://www.tozer57.freeserve.co.uk/linkparas/bilderberg.htm Bilderberg Group], Portman Papers, accessed February 2010</ref>
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:"The Bilderberg Group, an informal secretive transatlantic council of key decision makers, developed between 1952 and 1954... It brought leading European and American personalities together once a year for informal discussions of their differences... The formation of the American wing of Bilderberg was entrusted to (Gen.) Eisenhower's [[psychological warfare]] co-ordinator, [[C.D. Jackson]], and the funding for the first meeting, held at the Hotel de Bilderberg in Holland in 1954, was provided by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA). Thereafter much of its funding came from the [[Ford Foundation]]... The subjects over which the annual meetings ranged were wide... but it is clear that the 1957 Treaty of Rome <ref>[http://www.hri.org/docs/Rome57/ Treaty Establishing the European Community as Amended by Subsequent Treaties], Rome, March 25, 1957</ref> was nurtured by discussions at Bilderberg the previous year." <ref>Aldrich, Richard J. "OSS, CIA and European Unity: The American Committee on United Europe, 1948-1960." Diplomacy and Statecraft 8, no. 1 (Mar. 1997): 184-227.</ref>, <ref>[http://www.tozer57.freeserve.co.uk/linkparas/bilderberg.htm Bilderberg Group], Portman Papers, accessed February 2010</ref>
  
 
Dr. Aldrich is author of ''The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence'' <ref>Richard J. Aldrich [http://www.rsars.org.uk/aldrich.htm The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence], John Murray, July 5, 2001 ISBN 07195 54233</ref>  
 
Dr. Aldrich is author of ''The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence'' <ref>Richard J. Aldrich [http://www.rsars.org.uk/aldrich.htm The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence], John Murray, July 5, 2001 ISBN 07195 54233</ref>  
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:"Since 1953, the Bilderberg group has convened government, business, academic and journalistic representatives from the U.S., Canada and Europe with the express purpose of exploring the future of the North Atlantic community. The international steering committee includes [[Conrad Black]], publisher of newspapers throughout Canada, the U.S. and the ''London Telegraph'' and ''Jerusalem Post'', [[Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr.]], [[George J. Mitchell]], Kissinger and Rockefeller.  
 
:"Since 1953, the Bilderberg group has convened government, business, academic and journalistic representatives from the U.S., Canada and Europe with the express purpose of exploring the future of the North Atlantic community. The international steering committee includes [[Conrad Black]], publisher of newspapers throughout Canada, the U.S. and the ''London Telegraph'' and ''Jerusalem Post'', [[Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr.]], [[George J. Mitchell]], Kissinger and Rockefeller.  
  
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:"On the agenda for the November [4-5, 1999] meeting [at the Library of Congress] is a panel discussion of the U.S. presidential elections and an exploration of the national security requirements for the 21st century. Among those involved in the discussion of the latter subject will be former U.S. Sens. [[Gary Hart]] and [[Warren Bruce Rudman]], former Speaker of the House [[Newt Gingrich]], journalist [[Leslie H. Gelb]] and Secretary of Defense [[William Sebastian Cohen]]. [[John McCain]], at the special invitation of Kissinger, will speak at breakfast Friday morning and [[Albert Gore, Jr.]] will make a Thursday night dinner address, according to the agenda obtained by [[WorldNetDaily]]. Others making presentations include Rep. [[Bill Thomas]] of California, Sen. [[Christopher John Dodd]] of Connecticut, [[Evan Bayh]] of Indiana and former White House Chief of Staff [[Erskine Bowles]].  
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:"On the agenda for the November 4-5, 1999 meeting at the [[Library of Congress]] is a panel discussion of the U.S. presidential elections and an exploration of the national security requirements for the 21st century. Among those involved in the discussion of the latter subject will be former U.S. Sens. [[Gary Hart]] and [[Warren Bruce Rudman]], former Speaker of the House [[Newt Gingrich]], journalist [[Leslie H. Gelb]] and Secretary of Defense [[William Sebastian Cohen]]. [[John McCain]], at the special invitation of Kissinger, will speak at breakfast Friday morning and [[Albert Gore, Jr.]] will make a Thursday night dinner address, according to the agenda obtained by [[WorldNetDaily]]. Others making presentations include Rep. [[Bill Thomas]] of California, Sen. [[Christopher John Dodd]] of Connecticut, [[Evan Bayh]] of Indiana and former White House Chief of Staff [[Erskine Bowles]].  
  
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The list of potential invitees to the Washington conference includes: [[Dwayne O. Andreas]], [[Michael H. Armacost]], [[Robert Bartley]], [[Samuel R. Berger]], [[C. Fred Bergsten]], [[Richard Bernstein]], [[James H. Billington]], Gen. [[Charles G. Boyd]], [[Bill Bradley]], [[John H. Bryan]], [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]], [[William P. Bundy]], [[John H. Chafee]], [[E. Gerald Corrigan]], [[Kenneth W. Dam]], [[Lynne E. Davis]], [[John Mark Deutch]], [[Thomas E. Donilon]], [[Theodore L. Eliot Jr.]], [[Dianne Feinstein]], [[Martin S. Feldstein]], [[Stanley Fischer]], [[James J. Florio]], [[Lynn Forester]], [[Charles W. Freedman Jr.]], [[Stephen Friedman]], [[Thomas Friedman]], [[David Frum]], [[Richard Furland]], [[Orit Gadiesh]], Gen. [[John R. Glavin]], [[David Gergen]], [[Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.]], [[Paul Gigot]], [[Katherine Graham]], [[Donald Graham]], [[Marc Grossman]], [[Chuck Hagel]], [[Jim Hoagland]], [[James F. Hoge, Jr.]], Mrs. [[Karen Elliott House]], Sen. [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]], [[Peter Jennings]], [[Jems Johnson]], [[Peter Kahn]], [[Nancy Landon Kassebaum]], [[Robert M. Kimmitt]], [[Henry Kravis]], [[William Kristol]], [[Jan Leschly]], [[Winston Lord]], [[Jessica Tucher Matthews]], [[Charles Mac Mathias]], [[William J. McDonough]], [[George C. McGhee]], [[Richard A. McGinn]], [[Donald F. McHenry]], [[Sam Nunn]], [[Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr.]], [[John M. Page, Jr.]], [[Norman Pearlstine]], [[William J. Perry]], [[Thomas R. Pickering]], Gen. [[Colin L. Powell]], Sir [[Kieran Prendergast]], [[Larry Lee Pressler]], [[Clyde V. Prestowitz]], [[Steven Rattner]], [[William Rhodes]], [[William Richardson]], [[Sharon Percy Rockefeller]], Gen. [[Brent Scowcroft]], [[Robert Shapiro]], [[George Soros]], [[Lesley Stahl]], [[James B. Steinberg]], [[George Stephanopoulos]], [[Lawrence H. Summers]], [[G. Richard Thornan]], [[Franklin A. Thomas]], [[Alexander J. Trotman]], [[Wiliam Clay Ford, Jr.]], [[Laura D'Andrea Tyson]], [[Lodewijk J.R. de Vink]], Dr. [[Ezra F. Vogel]], [[Paul Adolph Volcker]], [[Stanley A. Weiss]], [[John C. Whitehead]], [[Christine Todd Whitman]], [[James David Wolfensohn]] and [[Casimir A. Yost]]." <ref>Annon, "[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17214 The next Bilderberg meeting: Secret roster, agenda for Washington conference]", ''WorldNetDaily'', October 12, 1999.</ref>
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The list of potential invitees to the Washington conference includes: [[Dwayne O. Andreas]], [[Michael H. Armacost]], [[Robert Bartley]], [[Samuel R. Berger]], [[C. Fred Bergsten]], [[Richard Bernstein]], [[James H. Billington]], Gen. [[Charles G. Boyd]], [[Bill Bradley]], [[John H. Bryan]], [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]], [[William P. Bundy]], [[John H. Chafee]], [[E. Gerald Corrigan]], [[Kenneth W. Dam]], [[Lynne E. Davis]], [[John Mark Deutch]], [[Thomas E. Donilon]], [[Theodore L. Eliot Jr.]], [[Dianne Feinstein]], [[Martin S. Feldstein]], [[Stanley Fischer]], [[James J. Florio]], [[Lynn Forester]], [[Charles W. Freedman Jr.]], [[Stephen Friedman]], [[Thomas Friedman]], [[David Frum]], [[Richard Furland]], [[Orit Gadiesh]], Gen. [[John R. Glavin]], [[David Gergen]], [[Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.]], [[Paul Gigot]], [[Katherine Graham]], [[Donald Graham]], [[Marc Grossman]], [[Chuck Hagel]], [[Jim Hoagland]], [[James F. Hoge, Jr.]], Mrs. [[Karen Elliott House]], Sen. [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]], [[Peter Jennings]], [[Jems Johnson]], [[Peter Kahn]], [[Nancy Landon Kassebaum]], [[Robert M. Kimmitt]], [[Henry Kravis]], [[William Kristol]], [[Jan Leschly]], [[Winston Lord]], [[Jessica Tucher Matthews]], [[Charles Mac Mathias]], [[William J. McDonough]], [[George C. McGhee]], [[Richard A. McGinn]], [[Donald F. McHenry]], [[Sam Nunn]], [[Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr.]], [[John M. Page, Jr.]], [[Norman Pearlstine]], [[William J. Perry]], [[Thomas R. Pickering]], Gen. [[Colin L. Powell]], Sir [[Kieran Prendergast]], [[Larry Lee Pressler]], [[Clyde V. Prestowitz]], [[Steven Rattner]], [[William Rhodes]], [[William Richardson]], [[Sharon Percy Rockefeller]], Gen. [[Brent Scowcroft]], [[Robert Shapiro]], [[George Soros]], [[Lesley Stahl]], [[James B. Steinberg]], [[George Stephanopoulos]], [[Lawrence H. Summers]], [[G. Richard Thornan]], [[Franklin A. Thomas]], [[Alexander J. Trotman]], [[Wiliam Clay Ford, Jr.]], [[Laura D'Andrea Tyson]], [[Lodewijk J.R. de Vink]], Dr. [[Ezra F. Vogel]], [[Paul Adolph Volcker]], [[Stanley A. Weiss]], [[John C. Whitehead]], [[Christine Todd Whitman]], [[James David Wolfensohn]] and [[Casimir A. Yost]]." <ref>Annon, "[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17214 The next Bilderberg meeting: Secret roster, agenda for Washington conference]", WorldNetDaily, October 12, 1999</ref>
  
 
===Permanent U.S. members===
 
===Permanent U.S. members===
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The conference is named after the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, where the first meeting was initiated by Prince Bernahrd of the Netherlands in May 1954.  
 
The conference is named after the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, where the first meeting was initiated by Prince Bernahrd of the Netherlands in May 1954.  
  
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:"The Bilderberg Conference is an annual three-day conference that brings together some of Europe's and North America's most influential bankers, economists, politicians, and government officials. 'The conference, held in a different Western country each year, is conducted in an atmosphere of rigid secrecy. The conference provides a private, informal environment in which those who influence national policies and international affairs can get to know each other and discuss without committment their common problems.'"<ref>[http://www.santacruzpl.org/readyref/files/a-b/bilder.shtml ''Encyclopedia Britannica''], 15th ed. Vol. 2, p. 211.</ref>
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:"The Bilderberg Conference is an annual three-day conference that brings together some of Europe's and North America's most influential bankers, economists, politicians, and government officials. 'The conference, held in a different Western country each year, is conducted in an atmosphere of rigid secrecy. The conference provides a private, informal environment in which those who influence national policies and international affairs can get to know each other and discuss without committment their common problems.'"<ref>[http://www.santacruzpl.org/readyref/files/a-b/bilder.shtml Encyclopedia Britannica], 15th ed. Vol. 2, p. 211</ref>
  
 
===2009===
 
===2009===
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===2008===
 
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The 2008 Bilderberg Conference was held at the Westfields Mariott Hotel in Chantilly, Virginia right outside Washington, D.C. from June 5-8.  Major topics of discussion included cyber terrorism, the Middle East, a nuke-free world, and Africa, according to a [http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080605006246&newsLang=en press release].  There was [http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66442 speculation] that then Senators [[Barack Obama]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] attended the secretive meeting.  The [http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=708_1212766386 complete list] of attendees included [[James A. Johnson]], who was named to the three-person team vetting possible running mates for [[Barack Obama]]. Rampant speculation in the blogosphere said the Obama-Clinton meeting was held to arrange [[Hillary Clinton]] as Obama's vice-presidential candidate. <ref>Alyssa Farah [http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66442 The New World Disorder: Did they or didn't they? Speculation about Obama, Clinton attending Bilderberger meeting], World Net Daily, June 07, 2008</ref>
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The 2008 Bilderberg Conference was held on June 5-8 at the Westfields Mariott Hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, on the outskirts of o Washington, D.C.  According to a press release, major topics of discussion included cyber terrorism, the Middle East, a nuke-free world and Africa. <ref>[http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080605006246&newsLang=en Bilderberg Announces 2008 Conference], Business Wire, June 5, 2008</ref> The complete list of attendees included [[James A. Johnson]], who was named to the three-person team vetting possible running mates for [[Barack Obama]]. <ref>[http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=708_1212766386 Bilderberg Attendee List 2008 Chantilly, Virginia, USA], Live Leak, 5-8 June 2008</ref> There was speculation over whether then Senators Obama and [[Hillary Clinton]] also attended the secretive meeting and an Obama-Clinton meeting to arrange for Senator Clinton to be the vice-presidential candidate. <ref>Alyssa Farah [http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66442 The New World Disorder: Did they or didn't they? Speculation about Obama, Clinton attending Bilderberger meeting], World Net Daily, June 07, 2008</ref>
  
 
===2007===
 
===2007===
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The 2007 Bilderberg Conference was held at the [http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/Istanbul/Default.htm Ritz Carlton]in Istanbul, Turkey from May 31-June 3.  Notable guests included [[Henry Kissinger]]; [[Etienne Davignon]], Bilderberg Group President; and [[Queen Beatrix]] of the Netherlands.  For a complete guest list, please refer to this list of delegates. <ref>[http://www.inteldaily.com/news/126/ARTICLE/2116/2007-05-25.html List of delegates at Bilderberg 2007, Istanbul, Turkey May 31 - June 3], Intelligence Daily, accessed February 2010</ref>  
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The 2007 Bilderberg Conference was held at the Ritz Carlton Holtel in Istanbul, Turkey from May 31 to June 3.  Notable guests included [[Henry Kissinger]]; [[Etienne Davignon]], Bilderberg Group President; and [[Queen Beatrix]] of the Netherlands.  For a complete guest list, please refer to this list of delegates. <ref>[http://www.inteldaily.com/news/126/ARTICLE/2116/2007-05-25.html List of delegates at Bilderberg 2007: Istanbul, Turkey], Intelligence Daily, May 31 - June 3</ref>  
  
 
===2006===
 
===2006===
 
The 2006 Bilderberg Conference was held at the luxurious Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata, Ottawa, " a leading high-technology campus in Ottawa, Canada". [http://www.brookstreethotel.com/reach_us/index.htm], where just one month earlier the low-profile but influential [[neoconservative]] [[Civitas Society]] had gathered.  According to Holly Lake reporting for the Ottawa Sun of the Sun Media Group:
 
The 2006 Bilderberg Conference was held at the luxurious Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata, Ottawa, " a leading high-technology campus in Ottawa, Canada". [http://www.brookstreethotel.com/reach_us/index.htm], where just one month earlier the low-profile but influential [[neoconservative]] [[Civitas Society]] had gathered.  According to Holly Lake reporting for the Ottawa Sun of the Sun Media Group:
  
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:"The Brookstreet Hotel was off limits to all but staff and Bilderbergers this weekend. Outside, heavy security staffed metal gates blocking all access to the hotel's empty parking lot. Two police cruisers patrolled the lot but even police officers who can usually go anywhere couldn't approach the hotel without a special Bilderberg-issued pass.  Bilderberg is criticized for being accountable to no one and circumventing democracy by privately discussing public issues -- and some suspect setting public policy. Members say they're building transatlantic understanding, frankly talking about issues, but they prefer to do it in private where invited participants can speak freely. Secret meetings that have Indigo Books CEO Heather Reisman, Richard Perle, one of George W. Bush's top advisors, billionaire David Rockefeller and Holland's Queen Beatrix in the same group? <ref>Alexander Panetta, "[http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/090606_b_Bilderberg.htm Secretive, powerful Bilderberg group meets near Ottawa]", ''The Globe and Mail'', June 8, 2006.</ref>
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:"The Brookstreet Hotel was off limits to all but staff and Bilderbergers this weekend. Outside, heavy security staffed metal gates blocking all access to the hotel's empty parking lot. Two police cruisers patrolled the lot but even police officers who can usually go anywhere couldn't approach the hotel without a special Bilderberg-issued pass.  Bilderberg is criticized for being accountable to no one and circumventing democracy by privately discussing public issues -- and some suspect setting public policy. Members say they're building transatlantic understanding, frankly talking about issues, but they prefer to do it in private where invited participants can speak freely. Secret meetings that have Indigo Books CEO Heather Reisman, Richard Perle, one of George W. Bush's top advisors, billionaire David Rockefeller and Holland's Queen Beatrix in the same group? <ref>Alexander Panetta, "[http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/090606_b_Bilderberg.htm Secretive, powerful Bilderberg group meets near Ottawa]", The Globe and Mail, June 8, 2006</ref>
  
 
==Criticism & media black out==
 
==Criticism & media black out==
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[[Chip Berlet]] of [[Political Research Associates]] (PRA), argues that the perpetuation of the myth that groups such as Bilderberg are all-powerful is a political distraction:
 
[[Chip Berlet]] of [[Political Research Associates]] (PRA), argues that the perpetuation of the myth that groups such as Bilderberg are all-powerful is a political distraction:
  
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:"Why are people recycling a [[right-wing]] anti-communist conspiracy theory? People need to be less credulous and gullible. Not everyone who has an anti-elitist framework is our ally.  The Bilderberg conspiracy theory diverts us from a systematic analysis of how wealthy elites control the economy and the political scene. Any structural approach can teach people to see how pointless these individualized conspiracy theories really are. The structural analysis can be Marxist, power structure research such as G. William Domhoff and Holly Sklar, Critical Race Theory, any of several feminist theories, Queer theory. ANY structural critique will steer folks away from dead end conspiracism. The Bilderberg [[conspiracy theory]] first got an airing by ultra-conservative [[Phyllis Schlafly]] during the Goldwater campaign in 1964.<ref>[[Chip Berlet]] ''Exasperated'', November 14, 2001</ref>
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:"Why are people recycling a [[right-wing]] anti-communist conspiracy theory? People need to be less credulous and gullible. Not everyone who has an anti-elitist framework is our ally.  The Bilderberg conspiracy theory diverts us from a systematic analysis of how wealthy elites control the economy and the political scene. Any structural approach can teach people to see how pointless these individualized conspiracy theories really are. The structural analysis can be Marxist, power structure research such as G. William Domhoff and Holly Sklar, Critical Race Theory, any of several feminist theories, Queer theory. ANY structural critique will steer folks away from dead end conspiracism. The Bilderberg [[conspiracy theory]] first got an airing by ultra-conservative [[Phyllis Schlafly]] during the Goldwater campaign in 1964.<ref>[[Chip Berlet]] ''Exasperated'', University of Colorado, November 14, 2001</ref>
  
 
However, the [[media]] blackout on Bilderberg is neither a myth nor a theory.  For example, not a single corporate media source covered the 56th Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia in June of 2008.  According to Kurt Nimo of Infowars:
 
However, the [[media]] blackout on Bilderberg is neither a myth nor a theory.  For example, not a single corporate media source covered the 56th Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia in June of 2008.  According to Kurt Nimo of Infowars:
  
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:"On its face, it makes no sense the corporate media would ignore and fail to report a confab comprised of newsworthy royal elites, chancellors, prime ministers, presidents, ambassadors, secretaries of state, Wall street bankers and investors, CEOs of transnational corporations, and corporate media executives. It makes no sense — that is until you realize the corporate media is owned and directed by this very same elite. In the past, darlings of the corporate media have attended Bilderberg meetings, including the late [[Peter Jennings]] of [[ABC]], [[Joseph Harsch]] of [[NBC]], the “liberal” [[Bill Moyers]] of [[PBS]], the “conservative” [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]], [[Robert Bartley]] of the [[Wall Street Journal]], the neocon [[William Kristol]], [[Thomas Friedman]] of the [[New York Times]], the late [[Katharine Graham]] of the [[CIA]]’s favorite newspaper, the [[Washington Post]], [[Leslie Stahl]] of [[CBS]], and many others. Many are also members of the [[CFR]] and the Trilateral Commission.  It is no mistake a Google News search reveals absolutely no reportage from the corporate media on the Bilderberg confab currently underway in Virginia. In effect, the Bilderbergers own the corporate media.<ref>Kurt Nimmo [http://www.infowars.com/conspiracy-of-silence-corporate-media-refuses-to-cover-bilderberg-confab/ Conspiracy of Silence: Corporate Media Refuses to Cover Bilderberg Confab], Infowars, June 7, 2008</ref>
  
 
According to Parascope:
 
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American Friends of Bilderbergs, Inc.<br>
 
American Friends of Bilderbergs, Inc.<br>
 
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Phone: +1 (212) 879 0545<br>
 
Phone: +1 (212) 879 0545<br>
  
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===Sourcewatch articles===
 
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*[[Atlanticist]]
 
*[[Bilderberg 2003]]
 
*[[Bilderberg 2003]]
 
*[[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]
 
*[[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]
 
*[[Committee of 300]]
 
*[[Committee of 300]]
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*[[Council on Foreign Relations]]
 
*[[David Rockefeller]]
 
*[[David Rockefeller]]
 
*[[Ford Foundation]]
 
*[[Ford Foundation]]
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*[[James A. Johnson]] (American Friends of Bilderberg)
 
*[[James A. Johnson]] (American Friends of Bilderberg)
 
*[[Rockefeller Foundation]]
 
*[[Rockefeller Foundation]]
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*[[Think tanks]]
 
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*[[Trilateral Commission]]
 
*[[Trilateral Commission]]
 
*[[industry-friendly experts]]
 
*[[industry-friendly experts]]
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=== External articles===
 
=== External articles===
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* Stephen Lendman [http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13808 Book Review: The True Story of the Bilderberg Group" and What They May Be Planning Now], Global Research, June 1, 2009
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* Stephen Lendman [http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13808 Book Review: The True Story of the Bilderberg Group" and What They May Be Planning Now], [[Global Research]], June 1, 2009
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* Andrew G. Marshall, "[http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13738 The Bilderberg Plan for 2009: Remaking the Global Political Economy]", ''Global Research'', May 26, 2009.
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* Andrew G. Marshall, "[http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13738 The Bilderberg Plan for 2009: Remaking the Global Political Economy]", Global Research, May 26, 2009.
 
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Bilderberg. The name came from the group's first meeting place, the Hotel de Bilderberg of Oosterbeek, Holland, in May 1954.

Overview

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Over the next 47 years the secret meetings have included most of the top ruling-class players from Western Europe and America. Until he was implicated in the Lockheed bribery scandal in 1976, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands served as chairman. Now, Bilderberg is a symbol of world management by Atlanticist elites. Some observers feel that it borders on the conspiratorial, while others are primarily interested in its implications for power structure research. [1] Bilderberg participants from the U.S. are almost always members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Since 1973, Japanese elites have been brought into the fold through a third overlapping group, the Trilateral Commission." [2]

Bilderberg is a highly secretive, international think tank and some say, policy-forming group which has been meeting annually since 1954. Bilderberg was founded by Joseph Retinger, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland and is comprised of representatives from North America and Western Europe. The Steering Committee of approximately 30 members (with no official list available):

"The group decided that it would invite 100 of the most powerful people in Europe and North America every year to meet behind closed doors at a different five-star resort. The group stresses secrecy: What's said at a Bilderberg conference stays at a Bilderberg conference. " [3], [4]

According to Richard J. Aldrich, a political lecturer at Nottingham University:

"The Bilderberg Group, an informal secretive transatlantic council of key decision makers, developed between 1952 and 1954... It brought leading European and American personalities together once a year for informal discussions of their differences... The formation of the American wing of Bilderberg was entrusted to (Gen.) Eisenhower's psychological warfare co-ordinator, C.D. Jackson, and the funding for the first meeting, held at the Hotel de Bilderberg in Holland in 1954, was provided by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Thereafter much of its funding came from the Ford Foundation... The subjects over which the annual meetings ranged were wide... but it is clear that the 1957 Treaty of Rome [5] was nurtured by discussions at Bilderberg the previous year." [6], [7]

Dr. Aldrich is author of The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence [8]

American Friends of Bilderberg

The U.S. group is directed by Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Paul Arthur Allaire and Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke.

"Since 1953, the Bilderberg group has convened government, business, academic and journalistic representatives from the U.S., Canada and Europe with the express purpose of exploring the future of the North Atlantic community. The international steering committee includes Conrad Black, publisher of newspapers throughout Canada, the U.S. and the London Telegraph and Jerusalem Post, Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., George J. Mitchell, Kissinger and Rockefeller.
"On the agenda for the November 4-5, 1999 meeting at the Library of Congress is a panel discussion of the U.S. presidential elections and an exploration of the national security requirements for the 21st century. Among those involved in the discussion of the latter subject will be former U.S. Sens. Gary Hart and Warren Bruce Rudman, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, journalist Leslie H. Gelb and Secretary of Defense William Sebastian Cohen. John McCain, at the special invitation of Kissinger, will speak at breakfast Friday morning and Albert Gore, Jr. will make a Thursday night dinner address, according to the agenda obtained by WorldNetDaily. Others making presentations include Rep. Bill Thomas of California, Sen. Christopher John Dodd of Connecticut, Evan Bayh of Indiana and former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles.

The list of potential invitees to the Washington conference includes: Dwayne O. Andreas, Michael H. Armacost, Robert Bartley, Samuel R. Berger, C. Fred Bergsten, Richard Bernstein, James H. Billington, Gen. Charles G. Boyd, Bill Bradley, John H. Bryan, William F. Buckley, Jr., William P. Bundy, John H. Chafee, E. Gerald Corrigan, Kenneth W. Dam, Lynne E. Davis, John Mark Deutch, Thomas E. Donilon, Theodore L. Eliot Jr., Dianne Feinstein, Martin S. Feldstein, Stanley Fischer, James J. Florio, Lynn Forester, Charles W. Freedman Jr., Stephen Friedman, Thomas Friedman, David Frum, Richard Furland, Orit Gadiesh, Gen. John R. Glavin, David Gergen, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Paul Gigot, Katherine Graham, Donald Graham, Marc Grossman, Chuck Hagel, Jim Hoagland, James F. Hoge, Jr., Mrs. Karen Elliott House, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Peter Jennings, Jems Johnson, Peter Kahn, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Robert M. Kimmitt, Henry Kravis, William Kristol, Jan Leschly, Winston Lord, Jessica Tucher Matthews, Charles Mac Mathias, William J. McDonough, George C. McGhee, Richard A. McGinn, Donald F. McHenry, Sam Nunn, Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr., John M. Page, Jr., Norman Pearlstine, William J. Perry, Thomas R. Pickering, Gen. Colin L. Powell, Sir Kieran Prendergast, Larry Lee Pressler, Clyde V. Prestowitz, Steven Rattner, William Rhodes, William Richardson, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Gen. Brent Scowcroft, Robert Shapiro, George Soros, Lesley Stahl, James B. Steinberg, George Stephanopoulos, Lawrence H. Summers, G. Richard Thornan, Franklin A. Thomas, Alexander J. Trotman, Wiliam Clay Ford, Jr., Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Lodewijk J.R. de Vink, Dr. Ezra F. Vogel, Paul Adolph Volcker, Stanley A. Weiss, John C. Whitehead, Christine Todd Whitman, James David Wolfensohn and Casimir A. Yost." [9]

Permanent U.S. members

Permanent U.S. members of the Bilderberg include: George W. Ball, Gabriel Hauge, Richard C. Holbrooke, Winston Lord, Bill Moyers and Paul Wolfowitz. The permanent Bilderberg Secretariat is located at 1 Smidswater, the Hague, the Netherlands (though another address is sometimes reported at 2301 Da Leiden, in the Netherlands). Their American address was at 345 E. 46th Street, in New York City (also the location of the Trilateral Commission and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).[10]

Bilderberg Conferences

The conference is named after the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, where the first meeting was initiated by Prince Bernahrd of the Netherlands in May 1954.

"The Bilderberg Conference is an annual three-day conference that brings together some of Europe's and North America's most influential bankers, economists, politicians, and government officials. 'The conference, held in a different Western country each year, is conducted in an atmosphere of rigid secrecy. The conference provides a private, informal environment in which those who influence national policies and international affairs can get to know each other and discuss without committment their common problems.'"[11]

2009

The 2009 Bilderberg Conference was held at the 5 star Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece from May 14-17. [12]

The focus of the meeting was on the restructuring of the global political economy and addressing the economic crisis [13]. For a complete guest list, please refer to the 2009 list of delegates. [14]

2008

The 2008 Bilderberg Conference was held on June 5-8 at the Westfields Mariott Hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, on the outskirts of o Washington, D.C. According to a press release, major topics of discussion included cyber terrorism, the Middle East, a nuke-free world and Africa. [15] The complete list of attendees included James A. Johnson, who was named to the three-person team vetting possible running mates for Barack Obama. [16] There was speculation over whether then Senators Obama and Hillary Clinton also attended the secretive meeting and an Obama-Clinton meeting to arrange for Senator Clinton to be the vice-presidential candidate. [17]

2007

The 2007 Bilderberg Conference was held at the Ritz Carlton Holtel in Istanbul, Turkey from May 31 to June 3. Notable guests included Henry Kissinger; Etienne Davignon, Bilderberg Group President; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. For a complete guest list, please refer to this list of delegates. [18]

2006

The 2006 Bilderberg Conference was held at the luxurious Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata, Ottawa, " a leading high-technology campus in Ottawa, Canada". [1], where just one month earlier the low-profile but influential neoconservative Civitas Society had gathered. According to Holly Lake reporting for the Ottawa Sun of the Sun Media Group:

"The Brookstreet Hotel was off limits to all but staff and Bilderbergers this weekend. Outside, heavy security staffed metal gates blocking all access to the hotel's empty parking lot. Two police cruisers patrolled the lot but even police officers who can usually go anywhere couldn't approach the hotel without a special Bilderberg-issued pass. Bilderberg is criticized for being accountable to no one and circumventing democracy by privately discussing public issues -- and some suspect setting public policy. Members say they're building transatlantic understanding, frankly talking about issues, but they prefer to do it in private where invited participants can speak freely. Secret meetings that have Indigo Books CEO Heather Reisman, Richard Perle, one of George W. Bush's top advisors, billionaire David Rockefeller and Holland's Queen Beatrix in the same group? [19]

Criticism & media black out

Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates (PRA), argues that the perpetuation of the myth that groups such as Bilderberg are all-powerful is a political distraction:

"Why are people recycling a right-wing anti-communist conspiracy theory? People need to be less credulous and gullible. Not everyone who has an anti-elitist framework is our ally. The Bilderberg conspiracy theory diverts us from a systematic analysis of how wealthy elites control the economy and the political scene. Any structural approach can teach people to see how pointless these individualized conspiracy theories really are. The structural analysis can be Marxist, power structure research such as G. William Domhoff and Holly Sklar, Critical Race Theory, any of several feminist theories, Queer theory. ANY structural critique will steer folks away from dead end conspiracism. The Bilderberg conspiracy theory first got an airing by ultra-conservative Phyllis Schlafly during the Goldwater campaign in 1964.[20]

However, the media blackout on Bilderberg is neither a myth nor a theory. For example, not a single corporate media source covered the 56th Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia in June of 2008. According to Kurt Nimo of Infowars:

"On its face, it makes no sense the corporate media would ignore and fail to report a confab comprised of newsworthy royal elites, chancellors, prime ministers, presidents, ambassadors, secretaries of state, Wall street bankers and investors, CEOs of transnational corporations, and corporate media executives. It makes no sense — that is until you realize the corporate media is owned and directed by this very same elite. In the past, darlings of the corporate media have attended Bilderberg meetings, including the late Peter Jennings of ABC, Joseph Harsch of NBC, the “liberal” Bill Moyers of PBS, the “conservative” William F. Buckley, Jr., Robert Bartley of the Wall Street Journal, the neocon William Kristol, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, the late Katharine Graham of the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, Leslie Stahl of CBS, and many others. Many are also members of the CFR and the Trilateral Commission. It is no mistake a Google News search reveals absolutely no reportage from the corporate media on the Bilderberg confab currently underway in Virginia. In effect, the Bilderbergers own the corporate media.[21]

According to Parascope:

“Critics have suggested that the media have been slow to investigate and report on the Bilderberg because many corporate news executives and journalists are members of the Group,” “Like all other Bilderberg attendees, these individuals have agreed to remain silent about the meetings, in spite of their responsibilities as high-ranking members of the national and international media…. Although underground information activists have managed to pierce the local media bubbles and gather useful information about the Bilderberg’s meetings, scrutiny of the Group in the establishment press is still verboten.”[22]

Support & funding

The American Friends of Bilderbergs is an IRS approved charitable organization that has received regular contributions from corporations such as Exxon, Arco and IBM. Their meetings are funded by the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. [23]

Contact

Charles W. Muller
American Friends of Bilderbergs, Inc.
477 Madison Ave., 6th Floor
New York, NY 10022

Phone: +1 (212) 879 0545

Articles & sources

Sourcewatch articles

References

  1. ↑ Val Burris Who Rules?: An Internet Guide to Power Structure Research, University of Oregon, 2007
  2. ↑ Bilderberg Group. Meeting Participants. June 3-6, 1999 in Portugal., namebase.org, accessed February 2010
  3. ↑ In Depth: The Bilderberg Group: Informal forum or global conspiracy?, CBC News, June 13, 2006
  4. ↑ Andrew G. Marshall "Barack O’Bilderberg: Picking the President", Global Research, June 9, 2008
  5. ↑ Treaty Establishing the European Community as Amended by Subsequent Treaties, Rome, March 25, 1957
  6. ↑ Aldrich, Richard J. "OSS, CIA and European Unity: The American Committee on United Europe, 1948-1960." Diplomacy and Statecraft 8, no. 1 (Mar. 1997): 184-227.
  7. ↑ Bilderberg Group, Portman Papers, accessed February 2010
  8. ↑ Richard J. Aldrich The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, John Murray, July 5, 2001 ISBN 07195 54233
  9. ↑ Annon, "The next Bilderberg meeting: Secret roster, agenda for Washington conference", WorldNetDaily, October 12, 1999
  10. ↑ David Rivera Final Warning: A History of the New World Order, Chapter 8.3: The Bilderberg Group, The Modern History Project, accessed February 2010
  11. ↑ Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed. Vol. 2, p. 211
  12. ↑ Stefan Fobes Bilderberg 2009 Location and Agenda: Leaked Agenda: Bilderberg Group Plans Economic Depression, War of Illusions, May 11, 2009
  13. ↑ Andrew Gavin Marshall The Bilderberg Plan for 2009: Remaking the Global Political Economy, Global Research, May 26, 2009
  14. ↑ Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (revised), Infowars, May 18, 2009
  15. ↑ Bilderberg Announces 2008 Conference, Business Wire, June 5, 2008
  16. ↑ Bilderberg Attendee List 2008 Chantilly, Virginia, USA, Live Leak, 5-8 June 2008
  17. ↑ Alyssa Farah The New World Disorder: Did they or didn't they? Speculation about Obama, Clinton attending Bilderberger meeting, World Net Daily, June 07, 2008
  18. ↑ List of delegates at Bilderberg 2007: Istanbul, Turkey, Intelligence Daily, May 31 - June 3
  19. ↑ Alexander Panetta, "Secretive, powerful Bilderberg group meets near Ottawa", The Globe and Mail, June 8, 2006
  20. ↑ Chip Berlet Exasperated, University of Colorado, November 14, 2001
  21. ↑ Kurt Nimmo Conspiracy of Silence: Corporate Media Refuses to Cover Bilderberg Confab, Infowars, June 7, 2008
  22. ↑ Bilderberg Media Blackout, Parascope, October 17th, 2005
  23. ↑ David Rivera Final Warning: A History of the New World Order, Chapter 8.3: The Bilderberg Group, The Modern History Project, accessed February 2010

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