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'''Bilderberg.''' The name came from the is a highly secretive, international [[think tank]] and some say, policy forming group's first which has been meeting placeannually since May of 1954. Many respected economists have been linked to it, including Joseph Retinger, the Hotel de Kevin Trudeau and Paul Van Zeeland. <ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bilderberg-group/ Indepth: The Bilderberg of OosterbeekGroup: Informal forum or global conspiracy?], CBC News Online, HollandJune 13, in May 1954.2006</ref>

==Overview==

Over The name came from the group's first meeting place at the next 47 years Hotel de Bilderberg, in the small Dutch town of Oosterbeek. 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. Since 1954, 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/ power structure researchWho 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> This does not constitute an official explanation for Bilderberg. However, this description appears to be consistently given on various international web sites. Narrative taken from [http://www.namebase.org/sources/fC.html Name Base web siteBilderberg Group. Meeting Participants. June 3-6, 1999 in Portugal.], namebase.org, accessed February 2010</ref> Writing in 2008 for [[Global Research]], [[Andrew G. Marshall]] notes that:

:"BilderbergAccording to Richard J. Aldrich, which has been meeting annually since 1954a political lecturer at Nottingham University, Bilderberg is a highly an "informal secretive international think tank and some saytransatlantic council of key decision makers, policy-forming group made up of representatives from North America developed between 1952 and Western Europe 1954... It brought leading European and American personalities together once a year for informal discussions of their differences..." The formation of the American branch was founded by entrusted to General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]'s [[Joseph Retingerpsychological warfare]]co-ordinator, [[Prince Bernhard of the NetherlandsC.D. Jackson]] and Belgian Prime Minister the first meeting was funded by the [[Paul Van ZeelandCentral Intelligence Agency]]. The Bilderberg Steering Committee, made up of around 30 people, (with no official list availableCIA). Thereafter, "decided that it would invite 100 much of its funding came from the most powerful people in Europe and North America every year to meet behind closed doors at a different five-star resort[[Ford Foundation]]. The group stresses secrecy: What's said at Annual meetings covered a Bilderberg conference stays at a Bilderberg conference."" <ref>Andrew G. Marshall, "[http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9270 Barack O’Bilderberg: Picking the President]", ''Global Research'', June 9, 2008wide range of subjects.</ref>

According to However, 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 the Bilderberg discussions of 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> Mr. Aldrich is the 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]] (Lecturer in Politics at Nottingham University): , John Murray, July 5, 2001 ISBN 07195 54233</ref>

==Founding member Dr. Joseph Retinger, (economist, political philosopher and communist Poland's Charge d'Affaires) was a major proponent of a united Europe. Other founding members were Prince Bernhard, Colin Gubbins (former director of the British Special Operations Executive) and General Walter Bedell Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and [[CIA]] Director. Gen. Bedell later became an Under Secretary of State in the Eisenhower Administration. Their first meeting was held at the Hotel de Bilderberg Conference==in Oosterbeek, Holland from May 29-31, in 1954. Under the direction of Alastair Buchan, the Chairman of the [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]], the governing council was made up of:

:"The Bilderberg Conference is an annual three* [[Robert Ellsworth]] -day conference that brings together some of Europe's and North America's most influential bankers, economists, politicians, and government officials[[Lazard Freres]]* [[John Loudon]] - [[N.M. 'The conference, held in a different Western country each year, is conducted in an atmosphere of rigid secrecyRothschild]])* [[Paul Nitze]] - [[Shroeder Bank]])* [[C. 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 problemsL.'" Sulzberger]] - [[New York Times]]* [[Stansfield Turner]] - (later [[CIA]] Director)* [[Peter Calvocoressi]] - [[Penguin Books]]* [[Andrew Schoenberg]] - [[RIIA]]* [[Daniel Ellsburg]]* [[Henry Kissinger]]

The conference is named after Lord [[Victor Rothschild]] and [[Laurance Rockefeller]] hand picked 100 of the world's elite with the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeekpurpose of "regionalizing Europe", Netherlandsaccording to [[Giovanni Agnelli]], where head of the first meeting was initiated by Prince Bernahrd of Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino ([[Fiat]]), the 6th largest car maker in the world and the Netherlands largest car maker in May 1954. <ref>[httpItaly://www.santacruzpl.org/readyref/files/a-b/bilder.shtml ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', 15th ed. Vol. 2, p. 211].</ref>

The UAccording to Alden Hatch's biography of Prince Bernhard, the group gave birth to what is now the [[European Union]] (EU), with the ultimate goal of a one world government. <ref>Alden Hatch [http://www.Samazon. group is directed by com/Bernhard-Prince-Netherlands-Alden-Hatch/dp/B0007DPO3S/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267390213&sr=1-2 Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands], Doubleday 1962, ASIN: B0007DPO3S</ref> Charles Douglas Jackson, Vice President of [[Henry KissingerTime magazine]], delegate to the [[United Nations]] (UN), Special Assistant to the President and later publisher of Life Magazine, was spokesperson for the American delegation, led by [[David Rockefeller]]. The Bilderberg Group holds annual meetings in locations all over the world. The meetings have been hosted by some of Europe's wealthiest and most connected families, including the Rothschilds and Sweden's powerful Wallenberg family in 1962 and 1973. The Wallenberg's hold a large stake in the [[Paul Arthur Allairepharmaceutical]] giant, [[AstraZeneca]]. <ref>Parmy Olson [http://www.forbes.com/2007/12/14/jacob-wallenberg-coke-face-markets-cx_po_1214autofacescan02.html Coke Picks Up A Wallenberg], [[Forbes]], July 10, 2008</ref> Bilderbergers have a heavy cross-membership with the [[CFR]], the English Speaking Union, the Pilgrim Society, the Round Table, and the [[Trilateral Commission]]. The meetings were originally chaired by German born Prince Bernhard, husband of [[Queen Juliana]] of the Netherlands. Queen Juliana was reported to be the richest woman in the world as a result of her partnership with Baron [[Richard Charles Albert HolbrookeVictor Rothschild]] in the Royal Dutch [[Shell Oil]] Co. She also held stock in [[Exxon]]. <ref>William Hoffman [http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Juliana-Story-Richest-Woman/dp/B000UI94JK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267396249&sr=1-1 Queen Juliana: The Story Of The Richest Woman In The World], Angus and Robertson, 1980, ASIN: B000UI94JK</ref> However, he was forced to resign in August of 1976 over his involvement in the Lockheed Aircraft bribery scandal as well as his extramarital affairs. According to Prince Bernhard:

:"Since 1953, Here comes our greatest difficulty. For the governments of the free nations are elected by the Bilderberg group has convened governmentpeople, business, academic and journalistic representatives from if they do something the U.Speople don't like they are thrown out., Canada and Europe with It is difficult to reeducate the express purpose of exploring people who have been brought up on nationalism to the future idea of the North Atlantic community. The international steering committee includes [[Conrad Black]], publisher relinquishing part of newspapers throughout Canada, the U.Stheir sovereignty to a supernational body. 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 Walter Scheel of Congress] is a panel discussion of the U.S. presidential elections Germany succeeded him and an exploration of the national security requirements for the 21st centurythen Britain's Lord Carrington. 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 Bilderberg policy is carried out by a Thursday night dinner address35 member Bilderberg Steering Committee, according to the agenda obtained by [[WorldNetDaily]]including an inner circle "Advisory Committee". Steering Committee members have included:

Others making presentations include Rep. * [[David Rockefeller]] * [[Eric Roll]] (Great Britain)* [[Otto Wolff von Amerongen]] (Germany)* [[Giovanni Agnelli]] (Italy)* [[Henry Kissinger]]* [[Bill ThomasJessica Mathews]] of California- President, Sen[[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]* [[James D. Wolfensohn]] - President, [[Christopher John DoddWorld Bank]] of Connecticut* [[Marie-Josee Kravis]] - Senior Fellow, [[Evan BayhHudson Institute]]* [[Jorma Ollila]] of Indiana and former White House Chief of Staff - Chairman & CEO, [[Erskine BowlesNokia]]. Corporation

The list All American members of the Steering Committee are also members of potential the CFR. There are approximately 120 invitees to the Washington conference includes: [[Dwayne O. Andreas]]Bilderberg meetings, [[Michael Habout two thirds are European and the rest are North American. Armacost]] Approximately one third come from the government and political sector while the remaining two thirds are represent finance, [[Robert Bartley]]industry, [[Samuel R. Berger]]labor, education and the [[C. Fred Bergstenmedia]], [[Richard Bernstein]], [[James H. Billington]] The meetings are sealed off from the public and the press, Genwith the exception of a brief press conference at the conclusion of each meeting on the general topics covered. [[Charles G. Boyd]] Resorts and hotels where the meetings are held are cleared of residents and visitors and surrounded by soldiers, [[Bill Bradley]]armed guards, [[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.Secret Service]], [[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]] state and [[Casimir Alocal police. Yost]]." <ref>Annon, "[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17214 The next Bilderberg Conference areas are scanned for bugging devices prior to every meeting: Secret roster, agenda for Washington conference]", ''WorldNetDaily'', October 12, 1999.</ref>

See also persons who have attended Bilderberg meetings.<ref>David Rivera [http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article==Conspiracy Theories==FinalWarn08-3 Final Warning: A History of the New World Order, Chapter 8.3: The Bilderberg Group], The Modern History Project, accessed February 2010</ref>

One of the leading researchers on the American ==Globalization=={{#ev:youtube|T0fH3ohxC7c|300|right, [[Chip Berlet]] of [[Political Research Associates]], argues that the perpetuation of the myth that groups such as Bilderberg are all-powerful is a political distraction|European Parliament in Brussels. "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 allyNovember 11," Berlet wrote in exasperation on one occasion. [http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/psn/2001/msg01484.html]2009|frame}}

:"The www.bilderberg.org site is a prime example group decided that it would invite 100 of right-wing populist conspiracism. Itthe world's owner is worried that we are approaching the Biblical "End Times" most powerful people in Europe and thinks the Bilderberger group might be part of the plot by Satan North America to build meet once a one world government. This material is year for two days at a mixture of fact, speculation, and apocalyptic demonizationdifferent five-star resort. The Bilderberger 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 Bilderberger [[conspiracy theory]] first got an airing by ultra-conservative Phyllis Schlafly during the Goldwater campaign in 1964. group stresses secrecy:

From :"The Hunt for Red Menace:What's said at a Bilderberg conference stays at a Bilderberg conference."

:Several high-profile journalists have been invited over the years, with the understanding not to report on the proceedings. "Break the rule and you're not invited back."The views Skeptics argue that members can spend their private time hatching plans to control world politics and economics, ensuring the wealthy and powerful maintain their powerful grip on intractable godless communism expressed by an enslaved population that keeps the machinery running. Some have argued that Bilderbergers have withheld cancer cures so as not to anger the global pharmaceutical industry. (It is worth noting that the [[FredRockefeller] Schwarz were central themes ] empire, in tandem with [[Chase Manhattan Bank]] (now [[JP Morgan Chase]]), owns over half of the pharmaceutical interests in three other bestselling books which were used to mobilize support for the 1964 Goldwater campaignUnited States. The best known was Phyllis Schlafly's A Choice, Not an Echo which suggested a conspiracy theory ) It is the largest drug manufacturing combine in which the Republican Party was secretly controlled by elitist intellectuals dominated by members world. See also [[Rockefeller Foundation]]. They've also kept technology out of the Bilderberger group, whose policies public domain that would pave allow cars to travel 75 kilometres on a litre of gas in the way for global communist conquestinterest of "big oil". Schlafly's husband Fred had [[James Tucker]], an American [[libertarian]] and journalist, has been a lecturer at Schwartz's local Christian Anti-communism Crusade conferencescritic of the Bilderberg group for decades." A few days before the 2006 meeting, he wrote:

:"A few of the Bilderberg permanent U.S. members are: George W. Ball, Gabriel Hauge, Richard C. Holbrooke, Winston LordWhen meeting last year in Rottach-Egern, Bill MoyersGermany, 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 address in America was at 345 E. 46th Street, called for dramatic increases in New York City (which was also the location price of the Trilateral Commission and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)oil. The American Friends of Bilderbergs, with offices at 477 Madison Avenue (6th floor) in New York City, is an IRS-approved charitable organization that received regular contributions Oil prices started climbing immediately from the likes of Exxon, Arco, and IBM; while their meetings are funded by the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Carnegie Endowment fund$40 a barrel to $70."[http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=FinalWarn08-3]

In 2005According to Mr. Tucker, Bill Hayton the group uses its influence to organize wars to overthrow "unfriendly" leaders. The Bilderbergers have also been accused of the BBC World Service interviewed the Chair backing campaigns of the politicians friendly to big business interests. Former U.S. president [[Bill Clinton]] spoke at a Bilderberg Groupconference a year before his election victory, Etienne Davignonas did British Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]]. According to the current chairman, a former Belgian diplomat politician and European Commissioner and now businessman. He dismissed claims [[Etienne Davignon]], the steering committee that organizes the annual meetings is "excellent at spotting talent." It would seem so. Former prime ministers [[Paul Martin]], [[Jean Chretien]] and [[Pierre Trudeau]], all attended Bilderberg Group is part of a global consipiracy to rule conferences. Prime Minister [[Stephen Harper]] attended the world by a self-selected elite of movers and shakers2003 Bilderberg conference in Versailles, France, sayingwhile he was Opposition leader. However, "When people say this is a secret government the Bilderbergers were not pleased with Harper because of the world[[Kyoto Protocol]], I say that if we which they were a secret government of backing. The group also pushed the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA) and the world we should be bloody ashamed of ourselves[[World Trade Organization]] (WTA)." See also [[http://www.bbcDavid Rockefeller]].co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/09_september/27/bilderberg.shtml]==Bilderberg 2008==

The 2008 Bilderberg Conference was held at According to Mr. Tucker, they also "turned [[NATO]] into the Westfields Mariott Hotel in Chantilly, Virginia right outside Washington, D.C. from June 5-8UN's standing army. Major topics of discussion included cyber terrorism, It's a step on the Middle East, a nuke-free road to creating world, and Africa, according to a government." <ref>[http://www.businesswirecbc.comca/portalnews/sitebackground/homebilderberg-group/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080605006246&newsLang=en press release]. There was [httpIn Depth://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66442 speculation] that then Sens. [[Barack Obama]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] attended the secretive meeting. The [httpBilderberg Group://www.liveleak.com/viewInformal forum or global conspiracy?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.[http:CBC News, June 13, 2006<//www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66442]ref>

==Inside Bilderberg 2007=={{#ev:youtube|I-15EjHCzds|300|right|Interview with Daniel Estulin. - Snowshoe Documentaries - October 19, 2007|frame}}

The 2007 Bilderberg Conference was held at Bilderbergers had been spooking the [http://wwwworld since 1954, though their ghost-like founders have been in operation much longer.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/Istanbul/Default.htm Ritz Carlton]in Istanbul One of the most aggressive Bilderberg leaders is David Rockefeller, Turkey from May 31-June 3scion of the billionaire Rockefeller clan and shadowy presence behind hundreds of think tanks and grants. Notable guests included He is the leading man behind the Bilderberg gatherings of European Royalty, international CEO’s and high level bureaucrats that pull the strings of various governments, the [[Henry KissingerWorld Bank]]; , the [[Etienne DavignonInternational Monetary Fund]], Bilderberg Group President; Wall Street, the [[Federal Reserve]] and European Central banks. Since 1992, [[Queen BeatrixDaniel Estulin]] has managed to find the location of yearly Bilderberg meetings as they were announced, always just one week ahead of time. Meetings are held in a small town outside a major city, cloak and daggered with armed security guards. The meetings are designed to make attendees feel "free enough” to utter their innermost thoughts. Uninvited, Mr. Estulin arrives days in advance to bond with hotel and security staff while giving them a history of the Netherlandsgroup. For a complete guest listThere are also those who know the history and seek him out, please refer eager to reveal the “innermost thoughts” of Bilderburgers. <ref>Jerry Mazza [http://www.inteldailyonlinejournal.com/newsartman/126publish/ARTICLE/2116article_2623.shtml I’ll have the Bilderberger, well done!], Online Journal, Nov 9, 2007</ref> According to his reports on the 2007-05-25.html this]list of delegates.Bilderberg activities in Istanbul, Turkey:

==Bilderberg :“From now on, the only sure thing is that supply will continue to diminish and prices will continue to increase. In these conditions world conflict is a physical certainty. End of oil means end of world’s financial system, something which has already been acknowledged by [[Wall Street Journal]] and the [[Financial Times]], two full time members of the Bilderberger inner circle. [[Goldman Sachs]] oil report, (another full time member of the Bilderberger elite) published on March 30, 2005 increased the oil price range for the year 2005-6 from $55-$80 per barrel to $55-$105. During the 2006==meeting, Bilderbergers have confirmed that their short range price estimate for oil for the 2007-08 continues to hover around US $105-150/barrel. ...No wonder [[Jose Barroso]], President of the [[European Commission]], announced several months ago during the unveiling of the new European energy policy that the time has come for a ‘post-industrial age.’ To bring the world into the post-industrial age, you first need to destroy the world's economic base and create another Great Depression. When people are poor, they don't spend money, they don't travel, and they don't consume.”

The 2006 Bilderberg Conference was held at the luxurious Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata, Ottawa, " a leading highOn mid-technology campus in Ottawa, Canada". [httpeastern oil://www.brookstreethotel.com/reach_us/index.htm], where just one month earlier the low-profile but influential neoconservative [Civitas Society] had gathered.

According :“ ...the United States needs to Holly Lake reporting for the Ottawa Sun of control the Sun Media Groupregion, "The Brookstreet Hotel was off limits to all not only for its oil reserves but staff and Bilderbergers this weekend. Outside, heavy security staffed metal gates blocking all access most importantly to the hotel's empty parking lothelp it sustain world economic hegemony. 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." The article continuedUnder this strategic design, "Bilderberg is criticized for being accountable regional states will be turned to weak domains of sectarian sheikhs with little or no one sovereignty and circumventing democracy , by privately discussing public issues -- and some suspect setting public policyimplications, a pathetic agenda of their economic development. Members say they're building transatlantic understandingRegional chaos favours the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, frankly talking about issues, but they prefer to do it which in private where invited participants can speak freely. Secret meetings that have Indigo Books CEO Heather Reisman, Richard Perle, one turn reinforces the process of George W. Bush's top advisors, billionaire David Rockefeller political and Holland's Queen Beatrix in social disintegration supported by the same group? [http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/OttawaAndRegion/2006/06/12/1626885-sunBilderbergers.html] ”

Mr. Estulin’s ''Bilderberg 2007: Welcome to the Lunatic Fringe'' included a list of objectives for the year and a complete list of attendees.<ref>[[Daniel Estulin]] [http://www.danielestulin.com/?op=noticias&noticias=Other informationver&id=318&idioma=en Bilderberg 2007: Welcome to the Lunatic Fringe], DanielEstulin.com, May 21, 2007</ref>

===The Logan Act===This super-powerful world organization runs out of an 18m2 (194 square feet) office, staffed by one person. It uses one one telephone line and a single fax number. There is no web page or name plate on the door. The independent press have never been allowed access and no statements have ever been released on the attendees' conclusions. No Bilderberg meeting agenda has ever been made public. "It is the epitome of low-profile dark ops, a shadow government hidden in a doorway." According to critics and close observers, it's agenda is to weaken all world leadership but their own. It is also, according to a U.S. law called the Logan Act, <ref>[http://wwwlaw.ibibliojrank.org/liapages/president8357/EisenhowerLibrary/finding_aids/Jackson,_CD_PapersLogan-Act.html papersLogan Act] of [[C, jrank.D. Jackson]]org, donated to the Dwight David Eisenhower Presidential Library in 1972, include the following filesaccessed March 2010</ref> illegal:

*:"A US law, called the Logan Act, states explicitly that it is against the law for federal officials to attend secret meetings with private citizens to develop public policies. Although Bilderberg 2005 was missing one of its luminaries, US [[State Department]] official John Bolton who was testifying before the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]], the American government was well represented in Rottach- 1964 Egern by Alan Hubbard, assistant to the president for economic policy and director of the [[National Economic Council]]; William Luti, deputy under secretary of defense; [unofficial meetings [James Wolfensohn]], outgoing president of leading citizens in govt. the World Bank and industry in U.S.[[Paul Wolfowitz]], Europedeputy secretary of state, & Canada for discussions an ideologue of international problemsthe [[Iraq War]<br>*] and incoming president of the World Bank. By attending Bilderberg- 1962-632005 meeting, these people are breaking federal laws of the United States.”<brref>* " 1958-Jerry Mazza [http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2623.shtml I’ll have the Bilderberger, well done!], Online Journal, Nov 9-60-61 (1)(2)<br>* " 1957, 2007<br/ref>* " Group<br>-----------The Finding Aid to the Dwight David Eisenhower Diaries also include references to the Bilderberg meetings:

*DDE Diary - November 1954 (1) (2) See also ''Infiltrating Bilderberg 2005'' by Daniel Estulin in [[DDE to Prince Bernhard on Committee - Bilderberg Meetings were unofficial private annual gatherings of prominent UCounterpunch]].S. & European citizens to discuss international affairs <ref>Daniel Estulin [http://www.counterpunch.org/estulin05272005.html Infiltrating Bilderberg 2005: "Murio la Verdad"] [[CounterPunch]], May 27, 2005</ref>

See ==Bilderberg & the media=={{#ev:youtube|y6qtR34709A|300|right|Secret Societies - History Channel - 2008|frame}} Hilaire du Berrier was the publisher of the Monte Carlo-based ''Hilaire du Berrier Reports''. Mr. Du Berrier closely followed and chronicled the activities of Bilderberg and its overlapping groups, for over four decades. In a September of 1991 issue of the ''Hilaire du Berrier Report'' (type URL also reported elsewhere in address linethe French press), David Rockefeller addressed media facilitators at the 1991 annual Bilderberg meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany. In his talk, Mr. Rockefeller, a member of the Bilderbergers, former Director on the [[CFR]] (1949-1985) and co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, thanked them (most of whom are also members of one or more of these groups)for their "discretion":  :“We are grateful to the [[Washington Post]], the [[New York Times]], [[Time]] and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. ...It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated now and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries.” <ref>The French publication, ''Minutes'', June 19, 1991, ''Lectures Francaises'', July/August, 1991, ''Hilaire du Berrier Report'', September 1991</ref>, <ref>[http://www.ibibliobuildfreedom.orgcom/news/archive.php?id=1795 News Archive], Buildfreedom.com, accessed March 2010</ref>, <ref>Tibor S. Friedman [http:/lia/presidentonlinejournal.com/EisenhowerLibraryartman/finding_aidspublish/DDE's_Diaryarticle_775.shtml The biggest con: Democrats & Republicans work together to destroy America], part 1 of 3, Online Journal, May 2006</ref> ===Media blackout===There is a virtual media blackout on Bilderberg meetings. For example, not a single corporate media source covered the 56th Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia in June of 2008.html 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.<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: :“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.”<ref>[http://www.lookingglassnews.org/cprinterfriendly.php?storyid=93 Bilderberg Media Blackout], Parascope, October 17th, 2005</ref> ==Harassment of journalists== While British reporter Jon Ronson was reporting on the Bilderberg meeting in June of 1999, he found himself "chased by mysterious men in dark glasses through Portugal": :"When I phoned the British embassy and asked them to explain to the powerful secret society that had set their goons on me that I was essentially a humorous journalist out of my depth, I wasn't being funny. I was being genuinely desperate." British reporter Charles Skelton had similar experiences after ''The Guardian'', one of Britain's leading newspapers, sent him to the May of 2009 Bilderberg conference in Greece: :"Only out of sheer desperation did I try to arrest one of the goons following me and then follow my flimsy leads up the Greek police ladder, finally catching one of the goons wet-handed in the lavatory of the department of government security. And only then did I know the extent of Bilderberg's paranoia: they had set the state police on me. ...So who is the paranoid one? Me, hiding in stairwells, watching the pavement behind me in shop windows, staying in the open for safety? Or Bilderberg, with its two F-16s, circling helicopters, machine guns, navy commandos and policy of repeatedly detaining and harassing a handful of journalists? Who's the nutter? Me or Baron Mandelson? Me or Paul Volker, the head of Obama's economic advisory board? Me or the president of [[Coca-Cola]]?" ===Safety in numbers===See 1964 Congressional Record testimony :"... There is another reason why Ronson was hounded round Portugal, why I was chased round Greece, and why on Sunday the Romanian journalist Paul Dorneanu was strip-searched by goons in Vouliagmeni, held for four hours and forced to purge his camera of images (for further the crime of trying to film the delegates leaving). And it is this: they can harass and detain us only because so few of us are there. ...I have learned this from the random searches, detentions, angry security goon proddings and thumped police desks without number that I've had to suffer on account of Bilderberg: I have spent the week living in a nightmare possible future and many different terrible pasts. I have had the very tiniest glimpse into a world of spot checks and unchecked security powers. "official<ref>Charlie Skelton " information[http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/may/19/bilderberg-skelton-greece Our man at Bilderberg:Let's salt the slug in 2010]", Guardian, May 19, 2009</ref> *For the entire Guardian series by Charlie Skelton, see also Charlie Skelton's Bilderberg files. <ref>Charles Skelton [http://www.trunkerton.fsnetguardian.co.uk/bilderberg_group_info.htm world/series/charlie-skeltons-bilderberg-files Charlie Skelton's Bilderberg files], Guardian, May 2009</ref> ==Bilderberg Conferences (subsection)== See also [[Bilderberg Group InfoConferences]]. Includes:  ==Support & funding== The Congressional Record - US SenateAmerican Friends of Bilderbergs is an [[IRS]] approved charitable organization that has received regular contributions from corporations such as [[Exxon]], April 11[[Arco]] and [[IBM]]. Their meetings are funded by the [[Ford Foundation]], 1964the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] and the [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]].*<ref>David Rivera [http://www.4riemodernhistoryproject.comorg/mhp/rie%203ArticleDisplay.html Bilderbergs]php?Article=FinalWarn08-3 Final Warning: A History of the New World Order, Chapter 8. Includes3: The Congressional Record - US SenateBilderberg Group], April 11The Modern History Project, 1964accessed February 2010</ref> ==Members== ===American Friends of Bilderberg===The U.S.group is directed by [[Henry Kissinger]], [[David Rockefeller]], [[Paul Arthur Allaire]] and [[Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke]]. -----------===International steering committee=== *The international steering committee includes [[Conrad Black]], publisher of the ''London Telegraph'' and ''Jerusalem Post'' and newspapers throughout the U.S. and Canada; [[Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr.]], [[George J. Mitchell]], Kissinger and Rockefeller. <ref>[http://clinton4www.naraworldnetdaily.govcom/WHnews/EOParticle.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17214 The next Bilderberg meeting: Secret roster, agenda for Washington conference]", [[WorldNetDaily]], October 12, 1999</NSC/html/speeches/19991104ref> ===Permanent U.html Samuel RS. Berger, National Security Advisormembers===Permanent U.S. Remarks to members of the Bilderberg Steering Committeeinclude [[George W. Ball]], November 4[[Gabriel Hauge]], [[Richard C. Holbrooke]], 1999[[Winston Lord]], [[Bill Moyers]] and [[Paul Wolfowitz]]: "Strengthening . The permanent Bilderberg Secretariat is located at 1 Smidswater, the Hague, the Bipartisan Center: An Internationalist Agenda for AmericaNetherlands." Another address is sometimes reported at 2301 Da Leiden, the Netherlands... or see <ref>David Rivera [http://clinton3www.naramodernhistoryproject.govorg/WHmhp/EOP/NSC/html/speeches/19991104ArticleDisplay.php?Article=FinalWarn08-3 Final Warning: A History of the New World Order, Chapter 8.html Speech3: The Bilderberg Group]., The Modern History Project, accessed February 2010</ref>

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===BooksExternal articles===* [[Daniel EstulinPatrick Bond]] , "[http://www.amazonzcommunications.comorg/Truebilderbergers-beware-by-Storypatrick-Bilderbergbond Bilderbergers Beware: Populists confront US-GroupEuropean ‘.0001%’ in Washington]", ''Znet'', June 7, 2012.* William Bowles [http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/history/middle_east/news.php?q=1263668865 Bilderbergs of the World Unite!], Fourwinds10.com, January 15, 2010* Stephen Lendman [http:/dp/0979988624www.globalresearch.ca/refindex.php?context=va&aid=pd_sim_b_4 13808 Book Review: The True Story of the Bilderberg Group" and What They May Be Planning Now], [[Global Research]], June 1, 2009* Andrew G. Marshall, "[http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13738 The Bilderberg Plan for 2009: Remaking the Global Political Economy]", ISBN 978-0979988622Global Research, 2nd editionMay 26, February 2009 .* Will Banyan [http://martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles//june2008/slight_case_plagiarism.html critical reviewA Slight Case of Plagiarism?], Frost's Meditations, June 21, 2008* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/09_september/27/bilderberg.shtml The Bilderberg Group: global conspiracy or force for good? Exclusive BBC interview reveals the answers], [[Carroll QuigleyBBC]], ''September 25, 2005* Pepe Escobar [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE22Ak03.html The Anglo-American Establishment'' (Gsg & Assoc.masters of the universe], Asia Times Online, May 22, 1981).2003* Mike Peters, [http://www.xs4all.nl/~ac/global/achtergrond/bilderberg.htm The Bilderberg Group and the project of European unification], [Carroll Quigley[Lobster]], ''Tragedy and HopeAugust 2001* Madeleine Bunting [http: A History //www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4193031,00.html Weekend break for the World in Our Time'' (Gsg & Assocglobal elite.The annual meeting of the secretive Bilderberg group is underway, much to the delight of the conspiracy theorists], 1975).Guardian, May 25, 2001* Daniel Estulin [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/356832.stm Nato promised 'hell'in Kosovo], BBC News, May 30, 1999 * Marc Fisher [http://www.thirdworldtravelerwashingtonpost.com/One_World_Governmentwp-srv/Bilderberg_Grouppolitics/special/clinton/stories/jordan012798.html htm First Friend Jordan Is Comfortable With Power. And With Himself], [[The Bilderberg GroupWashington Post]]'', (Independent Publishers GroupJanuary 27, 2005). 1998* [http://www.danielestulinufomind.com/?op=libros&libros=verdadera&idioma=enmisc/1997/jun/d26-002.shtml Press Release for Meeting in Atlanta] (, PR Newswire, June 12-15, 1997* Peter Thompson, Holly Sklar [http://www.globalresearchthirdworldtraveler.cacom/Trilateralism/indexBilderberg.php?context=va&aid=13808 Reviewedhtml Bilderberg and the West] by , [[Stephen LendmanSouth End Press]]), 1980

(Extensively researched and documented scholarly works by a professor of history at the Georgetown University ===External resources===* [[School of Foreign ServiceDaniel Estulin]] and mentor to U[http://www.thirdworldtraveler.Scom/One_World_Government/Bilderberg_Group. President Bill Clintonhtml Excerpts from the book: The Bilderberg Group], these booksThe World Traveler, completed in Independent Publishers Group, 2005* David Allen Rivera [http://web.archive.org/web/20040902195545/http://www.viewfromthewall.com/ Final Warning: A History of the New World Order], View from the 1960sWall, are now somewhat dated but provide excellent historical backgroundConspiracy, February 2004* [http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/EntityDisplay.php?Entity=Bilderberg Bilderberg Group], Modern History Project, accessed February 2010* Ivan Fraser, Mark Beeston [http://www.) theforbiddenknowledge.com/manipulation/index.htm The Brotherhood and the Manipulation of Society], The Forbidden Knowledge, accessed April 2010

=== External links =Documents which reference meetings====* angelo, Samuel R. Berger [http://wwwclinton4.bilderbergnara.ro Bilderberg and the West], excerpted from the book ''Trilateralism'', edited by Rimbauer David ([[South End Press]], 2009).* Peter Thompson, [http:gov/WH/www.thirdworldtraveler.comEOP/TrilateralismNSC/Bilderberg.html Bilderberg and the West], excerpted from the book ''Trilateralism'', edited by Holly Sklar ([[South End Press]], 1980).*[http:/speeches/www19991104.ufomind.com/misc/1997/jun/d26-002.shtml Press Release for html Address to the June 12-15, 1997 Meeting in Atlanta], reprint from PRNewswire.*Marc Fisher, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/jordan012798.htm First Friend Jordan Is Comfortable With Power. And With HimselfBilderberg Steering Committee], ''The Washington Post'', January 27White House, 1998.* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/356832.stm Nato promised 'hell' in Kosovo], BBC News Online, May 30, 1999; see ''The Bilderberg conspiracy''.* [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17083 Clinton, pope join Bilderbergers. Secret meeting Office of global moversthe Press Secretary, shakers in Portugal], WorldNetDaily, May 26November 11, 1999; [http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_052699_bilderberg.html also].* [http://www.theindependentearth-dots.comde/stories/082999/opi_letters29bilderberg-konferenzen-674.html (U.S. Senator Chuck) Hagel clarifies association with BilderbergMeetings], ''The Independent''Google Earth KMZ-File, August 28, 1999.1954-2007* Madeleine Bunting, [http://www.guardianibiblio.co.ukorg/lia/president/ArchiveEisenhowerLibrary/Articlefinding_aids/0,4273Jackson,4193031,00_CD_Papers.html Weekend break for the global elite. The annual meeting of the secretive Bilderberg group is underway, much to the delight of the conspiracy theorists]Jackson, ''London Guardian'', May 25, 2001; [http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_052501_bilderbergC.html also]D.* Chip BerletPapers, "[http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/psn/2001/msg01484.html Exasperated1931-1967], November 14Biblio, 2001.July 1973* Will Hutton, [http://www.bilderberg4rie.orgcom/ "The High Priests of Globalisation"], Bilderbergrie%203.org html Bilderbergs (This is not the organization's web siteBB).*[http://www.namebase.org/sources/fC.html Bilderberg Group. Meeting Participants. June 3Congressional Record -6, 1999 in PortugalUS Senate].* Mike Peters, [http://www.xs4all.nl/~ac/global/achtergrond/bilderberg.htm The Bilderberg Group and the project of European unification], ''Lobster'' 32; * Jon Ronson, "Them: Adventures with Extremists", ''Picador''April 11, 2001.1964*Daniel Estulin, [http://www.counterpunchibiblio.org/estulin05272005.html Infiltrating Bilderberg 2005: "Murio la Verdad"] ''CounterPunch'', May 27, 2005.*Alexander Panetta, "[http:/lia/www.theglobeandmail.compresident/servletEisenhowerLibrary/storyfinding_aids/RTGAMDDE's_Diary.20060608.wbilder0608/BNStory/National/home Secretive, powerful Bilderberg group meets near Ottawa]", ''The Globe html Scope and Mail'', June 8, 2006. * Andrew G. Marshall, "[http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9270 Barack O’Bilderberg: Picking the PresidentContent Note DDE Diaries]", ''Global Research'', June 9, 2008Biblio. * [http://www.earth-dots.de/bilderberg-konferenzen-674.html Bilderberg Meetings 1954-2007: A Google Earth KMZ-File]*[[Charlie Skelton]]org, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/may/19/bilderberg-skelton-greece Our man at Bilderberg: Let's salt the slug in accessed February 2010]", ''[[The Guardian (UK)]]'', May 19, 2009. ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdPGuXGiOq0 See interview] by [[Alex Jones]])* 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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