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Bilderberg participants by country
Links to Grattan Healy's pages listing recent Bilderberg
participants by country:
Austria
--------- Belgium
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Canada --------- Denmark
--------- Finland
--------- France
--------- Germany
--------- Greece
--------- Iceland
--------- Ireland
--------- Italy
--------- Luxembourg
--------- Netherlands
--------- Norway
--------- Portugal
--------- Spain
--------- Sweden
--------- Switzerland
--------- Turkey
--------- United
Kingdom --------- USA
Miscellaneous
(Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Yugoslavia)
Self-Declared
Internationalist participants
Alphabetical
list of ALL participants
What are Bilderberg Conferences all about?
TG 08Feb00 - The Bilderberg Secretariat proclaims the conferences to be
'...private in order to encourage frank and open discussion'. Frank and
open discussion is a good thing in any forum but when those doing the
discussing are some of the very most powerful financiers and media tycoons
in the world it begs the question: If what they discuss is for the good
of ordinary people why not publicise it! Isn't it a perverted use of
the word 'open' when no-one can find out what they're saying?
Is Bilderberg a secret conspiracy?
When such rich and powerful people meet up in secret, with military
intelligence managing their security, with hardly a whisper escaping of
what goes on inside, people are right to be suspicious. But the true power
of Bilderberg comes from the fact that participants are in a bubble,
sealed off from reality and the devastating implications on the ground of
the black-science economic solutions on the table.
No, it's not a 'conspiracy'. The world's leading financiers and foreign
policy strategists don't get together at Bilderberg to draw up their
'secret plans for the future'. It's subtler than that. These meetings
create an artificial 'consensus' in an attempt to spellbind visiting
politicians and and other men of influence. Blair has fallen for this
hook, line and sinker. It's about reinforcing - often to the very people
who are on the edge of condemning Globalisation - the illusion that
Globalisation is 'good', 'popular' and that it's inevitable.
Bilderberg is an extremely influential lobbying group. That's not to
say though that the organisers don't have a hidden agenda, they do, namely
accumulation of wealth and power into their own hands whilst explaining to
the participants that globalisation is for the good of all. It is also a
very good forum for 'interviewing' potential future political figures such
as Clinton (1991) and Blair (1993). [see above for more on this]
The ideology put forward at the Bilderberg conferences is that what's
good for banking and big business is good for the mere mortals of the
world. Silently banished are the critical voices, those that might point
out that debt is spiralling out of control, that wealth is being sucked
away from ordinary people and into the hands of the faceless corporate
institutions, that millions are dying as a direct result of the global
heavyweight Rockefeller/Rothschild economic strategies.
When looking at one of the (partially reliable) participant lists it
should be remembered that quite a number of participants are invited in an
attempt to get them on-board the globalisation project. These are
carefully selected people of influence, who have been openly critical of
globalisation. Examples are Jonathan Porritt (Bilderberg 1999) and Will
Hutton (Bilderberg 1997) but there are many others. Most of these kinds of
participants are happy to speak about the conference afterwards, and may
even be refreshingly critical.
The Bilderberg organisers are accepted by those 'in the know' as the
prophets of Capitalism. Will Hutton, deputy Editor of The Observer
newspaper in London and left-leaning Economist, described private clubs of
the elite as masterminded by 'The High Priests of Globalisation'. The
ecclesiastical allusion is not accidental. The Bilderberg high-priests are
a force against good, out to wipe morality from the earth. For the
organisers Bilderberg Conferences are an annual ideological assault by the
world's most power-hungry people. Not content with owning unimaginable
amounts of money and property they want to use that wealth to acquire even
more power for themselves. Power is the most dangerous and addictive drugs
known to man. Will the craving be satisfied when a handful of men own and
control everything on earth?
And just like the Nazi party in the 1930's the global Capitalist Elite
are rising in power by peaceful means. There are some very uncomfortable
and unexplained connections between Bilderberg and the Nazis through the
Conference's founder Prince
Bernhard.
These crown princes of capital use violence at the sharp end - the
destruction of dissent - the repossession of homes men and women have
worked a lifetime for - needless deaths from starvation and geopolitical
machinations - this violence is notable by its absence from the annual
meetings.
One can't help but wonder, when the Bilderberg organisers, Rothschild,
Rockefeller, Kissinger and the rest have completed their project of
enclosing all global goods and services into their own hands, enclosing
too the media to stop people freely discussing what they are up to. What
then?? What happens when the men who would be gods turn out to be the
global devils?
Who is behind Bilderberg?
Bilderberg is run by a Steering Group - if you're
wondering who's responsible for so much of the capital-friendly and
dissent-crushing law-making, poverty and general misery in the world this
may be the place to look. Up-to-date lists are available from the Bilderberg
Secretariat. This is the closest approximation to a shadow
transatlantic government. And this is another hidden agenda at Bilderberg.
There may be other groups pulling the strings behind even the Steering
Group possibly even high degree occult groups such as The Masons or
Illuminati! [eg.]
- but that is 'conspiracy theory', Bilderberg is not.
There must certainly be some sociopathic minds behind Bilderberg since
they go to so much trouble to promote policies that lead to exploitation,
inequality and despair. These individuals seem oddly switched off from the
suffering they are clearly causing. Surely only pernicious people would
want to control the ideology of the world's mainstream press, and
undermine natural political discourse. Public opinion and democratic
institutions are a threat when you want to own the world.
The perverse objective of the Bilderberg Steering Group is to dress
totalitarian ideology up to appear rational and push it out,
unattributable, for mass consumption under Chatham House rules. Meanwhile,
outside the Bilder-bubble, 'god-is-money' globalisation is the new
religion. The greedy are given a pat on the back as they plunder both the
earth and do their best to destroy the human spirit.
22Nov00 - Bilderberg's Magic Wand of Power
Bilderberg, it is said, has an uncanny knack of inviting people who
later reach very powerful elected positions. It is another one of those
surely unprovable allegations, that the most powerful people in the world
are selected or 'interviewed' for supposedly democratically elected jobs,
including heads of state, at Bilderberg.
Hard evidence of anything to do with Bilderberg policy-wise is almost
impossible to get hold of. All venues are swept for bugs (not that we were
using any at Genval this June!) and minutes of the steering group are
definitely not publicly available.
Nevertheless, circumstantial evidence suggests Bilderberg really do
have a magic wand. Take a look at the list of important career moves for
the following democratic appointments:
- Bill Clinton - Head of State - USA
Attends Bilderberg meeting, Germany, 1991 - gets Presidential
Nomination Aug 1992
- Tony Blair - effective Head of State - UK
Attends Bilderberg meeting, Greece, 1993 - becomes party leader Jul
1994 - becomes Prime Minister May 1997
- Jack Santer - previous Head of State (sacked for corruption) -
Europe
Attends Bilderberg, Germany, 1991 - becomes European President Jan
1995
- Romano Prodi - present Head of State - Europe
On Bilderberg Steering Committee mid 1980's, attends Bilderberg
meeting, Portugal, Jun 1999 - sworn in as President of Europe Sep 1999
(term lasts until Jan 2005)
- George Robertson - CEO - NATO
Attends Bilderberg meeting, Scotland, 1998 - sworn in as Secretary
General of NATO Aug 1999
A remarkable series of coincidences.
Why not see if your favourite (or maybe despised?) head of state went
to Bilderberg a year or two before an important success in his or her
career? Why not search the attendance lists on the Bilderberg meeting
pages?
http://www.bilderberg.org/1999.htm
is a good place to start.
I have not dug deep for this information, a few minutes on the internet
is enough to put two and two together here. They, how you say, take the
piss! Bon chance!
Do please let me know if you find other Heads of State in the good old
free western world world that got one of those magical Bilderberg invites,
before they hit the big time.
cheers
Tony
btw - The President of the European Commission is the unelected
President of Europe. For those of you that haven't been told yet the
European Commission is an unelected cabinet government for a corporate
controlled European superstate. This apparatus is looking decidedly
fascist in its unaccountable top-down structure with policy being
'suggested' to the Commission by the European Round Table of
Industrialists, a group the current Bilderberg Chairman Etienne Davignon
helped found. It really is a small world.
Even MEP's will tell you their role is merely to rubber stamp
directives issued by the Commission. It is verging on the critical that
treaties are not signed and what admittedly imperfect national sovereignty
we have left is not ceeded to such an organisation which is being given
increasing power without proper accountability.
Democratic Europe yes, Corporate Superstate no thanks very much.
The Ashdown Diaries - Volume One 1988-1997
Penguin - 2000 - ISBN 0 14 029775 8 - pp.42-44
Thursday 11 May, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Bilderberg Conference
At 2 o’clock to Heathrow to catch a flight to Santiago de Compostela
for the Bilderberg Conference – described to me as ‘fifty people who
run the world and twenty hangers on’. No doubt which category I am in!
I discovered that the people here include Henry Kissinger, Lord
Carrington (1), The King and Queen of Spain, The Queen of Holland,
Phillipe Gonzalez the prime minister of Spain, Wilfried Martens the Prime
Minister of Belgium, Dr. Franz Vranitzky the Chancellor of Austria, John
Smith (2) and too many Tory Government Ministers to name.
Dinner was excellent. I ate a dozen oysters and a load of shellfish.
This could be fun.
Afterwards, Cecil Parkinson (3), John Smith and I sat in armchairs
drinking brandy. Cecil turned out to be rather engaging and astonishingly
frank about the Government's position. He left for bed early and John and
I continued for another hour or so, accompanied by considerably more
brandy.
Smith believes that the Labour Party can do it by themselves and are
well on their way to just this. He rejects the idea of pacts. I got the
impression of somebody who has a very quick but narrow mind. I am not sure
whether this is his natural way or comes from belonging to the Labour
party since birth. He is an engaging talker, but there seems to be
something missing. Everything seems to be politics.
Friday, 12 May, Santiago de Compostela
Bilderberg Conference
A bit of a thick head following John Smith and the brandy last night. A
brief breakfast then into the meeting. We sat in a glass-panelled room
overlooking the sea, slightly crowded together, Nevertheless very
congenial. The first discussion was on recent developments in Eastern
Europe. Tim Garton Ash (4) gave an exceptionally good talk.
In the afternoon a discussion on arms control, chaired by Carrington,
in which Henry Kissinger and Teo Sommer (the editor of Die Zeit)
gave an inside view. Fascinating stuff. Kissinger was a bit hesitant to
start with but his summing-up was brilliant.
In the afternoon we talked about Europe, Giovanni Agnelli (5) and Lloyd
Bentsen (6) giving their versions. The show was stolen, however, by Peter
Sutherland, (7) who is very very bright. The general view is that the
Soviet Union’s economy is in the most wretched state and bound to fail,
along with those of most of the Eastern Bloc countries. The West should
not encourage the break-up of the Warsaw Pact, but should help the process
of rapprochment as far as it can.
Saturday 13 May, Santiago de Compostela
Bilderberg Conference
US/Soviet relations in the morning. This was by far and away our best
session, with Rosanne Ridgeway, the Chief of the Disarmament Staff in the
White House, giving us her view. She is a remarkable lady with seemingly a
firm grip on everything around her. However, I found her attitude to
modernization quite chilling. Apparently the Soviets are about to offer
deep cuts in conventional forces down to parity. She didn’t think this
made any difference to the question of stationing modernized nuclear
weapons in Germany. She must be mad!
In afternoon a long discussion on monetary union in Europe. Nearly
everybody attacked Mrs. Thatcher, even her closest admirers. The only
exception was Cecil Parkinson, who put up a spirited loyal defence, but
didn’t make any sense and had his leg pulled by everyone else.
Sunday 14 May, Santiago de Compostela
Bilderberg Conference
Contacted by ITN at 11.00am, [how interesting that ITN failed to tell
the public Paddy was at Bilderberg - ed.] who told me that Owen had held a
meeting the night before and the SDP had decided they were no longer a
national party. To put a brave face on it, Owen has apparently indicated
that he will continue with ‘guerilla tactics’, whatever that means.
ITN asked me for a comment and I tried not to sound triumphalist. I
deliberately left the door open to the possibility of a merger, though, of
course, this is not in reality a practical option. But we must look as
welcoming as possible.
At last! This long wretched period – at least in so far as Owen is
concerned – appears over. I have not felt so cheered in years.
A brilliant cloudless day. I spent the afternoon by the swimming pool,
reading through the proofs of Citizens Britain (8) and making further
amendments. The trick will be to ensure that reviewers see it not just as
a motley collection of ideas, but as a framework for the new shape of
progressive politics in Britain.
Footnotes:
- Lord Carrington had just finished his appointment as Secretary
General of NATO, before this he held various Cabinet positions in
Conservative Governments
- Rt Hon John Smith MP (1938-94). At the time the Shadow Chancellor of
the Exchequer. He subsequently became Leader of the Labour Party until
his sudden and unexpected death. MP (Labour) for Lanarkshire North
(1970-83), Monklands East (1983-94).
- Secretary of State for Energy. MP (Conservative) for Enfield West
(Nov 1970-74), Hertfordshire South (1974-83), Hertsmere (1983-92). He
now sits in the House of Lords.
- Fellow of St Anthony’s College, Oxford, Author of many books and
articles on international affairs, especially Eastern Europe.
- International industrialist.
- The 1988 Democratic Party nominee for US Vice-President. He served
in Clinton’s first Administration as Secretary to the Treasury.
- Formerly a European Commissioner, now an international businessman.
- At the beginning of 1989, I had decided to write a book as a part of
my plan to reverse the decline of the Party and start building for the
future. The aim was to mark out a core of ideas which would articulate
what we stood for and explain why we still had a role. The book was
completed in the summer and published for our Autumn Conference.
from: The Ashdown Diaries - Volume One 1988-1997 - Penguin - 2000 -
ISBN 0 14 029775 8
 What
is the Power Elite? - Opening paragraphs of C Wright Mills' classic 1950's
book of the same name
Introduction to: The Power Elite, C
Wright Mills, Oxford University Press, 1956. ISBN 0 19 500680-1
The Higher Circles
The powers of ordinary men are circumscribed by the everyday worlds in
which they live, yet even in these rounds of job, family, and neighborhood
they often seem driven by forces they can neither understand nor govern.
‘Great changes’ are beyond their control, but affect their conduct and
outlook none the less. The very framework of modern society confines them
to projects not their own, but from every side, such changes now press
upon the men and women of the mass society, who accordingly feel that they
are without purpose in an epoch in which they are without power.
But not all men are in this sense ordinary. As the means of information
and of power are centralized, some men come to occupy positions in
American society from which they can look down upon, so to speak, and by
their decisions mightily affect, the everyday worlds of ordinary men and
women. They are not made by their jobs; they set up and break down jobs
for thousands of others; they are not confined by simple family
responsibilities; they can escape. They may live in many hotels and
houses, but they are bound by no one community. They need not merely
‘meet the demands of the day and hour’; in some part, they create
these demands, and cause others to meet them. Whether or not they profess
their power, their technical and political experience of it far transcends
that of the underlying population. What Jacob Burckhardt said of ‘great
men,’ most Americans might well say of their elite: ‘They are all that
we are not.”
The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to
transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in
positions to make decisions having major consequences. Whether they do or
do not make such decisions is less important than the fact that they do
occupy such pivotal positions: their failure to act, their failure to make
decisions, is in itself an act that is often of greater consequence than
the decisions they do make. For they are in command of the major
hierarchies and organisations of modern society. They rule the big
corporations. They run the machinery of the state and claim its
prerogatives. They direct the military establishment. They occupy the
strategic command posts of the social structure, in which are now centered
the effective means of the power and the wealth and the celebrity which
they enjoy.
The power elite are not solitary rulers. Advisers and consultants,
spokesmen and opinion-makers are often the captains of their higher
thought and decision. Immediately below the elite are the professional
politicians of the middle levels of power, in the Congress and in the
pressure groups, as well as the new and old upper classes of town and city
and region. Mingling with them, in curious ways which we shall explore,
are those professional celebrities who live by being continually displayed
but are never, so long as they remain celebrities, displayed enough. If
such celebrities are not at the head of any dominating hierarchy, they do
often have the power to distract the attention of the public or afford
sensations to the masses, or, more directly, to gain the ear of those who
do occupy positions of direct power. More or less unattached, as critics
of morality and technicians of power, as spokesman of God and creators of
mass sensibility, such celebrities and consultants are part of the
immediate scene in which the drama of the elite is enacted. But that drama
itself is centered in the command posts of the major institutional
hierarchies....
05Aug99 - George Robertson confirmed as new
Secretary General of NATO
Is it mere coincidence that the only Government Minister named (there
may have been others) as an attendee of last year's conference in the UK,
when Kosovo was so clearly discussed, was the same George Robertson, and
that the UK's previous NATO Sec Gen., Lord Carrington, was in the chair?
Paul Keenan
mbi@btinternet.com
NATO LEADERS CONTROLLED BY BILDERBERG
To understand who controls the leadership of NATO, the world's biggest
military operation and now the 'World Army', you only have to look at the
connection of the NATO Secretary-Generals to the Bilderberg Group.
The earlier sec-gens do not appear to have been Bilderberg attendees,
but if you know different, please let me know. These were Lord Ismay
(1952-1957), Paul Henri Spaak (1957-1961), Dirk U. Stikker (1961-1964),
and Manlio Brosio (1964-1971).
But from then on, the leader of NATO has become a Bilderberg
appointment.
They are:
- Joseph Luns (1971-1984) Bilderberg Group
- Lord Carrington (1984-1988) Bilderberg Group, chairman 1991-1998).
- Manfred Wörner (1988-1994) Bilderberg Group
- Willy Claes (1994-1995) Bilderberg Group
- Javier Solana (1995-1999) Bilderberg Group
- Lord Robertson (1999- ) Bilderberg Group
How much easier it therefore becomes to instigate Bilderberg policy in
the Gulf, Bosnia, Kosovo, etc., etc..
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Bilderberg offices - In Europe and North America
These numbers have changed as Maja Banck and the Bilderberg
secretariat attempts to evade press and public scrutiny. Please email
or otherwise contact
me if you find these telephone numbers are not working and/or you
find new numbers and addresses.
Current Bilderberg Steering Group pamphlets listing steering group
members are available free of charge from these offices, as well as past
attendance lists. All press enquiries should be directed to this office.
New European Office (Secret Location: Leiden)
Maja Banck-Polderman (Executive Secretary)
PO Box 3017
2301 DA Leiden
The Netherlands
Phone +31 71 5280 521
Fax +31 71 5280 522
Old European office - no longer in use:
Maja Banck-Polderman
Bilderberg Meetings
Amstel 216
1017 AJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Old phone no: +31 (20) 625 0252
Old Fax: +31 (20) 624 4299 (old fax number - may be out of date)
Possible ex-directory phone numbers at The Old Bilderberg Towers,
Amstel 216, by a anon. source: 626-8932, 626-8932, 624-1672 (phone of
Victor Halberstaat?), 620-6278, 420-7075, 420-7400 (pretty def. Bilderberg
phone), 620-9104. add +31 (20) to all if dialling from outside Amsterdam.
North America
Charles W. Muller
American Friends of Bilderbergs, Inc.
477 Madison Ave., 6th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Phone: +1 (212) 879 0545
Bilderberg Public Relations.
Charles W Muller or Ronnie Glattauer of
Murden & Co., Georgia, USA,
Phone: +1 (770) 945 8921
Another office reported at:
Bilderberger Group
1, Smidswater,
Den Haag,
Netherlands
Phone (070) 45 21 21
British Prime minister, Tony Blair, gives a
misleading answer about his 1993 Bilderberg trip when quizzed at question
time
There's heaps of evidence that he was there, so why bother to deny the
trip? What has Blair got to hide?
Blair replies to parliamentary question on
Bilderberg participation - From Commons written answers March 1998:
"Mr. Christopher Gill MP: To ask the Prime Minister which
members of his Government have attended meetings of the Bilderberg Group.
[34298]
The Prime Minister [holding answer 16 March 1998]: None. "
Might the PM have forgotten the trip? No, this reply is misleading.
Blair attended the 1993 Bilderberg Conference in Athens. He even belatedly
declared it in the register of members' interests. His presence was
reported in, to take just one source, The London Times, 4th March 1996,
page 16 in an article entitled Wall Street, treason and Pat Buchanan by
William Rees-Mogg, who attended Bilderberg 1993 in Athens too.
What we are not told is that anything that took place
before Blair was made PM is deemed not to have existed when replying to
parliamentary questions. How convenient!
Five proofs that Tony Blair was at the 1993
Conference in Athens... fuller details below
-
William Rees-Mogg writing in The Times who was also there
-
1993 Bilderberg Press Release
-
Parliamentary Memorandum
-
The Times Diary
-
The Guardian
Firstly, confirmation from eyewitness and London Times columnist,
William Rees-Mogg on 4th March 1996
..."Last time I went to a Bilderberg conference, it was held in
Athens, about three years ago. Tony Blair was there, not yet leader of the
Labour Party, Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel were there, the Queen of The
Netherlands was there. It was all pleasantly grand. ..... The Queen of The
Netherlands is as Euro-fanatic as Ted Heath, Tony Blair is a modest good
European, I have been an anti-Maastricht campaigner and Mr Black is a
Canadian neo-realist who owns 500 newspapers."
from 04Mar96 - London Times article: "WALL STREET, TREASON AND PAT
BUCHANAN."
Secondly, confirmed in a press release issued by Bilderberg
Secretariat at the conference:
(attendance list extracted from Press Release)...............
S, Carl Bildt; Prime Minister
ICE, Bjorn Bjarnason; Member of Parliament
CDN, Conrad M Black; Chairman, The Telegraph plc
GB, Tony Blair; Member of Parliament (Shadow Home Secretary, Labor) <===HERE
IS BLAIR!
N, Erik G.; Managing Director and CEO, Braathens SAFE
IL, Connor Brady; Editor, The Irish Times
GB, Rudric Braithwaite; Foreign Policy adviser to Prime Minister
............(continues)
Thirdly, confirmation from a Memorandum submitted by the Parliamentary
Commissioner for Standards:
"Complaint against Mr Kenneth Clarke 1. Mrs Lynn Riley, of
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, wrote on 28 February 1997 to a Member of the
House, alleging that Mr Kenneth Clarke MP had failed to register `the free
trip and accommodation he received from the Bilderberg Group ... unlike
Tony Blair who attended the same meeting'. She enclosed a letter from Mr
Clarke dated 6 September 1995 in which he states that `my recollection is
that I paid for my flight but that I was accommodated while I was there'.
The Member passed the correspondence on to me……………………….
5. Mr Clarke subsequently explained that he and Mr Blair considered
that they were attending the conference as representatives of the
Government and the Opposition respectively, and stated that `I was quite
confident that I was at the time meeting the rules applying to Ministers,
and it did not occur to me that the new rules concerning registration
could apply to this visit'. "
Fourthly, confirmation in the London Times Diary
The London Times: diary, 24 May 1995, p16:
"With concern about sleaze in mind, Tony Blair has belatedly
listed in the updated Register of Members' Interests (published tomorrow)
a visit he made in 1993 to the Bilderberg Conference in Athens as Shadow
Home Secretary. His companion, Kenneth Clarke, suffers no such qualms, he
hasn't registered the trip."
Fifthly, confirmation in The Guardian, 29May97, in article headed
"GALLOWAY CLEARED IN SAUDI CASE."
By DAVID HENCKE WESTMINSTER CORRESPONDENT.
"Committee backs Downey report on MP's role in deportation case
.... "The former chancellor Kenneth Clarke was also cleared of any
major breach of Commons rules after allegations about his attendance at a
conference in Greece with Tony Blair. The committee agreed in a report
published with Sir Gordon that any breach of the rules on registration was
"relatively minor". Mr Clarke allegedly failed to register a
free trip and accommodation at the Bilderberg Conference on European and
world affairs in April 1993 when he was home secretary. Mr Clarke paid his
own air fare, but his accommodation was provided by the hosts.
GUARDIAN 29/07/97 P6
Chronology of Blair's rise to power
One possible reason why the Prime Minister has lied to the House of
Commons about attending the 1993 Bilderberg meeting might be that it was
the first stage of a business-driven, corporate press aided, selection
process for his rise to political office. An 'interview' for the top job
in Britain. Another is that he has been to more of these meetings than
official Bilderberg attendance lists admit to. [see
my article about Blair's unofficial presence at the 1998 conference in
Scotland]
1993 - April 22nd-25th - Athens, Blair attends Bilderberg
1994 - July 21st - Blair becomes party leader by block votes [article]
1997 - May 2nd - Blair becomes Prime Minister
1998 - the rest, a miserable history of betrayal of working people
Other Parliamentary Bilderberg questions
Commons - Prime Minister Tony Blair's written answers (20 May 1999)
Bilderberg Group
Mr. John Bercow MP: To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his
answer to the hon. Member for Hereford (Mr. Keetch) of 7 May 1999,
Official Report, columns 476-77, on the Bilderberg Group, what official (i)
transport and (ii) funds have been used to facilitate attendance at
Bilderberg meetings of members of his Government; which members have
attended meetings; what reports they have made on the meetings; and what
subsequent communication they have had with others attending on subjects
discussed at the meetings. [84213] [John Bercow MP]
The Prime Minister: As far as I am aware, only one member of this
Government--the Defence Secretary--has attended a meeting of the
Bilderberg Group. He provided a detailed account of his attendance in
answers to the hon. Members for Ludlow (Christopher Gill MP) on 23 July
1998, Official Report, column 609, and for Hereford (John Keetch MP) on 20
July 1998, Official Report, column 434.
Commons - Written Answers (8 Apr 1998) Bilderberg Group
Mr. Nicholas Winterton MP: To ask the President of the Board of
Trade what assessment she has made of the operations and influence on
world trade of the Bilderberg Group. [37923]
Mrs. Roche: The Department has made no such assessments.
Commons - Written Answers (7 Apr 1998) Bilderberg Group
Mr. Nicholas Winterton MP: To ask the Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food what representations he has received on the influence
of the Bilderberg group on world agricultural prices. [37924]
Mr. Rooker: No such representations have been received.
Commons - Prime Minister Tony Blair's written Answers (30 Mar 1998)
Bilderberg Group
Mr. Christopher Gill MP: To ask the Prime Minister which members of
his Government have attended meetings of the Bilderberg Group. [34298]
The Prime Minister [holding answer 16 March 1998]: None.
Letter From Christopher Gill MP, seriously
concerned about the Bilderbergers' influence
CHRISTOPHER GILL RD MP
HOUSE OF COMMONS
LONDON SW1A OAA
Mr. T. Gosling,
21 November 1998
Thank you for your letter of the 9th November 1998 expressing your
concern about the Bilderberg Group.
I do not for one moment discount the possibility of there being some
very powerful forces at work and that their intention is to undermine and
destroy the nation state.
That being said I feel sure that you will agree that we have to be
practical about these things and I am at a loss to know how we as
individuals can counteract the activities of such bodies as the
Bilderbergers. Given the reluctance of elected politicians to acknowledge
the nature of the very real threat to our democracy it seems inconceivable
that they will openly attack these groups and the thought that they might
actually proscribe them is just too fanciful for words. Neither am I aware
of any mechanism by which individuals can be prevented from holding
private meetings if they so choose nor of compelling them to publish their
agenda and resolutions. The fact that their intentions may be treasonable
is hardly the point if national governments see nothing wrong in their
activities.
It seems to me that the only sensible course of action as far as people
like ourselves are concerned is to concentrate all our efforts on trying
to convince one or other of the main political parties, firstly, to
recognise the enormity of the threat to our democratic rights and
secondly, to come out of their corner fighting to defend them. As a
democrat I believe in using the system to achieve my political objectives.
Where this belief falls down is when there is a conspiracy to deny choice
and I don't mind saying that I dread the lang term consequences of
continuing on down that particular road.
At the end of the day the people will win but how much more desirable
it is that they should win by the ballot rather than by the bullet.
Please be assured that I am doing everything I know how, within the
Conservative Party, to bring about a fundamental realignment before it is
altogether too late.
Yours sincerely,
Christopher Gill MP
Fear Not the Forces of Darkness
7th July 1999 - Tony Gosling
There has been some particularly nasty disinformation around this
summer's Bilderberg Conferences including a false participant list and a
message on the 'June 18th global day of action' list from a made-up
organisation accusing me of being taken in by Nazis [www.bilderberg.org/1999.htm#warning].
Please do check Bilderberg out for youself on the site I created free
of speculation and racist claptrap to fill the knowledge gap from those on
the 'left' and 'greens' about these global manipulators.
The alignment of the most powerful banking, media, and political forces
at unaccountable forums must be taken seriously. Will Hutton calls them
'The High Priests of Globalisation'. Vandana Shiva, at last years People's
Summit in Birmingham, called Globalisation: 'The New Totalitatianism'. We
would hardly expect Bilderberg - which was started by Prince Bernhard of
the Netherlands - card carrying member of the SS at the beginning of World
War II [www.bilderberg.org/bernhard.htm]
- to be open about their activities or averse to a bit of disinformation.
Globalisation of their ownership power is the goal. 'Public opinion'
and 'democracy' are competition that must be taken out of the picture. The
annual meetings attempt to persuade powerful people who are critical of
Globalisation to 'get on board'. This leaves the prime movers behing the
pseudo-philosophy of Globalisation as a rich and powerful clutch of
unaccountable 'High Priests': David Rockefeller, Evelyn De Rothschild,
Henry Kissinger etc.. The Blairs and the Clintons of this world are merely
their 'followers'.
Bilderberg appears to allow information to leak out to right-wing
organisations like The Spotlight in the US so that information can be
discredited as the rantings of extremists. Bilderberg produces official
participant lists - which are on my site - but I have testimonial evidence
[www.bilderberg.org/1998.htm#Blair]
these lists are only partial and that heads of state, influential bankers
and others are 'missed off' the list to make the meeting seem less
newsworthy.
Anything you can do to discredit the lies and prompt informed
discussion about the Bilderbergers amongst journalists and in the
newspapers/radio/TV etc. will be a service to the public.
I think we are entering a very dangerous time in history with the
prospect of Global Corporate Rule moving ever nearer. These corporations
and their top-down structures are totalitarian and apparently immortal. It
is important that people are informed as to the dangers but they stand
little chance of that with the media becoming idealogically narrower and
every day being consolidated into fewer hands.
It is worth remembering that the solution to the cloud of darkness
these great de-humanised profit machines cast across our world may well be
spiritual rather than political.
16Feb99 - Tony's open letter to the Bilderbergers
- with reply
This request to speak at the conference was an attempt to raise
pivotal issues that the Bilderbergers seem unwilling to discuss:
The rights of indigenous peoples to self-determination and the
rights of all of us to land and freedom from the slavery of debt.
14 Lancaster Road
St. Werburghs
Bristol
BS2 9UP
Bilderberg Meetings
Amstel 216
1017 AJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tuesday 16 February 1999
Dear Sir/Madam,
My previous letter [November 1998] seems to have been mislaid by
yourselves. Please could you put my mind at rest by replying to the
following. I am set to have a very busy spring and it would be difficult
for me were I called to speak at short notice.
I would like the opportunity to make a three minute presentation on
international land rights and economics at this spring’s Bilderberg
meeting.
I realise the usual form is that presentations are made by invitation
only but I’m sure you would not wish to be totally exclusive.
I’m certain you’ll agree it would be as well to avoid the mistakes
that might come if any group pursues ‘tunnel vision’.
I will not be offended if you cannot fit me in but I would like the
courtesy of a reply, I am sure you are aware of the central importance of
private property rights to the success, or otherwise, of international
finance.
yours,
Tony Gosling
23Feb99 - Response:
BILDERBERG MEETINGS
Amstel 216
1017 AJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone +31 20 625 0252
Fax +31 20 624 4299
Mr Tony Gosling
14 Lancaster Road
St. Werburghs
BRISTOL BS2 9UP
England
23 February 1999
Dear Mr. Gosling
In response to your letter of 16 February 1999 I must
confirm that Bilderberg decides on its own program and that presentations
are solely by invitation.
Sincerely,
M. Bank
Executive Secretary
World government on the way
Tony Gosling - May 1998
When 'the high priests of globalisation' hold their annual gathering in
the UK you might expect it to make the news. But the media chiefs in
attendance conspire to keep Bilderberg Conferences as far the public eye
as possible.
This extraordinary cartel of the world's richest bankers, media barons,
multinational bosses, economists and politicians have been meeting
secretly since 1954. Their alleged plutocratic plans, such as the EEC and
EMU, later appear 'just to happen'.
A closer look at three central Bilderberg figures is illuminating.
Conrad Black, boss of the Telegraph and Hollinger news empire, hosted
the 1996 conference. He is a devoted to one of the first preponents of
World Government: Napoleon Bonaparte. In the early 1800's Napoleon
suggested that: "Two powers like France and England, with a good
understanding between them, might govern the world".
David Rockefeller runs Chase Manhattan, the bank that is prepared,
quietly, to use it's 350 billion dollar power for political ends. A leaked
Chase memo showed they used Mexican indebtedness to persuade the
government to 'eliminate' Zapatistas (in the troubled Chiapas region)
rather than talk to them.[see
the memo on my page]
Finally Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who set up the annual
Bilderberg Conferences, was an officer in Heinrich Himmler's elite SS or staff
guard in Nazi Germany.
Articles, reports and background on the Bilderberg Conferences as well
as 'insider leaks' from the Canadian 'New World Order Intelligence Update'
and the U.S. 'Spotlight' newspaper can be found on the web through:
www.bilderberg.org/1998.htm
The Bilderbergers provide a disturbing insight into a New World Order
which may be just around the corner. How chilling that whilst these
individuals have arguably more wealth and power than any other group on
earth we are allowed to hear not a single word of what they say.
In today's global network of power the Bilderbergers reign supreme. But
they remain hideously silent on what their future holds for us and, more
importantly, for our children and future generations.
November 1998 to February 1999 - Bilderberg
questions tabled at European Parliament by Patricia McKenna MEP
European Parliament examining Bilderbergers
Tony Gosling
Since 1954 the secretive Bilderbergers have been holding private
meetings that shape international economic strategy. They are one of the
handful of groups that make up the annual 'Tribal Gatherings of the high
priests of globalisation'*.
Though powerful people in and out of the public sphere attend they are
'requested' never to refer to the meetings as the place the international
policy consensus has been reached.
At last elected members of the European Pariament are asking pertinent
questions about the way in which cabals like the Bilderbergers compromise
the integrity of senior public figures. In this case the unelected and
powerful European Commissioners.
*Will Hutton (see: the
article here)
Written questions, with evasive answers, tabled by Patricia McKenna
MEP [Green Party - Ireland] to the European Commission, 3 Dec '98, in
response to previous answers (see below)
Bilderberg Meetings: (Priority question)
Can the Commission explain more clearly its answer to my question
H-0933/98, where it insists that participants attend Bilderberg *in a
private capacity*, against all the evidence that these are far from being
purely private meetings. If they are such, why does the Commission
announce them in its Press Communiques, published by Reuters - would it
announce a Commissioner attending a confernece on stamp-collecting, if
that were his or her personal hobby?
And why is it that the Commissioners attending tend to be relevant to
items on the agenda - Commissioner Van den Broek for Enlargement, Former
Yugoslavia and Turkey, Commissioner Bjerregaard for Global Governance
(applies to climate), Commissioner Monti for the European economy
(Internal Market), or Commissioner Brittan for the EU/US Market Place. And
most recently, at Turnberry, Minister George Robertson was ferried by
military helicopter, on the clear understanding that he was present in an
official capacity, just as happened in the past with Prime Minister Blair
and then Minister Kenneth Clarke, now a member of the Steering Committee.
Does the Commission actually expect Members of Parliament to accept
that British Ministers are attending these meetings in their official
capacities, while Commissioners attend the same meeting in a private
capacity?
And, why would the police exclude, and even arrest and charge, card
carrying journalists if these were genuinely private meetings, whereas, if
that were actually so, it would be the responsibility of the organizers to
control access to the meetings by journalists, and the police would merely
provide security checks to ensure the safety of the participants.
Since former Commissioners have continuing rights from, and duties to,
the European Union, surely it behoves them to answer questions on these
meetings, should the Commission so choose to ask them, and will the
Commission now undertake to ask all former Commissioners still living
whether they attended these and other similar meetings during their time
as Commissioners.
P-3880/98EN Answer given by Mr Santer on behalf of the Commission (19
January 1999)
The Commission's reply that Members of the Commission who attended
Bilderberg meetings expressed their personal views means that they were
not representing the Commission, that they did not speak on behalf of the
Commission and that their comments were not binding on the Commission.
Naturally they were invited to attend the meetings mainly on account of
their functions. The Commission considers that its Members should be free
to express their views on subjects relating to the work of the Community,
in particular during exchanges of views in international forums, without
their participation being in any way binding on the Commission.
Further questions:
Participation of Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard in 1995 Bilderberg
Meeting:
Concerning the Bilderberg meeting attended by Commissioner Bjerregaard
in Bürgenstock from 8-11 June 1995, could the Commission state:
1. What were the items which made up the total travel, and were the
costs reimbursed at the time, or if not who paid them?
2. Since Bilderberg normally pays the lavish accomodation, should this
be declared by the Commissioner,
3. Did the Commissioner receive the specified subsistence allowance for
the days of this trip?
4. Did the Commissioner take leave of absence for this trip?
Participation of Commissioner Hans Van den Broek in 1995 Bilderberg
Meeting:
Concerning the Bilderberg meeting attended by Commissioner Van den
Broek in Bürgenstock from 8-11 June 1995, could the Commission state:
1. What were the items which made up the total travel, and were the
costs reimbursed at the time, or if not who paid them?
2. Since Bilderberg normally pays the lavish accomodation, should this
be declared by the Commissioner,
3. Did the Commissioner receive the specified subsistence allowance for
the days of this trip?
4. Did the Commissioner take leave of absence for this trip?
Participation of Commissioner Mario Monti in Bilderberg:
Concerning the Bilderberg meeting attended by Commissioner Monti in
Toronto from May 30 to June 2 1996, could the Commission state:
1. What were the items which made up the total travel, and were the
costs reimbursed at the time, or if not who paid them?
2. Since Bilderberg normally pays the lavish accomodation, should this
be declared by the Commissioner,
3. Did the Commissioner receive the specified subsistence allowance for
the days of this trip?
4. Did the Commissioner take leave of absence for this trip?
Does the Commission feel that Commissioner Monti should have declared
his membership of the Bilderberg Steering Committee?
Participation of Commissioner Emma Bonino in 1998 Bilderberg Meeting:
Concerning the Bilderberg meeting attended by Commissioner Bonino in
Turnberry, Scotland from 14-17 May 1998, could the Commission state:
1. What were the items which made up the total travel, and were the
costs reimbursed at the time, or if not who paid them?
2. Since Bilderberg normally pays the lavish accomodation, should this
be declared by the Commissioner,
3. Did the Commissioner receive the specified subsistence allowance for
the days of this trip?
4. Did the Commissioner take leave of absence for this trip?
Participation of Commissioner Leon Brittan in 1998 Bilderberg Meeting:
Concerning the Bilderberg meeting attended by Commissioner Brittan in
Turnberry, Scotland from 14-17 May 1998, could the Commission state:
1. What were the items which made up the total travel, and were the
costs reimbursed at the time, or if not who paid them?
2. Since Bilderberg normally pays the lavish accomodation, should this
be declared by the Commissioner,
3. Did the Commissioner receive the specified subsistence allowance for
the days of this trip?
4. Did the Commissioner take leave of absence for this trip?
The Common answer to the 5 questions to individual Commissioners,
Answered by Santer, newly emboldened by the Censure fiasco:
E-3899/98EN to E-3903/98EN Answer given by Mr Santer on behalf of the
Commission (5 February 1999)
Travel and accommodation costs were covered in accordance with the
provisions currently in force.
With respect to Mr Monti's participation at the Bilderberg Steering
Committee meeting, the Commission would refer the Honourable Member to the
answer to her oral question H-933/98 at question time at the second
November part-session. (Debates of the Parliament No November II 1998).
Patricia McKenna's previous questions [now with answers]: November 98.
To the EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Commissioner Mario Monti (Strasbourg,
5.30-7pm, Nov 17th '98)
SUBJECT: Participation of Commissioners in Bilderberg
Group
Question:
"Will the Commission fully inform Parliament about the content and
conclusions (or consensus reached) of the Bilderberg meetings attended by
various Commissioners over the years, indicating fully which Commissioners
attended which meetings since 1954. If not, why not."
"Will the Commission clarify whether Commissioners attend in their
private or official capacities, since on the one hand Bilderberg and the
participants normally claim they attend in their private capacities,
whereas on the other hand the Commission has formally announced the
participation in the past by Mrs Bjerregaard, Mr Monti, and Mr Van den
Broek, and also Mr Kenneth Clarke and Mr Tony Blair have stated to the
House of Commons in the past that they attended in their official
capacities, and the full security apparatus of the host state not only
protects the participants but also ensures the secrecy of the meetings,
including the arresting and charging of journalists reporting on the
meetings? Is Mr Monti's membership of the Bilderberg Group Steering
Committee fully compatible with the duties and obligations of being a
Member of the European Commission as per Articles 155 to 163 of the EC
Treaty ?"
Commissioner Mario Monti's reply to Question 69 (H-0933/98) tabled by
Patricia McKenna
The Bilderberg meetings are an international forum in which political
leaders and economists express their personal views on topics of general
interest, particularly in the spheres of foreign policy and world
economics. The participants attend meetings in a private capacity and the
statements which they make are not binding on the Commission; no
resolutions are passed, no votes are taken and no political communiques
are issued.
For the above reasons, the Commission is unable to supply details of
the substance and conclusions of such meetings, nor does it have any
statistics regarding the participation of its members since the first
meeting held in 1954.
Of the current Commission Members, Mrs Bjerregaard and Mr van den Broek
attended the 1995 meeting, Mr Monti the 1996 meeting and Sir Leonard
Brittan and Mrs Bonino the 1998 meeting. They all spoke in a private
capacity at those meetings. Mr Monti was a member of the Steering
Committee between 1983 and 1993, before becoming a Member of the
Commission in 1995.
To the COUNCIL OF MINISTERS (Strasbourg, 5.30-7 pm, 18th November
1998)
SUBJECT: Council Member participation in Bilderberg
Group
Question:
"Will the Council fully inform Parliament about the content and
conclusions (or consensus reached) of the Bilderberg meetings attended by
various Council Members over the years, indicating fully which Council
Members attended which meetings since 1954. If not, why not."
"Will the Council clarify whether Council Members attend in their
private or official capacities, since on the one hand Bilderberg and the
participants normally claim they attend in their private capacities,
whereas on the other hand Mr Kenneth Clarke and Mr Tony Blair have stated
to the House of Commons in the past that they attended in their official
capacities, the full security apparatus of the host state not only
protects the participants but carries Ministers to the meetings (Mr
Robertson at the recent Turnberry meeting) and also ensures the secrecy of
the meetings and, for example, most recently Mr Campbell Thomas, a
journalist and reserve police officer was arrested and charged at the
Turnberry, Scotland meeting, it would appear for trying to report on the
meeting for the Scottish Daily Mail, subsequently losing his position as a
*special constable*?"
Commissioner Mario Monti's reply to Question No 4. (H-0932/98) tabled
by Patricia McKENNA
In reply to the Honourable Member's question, I must stress that the
Council has never had any occasion to discuss the matters alluded to. It
might be pointed out in this connection that the meetings referred to took
place outside the European Community framework. I should also like to draw
the Honourable Member's attention to the fact that, in line with standard
practice followed since the creation of the European Communities, the
Council refrains from commenting on or taking a view on events outside
their formal meetings. The Honourable Member will understand that, on
these grounds, I am not in a position to reply to the specific question
raised.
The New Unhappy Lords
They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords,
Lords without anger and honour, who dare not carry their swords.
They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes;
They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
And the load of their loveless pity is worse than the ancient wrongs,
Their doors are shut in the evening; and they know no songs.
GK Chesterton - "The Secret People"
Extracts from my first source articles:
 1. 'The Bilderberg
Group, The Invisible Power House'
With its membership selected from the power elite of Europe and North
America, many wonder if the Bilderbergers are conspiring to establish a
'new world order'.
PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia.
+61 (0) 7 5442 9280
2. 'Bilderberg Meetings, including letters from the Bilderberg
secretariat' On Target Magazine
"'Democracy' has been imposed upon one autonomous regime after
another as power is centralised by this International Oligarchy as
communities and cultures are decimated. We believe that this evil power is
ultimately Satanic...."
'On Target' Available from: Donald A Martin
Bloomfield Books, 26 Meadow Lane, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 6TD, England.
Telephone (01787) 376374
3. 'Bilderberg treason first decided it: SINGLE CURRENCY MEANS THE END
FOR BRITAIN' Portman Papers
"...ordinary people... do not know Bilderberg exists, and hence
are powerless to scrutinize the highly questionable activity of this
treasonous, corporatist oligarchy of influence."
Portman Papers, Vol. 1 No 6, available from
20 Portmans, North Curry, Taunton, TA3 6NL.
Derek Tozer, 01823 490590.
Bilderberg organisational structure
Lord Carrington in his garden with pagan god - Bilderberg Chairman
1990-99 - photo Lord Snowdon
The following Bilderberg Organisational structure is from a Bilderberg
pamphlet dated November 1997
Source: Grattan Healey, Green Party adviser to Patricia McKenna MEP at
the European Parliament.
Members Advisory Group *
Canada: Anthony GS Griffin, Company Director.
Germany: Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Chairman and CEO of Otto
Wolff Industrieberatung und Beteiligungen GMBH.
International: Max Kohnstamm, Former Secretary General, Action
Committee for Europe; Former President, Europe University Institute.
Italy: Giovanni Agnelli, Honorary Chairman, Fiat SpA.
Netherlands: Ernst H. van der Beugel, Emeritus Professor of
International Relations, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary
General of Bilderberg Meetings for Europe and Canada.
United Kingdom: Lord Roll of Ipsden, Senior Adviser, SBC Warburg
Dillon Read.
United States of America: William Bundy, Former Editor, Foreign
Affairs;
David Rockefeller, Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory
Committee.
* all former members of the Steering Committee
Steering Committee:
Chairman: Peter, Lord Carrington-Chairman of the Board,
Christie's International plc; Former Secretary-General NATO.
Secretary-General: Victor Halberstadt-Professor of Public
Economics, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Treasurer: Pieter Korteweg-President and Chief Executive
Officer, Robeco Group.
National Representatives
Austria: Franz Vranitzky, Former Federal Chancellor.
Belgium: Etienne Davignon-Chairman, Société Générale de
Belgique; Former Vice Chairman of the Commission of the European
Communities.
Canada: Conrad Black, Chairman, Telegraph Group Ltd; (2nd place
vacant).
Denmark: Toger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-chief, Politiken.
Finland: Jorma Ollila, President and CEO, Nokia Corporation.
France: Bertrand Collomb, Chairman and Executive Officer,
Lafarge; Andre Levy-Lang, Chairman, Banque Paribas.
Germany: Christoph Bertram, Diplomatic Correspondent, Die Zeit;
Hilmar Kopper, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG;
Matthias Nass, Managing Editor, Die Zeit.
Greece: George A David, Chairman, Hellenic Bottling Company SA.
Ireland: Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman and Managing Director,
Goldman Sachs International; Former Director General, World Trade
Organisation.
Italy: Umberto Agnelli, Chairman, Instituto Finanziaro
Industriale (IFIL).
Italy/International: Renato Ruggiero, Director General, World
Trade Organisation, Former Minister of Foreign Trade.
Norway: Westye Hoegh, Chairman of the Board, Leif Hoegh & Co
ASA.
Portugal: Francisco Pinto Balsemao, Professor of Communication
Science, New University of Lisbon; Chairman, Impresa SGPS; Former Prime
Minister.
Spain: Jaime Carvajal Urquijo, Chairman and General Manager,
Iberfomento.
Sweden: Percy Barnevik, Chairman, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
Switzerland: David de Pury, Chairman, de Pury, Pictet,
Turrettini & Co Ltd.
Turkey: Selahattin Beyazit, Director of Companies.
United Kingdom: Kenneth Clarke, Member of Parliament;
J. Martin Taylor, Group Chief Executive, Barclays PLC.
United States of America: Paul A. Allaire, Chairman, Xerox
Corporation;
John S Corzine, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs & Co;
Marie-Josee Drouin, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute Inc;
Louis V. Gerstner, Chairman, IBM Corporation;
Richard C. Holbrooke, Former Assistant Secretary for European Affairs;
Vice Chairman CS First Boston;
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr, Senior Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer &
Field, (Attorneys-at-Law);
Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc; Former Secretary
of State;
Jack Sheinkman, Chairman of the Board, Amalgamated Bank;
Paul Wolfowitz, Dean, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies;
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy;
Casimir A. Yost, Director, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of
Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
USA/International: James D. Wolfensohn, President, The World
Bank;
"Elite and Discreet"
from The Economist - 26 Dec 1987
Our Good Conference Guide: Magic mountains for the mind
The complete guide - Magic
Mountains of the Mind - is on the Dangerous Liaisons page
Bilderberg
Ne plus ultra
BILDERBERG takes its name from a Dutch hotel where, in the early 1950s,
the first meeting took place under the aegis of Prince Bernhard. The
occasion has outgrown the hotel, but the Dutch link remains. Among several
European royals who attend as occasional guests, Queen Beatrix and her
husband come regularly. A Dutch professor who has brokered coalition
governments into existence on her behalf is one of the secretary-generals
(the other, American, one lives in San Francisco), and Bilderberg's tiny
secretariat sits in The Hague. The meetings now take place by informal
rotation in countries of the Atlantic community.
Some 100 or more attend, by invitation of a steering committee. The
meetings happen once a year, in the spring. They last 2.5 days (Thursday
night until Sunday lunch) and are held in varying but always comfortable
surroundings - in 1987 Lake Como, before that Gleneagles. Apart from a
half-day on the golf links or sleeping off the previous night's dinner,
morning and afternoon sessions fill up the time.
A mixture of able and distinguished folk attend - a sprinkling of
serving prime and cabinet ministers, central-bank governors, defence and
other experts. They talk, often to galvanising and fascinating effect,
about the main issues of the day - East-West relations, arms control,
deficits, debt, the Falklands, sanctions, whatever. Their thoughts may not
be repeated outside the meetings and never are. This frustrates outsiders
but helps 100 great and good people be frank with each other, as does the
fact that Bilderberg members are limited to people of NATO and West
European countries who know how to be kind or rude to each other without
causing such misunderstandings as would occur if Indians, Fijians,
Africans, Chinese or Japanese were also present.
Elite and discreet, Bilderberg has inevitably been talked of in hushed
tones by conspiracy theorists over the years. It needn't be. The lists of
attenders are published, as are the agendas, and before each meeting the
chairman (currently Lord Roll) holds a press conference at which few
journalists bother to turn up.
Where does the money come from? Not complicated. The steering-group
members raise from business the small sums necessary to keep the
organising secretariat going hand-to-mouth in The Hague. Members from the
host country raise enough money to pay for the hotel and conference when
it takes place on their home soil (they are allowed to ask extra guests to
make this money-raising easier). Participants pay their own long-haul
travel, but are usually shepherded as VIPs from the nearest airport. They
also pay expenses over and above the basic bill for their hotel room - the
Bilderberg custom being that a whole hotel is booked for each meeting so
that Bilderbergers may be alone with each other, their words, their
thoughts and, these days, their security men.
When you have scaled the Bilderberg, you have arrived.
* * *
The complete conference guide - Magic
Mountains of the Mind - is on the Dangerous Liaisons page
Conference venues since 1954
BILDERBERG CONFERENCES, 1954-2001
...............2002....please let me know at tony@gaia.org
24-27 May 2001: Gothenburg, Sweden.
1-4 June 2000: Genval, Brussels, Belgium.
3-6 June 1999: Sintra, Portugal.
14-17 May 1998: Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland.
12-15 June 1997: Lake Lanier, Georgia, USA.
30 May -1 June 1996: Toronto, Canada.
8-11 June 1995: Zurich, Switzerland.
3-5 June 1994: Helsinki, Finland.
22-25 April 1993: Athens, Greece.
21-24 May 1992: Evian-les-Bains, France.
6-9 June 1991: Baden-Baden, Germany.
11-13 May 1990: Glen Cove, New York, USA.
12-14 May 1989: La Toja, Spain.
3-5 June 1988: Telfs-Buchen, Austria.
24-26 April 1987: Villa d'Este, Italy.
25-27 April 1986: Gleneagles, Scotland.
10-12 May 1985: Rye Brook, New York USA.
11-13 May 1984: Saltsjöbaden, Sweden.
13-15 May 1983: Montebello, Canada.
14-16 May 1982: Sandefjord, Norway.
15-17 May 1981: Bürgenstock, Switzerland.
18-20 April 1980: Aachen, W. Germany.
27-29 April 1979: Baden, Austria.
21-23 April 1978: Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
22-24 April 1977: Torquay, England.
1976: No conference was held due to Prince
Bernhardt's involvement in the Lockheed Scandal.
25-27 April 1975: Çesme, Turkey.
19-21 April 1974: Megìve, France.
11-13 May 1973: Saltsjöbaden, Sweden.
21-23 April 1972: Knokke, Belgium.
23-25 April 1971: Woodstock, Vermont, USA.
17-19 April 1970: Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.
9-11 May 1969: Marienlyst, Denmark.
26-28 April 1968: Mont Tremblant, Canada.
31 March - 2 April 1967: Cambridge, England.
25-27 March 1966: Wiesbaden, W. Germany.
2-4 April 1965: Villa d'Este, Italy.
20-22 March 1964: Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
29-31 May 1963: Cannes, France.
18-20 May 1962: Saltsjöbaden, Sweden.
21-23 April 1961: St Castin, Canada.
28-29 May 1960: Bürgenstock, Switzerland.
18-20 September 1959: Yesilköy, Turkey.
13-15 September 1958: Buxton, England.
4-6 October 1957: Fiuggi, Italy.
15-17 February 1957: St Simons Island, Georgia, USA.
11-13 May 1956: Fredensborg, Denmark.
23-25 September 1955: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, W. Germany.
18-20 March 1955: Barbizon, France.
29-31 May 1954: Oosterbeek, Netherlands.
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