Last year's detention of Alex Jones in Canada during the Bilderberg "do", produced a result that the Bilderbergers did not want .. PUBLICITY.

I am no fan of wikipedia .. I KNOW that the government messes with it. I also know that I submitted very good information to it that was REJECTED - stuff on cognitive dissonance. this is an area all global people need to understand, but th entry is nearly impossible for the layman to read (and it is also misleading, btw) So wiki and I aren't bossum buddies ...

However, as the Bilderberg, Inc. group is hard to summarize, and becuz I got this via email, I decided to publish these bits for your consumption. (They consume, consume, consume, why shouldn't we ..? All the world's resources, beauty, sacred sites, animals and every other living thing are considered sandbox toys for THEM). There is plenty of material on Bilderberg on this blog; just run a search on the box for the blog to bring it up.

Last year, someone, somehow got a transcript of what took place out on the web, but they gave you a teaser for free and wanted $25 or so to read the lot. Lots of us in the wrong side of the tracks on the digital divide couldn't afford to read it. TOPIC: Iran. The point: someone paid someone working in the hotel to "tell all" and I have spent nearly a year wondering WHO. There were major photos last year showing all the security required to protect the Bilderbergers from people "like us" -- and this in a "democratic" country. Who paid .. the Canadian taxpayer.

This year, it's TURKEY .. and I noted no less than FOUR of the members have something to do with Turkey, and I would guess many more coming this year do, too, it's just that what they are listed as covers up their "interests" there.

A quick google search will net you the MANY internet journalists and groups that track the Bilderberg "phenomena". A visit to www.prisonplanet.com over the next few days should be enlightening to those interested as well!

Virginia

Bilderberg Group From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Bilderberg Group or Bilderberg conference is an unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of business, media, and politics.

Owing to discussions by public officials and powerful business leaders (and others) being off the record, these annual meetings are the subject of much criticism (for circumventing the democratic process of discussing issues openly and publicly) and numerous conspiracy theories.

The elite group meets annually at exclusive, four or five-star resorts throughout the world, normally in Europe, once every four years in the United States or Canada. It has an office in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands. They are expected to meet at the Klassis Hotel in a town 40 miles from Istanbul, Turkey for the 2007 meeting.


Origin of the name "Bilderberg" The "Bilderberg" title comes from what is generally recognized to be the location of its first official meeting in 1954 ; the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek near Arnhem in the Netherlands. Although the conference is not officially regarded as a club of any sort, many members are regular attendees, and guests are often seen as belonging to a secretive Bilderberg Group.

Origin and purpose of the first annual conference The original Bilderberg conference was held at the Hotel de Bilderberg, near Arnhem, from May 29 to May 31, 1954. The meeting was initiated by several people. Polish emigre and political adviser, Joseph Retinger, concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe, proposed an international conference at which leaders from European countries and the United States would be brought together with the aim of promoting understanding between the cultures of United States of America and Western Europe.

Retinger approached Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who agreed to promote the idea, together with Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland, and the head of Unilever at that time, the Dutchman Paul Rijkens. The guest list was to be drawn up by inviting two attendees from each nation, one each to represent conservative and liberal (both terms used in the American sense) points of view.\u003cbr\>\n The success of the meeting led the organizers to arrange an annual conference. A permanent Steering Committee was established, with Retinger appointed as permanent secretary. As well as organizing the conference, the steering committee also maintained a register of attendee names and contact details, with the aim of creating an informal network of individuals who could call upon one another in a private capacity. The declared purpose of the Bilderberg Group was to make a common political line tie between the United States of America and Europe in their opposition to the USSR and the global communist danger.\u003cbr\>\n Dutch economist Ernst van der Beugel took over as permanent secretary in 1960, upon the death of Retinger. Prince Bernhard continued to serve as the meeting's chairman until 1976, the year of his involvement in the Lockheed affair. There was no conference that year, but meetings resumed in 1977 under Alec Douglas-Home, the former British Prime Minister. He was followed in turn by Walter Scheel, ex-President of Germany, Eric Roll, former head of SG Warburg and Lord Carrington, former Secretary-General of NATO.[1]\u003cbr\>\n \u003cbr\>\n

Declared purpose The original intention of the Bilderberg Group was to further the understanding between Western Europe and North America through informal meetings between powerful individuals. Each year, a "steering committee" devises a selected invitation list with a maximum of 100 names. Invitations are extended only to residents of Europe and North America.

The location of their annual meeting is not secret, but the public and press are strictly kept at distance by police force and private security guards. Although the agenda and list of participants are openly available to the public meanwhile - mainly in the internet and posted there by outsiders - whose sources and reliability are not known — it is not clear that such details are disclosed by the group itself. Also the contents of the meetings are kept secret and attendees pledge not to divulge what was discussed." Retinger approached Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who agreed to promote the idea, together with Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland, and the head of Unilever at that time, the Dutchman Paul Rijkens. The guest list was to be drawn up by inviting two attendees from each nation, one each to represent conservative and liberal (both terms used in the American sense) points of view.

The success of the meeting led the organizers to arrange an annual conference. A permanent Steering Committee was established, with Retinger appointed as permanent secretary. As well as organizing the conference, the steering committee also maintained a register of attendee names and contact details, with the aim of creating an informal network of individuals who could call upon one another in a private capacity. The declared purpose of the Bilderberg Group was to make a common political line tie between the United States of America and Europe in their opposition to the USSR and the global communist danger. Dutch economist Ernst van der Beugel took over as permanent secretary in 1960, upon the death of Retinger. Prince Bernhard continued to serve as the meeting's chairman until 1976, the year of his involvement in the Lockheed affair. There was no conference that year, but meetings resumed in 1977 under Alec Douglas-Home, the former British Prime Minister. He was followed in turn by Walter Scheel, ex-President of Germany, Eric Roll, former head of SG Warburg and Lord Carrington, former Secretary-General of NATO.

Declared purpose
The original intention of the Bilderberg Group was to further the understanding between Western Europe and North America through informal meetings between powerful individuals. Each year, a "steering committee" devises a selected invitation list with a maximum of 100 names. Invitations are extended only to residents of Europe and North America. The location of their annual meeting is not secret, but the public and press are strictly kept at distance by police force and private security guards. Although the agenda and list of participants are openly available to the public meanwhile - mainly in the internet and posted there by outsiders - whose sources and reliability are not known — it is not clear that such details are disclosed by the group itself. Also the contents of the meetings are kept secret and attendees pledge not to divulge what was discussed.

The group's stated justification for secrecy is that it enables people to speak freely without the need to carefully consider how every word might be interpreted by the mass media. However, it could easily be argued that the elite and secretive nature of the meeting is antithetical to the democratic ideals of public debate.

Attendees

Attendees of Bilderberg include central bankers, defense experts, mass media press barons, government ministers, prime ministers, royalty, international financiers and political leaders from Europe and North America.\u003cbr\>\n Some of the Western world's leading financiers and foreign policy strategists attend Bilderberg. Donald Rumsfeld is an active Bilderberger, as is Peter Sutherland from Ireland, a former European Union commissioner and chairman of Goldman Sachs and of British Petroleum. Rumsfeld and Sutherland served together in 2000 on the board of the Swedish/Swiss energy company ABB. Former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary and current World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz is also a member, as is Roger Boothe, Jr. The group's current chairman is Etienne Davignon, the Belgian businessman and politician.

The group's stated justification for secrecy is that it enables people to speak freely without the need to carefully consider how every word might be interpreted by the mass media. However, it could easily be argued that the elite and secretive nature of the meeting is antithetical to the democratic ideals of public debate.



Attendees

Attendees of Bilderberg include central bankers, defense experts, mass media press barons, government ministers, prime ministers, royalty, international financiers and political leaders from Europe and North America.

Some of the Western world's leading financiers and foreign policy strategists attend Bilderberg. Donald Rumsfeld is an active Bilderberger, as is Peter Sutherland from Ireland, a former European Union commissioner and chairman of Goldman Sachs and of British Petroleum. Rumsfeld and Sutherland served together in 2000 on the board of the Swedish/Swiss energy company ABB. Former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary and current World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz is also a member, as is Roger Boothe, Jr. The group's current chairman is Etienne Davignon, the Belgian businessman and politician.

Meetings

2006 (June 8-11) at the Brookstreet Hotel [3] in Kanata, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2007 (May 31 - June 3) in Istanbul, Turkey


References
^ Rockefeller, David (2002). Memoirs. Random House, p.412. ISBN 0-679-40588-7.
^ Bill Hayton (29th September, 2005). Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group. BBC.
^ Panetta, Alexander (2006). Secretive Bilderbergers meet. www.thestar.com. Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. Retrieved on 2006-06-12. First ever mainstream media news item on the Bilderbergs ....

Hatch, Alden (1962). "The Hôtel de Bilderberg", H.R.H.Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands: An authorized biography. London: Harrap. ISBN B0000CLLN4. <>\n Eringer, Robert (1980). The Global Manipulators. Bristol, England: Pentacle Books. ISBN 0906850046.

External links

Note: the Bilderberg Group does not have a website. (No longer true according The Economist as at 30 May, 2007)

Paper by Sociology Professor (LMU) Mike Peters: "
The Bilderberg Group and the Project for European Unification" from Lobster:
The Journal of Parapolitics

Free Press International: Bilderberg video and info
Extract from the official Bilderberg report on the Fiuggi Conference 4-6 October 1957 Guardian article on the group - an excerpt from Jon Ronson's book Them \
BBC Interview with Étienne Davignon, September 2005
Elite power brokers meet in secret BBC News 15 May 2003
BBC online article on Group
CTV.ca - Shadowy group meets amid secrecy in Ottawa
2006 Bilderberg Group meeting attendance list
Minutes from the 1999 Bilderberg meeting from SchNEWS website

List of recent mainstream news articles and Bilderberg conspiracy gossip

Historical information on the Bilderberg Group-mentions original location of 1976 meeting Robert Eringer writing about Bilderberg, Carroll Quigley
The world's most powerful secret society - 1998 article from Punch magazine

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