- Author Danny Estulin has managed to get hold of this
year's participant list BEFORE the event. Please circulate it to all your
National Press and broadcast media to give them as littyle excuse as possible
for ignoring argulblty the most important global political event of the
year.
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- This years' Bilderberg conference is the big one. If
Kissinger and the steering committee can convince the Turks, through threats
and bribery, to go for the NeoCon 'regime change' agenda for Iran we can
expect a further Middle Eastern bloodbath and Islamic genocide.
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- Let's hope and pray that the Turkish decision makers
and political classes are not that stupid. For anyone planning to travel
to witness the conference this year please do keep me informed over the
weekend and/or use the new(ish) Bilderberg forum.
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- Breaking news direct from the 2007 Bilderberg conference
<http://www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=3710>http://www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=3710
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- So, here this year's Bilderbergers! Here's hoping the
Turkish police will surround the hotel and arrest all the steering group
members for questioning while the Turkish Secret Service deal with the
CIA. Fingers crossed! And well done over-safe Danny Estulin. Nuff respect
for getting the leaked participant list BEFORE the conference - this is
unheard of.
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- Tony
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- tony@tlio.org.uk
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- http://www.bilderberg.org/2007.htm
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- http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/bilderberg-2007-agenda-and-participan
t-list/
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- http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=9197
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- George Alogoskoufis, Minister of Economy and Finance
(Greece) Ali Babacan, Minister of Economic Affairs (Turkey) Edward Balls,
Economic Secretary to the Treasury (UK) Francisco Pinto Balsemão,
Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister (Portugal) José
M. Durão Barroso, President, European Commission (Portugal/International)
Franco Bernabé, Vice Chariman, Rothschild Europe (Italy) Nicolas
Beytout, Editor-in-Chief, Le Figaro (France) Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister
(Sweden) Hubert Burda, Publisher and CEO, Hubert Burda Media Holding (Belgium)
Philippe Camus, CEO, EADS (France) Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management
Board and CEO, AXA (France) Juan Luis Cebrian, Grupo PRISA media group
(Spain) Kenneth Clark, Member of Parliament (UK) Timothy C. Collins, Senior
Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC (USA) Bertrand Collomb,
Chairman, Lafarge (France) George A. David, Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C.
S.A. (USA) Kemal Dervis, Administrator, UNDP (Turkey) Anders Eldrup, President,
DONG A/S (Denmark) John Elkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A (Italy) Martin
S. Feldstein, President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research (USA)
Timothy F. Geithner, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
(USA) Paul A. Gigot, Editor of the Editorial Page, The Wall Street Journal
(USA) Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, AIB Group (Ireland) Donald E. Graham, Chairman
and CEO, The Washington Post Company (USA) Victor Halberstadt, Professor
of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg
Meetings (the Netherlands) Jean-Pierre Hansen, CEO, Suez-Tractebel S.A.
(Belgium) Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations (USA)
Richard C. Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC (USA) Jaap G. Hoop de
Scheffer, Secretary General, NATO (the Netherlands/International) Allan
B. Hubbard, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Director National
Economic Council (USA) Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit (Germany)
James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC (USA) Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.,
Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC (USA) Anatole
Kaletsky, Editor at Large, The Times (UK) John Kerr of Kinlochard, Deputy
Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc (the Netherlands) Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman,
Kissinger Associates (USA) Mustafa V. Koç, Chariman, Koç
Holding A.S. (Turkey) Fehmi Koru, Senior Writer, Yeni Safek (Turkey) Bernard
Kouchner, Minister of Foreign Affairs (France) Henry R. Kravis, Founding
Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (USA) Marie-Josée Kravis,
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc. (USA) Neelie Kroes, Commissioner,
European Commission (the Netherlands/International) Ed Kronenburg, Director
of the Private Office, NATO Headquarters (International) William J. Luti,
Special Assistant to the President for Defense Policy and Strategy, National
Security Council (USA) Jessica T. Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (USA) Frank McKenna, Ambassador to the US, member
Carlyle Group (Canada) Thierry de Montbrial, President, French Institute
for International Relations (France) Mario Monti, President, Universita
Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Italy) Craig J. Mundie, Chief Technical Officer
Advanced Strategies and Policy, Microsoft Corporation (USA) Egil Myklebust,
Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro ASA (Norway) Matthias
Nass, Deputy Editor, Die Zeit (Germany) Adnrzej Olechowski, Leader Civic
Platform (Poland) Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc/Nokia (Finland)
George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (UK) Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa,
Minister of Finance (Italy) Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (USA) Heather Reisman,
Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. (Canada) David Rockefeller
(USA) Matías Rodriguez Inciarte, Executive Vice Chairman, Grupo
Santander Bank, (Spain) Dennis B. Ross, Director, Washington Institute
for Near East Policy (USA) Otto Schily, Former Minister of Interior Affairs;
Member of Parliament; Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Germany)
Jürgen E. Schrempp, Former Chairman of the Board of Management, DaimlerChrysler
AG (Germany) Tøger Seidenfaden, Executive Editor-in-Chief, Politiken
(Denmark) Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman, BP plc and Chairman, Goldman Sachs
International (Ireland) Giulio Tremonti, Vice President of the Chamber
of Deputies (Italy) Jean-Claude Trichet, Governor, European Central Bank
(France/International) John Vinocur, Senior Correspondent, International
Herald Tribune (USA) Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB (Sweden) Martin
H. Wolf, Associate Editor and Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
(UK) James D. Wolfensohn, Special Envoy for the Gaza Disengagement (USA)
Robert B. Zoellick, Deputy Secretary of State (USA) Klaus Zumwinkel, Chairman
of the Board of Management, Deutsche Post AG (USA) Adrian D. Wooldridge,
Foreign Correspondent, The Economist
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- The Economist Magazine On The Bilderberg Conferences
- http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#econ
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- Bilderberg - Ne plus ultra
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- When you have scaled the Bilderberg, you have arrived.
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- see also http://www.underthecarpet.co.uk/
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