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User ID: 445683 Norway 06/06/2008 12:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.blacklistednews.com] Quoting: Eyes Wide OpenOfficial 2008 Bilderberg Participant List Published on Friday, June 06, 2008. Via: InfoWars DEU "Ackermann, Josef" "Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG" CAN "Adams, John" Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence and Chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada USA "Ajami, Fouad" "Director, Middle East Studies Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University" USA "Alexander, Keith B." "Director, National Security Agency" INT "Almunia, Joaquín " "Commissioner, European Commission" GRC "Alogoskoufis, George" Minister of Economy and Finance USA "Altman, Roger C." "Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc." TUR "Babacan, Ali " Minister of Foreign Affairs NLD "Balkenende, Jan Peter" Prime Minister PRT "Balsemão, Francisco Pinto" "Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister" FRA "Baverez, Nicolas" "Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP" ITA "Bernabè, Franco" "CEO, Telecom Italia Spa" USA "Bernanke, Ben S." "Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System" SWE "Bildt, Carl" Minister of Foreign Affairs FIN "Blåfield, Antti " "Senior Editorial Writer, Helsingin Sanomat" DNK "Bosse, Stine" "CEO, TrygVesta" CAN "Brodie, Ian " "Chief of Staff, Prime Minister’s Office" AUT "Bronner, Oscar" "Publisher and Editor, Der Standard" FRA "Castries, Henri de " "Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA" ESP "Cebrián, Juan Luis" "CEO, PRISA" CAN "Clark, Edmund" "President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group" GBR "Clarke, Kenneth" Member of Parliament NOR "Clemet, Kristin" "Managing Director, Civita" USA "Collins, Timothy C." "Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC" FRA "Collomb, Bertrand" "Honorary Chairman, Lafarge" PRT "Costa, António" Mayor of Lisbon USA "Crocker, Chester A." James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies USA "Daschle, Thomas A." Former US Senator and Senate Majority Leader CAN "Desmarais, Jr., Paul " "Chairman and co-CEO, Power Corporation of Canada" GRC "Diamantopoulou, Anna" Member of Parliament USA "Donilon, Thomas E." "Partner, O’Melveny & Myers" ITA "Draghi, Mario" "Governor, Banca d’Italia" AUT "Ederer, Brigitte" "CEO, Siemens AG Österreich" CAN "Edwards, N. Murray " "Vice Chairman, Candian Natural Resources Limited" DNK "Eldrup, Anders " "President, DONG A/S" ITA "Elkann, John" "Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A." USA "Farah, Martha J." "Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania" USA "Feldstein, Martin S." "President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research" DEU "Fischer, Joschka" Former Minister of Foreign Affairs USA "Ford, Jr., Harold E." "Vice Chairman, Merill Lynch & Co., Inc." CHE "Forstmoser, Peter" "Professor for Civil, Corporation and Capital Markets Law, University of Zürich" IRL "Gallagher, Paul " Attorney General USA "Geithner, Timothy F. " "President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York" USA "Gigot, Paul " "Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal" IRL "Gleeson, Dermot " "Chairman, AIB Group" NLD "Goddijn, Harold" "CEO, TomTom" TUR "Gögüs, Zeynep " "Journalist; Founder, EurActiv.com.tr" USA "Graham, Donald E." "Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company" NLD "Halberstadt, Victor" "Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings" USA "Holbrooke, Richard C. " "Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC" FIN "Honkapohja, Seppo" "Member of the Board, Bank of Finland" INT "Hoop Scheffer, Jaap G. de" "Secretary General, NATO" USA "Hubbard, Allan B." "Chairman, E & A Industries, Inc." BEL "Huyghebaert, Jan" "Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group" DEU "Ischinger, Wolfgang" Former Ambassador to the UK and US USA "Jacobs, Kenneth" "Deputy Chairman, Head of Lazard U.S., Lazard Frères & Co. LLC" NOR " Khaqan Khan " " Chairman, Hope International " USA "Johnson, James A." "Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC" (Obama’s man tasked with selecting his running mate) SWE "Johnstone, Tom " "President and CEO, AB SKF" USA "Jordan, Jr., Vernon E." "Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC" FRA "Jouyet, Jean-Pierre " Minister of European Affairs GBR "Kerr, John " "Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc." USA "Kissinger, Henry A." "Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc." DEU "Klaeden, Eckart von" "Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU/CSU" USA "Kleinfeld, Klaus" "President and COO, Alcoa" TUR "Koç, Mustafa " "Chairman, Koç Holding A.S." FRA "Kodmani, Bassma" "Director, Arab Reform Initiative" USA "Kravis, Henry R." "Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co." USA "Kravis, Marie-Josée" "Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc." INT "Kroes, Neelie " "Commissioner, European Commission" POL "Kwasniewski, Aleksander " Former President AUT "Leitner, Wolfgang" "CEO, Andritz AG" ESP "León Gross, Bernardino" "Secretary General, Office of the Prime Minister" INT "Mandelson, Peter" "Commissioner, European Commission" FRA "Margerie, Christophe de" "CEO, Total" CAN "Martin, Roger" "Dean, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto" HUN "Martonyi, János" "Professor of International Trade Law; Partner, Baker & McKenzie; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs" USA "Mathews, Jessica T. " "President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace" INT "McCreevy, Charlie " "Commissioner, European Commission" USA "McDonough, William J." "Vice Chairman and Special Advisor to the Chairman, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc." CAN "McKenna, Frank" "Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group" GBR "McKillop, Tom " "Chairman, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group" FRA "Montbrial, Thierry de" "President, French Institute for International Relations" ITA "Monti, Mario" "President, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi" USA "Mundie, Craig J. " "Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation" NOR "Myklebust, Egil" "Former Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro ASA" DEU "Nass, Matthias" "Deputy Editor, Die Zeit" NLD "Netherlands, H.M. the Queen of the" FRA "Ockrent, Christine" "CEO, French television and radio world service" FIN "Ollila, Jorma" "Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc" SWE "Olofsson, Maud " Minister of Enterprise and Energy; Deputy Prime Minister NLD "Orange, H.R.H. the Prince of" GBR "Osborne, George" Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer TUR "Öztrak, Faik" Member of Parliament ITA "Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso " Former Minister of Finance; President of Notre Europe GRC "Papahelas, Alexis" "Journalist, Kathimerini" GRC "Papalexopoulos, Dimitris" "CEO, Titan Cement Co. S.A." USA "Paulson, Jr., Henry M." Secretary of the Treasury USA "Pearl, Frank H." "Chairman and CEO, Perseus, LLC" USA "Perle, Richard N." "Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research" FRA "Pérol, François" Deputy General Secretary in charge of Economic Affairs DEU "Perthes, Volker" "Director, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik" BEL "Philippe, H.R.H. Prince" CAN "Prichard, J. Robert S." "President and CEO, Torstar Corporation" CAN "Reisman, Heather M." "Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc." USA "Rice, Condoleezza" Secretary of State PRT "Rio, Rui " Mayor of Porto USA "Rockefeller, David " "Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank" ESP "Rodriguez Inciarte, Matias" "Executive Vice Chairman, Grupo Santander" USA "Rose, Charlie" "Producer, Rose Communications" DNK "Rose, Flemming" "Editor, Jyllands Posten" USA "Ross, Dennis B." "Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy" USA "Rubin, Barnett R." "Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for International Cooperation, New York University" TUR "Sahenk, Ferit " "Chairman, Dogus Holding A.S." USA "Sanford, Mark" Governor of South Carolina USA "Schmidt, Eric" "Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO, Google" AUT "Scholten, Rudolf " "Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG" DNK "Schur, Fritz H. " Fritz Schur Gruppen CZE "Schwarzenberg, Karel " Minister of Foreign Affairs USA "Sebelius, Kathleen" Governor of Kansas USA "Shultz, George P." "Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University" ESP "Spain, H.M. the Queen of" CHE "Spillmann, Markus" "Editor-in-Chief and Head Managing Board, Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG" USA "Summers, Lawrence H." "Charles W. Eliot Professor, Harvard University" GBR "Taylor, J. Martin" "Chairman, Syngenta International AG" USA "Thiel, Peter A." "President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC" NLD "Timmermans, Frans " Minister of European Affairs RUS "Trenin, Dmitri V." "Deputy Director and Senior Associate, Carnegie Moscow Center" INT "Trichet, Jean-Claude" "President, European Central Bank" USA "Vakil, Sanam" "Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University" FRA "Valls, Manuel " Member of Parliament GRC "Varvitsiotis, Thomas" "Co-Founder and President, V + O Communication" CHE "Vasella, Daniel L." "Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG" FIN "Väyrynen, Raimo" "Director, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs" FRA "Védrine, Hubert" Hubert Védrine Conseil NOR "Vollebaek, Knut" "High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE" SWE "Wallenberg, Jacob" "Chairman, Investor AB" USA "Weber, J. Vin" "CEO, Clark & Weinstock" USA "Wolfensohn, James D. " "Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC" USA "Wolfowitz, Paul " "Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research" INT "Zoellick, Robert B. " "President, The World Bank Group" Rapporteurs GBR "Bredow, Vendeline von" "Business Correspondent, The Economist" GBR "Wooldridge, Adrian D." "Foreign Correspondent, The Economist" AUT Austria HUN Hungary BEL Belgium INT International CHE Switzerland IRL Ireland CAN Canada ITA Italy CZE Czech Republic NOR Norway DEU Germany NLD Netherlands DNK Denmark PRT Portugal ESP Spain POL Poland FRA France RUS Russia FIN Finland SWE Sweden GBR Great Britain TUR Turkey GRC Greece USA United States of America is this the true list ? |
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User ID: 447036 United States 06/06/2008 06:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nice thread EWO! Scor~Pios -AKA- Pit Viper 'When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; When the government fears the people, there is liberty.' Thomas Jefferson Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people. "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 303149 United States 06/06/2008 07:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NEVER MIND: As of Barack Obama's clinching of the nomination in June 2008, speculation remains that she will be a contender for the vice-presidential slot on the Democratic ticket this year.[25] The Washington Post has listed her as the top prospect for the 2008 nomination.[26] James Carville and Novak have also mentioned Sebelius' name.[27][28] Speculation that the Vice Presidential nomination lies in her future was heightened by the fact that she was chosen by the Democratic Party's congressional leaders to give their party's official response to Republican President George W. Bush's 2008 State of the Union Address.[29] The next day, she endorsed Obama's campaign, one week before the Kansas caucus on Super Tuesday.[30] Obama won the caucus easily, with 74% support.[31] Also, due to Sebelius being term-limited in 2010 and owing to her being a popular Democrat who has achieved election to statewide office in the heavily Republican state, Sebelius is also speculated as a possible Democratic candidate for the US Senate seat currently held by Republican Sam Brownback in 2010, who has said he will not seek reelection. Michael Moore also speculated on his website MichaelMoore.com that she may run for President in 2016.[32] |
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User ID: 384893 United States 06/06/2008 07:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Lots of people from TD bank... I wonder what's up in Toronto with all of this shit... And what is the deal with Portugal?! Why do they have so many people there? "I don't know which was scarier...the speech...or the Congress cheering it. He evoked Lincoln. Whenever a President is going to get us into serious trouble...they always use Lincoln." -2010 |
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User ID: 445224 United Kingdom 06/06/2008 07:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Eyes Wide Open Hmm.... Everything is permitted.. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25 United States 06/06/2008 07:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Lots of people from TD bank... I wonder what's up in Toronto with all of this shit... Quoting: LouisWinthorpeIIIAnd what is the deal with Portugal?! Why do they have so many people there? Toronto may be the new capitol of the NAU, or it may hold some other strategic value. Either way, this little meeting will ensure an interesting summer/autumn/winter of 2008... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 436227 United States 06/06/2008 07:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in the area and heard on the local radio station as well as in the local paper, an advisory that an expanded area and some roads within Catoctin Mountain Park, a national forest that borders Camp David will be closed from Noon Friday, through the weekend. The explanation give is "increased security measures" My guess is that a whole bunch of VIP's will be stopping in at Camp David. If for nothing else, after the market today, Bush better be talking to the money men. |
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User ID: 261088 Netherlands 06/06/2008 08:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Funny,I just turned back today (Friday) morning from my short holidays in a Bildeberg Hotel in Holland...I don t know where these meetings take place every year but the hotel I stayed in is ideal for such meetings as it is isolated in a forest far from inhabited areas.Where does this meeting take place this year?Anybody know?I come from Greece and I m surprised with the greek members of the participant list...Specially Alogoskoufis is a really dumb and empatic person and politician... Im not here to tell you how it ends,but how it begins... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 362031 Portugal 06/06/2008 08:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Lots of people from TD bank... I wonder what's up in Toronto with all of this shit... Quoting: LouisWinthorpeIIIAnd what is the deal with Portugal?! Why do they have so many people there? Portugal have only tree Puppets. One is a permanenet member (Pinto Balsemao). He's business is media brainshizing. Tv Chanels, newspapers and magazines. All them are junk. One of them is caled a refrence information on Portugal. Its caled "espresso". Is a weekend news magazine, purely aligned whith the principles of New World Order. They auto-promote themshelves as a "Serius", "Balanced", "Respectfull" etc.. The other two are variable. These year are the two mayor of the major cyties in Portugal, Lisbon and Lisbon. There was only one newspaper here in Portugal that noticied the Bilderberg event an the 3 Portuguese Dogs. Ists another weekend news magazine which the owner is a ex-director of the Balsemao fisrt majoe newspaper "Espresso". So this guy knows the scheme. "Espresso" never mention the bilderberg garbage. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 447411 United States 06/07/2008 04:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This participant, Reisman, Heather M from Canada is the cofounder of Onex corporation. Her own company, called Indigo books/Chapters give over 3 million dollars to Israel in incentives to "Lone Soldiers". These are mercenaries who aern't jewish. Typically they serve in the occupied territories. It is a way for Israel to economise of jewish blood. [link to www.dominionpaper.ca] Even moderate jews are against this practice and have been protesting her activities: "Indigo picketer and Holocaust survivor Suzanne Weiss greets approaching pedestrians at the corner of Bloor and Bay streets, “Have a bookmark.” Weiss is handing out rectangular pieces of cardstock. Printed on each are the logos of Chapters, Indigo and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) with the words “Partners in Apartheid” beneath. Flip it over and a short statement explains why Indigo Books and Music is the coalition’s first and most prominent target: Two years ago, the chain’s founder and CEO, Heather Reisman, and her husband, Gerry Schwartz, chairman and CEO of Onex Corporation, launched the Heseg Foundation for lone soldiers. About 6,000 lone soldiers – so-called because they have no family living in Israel – serve in the Israeli army. Heseg (Hebrew for “achievement”) awards 100 scholarships each year to those who, after completing service, want to remain and study in Israel. Reisman and Schwartz donate $3 million a year to the cause." The Reisman family is tied to another Zionist family called the Aspers. Together with a man named Peter Liba they founded Canwest Global TV. The Asper patriarch Izzy died a few years ago after failing to have the Canadian War Museum changed to the Canadian Holocaust Museum. Interestingly enough, the Aspers never served Canada's military. This is similar to Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz who served the IDF as a pilot. They have a scheme afoot to build a 300 million dollar "Museum of Human Rights", built largely with government money. The new "museum" is a solitary building with an annual budget set at over 26 million dollars a year. This money is to fly students from around the world in to see the holocaust museum. But given the Zionist history, the money will largely go to Israel. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 447463 United States 06/07/2008 08:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Lots of people from TD bank... I wonder what's up in Toronto with all of this shit... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 362031And what is the deal with Portugal?! Why do they have so many people there? Portugal have only tree Puppets. One is a permanenet member (Pinto Balsemao). He's business is media brainshizing. Tv Chanels, newspapers and magazines. All them are junk. One of them is caled a refrence information on Portugal. Its caled "espresso". Is a weekend news magazine, purely aligned whith the principles of New World Order. They auto-promote themshelves as a "Serius", "Balanced", "Respectfull" etc.. The other two are variable. These year are the two mayor of the major cyties in Portugal, Lisbon and Lisbon. There was only one newspaper here in Portugal that noticied the Bilderberg event an the 3 Portuguese Dogs. Ists another weekend news magazine which the owner is a ex-director of the Balsemao fisrt majoe newspaper "Espresso". So this guy knows the scheme. "Espresso" never mention the bilderberg garbage. Rui Rio is there to kiss the ring and ask permission to run for president of Portugal. His Wikipedia says he's the head of the "Pedagogical Council". It is a teaching reference, but do a google of that term with jewish and you will get a lot of hits, including Rio's name. [link to aftermathnews.wordpress.com] "By Paul Joseph Watson A Portuguese newspaper has reported on something the American corporate media remains cowardly complicit about and dare not even mention - this week’s confab of nearly 200 of the world’s most influential powerbrokers in Chantilly Virginia for the 2008 Bilderberg Group meeting. The Sol newspaper carries a story today concerning two of the Portuguese attendees of this year’s conference, the mayors of Lisbon and Porto - Antonio Costa and Rui Rio (pictured top). Tellingly, the report highlights the fact that Bilderberg has kingmaker power in vetting future Prime Ministers and Presidents, noting how Pedro Santana Lopes and Jose Socrates attended the 2004 meeting in Stresa, Italy before both going on to become Prime Minster of Portugal. In addition, the report underscores how both Costa and Rio have ambitions to lead their respective parties and potentially run for Prime Minister in the future. The clear implication is that Costa and Rio are being groomed by Bilderberg for future “selection” as Portuguese Prime Minister in the same way that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were vetted by the secretive organization in the early 1990’s." The link has the article from Portuigal. |
Enufs Enuf User ID: 339212 United Kingdom 06/07/2008 08:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | George Osbourne and Ken Clarke representing big tobacco, next conservative government of UK, NWO, freemasonry and Oxford and Cambridge University between the pair of them. Quite the double team. I wonder if George sat on Kenny's lap on the private jet? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 447023Interesting that ed balls isn't going - nor can I see any other 'neo labour' traitors. bliar took the nulab project as far as he could - imho the only thing he didn't achieve on behalf of his nwo/satanic/rothschild masters was to force us into the euro. Traitors all. (small caps intended for those I do not respect). |
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User ID: 447555 United States 06/07/2008 02:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | USA "Schmidt, Eric" "Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO, Google" Great. Who else missed that? Don't be evil... Yeah, well you can certainly kiss that the fuck off. It's great to know they know everything about US. We are so fucked. "I don't know which was scarier...the speech...or the Congress cheering it. He evoked Lincoln. Whenever a President is going to get us into serious trouble...they always use Lincoln." -2010 |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 445873 United States 06/07/2008 02:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.blacklistednews.com] Bilderberg meeting attracts prominent politicians, businessmen Published on Saturday, June 07, 2008. Source: RawStory - Andrew McLemore The 56th Bilderberg Meeting, an annual conference of influential politicians and businessmen, began Thursday in Chantilly, Virgina, according to a press release from the organization. The Conference will end Sunday and deals mainly with a nuclear free world, cyber terrorism, Africa, Russia, finance, protectionism, US-EU relations, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islam and Iran. According to the press release, the meeting is private in order to encourage frank and open discussion. About 140 participants will attend, of whom about two-thirds come from Europe and the balance from North America. About one-third is from government and politics, and two-thirds are from finance, industry, labor, education and communications. An official list of the attendees can be found at Alex Jones' Infowars. Although it is an international forum, many prominent American officials and politicians attend the conference, including Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke and Paul Wolfowitz. James Johnson, the man tasked with selecting Barack Obama's running mate, is also on the list to attend the conference. InfoWars also reported that Senator Barack Obama’s office has refused to deny that the Democratic nominee attended Bilderberg last night following reports that he and Hillary Clinton were present at "an event in Northern Virginia." Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs would not say where the former rivals met, except that it was not at Clinton's home in Washington, reported the Associated Press. "Reporters traveling with Obama sensed something might be happening between the pair when they arrived at Dulles International Airport after an event in Northern Virginia and Obama was not aboard the airplane," the Associated Press reported. Bilderberg takes its name from the hotel in Holland, pictured above, where the first meeting took place in May 1954. That meeting grew out of the concern expressed by leading citizens on both sides of the Atlantic that Western Europe and North America were not working together as closely as they should on common problems of critical importance, according to the group's press release. The organization has sometimes drawn speculation that it forms a "shadowy global government," the BBC reported. Coverage of the Bilberberg conference can be found at Infowars. Excerpts from Bilderberg's press release, available in full here, follow... # The Cold War has now ended. But in practically all respects, there are more, not fewer, common problems - from trade to jobs, from monetary policy to investment, from ecological challenges to the task of promoting international security. It is hard to think of any major issue in either Europe or North America whose unilateral solution would not have repercussions for the other. Thus the concept of a European-American forum has not been overtaken by time. The dialogue between these two regions is still - even increasingly - critical. What is unique about Bilderberg as a forum, is the broad cross-section of leading citizens that are assembled for nearly three days of informal and off-the-record discussion about topics of current concern especially in the fields of foreign affairs and the international economy; the strong feeling among participants that in view of the differing attitudes and experiences of the Western nations, there remains a clear need to further develop an understanding in which these concerns can be accommodated; the privacy of the meetings, which has no purpose other than to allow participants to speak their minds openly and freely. In short, Bilderberg is a small, flexible, informal and off-the-record international forum in which different viewpoints can be expressed and mutual understanding enhanced. Bilderberg's only activity is its annual Conference. At the meetings, no resolutions are proposed, no votes taken, and no policy statements issued. Since 1954, fifty-five conferences have been held. The names of the participants are made available to the press. Participants are chosen for their experience, their knowledge, and their standing; all participants attend Bilderberg in a private and not an official capacity. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 445873 United States 06/07/2008 02:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Pinworthy. Quoting: Amarucayeah, even though i posted this list first. this one has more replies : ( heh Actually Amaruca, look at the times others have posted on this thread and you will see that I posted this before your post. In fact, I saw when you reposted the list and didn't mention it, I figured you hadn't seen the previous post! |