Bilderberg Group

Delving into a world once shrouded in complete mystery and impenetrable security, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world’s most powerful people—the Bilderberg Group. Since its inception in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the small Dutch town of Oosterbeek, the Bilderberg Group has been comprised of European prime ministers, American presidents, and the wealthiest CEOs of the world, all coming together to discuss the economic and political future of humanity. The press has never been allowed to attend, nor have statements ever been released on the attendees' conclusions or discussions, which have ramifications on the citizens of the world.
Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory
The Bilderberg group, an elite coterie of Western thinkers and power-brokers, has been accused of fixing the fate of the world behind closed doors. As the organisation marks its 50th anniversary, rumours are more rife than ever. Given its reputation as perhaps the most powerful organisation in the world, the Bilderberg group doesn't go a bundle on its switchboard operations.
Telephone inquiries are met with an impersonal female voice - the Dutch equivalent of the BT Callminder woman - reciting back the number and inviting callers to "leave a message after the tone".
Anyone who accidentally dialled the number would probably think they had stumbled on just another residential answer machine.
Leiden in Holland, the inauspicious base of the Bilderberg group But behind this ultra-modest façade lies one of the most controversial and hotly-debated alliances of our times.
On Thursday the Bilderberg group marks its 50th anniversary with the start of its yearly meeting.
For four days some of the West's chief political movers, business leaders, bankers, industrialists and strategic thinkers will hunker down in a five-star hotel in northern Italy to talk about global issues.
What sets Bilderberg apart from other high-powered get-togethers, such as the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), is its mystique.
Not a word of what is said at Bilderberg meetings can be breathed outside. No reporters are invited in and while confidential minutes of meetings are taken, names are not noted.
The shadowy aura extends further - the anonymous answerphone message, for example; the fact that conference venues are kept secret. The group, which includes luminaries such as Henry Kissinger and former UK chancellor Kenneth Clarke, does not even have a website.
DISCREET AND ELITE This year Bilderberg has announced a list of attendees They include BP chief John Browne, US Senator John Edwards, World Bank president James Wolfensohn and Mrs Bill Gates
In the void created by such aloofness, an extraordinary conspiracy theory has grown up around the group that alleges the fate of the world is largely decided by Bilderberg.
In Yugoslavia, leading Serbs have blamed Bilderberg for triggering the war which led to the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic. The Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the London nail-bomber David Copeland and Osama Bin Laden are all said to have bought into the theory that Bilderberg pulls the strings with which national governments dance.
And while hardline right-wingers and libertarians accuse Bilderberg of being a liberal Zionist plot, leftists such as activist Tony Gosling are equally critical.
A former journalist, Mr Gosling runs a campaign against the group from his home in Bristol, UK.
"My main problem is the secrecy. When so many people with so much power get together in one place I think we are owed an explanation of what is going on.
Timothy McVeigh was among those who believed the conspiracy theory Mr Gosling seizes on a quote from Will Hutton, the British economist and a former Bilderberg delegate, who likened it to the annual WEF gathering where "the consensus established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide".
"One of the first places I heard about the determination of US forces to attack Iraq was from leaks that came out of the 2002 Bilderberg meeting," says Mr Gosling.
But "privacy, rather than secrecy", is key to such a meeting says Financial Times journalist Martin Wolf, who has been invited several times in a non-reporting role.
"The idea that such meetings cannot be held in private is fundamentally totalitarian," he says. "It's not an executive body; no decisions are taken there."
As an up-and-coming statesmen in the 1950s, Denis Healey, who went on to become a Labour chancellor, was one of the four founding members of Bilderberg (which was named after the hotel in Holland where the first meeting was held in 1954).
The alternative - the WEF welcomes journalists His response to claims that Bilderberg exerts a shadowy hand on the global tiller is met with characteristic bluntness. "Crap!"
"There's absolutely nothing in it. We never sought to reach a consensus on the big issues at Bilderberg. It's simply a place for discussion," says Lord Healey.
Formed in the spirit of post-war trans-Atlantic co-operation, the idea behind Bilderberg was that future wars could be prevented by bringing power-brokers together in an informal setting away from prying eyes.
"Bilderberg is the most useful international group I ever attended. The confidentiality enabled people to speak honestly without fear of repercussions.
"In my experience the most useful meetings are those when one is free to speak openly and honestly. It's not unusual at all. Cabinet meetings in all countries are held behind closed doors and the minutes are not published."
That activists have seized on Bilderberg is no surprise to Alasdair Spark, an expert in conspiracy theories.
"The idea that a shadowy clique is running the world is nothing new. For hundreds of years people have believed the world is governed by a cabal of Jews.
"Shouldn't we expect that the rich and powerful organise things in their own interests. It's called capitalism."


Bilderberg 'performance' key to Edwards VP pick'He reported back directly to Kerry' said participant in super-secret conference
Sen. John Edwards' standout "performance" at the super-secret Bilderberg meeting in Italy last month may have been a key reason for his selection as John Kerry's vice presidential running mate, according to the New York Times.
The 50th anniversary conference of the elite group – which many believe conspires semi-annually to foster global government – met June 3 through June 6 in Stresa, Italy, at the Grand Hotel des Iles Borromees.
Among the attendees from the U.S., according to a list obtained by WND, were Senators John Edwards, D-N.C. and Jon Corzine, D-N.J., Henry Kissinger, Richard Perle, Melinda Gates (wife of Bill Gates), David Rockefeller, Timothy F. Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Donald Graham, chairman and CEO of the Washington Post Company, and even Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition.
(Here is the entire Bilderberg attendance list as published previously by WND.)
According to a report in yesterday's New York Times by Jody Wilgoren, analyzing why Kerry chose Edwards over the other 24 serious contenders for the No. 2 spot:
Several people pointed to the secretive and exclusive Bilderberg conference of some 120 people that this year drew the likes of Henry A. Kissinger, Melinda Gates and Richard A. Perle to Stresa, Italy, in early June, as helping win Mr. Kerry's heart. Mr. Edwards spoke so well in a debate on American politics with the Republican Ralph Reed that participants broke Bilderberg rules to clap before the end of the session. Beforehand, Mr. Edwards traveled to Brussels to meet with NATO officials, brandishing his foreign-policy credentials.
"His performance at Bilderberg was important," said a friend of Mr. Kerry who was there. "He reported back directly to Kerry. There were other reports on his performance. Whether they reported directly or indirectly, I have no doubt the word got back to Mr. Kerry about how well he did."
Since 1953, the Bilderberg group has convened government, business, academic and journalistic representatives from the U.S., Canada and Europe with the express purpose of exploring the future of the North Atlantic community.
According to sources that have penetrated the high-security meetings in the past, the Bilderberg meetings emphasize a globalist agenda and promote the idea that the notion of national sovereignty is antiquated and regressive.
'Shadowy aura'
"It's officially described as a private gathering," noted a BBC report last year, "but with a guest list including the heads of European and American corporations, political leaders and a few intellectuals, it's one of the most influential organizations on the planet."
And according to a BBC report on June's conference in Stresa: "Not a word of what is said at Bilderberg meetings can be breathed outside. No reporters are invited in and while confidential minutes of meetings are taken, names are not noted. The shadowy aura extends further – the anonymous answerphone message, for example; the fact that conference venues are kept secret. The group, which includes luminaries such as Henry Kissinger and former UK chancellor Kenneth Clarke, does not even have a website."
But, counter participants, the secrecy is not evidence of a grand conspiracy, but only an opportunity to speak frankly with other world leaders out of the limelight of press coverage and its inevitable repercussions.
"There's absolutely nothing in it," argues the UK's Lord Denis Healey, one of the four founders of Bilderberg. "We never sought to reach a consensus on the big issues at Bilderberg," he told the BBC. "It's simply a place for discussion."
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. As part of the BBC's Who Runs Your World? series, Bill Hayton tries to find out more. Bilderberg's head Viscount Davignon plays down the group's role in setting the international agenda The chairman of the secretive - he prefers the word private - Bilderberg Group is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon, corporate director and former European Commissioner.
In his office, on a private floor above the Brussels office of the Suez conglomerate lined with political cartoons of himself, he told me what he thought of allegations that Bilderberg is a global conspiracy secretly ruling the world.
"It is unavoidable and it doesn't matter," he says. "There will always be people who believe in conspiracies but things happen in a much more incoherent fashion."
Lack of publicity
In an extremely rare interview, he played down the importance of Bilderberg in setting the international agenda. "What can come out of our meetings is that it is wrong not to try to deal with a problem. But a real consensus, an action plan containing points 1, 2 and 3? The answer is no. People are much too sensible to believe they can do that."
There need to be places where these people can think about the main challenges ahead, co-ordinate where policies should be going, and find out where there could be a consensus
Professor Kees van der Pijl
Every year since 1954, a small network of rich and powerful people have held a discussion meeting about the state of the trans-Atlantic alliance and the problems facing Europe and the US.
Organised by a steering committee of two people from each of about 18 countries, the Bilderberg Group (named after the Dutch hotel in which it held its first meeting) brings together about 120 leading business people and politicians.
At this year's meeting in Germany, the audience included the heads of the World Bank and European Central Bank, Chairmen or Chief Executives from Nokia, BP, Unilever, DaimlerChrysler and Pepsi - among other multi-national corporations, editors from five major newspapers, members of parliament, ministers, European commissioners, the crown prince of Belgium and the queen of the Netherlands.
"I don't think (we are) a global ruling class because I don't think a global ruling class exists. I simply think it's people who have influence interested to speak to other people who have influence," Viscount Davignon says.
Bill Clinton was featured at a Bilderberg meeting while he was governor of Arkansas "Bilderberg does not try to reach conclusions - it does not try to say 'what we should do'. Everyone goes away with their own feeling and that allows the debate to be completely open, quite frank - and to see what the differences are.
"Business influences society and politics influences society - that's purely common sense. It's not that business contests the right of democratically-elected leaders to lead".
For Bilderberg's critics the fact that there is almost no publicity about the annual meetings is proof that they are up to no good. Jim Tucker, editor of a right-wing newspaper, the American Free Press for example, alleges they organise wars and elect and depose political leaders. He describes the group as simply 'evil'. So where does the truth lie?
Professor Kees van der Pijl of Sussex University in Britain says such private networks of corporate and political leaders play an informal but crucial role in the modern world.
"There need to be places where these people can think about the main challenges ahead, co-ordinate where policies should be going, and find out where there could be a consensus."
'Common sense'
Will Hutton, an economic analyst and former newspaper editor who attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1997, says people take part in these networks in order to influence the way the world works, to create what he calls "the international common sense" about policy.
Business influences society and politics influences society - that's purely common sense "On every issue that might influence your business you will hear at first-hand the people who are actually making those decisions and you will play a part in helping them to make those decisions and formulating the common sense," he says.
And that "common sense" is one which supports the interests of Bilderberg's main participants - in particular free trade. Viscount Davignon says that at the annual meetings, "automatically around the table you have internationalists" - people who support the work of the World Trade Organisation, trans-Atlantic co-operation and European integration.
Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still governor of Arkansas, Tony Blair was there two years later while still an opposition MP. All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed.
'Secret Government'
This has led to accusations that the group pushes its favoured politicians into high office. But Viscount Davignon says his steering committee are simply excellent talent spotters. The steering committee "does its best assessment of who are the bright new boys or girls in the beginning phase of their career who would like to get known."
"It's not a total accident, but it's not a forecast and if they go places it's not because of Bilderberg, it's because of themselves," Viscount Davignon says.
But its critics say Bilderberg's selection process gives an extra boost to aspiring politicians whose views are friendly to big business. None of this, however, is easy to prove - or disprove.
Observers like Will Hutton argue that such private networks have both good and bad sides. They are unaccountable to voters but, at the same time, they do keep the international system functioning. And there are limits to their power - a point which Bilderberg chairman was keen to stress, "When people say this is a secret government of the world I say that if we were a secret government of the world we should be bloody ashamed of ourselves."
Informal and private networks like Bilderberg have helped to oil the wheels of global politics and globalisation for the past half a century. In the eyes of critics they have undermined democracy, but their supporters believe they are crucial to modern democracy's success. And so long as business and politics remain mutually dependent, they will continue to thrive.
What do Steven Spielberg, Pope John Paul II, Ted Turner, Boris Yeltsin, Bill Clinton and House Speaker Dennis Hastert have in common? They are among those on a "partial guest list" of expected attendees to the 1999 Bilderberg meeting in Portugal scheduled for next week.
The secret meeting in Sintra, Portugal, takes place June 3-6. According to sources which have penetrated the high-security meetings in the past, the Bilderberg meetings emphasize a globalist agenda and promote the idea that the notion of national sovereignty is antiquated and regressive.
In 1998, British free-lance journalist Campbell Thomas who attempted to cover the conference in Turnberry, Scotland, for the Daily Mail. Thomas began by seeking the opinions of neighbors to the secret meeting being held nearby. One of those was a young woman who told him he was in the hotel's staff quarters and should leave immediately, which he did.
A short while later, two local police officers arrested Thomas, who reportedly remained in custody for eight hours.
According to the Portugal News, an English-language weekly paper attempting to cover the 1999 meeting, not all journalists are treated quite so harshly.
"Margarida Marante, an extremely successful television journalist with the Portuguese television channel SIC, is alleged to have been invited to attend this year's Bilderberg group meeting in Sintra," the paper reports. "The television presenter declined to make any comments to the News through her press secretary. The News was, after three days of making phone calls and waiting, given the following response: 'Dr. Margarida Marante prefers not to respond (to the News' allegations that she will be attending the Bilderberg meeting), and with all due respect to our publication, she is very busy."
The paper also reports that Prime Minister Ant?nio Guterres, listed his attendance at the 1994 Bilderberg conference on his personal CV at the government Internet site. Guterres was made prime minister the following year, and his name has not appeared on the "guest lists" since that date, according to the News.
Here is the partial guest list obtained by WorldNetDaily:
Ackerman, Duane - CEO Bell South Ahern, Bertie - Prime Minister of Ireland Alberthal, Les - CEO of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Albright, Madeleine - U.S. Secretary of State Al Saud, Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz - Saudi Prince Amichai, Yehuda - Israeli poet Annan, Kofi - U.N. Secretary General Arafat, Yasser - Chairman Palestinian Authority Armstrong, Michael - CEO of AT&T Corrporation Arison, Ted - Israeli Financier Assad, Hafez - President of Syria Aznar, Jose Maria - President of Spain Belluzzo, Richard - CEO - Silicon Graphics-SGI Berkshire Hathaway - Warren Buffet Bolkiah, Hassanal - The Sultan of Brunei Byers, Brook - Partner KPCB Beyster, J. R. - Founder and CEO of SAIC Bialkin, Ken - Skadden Arps bin-Mohamad, Mahathir - PM of Malaysia Blair, Tony - Prime Minister of UK Bondevik, Kjell Magne - Prime Minister of Norway Bonsignore, Michael - CEO Honeywell Braverman, Avishai - President of Ben-Gurion University Bronfman, Charles - Canadian businessman Buffet, Warren, CEO Berkshire Hathaway Cardoso, Fernando Henrique - President of Brazil Case, Daniel - Chairman & CEO of H& Q Case, Stephen - CEO of America On-Line-AOL Caufield, Frank - AOL Board & Partner KPCB Cayne, James - CEO of Bear Stearn Chalsty, John - CEO of DLJ Chambers, John - CEO of Cisco Systems Chirac, Jacques - President of Franc Chretien, Jean - Prime Minister of Canada Clinton, Bill - President of the United States Cohen, Abby - Market Strategist, Goldman Sachs Corzine, Jon - CEO of Goldman Sachs Coulter, David - Former CEO of Bank of America Cresson Edith - EC Commissioner Daschle, Thomas - Senator, Minority Leader, U.S. Senate DeGier, Hans - CEO of Warburg Dillon Read Dehaene, Jean-Luc - Prime Minister of Belgium Dell, Michael - Dell Computers Denham, Bob - Salomon Smith Barney Dinstein, Yoram - President of Tel Aviv University-TAU Disney, Roy - Vice Chairman & Nephew - Walt Disney Ebtekar, Massoomeh - Vice President of Iran Eisenberg, Erwin - Heir to Eisenberg Group Ellison, Larry - CEO of Oracle Engibous, Tom - Texas Instruments-TI Esrey, Bill - CEO of Sprint Estrada, Joseph - President of the Philippines Fahd, King - Leader of Saudi Arabia Fan, Rita - Chairwoman Provincial Legislature China Fisher, Max - Chairman, Republican National Jewish Coalition-NJC Fisher, Richard - CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Fortune 1000 - Group Focus Letter Frankel, Jacob - Bank of Israel Friedlander, Yehuda - Rector of Bar Ilan University Fuld, Fichard - CEO of Lehman Brothers (acquired Blount Intl) Gates, Bill - CEO of Microsoft Gerstner, Lou - CEO of IBM Glavin, Christopher - Motorola - Strategy Focus Goh Chok Tong - Prime Minister of Singapore Goldberg, Ed - Merrill Lynch - Strategy Focus Grafton, Bob - CEO of Arthur Andersen Worldwide Grasso, Richard - CEO, New York Stock Exchange-NYSE Greer, Phil - Weiss Peck & Greer Grove, Andy - Former CEO of Intel Gujral, I.K. - Former Prime Minister of India Habibie, B. J. - Indonesia's Prime Minister Hammerman, Stephen - Vice Chairman Merrill Lynch Harari, Chaim - President of Weizmann Institute Hariri, Rafik - Prime Minister of Lebanon Hashimoto, Ryutaro - Former Prime Minister of Japan Hastert, Dennis - GOP - Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Hayuth, Yehuda - President of Haifa University Honeycutt, Van - CEO Computer Sciences Corporation-CSC Horovitz, Avraham - GM - UMI Israel Chief Scientist Howard, John - Prime Minister of Australia Hussein, King - of Jordan and The Crown Prince Hassan (HK: Deceased) Ichan, Carl - Wall Street Financier Jackson, Judge Thomas Penfield - US District Court - Washington D. C. Jiang Zemin - President of China Jobs, Steven - Apple Computers Jospin, Lionel - Prime Minister of France Kangas, Edward - CEO Deloitte, Touche, Tohmatsu - International-DTTI Kaveh, Moshe - President of Bar Ilan University Khatami, Mohammed - President of Iran Kim, Dea.jung - President of South Korea Kim Young-sam - Former President of South Korea Kissinger, Kissinger - former U.S. Secretary of State Kok, Wim - Prime Minister of the Netherlands Koller, Arnold - President of Switzerland Komansky, David - CEO of Merrill Lynch Kohl, Helmut - Former Chancellor of Germany Lane, Neal - Former Director of the NSF Laskawy, Phil - CEO of Ernst & Young-EY Lavie, Arie - Former Chief Scientist - Israel Lee Kuan-Yew - President of Singapore Lee Teng-hui - President of Taiwan Leon, Moshe - Director General, PM's Office Israel Lerner, Alex - Israeli Scientist Levin, Gerald - CEO Time Warner, Inc. Li Peng - Prime Minister of China Livingston, Robert - GOP Nominee as - U.S. Speaker of the House Lott, Senator Trent - GOP Senate Majority Leader - US Senate Magidor, Menachem - President of Hebrew University Mahathir Mohamad - Malaysian Prime Minister Mandella, Nelson - President of South Africa Marron, Donald - CEO of Paine Webber Group - Enterprise Strategy McGinn Richard - CEO of Lucent- Enterprise Strategy McNealy, Scott - CEO of Sun Microsystems Middelhoff, Thomas - CEO Bertelsmann & AOL Director Mitchell, George - Former GOP Senate Majority Leader Moore, Nicholas - Chairman of PriceWaterhouse Coopers-PWC L.L.P. Mubarak, Hosni - President of Egypt Murdoch, Rupert - Austrialian Media Owner Narayanan, K.R. - Former President of India Ne'eman, Yaacov - Former Israeli Finance Minister Ne'eman, Yuval- Israeli Physicist Obuchi, Keizo - Prime Minister of Japan Oz, Amos - Israeli writer Palmer, Robert - CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation-DEC Paulson, Henry - Co-Chairman Goldman Sachs Persson, Goran - Prime Minister of Sweden Pfeiffer, Eckhard - CEO of Compaq Phelan, John - Former CEO NYSE & Director of ML and the BCG Phypers, Dean - Former CFO of IBM Platt, Lewis - CEO Hewlitt Packard-HP Pope John Paul II - Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church-RCC Pottruck, David - Charles A. Schwab & Company Primakov, Yevgeny - Russian Prime Minister Prodi, Romano - Former Prime Minister of Italy Purcell, Philip - CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Ramos, Fidel - Former President of Philippines Raymond, Lee - CEO Exxon Redstone, Sumner - CEO of Viacom - HBO Reichman, Uriel - President of the Inter Disciplinary Center- IDC Israel Reichmann, Paul - Canadian Businessman Rodin, Judith - President of the University of Pennsylvania Roosa, Robert - Former Chairman Brown Brothers Harriman (of blessed emory) Samuelson, Paul - MIT Economics Nobel Laureate Santer, Jacques - President of the European Commission-EC Schiro, James - CEO PriceWaterhouse Coopers-PWC Schroeder, Gerhard - German Chancellor Schwab, Charles - Charles A. Schwab & Company Sharman, Colin - Chairman KPMG Shipley, Walter - CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank Spielberg, Steven - Hollywood Film Producer Slahor, Paul - Founding Investor in IPC Slavin, Shmuel - Director General of Israel's Finance Ministry Smith, Jack - CEO of General Motors-GM Soros, George - President of the Soros Fund Spector, Norman - Publisher Jerusalem Post Tadmor, Zeev - President of Technion Trotman, Alexander - CEO of Ford Motor Company Tung Chee-hwa - Hong Kong Chief Executive Turner, Ted - CEO Turner Broadcasting Systems-TBS - CNN Vajpayee, Atal Behari - Prime Minister of India Wang Changyi - China's Ambassador to Israel Wang, Charles - CEO of Computer Associates International-CAI Weill, Sandy - CEO Travelers-Citigroup Weinbach, Arthur - CEO of Automatic Data Procesing-ADP Weinbach, Lawrence - CEO of Unisys Yair, Yoram - Former Israel Defense Forces Yehoshua, A.B. - Israeli writer Yeltsin, Boris - President of Russia Zedillo, Ernesto - President of Mexico Zeroual, Liamine - President of Algeria
John McCain is a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg, not that there were any doubts about his establishment-ties... American Friends of Bilderberg: "The U.S. group is directed by Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Paul Arthur Allaire and Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke.
Who Are They? Who Runs the World?
By Michael Tivana
The short list of who runs the world.
This list is compiled for people that want to know who the “they” are when we are talking about who runs our world. This is a partial list but many of the key players are here. Study them more deeply, (go to the Bilderberger watch web site) then send them a message, let them know what you think about their plan for the world. It is not enough to know who they are but we must expand our knowledge as to how they think and what their agenda for the world is. The agenda is put forth quite clearly in the Bush Doctrine which stems from the National Security Strategy for A New American Century.
Their agenda is also clearly stated by Brzezinski in his book, "The Chessboard Strategy" where he lays out the plan for the United States to take over Eastern Europe and Asia for the sole purpose of maintaing stability in the world. This is an admirable quest until you see their stability is the New World Order, a Fascist World Government. If you don't know what Fascism is look it up in any dictionary - it is NOT freedom.

Their agenda determines how you live your life, and how your children will live their lives. If you do not enjoy living in a constricted censored corporate state (the definition of Fascism) geared toward profit above people then speak out and join the peace movement. If you are one of the barons of power in this New World Order or if you work for one of the barons and you do not mind living in a merciless society with little class mobility, then a Fascist system may suit you. For now, here are some names to continue your research into knowing who “they” are.

The companies

The short list

Some of the world's wealthiest transnational corporations:
Bayer - from the ex-Nazi company IG Farben BASF - from the ex-Nazi company IG Farben Hoechst - from the ex-Nazi company IG Farben British Petroleum Dow Chemical General Motors Hyundai Nestlé - still makes choclate from dairy grazing around the Three Mile Island radioactive zone Novartis Shell Toshiba Zeneca Alcoa- sold all their aluminum to Nazi Germany during the war Halliburton Bechtel Monsanto - controls the world's farms through plant patenting Shell Exxon Texaco TRW
They and other multi-nationals form the ICC – THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The International Bureau of Chambers of Commerce (IBCC)
And the WTO – World Trade Organization
They set the rules for international business that:
have made it so state courts will have no jurisdiction in this area of law allow corporations to sue governments in an international court or tribunal (not public) a complete rejection of environmental and labor standards preferential most-favored nation (business) treatment investment protection and binding investor-state arbitration
Individuals closely involved with one or more organizations Lord Peter A.R. Carrington – Chair of Bilderberg Members Steering Committee; member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; former secretary general of NATO; Chairman of the Board, Christie's PLC; Chancellor, University of Reading; member, House of Lords.
Jim Callaghan – Thought to be current president of Bilderberg; Member of the House of Lords.
Peter D Sutherland (Irish) – Chairman, British Petroleum PLC; Chairman, Allied Irish Bank PLC; Chairman and Managing director, Goldman Sachs International; Former member, Commission of the European Communities; former Director-General, World Trade Organisation.
Shirley Brittain Williams - member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; Member House of Lords; Public Service Professor of Electoral Politics, Harvard University.
Lord Roll of Ipsden – Member Bilderberg Advisory Group; President S.G. Warburg Group PLC; Member House of Lords. Andrew Knight - Member Bilderberg Steering Committee; Chairman News International PLC
David Simon (Lord Simon of Highbury) – Former member, European Roundtable of Industrialists; UK Minister for Competitiveness in Europe; Ex-chairman of BP.
Joseph T Gorman (USA) – Member of Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, Business Council, Council on Competitiveness and others. Chairman of the Buiness Roundtable International Trade and Investment task force. CEO TRW Inc; Director Procter and Gamble Company and Aluminium Company of America.
David Rockefeller (USA) – President of the Trilateral Commission; President of Chase Manhattan Bank; member of Bilderberg Advisory Group.
Renato Ruggieri (Italy) – Member Bilderberg Steering Committee; member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; Director World Trade Organisation (WTO); Former Italian Minister of Foreign Trade; member of the board, Fiat Spa 90-95; Attendee at Davos Meeting.
Giovanni Agnelli (Italy) – member of Bilderberg Advisory Group; member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow; Honorary Chairman, Fiat SpA; Director, Instituto Finanziario Industriale (IFI - The Agnelli family holding company). Giovanni's brother, Umberto, is Chairman of IFI and a founder of the European Roundtable of Industrialists.
Conrad M Black (Canada) – member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman and CEO Argus Corporation Ltd; Chairman Hollinger International Inc; Chairman Telegraph Group Ltd.
Gro Harlem Bruntland (Norway) - member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; Attendee at Davos Meeting.
Percy N Barnevik (Sweden) - Member Bilderberg Steering Committee; member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; member, European Roundtable of Industrialists; member, World Business Council on Sustainable Development; President and CEO, ABB Brown Boveri Ltd.
Donald J Johnston – Secretary General, OECD; Attendee at Davos Meeting.
James D Wolfensohn (USA) – Member of Bilderberg advisory group; member, World Business Council on Sustainable Development; Attendee at Davos Meeting; President World Bank.
Juan March Delgado (Spain), Chairman, Juan March Foundation; member, World Business Council on Sustainable Development; member, international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations.
Members of Bilderberg Advisory Group§ Canada: Anthony G. S. Griffin - Director of companies.
§ Germany: Otto Wolff von Amerongen - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Otto Wolff Industrieberatung und Beteiligungen GmbH.
§ International: Max Kohnstamm - Former Secretary-General, Action Committee for Europe; Former President, European University Institute.
§ Italy: Giovanni Agnelli - 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-President, S. G. Warburg Group plc.
§ United States of America:George W. Ball -Former Under-Secretary of State.William P. Bundy -Former Editor, Foreign Affairs.David Rockefeller -Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee.
The Steering Committee for the Bilderburgs
§ Chairman: Peter, Lord Carrington, Chairman of the Board, Christie's International plc; Former Secretary-General NATO.
§ Secretary-General for Europe and Canada: Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Public Economics, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
§ Secretary General for USA: Theodore L. Elliot, Jr-Dean Emeritus, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy; Former US Ambassador.
§ Treasurer: Pieter Korteweg, President and Chief Executive Officer, Robeco Group.
§ Austria: Peter Jankowitsch-Member of Parliament, Former Foreign Minister.
§ Belgium: Etienne Davignon-Chairman, Société Générale de Belgique; Former Vice Chairman of the Commission of the European Communities.
§ Finland: Jaakko Iloniemi-Managing Director, Centre for Finnish Business and Policy Studies; Former Ambassador to the USA.
§ France: Marc Lardreit de Lacharrère -Chairman, Fimalac.Thierry de Montbrial -Director, French Institute of International Relations; Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique.
§ Germany: Christoph Bertram - Diplomatic Correspondent, Die Zeit. § Hilmar Kopper-Spokesman of the Board of Managing Directors, Deutsche Bank AG.
§ Greece: Costa Carras -Director of companies.
§ Ireland: Peter D. Sutherland -Chairman, Allied Irish Bank plc; Former Member, Commission of the European Communities.
§ Italy:Mario Monti -Rector and Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan.
§ Renato Ruggiero, Member of the Board, Fiat SpA; Former Minister of Foreign Trade; Director of the World Trade Organisation.
§ Norway: Westye Hoegh, Ship Owner, Leif Hoegh & Co AS.
§ Portugal: Francisco Pinto Balsemao -Professor of Mass Communication, New University of Lisbon; Chairman, Sojornal sarl; Former Prime Minister.
§ Spain: Jamie Carvajal Urquijo -Chairman and General Manager, Iberfomento.
§ Sweden: Percy Barnevik -President and CEO, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
§ Switzerland: David de Pury -Chairman, BBC Brown Boveri Ltd; Co-Chairman, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Group.
§ Turkey: Selahattin Beyazit -Director of companies.
§ United Kingdom: Andrew Knight -Executive Chairman, News International plc.
§ United States of America:Kenneth W. Dam -Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign Law, University of Chicago Law School; Former Deputy Secretary of State.Vernon E. Jordan, Jr-Partner, Akin, Gump, Hauer & Field, Attorneys-at-Law; Former President, National Urban League.
Henry A. Kissinger - Former Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Charles Mathias - Partner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Poue; Former US Senator (Republican, Maryland).
Rozanne C. Whitehead - Former Deputy Secretary of State.Lynn R. Williams -International President, United Steel- Workers of America. Cassimir A. Yost -Executive Director, The Asia Foundation's Center for Asian-Pacific Affairs.
§ United States of America/International:James D. Wolfensohn -President, World Bank; President, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc.
Bilderberg Conference 2002 - Chantilly, Virginia, U.S.A., 30 May-2 June partial list of over 200 attendees
USA Rumsfeld, Donald H. - Secretary of Defense
D Schulz, Ekkehard - Chairman, ThyssenKrupp AG
USA Siegman, Henry - Council on Foreign Relations
INT Wolfensohn, James D. - President, The World Bank
USA Allaire, Paul A. - Former Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation
CDN Baillie, A. Charles - Chairman and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group
GB Balls, Edward - Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury
P Balsemão, Francisco Pinto - Professor of Communication Science, New University, Lisbon; Chairman of IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.
F Belot, Jean de - Editor-in-Chief, Le Figaro
USA Bergsten, C. Fred - Director, Institute for International Economics
N Bernander, John G. - Director General, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
CDN Black, Conrad M. - Chairman, Telegraph Group Ltd.
INT Bolkestein, Frits - Commissioner, European Commission
USA Soros, George - Chairman, Soros Fund Management
USA Rose, Charlie - Producer, Rose Communications
P Borges, António - Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
USA Boyd, Charles G. - President and CEO, Business Executives for National Security
F Castries, Henri de - Chairman of the Board, AXA
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD of the COUNCIL on FOREIGN RELATIONS § Mariclaire Acosta Urquidi (Mexico), President, Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights.
§ Giovanni Agnelli (Italy), Chairman, Instituto Finanziario Industriale; Honorary Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
§ Khalid Ali Alturki (Saudi Arabia), Chairman, TRADCO
§ Moshe Arens (Israel), Former Deputy Chairman of the Board, Israel Corporation Ltd.; former Ambassador of Israel to the United States
§ Hanan Ashrawi (West Bank), Member, Palestinian National Council; Founder, Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights.
§ Percy N. Barnevik (Sweden), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
§ Conrad M. Black (Canada), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Argus Corporation Limited; Chairman, Hollinger International Inc.; Chairman, Telegraph Group Limited
§ Gro Harlem Brundtland (Norway), Member of Parliament; former Prime Minister of Norway
§ Peter A. R. Carrington (Great Britain), Chancellor, University of Reading; former Secretary-General, NATO
§ Gustavo A. Cisneros (Venezuela), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisneros Group of Companies
§ Alejandro Foxley (Chile), President, Christian Democratic Party; former Minister of Finance of Chile
§ Toyoo Gyohten (Japan), President, Institute for International Monetary Affairs; Senior Adviser, The Bank ofTokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd.
§ Abdlatif Y. Al-Hamad (Kuwait), Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Arab Fund for Economic andSocial Development
§ Abid Hussain (India), Vice Chairman, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies; former Ambassador of India to the United States
§ Sergei A. Karaganov (Russia), Deputy Director, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Chairman of the Board, Council on Foreign and Defence Policy
§ Kyung-Won Kim (Republic of Korea), President, Institute of Social Sciences; former Ambassador of Korea to the United States
§ Yotaro Kobayashi (Japan), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
§ Otto Graf Lambsdorff (Germany), Memberof the Bundestag; former Federal Minister of Economics
§ Graca Machel (Mozambique), President, Mozambique Community Development Foundation
§ Juan March Delgado (Spain), Chairman, Juan March Foundation
§ Maria Rosa Martini (Argentina), Cofounder and President, Social Sector Forum; Vice President, Civitas; Cofounder, CONCIENCIA Argentina
§ Barbara McDougall (Canada), Former Secretary of State for External Affairs; former Minister of State for Finance and Privatization
§ Rigoberta Menchu Tum (Guatemala), Founder, Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation; 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
§ Adam Michnik (Poland), Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza
§ Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria), Chairman, Africa Leadership Forum; former Head of State of Nigeria
§ Anand Panyarachun (Thailand), Chairman, Saha-Union Public Company Limited; Former Prime Minister of Thailand
§ Moeen A. Qureshi (Pakistan), Chairman, Emerging Markets Partnership; former Prime Minister of Pakistan
§ Edzard Reuter (Germany), Former Chairman, Daimler-Benz
§ AG Michel Rocard (France), President, Commission of Development, European Parliament; former Prime Minister of France
§ Khehla Shubane (Republic of South Africa), Research Officer, Centre for Policy Studies
§ Peter D. Sutherland (Ireland), Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International; Chairman, British Petroleum Company plc; former Director-General, World Trade Organization
§ Washington SyCip (Philippines), Chairman and Founder, The SGV Group
§ Shirley V. T. Brittain Williams (Great Britain), Member, British House of Lords; Public Service Professor of Electoral Politics, Harvard University
§ Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh), Founder, Managing Director and Chief ExecutiveOfficer, Grameen Bank
Individuals closely involved with one or more groups Joseph T Gorman (USA) – Member of Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, Business Council, Council on Competitiveness and others. Chairman of the Buiness Roundtable International Trade and Investment task force. CEO TRW Inc; Director Procter and Gamble Company and Aluminium Company of America.
David Rockefeller (USA) – President of the Trilateral Commission; President of Chase Manhattan Bank; member of Bilderberg Advisory Group.
Renato Ruggieri (Italy) – Member Bilderberg Steering Committee; member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; Director World Trade Organisation 95 - ; Former Italian Minister of Foreign Trad; member of the board, Fiat Spa 90-95; Attendee at Davos Meeting.
Giovanni Agnelli (Italy) – member of Bilderberg Advisory Group; member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow; Honorary Chairman, Fiat SpA; Director, Instituto Finanziario Industriale (IFI - The Agnelli family holding company). Giovanni's brother, Umberto, is Chairman of IFI and a founder of the European Roundtable of Industrialists.
Conrad M Black (Canada) – member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman and CEO Argus Corporation Ltd; Chairman Hollinger International Inc; Chairman Telegraph Group Ltd.
Gro Harlem Bruntland (Norway) - member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; Attendee at Davos Meeting.
Percy N Barnevik (Sweden) - Member Bilderberg Steering Committee; member international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations; member, European Roundtable of Industrialists; member, World Business Council on Sustainable Development; President and CEO, ABB Brown Boveri Ltd.
Donald J Johnston – Secretary General, OECD; Attendee at Davos Meeting.
James D Wolfensohn (USA) – Member of Bilderberg advisory group; member, World Business Council on Sustainable Development; Attendee at Davos Meeting; President World Bank.
Juan March Delgado (Spain), Chairman, Juan March Foundation; member, World Business Council on Sustainable Development; member, international advisory board of Council on Foreign Relations.
There are over 5,000 key players that run our world, this list is to give incite as to some of the key members of the global elite. I encourage the reader to study as many of these people as you can. With the Internet a person can use the name as keywords then hit enter and voila --- hundreds of pages of info on the person and the subject. You determine for yourself what their intention is for our world.
Then I ask the reader to decide if that is their vision for the world as well. If perpetual war and an economy that enslaves rather than frees the people is what you desire then go ahead and support these people and their vision for a World Government founded on feudalism. If not, then join the Peace and Justice movement who are bringing good things to our lives like a livable wage, paid vacations, healthcare that actually heals your body, a life supporting environment. Come, join the fight for our common wealth and be a part of the revolution to change the world for the better.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful: Sobering view ot the New World Order, November 24, 2007 By Mark E. Baxter "Inquirer" (Layton, UT United States) - See all my reviews
Alex Jones is a radio host and documentary film maker based out of Austin, Texas. His documentaries revolve around the global movements that led to the European Union, the United Nations, the World Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergers and other opinion and policy making groups bent on dominating the world.
This particular documentary, his newest, looks at the 'New World' nirvana proposed by the elite of the world.
The first question that needs to be answered is, "Are there really conspiracies bent on world domination?" Well, since these organizations themselves admit and publish this publicly, only a fool would say no. David Rockefeller, founding member of many of these globalist secret combinations, stated flat out in his recent biography that global domination was exactly what he has been working for.
Understand that there are kooks out there who believe all kinds of weird stuff from alien abductions to ESP and paganism. Alex Jones is not one of these people.
This documentary follows a meeting of the "Bilderbergers", a group of secretive policy makers including heads of industry and state. This documentary details the "eugenics" movement as well as anything I have seen or read. These elite look for a world where 80% of the current world's population has been killed off through various means.
Like many of you, I used to think such things were impossible. But in my first career as a biologist, I would more and more often hear giants in the field of science say things like "Thank God for malaria in the third world!" I would be shocked at such racist, idiotic, genocidal talk and would look around at the circle of listeners nodding in agreement. These people really do believe that diseases killing millions of people are a good thing. I watch as diverse fields like business, government, education, and medicine all seem to converge to the same one-world socialist solutions. I watch idiotic ideas like socialized medicine, global warming being caused by man-made CO2, and illegal immigration crammed down our throats even though upwards of 90% of the citizens oppose these ideas. And the only explanation is to believe the organized criminals who head up education, industry and the government really do mean what they say.
So watch this and wake up. I also recommend several other doumentaries by the same film-maker Terrorstorm: 2nd Edition, on 9-11 and other similar terrorist incidents, Dark Secrets and The Order of Death: Inside Bohemian Grove, a scary examination of a 100 year old retreat where Presidents, and World rulers meet and perform a mock human sacrifice to Moloch (yes, that Moloch - the one in the old testament that pagans used to sacrifice their children to). You won't believe it until you see it.
Negatives of the film are parts are repetitious. The Bilderberger meetings part didn't say exactly what was going on at the meeting, it only showed these people showing up to this meeting. I think more evidence of the links between these groups and current governmental policy would make the case better.
As I occasionally talk to other people about the way things are going, occasionally some of them will laugh this stuff off, or shrug their shoulders. But once they watch this DVD, most stop laughing. It's that powerful. Give it a shot.
Your Turn: ‘There is nothing fun about the New World Order’Published: Monday, February 18, 2008Last Modified: Monday, February 18, 2008, 2:02:42am
Letter to the Editor The article headlined “Exhibit to Clarify Great Seal's Symbolism” in your issue for Feb. 13, 2008, was enlightening. However, “clarification” implies confusion and questions — especially when the government feels it has to counter this accusation: “… that the Seal draws on Satanism or polytheistic ritual to promote a universal new world order under which Earth would be ruled by a single omnipotent government.” Wow! Which part of that statement is the government trying to debunk — the Satanism part or the new world order part?
But seriously, searching for hidden clues leading to insidious mysteries within the Great Seal may be fun, but there is nothing fun about the New World Order. Publicly announced by President George Herbert Walker Bush (George W.'s father) on Sept. 11, 1991, before a joint session of Congress, it had a powerful effect on the “dialogue.” Here is the quote: “[The war in Iraq is] a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of troubled times, our fifth objective, a ‘new world order,’ can emerge.”
The New World Order has actually been around for a long time. H.G. Wells (the sci-fi novelist, historian and futurist) was a prominent member of the London-based Fabian Society and wrote a short book entitled “The New World Order” in 1939, which advocated one world government. Near the end, he states that during a difficult and painful transition period, many “quite gallant and graceful-looking people” will “die protesting against it.”
Here's another quote: “In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all” (Strobe Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, quoted in Time Magazine, July 20th, 1992).
Another: “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the new world order” (David Rockefeller).
Another: “Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the world government” (Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderburger Conference, Evian, France, 1991).
Even Hitler was into it: “National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing a new world order.”
There is so much more. Tomorrow, Feb. 19, at 6:30 p.m., a documentary by activist Michael Ruppert will screen at the Athens Public Library on this and related subjects. Admission is free. Call 707-3617 for more info.
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."David Rockefeller, Baden-Baden, Germany 1991
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."- David Rockefeller
On page 405 of the paperback edition, David Rockefeller says this:"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
Their also breaking the Logan Act which doesn't allow politicians from different countries to convene due to the high level of treason.
My position is that we are run by an elite that is a nucleus of certain high power people. This includes certain bankers, officials from the Federal Reserve, certain politicians, oil tycoons. I don't truly know of who exactly. I would like to start off with a few quotes.
"Let me control a peoples currency and I care not who makes their laws."-Meyer Nathaniel Rothschild
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of AndrewJackson."-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure."-Joseph Kennedy(father of JFK and RFK)
Those are just a few important figures who have come out to the truth of the matter.
So lets begin with the Bilderberg Group who's first meeting was held at Hotel De bilderberg between the 29th and 31st of May in 1954. It was at first designed to bring together high officials on concerns about the growth of anti-Americanism in western Europe. It was proposed as an international meeting in which leaders from European countries and The United States would be brought together with the goal to promote understanding of each others cultures. Each year the list of invites is different, but their are certain members who attend each and every year. They would include: central bankers, defense experts, mass media press barons, government ministers, prime ministers, Royalty, international financiers and political leaders from Europe and North America. Donald Rumsfeld attends nearly every year, Peter Sutherland from Ireland, who formally was a European Union Commissioner, chairmen of Goldman Sachs and British Petroleum also is an active Bilderberg attendee. The bilderberg group is extremely secret, and information on what and who they talk about is rarely leaked. Due to that fact, their are people who believe they are tied to the 'New World Order'(NWO), who ultimently wish to decrease the human population size to two billion and have one world government and religion. Now I don't know if I believe this yet, but I certainly see it as possible.
In Yugoslavia, leading Serbs have blamed Bilderberg for triggering the war which led to the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic. The Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the London nail-bomber David Copeland and Osama Bin Laden are all said to have bought into the theory that Bilderberg pulls the strings with which national governments dance. The BBC uncovered incredible archived Bilderburg documents which confirm that both the EU(European Union) and the Euro were the brainchild of Bilderberg.~http://www.propagandamatrix.com/......
I would like to bring up the Trilateral Commission founded in July of 1973, created at the initiative of David Rockefeller who at the time was the chairman of The Council on Foreign Relations. The formation of the Trilateral Commission came together with Zbigniew Brzezinski and a few other people, including individuals from the Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Ford foundation. At first, he(Rockefeller) convened simple meetings, but over a short amount of time, the Trilateral Commission was born. Two other key founders of the commission were Alan Greenspan and Paul volcker, both eventually heads of the Federal Reserve. Membership is divided into numbers proportionate to each of its three regional areas. These members include corporate CEOs, politicians of all major parties, distinguished academics, university presidents, labor union leaders and not-for-profits involved in overseas philanthropy. Members who gain a position in their respective country's government must resign from the Commission. Currently their are three chairman: Tom Foley-North America (former Democratic Congressman, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and ambassador to Japan), Peter Sutherland -Europe (Irish businessman and former politician associated with the Fine Gael party; former Attorney General of Ireland and European Commissioner in the first Delors Commission; former director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the precursor to the World Trade Organization; Chairman of BP and Goldman Sachs International), and Yotaro Kobayashi-Pacific Asia (chairman of the Fuji Xerox company). Here is a list of some current or formal members:~David Rockefeller: Founder of the Commission; Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank board from 1969 to 1981; Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1970 to 1985, now honorary Chairman; a life member of the Bilderberg Group.~Henry Kissinger: U.S. diplomat, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations; former Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of JP Morgan Chase.~George H.W. Bush: Former President of the U.S.~Jimmy Carter: Former President of the U.S.~Bill Clinton: Former President of the U.S.~Francis Maude: MP for Horsham, the only British MP currently a member of the Trilateral Commission, former Conservative Party Chairman, son of the late Sir Angus Maude MP~Walter Mondale: former vice-president of the U.S.(under Carter)~Dick Cheney: Current vice-president of the U.S.~Robert Taft Jr.: US Senator~Alexander Haig: former Secretary of State (under Reagan)~Ted Sorensen: special adviser to President Kennedy~Warren Christopher: former Secretary of State (under Clinton) and deputy Secretary of State (under Carter)~Robert Rubin: Treasury Secretary under Clinton~Bruce Babbitt: Interior Secretary under Clinton~Henry Cisneros: HUD Secretary under Clinton~Lee Raymond: Former CEO and Chairman, ExxonMobil, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, director of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., director and member of the Executive Committee and Policy Committee of the American Petroleum Institute.~Zbigniew Brzezinski: U.S. National Security Advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981~Paul Volcker: Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty.~Alan Greenspan: Former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve~Paul Wolfowitz: Former President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and a prominent member of the neo-conservatives in Washington.~Robert Zoellick: Nominated President of the World Bank, Former Deputy Secretary of State, former U.S. Trade Representative~Mary Robinson: President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 as a candidate for the Labour Party; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.~Sergei Karaganov: Presidential adviser to Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin; member of the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995 to 2005.~Bill Graham: former Canadian Minister of National defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Paul Martin; since 2006, interim parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party~Mugur Isarescu: Governor of the National Bank of Romania since 1990 and prime minister from December 1999 to November 2000; he worked for the Minister of Foreign Affairs then for the Romanian Embassy in the U.S. after the 1989 Romanian revolution
The list goes on, those are just some important figures who are or once were part of the Trilateral Commission. I feel like between those two groups, their is way to many secrets that we don't know about. Both have been connected to the NWO because of their extreme measures of keeping all their plans a secret. One of the bigger differences between the two is that the Trilateral Commission allowed Japan to enter its rankings, unlike the Bilderberg who keep it between North America and western Europe(NATA alliance).
Pro ~ Round 3
Well, sorry for not taking your "spaghetti monster" serious sir. But if you do believe the Illuminati is controlling us, then why did you take this debate? Because I as well believe this, but I also think theirs other officials who have interest in our movements as well. Such as high-powerful bankers, certain political families from around the world(that might surprise some, that other leaders and bankers from other countries have ties with our controllers), some corporate CEO's.
The two groups that I briefly went over in my opening argument are only two powerful groups, another group that is more familiar to the open public is the Council on foreign Relation. Those three groups in my opinion create most if not all are policies.
In response to a comment by a fellow debater:"This is all very interesting conspiracy theory... but the fact of the matter is that US policy is actually written by individuals pretty far down the chain. You think the cabinet secretaries actually WRITE policy? It's average citizens that are writing the policy of the US = not members of secret multi-national groups."
NO the cabinet secretaries don't write the policies and most of them are not written by individuals down the chain. This is a common mistake to many sheeple who believe were really a democracy, but how can we be a democracy when we don't pick our leader anymore? If you as an individual don't believe we have voting fraud, then your purely ignorant to the truth. Yes, I agree our policies aren't literally be written by David Rockefeller or Henry Kissinger, but these groups that come together secretly(and I say this meaning most of America doesn't know their meeting) and decide on certain issues that you would think the president and his a cabinet would be making.
"Control the oil and you can control entire Continents. Control food and you control people."-Henry Kissinger
June 1991 at a bilderberg meetint David Rockefeller states:"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years."He goes on later to say:"It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national determination practiced in past centuries."
I very much agree on you with the Illuminati, most people don't realize this. But The Brotherhood of Death or the Order of Skull and Bones, also known as Chapter 322 or simply The Order, is a powerful all-male society that was established at Yale University for the elite children or grandchildren of the Wall Street Banking Establishment. I don't need to go into detail on previous and current members because you as a reader can find out yourself if interested. Theirs no question that this top-secret group is full of Illuminati treason.
Members of Skull & Bones have infiltrated just about every significant research, policy, opinion-making organization in the United States, in addition to the church, business, law, government and politics. The evolution of American society is not, and has not been for a century, a voluntary development reflecting individual opinion, ideas and decisions at the grass roots. On the contrary, the broad direction has been created artificially and stimulated by The Order.
The Order(Skull and Bones) and the Bilderberg Group are the most secretive. The Order may, in fact, be the core of the others. Each group appears to have specific activities toward the development of the One World Order.
"Despite popular misconceptions, our government is supposed to be a representative Republic (not a democracy). In both democracies and Republics people vote. That single act does not make you free. Those who finagle their way into office are supposed to represent the voters who allegedly put them there. They are also supposed to sustain an invariable written law – the Constitution which mandates civil law and our response to it. The non-negotiable Constitution is our explicit gauge of right and wrong, applicable to all without special considerations for occupations such as politicians, sports stars or "insider" corporate criminals or race. Since Woodrow Wilson, we have descended into a Socialistic democracy (adaptable mob rule, adjustable laws and poll driven public opinions). All democracies, in which selective enforcement of law is rampant, are short lived, for they typically morph into oppressive tyrannies."-Deanna Spingola-Journalist
"Whenever laws are passed, under whatever form, if they do not represent the will of the majority of the people or their desires, then they represent oppression. That is to say, we in America today have an oppressive government because it passes laws against the will of the people. Thus, we no longer have a Republic. A strong case can be made that America in the 21st century is an Empire, as was Britain in the 19th. Any government that would even consider an issue as ludicrous as ‘hate crimes,' i.e. the concept of policing thought, is in very serious jeopardy."-Dr. Adrian Krieg
If Americans actually believe that we select and then elect candidates, we are sadly deceived. The Establishment selects all major candidates, Manchurian and/or political. "Since its founding, the Bilderberg Group has functioned as a de facto private Global Politburo with 120 attendees at recent yearly meetings. Historically, the Group's power is awesome. Bill Clinton, an obscure Arkansas governor, was tapped to run for president. Likewise, Margaret Thatcher, as well as Tony Blair, was tapped by the Bilderbergers to assume the reins of government in the United Kingdom. Congressman Gerald Ford --- later US president --- also attended Group meetings in 1964 and 1966." Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, an unknown peanut farmer, joined forces with the Bilderberg Group. In all likelihood, every presidential candidate in the last five decades has collaborated with the Bilderberg.
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."David Rockefeller, Baden-Baden, Germany 1991
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."- David Rockefeller
On page 405 of the paperback edition, David Rockefeller says this:"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
Kissinger: I think we face three challenges currently: The disappearance of the nation-state; the rise of India and China; and, thirdly, the emergence of problems and challenges that cannot be solved by a single power, such as energy and the environment. We do not have the luxury to focus on one problem; we have to deal with all three of them or we won't succeed with any of them. The rise of Asia will be an enormous event. But we cannot say that we should therefore keep other challenges, such as the fight against radical Islam, in abeyance.
SPIEGEL: Is China still a partner or primarily a rival?
Kissinger: China has to be treated as a potential partner. We must use all ingenuity to create a system in which the great states of Asia -- which really are not nation-states in the European sense but large conglomerates of cultures -- can participate. We have no choice.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger thinks that John McCain would make the best choice for the next US president.
Baby steps to a common Asian currencyBy Shehla Raza Hasan
KOLKATA - The concept of an Asian Currency Unit (ACU) was resurrected last month by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and will be considered again at the bank's annual meeting early this month in Hyderabad, India. After that it could be launched as early as the end of June.
The unit was born as a concept almost 10 years ago, prior to the Asian currency meltdown. It is a notional unit of exchange based on a "basket" or weighted average of currencies used in the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus South Korea, China and Japan (ASEAN plus 3).
It was primarily mooted to help develop regional bond markets and promote monetary cooperation among Asian economies. This

idea, contemplated on and off over the years, got a big boost last month, and the ADB seemed definitely committed. The launch was held up by the need to settle some divisive views and political anxieties: Inclusion of the currencies of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, an idea strongly contested by China and the ASEAN states. Exclusion of India in the first round of talks. It is important for India to be part of the initial negotiations so that it reflects the interests of Indian business. It is believed that Singapore, a strong ally of India, is pushing for its inclusion in the first stage of talks, which will develop the concept of the unit. Need for consensus relating to the weighting and components of the ACU based on countries' share of nominal gross domestic product (GDP) as well as trade volume, the level of capital flows or convertibility of their currencies.
Some of the long-term issues that need attention are:
Hegemony of stronger states. Smaller Southeast Asian states allegedly feel threatened by China's growing economic power and Japan's isolationist economic policy. They also question whether the currencies of Australia and New Zealand should be included with India in the second round. It is argued that it was impossible to replicate the euro experience because Europe had sorted out the question of hegemony long before the question of a single currency was mooted.
Substantial diversity in Asian economies. Critics also point out that the concept of Asia has been defined only by its geography. There is a substantial gap in the growth and development of countries within this region. Cambodia and Laos have a substantial chunk of population below the poverty line.
The euro experience - a good learning process. The architects of the ACU are making efforts to point out that they are not trying to make the ACU the Asian equivalent of the euro. The unit would merely be an indicator of exchange rates, with no exchange-market interventions. There is also talk of changing the name to "Asian currency index" to set it apart from the European Currency Unit, which was the precursor of the euro.
The primary purpose of the ACU would be to facilitate the development of an Asian multi-currency bond market, strengthening of capital markets to make them resistant to external shocks. The ACU would reflect how the region's currencies as a whole move against the dollar and the euro and how each currency in the ACU moves against the average level of participating currencies. The evolution of the euro could at best be a good learning process.
The ideal preconditions that existed in Europe prior to the introduction of the euro, but either don't exist in Asia or are only emerging, were pointed out by Roberto F De Ocampo, former Philippine finance secretary: High trade interdependencies. Common acceptance of basic political and social values (democracy, a market economy with a strong welfare state). Fairly even economic development and comparable living standards. Strong commitment to solidarity.
The past few years have witnessed higher trade interdependencies in East Asia than ever before. Reportedly, this is happening at a much faster rate than Europe ever experienced. Trade volume among the ASEAN plus 3 countries has swelled, with trade between China and ASEAN poised to reach US$200 billion before 2010. Trade between India and China increased more than 12 times over the past five years.
Financial analysts point out that it will not be long before ASEAN plus 3 set up a mechanism for exchange-rate stability, not necessarily for safeguarding financial stability in Asia but purely for self-interest. Japan is a proactive member of the club, as Tokyo is not too comfortable with China's emergence and the fact that the yen may be overshadowed by the yuan. It has shed its isolationist tendencies for this reason.
It is therefore understood that several steps need to be taken toward creation of a unified currency structure in Asia. Certain absolutely necessary requirements are information exchange and policy dialogue on surveillance, initiation of a central reserve pool for financing the liquidity needs of member countries, and cooperation in developing suitable mechanisms for regulation and supervision.
Nevertheless, this initial step toward a single common currency needs to be preceded by a common single market. The benefits of an eventual single currency are numerous. It will increase market transparency by making prices more easily comparable. Cross-border transactions will also become more attractive as market operators will no longer be exposed to exchange-rate risks, and costs associated with currency conversion will be eliminated.
The single market will become one of the main pillars of economic and monetary integration. However, any expectations of a common Asian currency in a holistic sense is a long way off. This trend, which began in East Asia, will have to be popularized in the more difficult terrains of South and Central Asia. The toughest challenge will perhaps come when it is time for West Asia to be part of the system.