Bilderberg conference 2004 - Stresa, Italy 3-6 June

[Dover]

Interesting that Bush's trip coincides with this meeting:

Bilderberg Conference 2004 - The 50th anniversary of the first meeting in 1954


http://www.bilderberg.org/2004.htm#participants

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Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory

By Jonathan Duffy BBC News Online

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3773019.stm

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.

But behind this ultra-modest façade lies one of the most controversial and hotly-debated alliances of our times.

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

[T Bone]

1. If Junior attends this it must mean

that there is no requirement to have an ounce of brain in your head before you can go.

[nannah]

2. Perle, feith, ralph reed,john edwards,

American representation at the bilderberg conference.

Honorary Secretary General - Taylor, Martin - International Adviser, Goldman Sachs International


USA - Boot, Max - Neoconservative, Council on foreign Relations, Features Editor, Wall Street Journal

USA - Collins, Timothy C - MD and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings LLC, Yale School of Management, Trilateral Commission

USA - Corzine, Jon S. - Senator (D, New Jersey), Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs

USA - Donilon, Thomas L - Vice-President, Fannie Mae, Council on Foreign Relations

USA - Edwards, John - Senator (D. North Carolina), Democratic Presidential Candidate

USA - Feith, Douglas J. - Undersecretary for Policy, Department of Defense

USA - Gates, Melinda F. - Co-Founder, Gates Foundation, wife of Bill Gates

USA - Geithner, Timothy F. - President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

USA - Graham, Donald E. - Chairman and CEO, Washington Post Company

USA - Haas, Richard N. - President, Council on Foreign Relations, former Director of Policy and Planning staff, State Department

USA - Holbrooke, Richard C - Vice Chairman, Perseus, former Director, Council on Foreign Relations, former Assistant Secretary of State

USA - Hubbard, Allen B - President E&A Industries

USA - Issacson, Walter - President and CEO, Aspen Institute

USA - Janow, Merit L. - Professor, International Economic Law and International Affairs, Columbia University, member of apellate body, WTO

USA - Jordan, Vernon E. Senior Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co LLC

USA - Kagan, Robert - Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

USA - Kissinger Henry A. - Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.

USA - Kovner, Bruce - Chairman Caxton Associates LLC, Chairman, American Enterprise Institute

USA - Kravis, Henry R. - Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., acquisitions financier

USA - Kravis, Marie Josee - Senoir Fellow, Hudson Institute Inc.

USA - Luti, William J. - Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

USA - Mathews, Jessica T. - President, Carnegie Endowment for International War Peace

USA - McDonough, William J. - Cahirman and CEO, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, former president, Federal Reserve Bank of New York


USA - Mundie, Craig J. - Chief Technical Officer, Advanced Strategies and Policies, Microsoft Corporation

USA - Nooyi, Indra K. - President and CEO, PepsiCo Inc.

USA - Perle, Richard N. - Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, former Likud policy adviser, former chair Defence Policy Board, former co-chairman, Hollinger Digital

USA - Reed, Ralph E. - President, Century Strategies

USA - Rockefeller, David - Member JP Morgan International Council, Chairman, Council of the Americas

USA - Ross, Dennis B - Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

USA - Schnabel, Rockwell A. - Ambassador to the EU

USA - Strmecki, Marin J. - Smith Richardson Foundation

USA - Thornton, John L. - Chairman, Brookings Institution, Professor, Tsinghua University

INT/USA - Wolfenson, James D. - President, The World Bank

USA - Yergin, Daniel - Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Summary by nation

* Austria 1 * Belgium 4 Canada 3 * Switzerland 3
* China 1 * Cyprus 1 * Germany 8 * Denmark 2
* Spain 3 * France 4 * Finland 3 * Great Britain 9
* Greece 2 * Italy 16 * International 7 * Ireland 2
* Israel 1 * Norway 3 * Netherlands 6 * Portugal 3
* Poland 2 * Russia 2 * Sweden 3 * Turkey 4 * USA 33

* Total 126

USA

Will George W. Bush fly by? Or will he drop in?

Keep your eyes open in Stresa on Saturday 5th June 2004 - George W Bush - just as Bill Clinton in the year 2000 - is travelling nearby this year. Experience tells us (Tony Blair dropped in at Bilderberg 1998 though he was not mentioned in Bilderberg's post conference 'Press Release') Bush might well drop in for a discreet chat with the oil and banking cartel people - not to mention the European royalty that will be there.

interesting cast of characters.... your on line link is priceless.

[Dover]

3. Whoa! Wonder if that means Edwards is being groomed for VP?

Kerry and Clinton attended previous meetings.

Would really like to be a fly on the wall....

[leesa]

5. This rather confirms what I have always felt about Kerry and Edwards

Very much part of this corporate world control effort. Hopefully, his participation gets out there and people become aware. Many of these folks are PNACers.

[AP]

6. Corzine and Holbrooke too

[nannah]

4. kick

[Moderator]

7. Dover

Per DU copyright rules
please post only four
paragraphs from the
news source.

Thank you.

DU Moderator

[Dover]

9. Okay. I can no longer shorten the initial post, but if you can..please do.

Thanks. Not sure why the article is divided into two and three sentence paragraphs and didn't know what constituted a "paragraph" in such a case.

[Dover]

8. Asia Times: The masters of the universe

I know nothing about this journalist, but thought this was interesting regarding last year's Bilderberg meeting:

The masters of the universe
May 22, 2003

By: Pepe Escobar
Asia Times



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..This year, the Bilderberg meeting in Versailles conveniently merged into the G8 meeting of finance ministers in Paris, a 20-minute car ride from Versailles, on May 19. The procedure is traditional: what happens in the Bilderberg is usually a preview of what is later discussed at the full G8 gathering, which this year will be held from June 1 to 3 at Evian-les-Bains in the French Alps.

On Bilderberg's first full working day on May 15, French President Jacques Chirac delivered a welcoming speech, trying to bury the bitter divisions among the guests over the war on Iraq by emphasizing that the US and Western Europe are longtime allies. But Chirac's gracious hosting may not have been enough to soothe the hawks in the US administration still miffed at "pacifist" France.
An influential Jewish European banker reveals that the ruling elite in Europe is now telling their minions that the West is on the brink of total financial meltdown; so the only way to save their precious investments is to bet on the new global crisis centered around the Middle East, which replaced the crisis evolving around the Cold War.

According to a banking source in the City of London connected to Versailles, what has transpired from the 2003 meeting is that American and European Bilderbergers have not exactly managed to control their split over the American invasion and occupation of Iraq, as well as over Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's hardline policy against the Palestinians. As the Bilderbergers were chattering away, Sharon all but rejected Bush's Middle East road map, already endorsed by the other members of the so-called quartet: the United Nations, the European Union and Russia. This road map, as it stands, is over: even the presence of US Secretary of State Colin Powell - who stopped by Versailles to brief the Bilderbergers - was not enough to persuade Sharon to even discuss the dismantling of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory.

American imperial adventures are usually rehearsed at Bilderberg meetings. Europe's elite were opposed to an American invasion of Iraq since the 2002 Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia. Rumsfeld himself had promised them it wouldn't happen. Last week, everybody struck back at Rumsfeld, asking about the infamous "weapons of mass destruction". Most of Europe's elite do not believe American promises that Iraq's oil will "benefit the Iraqi people". They know that revenues from Iraqi oil will be used to rebuild what America has bombed. And the debate is still raging on what kind of contracts which rewarded Bechtel and Halliburton will "benefit" Western Europe.

Europe's elite, according to those close to Bilderberg, are suspicious that the US does not need or even want a stable, legitimate central government in Iraq. When that happens, there will be no reason for the US to remain in the country. Europe's elite see the US establishing "facts on the ground": establishing a long-term military presence and getting the oil flowing again under American control. This could go on for years, as long as the Americans can guarantee enough essential services to prevent the Iraqi people from engaging in a war of national liberation.

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http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=858&fcategory_desc=Bilderberg