Club Bilderberg

Club Bilderberg

By

Michael Whiteman

Works Cited

1. http://www.infowars.com

2. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Globalization/Globalization_watch.html

3. United Nations http://www.un.org

4. Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet http://thomas.loc.gov

5. http://www.bilderberg.org

6. http://www.americanfriendsofbilderberg.com

7. www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22957.html

8. http://www.wikipedia.com

9. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_participants

10. http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_home.html

11. www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?...Council_on_Foreign_Relations

The Bilderberg group is a rotating round table of the world's most powerful people. They meet in secret to discuss foreign, domestic and public policy matters to try to form a certain census on how to maintain their wealth and power. Through various other councils and boards, including the Council of Foreign Relations and The Trilateral Commission, they work to integrate the European Union with the now merging North American Union, and the Asian Union to form the core of the world's first Planetary Government. They would like to establish a one world government, administered by a very tiny elite, whose power can never be challenged. <http:www.infowars.com>

There are three top positions of Bilderberg: Honorary Secretary General, Honorary Chairman and Executive Secretary. These positions are always held by the most powerful elite. Since there are only three positions all others are classified under member of the steering committee.

The Steering Committee organizes meetings with two members from each of about eighteen nations. Including; The United States, The united Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands France, Portugal, Finland, Iceland, Germany, Poland, Canada, Sweden and Norway. < http://www.americanfriendsofbilderberg.com>

The people invited to the meetings are generally; captains of industry, Royal families, highly influential government officials, Major media and banking interests. Some of the permanent members include; Richard Holbrooke (Current U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan), David Rockefeller, Paul Wolfowitz (Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, Ambassador to Indonesia, and president of World Bank), Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Bill Moyers, Henry Kissinger, George w. Ball (Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and Under Secretary of State), and Richard Haass (President of Council on Foreign Relations). Some of the more notable attendees include: Timothy Geithner (current Treasury Secretary and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York), Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Ben Bernanke ( Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal reserve Bank), Jorma Ollila (Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Nokia Corporation), Lord Browne of Madingly (Chief Executive of British Petroleum), Indra K. Nooyi (CEO of PepsiCo), and Peter Weinberg (CEO of Goldman Sachs International. <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_participants>

The first Bilderberg meeting was held at the Bilderberg Hotel in Arnhem, the Netherlands, in 1954. Even though the organization holds no official name, not even a website, it is referred to as such because of this initial meeting. Their stated goal at the time was to improve on souring relations between the U.S. and Western Europe, The meeting was concocted by several people including Denis Healy and Josef Retinger. Denis Healy at the time was a member of British Parliament, who would later become Secretary of State for Defense, and then Chancellor of the Exchequer (equivalent to our Secretary of the Treasury).

Josef Retinger was a political advisor to the Polish Government. He was also founder of the European movement that would lead to the forming of the European Union. He was also a participant in the starting of the highly influential Council of Europe, which is now the oldest organization working towards the integration of Europe. The Council focuses mostly on human rights, cultural cooperation, the Rule of Law, and Democratic Development. It Consists of 47 member states and has over 800 million citizens. <http://www.bilderberg.org>

Josef Retinger approached Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands with the idea of promoting understanding of the different cultures of the U.S. and Western Europe. He agreed and called on Walter Bedell Smith, who was head of the C.I.A., he informed Eisenhower advisor Charles Douglas Jackson of their intentions. The decision was made and the first meeting was financed by the C.I.A. The idea was to have two attendees from each nation, one a liberal and the other to represent conservative views. There were fifty delegates from eleven western European countries and eleven Americans in attendance at the first meeting.

Due to the success of exchange of ideas of the first meeting, it was decided to arrange an annual conference. They established a permanent steering committee to organize and maintain an attendee contact list. Josef Retinger was appointed Honorary Secretary General and held the position until his death in 1960. The Bilderberg meetings were held successively; from 1954-'57 in France, Germany and then Denmark, with monetary contributions from the C.I.A. The First meeting in the states was held in 1959 in St Simons Georgia with major funding contributed by the Ford Foundation (which contributed in later years: '59 and '63). <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group>

The highest ranking position at Bilderberg is Honorary Chairman. This position belonged to Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. He has led a controversial life being involved with several affairs and scandals. Before WWII he had early ties to the Nazis and was a member of Hitler's Honorary German Reiter SS corp. He even had a conversation with him as recorded in Hitler's "TischGesperaeche" (Table Conversations), a collection of monologues, remarks and speeches.

After the Second World War Prince Bernhard had proved his loyalty to his own country and gained respect of the people. The position of