Los inmigrantes darán huellas digitales, exploraciones del diafragma Y los detalles personales para las tarjetas de la identificación… o serán lanzados hacia fuera
Lanzarán a los extranjeros que se burlan de en varias ocasiones las reglas cuando se hacen para solicitar tarjetas de la identificación hacia fuera, el gobierno dicho ayer.
Los inmigrantes tendrán que dar dos huellas digitales, exploraciones del diafragma y una balsa de detalles personales al Ministerio del Interior cuando el esquema se introduce para los nacionales extranjeros solamente a finales de este año.
Ministra dicho que, si no pueden conformarse con estos “requisitos fundamentales”, podrían tener su permiso de permanecer en el Reino Unido revocado.
Pero los papeles lanzaron revelado ayer que solamente los delincuentes seriales - quiénes rotura las reglas por lo menos tres veces en cinco años - harán frente a retiro.
Inicialmente, harán frente solamente a multas de £250 por ofensa. Y los refugiados harán frente solamente a multas - hasta un máximo de £1,000 - como los leyes de derechos humanos lo barran de estar deportado.
Un documento de la consulta en las penas bajo esquema, que es un precursor de la tarjeta nacional de la identificación para todos los ciudadanos británicos, también dicha allí no era ninguna energía de encarcelar a cualquier persona que no pudo pagar las multas civiles.
Pero la ofensa del desprecio, que puede llevar un término de la cárcel, “puede ser aplicable”, él agregó.
Alguien con la licencia indefinida a permanecer en Gran Bretaña hizo solamente su licencia cancelar en “circunstancias que obligan”, el papel se encendió. Las multas serían descontadas para la gente en ventajas.
Ruede-hacia fuera comenzará a finales de este año, con los niños de los nacionales extranjeros también esperados llevar las tarjetas.
La oposición MPs dijo que ofreció una ojeada en cómo el esquema de la tarjeta de la identificación para los ciudadanos británicos podría trabajar, cuando se introduce a partir de 2009.
El portavoz liberal Chris Huhne del demócrata dijo: “Esto demuestra la clase de medidas punitivas que cada ciudadano británico puede contar con cuando las tarjetas de la identificación se ruedan eventual hacia fuera nacionalmente.
Las “tarjetas de la identificación para los nacionales extranjeros no van a solucionar los problemas del fraude de la identidad y del funcionamiento ilegal. Todo lo que hará es amenazar el estado de la inmigración de la gente de trabajo dura que trae ventajas a este país.”
Pero ministro Liam Byrne de la inmigración dicho: “Britain’s border security is currently undergoing the biggest shake-up in a generation, ensuring it stays among the toughest in the world.
“ID cards for foreign nationals will cement the triple ring of security protecting our shores, along with fingerprint visas abroad and a single border force here at home.”
“…Hillary will be good for America… we’ll be very pleased that she’s president.” — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Portfolio magazine, October 5, 2007
While President Bush’s approval rating falls to record lows, the torch is being prepared to pass on to Hillary Clinton, with full endorsement from the global elite. With support from European nobility, Clinton has been selected as the candidate of choice for the continuation of globalist policies. Bill Clinton, being a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, as well as the secretive Bilderberg group, was the creme de la creme establishment candidate. His wife, Hillary, who likely attended the 2006 Bilderberg conference in Ottawa Canada, now promises to follow in his path.
In an October 5th interview conducted by Lloyd Grove of Portfolio magazine, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, wife of Sir Evelyn Rothschild, openly proclaimed support for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Lloyd Grove begins by commenting on Lynn’s influence, writing of her first meeting with her future husband Evelyn Rothschild which took place at the 1998 Bilderberg conference in Turnberry, Scotland,
“When 67-year-old British banking scion Sir Evelyn Rothschild first set eyes on 44-year-old Lynn Forester at the 1998 Bilderberg conference—the matchmaker was none other than Henry Kissinger—she was already a woman of major means.”
When asked by Grove if Clinton will be “good for business,” Rothschild replies,
“First of all, Hillary will be good for America. And so if we care about our country —which all of my fellow capitalists do —we’ll be very pleased that she’s president.”
Writing in the Council on Foreign Relations publication Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton outlines her agenda if elected president. Iran is in Clinton’s sights, along with regional government, and likely support of the North American Union - and possibly a Pan-American union - with a “policy of vigorous engagement” with Latin America.
Regarding Iran, Clinton echoes the rhetoric coming from President Bush and the Neo-cons,
“Iran must conform to its nonproliferation obligations and must not be permitted to build or acquire nuclear weapons. If Iran does not comply with its own commitments and the will of the international community, all options must remain on the table.”
Clinton’s “vigorous engagement” stance toward Latin America would make North American integration proponent Robert Pastor and the CFR proud. Regional government, as well as regional currencies have been a long term goal of Bilderberg globalists and the Council on Foreign Relations. Clinton, if elected president would pursue further integration of Africa into the African Union,
“We should target these countries for aid and other forms of support and work with them to strengthen regional institutions such as the African Union. The AU seeks to emulate the European Union by requiring and supporting democracy among its members…”
Hillary Clinton congratulated Walter Cronkite in 1999 for his global governance award, given to him by the World Federalist Association for his support for a system of world government. “For decades you’ve told us the way it is, and tonight we honor you for fighting for the way it could be,” said Clinton.
The thin veil covering the almost indistinguishable difference between the two major parties has all but disappeared. The good Congressman from Texas named Ron Paul is the only candidate that comes with no strings attached leading to globalist puppeteers. Paul’s popular yet simple message of freedom is spreading, while the establishment scrambles to scare up support from ever more skeptical Americans for their increasingly un-popular candidates.
The current financial crisis that has happened due to the Sub prime mortgage crisis was a main topic at Bilderberg 2006 in Ottowa.
The green & cooperative movement with the libertarian hold the key to a transition from the corporate class if we work together to take over.
The current financial crisis that has happened due to the Sub prime mortgage crisis was a main topic at Bilderberg 2006 in Ottowa. Sub prime is basically people with bad credit ratings etc taking on house loans at higher rates by companies who have recently crashed with Northern Rock & other institutions funding these companies.. Top bankers & industrialists have access to information most people don’t & make money out of financial crisis & war, whilst others suffer. http://www.bilderberg.org/2006.htm
Bildbergs twin organisation the Trilateral Commission set up by leading banker David Rockefeller in 1973 a year before G8 to add asia fully into the corporate fold will be meeting at the end of april 2008 in private in Washington, no venue as yet confirmed. http://www.trilateral.org/recent.htm
We all know our so called democratic goverments are run to the heed of the corporate elite, but until now they have been well hidden.
They need to be revealed & their needs to be transition of power from this corporate class to global citizenry run via consensus & delegation asap to stop the many real crisises we face. The green & cooperative movement with the libertarian left & unions hold the key to a transition from the corporate class if we work together to take over. Using ballots is one way of doing this, though where governments have taken power by force or rigging we need our popular movements to take it.
Although there scarey stories about of theses organisations, I have been to protest&observe some of their conferences & the atmosphere& security was less intimidating than G8’s.
The G8 was founded in 1975,its conception though happened in meetings
well before, Valerie d’Estaing the president of France initiating the
original G5 in Ramboiullet taking his lead from a more powerful private
organisation described below that during the cold war remained hidden,
since1975 d’Estaing has attended this more powerful organisation &
written documents for it with Kissinger.
The concept of a influential forum for the world’s major industrialized
democracies emerged following the OPEC oil crisis and subsequent global
recession. The Supranational Trilateral Commission “lobbying group” is a
private organization,the top of an oligarchical empire founded at the
initiative of head of the Rockefeller Trust & the worlds top corporate
bank Morgan ChaseDavid Rockefeller, who pushed the idea of including
Japan as an extension of the Bilderberg meetings, but was he was
rebuffed by other NATO members. Along with Zbigniew Brzezinski and a few
others from the Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations &
the Ford Foundation, he convened initial meetings from which the
organization grew. Trilateral commission was officially founded in
October 1973,but it was in July 1972 the first major planning meeting
was held at Rockefeller’s Pocantico compound in New York’s Hudson
Valley. It was attended by about 250 individuals who were carefully
selected and screened by Rockefeller and represented the very elite of
finance and industry. Like the G8 the Trilateral Commission is
advertised as an informal forum & as with G8 we know that when powerful
corporations gather together behind closed doors it is very formal &
very undemocratic, the G8 administrative structure is made of the
participants civil servants. The Trilaterals administrative structure is
made of corporate think tanks like the Council in Foreign Relations,the
extreme right use their existence as proof of a one world
satanic,illuminati,socialist government & their propaganda zeal has
sadly frightened away true research & protest.
Trilaterals first executive committee meeting was held in Tokyo, October
‘73, this date should be known as that of a global coup against hard won
limited democratic rights earnt after world war 2& into the 1960’s..
Rockefeller & the oligarchy hated the more democratic tax rates
implemented in the USA & increased democratic rights. The oil
crisis,60’s rebellions & soviet union scared the corporate ruling class
& made it easy for the case to be made to unite them formally.
Its members came excusively from the G8 nations but since the end of the
Soviet Unions has included a peppering of other nations elites,regulat
attendees power doesnt stop at one electoral term, it is a oligarchical
dictatorship of a small ruling class,mostly even older than the soviet
politburo.Annual meetings consist of 300–350 private citizens from
Europe, Pacific Asia (Asia & Oceania)& North America, it exists to
promote closer political and economic cooperation between these areas
under USA’s hegemony & corporate politburo.
G8 countries economies are the biggest in the world,Trilateral
participants directly control corporate wealth in G8 nations & way
beyond. Its top figures & controllers are known in financial circles as
the “Masters of Universe”,their PR transforms genocidal Robber Barons
transformed into philanthropists.It inlcudes heads of nato &
US/UKmilitary ,intel services,billionaires,royalty,top politicians,heads
of PR think tanks,editors & bankers,religious financial advisors.Last
year there was a token trade unionist who is also a top banker,a leading
geneticist & Oil scientist. 95% white& christian english speakers.
Members who gain a position in their respective country’s government
temporarily leave the commission. The trilateral commision is the apex
of corporate fascism, G8 impliments its ideas & provides a “democratic”
shroud.
91yr old David “I love workers & indigenous people really” Rockefeller
is the corporate elites “Emperor Ming”; Under his stewardship the Chase
bank spread internationally and became a central pillar in the world’s
financial system,the top corporate ban,it has a global network of
correspondent banks that has been estimated to number about 50,000, the
largest of any bank in the world now united with Morgan Bank. A notable
achievement was the setting up of the first branch of an American bank
at One Karl Marx Square, near the Kremlin, in the then Soviet Union, in
1973. This was also the year Rockefeller travelled to China, resulting
in his bank becoming the National Bank of China’s first correspondent
bank in the US.
In speeches David Rockefeller has thanked the owners & controllers of
Washington Post, NBC etc for not mentioning the Trilateral Commission in
its early years.From President Carter all US presidents have been
groomed by it,George Bush snr was among the founding members of the
Tri-lateral Commission, Bush junior has links from his fathers,Cheneys &
Rumsfelds participation.
He has been at the top for 40years helping form a Pax Americana with
three trilateral areas under US hegemony,is pushing for a
North&S.American superhighway & a American EU state.Until 1999 had major
financial influence on Exxon Mobil which was one just one part of the
vast Rockefeller Empire, now dissolved into Trusts & political
influence.His granfather John Rockefeller senior was worth USD$200
billion (plus or minus 30%, comparing wealth as a percentage of GDP in
1911 to the same percentage in 2006)
Besides Exxons links to Aushwitz company IG Farben, Morgan bank was the
major backer of the attempted fascist military coup in 1933 stopped by
retired marine General Butler who exposed it to the press & President
Wilson.
“In fact, after the 1960’s, the Trilateral Commission held its first
meeting(s) to figure out how to deal with the wreckage of Liberal
capitalism, and to make sure that nothing like the world youth protests
of the 1960’s ever took place again. The Black Power revolts in the
metropole, the anti-colonial protests, and the Vietnam anti-war movement
had shaken them to the core. The leading countries of Europe, Japan,
Canada, and the USA met in 1973 to form the Trilateral Commission, and
this was the first major international capitalist criminal cartel, which
birthed all the groups we are fighting now: WTO, IMF, and others.” http://www.ainfos.ca/01/mar/ainfos00141.html Lorenzo Komboa Ervin ex
black panther/anarchist
“The Trilateral Commission has issued one major book-length report,
namely, The Crisis of Democracy(Michel Crozier, Samuel Huntington& Joji
Watanuki 1975). Given the intimate connections between the Commission
and the Carter Administration, the study is worth careful attention, as
an indication of the thinking that may well lie behind its domestic
policies, as well as the policies undertaken in other industrial
democracies in the coming years.The effective operation of a democratic
political system usually requires some measure of apathy& noninvolvement
on the part of some individuals& groups.” Naom Chomsky. http://www.chomsky.info/books/priorities01.htm
Chomsky argued the lie of corporate democracy is shown primarily by the
Trilateral Commission who had 19 top members of US government including
Carter as members straight after its formation.But now he dismisses the
Trilateral Oligarchy the strong rumours that trilateral is a”zionist
conspiracy” push many scholars away, the main argument in the
“trilateral zionist thesis”
The scariest thing about the Trilateral Commission is that behind their
liberal veneer Kissinger the Trilateral/USA chief intellectual wrote
National Security Council documents on global depopulation, that Bush
Senior admitted were a top priority whilst Chief of the CIA.Is their
ignorance of global warming just for commercial reasons?
Halliburton directors, C.J. Silas and L.S. Eagleburger, have both been
members of the Trilateral Commission. Lee Raymond CEO Exxon Mobil & Bill
clinton,Melinda Gates have all attended.
Trilaterals over Washington by Antony C.Sutton& Patrick M. Wood 1978
first book on TLC in english language although http://www.newswithviews.com/Wood/patrick9.htm
*http://www.asiasociety.org/support/specialevents/anniversary_dinner/galaspeeches.html
Asia society speeches by TLC elite & Koffi Annan DavidRockefeller on
China”I’ve been making frequent trips there, ever since, for example, I
had the good fortune to meet in 1973 with Prime Minister Zhou En-lai and
subsequently with Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin in connection with the
Trilateral Commission.”
Note besides their responsibility for organising illegal wars it is
illegal for members of government in many nations to attend private
undeclared & un minuted meetings.Many attendees only attend one year or
on a token basis from non G8 nations & are manipulated to further the
agenda of the core group regular attendees, who meet regularly in secret
throughout the year. Regular core group attendess are at the top &
others known are highlighted, underlined are members of Belgium
government & Germany.Members known to have committed war crimes are
highlighted & in italliccs. As I live in the UK, British & Irish
attendees & members are at the top, the rest are in alphabetic order, if
full list of attendees is not included in your printed copy, please
check https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360479.html?c=on#c164886
Annual Meeting of the illegal Trilateral Commission Brussels, Belgium,
March 16-19, 2007
location is usually a 5star hotel with room for 300plus & golfing
facilities
In 2008 Trilateral Commission meets in Washington DC,April 18-21, 2008
February 2006:*Executive Committee
THOMAS S. FOLEY, North American Chairman PETER SUTHERLAND, European
Chairman YOTARO KOBAYASHI, Pacific Asia Chairman
ALLAN E. GOTLIEB, North American Deputy Chairman HERVÉ DE CARMOY,
European Pacific Deputy Chairman KIM KYUNG-WON, Asia Deputy Chairman
LORENZO H. ZAMBRANO, North American Deputy Chairman ANDRZEJ OLECHOWSKI,
European Pacific Deputy Chairman SHIJURO OGATA, Asia Deputy Chairman
DAVID ROCKEFELLER, Founder and Honorary Chairman PAUL A. VOLCKER, North
American Honorary Chairman
GEORGES BERTHOIN, European Honorary Chairman OTTO GRAF LAMBSDORFF,
European Honorary Chairman
MICHAEL J. O’NEIL, North American Director PAUL RÉVAY, European Director
TADASHI YAMAMOTO, Pacific Asia Director
North American secretariat postal address: is 1156 Fifteenth Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20005 telephone: 202-467-5410 telefax: 202-467-5415
email: contactus at trilateral.org
European secretariat postal address: 5, rue de Téhéran, 75008 Paris,
France telephone: 33-1: 45 61 42 80 telefax: 33-1: 45 61 42 80 email:
trilateral.europe at wanadoo. fr
Pacific Asia secretariat postal address:Japan Center for International
Exchange,9-17 Minami-Azabu,Minato-ku,Tokyo 106,Japan telephone: 81-3:
3446-7781 telefax: 81-3: 3443-7580 email:admin at jcie.or.jp
EUROPEAN GROUP
> Peter Sutherland, European Chairman, BP p.l.c.; Chairman, Goldman
> Sachs International;a financial adviser to the Vatican,steering
> commitee bilderberg & member of European Round Table,
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for
Migrations; former Director General, GATT/WTO; former Member of the
European Commission; former Attorney General of Ireland
> Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, Vice Chairman UBS Investment Bank,
> London; former Vice President,European Commission >Lord Gilbert,
> Member of the House of Lords; former Minister for Defence, London
> Richard Burrows, Governor, Bank of Ireland; Chairman, Irish
> Distillers; Non-executive Director, Pernod Ricard; former President,
> IBEC (The Irish Business and Employers Confederation), Dublin
> Sir Ronald Cohen, Founding partner and Executive Chairman, Apax
> Partners worldwide, London >Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy Diamonds
> & Gold, Dublin; Member of Senate, Republic of Ireland
Michel David-Weill, Chairman, Lazard LLC, worldwide; Managing Director
and Président du Collège d’Associés-Gérants, Lazard Frères S.A.S.,
Paris; Deputy Chairman, Lazard Brothers & Co., Limited,London
> Bill Emmott, Editor, The Economist, London >Hugh Friel, Chief
> Executive, Kerry Group, Dublin >Richard Olver, Chairman, BAE Systems,
> London
> Lord Kerr, Member House of Lords; Director of Rio Tinto, Shell, & the
> Scottish American Investment Trust, London; former Secretary General,
> European Convention, Brussels; former Permanent Under-Secretary of
> State and Head of the Diplomatic Service, Foreign & Commonwealth
> Office, London; former British Ambassador to the United States >Robin
> Buchanan, Senior Partner, Bain & Company, London
> Peter Mandelson, Member of the European Commission (Trade), Brussels;
> former Member of the British Parliament; former Secretary of State to
> Northern Ireland and for Trade and Industry
> Francis Maude, Member of the British Parliament; Chairman of the
> Conservative Party; Director, Benfield Group; former Shadow Foreign
> Secretary, London
> Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, Anglo American; former Chairman,
> Royal Dutch/Shell Group,London >John Bruton, EU Ambassador & Head,
> Delegation of the European Commission to the United States Lord Patten
> of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford; Chairman,
> International Crisis Group, Brussels; former Member of the European
> Commission (External Relations), Brussels; former Governor of Hong
> Kong; former Member of the British Cabinet, London Lord Simon of
> Highbury, Member of the House of Lords; Advisory Director of Unilever,
> Morgan Stanley Europe and LEK; former Minister for Trade &
> Competitiveness in Europe; former Chairman of BP, London
> Nicholas Soames, Member of the British Parliament, London >Sir Martin
> Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP Group, London
> Myles Staunton, Former Member of the Irish Senate & of the Dail;
> Consultant, Westport, Co. Mayo >Paul Adams, Chief Executive, British
> American Tobacco, London
> General The Lord Guthrie, Director, N M Rothschild & Sons, London;
> Member of the House of Lords; former Chief of the Defence Staff, London
> Lord Garel-Jones, Managing Director, UBS Investment Bank, London;
> Member of the House of Lords; former Minister of State at the Foreign
> Office (European Affairs) Michel David-Weill, Chairman Lazard LLC
> worldwide; Managing Director& Président du Collège d’Associés-Gérants,
> Lazard Frères S.A.S., Paris; Deputy Chairman, Lazard Brothers & Co,
> Limited,London
> Myles Staunton, Former Member of the Irish Senate & of the Dail;
> Consultant, Westport, Co. Mayo
> Urban Ahlin, Member of the Swedish Parliament and Chairman of the
> Committee on Foreign Affairs,Stockholm
> Krister Ahlström, Vice Chairman, Stora Enso and Fortum; former
> Chairman, Finnish Employers Confederation; former Chairman, Ahlström
> Corp., Helsinki
> Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman, Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance, Paris;
> former Chairman, Electricité de France (EDF); former Minister of the
> Economy and Finance
> Bodil Nyboe Andersen, Chairperson of the Board of Governors, Danmarks
> Nationalbank, Copenhagen
> Jacques Andréani, Ambassadeur de France; former Ambassador to the
> United State
> Stelios Argyros,Chairman &Managing Director Preveza
> Mills,Athens;former Member EU Parliament;former Vice President of
> UNICE, Brussels;former Pres& Chairman of Board of Federation of Greek
> Industries
> Jerzy Baczynski, Editor-in-Chief, Polityka, Warsaw
> Estela Barbot, Vice President, AGA, Porto; Vice President of the
> Board, AEP — Portuguese Business Association; Consul of Guatemala,
> Lisbon
> Erik Belfrage, Senior Vice President, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken;
> Director, Investor AB,Stockholm
> Marek Belka, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission
> for Europe (UNECE),Geneva; former Prime Minister of Poland, Warsaw;
> former Ambassador-at-Large and Chairman,
Council for International Coordination, Coalition Provisional Authority,
Baghdad
> Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans, Chairman of the Executive Board, Lhoist
> Group, Limelette, Belgium
> Georges Berthoin, International Honorary Chairman, European Movement;
> Honorary Chairman, The Jean Monnet Association; Honorary European
> Chairman, The Trilateral Commission, Paris
> Nicolas Beytout, Editor, Le Figaro, Paris ; former Editor, Les Echos,
> Paris
> Carl Bildt, Chairman, Kreab Group of public affairs companies;
> Chairman, Nordic Venture Network,Stockholm; former Member of the
> Swedish Parliament, Chairman of the Moderate Party and Prime
Minister of Sweden; former European Union High Representative in
Bosnia-Herzegovina & UN Special Envoy to the Balkans
> Ana Patricia Botin, Executive Chairman, Banesto; Vice Chairman, Urbis;
> Member of the Management Committee, Santander Group, Madrid
> Jean-Louis Bourlanges,Member EU ParlIment (ALDE Group/UDF)&
> Chairman,Committee on Civil Liberties,Justice & Home Affairs,
> Brussels; former President of European Movement in France, Paris
> Jorge Braga de Macedo, President, Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon;
> Special Advisor to the Secretary General, Organisation for Economic
> Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris;
Professor of Economics, Nova University at Lisbon; Chairman, Forum
Portugal Global; former Minister of Finance
> François Bujon de l’Estang, Ambassadeur de France; Chairman, Citigroup
> France, Paris; former Ambassador to the United States
> Sven Burmester, Writer and Explorer, Denmark; former Representative,
> United Nations Population Fund(UNFPA), Beijing; former World Bank
> Deputy Secretary and Representative in Cairo
> Hervé de Carmoy, Chairman, Almatis, Frankfurt-am-Main; former Partner,
> Rhône Group, New York &Paris; Honorary Chairman, Banque Industrielle
> et Mobilière Privée, Paris; former Chief Executive,
Société Générale de Belgique
> Antonio Carrapatoso, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Vodafone
> Portugal, Lisbon; Member of Board of Directors, Vodafone Spain & Vodacom
> Salvatore Carrubba, Culture Alderman, Municipality of Milan; former
> Managing Editor, Il Sole 24 Ore,Milan
> Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board and Chief
> Executive Officer, AXA, Paris
> Jürgen Chrobog, Chairman, BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation, Munich;
> former German Deputy Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States
> Luc Coene, Minister of State; Deputy Governor, National Bank of
> Belgium, Brussels
> Vittorio Colao, Chief Executive Officer, RCS MediaGroup, Milan; former
> Managing Director, Vodafone,Omnitel
> Bertrand Collomb, Chairman, Lafarge, Paris; Chairman, World Business
> Council for Sustainable Development >Eckhard Cordes, former Member of
> the Board, DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart
> Alfonso Cortina, Chairman, Inmobiliaria Colonial; Chairman, Repsol-YPF
> Foundation, Madrid >Thomas Enders, Chief Executive Officer, EADS,
> Munich; Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke (Atlantic Bridge),Berlin
> Baron Paul De Keersmaeker, Chairman of the Board of Domo, Corgo,
> Foundation Europalia International & the Canada Europe Round Table,
> Brussels; Honorary Chairman Interbrew, KBC,
Nestlé Belgilux; former Member of the Belgian and European Parliaments
and of the Belgian Government
> Vladimir Dlouhy, Senior Advisor, ABB; International Advisor, Goldman
> Sachs; former Czechoslovak Minister of Economy; former Czech Minister
> of Industry & Trade, Prague
> Pedro Miguel Echenique, Professor of Physics, University of the Basque
> Country; former Basque Minister of Education, San Sebastian
> Laurent Fabius, Member of the French National Assembly and of the
> Foreign Affairs Committee; former Prime Minister & Minister of the
> Economy & Finance, Paris Oscar Fanjul, Honorary Chairman, Repsol YPF;
> Vice Chairman, Omega Capital, Madrid
> Grete Faremo, Former Executive Vice President, Storebrand; former
> Norwegian Minister of Development Cooperation, Minister of Justice and
> Minister of Oil and Energy, Oslo
> Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta, Executive Director of Upstream, Repsol-YPF;
> former Chairman, Prensa Española, Madrid
> Jürgen Fitschen, Member of the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche
> Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main >Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editor,
> Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main
> Michael Fuchs, Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin; former
> President, National Federation of German Wholesale & Export Traders
> Lykke Friis, Head of European Department, Federation of Danish
> Industries, Copenhagen >Antonio Garrigues Walker, Chairman, Garrigues
> Abogados y Asesores Tributarios, Madrid
> Wolfgang Gerhard, Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin >Mario Greco,
> Managing Director & General Manager, Assicurazioni Internazionali di
> Previdenza (A.I.P.), Milan
> Sirkka Hämäläinen, former Member of the Executive Board, European
> Central Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main; former Governor, Bank of Finland
> Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Member of the European Parliament; former
> Estonian Foreign Minister and Member of the Parliament; former
> Ambassador to the United States, Canada and Mexico
> Alfonso Iozzo, Managing Director, San Paolo IMI Group, Turin >Mugur
> Isarescu, Governor, National Bank of Romania, Bucharest; former Prime
> Minister
> Max Jakobson, Independent Consultant and Senior Columnist, Helsinki;
> former Finnish Ambassador to the United Nations; former Chairman of
> the Finnish Council of Economic Organizations
> Baron Daniel Janssen, Chairman of the Board, Solvay, Brussels
> >Zsigmond Jarai, President, National Bank of Hungary, Budapest
> Trinidad Jiménez, International Relations Secretary of the Socialist
> Party (PSOE) & Member of the Federal Executive Committee, Madrid
> Béla Kadar, Member of Hungarian Academy,Budapest; Member of Monetary
> Council of the National Bank; President of the Hungarian Economic
> Association; former Ambassador of Hungary to
the O.E.C.D., Paris; former Hungarian Minister of International Economic
Relations and Member of Parliament
> Robert Kassai, General Vice President, The National Association of
> Craftmen’s Corporations, Budapest
> Denis Kessler, Chairman& Chief Executive Officer, Scor, Paris; former
> Chairman, French Insurance Association (FFSA); former Executive
> Vice-Chairman, MEDEF-Mouvement des Entreprises de France (French
> Employers’ Confederation)
> Klaus Kleinfeld, Chief Executive Officer, Siemens, Munich >Sixten
> Korkman, Managing Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA,
> Helsinki
> Jiri Kunert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Zivnostenska banka;
> President of the Czech Association of Banks, Prague
> Count Otto Lambsdorff, Partner, Wessing Lawyers, Düsseldorf; Chairman,
> Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Berlin; former Member of German
> Bundestag; Honorary Chairman, Free Democratic
Party; former Federal Minister of Economy; former President of the
Liberal International; Honorary European Chairman, The Trilateral
Commission, Paris
> Kurt Lauk,Member EU Parliament(EPP Group-CDU); Chairman Globe Capital
> Partners,Stuttgart; President, Economic Council of the CDU Party,
> Berlin; former Member of the Board, DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart
> Anne Lauvergeon, Chairperson of the Executive Board, Areva;
> Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, Cogema, Paris
> Pierre Lellouche, Member of the French National Assembly and of the
> Foreign Affairs Committee, Paris; President, NATO Parliamentary Assembly
> Enrico Letta, Member EU Parliament (ALDE Group), Brussels; Secretary
> General, AREL; Vice President, Aspen Institute; former Minister of
> European Affairs, Industry,&of Industry &International Trade, Rome
> André Leysen, Honorary Chairman, Gevaert, Antwerp; Honorary Chairman,
> Agfa-Gevaert Group
> Marianne Lie, Director General, Norwegian Shipowner’s Association,
> Oslo >Count Maurice Lippens, Chairman, Fortis, Brussels Helge Lund,
> Chief Executive Officer of the Norwegian Oil Company, Statoil, Oslo
> Cees Maas, Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of the ING Group,
> Amsterdam; former Treasurer of the Dutch Government
> Abel Matutes, Chairman, Empresas Matutes, Ibiza; former Member of the
> European Commission, Brussels; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Madrid
> Vasco de Mello, Vice Chairman, José de Mello SGPS, Lisbon >Joao de
> Menezes Ferreira, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ECO-SOROS,
> Lisbon; formerMember of the Portuguese Parliament
> Peter Mitterbauer, Honorary President, The Federation of Austrian
> Industry, Vienna; President and Chief Executive Officer, MIBA, Laakirchen
> Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor to the Director General of the French
> Institute for International Relations (IFRI), Paris
> Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Chairman, Fiat, Turin; Chairman,
> Confindustria (Italian Confederation of Industry), Rome
> Mario Monti, President and Professor Emeritus, Bocconi University,
> Milan; Chairman of BRUEGEL and of ECAS, Brussels; former Member of the
> European Commission (Competition Policy)
> Klaus-Peter Müller, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors,
> Commerzbank, Frankfurt-am-Main; President, Association of German Banks
> (BDB), Berlin
> Heinrich Neisser former President Politische Akademie, Vienna;
> Professor Political Sciences at Innsbruck University; former Member of
> Austrian Parliament & Second President of the National Assembly
> Harald Norvik, Chairman and Partner, ECON Management; former President
> and Chief Executive, Statoil, Oslo
> Arend Oetker, President, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP);
> Vice Chairman, Federation of German Industries; Managing Director, Dr.
> Arend Oetker Holding, Berlin
> Andrzej Olechowski, Leader, Civic Platform; former Chairman, Bank
> Handlowy; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw
> Janusz Palikot,Chairman Supervisory Board Polmos Lublin; Vice
> President Polish Confederation of Private Employers; Co-owner
> Publishing House slowo/obraz terytoria; Member Board ofDirectors,
> Polish Business Council, Warsaw
> Dimitry Panitza, Founding Chairman, The Free and Democratic Bulgaria
> Foundation; Founder and Chairman, The Bulgarian School of Politics, Sofia
> Lucas Papademos, Vice President, European Central Bank,
> Frankfurt-am-Main; former Governor of the Bank of Greece
> Schelto Patijn, Member of the Supervisory Board of the Schiphol Group
> and Amsterdam RAI; former Mayor of the City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> Volker Perthes, Director, SWP (German Institute for International and
> Security Affairs), Berlin >Dieter Pfundt, Personally Liable Partner,
> Sal. Oppenheim Bank, Frankfurt
> Josep Piqué, Chairman of the Popular Party of Catalunya, Barcelona;
> Member Parliament of Catalunya; Member of the Spanish Senate; former
> Minister of Foreign Affairs
> Benoît Potier, Chairman of the Management Board, L’Air Liquide, Paris
> >Alessandro Profumo, Chief Executive Officer, UniCredito Italiano, Milan
> Luigi Ramponi, Member of Parliament; Chairman of the Defence Committee
> of the Chamber of Deputies, Rome; former Deputy Chief of the Defence
> Staff (Italian Army)
> Wanda Rapaczynska, President of the Management Board, Agora, Warsaw
> >Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman, Techint Group of Companies, Milan; Vice
> President, Confindustria
> Heinz Riesenhuber, Member of the German Bundestag; former Federal
> Minister of Research& Technology, Berlin; Chairman of the Supervisory
> Boards of Kabel Deutschland and of Evotec
> H. Onno Ruding, Chairman, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS),
> Brussels; former Vice Chairman, Citibank; former Dutch Minister of
> Finance
> Anthony Ruys, former Chairman of the Executive Board, Heineken,
> Amsterdam >Ferdinando Salleo, Vice Chairman, MCC Mediocredito
> Centrale, Rome; former Ambassador to the United States
> Jacques Santer, Honorary State Minister, Luxembourg; former Member of
> the European Parliament; former President of the European Commission;
> former Prime Minister of Luxembourg
> Silvio Scaglia, Chairman, Fastweb, Milan; former Managing Director,
> Omnitel >Paolo Scaroni, Chief Executive Officer, ENEL, Rome
> Guido Schmidt-Chiari, Chairman, Constantia Group; former Chairman,
> Creditanstalt Bankverein,Vienna
> Henning Schulte-Noelle, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Allianz,
> Munich Prince Charles of Schwarzenberg,Founder& Director Nadace
> Bohemiae, Prague; Member Czech Senate;former Chancellor to President
> Havel;former President of International Helsinki Federation for Human
> Rights
> Carlo Secchi, Professor of European Economic Policy, Bocconi
> University, Milan; former Member of Italian Senate& EU Parliament
> >Tøger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Copenhagen
> Maurizio Sella, Chairman, Banca Sella, Biella; Chairman, Association
> of Italian Banks (A.B.I.), Rome; Chairman, Finanziaria Bansel
> Slawomir S. Sikora, Chief Executive Officer and Citigroup Country
> Officer for Poland, Bank Handlowy w Warszawie, Warsaw
> Stefano Silvestri, President, Institute for International Affairs
> (IAI), Rome; Commentator, Il Sole 24 Ore; former Under Secretary of
> State for Defence, Italy Thorvald Stoltenberg,President,Norwegian Red
> Cross, Oslo; former Co-Chairman (UN) of the Steering Committee of the
> International Conference on Former Yugoslavia; former Foreign Minister
> of Norway; former UN High Commissioner for Refugees
> Petar Stoyanov, President, Centre for Political Dialogue, Sofia;
> former President of Bulgaria >Peter Straarup,Chairman of Executive
> Board Danske Bank,Copenhagen;Chairman Danish Bankers Association
> Björn Svedberg, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ericsson,
> Stockholm; former President and Group Chief Executive, Skandinaviska
> Enskilda Banken
> Péter Székely, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Transelektro,
> Budapest; President, Confederation of Hungarian Employers’
> Organisations for International Co-operation (CEHIC); Vice President,
Confederation of Hungarian Employers and Industrialists
> Pavel Telicka, Partner, BXL-Consulting, >Jean-Philippe Thierry,
> Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AGF (Assurances Générales de
> France),Paris
> Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman, Telecom Italia; Chairman and Chief
> Executive Officer, Pirelli & C., Milan >Elsbeth Tronstad, Executive
> Vice President, ABB, Oslo
> Loukas Tsoukalis, Special Adviser to President of EU
> Commission;Professor at University Athens& the College of Europe;
> President of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy
> (ELIAMEP), Athens Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer and Member of the Royal
> Spanish Academy, Madrid
> George Vassiliou, former Head of Negotiating Team for Accession of
> Cyprus to EU; former President of Republic of Cyprus; former Member of
> Parliament and Leader of United Democrats, Nicosia
> Franco Venturini, Foreign Correspondent, Corriere della Sera, Rome
> Friedrich Verzetnitsch, Member of Austrian Parliament; President,
> Austrian Federation of Trade Unions,Vienna; President, European Trade
> Union Confederation (ETUC) Marko Voljc, General Manager of Central
> Europe Directorate, KBC Bank Insurance Holding, Brussels; former Chief
> Executive Officer, Nova Ljubljanska Banka, Ljubljana
> Alexandr Vondra, Managing Director of the Prague Office, Dutko Group
> Companies; former Czech Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
> Joris Voorhoeve, Member of the Council of State; former Member of the
> Dutch Parliament; former Minister of Defence, The Hague
> Panagis Vourloumis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hellenic
> Telecommunications Organization (O.T.E.), Athens
> Marcus Wallenberg, Chairman of the Board, Skandinaviska Enskilda
> Banken (SEB), Stockholm Serge Weinberg, Member and Chairman-designate
> of the Supervisory Board Accor; Chairman Weinberg Capital Partners;
> former Chairman of the Management Board, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute;
former President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies
(IRIS), Paris
> Heinrich Weiss, Chairman, SMS, Düsseldorf; former President,
> Federation of German Industries, Berlin >Nout Wellink, President,
> Dutch Central Bank, Amsterdam
> Arne Wessberg, Director General, YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company)
> and Director General, YLE >Group (YLE and Digits Oy), Helsinki;
> President, European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
> Norbert Wieczorek, former Member of German Bundestag & Deputy Chairman
> of the SPD Parliamentary Group, Berlin >Hans Wijers, Chairman and
> Chief Executive Officer, Akzo Nobel, Arnhem
> Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Honorary Chairman, East Committee of the
> German Industry; Chairman& Chief Executive Officer, Otto Wolff
> Industrieberatung und Beteiligung, Cologne
> Emilio Ybarra, former Chairman, Banco Bilbao-Vizcaya, Madrid Former
> Members in Public Service
> Lene Espersen, Minister of Justice, Denmark >Pedro Solbes, Deputy
> Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy and Finances, Spain Harri
> Tiido, Ambassador of Estonia and Head of the Estonian Mission to NATO,
> Brussels >Karsten D. Voigt, Coordinator of German-American
> Cooperation, Federal Foreign Ministry, Germany
NORTH AMERICAN GROUP
> Madeleine K. Albright, Principal, The Albright Group LLC, Washington,
> DC; former U.S. Secretary of State
> Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science& International
> Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA >G.Allen Andreas,
> Chairman&Chief Executive, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, IL
> Michael H. Armacost, Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow, Asia/Pacific
> Research Center, Stanford University, Hillsborough, CA; former
> President, The Brookings Institution; former U.S. Ambassador
to Japan; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
> Charlene Barshefsky, Senior International Partner, Wilmer, Cutler &
> Pickering, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative
> Alan R. Batkin, Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates, New York, NY
> >Doug Bereuter, President, Asia Foundation, San Francisco, CA; former
> Member, U.S. House of Representatives
> C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Institute for International Economics,
> Washington, DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
> International Affairs
> Catherine Bertini, Professor of Public Administration, Maxwell School
> of Citizenship& Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY;
> former Under-Secretary-General for Management, United Nations
> Dennis C. Blair, USN (Ret.), President and Chief Executive Officer,
> Institute for Defense Analyses,Alexandria, VA; former Commander in
> Chief, U.S. Pacific Command
> Herminio Blanco Mendoza, Private Office of Herminio Blanco, Mexico
> City, NL; former Mexican Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development
> Geoffrey T. Boisi, Chairman & Senior Partner, Roundtable Investment
> Partners LLC, New York, NY; former Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase, New
> York, NY
> Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts
> University, Medford, MA; former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
> David G. Bradley, Chairman, Atlantic Media Company, Washington, DC
> >Harold Brown, Counselor, Center for Strategic and International
> Studies, Washington, DC; General Partner, Warburg Pincus & Company,
> New York, NY; former U.S. Secretary of Defense
> Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor, Center for Strategic and International
> Studies, Washington, DC;
> Robert Osgood Professor of American Foreign Affairs, Paul Nitze School
> of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; former
> U.S. Assistant to President for National Security Affairs
> Louis C. Camilleri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Altria
> Group, Inc., New York, NY Raymond Chrétien, Strategic Advisor, Fasken
> Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Montreal, QC; Chairman of the Board of
> Directors of the Center for International Studies of the University of
> Montreal; former
Associate Under-Secretary of State of External Affairs; former
Ambassador of Canada to the Congo, Belgium, Mexico, the United States
and France
> William T. Coleman III, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive
> Officer, Cassatt Corporation; Founder, former Chairman& CEO& Member,
> Board of Directors, BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose,CA
> William T. Coleman, Jr., Senior Partner and the Senior Counselor,
> O’Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of
> Transportation
> Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and Chief Executive
> Officer, Ripplewood Holdings, New York, NY
> Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International
> Economics, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA; former Chairman, U.S.
> National Intelligence Council; former U.S. Under Secretary
of State for Economic Affairs
> E. Gerald Corrigan, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York,
> NY; former President,Federal Reserve Bank of New York
> Michael J. Critelli, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pitney
> Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT >Lee Brooks Cullum, Columnist, Dallas Morning
> News, Dallas, TX
> Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia
> University, New York, NY; Visiting Professor, Graduate Research
> Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo
> Douglas Daft, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca
> Cola Company, Atlanta, GA
> Lynn Davis, Senior Political Scientist, The RAND Corporation,
> Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control
> and International Security
> Lodewijk J. R. de Vink, Chairman, Global Health Care Partners,
> Peapack, NJ; former Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer,
> Warner-Lambert Company
> Arthur A. DeFehr, President and Chief Executive Officer, Palliser
> Furniture, Winnipeg, MB André Desmarais, President and Co-Chief
> Executive Officer, Power Corporation of Canada, Montréal, QC; Deputy
> Chairman, Power Financial Corporation
> John M. Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of
> Technology, Cambridge, MA; former Director of Central Intelligence;
> former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
> Jamie Dimon, President and Chief Operating Officer, JPMorgan Chase,
> New York, NY >Peter C. Dobell, Founding Director, Parliamentary
> Centre, Ottawa, ON
> Wendy K. Dobson, Professor& Director, Institute for International
> Business, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto,
> ON; former Canadian Associate Deputy Minister of Finance
> Kenneth M. Duberstein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The
> Duberstein Group, Washington,DC >Robert Eckert, Chairman and Chief
> Executive Officer, Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA
> Jeffrey Epstein, President, J. Epstein & Company, Inc., New York, NY;
> President, N.A. Property, Inc. >Dianne Feinstein, Member (D-CA), U.S.
> Senate
> Martin S. Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard
> University, Cambridge, MA; President and Chief Executive Officer,
> National Bureau of Economic Research; former U.S.Chairman, President’s
> Council of Economic Advisors
> Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal
> Reserve System, Washington, DC
> Stanley Fischer, Governor of Bank of Israel, Jerusalem; former
> President, Citigroup International &Vice Chairman, Citgroup, New York,
> NY; former First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
> Richard W. Fisher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal
> Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX;
former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative
> Thomas S. Foley, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Washington,
> DC; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former Speaker of the U.S. House
> of Representatives; North American
Chairman, Trilateral Commission
> Michael B.G. Froman, Managing Director, Citigroup Alternative
> Investments, Citigroup Inc., New York, NY
> Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor International
> Political Economy, Paul H. Nitze, School of Advanced International
> Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
> Dionisio Garza Medina, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
> Officer, ALFA, Garza Garcia, NL >Richard A. Gephardt, former Member
> (D-MO), U.S. House of Representatives
> David Gergen, Professor of Public Service, John F. Kennedy School of
> Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Editor-at-Large, U.S.
> News and World Report
> Peter C. Godsoe, Chairman of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts; Retired
> Chairman and Chief Executive, Officer of Scotiabank, Toronto, ON
> Allan E. Gotlieb, Senior Advisor, Stikeman Elliott, Toronto, ON;
> Chairman, Sotheby’s, Canada; former Canadian Ambassador to United
> States; North American Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission
> Donald E. Graham, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Washington
> Post Company, Washington DC
> Jeffrey W. Greenberg, Private Investor, New York, NY; former Chairman
> and Chief Executive Officer, Marsh & McLennan Companies
> Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, C. V.
> Starr & Company, New York; former Chairman, American International
> Group, Inc.
> Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York,
> NY; former Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State;
> former Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
> John J. Hamre, President, Center for Strategic and International
> Studies, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and
> Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
> William A. Haseltine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Haseltine
> Associates, Washington, DC; President, William A. Haseltine Foundation
> for Medical Sciences and the Arts; former Chairman and Chief Executive
> Officer, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, MD
> Charles B. Heck, Senior Adviser and former North American Director,
> Trilateral Commission, New Canaan, CT
> Carla A. Hills, Chairman&Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company,
> International Consultants,Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade
> Representative; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
> Richard Holbrooke,Vice Chairman Perseus LLC, NY; Counselor Council on
> Foreign Relations; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations;
> former Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation; former
> U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European& Canadian Affairs;
> former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
> Affairs& former U.S.Ambassador to Germany
> Karen Elliott House, Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company, and
> Publisher, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
> Alejandro Junco de la Vega, President and Director, Grupo Reforma,
> Monterrery, NL >Robert Kagan, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for
> International Peace, Washington, DC
> Arnold Kanter, Principal and Founding Member, The Scowcroft Group,
> Washington, DC; former U.S. Under Secretary of State >Charles R. Kaye,
> Co-President, Warburg Pincus LLC, New York, NY Henry A. Kissinger,
> Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York, NY; former U.S.
> Secretary of State; former U.S. Assistant to the President for
> National Security Affairs,war criminal http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2815881561030958784&q=trilateral
> Michael Klein, Chief Executive Officer, Global Banking, Citigroup
> Inc.; Vice Chairman, Citibank International PLC; New York, NY >Steven
> E. Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP, London, UK
> Enrique Krauze, General Director, Editorial Clio Libros y Videos, S.A.
> de C.V., Mexico City, DF Robert Lane, Chief Executive Officer, Deere &
> Co., Moline, IL Jim Leach, Member (R-IA), U.S. House of Representatives
> Gerald M. Levin, Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, AOL Time Warner,
> Inc., New York, NY
> Winston Lord, Co-Chairman of Overseeers and former Co-Chairman of the
> Board, International Rescue Committee, New York, NY; former U.S.
> Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to China
> E. Peter Lougheed, Senior Partner, Bennett Jones, Barristers &
> Solicitors, Calgary, AB; former Premier of Alberta
> Roy MacLaren, former Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom;
> former Canadian Minister of International Trade; Toronto, ON
> John A. MacNaughton, former President and Chief Executive Officer,
> Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Toronto, ON
> Antonio Madero, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, San
> Luis Corporacion, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, DF
> Sir Deryck C. Maughan, Managing Director and Chairman, KKR Asia,
> Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., New York, NY; former Vice Chairman,
> Citigroup
> Jay Mazur, President Emeritus, UNITE (Union of Needletrades,
> Industrial and Textile Employees); ViceChairman, Amalgamated Bank of
> New York; and President, ILGWU’s 21st Century Heritage
Foundation, New York, NY
> Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Chairman, McColl Brothers Lockwood, Charlotte,
> NC; former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America
> Corporation
> Marc H. Morial, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Urban
> League, New York, NY; former Mayor, New Orleans, LA
> Anne M. Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT
> >Indra K. Nooyi, President and Chief Financial Officer, PepsiCo, Inc.,
> Purchase, NY
> Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard
> University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
> Cambridge, MA; former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of
Government; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs
> David J. O’Reilly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron
> Corporation, San Ramon, CA
> Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute,
> Washington, DC; member and former Chairman, Defense Policy Board, U.S.
> Department of Defense; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Policy
> Thomas R. Pickering, Senior Vice President, International Relations,
> The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of
> State for Political Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to the
Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan, and the United Nations
> Joseph W. Ralston, USAF (Ret)., Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group,
> Washington, DC; former Commander, U.S. European Command& Supreme
> Allied Commander NATO; former Vice
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Department of Defense
> Charles B. Rangel, Member (D-NY), U.S. House of Representatives
> Susan Rice, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC;
> former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former
> Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African
> Affairs,
National Security Council
> Hartley Richardson, President& Chief Executive Officer, James
> Richardson & Sons, Ltd., Winnipeg,MB >Joseph E. Robert, Jr., Chairman&
> Chief Executive Office, J.E. Robert Companies, McLean, VA
> John D. Rockefeller IV, Member (D-WV), U.S. Senate, political heir to
> David Rockefeller & probably next family trust controller, also on
> Rockefeller Asia foundation
> Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics and Director, Center for
> International Development, Harvard
> University, Cambridge, MA; former Chief Economist and Director,
> Research Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC
> Charles Rose, Host of the Charlie Rose Show and Charlie Rose Special
> Edition, PBS, New York, NY >David M. Rubenstein, Co-founder and
> Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, Washington, DC
> Luis Rubio, President, Center of Research for Development (CIDAC),
> Mexico City, DF >Jaime Serra, Chairman, SAI Consulting, Mexico City,
> DF; former Mexican Minister of Trade and Industry
> Dinakar Singh, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TPG-Axon Capital,
> New York, NY; former Cohead, Principal Strategies Department, Goldman
> Sachs
> Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
> International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
> Gordon Smith, Director, Centre for Global Studies, University of
> Victoria, Victoria, BC; Chairman, Board of Governors, International
> Development Research Centre; former Canadian Deputy Minister
of Foreign Affairs and Personal Representative of the Prime Minister to
the Economic Summit
> Donald R. Sobey, Chairman Emeritus, Empire Company Ltd., Halifax, NS
> >Ronald D. Southern, Chairman, ATCO Group, Calgary, AB
> James B. Steinberg, Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of
> Texas, Austin, TX; former Vice President and Director of the Foreign
> Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
> Jessica Stern, Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center for Science
> and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
> Barbara Stymiest, Chief Operating Officer, RBC Financial Group,
> Toronto, ON >Lawrence H. Summers, President, Harvard University,
> Cambridge, MA; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
> John J. Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC Strobe Talbott,
> President, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; former U.S.
> Deputy Secretary of State
> Luis Tellez, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, Mexico City, DF;
> former Executive Vice President, Sociedad de Fomento Industrial
> (DESC); former Mexican Minister of Energy
> George J. Tenet, Distinguished Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of
> Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; former U.S.
> Director of Central Intelligence
> John Thain, Chief Executive Officer, New York Stock Exchange, Inc.;
> former President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, Goldman Sachs & Co.,
> New York, NY
> G. Richard Thoman, Managing Partner Corporate Perspectives& Adjunct
> Professor Columbia University, NY; formerly President& CEO, Xerox
> Corporation; formerly CFO and Nº 2 officer, IBM Corporation
> Paul A. Volcker, former Chairman Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New York;
> Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus, International Economic
> Policy, Princeton University; former Chairman, Board of
Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System; Honorary North American Chairman
and former North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
> William H. Webster, Senior Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
> LLP, Washington, DC; former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence;
> former Director, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation; former Judge of
> the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
> Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International, NY >Lorenzo H.
> Zambrano, Chairman of Board& Chief Executive Officer, CEMEX,
> Monterrey, NL;North American Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission
> Ernesto Zedillo, Director Yale Center for Study of Globalization,Yale
> University, New Haven, CT; former President of Mexico Mortimer B.
> Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report, New
> York, NY
> Robert S. McNamara, Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission,
> Washington, DC; former President, World Bank; former U.S. Secretary of
> Defense; former President Ford Motor Company. Vietnam war criminal &
> black op organiser of murder of USS Liberty sailors by Israeli air
> force to try & excuse USA into the war against Eygpt
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6595846710992512471&q=source%3A14872107513460960153
> David Rockefeller, Founder, Honorary Chairman, and Lifetime Trustee,
> Trilateral Commission,New York, NY, Head of Chase Manhattan worlds
> largest corporate bank with 50,000 branches & Morgan bank which tried
> a military fascist coup in USA 1933,stopped by Marine General Butler
> who was sickened by what he called the mafia oilers&bankers,still has
> massive influence over Exxon Mobil world$ largest corporation∂ of
> his grandfathers the 1st ever billionaires empire who had $40billion
> 100years ago,head rockerfeller family trusts&CFR, re most financially
> powerful person alive.
Former Members In Public Service
> Rona Ambrose, Canadian Minister of the Environment >Richard B. Cheney,
> Vice President of the United States >Paula J. Dobriansky, U.S. Under
> Secretary of State for Global Affairs >Bill Graham, Leader of the
> Opposition, Canadian House of Commons >Paul Wolfowitz, President,
> World Bank >Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
PACIFIC ASIAN GROUP strangely includes turkey & argentina
> Narongchai Akrasanee, Chairman, Seranee Holdings Co., Ltd., Bangkok
> Ali Alatas, Advisor and Special Envoy of the President of the Republic
> of Indonesia; former Indonesian Minister for Foreign Affairs; Jakarta
> Philip Burdon, former Chairman, Asia 2000 Foundation; New Zealand
> Chairman, APEC; former New Zealand Minister of Trade Negotiations;
> Wellington
> Fujio Cho, President, Toyota Motor Corporation >Cho Suck-Rai,
> Chairman, Hyosung Corporation, Seoul >Carrillo Gantner, Vice
> President, The Myer Foundation; Melbourne
> Chung Mong-Joon, Member, Korean National Assembly; Vice President,
> Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA); Seoul
> Barry Desker, Director, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies,
> Nanyang Techonological University,Singapore >Takashi Ejiri, Attorney
> at Law, Asahi Koma Law Office
> Jesus P. Estanislao, President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute
> of Corporate Directors/Institute of Solidarity in Asia, Manila; former
> Philippine Minister of Finance
> Hugh Fletcher, Director, Fletcher Building, Ltd., Auckland; former
> Chief Executive Officer, Fletcher Challenge >Shinji Fukukawa,
> Executive Advisor, Dentsu Inc.
> Hiroaki Fujii, Advisor, The Japan Foundation; former Japanese
> Ambassador to the United Kingdom >Yoichi Funabashi, Chief Diplomatic
> Correspondent and Columnist, The Asahi Shimbun
> Ross Garnaut, Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and
> Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra
> Toyoo Gyohten, President, Institute for International Monetary
> Affairs; Senior Advisor, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. >John R.
> Hewson, Member, Advisory Council, ABN AMRO Australia, Sydney
> Han Sung-Joo, President, Seoul Forum for International Affairs;
> Professor, International Relations, Ilmin International Relations
> Institute, Korea University, Seoul; former Korean Minister of Foreign
> Affairs;
former Korean Ambassador to the United States;
> Stuart Harris, Professor of International Relations, Research School
> of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University,
> Canberra; former Australian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
> Azman Hashim, Chairman, AmBank Group, Kuala Lumpur >Ernest M. Higa,
> President and CEO, Higa Industries >Shintaro Hori, Managing Partner,
> Bain & Company Japan, Inc.
> Murray Horn, Managing Director, Institutional Banking, ANZ (NZ) Ltd.,
> Sydney; Chairman, ANZ >Investment Bank; former Parliament Secretary,
> New Zealand Treasury
> Hyun Hong-Choo, Senior Partner, Kim & Chang, Seoul; former Korean
> Ambassador to the United Nations and to the United States; Seoul
> >Nobuyuki Idei, Chief Corporate Advisor, Sony Corporation
> Hyun Jae-Hyun, Chairman, Tong Yang Group, Seoul >Shin’ichi Ichimura,
> Counselor, International Centre for the Study of East Asian
> Development,Kitakyushu
> Takeo Inokuchi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mitsui Sumitomo
> Insurance Company, Ltd. >Noriyuki Inoue, Chairman and CEO, Daikin
> Industries, Ltd.
> Rokuro Ishikawa, Honorary Chairman, Kajima Corporation >Motoo Kaji,
> Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
> Kasem Kasemsri, Honorary Chairman Thailand-U.S. Business Council,
> Bangkok; Chairman,Advisory Board,Chart Thai
> Party;Chairman,Thai-Malaysian Association; former Deputy Prime
> Minister of Thailand
> Koichi Kato, Member,Japanese House of Representatives;former
> Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party >Trevor Kennedy, Chairman,
> Oil Search, Ltd.; Chairman, Cypress Lakes Group, Ltd.; Sydney
> K. Kesavapany, Director, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
> Singapore >Kim Kihwan, International Advisor, Goldman Sachs, Seoul;
> former Korean Ambassador-at-Large for Economic Affairs
> Kim Kyung-Won, President Emeritus, Seoul Forum for International
> Affairs, Seoul; former Korean Ambassador to the United States and the
> United Nations; Advisor, Kim & Chang Law Office; Pacific
Asia Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission
> Kakutaro Kitashiro, Chairman of the Board, IBM Japan, Ltd. >Shoichiro
> Kobayashi, Senior Advisor, Kansai Electric Power Company, Ltd. >Kenji
> Kosaka, Member, Japanese House of Representatives
> Yotaro Kobayashi, Chairman of the Board, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.; Pacific
> Asia Chairman, Trilateral Commission
> Akira Kojima, Chairman, Japan Center for Economic Research ( JCER )
> >Koo John, Chairman, LS Cable Ltd.; Chairman, LS Industrial Systems
> Co.; Seoul
> Lee Hong-Koo, Chairman, Seoul Forum for International Affairs, Seoul;
> former Korean Prime Minister;former Korean Ambassador to the United
> Kingdom and the United States
> Lee In-ho, University Professor, Myongji University, Seoul; former
> President, Korea Foundation; former Korean Ambassador to Finland and
> Russia
> Lee Jay Y., Vice President, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Seoul >Lee
> Kyungsook Choi, President, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul
> Adrianto Machribie, Chairman, PT Freeport Indonesia, Jakarta >Minoru
> Makihara, Senior Corporate Advisor, Mitsubishi Corporation
> Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer,
> Rakuten, Inc. Yoshihiko Miyauchi, Chairman and Chief Executive
> Officer, ORIX Corporation
> Isamu Miyazaki, Special Advisor, Daiwa Institute of Research, Ltd.;
> former Director-General of the Japanese Economic Planning Agency
> Kiichi Miyazawa, former Prime Minister of Japan; former Finance
> Minister; former Member, House of Representatives >Yuzaburo Mogi,
> President and Chief Executive Officer, Kikkoman Corporation
> Mike Moore, former Director-General, World Trade Organization, Geneva;
> Member, New Zealand Privy Council, Auckland; former Prime Minister of
> New Zealand
> Moriyuki Motono, President, Foreign Affairs Society; former Japanese
> Ambassador to France >Jiro Murase, Managing Partner, Bingham McCutchen
> Murase, New York
> Minoru Murofushi, Counselor, ITOCHU Corporation >Masao Nakamura,
> President and Chief Executive Officer, NTT Docomo Inc.
> Masashi Nishihara, President, National Defense Academy >Taizo
> Nishimuro, Advisor, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
> Toshiba Corporation
> Roberto F. de Ocampo, President, Asian Institute of Management; former
> Secretary of Finance, Manila >Toshiaki Ogasawara, Chairman and
> Publisher, The Japan Times Ltd.; Chairman, Nifco Inc.
> Sadako Ogata, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency
> (JICA); former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
> Shijuro Ogata, former Deputy Governor, Japan Development Bank; former
> Deputy Governor for International Relations, Bank of Japan; Pacific
> Asia Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission
> Sozaburo Okamatsu, Chairman, Research Institute of Economy, Trade &
> Industry (RIETI) Yoshio Okawara, President, Institute for
> International Policy Studies; former Japanese Ambassador tothe United
> States >Yoichi Okita, Professor, National Graduate Institute for
> Policy Studies >Ariyoshi Okumura, Chairman, Lotus Corporate Advisory,
> Inc.
> Anand Panyarachun, Chairman, Thai Industrial Federation; Chairman,
> Saha-Union Public CompanyLtd.; former Prime Minister of Thailand;
> Bangkok Ryu Jin Roy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Poongsan
> Corp., Seoul >Eisuke Sakakibara, Professor, Keio University; former
> Japanese Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs
> SaKong Il, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Global
> Economics, Seoul; former Korean Minister of Finance
> Yukio Satoh, President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs;
> former Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations >Sachio Semmoto,
> Chief Executive Officer, eAccess, Ltd.
> Masahide Shibusawa, President, Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation
> >Seiichi Shimada, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nihon Unisys,
> Ltd.
> Yasuhisa Shiozaki, Member, Japanese House of Representatives; former
> Parliamentary Vice Minister for Finance
> Arifin Siregar, International Advisor, Goldman Sachs (Pacific Asia)
> LLC; former Ambassador of Indonesia to the United States; Jakarta
> Noordin Sopiee, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of
> Strategic and International Studies,Kuala Lumpur >Suh Kyung-Bae,
> President and Chief Executive Officer, Amore Pacific Corp., Seoul
> Tsuyoshi Takagi, President, The Japanese Foundation of Textile,
> Chemical, Food, Commercial, Service and General Workers’ Unions (UI
> ZENSEN)
> Keizo Takemi, Member, Japanese House of Councillors; former State
> Secretary for Foreign Affairs >Akihiko Tanaka, Director, Institute of
> Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo
> Naoki Tanaka, President, The 21st Century Public Policy Institute
> >Sunjoto Tanudjaja, President and Chief Executive Officer, PT Great
> River International, Jakarta
> Teh Kok Peng, President, GIC Special Investments Private Ltd.,
> Singapore >Shuji Tomita, Senior Executive Vice President, NTT
> Communications Corporation
> Kiyoshi Tsugawa, Executive Advisor & Member of Japan Advisory Board,
> Lehman Brothers Japan, Inc.; Chairman, ARAMARK ASIA Junichi Ujiie,
> Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nomura Holdings, Inc. Sarasin
> Viraphol, Executive Vice President, Charoen Pokphand Co., Ltd.,
> Bangkok; former Deputy Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs of
> Thailand Cesar E. A. Virata, Corporate Vice Chairman and Acting Chief
> Executive Officer, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC),
> Manila; former Prime Minister of Philippines Jusuf Wanandi, Member,
> Board of Trustees, Centre for Strategic and International Studies,
> Jakarta
> Etsuya Washio, President, National Federation of Workers and Consumers
> Insurance Cooperatives (ZENROSAI); former President, Japanese Trade
> Union Confederation (RENGO)
> Koji Watanabe, Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange;
> former Japanese Ambassador to Russia >Osamu Watanabe, Chairman, Japan
> External Trade Organization (JETRO)
> Taizo Yakushiji, Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology
> Policy of the Cabinet Officeof Japan; Executive Research Director,
> Institute for International Policy Studies
> Tadashi Yamamoto, President, Japan Center for International Exchange;
> Pacific Asia Director, Trilateral Commission >Noriyuki Yonemura,
> Consultant, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
Note: Those without city names are Japanese Members, Korean names are
shown with surname first.
Former Members in Public Service >Hong Seok-Hyun, Korean Ambassador to
the United States >Masaharu Ikuta, Director General, Postal Services
Corporation.
> Yoriko Kawaguchi, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan
> >Hisashi Owada, Judge, International Court of Justice >Takeshi Kondo,
> President, Japan Highway Public Corporation (Nihon Doro Kodan)
PARTICIPANTS FROM OTHER AREAS “Triennium Participants”
> Abdlatif Al-Hamad, Director General and Chairman, Arab Fund for
> Economic and Social Development;former Kuwait Minister of Finance and
> Planning André Azoulay, Adviser to H.M. King Mohammed VI, Rabat
> >Morris Chang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Taiwan
> Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.,Taipei
> Omar Davies, Member of the Jamaican Parliament and Minister of Finance
> and Planning, Kingston;former Director General, Planning Institute of
> Jamaica
> Hüsnü Dogan, General Coordinator, Nurol Holding, Ankara; former
> Chairman of the Board of Trustees,Development Foundation of Turkey;
> former Minister of Defence
> Alejandro Foxley, Member of the Senate and former Chairman of the
> Finance Committee and the Joint Budget Committee, Chilean Congress,
> Valparaiso
> Jacob A. Frenkel, Vice Chairman, American International Group, Inc.
> and Chairman, AIG’s Global Economic Strategies Group, New York, NY;
> Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, G-30; former
Chairman, Merrill Lynch International; former Governor, Bank of Israel;
former Economic Counselor& Director of Research, IMF; former Chairman,
Board of Governors of the Inter-American
Development Bank; former David Rockefeller Professor of Economics,
University of Chicago >Victor K. Fung, Chairman, Li & Fung; Chairman,
Prudential Asia Ltd., Hong Kong
> Frene Ginwala, Speaker of the National Assembly, Parliament of the
> Republic of South Africa, Cape Town
> H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin Talal, President, The Club of Rome;
> Moderator of the World Conference on Religion and Peace; Chairman,
> Arab Thought Forum, Amman
> Ricardo Hausman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development,
> Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of
> Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former
Chief Economist, Inter-American Development Bank; former Venezuelan
Minister of Planning and Member of the Board of the Central Bank of
Venezuela
> Serhiy Holovaty, Member of the Supreme Rada; President of the
> Ukrainian Legal Foundation; former Minister of Justice, Kiev
> Sergei Karaganov, Deputy Director, Institute of Europe, Russian
> Academy of Sciences; Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on
> Defense and Foreign Policy, Moscow
> Jeffrey L.S. Koo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chinatrust
> Investment, Bank, Taipei >”Richard Li”, Chairman and Chief Executive
> Officer, Pacific Century Group Holdings Ltd., Hong Kong
> Ricardo Lopez Murphy, Visiting Research Fellow, Latin American
> Economic Research Foundation, Buenos Aires; former Argentinian Finance
> Minister and Defence Minister
> Itamar Rabinovich, President, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv; former
> Ambassador to the United States Rüsdü Saracoglu, President of the
> Finance Group, Koç Holding; Chairman, Makro Consulting, Istanbul;
> former State Minister and Member of the Turkish Parliament; former
> Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey
> Roberto Egydio Setubal, President and Chief Executive Officer, Banco
> Itaú S.A. and Banco Itaú Holding Financiera S.A., Sao Paulo
> Stan Shih, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Acer Group,
> Taipei >Gordon Wu, Chairman and Managing Director, Hopewell Holdings
> Ltd., Hong Kong Grigory A. Yavlinsky, former Member of the State Duma;
> Leader of the “Yabloko” Parliamentary Group; Chairman of the Center
> for Economic and Political Research, Moscow
> Yu Xintian, President, Shanghai Institute for International Studies,
> Shanghai >Yuan Ming, Director, Institute of International Relations,
> Peking University, Beijing >Zhang Yunling, Director, Institute of
> Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS),
> Beijing >Wang Jisi, Dean, School of International Studies, Peking
> University, Beijing
A quote from David Rockefeller’s autobiography ‘Memoirs’ - 6-11-6: “For
more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the
political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents 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.”
Trilateral Commission
* The three laterals are: Europe, US, Japan.
* Organized by David Rockefeller.
* Jimmy Carter among the founding members.
* In the 1980 U.S. Presidential election, three major candidates were
Trilateral members: George HW Bush, Walter Mondale, John Anderson
(independent.)
* Other members or former members: Alexander Haig, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Warren Christopher, Caspar Weinberger, Henry Kissinger, Robert McNamara,
George Shultz, John D. Rockefeller IV, Tom Foley, W. Michael Blumenthal,
Cyrus Vance, Elliot Richardson, Paul Volcker, Bill Clinton, Count Otto
Lambsdorff.
* (members) Mayors: Tom Bradley, Andrew Young.
* (members) Journalists: Katharine Graham (Washington Post), David
Gergen (U.S. News and World Report)
* Ronald Reagan disliked the Commission and what it stood for, but held
a reception for it in 1984.
* Pat Robertson: The Commission springs “from the depth of something
that is evil.”
* John Connally: The Republican Party “will never nominate a man who
belonged to the Trilateral Commission.” Riiight.
* At any given time, has around 325 members, each serving a 3 year “term”.
Seeing her aunt go missing for three days was all too frightening for Keisha Boog.
She was eventually found and was OK, but Boog said she would do all that’s necessary to prevent a similar disappearance.
Yesterday she took her sons, 1-year-old William and 7-year-old Austin, to Byerly Ford-Nissan off Dixie Highway where police were filing fingerprints and handing out identification cards to children.
“We hope this will help if anything happens to them,” Boog said. “We don’t want another” fright.
Close to 300 children had their fingerprints scanned and photos taken. The children’s fingerprints and photos, along with their weight and height, were also logged onto an encrypted disk that only the FBI can read.
Parents were also given kits that contained DNA vials that would keep DNA for up to 100 years and information on child safety regarding lead and ink poisoning.
Around 500 people showed up for the event, which lasted throughout the afternoon. It was the fourth year that the dealership had served as the host, said sales manager Bob Copas.
“If a child goes missing, this allows the police to get their information out to the media in a timely manner,” Copas said.
Six-year-old Pia Cuesta and her brother, Pidion Cuesta, 8, said they spoke with the police officers about not talking with strangers and staying safe.
“I learned to stay close to my parents,” Pia said.
Shively training officer Eric Brooke said when children are missing, stressed parents often can’t remember simple things about them.
“This information becomes very helpful,” he said.
Tracy Frost brought her 5-year-old daughter, Abigail Booth, to have her fingerprints scanned for the first time.
“I’m always worried something will happen to her,” Frost said. “This makes me feel a little safer.”
The report below is an example of how Bilderberg propaganda works as I’m sure the reporter has never truly investigated the history of the group. A nice show for the media boys, but the Bilderbergs have NO CHOICE since awareness has grown and the spotlight is pointed at the event more so every year.
The reporter seems overwhelmed to just be there, and does not ask the tough questions which we would expect from a journalist.
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Mehmet Ali Birand
I, too, attended the three-day Bilderberg meetings on the weekend. It took place under extensive secrecy and security. We were confined to the Ritz Carlton Hotel. There were nearly 100 participants. No one else was allowed into the hotel; not even one single outsider was let in. We went to sleep, got up, ate at the same place and held meetings one after the other from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m.
My head was full of questions before going into the meetings. The identities of the attendees were known beforehand. They were all very prominent people.
What could have happened when so many famous and important people got together? Of course, according to our conspiracy theories, scenarios had to be written and decisions had to be made. If one studied the articles in the media, he or she was left with an impression that even the Turkish president could be chosen at the meetings.
I settled in my room with this excitement. I wore my best suit, put on my most stylish tie, and went down…
My excitement intensified when I looked around me. I was surrounded by people who almost constantly made it in newspaper and television headlines.
I wondered what else I would experience once the meetings started. So I let the tide of Bilderberg carry me away…
I was dead-tired at the end of the three days.
I got out of one meeting to go into the next. I needed to participate, ask questions, and watch attentively. Everyone took the meetings seriously. Nobody would leave the sessions to go outside, stroll around, and have coffee.
On the last day, when I looked at my notes, I was completely disappointed. Where were the secret decisions? Where were the conspiracy theories? And were there not supposed to be decisions made about presidential elections and a coup attempt?
Where?
There were neither secret plans made, nor secret sentences uttered, nor secret decisions taken. It was no different than hundreds of other high-end international conferences I had attended.
There was nothing different except for the influence of the participants.
On the other hand, it was heaven for someone interested in international relations, just like myself. I got to breath the air. I learned a lot.
I would like to give a couple of examples:
We started at the developments in Iraq and went on to discuss China’s place in the world. Would it be a single-polar world, or a multi-polar one?
How Iran’s nuclear power would affect all of us was discussed in detail. Concerns on the issue were conveyed.
The developments in the United States, what the elections would bring, and how the public opinion in the United States was progressing was deliberated.
The most important issues facing the world, from energy policies to expansion in the communication technologies, were reviewed.
At the end of the three days, we have learned and discussed the world’s most prominent problems with the world’s experts.
Turkey in Bilderberg
Of course, Turkey was also among the subjects discussed during the meetings.
And in two different sessions… Important questions were asked. Where the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was taking the country and whether there was a probability of a coup were deliberated.
There were four questions about Turkey: Who would win the elections? Was there the threat of a system change to Islamic canon law?Would there be a coup?Would Turkey intervene in Iraq?
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the developments in Iraq, the Kurdish issue, and the events in northern Iraq were discussed in great detail.
I did not witness secretive plans or decisions. But I heard what the world’s most prominent leaders thought about Turkey and their concerns. I saw how confused they were.
Most importantly, I saw that, at the end of the three days in Istanbul, their views about Turkey have become clearer and their knowledge of our country has deepened.
This is why holding the Bilderberg convention in Istanbul has proved to be beneficial for Turkey.
The Bilderberg Group meeting, an annual conference at which the consensus for future global policy is provably manifested, again passed by with barely a mention on behalf of America’s corporate media.
The Dallas Morning News carried a single article about Texas Governor Perry’s visit, a story that was subsequently picked up in brief blurbs by a couple of local Texas TV news affiliates and a few bylines on page 30 of a couple of papers in the lone star state.
Apart from that, save a mention in an online Village Voice blog - nothing, absolutely nothing about a confab of the most powerful and influential people on the planet. In comparison, G8 is a mere talking shop and yet it is lavished with attention while Bilderberg is hidden in the shadows.
Nothing in the New York Times and nothing in the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal, both of which were represented at the meeting. Nothing in Le Figaro of France or the Financial Times of London, who also were both represented by chief editors.
Media moguls who attend Bilderberg, such as Washington Post CEO and Chairman Donald E. Graham, swear an oath of secrecy and fulfil a promise each year to omit any coverage of Bilderberg from their news outlets.
Is it really any wonder that the traditional media model is dying and that more and more enlightened people in their droves are turning to alternative news sources in search of the truth?
Even the Turkish media, hardly reputed as a bastion of free speech, put the U.S. press to shame with a deluge of newspaper and TV coverage of Bilderberg and the protest that accompanied it in Istanbul.
Bilderberg routinely claims that it is simply a private meeting and that no policy is set within the confines of the ring of armed security the group erects around its hotel of choice. Yet courageous researchers like Jim Tucker and Daniel Estulin have demonstrated year upon year that what is discussed at Bilderberg quickly becomes policy if not in the near-term then years down the line.
At the 2005 Bilderberg meeting in Munich Germany, leaked talking points obtained from the speeches given at the conference indicated that Bilderberg expected oil prices to surge over the next 12 months, which is exactly what happened.
Bilderberg has a proven history of acting in a kingmaker capacity. Both Bill Clinton and Tony Blair attended before becoming President and Prime Minister and it was also reported that Bilderberg selected John Edwards as Kerry’s running mate in 2004. Hillary Clinton was rumored to have attended last year’s conference in Ottawa.
Bilderberg is not about signing treaties, trade deals or agreeing to topple certain foreign heads of state - it’s about creating a consensus for its members to adhere by, and the way in which topics are presented by speakers makes it obvious what the agenda will be.
This veneer of distinction provides Bilderberg with the justification to claim they don’t set any concrete policy, but only the most deluded and naive observer could dismiss the notion that hundreds of the most influential people in the world getting together and talking doesn’t have some play in what we later see unfold as policy.
This year, speakers expressed their “concern” about Iran’s nuclear proliferation - which in Bilderbergese is a rubber stamp for war. Though the language is couched in the lexicon of international relations, make no bones about it, the orders are transmitted and followed.
Bilderberg is the closest thing you will ever get to the secret world government and no amount of sneering, whitewash or smear on behalf of the corporate media - many of which are represented at the conferences, diminishes that fact.
FBI Linking Al-Qaeda Funds, Insider Trading Amongst Global Finance Elites and a Soured Texas Asset Buyout as Pakistani Prime Minister Under Investigation
As we reported yesterday, an FBI investigation led to charges for two high level Pakistani financiers on multiple counts of conspiracy and fraud. The FBI has announced it is now investigating further links to Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, as well as Salman Shah, the Prime Minister’s financial advisor, Ali Raza, the president of the National Bank of Pakistan and a significant list of other Pakistani financial heads.
The Times of India reported that FBI investigators believe the criminal operation may also be tied to allegations of money-laundering operations for Al Qaeda.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, also former Chairman of Citigroup
Pakistani Financial Advisor Salman Shah, also governor of World Bank of Pakistan
Ali Raza, president of the National Bank of Pakistan
The alleged insider trading took place on knowledge of the TxU buyout, a largest-ever $45 billion leverage deal brokered by Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Goldman Sachs, two key firms inside the Bilderberg group, who dominate the investment banking world, and are shown to be very closely linked.
Credit Suisse First Boston, who served as advisors on the TxU buyout and are also represented annually at Bilderberg, are named in the FBI insider trading case that has so far charged Hafiz Naseem, a Credit Suisse FB investment banker, with criminal counts of conspiracy and fraud.
Is there a link between elite Pakistani bankers who brokered the TxU leveraged buyout with Bilderberg firms KKR, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse and the alleged Pakistani role in a laundering scheme for Al-Qaeda?
Civil charges have been filed against Ajaz Rahim, the head of investment banking at Faysal Bank in Pakistan, on conspiracy and 25 counts of securities fraud.
The high levels of investigation are interesting– given the close relationship with Western banking, as well as the pivotal role Pakistan plays in the intelligence community and the so-called War on Terror. Pakistan is well known for harboring Al Qaeda, though the government does not officially support the terrorist group.
It was from Pakistan that former ISI chief General Mahmud Ahmad wired $100,000 to supposed lead-hijacker Mohammad Atta, a known CIA-asset, to fund the 9/11 attacks. Of course, the ISI is largely an extension of the CIA and other western intelligence agencies, and works as base of operations for intelligence in the Middle East.
Fmr. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski with Osama bin Laden, circa 1979.
Just north of Pakistan, Zbigniew Brzezinski funded, armed and created the Taliban– headed by bin Laden– to offset expected aggression by Soviet forces into Afghanistan in 1979 while Brzezinski was National Security Adviser to President Carter– proving directly the U.S. link to bin Laden.
“I told the President, about six months before the Soviets entered Afghanistan, that in my judgment I thought they would be going into Afghanistan. And I decided then, and I recommended to the President, that we shouldn’t be passive…We weren’t passive,” Brzezinski told CNN during a 1997 interview.
Brzezinski, of course, helped David Rockefeller found the Trilateral Commission, and is also involved in the Council on Foreign Relations, both of which bleed over into the Bilderberg group, all of which serve an agenda working towards world government.
When Osama bin Laden and his Taliban became a red herring in the War on Terror, they simply moved south to Pakistan, leaving American forces to seize control of Afghanistan (as well as its land, oil, Caspian trade route, and opium crop) while fighting a non-existent enemy. Despite the fact that the phony War on Terror is supposedly fought globally, neither American, Pakistani or U.N. troops have gone after the Taliban forces residing in Pakistan. The reason for this is not Pakistan’s duplicity, but that the terrorist group was simply a pretense to control Afghanistan, as its governing forces were perhaps not as accessible as Rick Perry has been in selling out Texas.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has also been accessible to the globalists– he is basically a controlled asset, after all. While he is currently under investigation in the related cases of insider trading over Texas asset deals and Al Qaeda money laundering operations, hewasCitigroup’s Chairman– a New York-based investment group operating in the top echelon of the financial world. Aziz spent approximately 30 years with the company.
Citigroup, obviously well established in the banking web, has several Bilderberg ties, including notorious former chair Walter Bigelow Wriston (who transformed Citigroup into one of the biggest conglomerates in the world and also wrote a book called The Twilight of Sovereignty [1992]). Former Citigroup Chairman and CEO John S. Reed was a Bilderberg member as well and also Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. A number of other top Citigroup executives are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, including CEO Charles Prince, former president & CEO Richard A. Freytag and Vice Chairman William R. Rhodes.
Citigroup grew out of the National City Bank of New York, which was built up by William Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller. William’s grandson James Stillman Rockefeller also headed the bank and worked closely with Walter B. Wriston.
Prime Minister Aziz also publicized his relationship with the Carlyle Group and plans for Pakistani investment while attending the 2007 Davos meeting. According to this report:
On the second day of Davos, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told the group that the United States’ very own Carlyle Group, which “manages $46.9 billion worldwide,” is planning to invest several billion dollars in the Middle East.
Aziz’s attachments to Western banking go too deep for him to have any real separation from it; on the contrary, it surely those ties launched him into to the top of the Pakistani government.
Dr. Salman Shah, financial advisor to the Prime Minister in Pakistan with Paul Wolfowitz in 2005. He also serves as the governor of the World Bank for Pakistan.
The Prime Minister’s financial advisor, Salman Shah, who is also under investigation, serves as the Governor of the World Bank for Pakistan, which he spoke to in 2004, 2005, 2006 (PDF links). He was educated in the United States and taught for many years at a number of Western institutions. He has also spoken at Credit Suisse First Boston conferences, the Bilderberg firm which advised the TxU merger. Haseem, who has been criminally charged in the case, worked for Credit Suisse FB.
Investigations probing top positions in Pakistani finance and government have implications for the world finance community at large, particularly as the investigations relate to trading on the TxU buyout– which was nothing more than the leveraging of Texas assets by Bilderberg brokers, particularly Henry R. Kravis, founding partner of KKR who led the TxU deal. Kravis also holds the previous record for largest buyout– the leveraging of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company at approximately $26 billion in 1988– a price that came after a bidding war, which was dramatized in the film Barbarians at the Gate.
Texas has been realigned to shift control to globalist development throughout the region, particularly in regards to new infrastructure such as the Trans-Texas Corridor and energy conglomerates, namely TxU, all of which Texas Governor Rick Perry has personally facilitated, nursed, defended and championed.
In this view, it is fitting that Perry was invited to the 2007 Bilderberg meeting, which Presidential candidate Ron Paul noted was “sure a sign that he’s very much involved in the international conspiracy.”
Perry sits in a pivotal access point for political manipulation in a state undergoing massive manipulation. Though the Texas governorship is theoretically weak as set up by the Texas constitution, Perry has been all-too-ready to mandate accommodation for globalist investment and to veto any attempts to block such giveaways and defend traditional nation-state based sovereignty. Furthermore, he has proved quite willing to hand over access and assets to global finance– without prodding by international institutions like the IMF to leverage control, as has been done throughout the third world.
At this point, it is not clear if investigations of inside trading will implicate any of the players in Texas or the Western banking network, but the TxU deal certainly links them with top Pakistani officials currently under investigation, and charges for Nafiz Haseem and Ajaz Rahim.
The sun has set on Bilderberg 2007. After a sumptuous lunch, most Bilderbergers will return to their countries of choice freshly armed with precise instructions from the Steering Committee on how to proceed in covertly expanding the powers of One World Government. Amongst this year’s delegates we can find Henry Kissinger; Henry Kravis of KKR; Marie Josee Kravis of Hudson Institute; Vernon Jordan; Etienne Davignon, Bilderberger President; Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, daughter of one of the founders, Prince Bernhard and the Queen and King of Spain.
As a rhetorical question, can someone please explain to me how is it that “good” liberals such as John Edwards and Hillary Clinton as well as “do-gooder” humanitarians with multiple social projects on the go such as Rockefeller and every Royal House in Europe can perennially attend Bilderberger meetings knowing that the final objective of this despicable group of hoodlums is a World Fascist - One World Empire?
How could it be orchestrated? The idea is to give to each country a political constitution and an appropriate national economic structure organised for the following purposes: (1) Place the political power into the hands of chosen people and eliminate all intermediaries. (2) Establish a maximum concentration of industries and suppress all unwarranted competition. (3) Establish an absolute control of prices of all goods and raw materials. [Bilderbergers make it possible through their iron grip control of the World Bank, IMF and the World Trade Organization] (4) Create judicial and social institutions that would prevent all extremes of action.
Not private but secret
Although participants emphatically attest they attend the Club’s annual meeting as private citizens and not in their official government capacity, that affirmation is dubious—particularly when you compare the Chatham House Rule to the Logan Act in the United States, where it is absolutely illegal for elected officials to meet in private with influential business executives to debate and design public policy.
Bilderberg meetings follow a traditional protocol founded in 1919 in the wake of the Paris Peace Conference held at Versailles for the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) based in Chatham House in London. While the name Chatham House is commonly used to refer to the Institute itself, the Royal Institute of International Affairs is the foreign policy executive arm of the British monarchy.
According to RIIA procedures, “when a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed; nor may it be mentioned that the information was received at a meeting of the Institute.”
The Logan Act was intended to prohibit United States citizens without authority from interfering in relations between the United States and foreign governments. There appear to have been no prosecutions under the Act in its almost 200-year history. However, there have been a number of judicial references to the Act, and it is not uncommon for it to be used as a political weapon. None of which is to say that private citizens can get away with anything when visiting or interacting with foreign countries.
Among those who have attended Bilderberg Club meetings and flaunted the Logan Act have been: Allen Dulles (CIA); Sen. William J. Fulbright (from Arkansas, a Rhodes Scholar); Dean Acheson (Secretary of State under Truman); Nelson Rockefeller and Laurence Rockefeller; Gerald Ford (former President); Henry J. Heinz II (Chairman of the H. J. Heinz Co.); Thomas L. Hughes (President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace); Robert S. McNamara (Kennedy’s Secretary of Defence and former President of the World Bank); William P. Bundy (former President of the Ford Foundation, and editor of the Council on Foreign Relations’s Foreign Affairs journal); John J. McCloy (former President of the Chase Manhattan Bank); George F. Kennan (former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union); Paul H. Nitze (representative of Schroeder Bank—Nitze played a very prominent role in matters of Arms Control agreements, which have always been under the direction of the RIIA); Robert O. Anderson (Chairman of Atlantic-Richfield Co. and head of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies); John D. Rockefeller IV (Governor of West Virginia, now U.S. Senator); Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State under Carter); Eugene Black (former President of the World Bank); Joseph Johnson (President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace); Henry Ford III (head of the Ford Motor Co.); Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster (former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and later superintendent of the West Point Academy); Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Adviser to President Carter, founder of the Trilateral Commission); Gen. Alexander Haig (once European NATO Commander, former assistant to Kissinger, and was later Secretary of State under Reagan); James Rockefeller (Chairman, First National City Bank).
Bilderberg 2007 conclusions
Thanks to our inside sources at the conference, we have compiled what we believe to be an accurate and a credible model of Bilderberger 2007 conclusions. We are working against the clock to bring this information into the open. Our Robert Zoellick report from Friday has now been confirmed by the Financial Times when this well respected periodical announced on the front page of June 2, 2007 edition that “Robert Zoellick is the World Bank’s new chief.” We, of course, already knew that. The issues we are working on deal with European Bilderbergers anger at Bush´s shift on climate issue, the upcoming G8 meeting in Heiligendamm, Germany where Merkel and her European Bilderberg allies will position themselves as true leaders of the environment. European Bilderbergers were fairly unhappy that a pre-G8 Bilderberg could not resolve and reconcile contradictory views on the issue. As one German attendee stated, “This requires feats of diplomatic acrobatics, something unfortunately greatly lacking in the current U.S. administration.”
Another issue of great concern to both American and European Bilderbergers is Russia’s current muscle flexing on the energy issue. The TNK-BP license is just one of the many signs causing anger amongst the globalist elite. After years of economic stagnation, said one American Bilderberger, “Russia is acting against unipolarity’s accommodating ideologies and politics, against its recently resurgent manifestations and machinations, and against the instruments of its perpetuation, such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).” Bilderberg 2007 served as a consensus building to decide on a common policy and strategy to deal with Russia’s resurgence.
Another subject under discussion dealt with Afghanistan. It was commonly agreed by the attendees that the US-led NATO alliance and mission is in a state of quagmire and “that the situation is getting worse.” Bilderbergers will be urging NATO and the US to decide on their real mission goals - economic development or the hunt for al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Finally, get ready for a new phrase in the lexicon of realpolitik shortly to have its coming-out party - “sustainable consumption,” to define a more humane approach to global warming.
We are working on the full Bilderberg 2007 report.
Alex Jones was joined on air today by several reporters, including veteran Jim Tucker, reporting exclusively from the Bilderberg conference in Istanbul, Turkey where the shadowy and private meeting of elites from throughout the Western world is now underway.
Yesterday Tucker exclusively revealed that the meeting is to be held at the Ritz Carlton in Istanbul after the group tried to throw the local media off the scent and lie in claiming the elite confab was to take place 40 miles away in the city of Silivri.
It seems that Bilderberg has also been using the Turkish media, in particular the Turkish Daily News as a propaganda mouthpiece, having it pen an article today entitled ‘Why are we scared of Bilderberg?‘
Tucker became convinced the Carlton was the real site when security surrounding the area became intense yesterday.
Tucker described a heavy police presence surrounding the Ritz Carlton and confirmed that he had been followed by secret police and was under close surveillance. The police have put up large metal barriers around the hotel making sure no one gets close, as can be seen in the picture above.
According to Romanian journalist Paul Dorneanu, who is covering the meeting and also briefly joined Alex Jones on air today there are upwards of 100 protesters in the vicinity of the Ritz Carlton.
Early reports suggest that activities are already underway with long time Bilderberger Henry Kissinger having already called for a new international cooperation in order to end the civil war in Iraq.
Kissinger revealed why Istanbul has been chosen this year stating “Turkey is in a position to make an important contribution for shaping what I mentioned above,” saying that Turkey’s being part of the European system has an extremely strategic importance.
Jim Tucker suggested that Bilderberg is keen to portray Turkey as desperate to be allowed entry the to EU despite the fact that many Turks are strongly opposed to it because they see it as a surrendering of sovereignty.
Also joining Jones on air was Daniel Estulin who has been covering the Bilderberg group for 15 years.
Estulin pointed to the fact that a Bilderberg attendee, Robert Zoellick is the US candidate to take over at the World Bank. Estulin revealed that his sources have told him that yesterday Zoellick pledged to Bilderberg that he will restore confidence in the World Bank and that differences need to be put aside in order that the global body can be strengthened.
According to Estulin’s sources however, European Bilderbergers are not at all happy with continuing the status Quo of having the US nominated candidate become the world bank President. Estulin says that one Belgian Bilderberger proposed a merit based selection process without regard to nationality, fearing that if the world bank goes with Zoellick it could be accused of double standards because he is best remembered for arm twisting poor nations to adhere to US imposed intellectual property laws that make medicines and drugs unaffordable to the developing world.
This reveals exactly why Zoellick has been nominated to head up the world bank, he has a great track record during his time as a trade representative and NAFTA architect of securing globalist dominance over the third world. Zoellick is, as we revealed here yesterday, a globalist all rounder with strong corporate ties to boot. As it preaches accountability and transparency to developing nations, some elites at the Bilderberg meeting clearly fear Zoellick’s appointment would be compromising.
Estulin went on to describe in depth the damage that the world bank and its sister globalist outfit the IMF have done to humanity through their “Structural adjustment programs” which are nothing more than huge loans handed out to third world nations in order to reap the profits from the resulting debt trap.
Returning to the media coverage of Bilderberg, the Dallas Morning News yesterday reported Texas Governor Rick Perry’s attendance at this year’s Bilderberg meeting which has since been confirmed by the Governor’s Press Office as he left Austin for Istanbul and also picked up by the AP.
Perry has been intimately involved in aiding international firms represented by Bilderberg personnel to take control over land, roads and newly privatized utilities in Texas.
Jim Tucker believes that Bilderberg are considering him as a potential future President because he is not a regular attendee. If he is invited back next year this may be an indication that he is in the running for future leadership, according to Tucker.
Appearing on the Alex jones show yesterday, presidential candidate Ron Paul confirmed that Perry’s trip could be in violation of the Logan Act which prevents U.S. citizens from unauthorized negotiations with foreign entities. Paul also added that the trip indicates Perry is in league with the movement to establish a global government.
Elitists attempted to throw media off scent by lying about location
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker is 99% certain that the Bilderberg Group meeting, which officially starts tomorrow, is to be held at the Ritz Carlton in Istanbul after the group tried to throw the local media off the scent and lie in claiming the elite confab was to take place 40 miles away in the city of Silivri.
“The elite group will be meeting today at the Klassis Hotel in the town of Silivri, 40 miles from Istanbul,” wrote the Turkish Zaman daily today, but not according to veteran journalist Jim Ticker, who has spent decades following the activities of the shadowy organization.
Appearing today on the Alex Jones Show, Tucker was all but certain that the meeting is taking place at the Ritz Carlton in Istanbul, judging from the phalanx of armed police and military personnel that have surrounded the hotel.
Bilderberg apparently told the local media that they were meeting at the Klassis Hotel as a decoy to throw them off the scent, particularly after last year’s confab in Canada which was blown wide open by Alex Jones and his crew.
Ritz Carlton being the venue is also seemingly confirmed by the fact that the hotel’s official website lists “no rooms available for requested dates” when one attempts to book between the 1st and 3rd of June.
Some call it “the multinational government”, some call it the “elite club which shapes world policies” while others say it essentially “fixes” the world’s fate. It literally breeds conspiracy theories all around the world with its secrecy, while participants say it is only a private gathering that should be respected.
Whatever it is, the mighty Bilderberg is at our door: The “high priests of globalization,” as Will Hutton from The Observer once famously put it, begin their ultra-secretive annual meeting today in Istanbul. While the international media’s silence gives rise to yet more conspiracy theories, the Turkish media is going nuts about it: from mass-circulation dailies to well-known weeklies, the media is Bilderberg-busy nowadays. Daily Vatan calls it “the most secretive meeting in the world,” announcing: “Bilderberg in Istanbul.” Weekly Aktüel says the “multinational government” is here to determine the fate of the world. It seems the hype will continue until the “high priests” end their Istanbul meeting on Sunday.
For those who have not heard about it yet, the Bilderberg Group is an “unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests” (Wikipedia), influential, powerful figures from the realms of economy, media and politics. The name comes from their first meeting in 1954, which was held in the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Netherlands. As the date signals, Bilderberg is a creation of the Cold War. The idea came from Joseph Retinger, who was concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe at the time. So, Bilderberg, just like other organizations like NATO, aimed at strengthening the “unity of the West” against the “communist threat.”
With the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, the group focused on enhancing the American-led globalization. But then, the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington practically resulted in another focus, which one might call the relation between “civilizations.”
Thus, after the first gathering in Istanbul (1959) and the second one in İzmir (1975), a third gathering in Turkey, widely regarded as a “bridge” between the East and the West, seems appropriate.
People that run the world:
If one aspect of Bilderberg that irks many is its secrecy, another one is the identity of its participants. Looking at the list of regular “Bilderbergers,” one cannot but think that these are really “the people that run the world”. Veterans like Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski are joined every year by newcomers such as former U.S. President Bill Clinton, soon-to-be-former-PM Tony Blair, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle and countless others. Every year, the list also includes important “media people” from influential outlets such as The Financial Times, Washington Post, The Economist, The Times, Le Figaro and Die Zeit. The picture becomes complete with CEOs from the world’s biggest companies such as Coca-Cola, Fiat, Suez-Tractebel, Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum.
With such a mixture, conspiracy theories abound; the most famous one being the “invisible hand” theory. According to some, those who are lucky enough to attend the meetings and get a blessing from the “inner circle” witness breath-taking career leaps. An “obscure governor” from Arkansas, one year after attending the Bilderberg meeting in 1991, became the President of the United States, while Tony Blair of Britain was elected prime minister three years after his attendance in 1993. But why did Margaret Thatcher, a regular Bilderberger, lose her job as Prime Minister in 1990? The theory says that she lost the support of Bilderberg because she did not accept the transfer of British sovereignty to a “European Super State.” Of course, John Major, who took the job as Prime Minister after Thatcher, was also a Bilderberger.
One may choose to believe or not, but the secrecy of the meetings – no cell phones, no getting out of the hotel during three days, no notes, no interviews – creates fertile ground for conspiracy theories. When senior representatives of media giants such as the FT, the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post attend the meetings every year and next to nothing is printed in the same papers about Bilderberg, one starts to wonder.
Dedicated journalists:
There are a few journalists who are dedicated to unveil the secret of the Bilderberg, though. People such as James P. Tucker, Daniel Estulin and Tony Gosling. The first two are in Istanbul, tracking down the participants, while Gosling, a Briton who runs the Web site www.bilderberg.org, could not come to the show. His Web site gets about three million hits a month, Gosling says, and attributes this great interest to the fact that “investigative journalism is pretty much dead” elsewhere. The Bilderberg is very powerful, especially financially, he told the Turkish Daily News over the phone: “So, if they come to a decision, it is effective.”
Gosling has covered the last 10 meetings, and he thinks the gathering in Istanbul is of high importance. “There is a lot of tension on the Iran-Turkey border at the moment. Iraq is also right next door. This is an area of interest for Bilderberg,” he said. “[The Bilderbergers] are worried that Islamic sentiment in Turkey is not in favor of an invasion of Iran. They are here to attempt to persuade the Turkish elite and bring them on board with the neocon plan for the Middle East.”
But why the secrecy? Gosling posed the same question to David Rockefeller back in 2003. “He shrugged and said it was just a private meeting,” he continues. “But the world does not buy this argument. There are politicians there and they are not private people. They are people who should be held accountable.”
Gosling’s claim, that the main topic of Bilderberg 2007 is Iran, is a widely held opinion. Other topics are energy policies and Turkey’s bid for European Union membership, according to the daily Vatan. The paper is optimistic about the last item; it says the Istanbul meeting is a signal that the EU has “inched open the door” to Turkey, basing this claim on unnamed “Bilderberg sources.”
A veteran of Bilderberg:
With four separate attendances in Atlanta, Ottawa, Stockholm and Lisbon, Turkey’s former Central Bank governor, Gazi Erçel, is the most informed source one can find. “There are many international meetings such as Bilderberg, which have strict rules,” he said to the TDN. As to the reason of the secrecy, he says it is a precaution to ensure that everyone talks sincerely on the topics, without the concern of being quoted.
The conspiracy theories stem from ignorance about the meetings, Erçel said, quoting Confucius: “Those who produce ideas without the knowledge are harmful. As they do not know what Bilderberg is, they believe in superstitions.”
Erçel also got his share of mention in the conspiracy theories, as some accused him of “planning the 2001 financial crisis” at one of the meetings. “These are defective claims,” he said. “Bilderberg is a high-level meeting. Everyone talks freely and very striking debates take place.”
Over the years Bilderberg meetings had important Turkish participants. Among them are Süleyman Demirel, the former president; Gazi Erçel, former Central Bank chief; Mesut Yılmaz, former Prime Minister; Selahattin Beyazıt, a businessman and a “constant participant”; Mustafa Koç, the CEO of Koç Holding; former ministers İsmail Cem, Hikmet Çetin and Kemal Derviş and also some well-known journalists. Among them, Fehmi Koru from the conservative daily Yeni Şafak stands out, because until last year, he had written numerous critical columns on Bilderberg. Last year, things changed and he was also invited to the meetings. Afterwards, he wrote a six-day series on Bilderberg, telling much about the environment and the participants, but certainly not much on what was discussed. Koru is invited for a second time this year, but the “jump” in his career is yet to be seen!
As the Bilderbergers gather, probably giggling among themselves about the conspiracy theories abounding, it would be appropriate to quote Alasdair Spark, an expert in conspiracy theories, who had spoken to the BBC back in June 2004: “Should not we expect that the rich and the powerful organize things in their own interests? It is called capitalism!”
BILDERBERG 2007 INVITED GUESTS
(According to www.bilderberg.org)
Ali Babacan, Minister of Economic Affairs (Turkey)
Kemal Derviş, Administrator, UNDP (Turkey)
Mustafa V. Koç, Chairman, Koç Holding A.Ş. (Turkey)
Fehmi Koru, Senior Writer, Yeni Şafak (Turkey)
George Alogoskoufis, Minister of Economy and Finance (Greece)
Edward Balls, Economic Secretary to the Treasury (UK)
Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister (Portugal)
José M. Durão Barroso, President, European Commission (Portugal/International)
Franco Bernabé, Vice Chairman, Rothschild Europe (Italy)
Nicolas Beytout, Editor-in-Chief, Le Figaro (France)
Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister (Sweden)
Hubert Burda, Publisher and CEO, Hubert Burda Media Holding (Belgium)
Philippe Camus, CEO, EADS (France)
Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA (France)
Juan Luis Cebrian, Grupo PRISA media group (Spain)
Kenneth Clark, Member of Parliament (UK)
Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC (USA)
Bertrand Collomb, Chairman, Lafarge (France)
George A. David, Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A. (USA)
Anders Eldrup, President, DONG A/S (Denmark)
John Elkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A (Italy)
Martin S. Feldstein, President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research (USA)
Timothy F. Geithner, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (USA)
Paul A. Gigot, Editor of the Editorial Page, The Wall Street Journal (USA)
Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, AIB Group (Ireland)
Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company (USA)
Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University, (the Netherlands)
Attention, planet Earth: Your future is being decided today at the annual Bilderberg Group conference. This year’s five-star resort site is the Klassis Hotel in Silivri, Turkey, 40 miles from Istanbul.
Conspiracy theorists have long thought that the Bilderbergers were a shadowy cabal of pols and industrialists trying to rule the planet and even establish a New World Order.
And some of the attendees would smugly agree with that assessment. That’s what Brit author Jon Ronson says in a fascinating CNN Europe report from a couple of years ago that you can view here.
Among this year’s attendees at the extremely private (nay, secretive) meetings, according to the Turkish paper Today’s Zaman, will be ousted World Bank prexy Paul Wolfowitz, along with the usual cast of characters led by Henry Kissinger.
Let’s hope the self-anointed world leaders who are gathering there will shoot some good golf scores. Otherwise, they might take out their frustrations on the rest of us.
Back in the ’90s, when the militia movement was gathering steam in the U.S., those right-wing extremists often focused on the Bilderbergers as proof of a coming New World Order.
They were kinda correct. Fortunately, however, with attendees like Wolfowitz (and such weak goniffs as New York governor George Pataki, who went last year), I wouldn’t put too much stock in their plans. Wolfie, as it was noted earlier by the Washington Post during his final daze at the World Bank, was such a poor administrator at the Pentagon and bank that he couldn’t organize a two-car funeral.
The Bilderberg Group, which brings together people of influence from around the world, will begin its 2007 meeting in Turkey today.
Bilderberg is an annual conference of the global elite, the location of which changes every year. Power brokers from industry, oil companies, politics, banking, business, academia, royalty and the media get together to privately discuss the course of the world with no outside press coverage whatsoever. The secrecy of the group has attracted criticism and given rise to much conspiracy theory about possible covert plans of the global elite to rule the world. Many treat the meeting as a significant event during which participants also determine the following year’s agenda.
However, the group claims it does not set policy.
The elite group will be meeting today at the Klassis Hotel in the town of Silivri, 40 miles from İstanbul.
Sources say the meeting, which will be held from May 31 to June 3, will mainly focus on issues such as a probable operation against Iran, energy policies and Turkey’s EU membership process. During last year`s meeting, Turkey-EU relations were discussed quite intensely by the participants.
Two Bilderberg conferences were previously held in Turkey, the first in 1959 in Istanbul and the other in 1975 in Çesme, near the Aegean city of Izmir.
Economy Minister Ali Babacan, KOÇ Holding CEO Mustafa Koç and Yeni Şafak columnist Fehmi Koru are some of the Turks expected to attend the conference, while former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and UN Development Programme (UNDP) chief Kemal Derviş are some of the international personalities expected to attend this year`s meeting.
In 1954, the most powerful men in the world met for the first time under the auspices of the Dutch royal crown and the Rockefeller family in the luxurious Hotel Bilderberg of the small Dutch town of Oosterbeck. For an entire weekend they debated the future of the world. When it was over, they decided to meet once every year to exchange ideas and analyze international affairs. They named themselves the Bilderberg Club. Since then, they have gathered yearly in a luxurious hotel somewhere in the world to decide the future of humanity.
In more than fifty years of meetings that brings together unprecedented power and money in the same time and place, never has any information been leaked as to what subjects were debated during the Bilderberg Club meetings. Bilderberg, one of the world’s most powerful secret organizations is run out of an 18m2 offices, staffed by one person, using one telephone line and a single fax number. There is no web page and no brass name plate on the door. The independent press has never been allowed in, and no statements have ever been released on the attendees’ conclusions nor has any agenda for a Bilderberg meeting been made public. How, in God’s name, can this be possible when Bilderberg´s elite membership list includes all of the most powerful individuals who run the Planet?
Leaders of the Bilderberg Club argue that this discretion is necessary to allow participants in the debates to speak freely without being on the record or reported publicly. Otherwise, Bilderbergers state, they would be forced to speak in the language of a press release. Doubtlessly, this discretion allows the Bilderberg Club to deliberate more freely, but that does not respond to the fundamental question: What do the world’s most powerful people talk about in these meetings?
Any modern democratic system protects the right to privacy, but doesn’t the public have a right to know what their political leaders are talking about when they meet the wealthiest business leaders of their respective countries?
What guarantees do citizens have that the Bilderberg Club isn’t a centre for influence trafficking and lobbying if they aren’t allowed to know what their representatives talk about at the Club’s secret gatherings? Why are the Davos World Economic Forum and G8 meetings carried in every newspaper, given front page coverage, with thousands of journalists in attendance, while no one covers Bilderberg Club meetings even though they are annually attended by Presidents of the International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, Federal Reserve, chairmen of 100 most powerful corporations in the world such as DaimlerChrysler, Coca Cola, British Petroleum, Chase Manhattan Bank, American Express, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Vice Presidents of the United States, Directors of the CIA and the FBI, General Secretaries of NATO, American Senators and members of Congress, European Prime Ministers and leaders of opposition parties, top editors and CEOs of the leading newspapers in the world. It is surprising that no mainstream corporate media outlets consider a gathering of such figures, whose wealth far exceeds the combined wealth of all United States citizens, to be newsworthy when a trip by any one of them on their own makes headline news on TV.
The delegates at Bilderberg 2007: Istanbul, Turkey May 31-June 3
This year’s delegation will once again include all of the most important politicians, businessmen, central bankers, European Commissioners and executives of the western corporate press. They will be joined at the table by leading representatives of the European Royalty, led by Queen Beatrix, the daughter of the Bilderberg founder, former Nazi, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and Bilderberger President, Etienne Davignon, Vice Chairman, Suez-Tractebel from Belgium. According to Bilderberg Steering Committee list which this author had access to, the following names have now been confirmed as official Bilderberg attendees for this year’s conference (In alphabetical order):
George Alogoskoufis, Minister of Economy and Finance (Greece); Ali Babacan, Minister of Economic Affairs (Turkey); Edward Balls, Economic Secretary to the Treasury (UK); Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister (Portugal); José M. Durão Barroso, President, European Commission (Portugal/International); Franco Bernabé, Vice Chariman, Rothschild Europe (Italy); Nicolas Beytout, Editor-in-Chief, Le Figaro (France); Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister (Sweden); Hubert Burda, Publisher and CEO, Hubert Burda Media Holding (Belgium); Philippe Camus, CEO, EADS (France); Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA (France); Juan Luis Cebrian, Grupo PRISA media group (Spain); Kenneth Clark, Member of Parliament (UK); Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC (USA); Bertrand Collomb, Chairman, Lafarge (France); George A. David, Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A. (USA); Kemal Dervis, Administrator, UNDP (Turkey); Anders Eldrup, President, DONG A/S (Denmark); John Elkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A (Italy); Martin S. Feldstein, President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research (USA); Timothy F. Geithner, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (USA); Paul A. Gigot, Editor of the Editorial Page, The Wall Street Journal (USA); Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, AIB Group (Ireland); Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company (USA); Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings (the Netherlands); Jean-Pierre Hansen, CEO, Suez-Tractebel S.A. (Belgium); Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations (USA); Richard C. Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC (USA); Jaap G. Hoop de Scheffer, Secretary General, NATO (the Netherlands/International); Allan B. Hubbard, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Director National Economic Council (USA); Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit (Germany); James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC (USA); Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC (USA); Anatole Kaletsky, Editor at Large, The Times (UK); John Kerr of Kinlochard, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc (the Netherlands); Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates (USA); Mustafa V. Koç, Chariman, Koç Holding A.S. (Turkey); Fehmi Koru, Senior Writer, Yeni Safek (Turkey); Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign Affairs (France); Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (USA); Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc. (USA); Neelie Kroes, Commissioner, European Commission (the Netherlands/International); Ed Kronenburg, Director of the Private Office, NATO Headquarters (International); William J. Luti, Special Assistant to the President for Defense Policy and Strategy, National Security Council (USA); Jessica T. Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA); Frank McKenna, Ambassador to the US, member Carlyle Group (Canada); Thierry de Montbrial, President, French Institute for International Relations (France); Mario Monti, President, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Italy); Craig J. Mundie, Chief Technical Officer Advanced Strategies and Policy, Microsoft Corporation (USA); Egil Myklebust, Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro ASA (Norway); Matthias Nass, Deputy Editor, Die Zeit (Germany); Adnrzej Olechowski, Leader Civic Platform (Poland); Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc/Nokia (Finland); George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (UK); Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Minister of Finance (Italy); Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (USA); Heather Reisman, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. (Canada); David Rockefeller (USA); Matías Rodriguez Inciarte, Executive Vice Chairman, Grupo Santander Bank, (Spain); Dennis B. Ross, Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (USA); Otto Schily, Former Minister of Interior Affairs; Member of Parliament; Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Germany); Jürgen E. Schrempp, Former Chairman of the Board of Management, DaimlerChrysler AG (Germany); Tøger Seidenfaden, Executive Editor-in-Chief, Politiken (Denmark); Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman, BP plc and Chairman, Goldman Sachs International (Ireland); Giulio Tremonti, Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy); Jean-Claude Trichet, Governor, European Central Bank (France/International); John Vinocur, Senior Correspondent, International Herald Tribune (USA); Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB (Sweden); Martin H. Wolf, Associate Editor and Economics Commentator, The Financial Times (UK); James D. Wolfensohn, Special Envoy for the Gaza Disengagement (USA); Robert B. Zoellick, Deputy Secretary of State (USA); Klaus Zumwinkel, Chairman of the Board of Management, Deutsche Post AG (USA); Adrian D. Wooldridge, Foreign Correspondent, The Economist.
Amongst the names appearing on the initial list of invitees which this journalist had access to in January 2007 stand out the names of the now disgraced John Browne, British Petroleum’s Chief Executive Officer and the disgraced and fired former chief of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz. It will be interesting to see if either of these men makes an appearance at Bilderberg 2007. The Bilderbergers have no trouble accepting criminals into the fold as long as their misdeeds are conducted away from public spotlight and scrutiny. Once exposed, the culprits are generally discarded. Lord Conrad Black, former chief executive of Hollinger media group is a case in point.
Two others names on the original January 2007 list should raise a few eyebrows. One of them is Bernard Kouchner, the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the right wing Nicolas Sarkozy government in France. Kouchner is a former founder of ONG Doctors without Borders. He was absent from Bilderberg 2006 in Ottawa, Canada. Could his government position been arranged prior to the French national elections? For my money, the surprise appearance of year award should go to Mahmood Sariolghalam, Associate Professor of International Relations, School of Economic and Political Sciences, National University of Iran. What is an Iranian doing at a NATO alliance controlled Bilderberg conference? We will know soon enough. Bilderberg 2007 is indeed a good time to look behind the scenes.
What will be discussed at Bilderberg 2007?
Aside from the Irak quagmire, energy problems continue to dominate Bilderberger discussions. Oil and natural gas are finite, non-renewable resources. That’s because once used up it cannot be replenished. As the world turns, and as oil and natural gas supplies dwindle while demand soars dramatically, especially with Indian and Chinese booming economies who want all the trinkets and privileges of an American way of life, we, as the Planet, have crossed the midpoint of oil production and discovery. From now on, the only sure thing is that supply will continue to diminish and prices will continue to increase. In these conditions world conflict is a physical certainty. End of oil means end of world’s financial system, something which has already been acknowledged by Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, two full time members of the Bilderberger inner circle. Goldman Sachs oil report, [another full time member of the Bilderberger elite] published on March 30, 2005 increased the oil price range for the year 2005-6 from $55-$80 per barrel to $55-$105. During 2006 meeting, Bilderbergers have confirmed that their short range price estimate for oil for the 2007-08 continues to hover around US$105-150/barrel. No wonder Jose Barroso, President of the European Commission, announced several months ago during the unveiling of the new European energy policy that the time has come for a “post-industrial age.” To bring the world into the post industrial age, you first need to destroy the world´s economic base and create another Great Depression. When people are poor, they don´t spend money, they don´t travel, and they don´t consume.
As the economic impact sinks in, and as the after effects of Peak Oil become evident in the face of breakdown of civilization, the United States will be forced to challenge Europe, Russia and China for the hegemony of control and the ever depleting hydrocarbon, non-renewable reserves most of which are contained in the Middle East. That will be point number two on the Bilderberg 2007 agenda.
Third item on the agenda is European relations with Russia not only in Europe but also in Central Asia. With Moscow making a deal with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan over the transport of gas to Europe, the US geo-strategic goal of driving a wedge between the Central Asian countries and Russia lies in shambles. While the US says this is “not good for Europe”, the Europeans are divided. Iran, overnight has become America’s last hope in the energy war.
Iran war, after two years of huffing and puffing by the Bush government is definitely off the table. Furthermore, with France, Russia, Japan and China investing heavily in Iran, the world has drawn a line in the sand and the U.S. will be told at the conference not to cross it. There is blood in the water, and blood in the water usually leads to a good fight.
That notwithstanding, the United States needs to control the region, not only for its oil reserves but, most importantly to help it sustain world economic hegemony. Under this strategic design, regional states will be turned to weak domains of sectarian sheikhs with little or no sovereignty and, by implications, a pathetic agenda of their economic development. Regional chaos favours the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, which in turn reinforces the process of political and social disintegration supported by the Bilderbergers.
With Blair leaving, the UK will be told yet again, that they must, at all cost, do what is necessary to integrate the country into the European Community.
Finally, with Wolfowitz resigning from the World Bank, Bilderberg luminaries will try to come to a consensus on how best to overhaul not only the bank but its sister organization, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by a Spaniard, Rodrigo Rato. Wolfowitz became entangled in controversy seven weeks ago after World Bank whistleblowers leaked to the Washington-based non-governmental organization Government Accountability Project (GAP) documents that showed Wolfowitz pushing a high pay raise in a secondment deal to the US State Department for his girlfriend.
We, as a society, are at a crossroads. In almost every corner of the planet, stress points are beginning to fracture. The roads we take from here will determine the very future of humanity. It was former British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, who stated that “the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
It is not up to God to bring us back from the “New Dark Age” planned for us. IT IS UP TO US. Whether we go into the next century as an electronic global police state or as free human beings depends on the action we take now. Forewarned is forearmed. We will never find the right answers if we don’t ask the proper questions.
Lanzarán a los extranjeros que se burlan de en varias ocasiones las reglas cuando se hacen para solicitar tarjetas de la identificación hacia fuera, el gobierno dicho ayer.
Alex Jones was joined on air today by several reporters, including veteran Jim Tucker, reporting exclusively from the Bilderberg conference in Istanbul, Turkey where the shadowy and private meeting of elites from throughout the Western world is now underway.
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