Posted on 06/09/2006 10:49:28 AM PDT by jmc813
Greeted at the airport by limousine drivers holding single-letter "B" signs, global luminaries such as Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands began quietly slipping into Ottawa yesterday for the annual gathering of the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group.
Over the next three days at the Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata, they and other prominent political and business leaders from North America and Europe are expected to discuss issues such as the security threat posed by Iran and the direction of oil markets.
The group's discreet approach was evident as attendees arrived yesterday at the Ottawa Airport.
Outside the airport, a phalanx of limousines lined up to ferry guests to the Brookstreet, where security guards with ear pieces kept watch over the barricaded entrance to the hotel parking lot.
Limos were also dispatched to the nearby Shell Aerocentre to retrieve participants arriving on private aircraft. Some attendees had the single-letter "B" on their luggage tags.
Approached by a Citizen reporter upon his arrival, former U.S. defence policy adviser Richard Perle shot down criticism about the secrecy of the group's meetings. "It's a private organization," he said. He denied the charge, advanced by Bilderberg critics, that the organization crafts public policy behind closed doors. "It discusses public policy," he stressed.
Mr. Perle also dismissed suggestions that the group's heavy representation from the oil industry gives it influence over energy prices. "If it did, I'd be trading on oil futures," he said.
A former assistant secretary of defence to president Ronald Reagan, Mr. Perle is still considered an influential adviser in U.S. conservative circles. He advised President George W. Bush and is said to be a close friend of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
In 2003, he publicly chastised the Canadian government for refusing to send troops to Iraq and warned that "lame-duck" prime minister Jean Chretien would be embarrassed once weapons of mass destruction were found.
Also seen arriving yesterday were Jorma Ollila, chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, Egil Myklebust, chairman of Scandinavian Airlines, World Bank president James Wolfenson, and Frank McKenna, former New Brunswick premier and ex-Canadian ambassador to the U.S.
According to an unsigned press release sent by fax yesterday, presumably by Bilderberg organizers, attendees will also include New York Governor George Pataki, deputy prime minister of Iraq Ahmad Chalabi, the heads of Coca-Cola, Credit Suisse, the Royal Bank of Canada, a number of media moguls, and cabinet ministers from Spain and Greece.
The release confirmed this year's meeting will deal with energy issues, Iran, the Middle East, terrorism, immigration, Russia, European-American relations and Asia.
"The meeting is private to encourage frank and open discussion," said the release. "There will be no press conference."
Security was relatively light at the airport, with only a few uniformed police on hand.
But at the Brookstreet, the parking lot in front of the hotel was completely emptied and entrances to the lot were barricaded. A tow truck removed any vehicles that did not comply.
Private security guards in black blazers guarded various points around the hotel perimeter, including the golf course behind the Brookstreet. A number of Ottawa police officers also provided security.
Guests who stayed at the hotel on Wednesday night were asked to check out by 8:30 a.m. yesterday, several hours earlier than usual. The hotel is closed through Sunday.
The sidewalk in front of the hotel has become an improvised campground for conspiracy theorists and dedicated Bilderberg watchers, few more colourful than James P. Tucker Jr., a 71-year-old writer who says he has covered every Bilderberg conference for the last 30 years.
Mr. Tucker, who recently published a book called the Bilderberg Diary, said he spent several days this week casing out the hotel, plying Brookstreet bartenders for information over glasses of tomato juice.
"For years they denied their very existence," said Mr. Tucker, dressed in a black pinstriped suit and straw hat. "Well, they certainly influence the world."
Daniel Estulin, who flew from Spain to cover this week's conference, is such a regular on the circuit that he is on a first-name basis with Bilderberg security officials.
"Their main objective is creating a world government ruled by an elite group of people whose main objective is to control all the natural resources of the planet," said Mr. Estulin, who brought a small camera to snap photos of the Bilderbergers as they arrived in dark luxury sedans with tinted windows. Some of the sedans had sheets of paper bearing the trademark "B" on the dashboard.
But the Bilderbergers also attracted curious onlookers who only recently learned about the event through the media.
"There are all sorts of gaps in what politicians say and do. This is just another example of the circumventing of the democratic process," said Cindy Mogensen, who took a break from work yesterday to check out the conference.
Hmm...no Democrats.
when ya get to this level, ya don't run political parties, ya own them.
I was Listening to CTC Geo. Norey had Alex Jones on he said he was not allowed to go near that meeting and was held and question for 15 hours he said by the Canadian Police and search all his equiptment and if had the Any Kind of prono on his computer he would be sent to prison.
When someone like Alex Jones associate with the likes of Charles Sheen my ears perk up!
AJ claims to be conservative but I think of populace and Cardo "Spotlight News" and closet bigot leftist.
it is all so confusing no one know who is who or what is what!
Ok. A private org that "discuses" public policy. No coverage allowed, total isolation, generic unsigned press releases, ....
U.S. banker David Rockefeller, of the famous Rockefeller family and chairman of the Trilateral Commission;
former assistant secretary of defence to president Ronald Reagan, Mr. Perle
Jorma Ollila, chairman of Royal Dutch Shell
Egil Myklebust, chairman of Scandinavian Airlines,
World Bank president James Wolfenson,
Frank McKenna, former New Brunswick premier and ex-Canadian ambassador to the U.S.
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands;
New York Governor George Pataki,
deputy prime minister of Iraq Ahmad Chalabi,
the heads of Coca-Cola,
Credit Suisse,
Royal Bank of Canada,
cabinet ministers from Spain and Greece.
Naw, nothing going on there! Just a little "discussion group."
I think it's a very healthy thing. Lots of powerful people from a wide range of public and private sector arenas, getting together for an honest, off-the-record chat, to bounce facts, ideas, and opinions off each other. I expect more valuable ideas get launched into action there, that at any of the official gatherings of "democratic process" bodies.
Looks like a fine list to me. Note the absence of any United Nations big-wigs. Kofi's probably been begging for an invite to this thing for years, but they've got much higher standards than that, and don't have to apologize to anybody for slamming the door in his face.
I think it's exremely unhealthy and dangerous. While a certain amount of secrecy is inherent in government, I don't think American elected officials or bureaucrats should be attending secret meetings overseas.
I don't doubt there is a Shadow Government but what their purpose is I can only speculate to organized or coordinate world events or maybe there are a few groups like this?
Some work for the good of all and some other for elite interest?
I do know there is a evil agenda (Eph. 6: 12) but who it is I don't know, I also know there is a possitive agenda.
Bilderberg Conferences
http://www.bilderberg.org/2006.htm
Indeed it is! I read your post three times and still don't know what you were trying to say. ;)
"It's a private organization," he said. "It discusses public policy," he stressed."
What's wrong with this picture?
Reminds me of the Federal Reserve System, which is a conspiracy of private banks that have bought the minting of money from our Congress (the best congress money can buy!) thereby usurping the free right of the people to their own currency. So the National Debt is what we owe the bankers who stole our money (in 1913) and now sell it back to us.
it is all so confusing no one know who is who or what is what!
Indeed it is! I read your post three times and still don't know what you were trying to say. ;)
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1- There is for real a Shadow Government
2- What is there purpose?
3- I can only speculate to organized the or coodinate the world
4-There might be a few of these NWO type groups?
5-Some work for good and some and some have an elite agenda
6-There is an evil agenda as you can read in Eph 6:12
7-Who are I don't know you can read "The Secret of the Zodiac" Julian Sterne and will understand how it works!
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8-There is the Lord's agenda which will win in the end!
Bilderberg Conferences
http://www.bilderberg.org/2006.htm
VIPs' arrivals marked by a discreet 'B'
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6ac7a723-323b-497c-970b-70ec36c4bd45&k=98417&p=1
>Naw, nothing going on there! Just a little "discussion group".<
Yeah, but you forgot Henry Kissinger and GHWB, among others.
Hello, Everyone:
As long as Ted Stevens and Robert Byrd aren't attending, I think we're all pretty safe. Imagine if Tom DeLay was a member? Wow.
It's been my experience to observe that when you have any large association or group of people (government, education, sales, banking, anything) they tend to form smaller groups. These smaller groups vary in their prestige with some being the "really cool table" and most of the others just being "pretty cool tables." If you're not sitting at the "really cool table" there's a tendency to be suspicious, but it's hard to see much coming from the really cool guys except they get to stay in a better class of hotel.
Fortunately we have elections all the time and keep moving these folks in and out of real power. You know that even if this meeting is only for Clintonistas, nothing much will happen since Republicans control the White House, the Congress, and a strong group in the Supreme Court, and the majority of state elected officials.
Of course, all the guys will get to keep those really cool "B" signs the drivers held up at the airport.
Hubba-hubba.
....And Stephen Harper, UK PM, Top White House Aide, Bill Clinton....and, and, and
pssst!! you need to ceck out canada's capitol city....(clue#1..it ain't toronto!)
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