Posted on 06/10/2006 11:06:40 AM PDT by ex-Texan
OTTAWA -- 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 arriving in Ottawa Thursday for the annual gathering of the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group.
Over the next three days, 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 at the Ottawa International Airport.
Outside the airport, a phalanx of limousines queued to ferry guests to the Brookstreet Hotel, 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.
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 said.
Perle also dismissed suggestions the group's heavy representation from the oil industry gives it influence over global energy prices.
"If it did, I'd be trading on oil futures," he said.
A former assistant secretary of defence to President Ronald Reagan, 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 Thursday were Jorma Ollila, chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, and Egil Myklebust, chairman of Scandinavian Airlines.
According to an unsigned press release, presumably by Bilderberg organizers, attendees will also include New York Governor George Pataki, former Iraqi deputy prime minister 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 officers on hand.
But at the Brookstreet, the parking lot in front of the hotel was empty and all entrances to the lot barricaded. A tow truck removed vehicles that did not comply.
Security guards were stationed at various points around the hotel perimeter, including the golf course behind the Brookstreet. A number of Ottawa police officers also provided security.
The event drew a number of regular Bilderberg watchers who follow the organization around the world, 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. He recently published a book called the Bilderberg Diary.
Tucker said he spent several days this week casing out the hotel, plying Brookstreet bartenders for information.
"For years they denied their very existence," Tucker said. "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," Estulin said.
The Bilderberg Group, named after the Dutch hotel where it held its first meeting in 1954, was conceived as a forum for building transatlantic ties during the Cold War.
Organizers insist the group's clandestine ways media are barred from the event and attendees are sworn to secrecy enable a freer exchange of ideas.
But critics and conspiracy theorists say the group shows a disturbing lack of accountability considering how many powerful people it brings together.
Ottawa Citizen
What with the Bilderburgers, Illuminati, Trilateral meetings, CFR dinners and of course the obligatory Renaissance summit, my social calendar is booked up through September.
Just go to the head of this thread and see how the FReeper ex-Texan is trying to pin as yet undefined nefariousness right on the Bilderbergers. Since they have not yet done much, they are certainly being painted as scapegoats, probably in advance. I would like to blame on them the recent 1 month decline of the stock market. Yes, the more I think of it, the more I am convinced that it must be their dirty work.
Hillary Clinton was never president.
there is a rumor that Oliver Stone is going to make a movie about ODB, showing that his death was caused by bush, the cia, and rival rap groups.
it will go into skull and bones, the illuminati--the whole thing!
at last, the truth will come out!
there is also the meeting of the organization of former foreign intelligence officers, which is always fun to go to. and don't forget the federalist society.
sometimes it's hard to keep track of who is REALLY controlling the world.
Whether or not you are willing to acknowledge it, the Bilderbergers have been the shadow government for a century now, if not longer.
"BIG secret" notice to these conventions are all over the internet every year and the members attending are too..
Whats "secret", the wine being served?...
So I was right that it was them causing the decline in my 401k! The scoundrels!
LOL! :O)
Co-President..........
They asked me to go, but it was my niece's pre-school graduation...
Well, it was something similar anyway...the party was held at a Bild-A-Bear store in the mall.
Well, it was something similar anyway...the party was held at a Bild-A-Bear store in the mall.
and a super water canal from northern canada to california....
Yep I was the one that told Hollywood to produce the Steve Getenburg movies...
Oh yes those evil rich people....
>>>>>"Hillary Clinton was never president"<<<<<
Correct, she claims to have been Co-President
TT
What about the CFR?
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