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
Psst... When today's meeting get out, I'll post something...
The Dog ate my Invite and it was the one with the secret handshake, so I won't be attending this year.
TT
Everything they accuse the Bilderberger group of, the United Nations is.
I went to this meeting straight from the Illuminati conference.
My well placed and informed sources inform me that Jesus' last living descendant will be present.
Jones was on Coast2Coast recently saying he plans publish the complete, unedited list of all Bilderberger guests. He claims to have a "mole" inside the organization. The BBC is claiming the Bilderbergers engineered the European Union with the Euro as its currency. Now they are apparently discussing a similar project for the U.S., Canada and Mexico. A North American Union working paper was signed by President Bush, President Fox and the Premier of Canada last year. The U.S. is linking Mexico to Canada by means of a super highway. The Bilderbergers apparently get what they want.
Here is another delightful site.
http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm
OK. So, be it known henceforth that the Bilderberg group is officially included in the list of mandatory/honorary participants and conspirators against everything, together with the Jesuits, Freemasons, Jews, Illuminati and the TriLateral Commission.
Illumanatti, Glitteratti and Illiteratti..
Indeed. The conspiracists would do well to refocus their attention away from impotent groups like CFR, the Bilderbergers, the Rothchilds, Skull and Bones, and the Trilateral Commission and onto the group that makes no bones about their One-World-Order intentions -- the UN.
The last I heard, some of the major power brokers that run the UN are members of the Bilderberger Group.
You reference Alex Jones and Coast2Coast (Art Bell's old show), shows that believe every wacko tinfoil conspiracy theory and mystery ever put forth, including UFO's. The kind of gullible kooks who magicians have been fooling for years, convincing them that cunning and sleigh of hand was actually magical tricks and powers that defy all the laws of science and nature.
Operative terms are "Gullible", "Useful Idiots", "Tools", and "Fools" as in "Fooled".
Well I quit the Bilderberger group last year after I realized to my horror they didnt cook my steak to the way I liked it!! They told me in the future we all will eat steaks well-done and that surf and turf will no longer be accepted and anybody eating that will be punished by watching Oprah 12 hours a day for 5 years. The nerve of some secretive groups!!
I guess the BBC is a tin foil hat news network as well? This news report is from The Vancouver Province, a major independent newspaper in Canada. Other news reports about the Bilderbergers have been published by the Ottawa Sun and dozens of other mainstream news agencies. Nice use of a broad brush dipped in black paint, diddleEsquat. I guess everybody that you disagree with wears a tin foil hat? How convenient.
The existance of a group of influential people meeting to strategize and then attempt to lobby their governments on various issues is far different than concluding that they actually control everything nearly everywhere. Talk about painting with a broad brush. Your posting history tells the story.
I skipped this years meeting.
I sent my messenger boys David Rockefeller and Kissinger to get my points across.
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