Elite Power Brokers' Secret Talks

BBC ^ | 15 May, 2003 | Emma Jane Kirby

[Hal1950]

The world's financial and political elite are to hold a closed meeting in France on Thursday where delegates are expected to be focusing their attention on post war Iraq.

The Bilderberg meeting will be held in Versailles just before the start of the Group of Seven meeting of finance ministers in nearby Paris.

Bilderberg, which was founded in the 1950s by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, is said to steer international policy from behind closed doors.

Its critics say that it is a capitalist organisation which operates entirely through self interest.

By anyone's standards, it is a bit of a mystery.

There are no members as such - instead, an invitation list is comprised each year by an unknown steering committee, but participants are mainly leading and powerful figures in the fields of business and politics.

Political clout

The meetings are cloaked in secrecy and participants rarely reveal their attendance, although this year's list is rumoured to include the American banker David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger.

What the group actually does is no clearer either, although it's known to be an extremely influential lobbying group with a good deal of political clout on both sides of the Atlantic.

Key members of both the British and the US governments are said to have attended gatherings.

But critics accuse Bilderberg of being sinister and conspiratorial - if what the delegates are discussing is really for the good of ordinary people they ask, then why can't they publicise it?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The name is Bond. James Bond.

[expatpat]

It seems like only yesterday when folks who talked of Bilderberg were dismissed here on FR as tinfoilers -- now the BBC has it.

[PatrickHenry]

Its critics say that it is a capitalist organisation which operates entirely through self interest.

If that's what the critics say, I'm all for this Bilderberg group. The critics are obviously Marxist loonies.

[CyberAnt]

ANY AMERICAN WHO ATTENDS THIS EVENT IN "FRANCE" DESERVES TO BE RUN OUT OF TOWN ON A RAIL!!!!

[McGavin999]

Ah yes, the Build-a-burgers, that secret cabal of people who run the world. Well, they're doing a lousy job of it, why didn't they do something about terrorism? Why did these so called rulers allow this to get so out of hand.

Sorry, I can't fear a group that is that incompetent.

[ActionNewsBill]

Well, they're doing a lousy job of it, why didn't they do something about terrorism?

It's all part of their plan for world dominion.

[Iwentsouth]

They have nothing on the Bohemian Grove.

[alfa6]

Ya don't suppose that this is a bunch of rich folk that gets together to just to complain about the Tri-Lateral Commission, do ya? :-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Hal1950]

[joesnuffy]

where can i get a bilderbergers commerative coffee mug?

[aristeides]

The Bilderbergers and the Trilateral Commission have important members in common. Like David Rockefeller.

[McGavin999]

It's all part of their plan for world dominion.

Ah, it's all coming clear now. They're going wreck the economies of the world so their investments will......no, no wait, that won't work.

Oh, I know, they want to enslave the worlds most productive workers, the ones who are productive because they're free, so they can....hmmmmm, that won't work either.

Darn, figuring out how to run the world must be tough, the world just keeps running out ahead of them. Look! There they go, and we must hasten after, for we are their leaders!

[Pilsner]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3031717.stm

This really is a BBC story!

I still think people who believe the Bildeburger folks run the world just the like the "Stonecutters" on the Simpsons need their tinfoil hats (he said, pulling on his iridium flame-proof bib-overalls and baseball cap).

[SamiGirl]

I'll have large fries with my Build-a-burgers, please.

[dljordan]

You're absolutely right! There have reports of this group for years. I've read people on FR deny that there is a Council on Foreign Relations. I was watching Fox News one night and they were interviewing a guy and right at the bottom it said his name and that he worked for the CFR. Some people are just to scared to peek out from under the covers.

[ActionNewsBill]

CLINTON SELECTED TO BE NEXT PRESIDENT(June 1992)

[dljordan]

Have you ever thought that terrorism is a tool to be used to sway popular opinion?

[Poohbah]

I've read people on FR deny that there is a Council on Foreign Relations.

Name names. Provide links to the specific posts where they said that the CFR did not exist.

[dljordan]

Boy howdy! Have you seen the film that was shot at the Grove? All these guys dancing around a fire in front of a giant owl? They call it "The Burning of Care". Go figure.