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Special Reports
The annual
secret meeting of the Bilderberg group determines many of the headlines and
news developments you will read about in the coming Mainstream
news organizations boastful about their no-holds barred investigative exploits,
have been strangely reluctant to lift the blackout curtain hiding a major
event: the Bilderberg group's secret annual meeting for the world's most
powerful financiers, industrialists, and political figures. Two
thousand-five was a bad year for Bilderberg and its future looks gloomy.
Herculean efforts to keep their meetings secret in Rottach-Egern failed
miserably. Bilderberg's grief is the free world´s glory -- and hope for further
restraining the power grabbers in the dawn of a new millennium. One
certainty is that although the Bilderberg Group has lost some of its past
luster, it is meeting under its usual secrecy that makes freemasonry look like
a playgroup. Staff at the hotel are photographed and put International
and national media are said to be welcome only when an oath of silence has been
taken, news editors are held responsible if any of their journalists 'inadvertently'
report on what takes place. While
Clinton, Blair, Chirac, Berlusconi and Company attended the G8 summits of the
world's foremost democratically elected leaders, they were accompanied by the
massed ranks of the world media. In stark contrast, the comings and goings at
Bilderberg take place under cover of a virtual publicity blackout. The
discussions they will engage in this year, from deciding how the world should
deal with European-American relations, the Middle East powder keg, the Iraq
war, the global economy and how to stave off war in Iran, and the consensus
they reach, will influence the course of Western civilization and the future of
the entire planet. This meeting takes place behind closed doors in total
secrecy, protected by a phalanx of armed guards. What Was
on Bilderberg´s 2005 Agenda? After three straight years of open hostilities and tension amongst the
European, British and American Bilderbergers caused by the war in Iraq, the
aura of complete congeniality amongst them has returned. Bilderbergers have
reaffirmed and remain united in their long-term goal to strengthen the role the
UN plays in regulating global conflicts and relations. However, it
is important to understand that Americans are no more the "Hawks"
than the European Bilderbergers the "Doves". A
much-discussed subject in 2005 at Rottach-Egern was the concept of imposing a
direct UN tax on people worldwide through a direct tax on oil at the wellhead.
This, in fact, sets a precedent. If enacted, it will be the first time, when a
non-governmental agency, read the United Nations, directly benefits from a tax
on citizens of free and enslaved nations. Bilderberger
proposal calls for a tiny UN levy at the outset, which the consumer would
hardly notice. Jim Tucker of the court-killed Spotlight magazine years ago
wrote "establishing the principle that the UN can directly tax citizens of
the world is important to Bilderberg. It is another giant step toward world
government. Bilderbergers know that publicly promoting a UN tax on all people
on Earth would meet with outrage. But they are patient; it first proposed a
direct world tax years ago and celebrates the fact that it is now in the public
dialogue with little public attention or concern." Bilderberg
wants "tax harmonization" so high-tax countries could compete with
more tax-friendly nations -- including the United States -- for foreign
investment. They would "harmonize" taxes by forcing the rate in the
United States and other countries to rise so that socialist Sweden's 58-percent
level would be "competitive." Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) Then there
is the rise of the NGOs, a development former President Clinton suddenly (one
day after it was discussed at Rottach-Egern) calls one of "the most
remarkable things that have happened since the fall of the Berlin Wall."
Ironically, Clinton's statement was picked up by The Wall Street Journal, a
paper always represented at the Bilderberg meetings by Robert L. Bartley, its vice president and Paul Gigot, editorial
page editor. The Bilderbergers have been vigorously debating giving, for the first time, nonelected, self-appointed, environmental activists a position of governmental authority on the governing board of the agency which controls the use of atmosphere, outer space, the oceans, and, for all practical purposes, biodiversity. This invitation for "civil society" to participate in global governance is described as expanding democracy. According to sources within Bilderberg, the status of NGOs
would be elevated even further in the future. The NGO activity The United Nations Environment Programme, along with all the environmental treaties under its jurisdiction, would ultimately be governed by a special body of environmental activists, chosen only from accredited NGOs appointed by delegates to the General Assembly who are themselves appointed by the president of the United States, who is controlled by the Rockefeller-CFR-Bilderberg interlocking leadership This new mechanism would provide a direct route from the
local, "on-the-ground" NGO affiliates of national and international
NGOs to the highest levels of global governance. For example: The Greater
Yellowstone Coalition, a group of affiliated NGOs, recently petitioned the
World Heritage Committee of UNESCO asking for intervention in the plans of a
private company to mine gold on private land near Yellowstone Park. The UNESCO
Committee did intervene, and immediately listed Yellowstone as a "World
Heritage Site in Danger." Under the terms of the World Heritage
Convention, the United States is required to protect the park, even beyond the
borders of the park, and onto private lands if necessary. The ideas being discussed, if implemented, will bring all the people of
the world into a global neighbourhood managed by a worldwide bureaucracy, under
the direct authority of a minute handful of appointed individuals, and policed
by thousands of individuals, paid by accredited NGOs, certified to support a
belief system, which to many people is unbelievable and unacceptable. Elections
in Britain Bilderbergers
are celebrating the result it wanted. The return of a much humbled Tony Blair
to 10 Downing Street with a much-reduced parliamentary majority. European
Bilderbergers are still angry at him for supporting America´s war in Iraq.
While teaching Blair a useful lesson in international politics, Bilderbergers
feel he is a far safer candidate to continue on the path of European
integration than his conservative rival Michael Howard. Neoconservative
Agenda In full
force was that faction known as the so-called "neoconservatives"--those
who have determined that Israel's security should come at the expense of the
safety to the United States and be central to all U.S. foreign policy
decisions. Most
notable among this group is the alleged Israeli spy, Richard Perle, who was
investigated by the FBI for espionage on behalf of Israel. Perle played the
critical role in pushing the United States into the war against Iraq. He was
forced to resign from the Pentagon´s Defense Policy Board, on March 27, 2003,
after it was learned that he had been advising Goldman Sachs International, a
habitual Bilderberg attendee, on how it might profit from the war in Iraq. Another
neoconservative figure on hand was Michael A. Ledeen, an "intellectual´s
intellectual." Ledeen serves for the American Enterprise Institute, a
think-tank founded in 1943, with which Richard Perle has long been associated.
AEI and the Brookings Institution operate a Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
(JCRS) with the purpose of holding lawmakers and regulators "accountable
for their decisions by providing thoughtful, objective analyses of existing
regulatory programs and new regulatory proposals." The JCRS pushes for
cost-benefit analysis of regulations, which fits with AEI's (and Bilderberger)
ultimate goal of deregulation. These
neoconservatives were also joined this year at Bilderberg by a handful of other
top former Washington policy makers and publicists known for their sympathies
for Israel, including former State Department official Richard N. Haas,
president of the CFR; former Assistant Secretary of State and "father"
of the Dayton accord, Richard Holbrooke; and Dennis Ross of the pro-Israel
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, effectively an offshoot of the
America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and JINSA (Jewish Institute for
National Security Affaris), as well as the newly chosen World Bank president
Paul Wolfowitz. Dennis
Ross, Richard N. Perle, and company are itching to "transfer"--translation:
to ethnically cleanse--as many Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza as
possible. "Israel should have exploited the repression of the
demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry
out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories," former Prime
Minister Netanyahu told students at Bar-Ilan University in 1989. The residents
of the European Community may be clueless about the intentions of Zionists
toward the Palestinians, but in Israel, to my astonishment, ethnic cleansing is
a popular subject of discussion. Fifty percent or more of Israelis think ethnic
cleansing is a good idea. This from a nation that supposedly remembers the
Holocaust. Fiction is indeed stranger than the truth. Energy An American Bilderberger
expressed concern over the skyrocketing price of oil. One oil industry insider
at the meeting remarked that growth is not possible without energy and that,
according to all indicators, the world's energy supply is coming to an end much
faster than the world leaders have anticipated. According to sources,
Bilderbergers estimate the extractable world's oil supply to be at a maximum of
35 years under current economic development and population. However, one of the
representatives of an oil cartel remarked that we must factor into the
equation, both the population explosion and economic growth and demand for oil
in China and India. Under the revised conditions, there is apparently only
enough oil to last for 20 years. No oil spells the end of the world's financial
system. So much has already been acknowledged by The Wall Street Journal and
the Financial Times, two periodicals who are regularly present at the annual
Bilderberg conference. Conclusion: Expect a severe
downturn in the world's economy over the next two years as Bilderbergers try to
safeguard the remaining oil supply by taking money out of people's hands. In a
recession or, at worst, a depression, the population will be forced to
dramatically cut down their spending habits, thus ensuring a longer supply of
oil to the world's rich as they try to figure out what to do. During the afternoon
cocktail, European Bilderberger noted that there is no plausible alternative to
hydrocarbon energy. One American insider stated that currently the world uses between
four and six barrels of oil for every new barrel it finds and that the
prospects for a short-term breakthrough are slim, at best. Someone asked for an
estimate of the world´s accessible conventional oil supply. The amount was
quoted at approximately one trillion barrels. As a side note of interest, the
planet consumes a billion barrels of oil every 11.5 days. Another Bilderberger asked
about hydrogen alternative to the oil supply. The US government official
agreed, gloomily, that hydrogen salvation to the world´s imminent energy crisis
is a fantasy. This confirms public
statement made in 2003 by HIS, the world´s most respected consulting firm
cataloguing oil reserves and discoveries, that for the first time since the
1920s there was not a single discovery of an oil field in excess of 500 million
barrels. The oil industry at the
2005 Bilderberg conference was represented by John Browne, BP´s chief executive
officer; John Kerr, director Royal Dutch Shell; Peter D. Sutherland, BP
chairman and Jeroen van der Veer, chairman of the Committee of Managing
Directors of Royal Dutch Shell. It should be remembered
that in late 2003, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell, announced that it had
overstated its reserved by as much as 20 percent. Queen Beatrix of Holland, Royal
Dutch Shell´s principal shareholder is a full-fledged member of the
Bilderbergers. Her father, prince Bernhard was one of the founders of the group
back in 1954. The Los Angeles Times reported that "For petroleum firms,
reserves amount to nothing less than ´the value of the company.'" In fact,
Shell cut its reserve estimates not once, but three times, prompting the
resignation of its co-chairman. At Rottach-Egern, in May 2005, industry's top
executives tried to figure out how to keep the truth about diminishing oil
reserves from reaching the public. Public knowledge of the diminishing reserves
directly translates into lower share prices, which could destroy financial
markets, leading to a collapse of the world economy. EU
Referendum in France The first
day of secret meetings at Bilderberg 2005 was dominated by talk of the EU
Constitution referendum in France and whether Chirac can persuade France to
vote yes on May 29. A yes vote, according to sources within Bilderberg would
put a lot of pressure on Tony Blair to finally deliver Britain into the waiting
arms of the New World Order through their own referendum on the treaty
scheduled for 2006. Matthias Nass wondered out loud that a no vote in France
could undoubtedly cause political turmoil in Europe and overshadow Britain's
six-month EU presidency starting on July 1. Bilderbergers,
hope that Blair and Chirac, whose, at times, open animosity has spilled into a
public arena on more than one occasion, can work together for mutual benefit
and political survival. Another European Bilderberger added that both leaders
must put behind them as quickly as possible all past disputes on such topics as
Iraq, the liberalization of Europe´s economy and the future of the budget
rebate Britain receives from the EU and work towards complete European
integration, which could disintegrate if France´s often "hard-headed and
obstinate people," in the words of a British Bilderberger, do not do the
right thing, meaning give up voluntarily their independence for the "greater
good" of a Federal European super state! A German
Bilderberger insider said that France´s yes vote is in trouble because of the "outsourcing
of jobs. Jobs in Germany and France are going to Asia and Ukraine," [to
take advantage of cheap labour.] Ukraine is one of the former Soviet republics
that have been admitted to the European Union bringing the total membership to
25 nations. A German politician wondered out loud how Tony Blair should go
about convincing Britons to embrace the European Constitution when due to the
outsourcing of jobs, both Germany and France are suffering a 10 percent
unemployment rate while Britain is doing well economically. USA
Criminals A US law, called the Logan
Act, states explicitly that it is against the law for federal officials to
attend secret meetings with private citizens to develop public policies.
Although Bilderberg 2005 was missing one of its luminaries, US State Department
official John Bolton who was testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, the American government was well represented in Rottach-Egern by
Alan Hubbard, assistant to the president for economic policy and director of
the National Economic Council; William Luti, deputy under secretary of defence;
James Wolfensohn, outgoing president of the World Bank and Paul Wolfowitz,
deputy secretary of state, an ideologue of the Iraq war and incoming president
of the World Bank. By attending Bilderberg 2005 meeting, these people are
breaking federal laws of the United States. Auna
Telecomunicaciones At a Saturday night
cocktail party (May 7) at the luxurious Dorint
Sofitel Seehotel Überfahrt in Rottach-Egern, Bavaria, Munich, several
Bilderbergers sharing the standing bar with Queen Beatrix of Holland and Donald
Graham, the Washington Post´s CEO, were discussing the up-coming sale of
Spanish telecommunications and cable giant Auna. Auna
operates fixed line telephone services, a mobile-phone network, and a cable
television system, and is also an Internet provider. One of the Bilderbergers
familiar with the matter [believed to be Henry Kravis, based on the physical
description of the source at the meeting] stated that Auna´s mobile operations
could bring in some 10 billion euros including debt, while another
Bilderberger, a tall man with a receding hairline added that its fixed-line
assets could fetch some 2.6 billion euros. Sources close to the Bilderbergers
have stated off-the-record that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, a
private-equity firm is interested in buying all of Auna. An abundance of cheap credit
and low interest rates have made Auna an appetising target for private-equity
buyers. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
& Co was represented at the Bilderberg meetings by its luminary billionaire
Henry Kravis and his small town Quebec-born wife, Marie Joseé Kravis, a senior
fellow at the neoconservative Hudson Institute. Conclusions: Expect
favourable coverage and support for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co from Grupo
Prisa whose Consejero Delegado Juan Luis Cebrian always attends super secret
Bilderberg meetings. In case Kravis fails to put together a competitive bid,
then expect the same favourable coverage for Goldman Sachs Group, whose Martin
Taylor is Bilderberg's honorary secretary general and whose other Bilderberger,
Peter Sutherland, is Goldman Sachs´ chairman as well as the Trilateral
Commission´s European chairman. In the past, exposing Bilderberg meetings has provided
advance warning -- months ahead of the mainstream media -- of the US Iraqi
invasion, tax increases, and the downfall of Margaret Thatcher as prime
minister of Britain. Indonesia-Malaysia
Standoff A political and military
confrontation between these two nations in the petroleum-rich Sulawesi Sea
(both claim the oil-rich area of Ambalat as their territorial rights) was the
topic of a much-animated discussion amongst several American and European
Bilderbergers during an afternoon cocktail hour. An American Bilderberger
waving his cigar suggested using the UN to "further a peace policy in the
region". In fact, Bilderbergers at the lounge table all agreed that such a
conflict might well give them an excuse to garrison the disputed area with UN "Peacekeepers"
and thus ensure their ultimate control over the exploitation of this treasure,
meaning untapped oil reserves. China European
and American Bilderbergers realising the most urgent of needs to expand into
developing markets in order to help sustain the illusion of endless growth have
agreed to name Pascal Lamy, a French Socialist and a fanatical supporter of a
European super state as the next World Trade Organization (WTO) president. It
will be remembered that Washington gave a conditional support to Lamy´s
nomination in exchange for European support of Paul Wolfowitz as head of the
World Bank. According
to insider sources within the Bilderberger group, Lamy was chosen to help steer
the global trading system through a time of rising protectionist sentiment in
rich countries such as France and Germany, both reeling from high unemployment
and averse to increasingly muscular demands for market assess from emerging
economies. Third World states, for example, are insisting on cuts to EU and US
farm subsidies. The WTO liberalization drive collapsed in acrimony in Seattle
in 1999 and again in Cancun in 2003. The
Bilderbergers have secretly agreed on the need to force the poor countries into
a globalized market for cheap goods while simultaneously forcing the poor into
becoming customers. The current rift with China is a good example, as the
Chinese have flooded the Western countries with cheap goods, amongst them
textiles, driving down prices. As a trade off, the Bilderbergers have entered
into an emerging market ripe and vulnerable to superior western know-how.
Similar developing countries are slowly acquiring more purchasing power and
the industrialized world is gaining a foothold in their domestic economies by
targeting them for cheap exports. One can't help but wonder
when the Bilderberg organisers, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Queen
Beatrix and the rest, have completed their project of enclosing all global
goods and services into their own hands, what then? Francisco Goya´s Plate 79 of
Disasters of War shows the fair maid of Liberty flat on her back, bosom
exposed. Ghostly figures play about the corpse while monks dig her grave. Truth
has died. Murió la verdad. How is that for an alternative? Forewarned is
forearmed. We will never find the right answers if we can't ask the proper
questions. Daniel
Estulin is an award-winning investigative journalist who has been researching
the Bilderbergers for over 13 years. Estulin was one of only two journalists in
the world who witnessed
and reported (from beyond the heavily guarded perimeter) the super secret
meeting at the Dorint Sofitel Seehotel in Rottach-Egern, Munich, Bavaria,
Germany, on May 5-8, 2005. BILDERBERG MEETINGS
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