Elite power brokers' secret talks [hey Bilderberger fans pre G7 meeting]

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?

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

So who's representing America? Inquiring minds are SOL.

1 posted on 05/23/2003 3:40:31 PM PDT by ex-snook

?.......Greenspan.....?

2 posted on 05/23/2003 3:46:51 PM PDT by maestro

3 posted on 05/23/2003 3:49:27 PM PDT by xyggyx

4 posted on 05/23/2003 4:25:58 PM PDT by maestro

Gosh, and me with my tin foil hat at the cleaners.

So9

5 posted on 05/23/2003 4:26:41 PM PDT by Servant of the Nine (Bilderbergers, adequate tools, nothing more. (Trust Me))

The Texas Democrats?

6 posted on 05/23/2003 4:43:08 PM PDT by maestro

Only seven posts in an hour?

In the good old days, when Inspector Harry Callahan was around, there'd be nutcases crawling out of the woodwork.

7 posted on 05/23/2003 4:46:11 PM PDT by sinkspur

Here is my question: if two members of the current gov't attend this meeting, are they not in violation of sunshine laws?

BTW, past attendees have included both Clinton and Blair - BEFORE they became president and PM, respectively. The allegation is that they get "made" at these meetings.

8 posted on 05/23/2003 4:49:27 PM PDT by ikka

"BTW, past attendees have included both Clinton and Blair - BEFORE they became president and PM, respectively. The allegation is that they get "made" at these meetings. "

Then I sure hope McCain and Gephart are not there.

9 posted on 05/23/2003 5:04:26 PM PDT by ex-snook (American jobs need balanced trade - WE BUY FROM YOU, YOU BUY FROM US)

?........Saddam.......?

10 posted on 05/23/2003 8:09:38 PM PDT by maestro

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

But,but, globalists don't exist! It's the American leadership that guides this planet and makes all the important decisions and looks after our interests!

Isn't it? Well, isn't it?

11 posted on 05/23/2003 8:29:55 PM PDT by ohmage

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