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Bilderberg
Bilderberg Meets In Georgia The global elite have been busy lately, planning a New World Order behind closed doors.
Matrix Editor The global elite have been busy lately. Just last month, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates invited 100 of the world's political and economic heavy-hitters to a "CEO Summit" in Seattle, including Vice President Al Gore and representatives of fourteen corporate members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Representatives of the world's most powerful industrialized
nations (and Russia) met in Denver on June 19 for the annual Group of Seven meeting. And on June 12, members of the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group arrived behind tinted limousine windows for their annual meeting at a Lake Lanier Islands resort near Atlanta, Georgia.
Hillary Clinton was on hand to greet the 120 Bilderberg attendees, drawn from the highest ranks of global business, politics, media, education and finance. Charles Muller, spokesman for the Bilderberg, told the Gainsville Times that the group would be discussing "issues affecting the Western world that include China, NATO, Islam, energy, growth and corporate
governance."
"The U.S. Constitution has been violated here today and will be throughout the weekend," said activist Cyndee Parker, who joined a small group of Canadian and American protesters outside the cordoned-off entrance to the hotel grounds. "World policy is being decided behind closed doors and the national news media is nowhere in sight. This is an injustice and insult to
the American people."
"If this isn't any big deal, why close the doors?" asked protester Thomas Wethington. "I don't want U.S. public policy decided in private by a group of international financiers."
Security was tight for the secretive four-day conference. Hall County Sheriff's deputies and Secret Service agents heavily guarded the hotel entrance as Georgia State Patrol troopers escorted Bilderbergers up the driveway. A military-style checkpoint called "Operation Sifter" was set up nearby on Interstate I-985, consisting of law enforcement agents in
camouflage, police dogs combing nearby woods, Georgia National Guard helicopters providing air support, and Georgia Bureau of Investigation officers directing traffic. Hall County Sheriff Bob Vass said that "Operation Sifter" had nothing to do with the Bilderberg meeting. No word yet on who he thinks he's fooling.
Last year the Bilderberg met in Toronto, Canada; the group last met in Georgia in 1957. This year's attendees included Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger, World Bank president James Wolfensohn, former GATT and WTO director general Peter Sutherland, and David Rockefeller. Lesley Stahl, the CBS News correspondent who made an ass of herself by calling for Internet
censorship during a 60 Minutes segment on conspiracy theories, was just one of the many media representatives on hand NOT covering the event. (For a complete list of attendees, see the 1997 Bilderberg Attendee List.)
Sources: Charles Duncan, "First Lady Exits Early; Bilderberg Begins," The Gainsville, Georgia Times, Friday, June 13, 1997; David Morgan, "European and American Elite Gather in U.S. South," Reuter, June 12, 1997; "Bilderberg Meeting of 1997 Assembles," PRNewswire, June 12, 1997.
List of 1997 Bilderberg Meeting in Georgia:
The ultra-secretive Bilderberg held its annual meeting this year at Lake Lanier Islands near Atlanta, Georgia, from June 12 through June 15. The following individuals were reported in attendance:
Chairman: Honorary Secretary General: Giovanni Agnelli (I) Umberto Agnelli (I) Paul A. Allaire(USA) Bodil Nyboe Andersen (DK) Michael H. Armacost (USA) Francisco Pinto Balsemao (P) Percy Barnevik (S) Robert L. Bartley (USA) Isabel Bassett (CDN) Lloyd M. Bentsen (USA) Samuel R Berger (USA) Maarten A. van den Bergh (NL) C. Fred Bergsten (USA) Richard Bernstein (USA) Ernst H. van der Beugel (NL) Selahattin Beyazit (TR) Carl Bildt (INT) Dinc Bilgin (TR) Conrad M. Black (CDN) Lajos Bokros (H) Antonio Borges (P) E. John P. Browne (GB) John H. Bryan (USA) Robin W.T. Buchanan (GB) Hubert Burda (D) Hugo Butler (CH) Costa Carras (GR) Ulrich Cartellieri (D) Jaime Carvajal Urquijo (E) Bertrand Collomb (F) Jon S. Corzine (USA) Flavio Cotti (CH) Robert M.J.C. Cranborne (GB) Kenneth W. Dam (USA) George A. David (GR) Etienne Davignon (B) Francois X. de Donnea (B) Uffe Ellemann-Jensen (DK) Gazi Ercel (TR) Ustun Erguder (TR) David Frum (CDM) Orit Gadiesh (USA) Teles, Jose M. Galvao (P) Jean-Louis Gergorin (F) Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (USA) Lee H. Hamilton (USA) Westye Hoegh (N) Richard C. Holbrooke (USA) Will Hutton (GB) Jan Huyghebaert (B) Jaakko Iloniemi (FIN) H.C. Otmar Issing (D) Mary Jo Jacobi (GB) Donald J. Johnston (INT) Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. (USA) Henry A. Kissinger (USA) Pieter Korteweg (NL) Max Kothbauer (A) Yannos Kiranidiotis (GR) Andre Levy-Lang (F) William W. Lewis (USA) Robert E. Mabro (GB) William J. McDonough (USA) Peter Mitterbauer (A) Thierry de Montbrial (F) Heather Munroe-Blum (CDN) Egil Myklebust (N) Matthias Nass (D) Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands (NL)
Sauli V. Niinisto (FIN) Sam Nunn (USA) David Oddsson (ICE) Andrzej Olechowski (PL) Jorma Ollila (FIN) John M. Page, Jr.(USA) Colin L. Powell (USA) David de Pury (CH) Lochlann Quinn (IRL) Simon Robertson (GB) David Rockefeller (USA) Sharon Percy Rockefeller (USA) Matias Rodriguez Inciarte (E) Eric Rell (GB) Carlo Rossella (I) Olivier Roy (F) Maureen Sabia (CDN) Ricardo Salgado (P)
Espirito Santo Jurgen E. Schrempp (D) Klaus Schwab (INT) Toger Seidenfaden (DK) Jack Sheinkman (USA) Stefano Silvestri (I) Lesley R. Stahl (USA) George Stephanopoulos (USA) Gyorgy Suryanyi (H) Peter D. Sutherland (IRL) Bjorn Svedberg (S) Sinan Tara (TR) J. Martin Taylor (GB) Andre-Francois H. Villeneuve (GB) Ezra F. Vogel (USA) Paul A. Volcker (USA) Franz Vranitzky (A) Gijs M. de Vries (INT) Marcus Wallenberg (S) Stanley A. Weiss (USA) John C. Whitehead (USA) James D. Wolfensohn (INT) Otto Wolff von Amerongen (D) Paul Wolfowitz (USA) Herman H.F. Wijffels (NL) Michael B. Yahuda (GB)
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