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Final Warning

: A History of the New World Order
Illuminism and the master plan for world domination
-- by: David Allen Rivera, 1994, source: darivera.com
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8.3  The Bilderberg Group


The origins and influence of the premier international policy planning group

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The Founding of the Bilderberg Group

Dr. Joseph H. Retinger (economist, political philosopher, communist Poland's Charge d'Affaires, and a major proponent of a united Europe) along with Prince Bernhard (of Lippe-Biesterfeld) of the Netherlands, Colin Gubbins (former director of the British Special Operations Executive), and Gen. Walter Bedell Smith (former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and director of the CIA, who later became an Under Secretary of State in the Eisenhower Administration), joined together in 1954 to organize this secretive policy group. Their first meeting was held at the Hotel de Bilderberg (hence the name of the group, even though they have referred to themselves as 'The Alliance') in Oosterbeek, Holland, from May 29-31, in 1954.

(Smith said when he took over the CIA: "We can't lick world communism; no counterinsurgency plans will work. We must compromise and co-exist with communism.")

Created under the direction of Alastair Buchan (son of Lord Tweedsmuir, and Chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs), its governing council was made up of:

Lord [Victor Rothschild] and Laurance Rockefeller handpicked 100 of the world's elite. Their purpose was to regionalize Europe, according to Giovanni Agnelli the head of Fiat [in Italy], who said: "European integration is our goal and where the politicians have failed, we industrialists hope to succeed." In Alden Hatch's biography of Bernhard, he stated that the Bilderberg Group gave birth to the European Community (now the European Union). Their ultimate goal is to have a one-world government.

Charles Douglas Jackson (Vice President of Time magazine, delegate to the United Nations, Special Assistant to the President, and later publisher of Life magazine), spokesman for the American delegation led by David Rockefeller, promised those present: "Whether he (Sen. Joseph McCarthy) dies by an assassin's bullet, or is eliminated in the normal American way of getting rid of boils on the body politic, I prophecy that by the time we hold our next meeting, he will be gone from the American scene." McCarthy was the crusading Senator who revealed that Communists had infiltrated high level posts within the U.S. Government; he [died in] 1957.

Meetings of the Bilderberg Group

The Bilderberg Group holds annual meetings in locations all over the world. In Europe, the Rothschilds have hosted some of the meetings, while the meetings in 1962 and 1973, in Saltsjobaden, Sweden, were hosted by the Wallenbergs (who had an estimated fortune of $10 billion). [Members of the group] have a heavy cross-membership with the Council on Foreign Relations (which they control), the English Speaking Union, the Pilgrim Society, the Round Table, and the Trilateral Commission.

The meetings were [originally] chaired by the German-born Prince Bernhard, the husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, said to be the richest woman in the world (because of her partnership with Baron Victor Rothschild in the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co., owning 5% of the stock, which in 1978 was worth $425 million; and also holds stock in Exxon), until he was forced to resign in August, 1976 because of his involvement in the Lockheed Aircraft bribery scandal, and his extramarital affairs. Bernhard wrote:

"Here comes our greatest difficulty. For the governments of the free nations are elected by the people, and if they do something the people don't like they are thrown out. It is difficult to reeducate the people who have been brought up on nationalism to the idea of relinquishing part of their sovereignty to a supernational body..."

Walter Scheel of Germany took over as Chairman, and then it was Britain's Lord Carrington, who is on the Board of the Hambros Bank.

Bilderberg policy is carried out by a 35 member Bilderberg Steering Committee, including an inner circle known as an Advisory Committee, which is said to be made up of Giovanni Agnelli (Italy), David Rockefeller (U.S.), Eric Roll (Great Britain), and Otto Wolff von Amerongen (Germany). Some of the Steering Committee members [have been]:

All American members of the Steering Committee are members of the CFR.

A few of the Bilderberg permanent U.S. members are: George W. Ball, Gabriel Hauge, Richard C. Holbrooke, Winston Lord, Bill Moyers, and Paul Wolfowitz.

The permanent Bilderberg Secretariat is located at: 1 Smidswater, the Hague, the Netherlands (though another address is sometimes reported at 2301 Da Leiden, in the Netherlands) Their address in America was at 345 E. 46th Street, in New York City (which was also the location of the Trilateral Commission and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace). The American Friends of Bilderbergs, with offices at 477 Madison Avenue (6th floor) in New York City, is an IRS-approved charitable organization that received regular contributions from the likes of Exxon, Arco, and IBM; while their meetings are funded by the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Carnegie Endowment fund.

There are about 120 participants that are invited to the Bilderberg meetings, of whom about two-thirds come from Europe and the rest are from North America; and about one-third are from government and politics, and the other two-thirds are from the fields of finance, industry, labor, education, communications. The meetings are closed to the public and the press, although a brief press conference is usually held at the conclusion of each meeting, to reveal in general terms some of the topics which were discussed. The resort areas and hotels where they meet are cleared of residents and visitors, and surrounded by soldiers, armed guards, the Secret Service, State and local police. All conference and meeting rooms are scanned for bugging devices before every single meeting.

Among those who have attended their meetings:

From the United States:

From Great Britain and Canada:

From Europe:

  • Baron Edmond de Rothschild
  • Manlio Brosio (Secretary-General of NATO)
  • Dirk U. Stikker (Secretary-General of NATO)
  • Valery Giscard d'Estang (President of France)
  • Helmut Schmidt (Chancellor of West Germany)
  • Prince Claus (of the Netherlands)
  • Paul van Zeeland (Prime Minister of Belgium)

  • Giovanni Agnelli (Chairman of Fiat in Italy)
  • Otto Wolff (German industrialist)
  • Wilfred S. Baumgartner (Bank of France)
  • Guido Carli (Bank of Italy)
  • Marcus Wallenberg (Chairman of Stockholm's Enskiida Bank)
  • Pierce Paul Schweitzer (Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund)
  • Imbriani Longo (Director-General of the Banco Nationale del Lavoro in Italy)

Bilderberg Group Influence on Public Policy

The "Goals 2000" program, developed during the presidency of George H.W. Bush to revamp the nation's public school system, was born at the April, 1970, Bilderberger meeting in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. The purpose of the new educational philosophy was the "subordination of national ambitions to the idea of the international community." Because our schools are "too nationalistic," children, in the future, will be indoctrinated to consider themselves "world citizens."

Prior to the 1971 meeting in Woodstock, Virginia, Prince Bernhard said that the subject of the meeting was the "change in the world role of the United States." After the weekend conference, Kissinger was sent to Red China to open up trade relations, and an international monetary crisis developed, which prompted the devaluing of the dollar by 8.57% (which made a tremendous profit for those who converted to the European Currency).

In 1976, fifteen representatives from the Soviet Union attended the meeting which was held in the Arizona desert, and it was believed that at that time the plans were formulated for the "break-up of communism in the Soviet Union."

At the 1978 meeting, they predicted that a depression would hit the world in 1979, and that the dollar would die. Their solution was to replace the dollar with an international 'Bancor' system (international bank note) of currency that would be universally acceptable as a medium of exchange. The 'Bancor' system would have the international gold reserve deposited in a neutral country. It is an offshoot of the same Keynesian system developed at Bretton Woods in 1944 from the idea by German economist Julius Wolf in 1892. This system would protect the Illuminati when they spring their trap, and the world economy would crumble.

At their 1990 meeting at Glen Cove, Long Island in New York, they decided that taxes had to be raised to pay more towards the debt owed to the International Bankers. And George Bush, who pledged during the campaign, "Read my lips -- No new taxes!" found himself signing one of the biggest tax increases in history on November 15, 1990, a move which was a contributing factor to his defeat when he ran for re-election.

At their 1991 meeting at the Black Forest resort in Baden Baden, Germany, they discussed plans for a common European currency and European central banking; and reviewed Middle Eastern events and developments in the Soviet Union. David Rockefeller said during the meeting:

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years ... It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during these years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

Then Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton (a Rhodes Scholar, who attended Oxford University in England), was invited to speak and a decision was made to endorse his candidacy (according to Jim Tucker, a Spotlight reporter, who had a source within the group). No wonder Clinton was able to survive all the media attacks regarding his personal life and lack of experience. One of his top money men was investor and international banker Jackson Stephens, who also donated $100,000 to the Bush campaign. His wife was the Co-Chairwoman of the national "Bush for President" organization in 1988.

Also in attendance were Michael Boskin, Chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisors, who was a speaker; Nicholas Brady, U.S. Treasury Secretary; and Vice President Dan Quayle, who impressed the group enough that there was talk of supporting him for the Republican nomination in 1996. In fact, after the meeting, Bilderberg member Katharine Graham, head of the Washington Post, published a series of positive articles on Quayle.

At their 1992 meeting, the group discussed the possibility of "conditioning the public to accept the idea of a U.N. army that could, by force, impose its will on the internal affairs of any nation." Henry Kissinger, who attended the meeting, said:

"Today, Americans would be outraged if U.N. forces entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow, they will be grateful."

The official press release for their 2002 Conference said: "Bilderberg's only activity is its annual Conference. At the meetings, no resolutions are proposed, no votes taken, and no policy statements issued." They are just "...a small flexible, informal and off-the-record international forum in which different viewpoints can be expressed and mutual understanding enhanced." However, Phyllis Schlafly wrote in A Choice Not An Echo that the Bilderbergers are a "little clique of powerful men who meet secretly and plan events that appear to 'just happen'."

[For current information, see: Bilderberg Group and follow the links --ed]

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