[Nettime-bold] OCCULT CAPITALISM: BILDERBERG GROUP

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1. THE SECRET RULERS OF THE WORLD - THE BILDERBERG GROUP
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20:00 Sunday 27 May - Channel 4 UK

In the final programme in his series on 'conspiracy theorists', Jon
Ronson
investigates the mysterious Bilderberg Group.

Could this elite circle, said to include Peter Mandelson, Denis Healey
and
Henry Kissinger, really be ruling the world? In Washington DC Jon meets
Big
Jim Tucker, regarded by the anti-Bilderberg crowd as a heroic
trailblazer.

Jim has discovered the location of the next Bilderberg Group meeting and

Jon joins him in a quest for the truth, which leads to confrontations
with
unwelcoming security guards and a leisurely car chase. Will they get to
the
bottom of the Bilderberg enigma?




2. Reuters Article
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Secretive Bilderberg group meeting in Sweden
from: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010523/80/brbbh.html

By Peter Starck - Wednesday May 23, 05:00 PM -

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - EU enlargement and the bloc's military role,
NATO's future and developments in Russia and China will top the agenda
when senior Western business leaders, politicians and a sprinkle of
royalty meet in Sweden this week.

The Bilderberg group, a semi-secret discussion forum for the Western
world's power elite, will hold its annual meeting in the town of
Stenungsund on the Swedish west coast on May 24-28, Swedish newspapers
reported on Wednesday.

A 900-metre long metal fence has been erected around Hotel
Stenungsbaden, the meeting venue, to keep intruders away, regional
daily Goteborgs-Posten said, publishing a picture of the fenced-in
hotel.

Anti-globalisation demonstrators are expected to protest outside and
local police see the event as a useful training exercise ahead of the
mid-June European Union summit in the city of Gothenburg 50 km (30
miles) to the south.

The Bilderberg group, named after the hotel where it first met in
1954, was formed early in the Cold War era in reaction to a growing
Communist threat. Today, many critics see it as a conspiracy and an
agent of a new capitalist world order.

Bilderberg member Jacob Wallenberg, chairman of the board of
commercial bank SEB and head of Sweden's influential Wallenberg family
whose empire has a finger in most big Swedish industries, played down
the group's importance.

"This is one of many meetings all over the world where decision-makers
get together," he told the daily Dagens Nyheter, which earlier
published the main agenda topics.

Invited as speakers, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were groomed at
Bilderberg meetings before rising to fame as U.S. President and
British Prime Minister respectively.

EU Commission President Romano Prodi, NATO Secretary-General George
Robertson and European Central Bank Governor Wim Duisenberg all have a
past as Bilderbergers.

SHAPING CAPITALISM

"Even though no formal decisions are made...this group, together with
many others, has contributed to shaping the kind of capitalism we have
today and cemented the world's leading business elites together,"
Goran Greider, editor-in-chief of Dala-Demokraten, a regional Swedish
daily, said in a live studio debate on Sweden's TV4 television.

Bilderberg participants abide by the so-called Chatham House rule,
which forbids everyone present from disclosing what anybody else has
said.

"The secrecy is regarded as very provocative. Men in power talk
towards consensus behind closed doors on timely issues on the
political agenda," Ulf Bjereld, a political science professor at
Gothenburg University, said.

Bilderberg members include former U.S. Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger, U.S. Senators Christopher Dodd, John Kerry and Chuck Hagel,
World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, France's central bank governor
Jean-Claude Trichet and former IMF heads Michel Camdessus and Stanley
Fischer.

Also listed are the chairmen of car makers Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, and
DaimlerChrysler, Juergen Schrempp, former British finance minister
Kenneth Clarke, Dutch Queen Beatrix and Xerox Corp CEO Paul Allaire.


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Bilderberg 2001 looks certain to be in Gothenburg, Sweden 22-28th May
2001
Where to stay, who's going to be there
http://www.bilderberg.org/2001.htm

Yeshua and The Bible - light for a darkening world
http://www.bilderberg.org



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