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I was driving home the other day after running some errands and noticed quit a few limos headed in the same direction. My first thought was that there must be a concert in town.

The following morning I read the paper and find out a Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger and all kinds of high powered people are meeting behind closed doors to determine the worlds fate, or direction at least.

This is the Bilderberg Group. Anyone ever hear of them? I certainly haven't.It is kind of cool but scary at the same time that these folks are making plans for how they see the world and how they will direct such change.

I'm not so naive to believe this doesn't happen all the time between countries and the likes, but it is unsettling to know that whatever goes on, we have absolutely no control over.

Just think of how these folks can control money and power. The term 'the rich get richer' comes to mind but really, this goes much beyond that.

What does anyone think of this? Are you intrigued by what these people may be planning for the world? Does it make you think that maybe conspiracies surrounding major calamities like 9/11 or others are not so far fetched? Do you think it is business as usual? And who, if anyone polices these people?

Kind of reminds me of the movie Star Chamber a bit. What do you think of this and how much influence does a group like this have in altering world affairs?

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VIPs' arrivals marked by a discreet 'B'


The Bilderberg members began arriving yesterday for their meeting at the Brookstreet Hotel over the next few days. They include: (U.S. banker David Rockefeller, of the famous Rockefeller family and chairman of the Trilateral Commission); Frank McKenna, former New Brunswick premier and ambassador to the U.S.; Jorma Ollila, chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world's largest energy companies; Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands; former U.S. defence policy adviser Richard Perle and World Bank President James Wolfenson.

Greeted at the airport by limousine drivers holding single-letter "B" signs, global luminaries such as Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands began quietly slipping into Ottawa yesterday for the annual gathering of the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group.

Over the next three days at the Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata, they and other prominent political and business leaders from North America and Europe are expected to discuss issues such as the security threat posed by Iran and the direction of oil markets.

The group's discreet approach was evident as attendees arrived yesterday at the Ottawa Airport.

Outside the airport, a phalanx of limousines lined up to ferry guests to the Brookstreet, where security guards with ear pieces kept watch over the barricaded entrance to the hotel parking lot.

Limos were also dispatched to the nearby Shell Aerocentre to retrieve participants arriving on private aircraft. Some attendees had the single-letter "B" on their luggage tags.

Approached by a Citizen reporter upon his arrival, former U.S. defence policy adviser Richard Perle shot down criticism about the secrecy of the group's meetings. "It's a private organization," he said. He denied the charge, advanced by Bilderberg critics, that the organization crafts public policy behind closed doors. "It discusses public policy," he stressed.

Mr. Perle also dismissed suggestions that the group's heavy representation from the oil industry gives it influence over energy prices. "If it did, I'd be trading on oil futures," he said.

A former assistant secretary of defence to president Ronald Reagan, Mr. Perle is still considered an influential adviser in U.S. conservative circles. He advised President George W. Bush and is said to be a close friend of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

In 2003, he publicly chastised the Canadian government for refusing to send troops to Iraq and warned that "lame-duck" prime minister Jean Chretien would be embarrassed once weapons of mass destruction were found.

Also seen arriving yesterday were Jorma Ollila, chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, Egil Myklebust, chairman of Scandinavian Airlines, World Bank president James Wolfenson, and Frank McKenna, former New Brunswick premier and ex-Canadian ambassador to the U.S.

According to an unsigned press release sent by fax yesterday, presumably by Bilderberg organizers, attendees will also include New York Governor George Pataki, deputy prime minister of Iraq Ahmad Chalabi, the heads of Coca-Cola, Credit Suisse, the Royal Bank of Canada, a number of media moguls, and cabinet ministers from Spain and Greece.

The release confirmed this year's meeting will deal with energy issues, Iran, the Middle East, terrorism, immigration, Russia, European-American relations and Asia.

"The meeting is private to encourage frank and open discussion," said the release. "There will be no press conference."

Security was relatively light at the airport, with only a few uniformed police on hand.

But at the Brookstreet, the parking lot in front of the hotel was completely emptied and entrances to the lot were barricaded. A tow truck removed any vehicles that did not comply.

Private security guards in black blazers guarded various points around the hotel perimeter, including the golf course behind the Brookstreet. A number of Ottawa police officers also provided security.

Guests who stayed at the hotel on Wednesday night were asked to check out by 8:30 a.m. yesterday, several hours earlier than usual. The hotel is closed through Sunday.

The sidewalk in front of the hotel has become an improvised campground for conspiracy theorists and dedicated Bilderberg watchers, few more colourful than James P. Tucker Jr., a 71-year-old writer who says he has covered every Bilderberg conference for the last 30 years.

Mr. Tucker, who recently published a book called the Bilderberg Diary, said he spent several days this week casing out the hotel, plying Brookstreet bartenders for information over glasses of tomato juice.

"For years they denied their very existence," said Mr. Tucker, dressed in a black pinstriped suit and straw hat. "Well, they certainly influence the world."

Daniel Estulin, who flew from Spain to cover this week's conference, is such a regular on the circuit that he is on a first-name basis with Bilderberg security officials.

"Their main objective is creating a world government ruled by an elite group of people whose main objective is to control all the natural resources of the planet," said Mr. Estulin, who brought a small camera to snap photos of the Bilderbergers as they arrived in dark luxury sedans with tinted windows. Some of the sedans had sheets of paper bearing the trademark "B" on the dashboard.

But the Bilderbergers also attracted curious onlookers who only recently learned about the event through the media.

"There are all sorts of gaps in what politicians say and do. This is just another example of the circumventing of the democratic process," said Cindy Mogensen, who took a break from work yesterday to check out the conference.

© The Ottawa Citizen 2006

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