What is Stephen Harper, Leader of the Official Opposition and the Alliance Party
of Canada doing at a super-secret elite meeting of the Western world’s central
bankers, defense experts, press barons, royalty, prime ministers, international
financiers, , industrialists and government officials?
Over the weekend of May 15th -18th, the annual gathering of the Bilderberg group
was held at the Trianon Hotel, near Versailles, France. High level plutocrats
gathered away from the public eye to discuss matters of global economic,
financial and geopolitical strategy and policy. The Indymedia Norway site
published an official attendance list, originally obtained by Tony Gosling of http://www.bilderberg.org
from Richard Vadon, a BBC radio 4 correspondent who is doing a documentary of
the event due out in July. Solan Gunderson of the Norwegian Indymedia site has
actively covered the Bilderberg Meeting, and published the guestlist there: http://www.indymedia.no/news/2003/05/10326.php
Until recently, the only coverage of the meeting was done by James Tucker of
American Free Press, and Gunderson has published his article at http://www.indymedia.no/news/2003/05/10176.php
The only Canadian coverage of these meetings was done by John Deverell, a
business write for the Toronto Star in 1996.
“Bilderberg takes its name from the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland,
where the first meeting took place in May 1954. That pioneering meeting grew out
of the concern expressed by many leading citizens on both sides of the Atlantic
that Western Europe and North America were not working together as closely as
they should on matters of critical importance. It was felt that regular,
off-the-record discussions would help create a better understanding of the
complex forces and major trends affecting Western nations in the difficult
post-war period “Source: http://www.nexusmagazine.com/Bilderbergers.html
The 2003 guest list includes names such as David Rockefeller, Richard Perle,
Klaus Schwab (World Economic Forum), Henry Kissinger, the King and Queen of
Spain, Paul Wolfowitz and a host of other bankers, corporate heads and royalty.
Some Canadians in attendance included Conrad Black, Mark Steyn (National Post)
Heather Reisman (Chapters-Indigo), Anthony Fell (RBC Dominion Securities) and
Stephen Harper, Leader of the Opposition. Other past Canadian participants, as
shown in the guestlists posted at http://www.bilderberg.org,
have included Ralph Klein, Paul Martin, Preston Manning and Jean Chretien.
Pepe Escobar’s article for the Asia Times http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE22Ak03.html
highlights several important points concerning the elite group. Specifically,
they do not invite leaders from Latin America, the Middle East or Asia. The
Bilderberg meetings are a king-making process, as Tony Blair and Bill Clinton
showed themselves at the annual meetings in the years leading up to their
elections. Escobar also suggests that the Bilderberg meeting is where the G8
agenda is formulated; hence, the G8 is turned merely into a rubber-stamping
mechanism for policy formed by individuals meeting in the capacities of private
persons. If this is the case, then protestors are railing against a dead duck.
Several Canadians who have attended in the past include Ralph Klein, Preston
Manning, Paul Martin and Jean Chretien. Klein’s attendance was reported in the
May 29, 1995 issue of the Report http://www.bilderberg.org/cocktail.htm
[One can only speculate that Harper’s appearance has been due in part to his
pro-war stance, a reward from Conrad Black or other Neo-conservatives in
Washington.]
These meetings are suffering an absolute blackout in the Canadian presses, as
the editors of the Globe and Mail, National post and CanWest all have
affiliations with this secretive group. Part of the problem is that, in order to
gain admission to the club, one has to pledge secrecy.
Most Canadians have never heard of the Bilderberg group, let alone realize the
significance of Mr. Harper’s attendance at the meeting. For a good background
reading, please see http://www.nexusmagazine.com/Bilderbergers.html
Perhaps the global elite have their bets placed on a sharp ‘right’ turn in
the upcoming federal election.
[I might add a few historical notes about the origins of the Bilderberg meeting
in 1952 under the visionary leadership of Joseph Retinger who with Prince
Bernard of the Netherlands, wbose vision was to great a supernational powerful
organization to unite the world in peace. Except that the group has no form of
accountability to the people of their respective nations.
Finally, several questions are worth note:
- Did Mr. Harper attend the meeting in the Capacity of a private individual or a
public person?
- Who paid for his trip?
- How does his hobnobbing with the elite and neo-conservatives like Richard
Perle square with his grassroots support base?
- If past Bilderberg meetings have made “kings” of Bill Clinton and Tony
Blair, what are the expectations are the plans of the Bilderbergers for Steven
Harper?
- How will the Bilderberg agenda impact his policy making?
- Does Mr Harper want Canada’s political agenda to be set by Canadians, or by
the global plutocrats?
Please call your local MP and have the address this issue publicly.
