[PDF file]: Bilderberg People: elite power and consensus in world affairs Ian N. Richardson, Andrew P. Kakabadse, Nada K. Kakabadse London: Routledge, 2011; 218 pages, notes, index; p/b, £20.99 T wenty-two years after Denis Healey wrote about Bilderberg in his memoir The Time of My Life, the English-speaking academic world has finally produced something on […]
[…] street level gangster version is this: the gangsters don’t go round preaching to their victims that the beating and expropriation is going to be good for them! Bilderberg news The Sunday Times of 13 January 2000 ran a piece, ‘Stop the New World Order, they want to get off’, attacking those who oppose the […]
Bilderberg Originally given as a paper at the British Association for American Studies 2002 Annual Postgraduate Conference, this draws on newly available archival evidence to document the origins of the Bilderberg Group. It also considers the various conspiracy theories which have attached themselves to the Group. Is it a CIA plot to undermine […]
[…] of influence’ under British direction. Valerie Aubourg illustrated how the informal networks of the US-European elite produced influential forums for idea-sharing such as the Atlantic Institute and Bilderberg. Bilderberg had a major Benelux input, with Josef Retinger utilising his contacts with the Dutch and Belgian political and economic elite (Rijkens, van Zeeland, van Kleffens) […]
Mandy’s place in things On 12 June 1999 The News, Portugal’s weekly English-language paper, ran this comment on the Bilderberg meeting which had then just taken place in Portugal. The 47th Bilderberg Conference has come to an end. Members and one-off participants have departed as discreetly as they arrived. Lines of black limousines, unmarked […]
The view from the bridge Bilderberg and the EU The Diaries of former Liberal-Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, (volume one 1988-1997, London: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2000) is a pretty uninteresting read with a couple of striking sections. Pages 42-46 contain his account of attending a Bilderberg meeting – by far the longest and most detailed […]
From Dan J. Bye Following up a note in the latest Lobster re: ‘ Bilderberg’ appearing in the index but not in the text of Clinton’s autobiography, I thought I’d try out Amazon.com’s ‘search inside’ facility. () Still no ‘Bilderberg’. I also noticed the review of part 3 of Stuart Christie’s illustrated biography. I’ve […]
[…] tune. Over a much wider field than Saunders, with chapters on IRD, the New Leader, labor diplomats (American labor attachés), the European Movement and the creation of Bilderberg, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and Encounter/, Wilford questions the conclusion of the musical metaphor. Some of this is familiar; some familiar but with new sources; […]
[…] offers no evidence. The centrepiece of the book is a version of the thesis that the oil price rise in 1973/4 was the result of the 1973 Bilderberg meeting. In The Observer of 14 January 2002 Greg Palast quoted former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Yamani to the effect that minutes of a secret meeting […]
[…] Baden-Baden in Germany. From the context this is 1989. (Bower is vague on the details.) I think this is wrong. Brown met Clinton when both attended the Bilderberg meeting at Baden-Baden in 1991. At that meeting Brown and Clinton were both young politicians, possibly the next President of the US and a future British […]
