[PDF file]: The Bilderberg Conspiracy: Inside the world’s most powerful secret society H. Paul Jeffers New York: Citadel Press, 2009, $14.95 (US), p/b Colin Challen I feel cheated. Once again, a publisher’s desire for an eyecatching title has led to an anticlimax. Jeffers goes out of his way to provide a balanced judgement on the Bilderberg […]
[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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] with which they hang themselves. On TV it was sporadically entertaining, depending on the quality of the subject: Jim Tucker of Spotlight and his decades of pursuing Bilderberg, Randy Weaver of the Ruby Ridge shooting incident, and David Icke peddling his lizard theory in Canada – these programmes were quite amusing. One of the […]
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; […]
