[…] February 1995, to which I contributed. The Observer, to my amusement, edited out a reference to the fact that Paddy Ashdown, leader of the Liberal-Democrats, had attended Bilderberg meetings. This act, for non-UK readers not aware of the nuances of the British media-politician relationship, was probably done to defend Ashdown from criticism (presumably from […]
[…] Barclays (with Aims of Industry’s Gerald Mobbs) which helped staff Blair’s constituency office. Gordon Brown asked multimillionaire Taylor to drastically reform the benefit systems. Secretary of the Bilderberg conference,now chairman of WH Smith, he joined the IPPR and compiled their notorious Commission on PPPs which insisted there should be ‘no ideological barriers to private […]
[…] left power-structure research, and is now a staple on the populist, anti-elitist Right. In fact, the only inquiries we get at PIR these days on Trilateralism or Bilderberg are from right-wing researchers who are concerned about corruption and conspiracies from high places. Sklar is aware of this, but for her that means that the […]
[…] former operations head of SOE, Sir Colin Gubbins was also involved with the European Movement’s work. Retinger and Gubbins were together at the foundation meeting of the Bilderberg Group.) In the words of one exile leader, Retinger was ‘suspected of being in close touch not so much with British politics as with certain of […]
[…] to America that are available for promising MPs and came back a supporter of the nuclear deterent. In 1993 he went to a meeting of the secretive Bilderberg Group, one of the meeting places of the European-American elite. (John Monks, an important Blair ally as head of the TUC, attended this year’s ie 1996 […]
[…] FOIA; other web resources. POLITICS AND FOI Washington Brief http://www.wbrief.com Editor Alan Simpson. Includes Intelligence Newswatch; intelligence bibliography; Spies Bookstore; NewsSearch facility; FAQ; Glossary; Good intelligence links. Bilderberg 2000 http://www.bilderberg.org/2000.htm Report on the June 2000 meeting in Brussels; participant list, etc British Politics Pages http://www.ukpol.co.uk Massive archive with links to 2,500 political sites. Includes […]
[…] then rebutting the loony fringe – Masons, Illuminati etc. – Who Really Runs the World moves onto the Round Table and thence into the CFR, Trilateralists and Bilderberg. The authors’ positions are very similar to mine: CFR, Trilaterals and Bilderberg are important but they are not the executive committee(s) of global capital. From here […]
[…] ensure that corporate opinion prevails. (There are ten thousand corporate lobbyists in Brussels.) This is more evidential flesh on the thesis discussed in Mike Peters’ essay on Bilderberg and the EU in Lobster 32. Bilderberg, the European Round Table of Industrialists and their satellites, the PR firms – all are described and documented here […]
[…] the idea that there is some conspiracy, usually associated with grey-haired, late middle-aged men put out to pasture from NATO and high office and ensconced in the Bilderberg group. We are looking in the wrong place. What we should be looking at is the increasing effort being taken into control of the institutional structure […]
See also: Part 1 in Lobster 36 ‘Certainly I do not think that the answer to communism is a counter-faith, equally fervent, militant, etc; to begin with, nothing is less likely to create a faith, than perpetual reiteration of the fact that we are looking for one, must find one, are lost without one, etc […]
