빌데르베르크 그룹 : Bilderberg Group

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빌데르베르크 그룹
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빌데르베르크 그룹(Bilderberg Group)은 미국, 유럽 제국에서 정계, 재계, 왕실
관계자들 약 100-150명이 모여 다양한 국제 정치 경제 문제를 토의하고 비밀리에
정책을 결정하는 모임을 말한다. 네델란드 빌데르베르크·호텔에서 제1회 회의가
개최되었기 때문에 빌데르베르크 회의라고 부른다. 국제 연합(UN) 외교 관계 협의회(
CFR:Council on Foreign Relations),삼각 위원회(Trilateral Commission) 보다 더
강력하고 중요한 국제 회의로 알려져 있다. 다른 명칭으로 Bilderberg Conference,
Bilderberg Society, Bilderberg Meeting이 있다.

참가자 출신국

미국, 캐나다, 영국,프랑스, 독일, 이스라엘, 팔레스타인, 기타 유럽 연합이다.
그러나 중국, 러시아, 인도, 일본, 아랍 세계, 기타 국제 연합의 참가자는 없다.

보도 통제

어떤 언론에 대해서도 취재활동이 허락되지 않는다.

[편집] 빌데르베르크 회의 개최지

1954년부터 시작해 연 1회 개최된다.

    * 2000년 (6월1일-4일) Chateau Du Lac Hotel in Genval, Brussels, 벨기에
    * 2001년 (5월24일-27일) the Hotel Stenungsbaden ,Stenungsund, 스웨덴
    * 2002년 (5월30일-6월2일) the Westfields Marriott ,Chantilly, Virginia, 미국
    * 2003년 (5월15일-18일) the Trianon Palace Hotel ,Versailles, 프랑스
    * 2004년 (6월3일-6일) the Grand Hotel des Iles Borromees , Stresa, 이탈리아
    * 2005년 (5월5일-8일) the Dorint Sofitel Seehotel U"berfahrt ,Rottach-Egern,
 독일
    * 2006년 (6월8일-11일) the Brookstreet Hotel ,Kanata, Ottawa, Ontario,
캐나다
    * 2007년 (5월31일-6월3일) the Ritz-Carlton hotel, S,is,li, Istanbul,　터키

[편집] 참고 문헌

    * The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, Daniel Estulin, Trine Day(2007),
ISBN-10: 0977795349
    * Jim Tucker's Bilderberg Diary, James P. Tacker Jr., American Free Press (
2005), ISBN-10: 0974548421


Bilderberg Group

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The Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg conference, or Bilderberg Club is an unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of business, media and politics.

The elite group meets annually at luxury hotels or resorts throughout the world — normally in Europe — and once every four years in the United States or Canada. It has an office in Leiden in the Netherlands.[1] The 2007 conference took place from May 31 to June 3 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey[2]. The 2008 conference took place in Chantilly, Virginia, United States [3] [4].

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[edit] Origin and purpose

Hotel de Bilderberg
Hotel de Bilderberg

The original Bilderberg conference was held at the Hotel de Bilderberg, near Arnhem in The Netherlands, from May 29 to May 31, 1954. The meeting was initiated by several people, including Joseph Retinger, concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe, who proposed an international conference at which leaders from European countries and the United States would be brought together with the aim of promoting understanding between the cultures of United States of America and Western Europe.[5]

Retinger approached Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who agreed to promote the idea, together with Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland, and the head of Unilever at that time, the Dutchman Paul Rijkens. Bernhard in turn contacted Walter Bedell Smith, then head of the CIA, who asked Eisenhower adviser C. D. Jackson to deal with the suggestion.[6] The guest list was to be drawn up by inviting two attendees from each nation, one each to represent conservative and liberal (both terms used in the American sense) points of view.[5]

The success of the meeting led the organizers to arrange an annual conference. A permanent Steering Committee was established, with Retinger appointed as permanent secretary. As well as organizing the conference, the steering committee also maintained a register of attendee names and contact details, with the aim of creating an informal network of individuals who could call upon one another in a private capacity. Conferences were held in France, Germany, and Denmark over the following three years. In 1957, the first U.S. conference was held in St. Simons, Georgia, with $30,000 from the Ford Foundation. The foundation supplied additional funding of $48,000 in 1959, and $60,000 in 1963.[6]

Dutch economist Ernst van der Beugel took over as permanent secretary in 1960, upon the death of Retinger. Prince Bernhard continued to serve as the meeting's chairman until 1976, the year of his involvement in the Lockheed affair. There was no conference that year, but meetings resumed in 1977 under Alec Douglas-Home, the former British Prime Minister. He was followed in turn by Walter Scheel, ex-President of West Germany, Eric Roll, former head of SG Warburg and Lord Carrington, former Secretary-General of NATO.[7]

[edit] Attendees

Main article: List of Bilderberg attendees

Attendees of Bilderberg include central bankers, defense experts, mass media press barons, government ministers, prime ministers, royalty, international financiers and political leaders from Europe and North America.

Some of the Western world's leading financiers and foreign policy strategists attend Bilderberg. Donald Rumsfeld is an active Bilderberger, as is Peter Sutherland from Ireland, a former European Union commissioner and chairman of Goldman Sachs and of British Petroleum. Rumsfeld and Sutherland served together in 2000 on the board of the Swedish/Swiss engineering company ABB. Former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary and former World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz is also a member. The group's current chairman is Etienne Davignon, the Belgian businessman and politician.

[edit] Mainstream Criticism

Critics claim the Bilderberg Group promotes the careers of politicians whose views are representative of the interests of multinational corporations, at the expense of democracy.[8] Journalists who have been invited to attend the Bilderberg Conference as observers have discounted these claims, calling the conference "not much different from a seminar or a conference organized by an upscale NGO"[9] with "nothing different except for the influence of the participants."[10]

[edit] Conspiracy Theories

The group's secrecy and its connections to power elites make it vulnerable to accusations by such groups or individuals who believe that the group is part of a conspiracy to create a New World Order. It is frequently accused of secretive and nefarious world plots by groups such as the John Birch Society.[11] This thinking has progressively found an audience with elements of the populist movement and fringe politics. [12] According to investigative journalist Chip Berlet, the prominent origins of Bilderberger conspiracy theories can be traced to activist Phyllis Schlafly. [13]

Radio host Alex Jones claims the group intends to dissolve the sovereignty of the United States and other countries into a supra-national structure similar to the European Union.

From "The Hunt for Red Menace:" "The views on intractable godless communism expressed by [Fred] Schwarz were central themes in three other bestselling books which were used to mobilize support for the 1964 Goldwater campaign. The best known was Phyllis Schlafly's A Choice, Not an Echo which suggested a conspiracy theory in which the Republican Party was secretly controlled by elitist intellectuals dominated by members of the Bilderberger group, whose policies would pave the way for global communist conquest. Schlafly's husband Fred had been a lecturer at Schwartz's local Christian anti-communism Crusade conferences." [14]

Jonathan Duffy, writing in BBC News Online Magazine states "In the void created by such aloofness, an extraordinary conspiracy theory has grown up around the group that alleges the fate of the world is largely decided by Bilderberg."[15]

Denis Healey, a Bilderberg founder and former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, decries such theories. He was quoted by BBC News as saying "There's absolutely nothing in it. We never sought to reach a consensus on the big issues at Bilderberg. It's simply a place for discussion."[15]

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