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Secretive Bilderberg meeting set for Turkey
Kissinger, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld scheduled to attend
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It may not make any difference now, but in 2004, according to the New York
Times, it was the standout "performance" of Sen. John Edwards at the
super-secret Bilderberg meeting in Italy that sealed the deal on his
nomination as John Kerry's vice presidential running
mate<http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39333>
.
Anybody still think John Edwards the Breck Girl has any merit for being an
American President?
Though no one knows for sure who will be at this weekend's gathering, among
those attending the 2004 meeting in Italy, according to a list obtained by
WND, were Edwards, Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J.; Henry Kissinger; Richard Perle;
Melinda Gates (wife of Bill Gates); David Rockefeller; Timothy F. Geithner,
president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Donald Graham, chairman
and CEO of the Washington Post Company; and Ralph Reed, former head of the
Christian Coalition.
(Here is the entire Bilderberg attendance list as published previously by
WND.) <http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38783>
Invited attendees:
N - Auser, Svein - CEO, DnB NOR ASA; D - Ackermann, Josef - Chairman, Group
Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG; I - Ambrosetti, Alfredo - Chairman,
Abbrosetti Group; TR - Babacan, Ali - Minister of Economic Affairs; P -
Balsemao, Francisco Pinto - Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, SGPS, Former Prime
Minister; ISR - Barnavie, Elie - Department of General History, Tel-Aviv
University; I - Benedetti, Rodolfo De - CEO, CIR; I - Bernabe, Franco - Vice
Chairman, Rothschild Europe; F - Beytout, Nicolas - Editor In Chief, Les
Echos; INT - Bolkestein, Frits - Commissioner for the Internal Market,
European Commission, former leader of Dutch right wing Liberal Party VVD;
USA - Boot, Max - Neoconservative, Council on foreign Relations, Features
Editor, Wall Street Journal; CH - Borel, Daniel - Chairman, Logitech
International S.A.; I - Bortoli, Ferrucio de - CEO, RCS Libri; S - Brock,
Gunnar - CEO, Atlas Copco AB; GB - Browne, John - Group Chief Executive, BP
plc; NL - Burgmans, Antony - Chairman, Unilever NV; F - Camus, Phillipe -
CEO, European Aeronautic Defence and Space NV; I - Caracciolo, Lucio -
Director, Limes Geopolitical Review; F - Castries, Henri de - Chairman, AXA
Insurance;
E - Cebrian, Juan Luis - CEO, PRISA (Spanish language media
company), former Chairman, International Press Institute; TR - Cemal, Hasan
- Senior Columnist, Milliyet Newspaper; GB - Clarke, Kenneth - Member of
Parliament (Con.), Deputy Chairman, British American Tobacco; USA - Collins,
Timothy C - MD and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings LLC, Yale School of Management,
Trilateral Commission; USA - Corzine, Jon S. - Senator (D, New Jersey),
Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs; CH - Couchepin, Pascal - Former Swiss
President, Head of Home affairs Dept.; GR - David, George A. - Chairman,
Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company SA; B - Dehaene, Jean-Luc - Former Prime
Minister, Mayor of Vilvoorde; TR - Dervis, Kemal - Member of Parliament,
former senior World bank official; GR - Diamantopoulou, Anna - Member of
Parliament, former European Commissioner for Social Affairs; USA - Donilon,
Thomas L - Vice-President, Fannie Mae, Council on Foreign Relations; I -
Draghi, Mario - Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs; USA -
Edwards, John - Senator (D. North Carolina), Democratic Presidential
Candidate; DK - Eldrup, Anders - Chairman, DONG gas company (becoming
privatised) A/S; DK - Federspiel, Ulrik - Ambassador to the USA; USA -
Feith, Douglas J. - Undersecretary for Policy, Department of Defense; I -
Galateri, Gabriele - Chairman, Mediobanca; USA - Gates, Melinda F. -
Co-Founder, Gates Foundation, wife of Bill Gates; USA - Geithner, Timothy F.
- President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; I - Giavazzi, Francesco -
Professor of Economics, Bocconi University; adviser, world bank and European
Central bank; IRL - Gleeson, Dermot - Chairman Allied Irish Bank Group
(currently being investigated for personal and corporate tax evasion); USA -
Graham, Donald E. - Chairman and CEO, Washington Post Company; USA - Haas,
Richard N. - President, Council on Foreign Relations, former Director of
Policy and Planning staff, State Department; NL - Halberstadt, Victor -
Professor of Economics, Leiden University; B - Hansen, Jean-Pierre -
Chairman, Suez Tractabel SA; S - Heikensten, Lars - Governor, Swedish
Central Bank; USA - Holbrooke, Richard C - Vice Chairman, Perseus, former
Director, Council on Foreign Relations, former Assistant Secretary of State;
USA - Hubbard, Allen B - President E&A Industries; USA - Issacson, Walter -
President and CEO, Aspen Institute; USA - Janow, Merit L. - Professor,
International Economic Law and International Affairs, Columbia University;
USA - Jordan, Vernon E. Senior Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co LLC;
USA - Kagan, Robert - Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace; GB - Kerr, John - Director, Shell, Rio Tinto, Scottish American
Investment Trust; USA - Kissinger Henry A. - Chairman, Kissinger Associates
Inc.; TR - Koc, Mustafa V. - Chairman, Koc Holdings AS; NL - Koenders, Bert
(AG) - Member of Parliament, president, Parliamentary Network of the World
Bank; USA - Kovner, Bruce - Chairman Caxton Associates LLC, Chairman,
American Enterprise Institute; USA - Kravis, Henry R. - Founding Partner,
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., acquisitions financier; USA - Kravis, Marie
Josee - Senoir Fellow, Hudson Institute Inc.; FIN - Lehtomaki, Paula -
Minister of Foreigh Trade and Development; FIN - Lipponen, Paavo - Speaker
of Parliament; CHN - Long, Yongtu - Secretary General, Boao forum for Asia;
P - Lopes, Pedro M. Santana - Mayor of Lisbon; USA - Luti, William J. -
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs;
CDN - Lynch, Kevin G. - Deputy Minister, Department of Finance; USA -
Mathews, Jessica T. - President, Carnegie Endowment for International War
Peace; USA - McDonough, William J. - Chairman and CEO, Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board, former president, Federal Reserve Bank of New
York; CDN - McKenna, Frank - Counsel, McInnes Cooper, former premier of New
Brunswick; I - Merlini, Cesare - Executive Vice Chairman, Council for the
United States and Italy, Council on Foreign Relations, former director,
Italian Institute for International Affairs; F - Montbrial, Thierry de -
President, French Institute of International Relations; INT - Monti, Mario -
Competition Commissioner, European Commission; USA - Mundie, Craig J. -
Chief Technical Officer, Advanced Strategies and Policies, Microsoft
Corporation; N - Myklebust, Egil - Chairman, Scandinavian Airline System
(SAS); D - Naas, Matthias - Deputy Editor, Die Zeit; NL - Netherlands, HM
Queen Beatrix; GB - Neville-Jones, Pauline - Chairman, QuinetiQ (UK
privatized military research/services company), governor of the BBC,
Chairman Information Assurance Advisory Council, formar Chairman Joint
Intelligence Committee, former Managing Director NatWest Markets; USA -
Nooyi, Indra K. - President and CEO, PepsiCo Inc.; PL - Olechowski, Andrzej
- Leader, Civic Platform; FIN - Ollila, Jorma - Chairman, Nokia Corporation;
INT - Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso - Director, European Central Bank; CY -
Pantelides, Leonidas - Ambassador to Greece; I - Passera, Corrado - CEO,
Banca Intesa SpA; USA - Perle, Richard N. - Resident Fellow, American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, former Likud policy
adviser, former chair Defence Policy Board, former co-chairman, Hollinger
Digital; B - Phillipe, HRH Prince; USA - Reed, Ralph E. - President, Century
Strategies; CDN - Reisman, Heather - President and CEO, Indigo Books and
Music Inc.; I - Riotta, Gianni - Editorialist, Corriere della Serra; USA -
Rockefeller, David - Member JP Morgan International Council, Chairman,
Council of the Americas; E - Riodriguez Inearte, Matias - Vice Chairman,
Grupo Santander; USA - Ross, Dennis B - Director, The Washington Institute
for Near East Policy;
D - Sandschneider, Eberhard - Director, Research
Institute, German Society for Foreign Policy; I - Scaroni, Paolo - CEO, Enel
SpA; D - Schilly, Otto - Minister of the Interior; USA - Schnabel, Rockwell
A. - Ambassador to the EU; A - Scholten, Rudolf - Director, Oesterreichische
Kontrollbank AG; D - Schrempp, Jurgen E. - Chairman, DaimlerChrysler AG; E -
Serra Rexach, Eduardo - Head, Real Institute Elcano; RUS - Shevtsova, Lilia
- Senior Associate. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; PL - Sikora,
Slawomir - President and CEO, Citibank Handlowy; I - Siniscalo, Domenico -
Director General Ministry of the Economy; P - Socrates, Jose - Member of
Parliament; USA - Strmecki, Marin J. - Smith Richardson Foundation; B -
Struye de Swielande, Dominique - Permanant repressentative of Belguim, NATO;
IRL - Sutherland, Peter D. - Chairman, Goldman Sachs International,
Chairman, BP plc; USA - Thornton, John L. - Chairman, Brookings Institution,
Professor, Tsinghua University; I - Tremonti, Giulio - Minister of Economy
and Finance; INT - Trichet, Jean-Claude - President, European Central Bank;
I - Tronchetti Provera, Marco - Chairman and CEO, Pirelli SpA; N - Underdal,
Arild - Rector, University of Oslo; CH - Vasella, Daniel L. - Chairman and
CEO, Novartis AG; NL - Veer, Jeroen van der - Chairman, Committee of
Managing Directors, Royal Dutch/Shell; GB - Verwaayen, Ben J. M. - CEO,
British Telecom; former director, Lucent Technologies; I - Visco, Ignazio -
Foriegn Affairs Manager, Banca D'Italia; INT - Vitorino, Antonio M. -
Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner, European Union; INT - Vries, Gijs M.
de - EU Counter Terrorism Co-ordinator; S - Wallenberg, Jacob - Chairman,
SEB investments (including biotech); Chairman, W Capital Management AB; D -
Weber, Jurgen - Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutche Lufthansa AG;
GB/USA - Weinberg, Peter - CEO, Goldman Sachs International; NL - Wijers,
Hans - Chairman, AkzoNobel NV; D - Wissmann, Matthias - Member of
Parliament; GB - Wolf, Martin H. - Associate Editor/Economic Commentator,
The Financial Times; INT/USA - Wolfenson, James D. - President, The World
Bank; RUS - Yavlinsky, Grigory A. - Member of Parliament; USA - Yergin,
Daniel - Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates; D - Zumwinkel,
Llaus - Chairman, Deutche Post Worldnet AG.
In addition, according to the
Bilderberg.org<http://www.bilderberg.org/2004.htm#participants%22>website,
two reporters ("rapporteurs") from the British publication The
Economist will also be attending: Gideon Rachman, Brussels correspondent,
and Adrian D. Wooldridge, the magazine's foreign correspondent.