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Tom Griffin: /* List of Bilderberg conferences */

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 Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 31 May-3 June 2012], bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 2 June 2012.</ref>
 *[[Bilderberg 2013 Watford|6-9 June 2013, Watford, Hertfordshire, UK]].<ref>Rowena Mason, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10089131/British-taxpayers-to-pay-millions-towards-secretive-Bilderberg-meeting-security.html British taxpayers to pay 'millions' towards secretive Bilderberg meeting security], telegraph.co.uk, 30 May 2013.</ref>
-*[Bilderberg 2014 Copenhagen|29 May-1 June 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark]<ref>[http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/press-release.html 62nd Bilderberg conference to take place from 29 May - 1 June 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark]. bilderbergmeetings, accessed 2 June 104.</ref>
+*[[Bilderberg 2014 Copenhagen|29 May-1 June 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark]]<ref>[http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/press-release.html 62nd Bilderberg conference to take place from 29 May - 1 June 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark]. bilderbergmeetings, accessed 2 June 104.</ref>
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 Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 31 May-3 June 2012], bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 2 June 2012.</ref>
 *[[Bilderberg 2013 Watford|6-9 June 2013, Watford, Hertfordshire, UK]].<ref>Rowena Mason, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10089131/British-taxpayers-to-pay-millions-towards-secretive-Bilderberg-meeting-security.html British taxpayers to pay 'millions' towards secretive Bilderberg meeting security], telegraph.co.uk, 30 May 2013.</ref>
-*[Bilderberg 2014 Copenhagen|29 May-1 June 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark], bilderbergmeetings, accessed 2 June 104.</ref>
+*[Bilderberg 2014 Copenhagen|29 May-1 June 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark]<ref>[http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/press-release.html 62nd Bilderberg conference to take place from 29 May - 1 June 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark]. bilderbergmeetings, accessed 2 June 104.</ref>
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 Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 31 May-3 June 2012], bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 2 June 2012.</ref>
 *[[Bilderberg 2013 Watford|6-9 June 2013, Watford, Hertfordshire, UK]].<ref>Rowena Mason, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10089131/British-taxpayers-to-pay-millions-towards-secretive-Bilderberg-meeting-security.html British taxpayers to pay 'millions' towards secretive Bilderberg meeting security], telegraph.co.uk, 30 May 2013.</ref>
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 The [[Bilderberg]] meetings are a series of elite, off-the-record, European-American conferences named after the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands, which hosted the first meeting in 1954.<ref>[http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/index.html Home], Bilderberg Meetings, 17 June 2010.</ref>
-In a report on the 2003  meeting, the BBC's Emma Jane Kirby described Bilderberg as "an extremely influential lobbying group with a good deal of political clout on both sides of the Atlantic", noting that "meetings are cloaked in secrecy and participants rarely reveal their attendance". According to [[Will Hutton]], &#39;the consensus established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide&#39;.<ref>Will Hutton, Kinder Capitalists in Armani Specs, The Observer, 1 February, 1998.</ref>
+In a report on the 2003 meeting, the BBC's Emma Jane Kirby described Bilderberg as "an extremely influential lobbying group with a good deal of political clout on both sides of the Atlantic", noting that "meetings are cloaked in secrecy and participants rarely reveal their attendance". According to [[Will Hutton]], &#39;the consensus established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide&#39;.<ref>Will Hutton, Kinder Capitalists in Armani Specs, ''The Observer'', 1 February, 1998.</ref> In recent years the conference has begun to publish its attendees and agenda, but remains steadfastly silent on the proceedings and its outcomes.
 ==Origins==
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 ==External links==
-*Guardian, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/bilderberg Bilderberg]
+*''Guardian'', [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/bilderberg Bilderberg]
-*Rowena Mason, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10089131/British-taxpayers-to-pay-millions-towards-secretive-Bilderberg-meeting-security.html British taxpayers to pay 'millions' towards secretive Bilderberg meeting security], The Telegraph, 30 May 2013
+*Rowena Mason, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10089131/British-taxpayers-to-pay-millions-towards-secretive-Bilderberg-meeting-security.html British taxpayers to pay 'millions' towards secretive Bilderberg meeting security], ''The Telegraph'', 30 May 2013
 *Ian Richardson, [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ian-richardson/bilderberg-elite-membersh_b_894025.html Bilderberg, Elite Consensus and the Media], ''Huffington Post UK'', 13 July 2011.
 *Jon Ronson '[http://www.coldtype.net/Assets.05/Essays/01.Ronson.pdf The Secret Rulers of the World]' Extract from ''Them, Adventures with Extremists'', London: Picador, 2002.

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 The [[Bilderberg]] meetings are a series of elite, off-the-record, European-American conferences named after the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands, which hosted the first meeting in 1954.<ref>[http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/index.html Home], Bilderberg Meetings, 17 June 2010.</ref>
-In a report on the 2003  meeting, the BBC's Emma Jane Kirby described Bilderberg as "an extremely influential lobbying group with a good deal of political clout on both sides of the Atlantic", noting that "meetings are cloaked in secrecy and participants rarely reveal their attendance." According to [[Will Hutton]], &#39;the consensus established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide&#39;.<ref>Will Hutton, Kinder Capitalists in Armani Specs, The Observer, 1 February, 1998.</ref>
+In a report on the 2003  meeting, the BBC's Emma Jane Kirby described Bilderberg as "an extremely influential lobbying group with a good deal of political clout on both sides of the Atlantic", noting that "meetings are cloaked in secrecy and participants rarely reveal their attendance". According to [[Will Hutton]], &#39;the consensus established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide&#39;.<ref>Will Hutton, Kinder Capitalists in Armani Specs, The Observer, 1 February, 1998.</ref>
 ==Origins==

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-</ref> The Bilderberg group's unofficial headquarters is the [[University of Leiden]] in the [[Netherlands]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=62737 | title = Bilderberg meetings remain a mystery | author = Marcus Klöckner | date = 17 May 2009 | work = Stars and Stripes}}</ref>
+</ref> The Bilderberg group's unofficial headquarters is the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=62737 | title = Bilderberg meetings remain a mystery | author = Marcus Klöckner | date = 17 May 2009 | work = Stars and Stripes}}</ref>
 According to the American Friends of Bilderberg, the 2008 agenda dealt "mainly with a nuclear free world, cyber terrorism, Africa, Russia, finance, protectionism, US-EU relations, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islam and Iran".<ref name="bwire" />

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	Proponents argue that it was formed in the 'spirit of post-war trans-Atlantic co-operation' to prevent future wars by 'bringing power-brokers together in an informal setting away from prying eyes' with 'the confidentiality enabl[ing] people to speak honestly without fear of repercussions'. They further argue "It's not an executive body; no decisions are taken there."<ref>Emma Jane Kirby, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3031717.stm Elite power brokers meet in secret], BBC News, 15 May, 2003.</ref>		Proponents argue that it was formed in the 'spirit of post-war trans-Atlantic co-operation' to prevent future wars by 'bringing power-brokers together in an informal setting away from prying eyes' with 'the confidentiality enabl[ing] people to speak honestly without fear of repercussions'. They further argue "It's not an executive body; no decisions are taken there."<ref>Emma Jane Kirby, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3031717.stm Elite power brokers meet in secret], BBC News, 15 May, 2003.</ref>
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−	No matter what, for innumerable, serious critics in Europe as well as the US, Bilderberg is everything from a Zionist plot to a megalomaniac secret cult. Serbs, not without some reason, blamed Bilderberg for the 1999 Balkan war and the fall of Slobodan Milosevic: after all, the US needed to control vital, Balkan pipeline routes. Bilderberg 2002 - although not without controversy - is thought to have cemented the invasion and conquest of Iraq. In his seminal A Century of War: Anglo-American oil politics and the New World War, F William Engdahl details what happened at Bilderberg 1973 in Sweden. An American outlined a scenario for an imminent 400% hike in the oil prices of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Bilderberg did not prevent the oil shock; instead it planned how to manage with mega-profits - what Kissinger described as "recycling the petrodollar flows". Everyone that mattered was present at this Bilderberg: oil majors and major banks.<ref>Pepe Escobar, [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE22Ak03.html The Masters of the Universe], ''Asia Times'', May 22, 2003.</ref>
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−	[[Alden Hatch]], Prince Bernhard's biographer has credited Bilderberg with the idea of a European Union, and has described its ultimate goal as 'a one-world government'.<ref>Pepe Escobar, [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE22Ak03.html The Masters of the Universe], ''Asia Times'', May 22, 2003.</ref>
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−	~~Issues that would logically have interested Bilderberg 2005 include:~~
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−	:::The role of NATO and the necessary approval in 2005 of the European constitution by all 25 members of the EU - the consequences of a French "no" in the upcoming May 29 referendum to approve the constitution need to be consideredthe father of the European constitution is none other than Bilderberger [[Valery Giscard d'Estaing]], who happens to be very close to Kissinger.
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−	:::The containment of Russia was likely top of the agenda for Bilderberg. Russia is very much worried about its "near abroad" and sees no reason to remove its army from bases in Georgia or its navy from Sebastopol, in Ukrainian Crimea - no matter how many color-coded revolutions happen at its doorstep.
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−	:::Another contentious issue that must have occupied the minds of those at Bilderberg 2005 is preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon - this is just a detail: the point is how to prevent Iran from becoming a first-rate Eurasian power. Some in Brussels do not discount the possibility of a scenario of massive propaganda buildup to try to convince American and European public opinion of the necessity of a strike against Iran. How to force Beijing to appreciate the yuan must also have been a topic.
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−	~~===Beyond Accountability===~~
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−	The highly undemocratic nature of these conferences are a cause of great alarm, as they take the decision making process into a wholly arcane dimension. The few breaches in its characteristic secrecy have done little to allay the fears of concerned observers. The anti-Democratic nature of the group was evident in the following remarks by prominent Bilderberger, David Rockefeller in 1991:
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−	:::It would have been quite impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.<ref>Pepe Escobar, [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE22Ak03.html The Masters of the Universe], ''Asia Times'', May 22, 2003.</ref>
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−	While the high-and-mighty attend these conferences in their individual capacities, there still needs to be some accountability given that their decisions have a bearing on policies that affect constituencies that have no representation in their deliberations. The group is composed entirely of Western elites, and no Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American or African individual has ever been invited.<ref>Pepe Escobar, [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE22Ak03.html The Masters of the Universe], ''Asia Times'', May 22, 2003.</ref>
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−	~~==Shroud of Secrecy==~~
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−	Staff at the hotel are photographed and put through special clearance. From porters to senior managers, the employees are warned (under the threat of never working in the country again) about the consequences of revealing any details of the guests to the press.
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−	:Trianon Palace Hotel in Versailles was closed to the public and all non-Bilderberg guests had to check out. Part-time employees were sent home. The ones who remained were told that they would be fired if caught revealing anything about the meeting. They couldn't speak to any Bilderberger unless spoken to. They couldn't look anybody in the eye. Armed guards completely isolated and cordoned off the hotel. <ref>Pepe Escobar, [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE22Ak03.html The Masters of the Universe], ''Asia Times'', May 22, 2003.</ref>
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−	When it comes to Bilderberg, the otherwise inquisitive mainstream news organizations, always boastful about their no-holds barred investigative exploits, have been strangely reluctant to lift the blackout curtain. The New York Times, CBS, ABC, NBC, the Financial Times have all been represented at Bilderberg conferences; however they are constrained by an oath of secrecy. According to the Asia Times, at the Bilderberg 2003 in Versailles:
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−	:Some members of the American corporate press were there - but the public will never know about it: Bilderberg news is not fit to print - or broadcast. No journalists from any media controlled by Bilderberg multinational tycoons such as [[Rupert Murdoch]] were or will be allowed to report it, even if they somehow managed to crash the party. There's no business like (private) elite business.<ref>The Masters of the Universe, Asia Times, May 22, 2003.</ref>

	==Analyses of Bilderberg==		==Analyses of Bilderberg==