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BILDERBERG CONFERENCE: WHY HAVE THE MASS MEDIA BEEN SILENT?

(Shhh! THAT'S A SECRET!)

by Martin Webster

(Inner Circle Researchers)

Monday 5th June 2000.

The Bilderberg Group met in secret at the Hotel Chateau du Lac at Genval, just outside Brussels, from 1st to 3rd June 2000. Protected from cameras by a canvas awning constructed around the entrance, the dignitaries arrived in chauffeur-driven limousines.

President Clinton was rumoured to have plans to attend the conference as a part of his current European tour, but his name was not included in the official guest list issued on 2nd June [see below].

When challenged outside the hotel, the Chairman of the Bilderberg Group, Etienne Davignon, made it clear that there would be no press conference.

According to a terse press statement issued by the conference organisers [see below] , subjects discussed included: United States Elections, Globalisation, New Economy, the Balkans, European Union Enlargement and the European Far Right.

So far this year, the Bilderberg has succeeded in keeping not just its deliberations but the very exstence of its conference out of the world's media.

THE FACTS IN BLACK AND BLACK

The absence of media reporters and camera crews outside the hotel was striking. This may be explained by the fact that the conference was attended by a number of important international media owners who, along with all other participants, gave an undertaking to keep the proceedings secret. This undertaking is required of participants every at every Bilderberg conference.

Among the media moguls present was the "Canadian" or "British" (take your pick) Zionist Conrad Black, owner of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph and other titles in the United Kingdom; numerous titles in Canada as well as publications in Israel, including The Jerusalem Post.

A conference in Brussels bringing together not just Euro power-brokers but global movers and shakers might be expected to attract the attention of the Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker and economics editor Bill Jamieson -- both prominent members of the United Kingdom Independence Party, whose prime policy is Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. But not a peep has been heard from either of them.

Booker and Jamieson jump through all kinds of hoops to ensure that they do not attract he wrath of their boss. Denying the public's "Right to Know" about the Bilderberg conference is but one example.

Last year Booker went to extraordinary lengths to reassure his boss that UKIP was not a Right Wing 'extremist' party by contriving to include within the first paragraph of his speech to UKIP's Euro-election rally at Redhill, Surrey, a completely irrelevant reference to 'The Holocaust'.

During a UKIP internal leadership election in March of this year, a copy of UKIP's confidential membership list was copied and used to circulate a private bulletin from Booker and Jamieson. They threatened to resign from the party if members elected anybody whose opinions were based: "... on some wider conspiracy theory which, however compelling to a minority of members, cannot be shared by the vast majority ..."

"THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO KNOW"

Booker and Jamieson are clearly not made of the same metal as the great Financial Times columnist, the late C. Gordon Tether or John Paul, the founder of the (now sadly defunct) Anti-Common Market League.

In the early 1970s Gordon Tether's 'Banking and Finance' column in the Financial Times , which he wrote under the pen-name "Lombard" since the mid-1950s, earned an entry in the Guinness Book of Records as "the longest-running feature in the British press". He maintained a close intelligence on the developing "European Common Market" (now the EU) and identified its engine: the Bilderberg Group.

When the Financial Times got taken over and a new editor installed in 1973, efforts were made to shut him up. Numerous of his items were suppressed. An attempt by the National Union of Journalists to mediate in the dispute failed and in 1975 his column was taken from him and given to a 'tame' group of writers.

John Paul ran the Anti-Common Market League during the 1960s in his spare time. It was the first campaign group devoted solely to opposing British membership of the Common Market. In his day job Paul was a senior executive with British Petroleum.

For a while his spare-time efforts were tolerated by his bosses, but once the A-CML began to get up a head of steam, they started to 'lean' on him and, when he refused to kow-tow, they sacked him. Not long after, still in his 40s and with a young family, he died of a heart attack.

C. Gordon Tether and John Paul are true heroes in the struggle for British independence and the public's right to know.

Christopher Booker, Bill Jamieson and hundreds -- thousands -- of other craven hacks might like to ponder on this comment on the Western Press made by Alexander Solzhenitsyn ...

... and on this by Lord (Arnold) Goodman ...

THIS MESSAGE POSTED TO APFN MESSAGE BOARD:

http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb1075995

Bilderberg Press Release extract: 3 June 2000

The 48th Bilderberg meeting was held in Brussels, Belgium, 1-3 June 2000.

Approximately 100 participants from North America and Europe attended the discussions. The meeting was private in order to encourage frank and open discussion. etc.

Among other subjects the Conference discussed:

* US Elections * Globalisation * New Economy * The Balkans * EU Enlargement * The European Far Right

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