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Woodstock for conspiracy theorists. By: ALEXANDER PANETTA, OTTAWA (CP) A serene suburban setting has been transformed into a four-day festival of black suits, black limousines, burly security guards - and suspicions of world domination. On the outskirts of the nation's capital, a tony high-rise hotel beside a golf course is hosting the annual meeting for one of the world's most secretive and powerful societies. It's not the Freemasons. Forget those fabled U.S. military men who tucked away UFOs in the Arizona desert. These guys, you've probably never even heard of, and if you believe the camera-toting followers who attend all their meetings, they control the world. They're called the Bilderberg group. They include European royalty, national leaders, political power-brokers, and heads of the world's biggest companies. Those who follow the Bilderberg group say it got Europe to adopt a common currency, got Bill Clinton elected after he agreed to support NAFTA, and is spending this week deciding what to do about high oil prices and that pesky fundamentalist president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "Some people say that I advocate a conspiracy theory. That's not true. I recognize a conspiracy fact," said James P. Tucker. The 74-year-old American journalist has been following the Bilderberg group for decades, has written extensively about it, and recently published his Bilderberg Diary. He follows the group to its annual meetings and stands outside describing to other journalists details of his privileged access to their inner workings. He is not alone. Daniel Estulin snapped photographs of every vehicle that approached the concrete-glass complex Thursday. He says Mossad - Israel's spy agency - is paying attention. Away from the golf course, there are no grassy knolls in the industrial zone outside Ottawa's Brook street hotel, the site of this week's meeting, but the scene does nothing to dissuade conspiracists. Ottawa police officers are standing guard outside a dozen metal gates that serve as security checkpoints a half-kilometre from the hotel. But Ottawa's finest are clearly not in charge here. To approach the hotel property, even these uniformed police officers are required to show their credentials to the half-dozen black-suited men working for Globe Risk, a private security firm. "This is pretty unusual," one Ottawa cop said. Another said they were hired to be there in their off-duty hours and weren't told much by their superiors: "They just told us, 'These are important people. It's a private meeting.' " A small crowd of curious onlookers snapped photos of black-windowed sedans stopping at the checkpoints. It was impossible to see who was sitting inside. But it's fun to imagine. The Bilderberg group is a half-century-old organization comprising about 130 of the world's wealthiest and most powerful people. The group is named after the Dutch hotel where it held its first meeting in 1954. But don't expect to find that information on the group's website. They don't have a website. Nor was there any Bilderberg logo anywhere to be seen Thursday, except for those nondescript white placards stamped with the letter 'B' and tucked under the windshield of all those tinted sedans. A journalist calling the Brookstreet hotel asked to leave a message for the Bilderbergers. "Sure," a hotel employee said. "Your name and number?" The journalist then asked whether the employee could confirm whether the Bilderberg Group was actually meeting there. "I don't know," she replied. Even members of the hotel gym were barred from the premises. A sign was slapped on the gym door earlier this week informing them the facilities would be closed for four days. All other hotel guests were asked to check out by Thursday morning. Any vehicles remaining in the parking lot would be towed. Bilderberg says the privacy of its meetings helps encourage freewheeling discussion. An unsigned press release, sent by fax, confirmed this year's meeting would deal with energy issues, Iran, the Middle East, terrorism, immigration, Russia, European-American relations and Asia. "The meeting is private to encourage frank and open discussion," said the release. "There will be no press conference." The release included a list of participants at this year's event. The 2006 group includes David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Queen Beatrix of Holland, New York Gov. George Pataki, the heads of Coca-Cola, Credit Suisse, the Royal Bank of Canada, a number of media moguls, and cabinet ministers from Spain and Greece. The group also includes a pair of prominent figures involved in planning the U.S. invasion of Iraq - Richard Perle and Ahmad Chalabi. Fellow White House power-players Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, now head of the World Bank, have spoken to the group in the past. But Bilderberg is not exclusively a right-wing body, by any means. Bill Clinton's right-hand-man Vernon Jordan, was also in attendance Thursday, as was his Mideast negotiator Dennis Ross. The prime ministers of Britain and Canada - Tony Blair and Stephen Harper - have addressed the group before, as have former Liberal prime ministers Pierre Trudeau, Paul Martin and Jean Chretien. Harper spoke to Bilderberg in Versailles, France, in 2003 but his office said he would not attend this year's conference. Canada remains well represented, however. The Canadian contingent at this year's event includes Power Corp. boss Paul Desmarais, Indigo books CEO Heather Reisman, and former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna. The Globe and Mail newspaper publisher, Philip Crawley, was also there. However, Bilderberg followers say that media moguls whose outlets report leaked details from the meetings will see themselves banned in the future.
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Report Chronicles U.N.'s 'Most
Ungrateful' Nations By Chad Groening (AgapePress) - A
United Nations "report card" issued recently by a conservative
Internet news service reveals that most countries of the world
have voted against the U.S. on key issues before the U.N.
General Assembly. The survey found that Israel is America's most
reliable ally at the U.N. The annual
"United Nations Report Card" was released by Newsmax.com earlier
this month. Contributing editor Kenneth Timmerman says his
organization examined 12 key General Assembly votes on issues of
critical importance to the United States. A vast majority of the
time, he says, U.N. members sided against the U.S. For example,
the tally shows that even Great Britain -- a staunch and close
ally -- did not vote with the U.S. very often. "Britain
does vote with us 17 percent of the time,"
Timmerman notes. "You would think they are our best ally; in
fact, they're not." Who is, according to the survey? "Israel is
our best ally -- they vote with us 83 percent of the time." Timmerman says
besides Israel, the Pacific nations of Palau, Micronesia, and
Marshall Islands are the only other countries that side with the
U.S. on most of the issues. "Outside of those four countries,
we don't have very many friends at the United Nations,"
he observes. According to
Newsmax.com, some of the nations voting against the U.S. on a
regular basis include some of the biggest recipients of American
foreign aid -- in some case amounting to hundreds of millions of
dollars a year. Timmerman notes a few of those. "Egypt
[has] received over $10 billion in U.S. aid; they vote with us
zero percent of the time," he notes. "Jordan still gets $224
million a year ... zero [percent]. Turkey, they get a billion
dollars in U.S. aid -- they don't vote with us at all; zero
percent." According to the report card, other nations benefiting
significantly from U.S. aid that register zero percent support
include Ethiopia (almost $600 million in aid), Colombia ($524
million), and Peru ($229 million). Traditional U.S.
allies France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea all voted
with the U.S. just 8 percent of the time. "So we have a real
problem at the U.N. General Assembly," the Newsmax spokesman
observes. Many of the
General Assembly votes, says Timmerman, were aimed at hurting
the nation of Israel. "There's a huge percentage of votes at the
United Nations which are all aimed at either de-legitimizing the
state of Israel [or] imposing restrictions on Israel's ability
to defend itself from terrorism and things like that," he notes.
"There is no other nation on Earth that has this kind of
condemnation." Pastor Joe says,
read what the Lord has to say:
Mat 7:16 Ye
shall knowthem
by
theirfruits. Do men
gathergrapes
of
thorns,or figs
ofthistles?
Mat 7:17 Even
so everygood
tree
bringeth forth good
fruit;but
a
corrupttree bringeth forthevil
fruit.
Mat 7:18 A
good
treecannot bring forthevil
fruit,
neithercan
a
corrupttree bring forth
goodfruit.
Mat 7:19 Every
tree
thatbringeth not forth goodfruit
is hewn
down, and
castinto
the
fire.
Mat 7:20 Wherefore
bytheir
fruits yeshall
know
them. The latest
United Nations Report Card appears in the March 2006 issue of
Newsmax Magazine. Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online. |
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