Talk:List of Bilderberg participants

This_is_madness

Seriously, why did you remove all that info? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.119.152.45 (talk) 23:08, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Theory" ?? GET REAL

I don't know a polite way to say this, so I wont even try : Anyone who claims "Bilderberg" is a so-called "theory" simply doesn't live in the real World and does not know anything about the subject they are commenting on . Please be quiet and listen while the grown-ups talk about reality .

If WIKI deletes this entry I will NEVER trust WIKI again as this would prove beyond doubt that WIKI engages in political propaganda .

Question to Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen (V) in the Danish "Folketinget" (Parliament) from Mp Per Clausen (EL) http://www.folketinget.dk/Samling/20072/spoergsmaal/S1778/index.htm

"Does the PM agree with the former Minister of the Environment, whom in a response to question #S 2291 in "Folketingsåret" (Parliamentary year) 2004/2005 2. session answered that : " All attendees at the Bilderberg-meetings are invited as private persons and not as representatives of Nations, Governments or organisations" ?

Question to Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen (V) in the Danish "Folketinget" (Parliament)from Mp Per Clausen (EL) on 24/11 08 http://www.folketinget.dk/Samling/20081/spoergsmaal/S539/index.htm : "Will the PM (Anders Fogh Rasmussen) initiate an investigation into how it could happen that the minutes from the Bilderberg-group meeting he attended in 2003 has disappeared from "Statsministeriet" (The Danish PM's office)?" This is so bad that even Danish news-paper "Politiken", whos editor-in-chief Toger Seidenfaden [[1]] is both a frequent Bilderberg-attendee and a member of The Trilateral Commissions Executive Committee had to run the story ..

Please note that these links take you straight to the Danish Parliaments OFFICIAL WEBSITE .. Also note that one of the reasons for the questions is that it appears the Danish tax-payers payed the PM's expenses related to the "private" meeting .. Just as it's the tax-payers who pick up the massive security-bill for this "private" meeting of people who mostly are not "private citizens" but elected officials and/or appointed civil servants . These people of course do not participate in anything as "private citizens" .. "Theory" ?? Are you out of your minds or do you just work for the TIA [[2]] ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.233.168.181 (talk) 14:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~Maybe it's not wikipedia the one who's doing this. Maybe there are some politics...or Rockefellas. Don't know...

Clue to who may want this page gone

Jimmy, I think someone in the CIA wants this page gone. Even so, you might want to sue the Rockerfeller family on this or put the possible deletion of this page to a vote.96.3.72.93 (talk) 04:34, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clean up

In an attempt to clean up the article on the Bilderberg Group, I've created a this 'List of Bilderberg attendees' page. The idea is to remove the long lists of attendees, and the attendent list of references, to a separate page. Thus far I have moved 'EU Commissioners'. In this way, I hope the main article can focus on the nature of the Group, and perhaps a few key members, leaving wrangling over detail to an auxiliary list. I guess there may have been up to a thousand attendees by now, many of who are notable in their particular field. However, we cannot list them all in the main article, or it will dwarf the descriptive part of the text.

To those who protest that the existence of a 'Bilderberg Group' is an unproven conspiracy theory, or a subject of no general interest, I can only say that, initially, I have added no new information, only split out a list from an existing article tagged with a cleanup notice, in an attempt to clean it up. - Crosbiesmith 22:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See Jon Ronson's book "Them" for some other Bilderberg attendees -- including Theresa Heinz Kerry's ex-husband, I believe. When I get ahold of the book again I'll add something, unless someone gets to it first.

Does the year in parentheses after a persons name indicate the year of attendance? If so "Pierre Trudeau (2003), Canadian Prime Minister, 1968 - 1984" is incorrect as Trudeau died in 2000.

"Paul Gigot" is not a "UK Cabinet Minister"!

To all conspiracists: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands could not, in any way, affect politics in the Netherlands or anywhere else, since she has no political power whatsoever. It is, however, a reason to hold these conferences in private, since she is forbidden by dutch law to be publicly involved in politics, and I expect other attendees would also like to share their ideas in private for a change. A conspiracy? Then it would be a rather useless one. Λυομαι Luomai 08:51, 13 November 2006 (UTC) Sorry, untrue. Queen Beatrix holds considerable power over who gets to form new coalition governments. She takes part in the Council of State and speaks her mind frankly to the PM and other ministers when she sees them. Her opinion weighs quite heavily. This can be concluded from a whole host of Dutch articles about the House of Orange and our monarchy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.3.90.222 (talk) 19:52, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As we can find out from the main page for the Bilderberg Group, each year about 100-120 persons of public interest participate in this conference. I agree that a list of participants blows up the article quite a lot, however, having a single page for the attendants of (potentially) all conference will produce a list with more than 1000 names easily. I suggest instead of merging lists for single years into a potentially ever growing list to branch out pages for attendance lists for single years, as at least the last 10 to 20 years of this conference have been investigated a lot. Lord Chao 10:46, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

attendees by year

i think it would be a good idea to include a list of attendees by year grtz —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.53.88.129 (talk) 19:40, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

references

please could people reference the names. there are lots of valid/solid references out there. for the year issue, people should put year to indicate attendance.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:14, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fritz Teufel

The name of the former prime minister of Baden-Wurttemberg is Erwin Teufel. Not Fritz Teufel. This could be an error if he is really the person who is meant.

Gerhard Schröder (German attendee)

I am not sure if the Gerhard Schröder mentioned in the list is the right person: The former Chancellor Schröder finished his law studies in 1971, the year which is given for his attendance of the Bilderberg conference. In my opinion it would not make much sense that such a young man, who was not playing an important role in Germany at that time, would be chosen to take part in the conference. It seems more likely to me that the Gerhard Schröder who took part in this conference was the powerful CDU politician (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der_%28CDU%29), who was in charge of several important offices during the 60s (and therefore more eligible). Could anyone prove my assumption, please? (sorry if my usage of the English language is sometimes a bit curious...) 91.11.241.59 (talk) 19:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Gerhard Schröder referred to who actually attended the 1971 conference was in fact the former CDU Foreign Minister and later Defence Minister. It's only a coincidence they both happen to share the same name. —Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|Damian Thorne (talk) 07:29, 27 March 2008 (UTC)]] comment added by Damian Thorne (talk • contribs) 06:54, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Brian Mulroney- possible Canadian attendee?

This was the Prime Minister who dealed with NAFTA and free trade, along with bringing Canada fully into the G7. I was wondering if anyone here knows whether or not he attended? (many other less prominant Canadian figures have already attended). Creamycoffee (talk) 06:57, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to disappoint you, Creamycoffee, but unfortunately, Mulroney never attended Bilderberg. Why he didn't attend the '83 meeting in Montebello is beyond me. The Canadian Prime Ministers who did attend through the years were Lester Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien, Paul Martin and current PM Stephen Harper. In addition to Mulroney, the other Canadian PM's who never attended were John Diefenbaker (he was a Freemason), Joe Clark (he was a member of the Trilateral Commission), John Turner (he's a Rhodes Scholar) and Kim Campbell (she attended the Renaissance Weekend). Mulroney was involved with the Carlyle Group and is also on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Damian Thorne (talk) 01:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how this works

But an inside source at the Westfield Mariott in Chantilly, VA told me that -EDIT- just arrived (June 6th, 2008 around 8pm EST.)

Please try and reference and date all people!

I can see people have been adding dates which is a good, but there really needs to be references for everything. Chendy (talk) 12:06, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Naut Wellink, in 2006

see this link list of participants, he was on this list, but was he there. Question: he is not on the list of dutch participants. Is there a reason?

Beyond Garbage

Seriously Chuck Norris isn't royalty. Typical wikiality crap. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.132.173.111 (talk) 22:35, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Swiss Politics

It would be more correct to alter former or current president of the Swiss Confederation to just Swiss Federal Counsellor. Every Counsellor gets president in turn. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.56.158.172 (talk) 15:55, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think we should delete this article

My friend told me about this so I decided to talk about this. We need the list of bilderberg attendees because it had to come from a source. So we can't just shut this down. Please wikipedia gods, don't let this be shut down. This needs to be preserved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.148.155.252 (talk) 04:36, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We do not live in 1984

I am absolutely against the deletion of this page; deleting this would confirm the move towards a 1984-like society. We have already lost many of our liberties since the patriot act. Clearly, the Bilderberg is very real, deleting the Bilderberg attendee list would send chills through my spine as it would confirm the controlled paradigm we are being forced to live in. The whole beauty of Wikipedia is that it is supposed to be "free", people must be allowed to see this information, censorship is the premise of the dictator and autocrat. The mere idea that one would "clean" and "forbid" information is just outrageous. I sincerely hope Wikipedia will come back to its senses and will not consider 1984-style practices. <

First, I don't see a tag about deleting this article. Second, all information in wikipedia articles should be sourced. Someone got those names from somewhere and they should list where they got them from. I'm not going to bother to watch or edit the article, but FYI. Giving the sparse sourcing, there might well be grounds for deleting the article. CarolMooreDC (talk) 12:55, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would all of the Alex Jones fans take off their tin foil hats? Like just about everything else on his website the article about this entry being up for deletion is untrue. There is no "deletion tag" on this article. It's just another publicity stunt to get people to go to his website. The7thdr (talk) 05:00, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The list has been shortened drastically in the last 2 days. Refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=List_of_Bilderberg_attendees&oldid=270692374

If you will forgive me for saying so, why than not put the names back in the list? If they can be reliably referenced there is nothing stopping you. This might be more constructive than coming here like many Alex Jones listeners, whining that there is some strange Jewish (sorry, of course no one from "Info wars" is anti-semitic; I meant Zionist) conspiracy? The7thdr (talk) 04:59, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Let me be clear to everyone here: If Wiki deletes this entry or starts deleting names, I will NEVER trust Wiki again, and it will confirm the CIA, FBI, HS, Mossad, and other government operatives are strongly active on wikipedia. I don't care if you claim we are crazy, or whatever, the Bilderberg is VERY REAL and it is just outrageous the mainstream media does not cover their meetings and claims they don't exist. It is just outrageous! >

Again, 1 - there is no deletion tag, 2 - wiki is open source, it means anyone can edit it - including you (there are no "gods of WIKI" as someone else said) 3 No one said that there is no Bilderberg group - it actually has its own entry. Calm down and contribute to the article instead. If you can find reliable references to attendees - there are many if you look - add them :) The7thdr (talk) 23:26, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for Icelandic people who have gonme to bilderberg meetings

Okay i can source a few from iceland(where i live)qoutes from senators and the now sitting president of iceland about some members of the parlament going to biderberg and denying to say what happend there. Now is the offical site of the icelandic goverment a bad source?

Ferill Benedikts Gröndals ætlar að verða eindæma rislítill. En hvers er annars að vænta? Í dag situr sá maður í stól forsrh. þjóðarinnar sem fyrir fáeinum mánuðum vildi sleppa bandarískum hermönnum lausum út um allt íslenskt þjóðlíf, fyrir fáeinum víkum gekk erinda norskra krata og ætlaði að fórna hagsmunum Íslendinga á Jan Mayen-svæðinu og fyrir fáeinum dögum flutti Alþ. skýrslu um nýjan minnisvarða betlilundar gagnvart bandaríska hernum, svokallaða flugstöð, sem er í reynd nýtt vígbúnaðarmannvirki í þágu NATO. Það er kannske við hæfi að slíkur maður sé forsrh. þeirrar dúkkustjórnar sem umboðshafi Bilderberg-reglunnar á Íslandi, formaður Sjálfstfl., setur á fót, enda sýndi ræða hv. þm. Geirs Hallgrímssonar hér í dag að hann telur sig greinilega hafa húsbóndavaldið yfir Alþfl.

This is the now sitting icelandic preisdent on a debate on the parlament of althingi asking Geirs Hallgrímssonar why he is going to the blidenberg without tellking anything about it

So Geir Hallgrímsson a ex prime minister of iceland went to bliderberg and this comes from the offical site of the icelandic goverment from the now sitting president Ólafur Ragnar Grímmson

Another qoute from the now icelandic president when he was a eleteced senator

Ég biðst því á engan hátt afsökunar á því sem ég sagði um ræðu hv. þm. Geirs Hallgrímssonar og Bilderberg-klúbb hans,formaður Sjálfstfl.

I make no aplogy about what said about the speech about Geir Hallgrímsson and his bilderberg club, because the leader of sjálfstæðisflokkinum

Það er kannske við hæfi að slíkur maður sé forsrh. þeirrar dúkkustjórnar sem umboðshafi Bilderberg-reglunnar á Íslandi, formaður Sjálfstfl., setur á fót, enda sýndi ræða hv. þm. Geirs Hallgrímssonar hér í dag að hann telur sig greinilega hafa húsbóndavaldið yfir Alþfl.

It is maby apporiate that a man like (Geir Hallgrímsson) is the respenrtive of the shadow controlling Bilderberg r group, it showed that the speech that Geir Hallgrímsson made today shows that he thinks he controls the goverment(alþingi)

Source? Now icelandic preisdent Ólafur ragnar grímsson in a debate in the year 1979 taken from the offical site of the icelandic goverment which keeps records of all speches in the parlament online.

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Butcer (talk) 20:57, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Source that shows that the prime minister of iceland Geir Hoorde went to bilderberg , taken from the offical site of the icelandic goverment, in a speech made by Steingrímur Hermannsson who was the prime minister at the time

Hins vegar væri mjög fróðlegt að skoða miklu betur það sem kom fram hér áðan um utanlandsferðir hjá hv. þm. Geir Haarde og reyndar hef ég látið draga saman upplýsingar um það sem ég vil mjög gjarnan að verði athugaðar. Um þetta gilda hinar ólíkustu reglur erlendis. Það er rétt að hér hefur verið greiddur kostnaður af ferðum ráðherra á fundi ýmissa pólitískra samtaka, jafnvel hálfpólitískra eins og Bilderberg-klúbbsins og fleira.

http://www.althingi.is/altext/112/r2/2015.html

A source that Björn Bjarnasson a elected repsentive attendted bilderberg meetings

Í öðru lagi væri gaman að fá útskýringar frá Birni Bjarnasyni á því hvernig t.d. Bilderberg-klúbburinn vinnur í þágu hins góða í heiminum. Ekki getur það verið neitt leyndarmál langtímum saman hvernig góðverk eru unnin, öfugt við illvirki sem eru að líkindum alla jafna skipulögð með leynd og reynt að viðhalda þeirri leynd um alla framtíð. Á Bilderberg-fundi mæta, auk forystumanna úr Sjálfstæðisflokknum, t.d. bæði Egil Mycklebust og Eivind Reiten, mennirnir sem ríkisstjórnin og leiðtogi Alþýðubandalagsins í Neskaupstað hafa valið til að bjarga Íslandi. Varla hafa slíkir höfðingjar mikið að fela.

http://murinn.is/eldra_b.asp?nr=254&gerd=Frettir&arg=2 more sources

Source that shows that BJörn Bendiksson( the father of Björn Bjarnasson now diseased was a higly respected elected resperntive in Iceland)

Askja 2-40 Ráðstefnur / Meetings 1957-1970 Ráðstefnur m.a North Atlantic Commynity 1957.

Bilderberg Meetings 1965, 1970 o.fl.

http://www.rvk.is/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-2971/4742_view-453/ tHE OFFICAL site of captial of iceland (reykjavík) Source from the blog that Björn Bjarnasson uses every day (whos a elected respenrtive in congress) where he says that he went to a blidererg group with Geir Hallgrímssýni in althingi Björn Bjarnasson where he talks about when he went to a bliderberg mettin with Geir Hallgrimssyni

Tómas Á. Tómasson, þáverandi sendiherra Íslands í New York, bauð okkur Geir Hallgrímssyni, þáverandi forsætisráðherra, uppi í annan tvíburaturnanna, þegar við vorum á heimleið af Bilderberg-fundi, sem var haldinn skammt frá Princeton, og höfðum nokkra klukkutíma í New York.

http://www.bjorn.is/pistlar/nr/697

Butcer (talk) 21:17, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your above presentation is long and rambling, mostly impossible to follow. A better way to present things would be to present the individual you want added to the list, a link to the citation, and a short quote from the citation. For example:

Example Person, [4], "Example Person attended the 1972 Bilderberg conference."

Can you please present your proposed additions like that? Hipocrite (talk) 21:39, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added the Icelandic politcan with sources that are 100% concrete and are all taken from websites that the icelandic goverment owns expect one and that is the blog of the politcan who went to bilerberg where he talks about going to that meeting (bjorn.is) Butcer (talk) 00:52, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is said that Geir H. Haarde, former PM of Iceland has atttended Bilderberg meetings. The reference is about completely unrelated subject. It is about a query to the then PM about travel expenses that Mr. Haarde made in the parliment. The then PM Hermannsson answeres Mr. Haarde, and names Bilderberg, but in relation to "some ministers". Haarde did not become a minister until 9 years later. Please remove his name or add rightful references. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.158.118.188 (talk) 17:19, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Obama 2008 meeting with Bilderberg?

if any one has seen the film 'The Obama Deception' you know what i'm talking about 139.135.124.151 (talk) 09:36, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No Asian members?

You can't take over the world today without Asians. Seriously Icelandics are on the list, but not Chinese or Indians? What up wit dat?Geo8rge (talk) 18:50, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2009 List of Bilderberg Attendees

Paul Dorneanu of Romania posted a list of attendees from the 2009 Bilderberg conference. http://www.infocon.ro/stiri/2009/05/bilderberg_2009_-_lista_participantilor-20090518-192.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.188.113.180 (talk) 18:09, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That is not a reliable source. Hipocrite (talk) 18:25, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

External links

There are almost 50 external links in this article. 5 listed as external links, the others not, but still covered by WP:EL — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dougweller (talk • contribs) 21:14, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:Bilderberg participants.jpg

File:Bilderberg participants.jpg claims to be sourced from "http://www.dynbase.net/". That website is dead, and there is no indication that it is a reliable source (no indication of where this alleged document came from). If such an unsourced image from no attributable source is acceptable, then surely any miscreant could fake a document (with their favourite list of "evildoers" on it) and Wikipedia would blithely accept it for any old article. So I propose this image can't be relied upon, has no real source, and should be removed. 87.115.168.96 (talk) 22:32, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Prominent Figures

We would be better putting here the most important people only. Then in each page of each meeting (I created 29909, and someone else added 2003 and 2007) we would add all participants. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Echofloripa (talk • contribs) 00:20, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Royalty

Why is the late Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands listed as "royalty" but King Juan Carlos I of Spain is not? --BarendCanada (talk) 05:44, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]