GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
www.GP.org
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@greens.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders today issued their wrap-up assessment of the annual Bilderberg conference, to
which no Green elected officials, candidates, or party leaders were invited.
The Bilderberg meeting, held this past weekend in a suburb near Ottawa, Canada, hosted 130 world leaders, heads of
powerful corporations, and media representatives to discuss topics like free trade agreements, increases in gas prices,
and foreign policy such as the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Despite the presence of leading media representatives and the
discussion of issues of national and world importance, the meeting is secret and was unreported in the U.S. media.
"The Democratic and Republican parties are well-represented at Bilderberg, but Greens are never invited. Alas, we
wouldn't fit it in. The Bilderberg conferences stand for everything the Green Party opposes -- concentration of the world's
wealth and power among a small group of elite corporate and governmental leaders, whose agenda have become largely
realized," said Julia Willebrand, Green candidate for Comptroller of New York, who noted reports that Bill Clinton was
persuaded to support NAFTA as a result of his attendance at at least one Bilderberg meeting in the early 1990s.
Greens noted that one of this year's attendees is Ahmed Chalabi. Mr. Chalabi, who is wanted in Jordan for bank fraud, helped provide false intelligence about the presence of WMDs in Iraq, one of several fraudulent reasons for the U.S. invasion in 2003. Mr. Chalabi, a favorite of the White House and of U.S. warhawks and neo-cons, later became Interim Oil Minister of Iraq at the same time that the U.S. was opening up Iraq resources to foreign (i.e., U.S. corporate) ownership; he also now serves as Deputy Prime Minister despite his widespread unpopularity in Iraq. Greens called Mr. Chalabi's sinister presence typical of the Bilderberg meetings.
Other attendees at the meeting in Ottawa include former U.S. defense policy advisor and Iraq War architect Richard Perle, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, New York governor and possible presidential hopeful George Pataki, Royal Dutch Shell chair Jorma Ollila, former World Bank president James Wolfenson, banker David Rockefeller, Paul Gigot of The Wall Street Journal, and the corporate heads of Coca-Cola.
"Any meeting in which U.S. government leaders are gathering with other nation's leaders, corporate honchos, political thinkers, and other powerful world leaders needs to be reported in the media," said Bob Levis, Green candidate for Congress in Wisconsin (5th District) <http://www.boblevis.org>. "If the major media refuse to report on Bilderberg because they're part of the same cabal, then something truly ominous is taking place. This isn't conspiracy theory. It's conspiracy."
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Bilderberg Conferences: Recovered History
The Progressive Review
http://prorev.com/recovered7.htm#bilderberg.htm
