Stresa, Italy-At this year''s secret Bilderberg meeting, some of the world''s most powerful elite focused on U.S. taxes and foreign giveaways, as well as the increasingly violent Iraq occupation and the role the United Nations should play in all future similar outbreaks of violence. Investigation Reveals: Bilderbergers Want Taxes Up, War in Iraq Over Stresa, Italy-At this year''s secret Bilderberg meeting, some of the world''s most powerful elite focused on U.S. taxes and foreign giveaways, as well as the increasingly violent Iraq occupation and the role the United Nations should play in all future similar outbreaks of violence.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world was rumoured to have attendedPrior to the meeting, a Bilderberg memo promised that its members would deal mainly with European-American relations and in that context, with U.S politics, Iraq, the Middle East, European geopolitics, NATO, China, energy and economic problems. image taken down at request of authorWashington Post CEO Donald Graham and Indra K. Nooyi, the president and chairman of PepsiCo, have a friendly chat following their arrival by helicopter.During the conference, Britain came in for harsh criticism for supporting the invasion of Iraq. It was also lambasted for failing to embrace the euro, despite Prime Minister Tony Blair's promise to do so at a Bilderberg meeting some years ago in the Scottish resort of Turnberry.
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High-powered attorney Vernon Jordan was there at Bilderberg yet again.Bilderberg members also expressed frustration with the rising clamor in Britain to quit the European Union.As expected, the United States was heavily criticized for the fact that its foreign aid was a smaller percentage of gross domestic product than that of other nations. That marked the third straight meeting at which Bilderbergers'' decades of almost total congeniality was marred by hostility among the Americans, Britons and continental Europeans.
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Neo-con Douglas Feith, undersecretary for policy in the Department of Defense, makes his way from the lobby of the Grand Hotel in Stresa.The first evidence of division in the ranks was apparent in 2002 when Bilderbergers met at Chantilly, Va., near Washington. Then, Europeans were angry that the United Sates was preparing for an invasion of Iraq. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld tried to placate them with a promise not to invade "this year." Instead, the war began in March 2003.
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Etienne Davignon, pipe-smoking Belgian banker and this year's honorary Bilderberg chairman, talks on a cell phone. Bilderbergers, however, remain united in their long-term goal to strengthen the role the UN plays in regulating global relations. Aside from that objective, other matters on this year''s conference agenda included the following:# British elites are to press on with membership in the European Union despite growing domestic opposition.# The Free Trade Area of the Americas should be enacted and include the entire Western Hemisphere except for Cuba until Fidel Castro is gone. It should then evolve into the "American Union" as a carbon copy of the European Union.# An "Asian-Pacific Union" is to emerge as the third great superstate, neatly dividing the world into three great regions for the administrative convenience of banking and corporate elites. The United States and other international financial institutions should facilitate and administrate these global trade pacts.image taken down at request of authorNo surprise, accused war criminal Henry Kissinger is still a power player at Bilderberg.Bilderbergers have, for some time, argued for three global currencies-the euro for Europe, the dollar for the American Union and another for the "Asian-Pacific Union."
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Richard Holbrooke, a key aide to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and a former UN ambassador, also on his cell phone.One Bilderberger, Kenneth Clarke, a former chancellor of the British exchequer, saw the consolidation of currencies as an ideal strategy when he spoke to this reporter several years ago in Portugal. At that time, Clarke told me that "dollarization" would dominate the globe and "our children will laugh at all the petty currencies we have now."
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Hasan Cemal, a senior columnist with Turkey's popular Milliyet daily newspaper.Another much-discussed subject at this year''s conference was the concept of imposing a direct UN tax on people worldwide. In order to achieve it, some Bilderbergers presented two proposals: a tax on oil at the wellhead and a tax on international financial transactions. image taken down at request of authorBilderberg luminary David Rockefeller appears annoyed as he lifts his head from a bowl of soup at an outdoor cafe in the hotel.Bilderberg leaders tilted strongly toward the oil tax because everyone who drives a car, rides public transportation or flies in a plane will end up paying the tax. That will represent more people than those engaged in international financial transactions across the globe.
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Henri de Castries, the chairman of France's massive AXA Insurance company.On the issue of Iraq, European Bilderbergers were more upset that the United States invaded without the UN''s blessing than the fact that over 800 American soldiers have died and thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens have been killed. image taken down at request of authorMartin Wolf, an associate editor at The Financial Times.Word reached the conference from Rumsfeld, who was unable to attend this year''s meeting, that the U.S. military would assume a more defensive stance in Iraq, rather than the more provocative operations of door-to-door searches and widespread detention. image taken down at request of authorRichard Perle (far right), chief architect of the war in Iraq and now considered “on the outs� after the Iraq war blew up in America's face, laughs and talks with Vernon Jordan and other unidentified Bilderbergers.Rumsfeld was, however, represented in Stresa by Douglas Feith, his undersecretary for policy, and William Luti, deputy undersecretary for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs. Former Pentagon advisor Richard Perle, one of the major architects of the war in Iraq, was also present. It had been Perle, Feith and Paul Wolfowitz who, from the mid 1990s, had fashioned the Middle East policy later adopted by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. image taken down at request of authorAn Italian journalist reads an Italian daily's front-page report on the Bilderberg meeting in Stresa. While the European press covered the gathering, the U.S. mainstream media all but ignored the important secret confab.European Bilderbergers also protested the fact that the Pentagon was considering reducing troop levels in Germany and tried hard to convince their American counterparts to resist the move. They argued it would "undermine unity" and, irrespective of the military implications, the German economy benefited annually from the millions of dollars spent by U.S. servicemen there.Resistance in Britain to the euro, and to membership in the European Union, caused much concern and was deemed an obstacle to the solidification of the superstate.It was noted that many Europeans were unaware of the European Parliament elections scheduled for June 10 and should there be a low turnout, it could be attributed to a protest boycott of the elections by EU opposition groups.Four former Conservative members of Parliament have endorsed the United Kingdom Independence Party, which demands British withdrawal from the European Union. And, if allowed to vote in a referendum, it has been reported that Britons would reject membership in the European Union by strong proportions. A YouGov survey, taken at the end of May, showed 48 percent would vote to get out of the European Union and 36 percent would vote to stay in.As it stands, Europeans can only select members for the European Parliament but not the EU Commission, the bureaucratic powerhouse of the union.Bilderberg participants ended their secret sessions on an upbeat note with a ferry ride to a luxury island on Lake Maggiore, where John Elkman, the latest vice president of the Fiat motor company, will marry his new bride in September.07Jun04 - By James P. Tucker Jr. (American Free Press)http://www.americanfreepress.nethttp://www.bilderberg.org/2004.htm#AFPImages were taken down due to request from author, to gain access to these images see american free press.Thanks,