{news} : GP RELEASE Greens issue wrap-up on Bilderberg conference

[Justine McCabe]

> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
> http://www.gp.org
>
> For Immediate Release:
> Wednesday, June 14, 2006
>
> Contacts:
> Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org
> Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at greens.org
>
>
> Greens issue wrap-up on Bilderberg conference
>
>
> 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 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."
>
>
> MORE INFORMATION
>
> Green Party of the United States
> http://www.gp.org
> 1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
> Washington, DC 20009.
> 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
> Fax 202-319-7193
>
> Bilderberg Conferences: Recovered History
> The Progressive Review
> http://prorev.com/recovered7.htm#bilderberg.htm
>
>
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