"The exclusive Club, which met in Sitges, was founded in 1954. It was the idea of Joseph Retinger, a political advisor and analyst. Its original promoters were U.S. tycoon David Rockefeller, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland. Its founding purpose was to combat the growing 'anti-Americanism' existing in Europe at that time and to confront the Soviet Union and communism that was gaining in strength on the European continent."
"The first meeting took place at the Bilderberg Hotel in Osterbeck, Holland, on May 29 and 30, 1954, hence the name of the group which, with the exception of 1976, has since met on an annual basis."
"There is a core group of permanent members who are the 39 members of the steering committee, the rest are guests."
"The organization insists that no one gives interviews or reveals anything that 'any individual participant has said.' The essential requisite is an excellent command of the English language [and] there are no translators present."
"Nobody knows for sure the current reaches of the group. Those who have studied the body say that it is not by chance that it always meets shortly before the G-8 (previously, the G-7) and that it seeks a new world order with one sole government, military, economy and ideology."
David Rockefeller said, in a Newsweek magazine article: "Somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it."
Banker James P. Warburg confirmed: "we shall have a world government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest."
"Ten months beforehand, they knew the exact date of the invasion of Iraq; they also knew what was going to happen with the real estate bubble. With information like that, you can make a lot of money in all kinds of markets. What we are talking about are clubs of power and information."
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