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In 1993 Bilderberg celebrated the collaboration of one of its own members, President Bill Clinton, in helping elevate the United Nations into a world government.

Behind the guarded walls of the elite Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel, situated high on a hill a few miles south of Athens, the secret Bilderberg group once again plotted to exploit the rich natural resources of the former Soviet Union and Indochina.

Also high on the Bilderberg agenda was establishment of a new, huge United Nations bureaucracy on the environment, so the industrialists can reap immense profits from new technology to clean the world's air and water.

Bilderbergers also celebrated the collaboration of one of their own, President Bill Clinton.

"It's really a direct message to us through the newspapers," said Bilderberger Dwayne Andreas, the chairman of billion-dollar agri-giant Archer-Daniels-Midland Company at the time, referring to reports that Clinton promised to sign the Rio Treaty, which calls for billions of American tax dollars to be circulated around the world in the name of a

"clean environment."

"Yes, and he's doing it early in his first term," said Andreas's companion. "George [Bush] wanted to wait until his second term to make a few changes to pacify the American right. Bill seems to understand that if certain things go undone in a first term, there may be no second term."

It was the first indication that there may have been a Bilderberg

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"tilt" toward Clinton to punish Bush for stalling on the Rio Treaty and resisting more new taxes after his broken pledge of 1990 on taxes turned into political suicide.

Bush had been a longtime member of the Trilateral Commission, which has interlocking leadership with Bilderberg. Clinton had been a Trilateralist for seven years and was promoted to the Bilderberg in 1991. Thus, the world shadow government owned both presidential candidates in a typical win-win race.

"If George [had had] a second term, he [might] have moved on health care and new taxes, since he would not have been worried about reelection. And he certainly would have signed the Rio Treaty, possibly with a little political posturing by insisting on nitpicking changes," Andreas said.

"But we would not have fast action, as with Clinton," said the other.

The Rio Treaty calls for establishing a UN commission on the environment. Americans will pay most of a multibillion-dollar program to clean the air and water, preserve topsoil and prevent erosion in undeveloped countries. The rationale is that Americans consume and pollute more than the rest of the world.

Adding a new UN agency to police the environment among once-sovereign nations also advances the Bilderberg goal of turning the UN into a de facto world government. Thus, Bilderberg also celebrated public acceptance of a permanent UN army, in which Americans would fight under a foreign commander who would be accountable only to the Security Council, not the president or Congress. They found it significant that Americans remaining in Somalia were serving under a Turkish general under UN command. Contrary to the Constitution, the president was not their commander in chief.

There will be "more and more Somalias to help the world become accustomed to UN supremacy," said one. "There must be at least five places on Earth so full of misery that we can break American hearts whenever we choose."

2003—Versailles, France: Security was tight as usual at this Bilderberg meeting. That year, we photographed police on motorcycles escorting visiting dignitaries en route to the Bilderberg meeting at the Trianon Palace near Versailles.

There was much discussion of the fighting in Bosnia, but most Europeans urged Americans to shun air strikes and simply enforce the economic embargo.

"It would not be like Somalia, with few casualties and pictures of soldiers feeding starving children," one said. "Planes will be shot down;

airmen will die. And if you get into ground action, there will be many casualties."

"You can't compare it to the Persian Gulf, either, where the terrain made it easy to deploy an overwhelming force, bomb Iraq into rubble, take few casualties and proclaim a great victory," said another. "Your people will not see this as some sort of sporting contest."

Nevertheless, Bilderberg sources said Americans from the State and Defense departments joined the NATO secretary general at the

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time, Woerner, in calling for the UN to authorize air strikes.

"There will be much for the UN forces to do in the years ahead, things of the type that will gain public acceptance for its role anywhere in the world," said another. "UN troops could go into Sudan with food supplies if we made an issue of the people starving there and spread films of misery on the network news."

Bilderberg men expressed some nervousness about getting all West European states to surrender their national sovereignty to a European super state under the terms of the Maastricht Treaty but were confident the North American Free Trade Agreement would be ratified. This too was important to the Bilderberg goal of a world government.

A third "regional government" is to be formed in the Pacific Rim, and the UN is to be the seat of the world government.

To exploit the natural resources of the former Soviet Union and in Indochina, Bilderberg agreed to establish a "High Council" of 12 members. A committee was named to select the 12.

Members must be "of such status that they have instant access to heads of state and parliamentary leaders throughout the world," a Bilderberg speaker said. The 12 will pressure Western nations to send more and more billions to the former Soviet Union. They will claim credit for this help in talking with the leaders of the former Soviet republics.

The 12 will then demand of the republics the right, at an absurdly low price, to extract oil, gold and other precious metals. "The gold in the ground, the oil undrilled, do you no good," the 12 will argue.

"Cooperating on this will mean that we continue to use our influence to get more financial assistance from the West."

It was a typical Bilderberg project: Use public funds—the lion's share coming from American taxpayers—to "pay" for the right to extract oil and precious metals from the former Soviet Union and reap immense profits.

At that time, the only barrier to exploiting the resources in Indochina was America's refusal to "normalize" relations with

2001—Gothenburg, Sweden: Swedish Security forces were out in great numbers patrolling the woods around the Bilderberg conference site making sure reporters and other independent investigators were kept at bay. The police were accompanied by guard dogs. AFP's Christopher Bollyn took this photograph shortly before he was picked up and forcibly taken miles away by local authorities.

Vietnam until the POW-MIA issue is resolved.

The Bilderbergers were considering urging the Vietnamese gov-ernment to take a dramatic step: Admit that some communist troops held some Americans after the war ended and claim they shot them all a few months later. Hanoi was to say, under this scenario, that the officers who ordered the executions were shot as punishment, that the executions were done against orders from the communist regime, and that Vietnam apologizes and wants normal relations.

"It may take something dramatic like this," one said. "Otherwise, the issue may never go away."

The Bilderberg group's concern was oil, not American soldiers being held as slaves in filthy prison camps.

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Not Buying it...

2004—Stresa, Italy: That year a large contingency of Bilderberg security had been given photos of me and knew in advance I was not "Etienne Davignon" as I had wryly told them at the front gate of the meeting site. I promptly turned around and formulated another plan of attack, inevitably gathering vital information about the meeting from sources inside Bilderberg he has been courting over the years.

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