Anybody still think John Edwards the Breck Girl has any merit for being an
American President?
Though no one knows for sure who will be at this weekend's gathering, among
those attending the 2004 meeting in Italy, according to a list obtained by
WND, were Edwards, Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J.; Henry Kissinger;
Richard Perle; Melinda Gates (wife of Bill Gates); David Rockefeller;
Timothy F. Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;
Donald Graham, chairman and CEO of the Washington Post Company; and Ralph
Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition.
N - Auser, Svein - CEO, DnB NOR ASA; D - Ackermann, Josef - Chairman, Group
Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG; I - Ambrosetti, Alfredo - Chairman,
Abbrosetti Group; TR - Babacan, Ali - Minister of Economic Affairs; P -
Balsemao, Francisco Pinto - Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, SGPS, Former Prime
Minister; ISR - Barnavie, Elie - Department of General History, Tel-Aviv
University; I - Benedetti, Rodolfo De - CEO, CIR; I - Bernabe, Franco - Vice
Chairman, Rothschild Europe; F - Beytout, Nicolas - Editor In Chief, Les
Echos; INT - Bolkestein, Frits - Commissioner for the Internal Market,
European Commission, former leader of Dutch right wing Liberal Party VVD;
USA - Boot, Max - Neoconservative, Council on foreign
Relations, Features Editor, Wall Street Journal; CH - Borel, Daniel
- Chairman, Logitech International S.A.; I - Bortoli, Ferrucio de - CEO, RCS
Libri; S - Brock, Gunnar - CEO, Atlas Copco AB; GB - Browne, John - Group
Chief Executive, BP plc; NL - Burgmans, Antony - Chairman, Unilever NV; F -
Camus, Phillipe - CEO, European Aeronautic Defenceand Space NV; I - Caracciolo, Lucio - Director, Limes
Geopolitical Review; F - Castries, Henri de - Chairman, AXA
Insurance; E - Cebrian, Juan Luis - CEO, PRISA (Spanish language
media company), former Chairman, International Press Institute; TR - Cemal,
Hasan - Senior Columnist, Milliyet Newspaper; GB - Clarke, Kenneth - Member
of Parliament (Con.), Deputy Chairman, British American
Tobacco; USA - Collins, Timothy C - MD and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings
LLC, Yale School of Management, Trilateral
Commission; USA - Corzine, Jon S. - Senator (D, New Jersey),
Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs; CH - Couchepin, Pascal -
Former Swiss President, Head of Home affairs Dept.; GR - David, George A. -
Chairman, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company SA; B - Dehaene, Jean-Luc -
Former Prime Minister, Mayor of Vilvoorde; TR - Dervis, Kemal - Member of
Parliament, former senior World bank official; GR - Diamantopoulou, Anna -
Member of Parliament, former European Commissioner for Social Affairs; USA -
Donilon, Thomas L - Vice-President, Fannie Mae,
Council on Foreign Relations; I - Draghi, Mario - Vice
Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs; USA - Edwards, John - Senator
(D. North Carolina), Democratic Presidential Candidate; DK - Eldrup, Anders
- Chairman, DONG gas company (becoming privatised) A/S; DK - Federspiel,
Ulrik - Ambassador to the USA; USA - Feith, Douglas J. - Undersecretary for
Policy, Department of Defense; I - Galateri, Gabriele - Chairman,
Mediobanca; USA - Gates, Melinda F. - Co-Founder, Gates Foundation, wife of
Bill Gates; USA - Geithner, Timothy F. - President, Federal Reserve
Bank of New York; I - Giavazzi, Francesco - Professor of Economics,
Bocconi University; adviser, world bank and European Central bank; IRL -
Gleeson, Dermot - Chairman Allied Irish Bank Group (currently being
investigated for personal and corporate tax evasion); USA - Graham, Donald
E. - Chairman and CEO, Washington Post Company; USA - Haas, Richard N. -
President, Council on Foreign Relations, former Director of Policy and
Planning staff, State Department; NL - Halberstadt, Victor - Professor of
Economics, Leiden University; B - Hansen, Jean-Pierre - Chairman, Suez
Tractabel SA; S - Heikensten, Lars - Governor, Swedish Central Bank; USA -
Holbrooke, Richard C - Vice Chairman, Perseus, former Director, Council on
Foreign Relations, former Assistant Secretary of State; USA - Hubbard, Allen
B - President E&A Industries; USA - Issacson, Walter - President and
CEO, Aspen Institute; USA - Janow, Merit L. - Professor, International
Economic Law and International Affairs, Columbia University; USA - Jordan,
Vernon E. Senior Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co LLC; USA - Kagan,
Robert - Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace; GB - Kerr, John - Director, Shell, Rio Tinto,
Scottish American Investment Trust; USA - Kissinger Henry A. - Chairman,
Kissinger Associates Inc.; TR - Koc, Mustafa V. - Chairman, Koc Holdings AS;
NL - Koenders, Bert (AG) - Member of Parliament, president, Parliamentary
Network of the World Bank; USA - Kovner, Bruce - Chairman Caxton Associates
LLC, Chairman, American Enterprise Institute; USA - Kravis,
Henry R. - Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., acquisitions
financier; USA - Kravis, Marie Josee - Senoir Fellow, Hudson Institute Inc.;
FIN - Lehtomaki, Paula - Minister of Foreigh Trade and Development; FIN -
Lipponen, Paavo - Speaker of Parliament; CHN - Long, Yongtu - Secretary
General, Boao forum for Asia; P - Lopes, Pedro M. Santana - Mayor of Lisbon;
USA - Luti, William J. - Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern
and South Asian Affairs; CDN - Lynch, Kevin G. - Deputy Minister, Department
of Finance; USA - Mathews, Jessica T. - President, Carnegie Endowment for
International War Peace; USA - McDonough, William J. - Chairman and CEO,
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, former president, Federal Reserve
Bank of New York; CDN - McKenna, Frank - Counsel, McInnes Cooper, former
premier of New Brunswick; I - Merlini, Cesare - Executive Vice Chairman,
Council for the United States and Italy, Council on Foreign Relations,
former director, Italian Institute for International Affairs; F - Montbrial,
Thierry de - President, French Institute of International Relations; INT -
Monti, Mario - Competition Commissioner, European Commission; USA - Mundie,
Craig J. - Chief Technical Officer, Advanced Strategies and Policies,
Microsoft Corporation; N - Myklebust, Egil - Chairman, Scandinavian Airline
System (SAS); D - Naas, Matthias - Deputy Editor, Die Zeit; NL -
Netherlands, HM Queen Beatrix; GB - Neville-Jones, Pauline - Chairman,
QuinetiQ (UK privatized military research/services company), governor of the
BBC, Chairman Information Assurance Advisory Council, formar Chairman Joint
Intelligence Committee, former Managing Director NatWest Markets; USA -
Nooyi, Indra K. - President and CEO, PepsiCo Inc.; PL - Olechowski, Andrzej
- Leader, Civic Platform; FIN - Ollila, Jorma - Chairman, Nokia Corporation;
INT - Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso - Director, European Central Bank; CY -
Pantelides, Leonidas - Ambassador to Greece; I - Passera, Corrado - CEO,
Banca Intesa SpA; USA - Perle, Richard N. - Resident Fellow, American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, former Likud policy
adviser, former chair Defence Policy Board, former co-chairman, Hollinger
Digital; B - Phillipe, HRH Prince; USA - Reed, Ralph E. - President, Century
Strategies; CDN - Reisman, Heather - President and CEO, Indigo Books and
Music Inc.; I - Riotta, Gianni - Editorialist, Corriere della Serra; USA -
Rockefeller, David - Member JP Morgan International
Council, Chairman, Council of the Americas; E - Riodriguez Inearte, Matias -
Vice Chairman, Grupo Santander; USA - Ross, Dennis B - Director, The
Washington Institute for Near East Policy; D - Sandschneider,
Eberhard - Director, Research Institute, German Society for Foreign Policy;
I - Scaroni, Paolo - CEO, Enel SpA; D - Schilly, Otto - Minister of the
Interior; USA - Schnabel, Rockwell A. - Ambassador to the EU; A - Scholten,
Rudolf - Director, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG; D - Schrempp, Jurgen E.
- Chairman, DaimlerChrysler AG; E - Serra Rexach, Eduardo - Head, Real
Institute Elcano; RUS - Shevtsova, Lilia - Senior Associate. Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace; PL - Sikora, Slawomir - President and
CEO, Citibank Handlowy; I - Siniscalo, Domenico - Director General Ministry
of the Economy; P - Socrates, Jose - Member of Parliament; USA - Strmecki,
Marin J. - Smith Richardson Foundation; B - Struye de Swielande, Dominique -
Permanant repressentative of Belguim, NATO; IRL - Sutherland, Peter D. -
Chairman, Goldman Sachs International, Chairman, BP plc; USA - Thornton,
John L. - Chairman, Brookings Institution, Professor, Tsinghua University; I
- Tremonti, Giulio - Minister of Economy and Finance; INT - Trichet,
Jean-Claude - President, European Central Bank; I - Tronchetti Provera,
Marco - Chairman and CEO, Pirelli SpA; N - Underdal, Arild - Rector,
University of Oslo; CH - Vasella, Daniel L. - Chairman and CEO,
Novartis AG; NL - Veer, Jeroen van der - Chairman, Committee of
Managing Directors, Royal Dutch/Shell; GB - Verwaayen, Ben J. M. - CEO,
British Telecom; former director, Lucent Technologies; I - Visco, Ignazio -
Foriegn Affairs Manager, Banca D'Italia; INT - Vitorino, Antonio M. -
Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner, European Union; INT - Vries, Gijs M.
de - EU Counter Terrorism Co-ordinator; S - Wallenberg, Jacob - Chairman,
SEB investments (including biotech); Chairman, W Capital Management AB; D -
Weber, Jurgen - Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutche Lufthansa AG;
GB/USA - Weinberg, Peter - CEO, Goldman Sachs International; NL - Wijers,
Hans - Chairman, AkzoNobel NV; D - Wissmann, Matthias - Member of
Parliament; GB - Wolf, Martin H. - Associate Editor/Economic Commentator,
The Financial Times; INT/USA - Wolfenson, James D. - President, The World
Bank; RUS - Yavlinsky, Grigory A. - Member of Parliament; USA - Yergin,
Daniel - Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates; D - Zumwinkel,
Llaus - Chairman, Deutche Post Worldnet AG.
In addition, according to the Bilderberg.org<http://www.bilderberg.org/2004.htm#participants%22>website,
two reporters ("rapporteurs") from the British publication The Economist
will also be attending: Gideon Rachman, Brussels correspondent, and Adrian
D. Wooldridge, the magazine's foreign correspondent.