Bilderberg
- international interest gathers momentum over "revelations" in The News
Sintra "summit"
agenda leaked
The tentative agenda for the Bilderberg meeting scheduled for June 3 to June 6
at the Penha Longa resort in Sintra has been revealed to The News by an internationally
respected and long-serving Canadian researcher on the activities of this group.
Amongst matters on the agenda are: Global governance, including a review on the
progress in the formation of an Asian bloc under the leadership of Japan; The
Kosovo war, including the formation of an "independent" Kosovo; The ultimate replacement
of NATO with a Western European Army and the appointment of a Y2K (Year 2000)
Czar (Mikhail Gorbachev could be a front runner for this post) to oversee global
passage through the Y2K Emergency which they feel will be much worse than expected.
Meanwhile, the only official "comment" The News could manage to obtain, was from
the Bilderberg European Press Office in Amsterdam, confirming that just one press
release will be issued on the first day of the "summit" (June 3).
The News is today publishing, for the first time anywhere in the world, reliable
indications of the agenda items for this year's meeting. The items on the agenda
should however be treated as "tentative" and "flexible", and confirmation from
the group itself is not possible due to its secretive nature.
John K. Whitley, an internationally respected researcher into the Bilderberg movement,
has sent us what is reliably believed to be the Sintra agenda. The items are as
credible as they can be at this late stage and, bearing in mind the secrecy of
this group, it could have been already altered somewhat since the last contact
was made with a Bilderberger insider. The entire agenda will be printed in the
Toronto-based New World Order Intelligence Update later this week at www.inforamp.net/~jwhitley/bild98.htm
The first
point open for discussion in Sintra will be the review of the progress being made
in the formation of an Asian bloc under the leadership of Japan. Free trade, a
single currency and a political union similar to the European Union is planned
for the region. The installation of an American Union is up for discussion, this
being similar to the E.U, with a quick review of the scheduled splintering of
Canada. This theme was originally scheduled for discussion in 1997, though the
proposed break-up of Canada has been reportedly facilitated by the presence of
a Canadian media magnate and alleged Bilderberger.
Next on the agenda, and more contemporary, is the Kosovo war. The Bilderberg meeting
will include discussions on the formation of a greater Albanian state following
"trusteeship" of an "independent" Kosovo, the dismemberment of Yugoslavia (by
the return of its northern province, which has 350,000 ethnic Hungarians, to Hungary)
as part of a general re-drawing of borders in the region (calculated to continue
regional instability and conflict), and the reconstruction worth billions of dollars
of the destroyed regional infrastructure at western tax payers' expense.
Another item is the ultimate replacement of NATO with a Western European Army,
probably sooner than later due to the bad press NATO has endured over this current
campaign. Efforts will be made to speed up the transformation of the W.E.U into
a credible European military force initially relying on American back up. This
will complete American military disengagement from Western Europe and leave US
forces available for wider global policing, if necessary, with W.E.U. backup in
return (first reported on the Bilderberg plan in the 1996 Bilderberg report).
The key
point here is that the Bilderbergers win no matter what happens to NATO - if it
survives a little longer, they can use it as an emergency global police force;
if it loses credibility over the Kosovo affair, then they just accelerate its
replacement in Europe with the W.E.U. which they planned on doing anyway. Bilderbergers
are said to be extremely concerned about the global impact of, and opportunities
offered by, the Y2K problem (which the Bilderbergers believe to be far worse than
many people have realised). The alleged presence of Bill Gates at the Sintra meeting
may substantiate this claim. On the possible appointment of a Y2K Czar to oversee
global passage through the "Y2K Emergency" (one name repeatedly coming up as the
most likely candidate here is Mikhail Gorbachev, whose international standing
would win him ready acceptance).
Other key topics so far are said to be some oil items and financial affairs (IMF,
U.S. economy and stock market, gold market manipulation).
With the meeting now only a few days away, nothing has appeared in the Portuguese,
European or international media, though the internet is 'alive' with speculation.
One international press agency in Lisbon is reported to have said that it has
been waiting for the international press to request stories or photos, yet so
far not one single request has been received from anywhere.
The wall of silence remains impregnable - almost!
Stop
Press:
As
The News went to press on Thursday we received two additional agenda items from
John Whitley.
1. Preparation for a "mid-East peace settlement" (ie - the declaration of a Palestinian
State and the final disposition of Jerusalem - quote: "The results for Israel
will not be good.") This explains the heavy emphasis on Israeli and international
Jewish representation, plus the attendance of key representatives of Arab regimes
which are implacably opposed to Israel - quote: "The deal on Jerusalem has already
been done, and the Golan issue is being ironed out right now."
2. Global taxation in support of the UN, as the emerging "global governance" centre,
to begin with a world-wide tax on e-commerce (this may be why the CEO's of so
many key computer companies, including Bill Gates, are in attendance) and to be
followed by an individual direct tax collected on the UN's behalf by national
governments.
This
is a long item, but it shows two things:
First,
the European Economic Community has learned to make long wordy papers which signify,
in the main, nothing. This reminds us of the United Nations and the United
States Congress and Presidency.
Second,
numbers 16-18 below are the real reason for this paper and resolution. Read
it carefully, and then you will understand the strategy of the New World Order
in regard to cyberspace and YOU.
Thus:
Resolution on the recommendation to the European Council: Europe and the global
information society and the communication from the Commission to the Council and
the European Parliament and to the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee
of the Regions: Europe's way to the information society: an action plan.
The European Parliament, having regard to the Commission's White Paper: 'Growth,
Competitiveness, Employment', having regard to the recommendation to the
European Council: 'Europe and the global information society', having regard
to the communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament
and to the
Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: 'Europe's way
to the information society: an action plan' (COM(94)0347 - C4-0093/94), having
regard to Rule 148 of its Rules of Procedure, having regard to the interim report
of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy and the
opinion of the Committee on Regional Policy (A4-0073/94),
A. aware that the current social upheavals in the industrialized countries signal
to a large extent, though by no means exclusively a shift towards a post-industrial
society, characterized in particular by the pivotal role that all forms of information,
and the production, dissemination and control thereof, will play, and believing
that resistance to such change by vested interests ought to be minimized,
B. whereas information is not a market like any other and calls into question
democratic principles; whereas pluralism must be guaranteed by the public authorities,
C. whereas
the prospects of the European Union asserting its social and economic role and
democratic legitimacy over the next decade largely depend on its success on establishing
information networks and developing the multi-media applications which will get
the most out of them,
D. whereas the emergence of the information society is based on developments in
computer and telecommunications technologies, but whereas the successful introduction
of these technologies will depend on the collective effort to optimize their development
and access thereto, to create the applications which are most likely to meet the
needs of our societies and economies and to prepare the legal and cultural environment
which will enable the peoples of Europe to incorporate the new opportunities that
will arise into their way of life,
E. whereas, on account of the new technologies, the distinction between broadcasting
and telecommunications needs to be redefined; whereas most laws which apply to
broadcasting contain more requirements as regards substance than those which apply
to telecommunications; whereas the danger therefore exists that certain new forms
of communication such as 'Tele-Shopping', 'Pay-as-you-view', 'Video on demand'
or even special interest broadcasters will wrongly escape the obligation to comply
with the necessary standards laid down in legislation on the media,
F. whereas keen international competition and the economic and social stakes necessitate
swift decision-making so that the requisite momentum can be created as soon as
possible in order to give the European Union the requisite technical means and
applications meeting the specific needs of our societies, and to include the prospects
for these in our training systems and in the various policy areas that will be
affected (town planning and transport, health, the media, etc.),
G. whereas Europe's industries are currently at the same level as their international
competitors but whereas any delay by Europe in taking the necessary regulatory
and investment decisions would prevent them from acquiring the references they
need in order to assert themselves on world markets,
H. whereas attractive, low-cost services and applications will only become available
at an early date if there are substantial reductions in telecommunications charges
and if large numbers of private investors become involved in their implementation,
I. whereas
it is therefore necessary to introduce competitive mechanisms in the field of
telecommunications infrastructures, to unify the regulatory constraints on telecommunications
services and audiovisual products, and to provide all players with a stable regulatory
framework fundamentally geared to the long-term protection of the economic, legal,
cultural and social interests of the citizens of the Union, in order to guarantee
equal access to information and communication,
J. whereas the action plan submitted by the Commission does not broach the problem
of protecting children and young people,
K. whereas the scope of the expected developments can at present only be guessed
at, and whereas it is impossible to predict at this stage the sectors and directions
which will be most attractive to investors and the public, which means that this
unified regulatory framework must be designed from the outset as an open-ended,
predictable and adaptable system, in the development of which all socially relevant
groups will be involved, which is structured on participatory lines and which
can be corrected and adjusted in the light of its anticipated social implications
so as to ensure that it is socially acceptable,
L. whereas the information society will operate on a global scale and whereas
it is therefore vital to coordinate the efforts being undertaken by all the countries
involved in the same process, not omitting to take into account the conditions
and special needs of Third World countries, Russia, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean
countries,
1.Acknowledges that the change which will be brought about by the transition to
the information society will in the long run produce effects as wide-ranging as
those of the first industrial revolution owing to its impact on economic processes,
the transformation of the role and expectations of the various social actions
and its influence on all society's activities, however far removed they may appear
to be from technological applications, and probably on our own value systems themselves;
calls therefore for the systematic participation of the European Parliament in
all decisions concerning the further development of the information society;
2.Considers that, if the development of information highways is not sufficiently
well structured, it could lead to all types of abuse and undermining of democracy
by creating a gulf between those who are able to master this technological instrument
and those who are not;
3.Calls attention to the fact that the great opportunities of the information
society are threatened by the risks of exclusion of non-skilled or low-qualified
people, the emergence of a two-tier society, the increase in inequality between
regions, between urban and rural areas, between central and peripheral areas,
the increase in the isolation of individuals, intrusion into private life and
various other ethical problems;
4.Emphasizes that, in conditions of unemployment such as those prevailing in the
Union at the moment, the information revolution will prove its worth to society
and ultimately consolidate itself only to the extent that its impact on the employment
situation turns out to be on balance, positive;
5.Considers it the duty of employers, employees and the state jointly to formulate
in a clear manner and effectively manage such problems, with particular attention
to making universally available the training and retraining necessary to bring
the level of skills of the labour force up to the level required by the new technologies;
6.Calls
for the protection of European cultural and democratic values by ensuring that
as much importance is attached to cultural, social and societal aspects as to
economic interests and that the principles of equality, easy access, low costs,
the provision of certain basic services free of charge, as provided in particular
by public broadcasting organizations, and freedom of choice are respected;
7.Approves the aim, set out in the White Paper and confirmed by the European Council,
of equipping the European Union as soon as possible with a high-capacity telecommunications
infrastructure allowing it to benefit in full, and at a minimum cost to users,
from both new multi- media applications and traditional services;
8.Considers that the establishment of a high-capacity telecommunications infrastructure,
particularly in connection with trans-European networks, involves more than equipment
and operating systems, and that it should cover the creation, at the same time,
of a core of basic functions and services available to those using and providing
applications;
9.Considers that it will to be possible to stimulate investment at the same time
as cutting access costs without the spur of competition in access to telecommunications
infrastructures, which entails the need, in the short term, for controlled liberalization
of such telecommunications infrastructures, with due regard to the proper utilization
of the vast excess capacity present in already existing networks;
10.Calls for SMUs to be given special consideration concerning access to the new
telecommunications structures and for these structures and the main commercial
services to be accessible for non-profit-making organizations in particular;
11.Considers that the definition of universal service, in the context of a diversified
supply of multi-media services, is liable to change and must in any event be drawn
more widely than the principles and spheres of application recognized in the Council
resolution of 7 February 1994 (1) ; recalls, in this connection, its resolution
of 6 May 1994 (2) on the communication from the Commission accompanied by the
proposal for a Council resolution on universal service principles in the telecommunications
sectors and invites the Commission to bring forward publication of the report
referred to in the above Council resolution and include integrated-services networks;
stresses that services such as public health care, education and training must
remain public and that a comprehensive solution must be found by means of guaranteed
access to the new information and communications technologies;
12.Considers that, apart from regulatory obstacles, investment may also be impeded
by a 'wait-and-see' attitude on the part of investors, uncertain as to the future
state of demand, in which case it is the task of public authorities to guide,
encourage and coordinate investment initiatives, refocussing adequately public
spending programmes on the new targets in question;
13.Urges that the Community rules that have already been adopted in the field
of telecommunications should be effectively implemented and enforced and demands
that the Commission should fully assume all its responsibilities as guardian of
the Treaties by making use of all the powers conferred upon it by those Treaties;
14.Invites
all the Community institutions to introduce as soon as possible a regulatory framework
combining stability as regards its principles and programmed change as regards
its content, this being necessary to create the predictable environment conducive
to decisions on investment by all the operators concerned;
15.Considers that this legal framework should define the principles relating to
the protection of young people, to the protection of social rights in the field
of social security and health care and to equality of opportunity which apply
to the new conditions associated with teleworking, telemedicine and distance learning,
and that these principles should be implemented at the most appropriate decision-making
level;
16.Considers
that Community-wide rules will have to be defined for the following:
--the granting of licences,
--interconnection,
--access
to networks for users and suppliers of services,
--guarantee of universal service,
--charging, in particular the setting of socially and regionally differentiated
tariffs,
--security of operation and protection of networks against malicious or accidental
intrusion (network integrity),
--protection and remuneration of intellectual property,
--cryptography and electronic signatures,
--protection of private and personal information,
--consumer protection;
17.Expresses
concern about the increased dangers for pluralism arising from the obliteration
of the boundaries between suppliers of infrastructure, services or applications
and content at multinational level, and calls for the formulation at Community
level of uniform rules for the control of concentrations
with regard to both infrastructures and basic services and applications, in particular
to ensure separation between audiovisual or multimedia production activities and
the operation of infrastructures and basic services;
18.Warns
the Community institutions and the Member States against the substantial risks
(inconsistency, delay, extra cost and inefficiency) that handling these matters
nationally or the duplication by the Member States of Community measures would
entail and therefore advocates the creation of a European regulatory authority
with, along the lines of the Federal Communication Committee, exclusive responsibility
for ensuring compliance with the rules referred to above;
19.Considers that it is incumbent upon the public authorities actively to promote,
both by setting an example and by using financial incentives, the swift establishment
of, initially European standards and, subsequently, international standards enabling
networks and applications to be interconnected under optimum conditions and without
any deterioration in performance or user friendliness and encouraging the dissemination
of multimedia products on a pan-European scale, while taking account of the specific
linguistic and cultural characteristics of the peoples of Europe;
20.Calls on the national and Community authorities to take the lead in equipping
the European Union with the corresponding applications designed to meet real social
needs which cannot be met by market forces without an initial stimulus, or wherever
market forces show themselves excessively slow in calling forth commercial applications
of new research results; calls on them to provide the necessary resources for
this purpose both by direct funding, in particular from the Structural and Cohesion
Funds, and by the eventual introduction of a contribution from suppliers of commercial
services;
21.Welcomes the new technological developments as an opportunity to create modern
and environmentally safe jobs and to make human work easier; calls however for
an detailed evaluation of the challenges and risks of a new approach to work,
as a result of the shift of emphasis from the place of work to the product and
the concept of telecommuting to indicate geographical distance from colleagues
and/or the undertaking;
22.Calls for a social dialogue with the collective bargaining partners on socially
acceptable rules which take into account the risks and challenges of the new work
culture engendered by the development of communications networks, with the resulting
changes in conditions of employment, the danger of undermining freedom of association
and trade union representation as a result of the decentralization and individualization
of working relations and the geographical isolation from colleagues and the company
of employment which teleworking involves;
23.Calls on the Community institutions and the Member States to encourage the
development of applications in the general interest, especially those which will
further the aims of education and training, regional planning in the interests
of geographically disadvantaged or industrially declining areas of Europe, health
care, democracy and the fight against social marginalization, in order to provide
proof of the job creation potential offered by the information society and to
contribute to a positive perception of the information society among the public;
24.Requests
the Commission to examine carefully the centralizing as well as the decentralizing
effects of information technologies on regional, economic and social cohesion;
25.Believes
that the availability of virtually unlimited means of transmitting information
is one way of increasing the transparency of public life and that it is incumbent
upon the Community institutions and the Member States to make systematic provision
for citizens to have electronic access, at reasonable cost, to all documents which
are by law in the public domain;
26.Calls on the Council and the Commission to introduce a Public Information Service
which can be accessed at public libraries and other public buildings;
27.Undertakes, as far as Parliament itself is concerned, to develop such access
at the earliest opportunity and calls on its Secretary-General to submit proposals
to this effect by 30 June 1995;
28.Points out that no solution has yet been found within GATT with regard to the
rules applicable to copyright and the audiovisual sector or issues concerning
the telecommunications sector, and urges that the European infrastructure, services
and applications markets should only be opened up to third countries if they provide
effective and economically attractive concessions in return, in particular strict
reciprocity with regard to the conditions of access to markets;
29.Considers that the European Parliament should be officially represented at
the coming G7 conference on the information society;
30.Stresses that the development of an information society must take place within
an appropriate legal and regulatory framework which must be defined in a concomitant
fashion, since such a development will only have desirableconsequences if guidelines
and operating rules are also established at supranational level;
31.Considers that there are no grounds for opposing the rapid development of an
extraordinary technological innovation and the objective which consists in equipping
the European Union with its own normative instruments and operational programmes
in order to ensure its presence in a market which is increasingly acquiring a
worldwide dimension;
32.Deplores the fact that no proposal for a directive has yet been submitted to
promote, in accordance with the wishes expressed by Parliament, the plurality
of information, to prevent unlawful mergers and to contribute, in association
with the laws of the Member States, to the establishment of fair, healthy competition
between companies operating in this sector and to transparency as regards ownership
rules;
33.Fully supports the establishment of an authority at European level which, in
strict compliance with the subsidiarity principle, will ensure effective convergence
of decisions and programmes and will maintain a permanent watch over the free
play of competition and the development of genuine pluralism;
34.Supports the objective of infrastructure liberalization whilst stressing that
this must be based on a broad consensus and take into account the general interest,
the public service role performed by telecommunications and the length of time
required to implement the necessary changes;
35.Expresses its concern at the delay in the implementation of the programme relating
to the protection of intellectual property, in particular copyright and related
rights, and calls for the provisions laid down to be adopted in due course; draws
particular attention to the urgency of the directive concerning the use of copies
of audio-visual products for private purposes;
36.Awaits with interest the Commission Green Paper on intellectual property rights
in the information society and stresses the need to adopt legislative measures
in this field so as to ensure effective protection of creative artists' rights
- copyright and related rights - in the process of implementing the 'new media'
(on-line services, theme-based channels, pay TV, pay-as-you-view, etc.), which
are not necessarily covered by the existing rules;
37.Considers that the development of digital transmission must be accompanied
by increased protection for works covered by copyright and greater efforts to
combat piracy in view of the opportunities for manipulating and utilizing works,
and recalls in this connection its support for the basic principles of copyright
as enshrined in the Berne Convention;
38.Calls for the proposed revision of Directive 89/552/EEC to be submitted as
soon as possible so that its substance can be clarified and strengthened (in particular
Articles 4 and 5) and so that the directive can be updated in the light of the
major upheavals currently taking place in the field of radio and television broadcasting;
39.Points
out that, as regards the audio-visual sector, there are grounds for consolidating
the partially successful results obtained in the GATT negotiations and the freedom
of action granted to the European Union, whilst asserting the special nature of
the sector and the special treatment it should receive;
40.Considers that it would be a major error to include all products or all works
in a single general information category and therefore stresses the need to guarantee
as a matter of urgency, and in a modern, efficient fashion, protection for databases
and the freedom of the individual by means of a framework directive on the protection
of personal data and privacy;
41.Shares the concern of those who consider that, if no account is taken of the
social, cultural and linguistic aspects of the information society such as it
is emerging at international level, if strict coordination is not instituted in
the field of scientific research and technological development and if a 'contents
strategy' allowing the current challenges to be met is not defined within the
audio-visual sector, the hopes raised may well prove to be the results of excessive
euphoria rather than the outcome of a serious assessment of existing potential;
42.Instructs
its President to forward this resolution to the European Council, the Council,
the Commission and the governments and parliaments of the Member States.
©ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels-Luxembourg,
1995
COMMENT
by Editor, Blessed Quietness Journal: Whenever someone has 42 reasons for
doing something, I assume they have only two reasons, and the other 40 are there
to hide the real motives.
