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18. Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations website<br />

19. Building a North American Community, Council on Foreign Relations, 2005<br />

20. Rockefeller, David, In <strong>the</strong> Beginning…” The Trilateral Commission at 25, 1998,<br />

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The Bilderberg<br />

"Blackout"The press corps' noncoverage of that<br />

weekend conference in Chantilly, Va.<br />

By Jack ShaferPosted Monday, June 9, 2008, at 8:32 PM ET<br />

About this time each year, <strong>the</strong> Bilderberg group convenes a weekend conference in a<br />

hotel or resort somewhere in North America or Europe in which 120 or so billionaires,<br />

bankers, politicians, industrialists, scholars, government officials, influentials from labor<br />

and education, and journalists assemble to discuss world affairs in private.<br />

This year, <strong>the</strong> 56 th Bilderberg meeting took place over <strong>the</strong> weekend at <strong>the</strong> Westfields<br />

Marriott in Chantilly, Va., seven miles from Washington Dulles International Airport. As<br />

in previous <strong>years</strong>, Bilderberg critics are berating <strong>the</strong> mainstream press for observing a<br />

"blackout" of a group <strong>the</strong>y believe directs a secret, shadow government.<br />

The critics claim that Bilderberg grooms future American presidents and future British<br />

prime ministers, pointing to Bill Clinton's attendance in 1991 and Tony Blair's in 1993.<br />

Time magazine reported in 2004 that John Edwards impressed attendees at <strong>the</strong> Bilderberg<br />

session in Italy, after which John Kerry asked him to join his presidential ticket.<br />

According to <strong>the</strong> 1980 book Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning<br />

for World Management, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was enthusiastic about sending<br />

staffers to Bilderberg, President John F. Kennedy drew heavily from Bilderberg alumni—<br />

Dean Rusk, George W. Ball, George McGhee, Walter Rostow, Arthur Dean, and Paul

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