Talk:List of Bilderberg attendees
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[edit] Clean up
In an attempt to clean up the article on the Bilderberg Group, I've created a this 'List of Bilderberg attendees' page. The idea is to remove the long lists of attendees, and the attendent list of references, to a separate page. Thus far I have moved 'EU Commissioners'. In this way, I hope the main article can focus on the nature of the Group, and perhaps a few key members, leaving wrangling over detail to an auxiliary list. I guess there may have been up to a thousand attendees by now, many of who are notable in their particular field. However, we cannot list them all in the main article, or it will dwarf the descriptive part of the text.
To those who protest that the existence of a 'Bilderberg Group' is an unproven conspiracy theory, or a subject of no general interest, I can only say that, initially, I have added no new information, only split out a list from an existing article tagged with a cleanup notice, in an attempt to clean it up. - Crosbiesmith 22:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
See Jon Ronson's book "Them" for some other Bilderberg attendees -- including Theresa Heinz Kerry's ex-husband, I believe. When I get ahold of the book again I'll add something, unless someone gets to it first.
Does the year in parentheses after a persons name indicate the year of attendance? If so "Pierre Trudeau (2003), Canadian Prime Minister, 1968 - 1984" is incorrect as Trudeau died in 2000.
"Paul Gigot" is not a "UK Cabinet Minister"!
To all conspiracists: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands could not, in any way, affect politics in the Netherlands or anywhere else, since she has no political power whatsoever. It is, however, a reason to hold these conferences in private, since she is forbidden by dutch law to be publicly involved in politics, and I expect other attendees would also like to share their ideas in private for a change. A conspiracy? Then it would be a rather useless one. Λυομαι Luomai 08:51, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
As we can find out from the main page for the Bilderberg Group, each year about 100-120 persons of public interest participate in this conference. I agree that a list of participants blows up the article quite a lot, however, having a single page for the attendants of (potentially) all conference will produce a list with more than 1000 names easily. I suggest instead of merging lists for single years into a potentially ever growing list to branch out pages for attendance lists for single years, as at least the last 10 to 20 years of this conference have been investigated a lot. Lord Chao 10:46, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] attendees by year
i think it would be a good idea to include a list of attendees by year grtz —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.53.88.129 (talk) 19:40, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] references
please could people reference the names. there are lots of valid/solid references out there. for the year issue, people should put year to indicate attendance.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:14, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Fritz Teufel
The name of the former prime minister of Baden-Wurttemberg is Erwin Teufel. Not Fritz Teufel. This could be an error if he is really the person who is meant.
[edit] Gerhard Schröder (German attendee)
I am not sure if the Gerhard Schröder mentioned in the list is the right person: The former Chancellor Schröder finished his law studies in 1971, the year which is given for his attendance of the Bilderberg conference. In my opinion it would not make much sense that such a young man, who was not playing an important role in Germany at that time, would be chosen to take part in the conference. It seems more likely to me that the Gerhard Schröder who took part in this conference was the powerful CDU politician (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der_%28CDU%29), who was in charge of several important offices during the 60s (and therefore more eligible). Could anyone prove my assumption, please? (sorry if my usage of the English language is sometimes a bit curious...) 91.11.241.59 (talk) 19:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
The Gerhard Schröder referred to who actually attended the 1971 conference was in fact the former CDU Foreign Minister and later Defence Minister. It's only a coincidence they both happen to share the same name. —Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|Damian Thorne (talk) 07:29, 27 March 2008 (UTC)]] comment added by Damian Thorne (talk • contribs) 06:54, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Brian Mulroney- possible Canadian attendee?
This was the Prime Minister who dealed with NAFTA and free trade, along with bringing Canada fully into the G7. I was wondering if anyone here knows whether or not he attended? (many other less prominant Canadian figures have already attended). Creamycoffee (talk) 06:57, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to disappoint you, Creamycoffee, but unfortunately, Mulroney never attended Bilderberg. Why he didn't attend the '83 meeting in Montebello is beyond me. The Canadian Prime Ministers who did attend through the years were Lester Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien, Paul Martin and current PM Stephen Harper. In addition to Mulroney, the other Canadian PM's who never attended were John Diefenbaker (he was a Freemason), Joe Clark (he was a member of the Trilateral Commission), John Turner (he's a Rhodes Scholar) and Kim Campbell (she attended the Renaissance Weekend). Mulroney was involved with the Carlyle Group and is also on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Damian Thorne (talk) 01:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] I don't know how this works
But an inside source at the Westfield Mariott in Chantilly, VA told me that Obama just arrived (June 6th, 2008 around 8pm EST.)
[edit] Please try and reference and date all people!
I can see people have been adding dates which is a good, but there really needs to be references for everything. Chendy (talk) 12:06, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
