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   From: oO@oO.com   
      
         World's who's who hold secret talks in Ottawa   
         Jun 09 9:57 PM US/Eastern   
      
      
   The world's political elite, top thinkers and powerful business folk   
   gathered here for an annual, ultra-secretive Bilderberg conference as heavy   
   security kept conspiracy theorists and curious onlookers at bay.   
      
   Global luminaries such as former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, US   
   banker David Rockefeller and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands were greeted   
   at the airport by limousine drivers holding single-letter "B" signs late   
   Thursday, said local reports.   
      
   They were quickly whisked away to the Brookstreet Hotel in a serene suburb   
   of Ottawa for three-day talks on oil markets, security concerns tied to   
   Iran's nuclear ambitions, terrorism, and immigration, the Ottawa Citizen   
   reported.   
      
   Conspiracy theorists who follow the group accuse it of plotting world   
   domination at its informal annual gatherings.   
      
   But, Richard Perle, former US defence policy advisor, upon his arrival in   
   Ottawa, denied allegations the group crafts public policy behind closed   
   doors. "It discusses public policy," he stressed to a Citizen reporter.   
      
   A statement from the group said the meetings were private to encourage   
   "frank and open discussions."   
      
   But skeptic Daniel Estulin, who flew from Spain to try to cover the   
   conference, said their intent is to "create a world government ruled by an   
   elite group of people whose main objective is to control all the natural   
   resources on the planet."   
      
      
   Another local observer commented to the Citizen: "There are all sorts of   
   gaps in what politicians say and do. This is just another example of the   
   circumventing of the democratic process."   
      
   The talks are by invitation-only. Because discussions are off-the-record,   
   the group has been subject to similar criticisms and speculation about its   
   intentions since 1954 when the first conference was held at the Hotel de   
   Bilderberg in the Netherlands.   
      
   Several sources say Poland's Joseph Retinger, former Belgian prime minister   
   Paul van Zeeland, and former Unilever chief executive Paul Rijkens organized   
   the first meeting to unite European and US elites amid growing   
   cross-Atlantic tensions a half-century ago.   
      
   Its success spawned similar talks at posh hotels and palaces in Europe, the   
   United States and Canada each year since.   
      
   Other attendees seen arriving in Ottawa on Thursday included former Canadian   
   ambassador to Washington Frank McKenna, Royal Dutch Shell chairman Jorma   
   Ollila, former World Bank president James Wolfenson and Scandinavian   
   Airlines chairman Egil Myklebust, according to reports.   
      
   Former New York governor George Pataki, Iraq's deputy prime minister Ahmad   
   Chalabi, the heads of Coca-Cola, Credit Suisse, the Royal Bank of Canada,   
   several media moguls, and cabinet ministers from Spain and Greece, were also   
   expected to attend.   
      
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