Nuggets

"...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it." - David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999.

*** Benito Mussolini: "Fascism should rightly be called corporatism,
as it is the mergerof state and corporate power."

"...the world is governed by very different personages to what is imagined by those who are not themselves behind the scenes." - Benjamin Disraeli - British PM - 'Coningsby' pub. 1844

***Noel Coward: "It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

"The Treaty of Rome, which brought the Common Market into being, was nurtured at Bilderberg meetings." - George McGhee, former US Ambassador to West Germany

*** "I don't think it's true to say that we want to keep it [Bilderberg] out [of the public consciousness], we never wanted to get it in. We don't encourage people to mention it in the mainstream press because we don't encourage idle speculation about what we do. ...... We forbid individual attendees from giving press meetings at our conferences, and we do that not because we're secrecy mad, but because we want to control the politicians who come." - Martin Taylor, Secretary General, Bilderberg - interviewed by Jon Ronson for the
UK Channel 4 TV programme 'Secret Rulers of the World' transmitted June 27 th, 2001.

"There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge". - H. M. Queen Elizabeth II (in conversation with royal butler Paul Burrell) Daily Mirror

*** Definition of a Power Elite: 'A group of men, similar in interest and outlook, shaping events from invulnerable positions behind the scenes.' -- C. Wright Mills 'The Power Elite'

"The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison, which alienates their possessor from the community" -- Carl Jung: 'Modern Man in Search of a Soul'

*** "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." --President Eisenhower - farewell address to the nation - Jan 16th 1961.

"What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler

*** "The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one." -- Adolf Hitler: 'Mein Kampf'.

"Their motivation is, that the elite shall be able to act in secrecy. It is not because they are evil, but because they believe in what they are doing. International capital wants to remove all obstacles to globalisation - and all obstacles to the right of capital to act freely without constrictions such as regard for the environment, social responsibility or human rights. Demands from local democracies are such obstacles." -- Birger Schlaug, Swedish Green party

*** "Globalisation is the new Totalitarianism." - Vandana Shiva,
NEF Peoples' Summit,Birmingham 1998