A group of around 300 of the world's 'elite' businessmen, world leaders and 'puppetmasters'. Formed in 1954 (and named after the hotel where they first met), they meet in secret each year where they allegedly decide what will happen in the world in the future. Most Western world leaders are chosen by, or from, Bilderberg members.

• Kissinger and Blair Warn of Conflict - Visiting statesmen Tony Blair and Henry Kissinger said Tuesday that countries had to form strategic alliances to face major global challenges like energy security and climate change. Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of state, and former British Prime Minister Blair were speaking at a Renaissance Capital investment conference, where Kissinger said Russia and the United States, accounting for 90 percent of the world's nuclear arsenal between them, have to set aside their differences to solve issues that cannot be tackled unilaterally.
  Source: The Moscow Times [18th Jun 2008]
• $200 Dollar a Barrel Oil Is Bilderberg Plan To Destroy Middle Class - The global elite are conspiring to send oil prices crashing through the $200 dollar a barrel mark as part of an organized agenda to hike profits, bring about a global economic crash and torpedo the middle class, and they're not afraid to attack Iran as a means of achieving their goal.
  Source: Prison Planet [17th Sep 2007]

We have news that the 2008 Bilderberg meeting will occur at the Westfields Marriott in Chantily, Washington, USA on the 5th - 8th June. More information is available on the Prison Planet website.

I'm currently working on a very ambitious project to index and cross-reference every single attendee of the annual Bilderberg Conferences in the form of a spreadsheet. So far I've got 2005 and 2008 attendees and you can view a preliminary analysis here.

• The Bilderberg Group - An introduction, by Paul Vigay
• Year 2000 meeting (Brussels)
• An analysis of Bilderberg Meetings 1995-1999 - edited by Daniel Pouzzner
• Year 1999 meeting (Portugal)

• The Bilderberg Group - Tony Gosling's excellent resource side on The Bilderberg Group.