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tax-friendly nations—including the United States—for foreign informal discussion of timing for a vote in the United Nations on investment. They would "harmonise" taxes by forcing the rate in establishing a direct global tax by imposing a 10-cents-a-barrel the US and other countries to rise so that socialist Sweden's 58- levy on oil at the well-head. This is important to the Bilderberg per-cent level would be "competitive". goal of establishing the UN as a formal world government. Such According to sources, an unidentified guest at the conference a direct tax on individuals is symbolically important. Bilderberg's asked how global taxation can be sold to the American public. global tax proposal has been pending before the UN for three One European Union commissioner suggested using as the batter- years but the issue has been blacked out by the Bilderberg- ing ram the rhetoric of helping countries build peaceful, stable controlled US media." societies once conflict subsides. Someone asked for the timing of Mark R. Warner, governor of Virginia and a first-time the appeal. A former commissioner mentioned that the best time Bilderberg invitee, expressed concern about how much additional to ask for cash is once the conflict subsides and the world is sub- financial responsibility the United States would take on as a jected to brutal images of destruction. result. At this point, José M. Durao A Norwegian Bilderberger disagreed. Barroso, president of the European What looked to be Bjorn T. Commission, expressed a view held Grydeland, Norway's ambassador to by many within Bilderberg that the the European Union, said that, on the United States does not provide a fair contrary, it's much easier to get world According to sources within share of economic aid to poor coun- attention and money for a region . tries. My sources confirm Jim when a conflict rages. Bilderberg, the status of NGOs Tucker's report that "Kissinger and This was confirmed a posteriori David Rockefeller, among other when Denmark's foreign minister Per would be elevated even Americans, beamed and * odded Stig Moller, during a debate in the further In the future. approval". United Nations on 26 May, stated on Although the US pays more into the the record that "[i]f the international foreign-aid piggy bank than any coun- community is not able to act swiftly, try in the world, the Bilderbergers and the fragile peace is at risk, with loss the United Nations are poised to of more lives as a consequence". Denmark holds the EU presidency unti 1 July 2005, when it will be replaced by the UK. [The changeover took place just before we went to press. Ed.] NGOs and the Global Neighbourhood Bilderbergers are planning to use what they nominated as a UN The rise of the NGOs (non-governmental organisations) is a Peacebuilding Commission, apparently to help win the peace in development that former US President Clinton suddenly (one day post-conflict countries, as one of the tools in secretly imposing the after it was discussed at Rottach-Egern) suggested to be among UN tax on an unsuspecting world population. "the most remarkable things that have happened since the fall of Jim Tucker said as much in his Bilderberg report in the the Berlin Wall". Ironically, Clinton's statement was picked up by American Free Press (23 May) when he wrote: "There was some the Wall Street Journal, a Paper represented at the Bilderberg nt Daohart To Daetlar mtil hic demand much more funding from it to meet the Peacebuilding proposal. According to sources within Bilderberg, the status of NGOs would be elevated even NGOs and the Global Neighbourhood The rise of the NGOs (non-governmental organisations) is a development that former US President Clinton suddenly (one day after it was discussed at Rottach-Egern) suggested to be among "the most remarkable things that have happened since the fall of the Berlin Wall". Ironically, Clinton's statement was picked up by the Wall Street Journal, a paper represented at the Bilderberg meetings by its vice-president, Robert L. Bartley, until his € death in December 2003, and its editorial page editor, ) Paul Gigot. The Bilderbergers have been vigorously debating, for side the first time, whether to have unelected, self-appointed “environmental activists given positions of governmental authority on the governing board of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)—the agency which con- trols the use of the atmosphere, outer space, the oceans and, for all practical purposes, biodiversity. This invita- tion for "civil society" to participate in global governance is described as "expanding democracy". According to sources within Bilderberg, the status of NGOs would be elevated even further in the future. NGO activity would include agitating at the local level, lobby- ing at the national level and producing studies to justify global taxation through UN organisations such as Global Plan, one of Bilderberg's pet projects for over a decade. The strategy to advance the global governance agenda specifically includes programs to discredit individuals and organisations that generate "internal political pressure" or "populist action" that fails to support the new global ethic. The ultimate objective, according to sources, is to sup- press democracy. If the plan proceeds, UNEP, along with all the environ- mental treaties under its jurisdiction, would ultimately be governed by a special body of environmental activists, CHECK IT OUT... THE YEAH, aur Twer VE Pace #af Gore uP are REALLY peneeee THE Guiqé ity Gore Dawn: a | all 2? : Ss land Groce Sviales) 12 = NEXUS further in the future. www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2005