May 17, 2005

Who rules the world?

I have absolutely no idea. However, the purported list of attendees at this year's Bilderberg confab is here. In addition to the Queens of the Netherlands and of Spain, the following Americans took part:

William C. Ford, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Ford Motor Company
Timothy F. Geithner, President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Richard C. Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus
Allan B. Hubbard, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.,, Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
John M. Keane, President, GSI, LLC; General, US Army, Retired
Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.
Michael A. Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute
William J. Luti, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
Jessica T. Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Mark C. Medish, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Kenneth B. Mehlman, , Chairman, Republican National Committee
Frank H. Pearl, Chairman and CEO, Perseus, LLC
Norman Pearlstine, Editor-in-Chief, Time Inc.
Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
David Rockefeller, Member, JP Morgan International Council
Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation
Dennis B. Ross, Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
John Vinocur, Senior Correspondent, International Herald Tribune
Mark R. Warner, Governor of Virginia
James D. Wolfensohn, President, The World Bank
Paul Wolfowitz, President designate, The World Bank
Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International

Plus, from Canada, Bruce Mau. That one seems to come out of left field. Except, perhaps he's there for the same reason those from media organizations are there. If you know what I mean.

Previously: "John Edwards, One-Worlder"

P.S. This post is provided for entertainment purposes only.

Posted to Politics at May 17, 2005 10:33 PM

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