High on their common agenda this year is how to exploit “the war on terrorism” to increase their control of the “world without borders” while generating immense profits. The Trilaterals will meet behind closed doors at the Ritz Carlton but not seal off the entire downtown hotel. Bilderberg will have armed guards blocking the entrance to Westfields and none but participants will be permitted inside. There will be no other guests.

Sources inside both groups say they will try to exploit the new “war on terrorism” to advance an old agenda: Establishing NATO formally as the United Nations’ standing army, imposing a direct UN tax on the world, global gun control and selling the Free Trade Area of the Americas as a “necessary step to ward off future attacks.”

It is all part of a grand design to establish a world government under the UN. As NAFTA expands through out the Western Hemisphere as the FTAA it is to evolve into the “American Union” and “dollarization” is to be come the common currency, as the euro is in Europe. Bilderberg luminaries have directly acknowledged this to an American Free Press reporter.

‘Shrewd and calculating, their hearts are filled with lust for power and consumed with greed for money. Rich and aristocratic, they despise Christians and they loathe the lowly working class. They control the world’s press and virtually all our banks and financial institutions. They screen and choose who America’s leaders will be and even determine who will run on the Democratic and Republican Parties’ tickets.

‘Arrogantly, they plot the subversion and take-over of constitutional governments everywhere. Their goal is a World Government run exclusively by their hand picked puppets.’

On the other hand to some, a world government might just be a better alternative to the nationalist strife and religious fundamentalism that has belaboured our planet for the last millennium. One thing is sure; the Bilderbergers represent the most wealthy and powerful establishment of every Western nation. They include royalty, executives of multinational corporations, leading statesmen, ex-military top brass and other elite influence peddlers. Their meetings, which take place at a different venue every year, go unannounced, their speeches unreported and their decisions unrecorded. This seems like the Mother of all Conspiracies and it’s been going on a long, long time.

The great conspiracy apparently goes back to the eighteenth century when one Adam Weishaupt, who greatly admired the teachings of Plato, formed a secret fraternity called the Illuminati in Bavaria based loosely on the lines of the Freemasons. They claimed superior knowledge and access to the revealed truths about the world.

An updated register of Lords' interests was published today - revealing that the disgraced peer Lord Archer has shares in a second-hand car dealership and that Lord Black of Crossharbour, the owner of the Daily Telegraph, is a member of the secretive Bilderberg organisation.
Lord Wakeham, the former chairman of the press complaints commission, makes no mention of his role on the audit committee of the collapsed Enron organisation, although he does list his vice-chairmanship of Wessex Water, formerly owned by Enron.

And the controversial former Conservative party treasurer, Lord Ashcroft, whose banking interests are based in Belize, is listed as a trustee of the Crimestoppers organisation.

The register has been published since 1995, although it is only since a new code of conduct was approved last year that peers are mandated to include "all relevant interests". Until then, peers were permitted to judge for themselves what declarations "may affect the public perception of the way in which they discharge their parliamentary duties".

Further items of interest:

· Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare lists "rented urban property in London, Tyne & Wear, Northshields, Telford and Workington", shareholdings in a golf centre company and ownership of two art dealers among his interests.
· The former Liberal Democrat leader, Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, is president of the Fitness Industry Association.
· Lord Birt, who is employed by the prime minister's "forward strategy unit" to carry out "blue skies thinking" on transport, lists himself as "strategy adviser to the prime minister".
· Conrad Black, the owner of the Daily Telegraph and Spectator magazine, who was ennobled as Lord Black of Crossharbour on October 31 last year, is a director of 10 companies, in addition to working for 11 voluntary organisations, including the Nixon centre in Washington.
· Lord Wakeham, who stepped down as director of the press complaints commission following the collapse of Enron, is the director or chairman of eight companies.
· Baroness Thatcher, who announced her retirement from public life earlier this year, has no renumerated posts, but chairs the advisory body of the Institute of United States Studies, as well as presiding over the Thatcher foundation.
· Baroness Boothroyd, the former speaker, has also refused to capitalise on her fame and popularity, only listing an unrenumerated two-week lectureship on a cruise line.
· The planning minister, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, lists "homes in London and Nottinghamshire, joint ownership (with wife) of two flats in London occupied by an employee and a member of wife's family (from whom rent is received). Also co-ownership of house inhabited by father".
· The Labour ex-leader of the Lords, Baroness Jay, lists three directorships and a second holiday home in County Cork, Eire, which she regularly lets for periods of up to two months a year.
· Liberal Democrat Lord Razzall declares 21 directorships and a house in Treasure Cay, Abaco, Bahamas, while Lord Rea (Labour) lists "12 acres of rough forest (surrounding a holiday home not let commercially) in Cumbria".