Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:39:25 PM
communist links to the federal reserve..
http://archive.mail-list.com/paycheck-piracy/msg00439.html
http://www.newfrontiercoalition.com/Communist_Federal_Reserve.pdf
Beaver Cole - Kilgore, Texas
The paper money in your wallet contains these words:
"Federal Reserve Note.
This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.
" Why does paper money not state that
it is a note from the Treasury of the United States?
The Federal Reserve is not the Treasury,
it is a privately owned central bank.
To put it in every day terms, it is a private corporation,
which claims to provide a service to the people of the United States
by furnishing the money which is used in our banking system.
The monetary system of the United States is in the hands
of a few very wealthy and powerful individuals who control our economy.
What this means is that the power of the Federal Reserve
exceeds and supercedes that of our President and Congress.
The Federal Reserve is not accountable to them. They have never
published an annual report and their meetings are not reported
to the press until 6 months after they have made a monetary decision.
WHO OWNS the Federal Reserve System?
There has always been much speculation
about who owns the Federal Reserve System.
We don't mean the managers of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks,
nor the members of the Federal Reserve Board
who makes decisions in favor of the owners, nor those who sit
in the Open Market Committee, which operates
only through the New York Branch of the Federal Reserve.
We mean the real owners of the Federal Reserve.
This has been one of the best-kept secrets of all time,
because the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 provided that
the names of the owner banks must remain secret.
However, R. E. McMaster, publisher of the newsletter The Reaper,
asked his Swiss and Saudi Arabian contacts which banks
hold controlling stock in the Federal Reserve System.
The answer:
a.. Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin
b.. Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris
c.. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
d.. Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam
e.. Lehman Brothers Bank of New York
f.. Kuhn, Loeb Bank of New York
g.. Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
h.. Goldman, Sachs Bank of New York
The Federal Reserve has NEVER been audited, nor has the Federal
Reserve NEVER paid a single penny in taxes other than property tax.
TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS of TAX FREE DOLLARS
have been laundered off the backs of the simple minded people
under the income tax scheme for payment of the erroneous
and fictitious National Debt owed to the Federal Reserve.
Why did Congress surrender it's obligation
set forth by the Constitution to regulate and maintain
our national monetary system? Does the Constitution allow
Congress to delegate their responsibilities to the Federal Reserve?
The Federal Reserve is no more FEDERAL than the Federal Express.
It is a private banking cartel.
Why are Sovereign citizens of the states so willing to surrender
their freedoms and liberties caused by unconstitutional acts such as
Executive Orders, Income Tax, Sales Tax, War Powers, NAFTA, GATT,
and a host of other communist goals? Are we brain dead?
Have our brain cells quit talking to each other?
Abreviated references such as the FED, GATT, NAFTA,
and WTO have become familiar to most Americans.
The news media provide reports about free trade when there is a debate
among politicians, but the details presented are usually scant.
The public has not been given the complete and proper picture
when it comes to these international agreements.
"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times,
Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors
have attended our meetings and respected their promise
of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible
for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject
to the bright lights of publicity during those years.
But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march
towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty
of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable
to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
~ David Rockefeller, at a 1991 Bilderberger meeting.
On November 20, 1993, the Senate voted on a treaty called
the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The Senate approved it by a vote of 61 to 38, but a perplexing question
lingers to this day. Since NAFTA was passed by less than two thirds
of the Senate, how could it possibly be valid under the Constitution?
After a long and heated discussion of pertinent issues, why was there
no mention of this constitutional concern? Considering the fact that
38 senators voted against NAFTA, and numerous high profile leaders
sought the demise of the treaty, it would seem as if all arguments
would have been used in an attempt to defeat the measure.
Make no mistake that GATT, NAFTA, WTO, FEDS (Federal Reserve),
and the alleged ratification of the 16th Amendment (imposing income tax),
all form a conspiracy for ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT being
implemented by the intellectual elite and world bankers.
The trend towards world government involves the quite networking
of thousands of individuals. If there is a conspiracy to establish
a one world government, it has become an open one.
Consider the title of H. G. Wells' book,
The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution.
— The coporate elite reveal much about their plans, because they look
at the people with contempt, having had had their way for many years.
President Nixon told The New York Times on November 10, 1972:
"The average American is just like the child in the family."
Averell Harriman said the American people wanted
nothing better than to "go to the movies and drink Coke."
In 1996, Ted Truner, head of CNN, said before an international forum:
"The U.S. has got some of the dumbest people in the world.
I want you to know that."
People attack the view that there is a conspiracy involving
the wealthy and powerful to achieve world government. This is done
because globalist advocates are unable to refute these claims.
When the message can not be refuted, the messenger is attacked.
Thomas Jefferson warned:
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day.
But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period,
and pursued unalaterably through every change of ministers, too plainly
proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."
"Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize
a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great
idea after all." - Strobe Talbott, former Deputy Secretary of State
and Bill Clinton's Oxford roommate, in Time magazine, July 1992.
"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter
to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.
- President George Bush, addressing the U.N. General Assembly,
February 1, 1992.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
2}Patrick Wood
November 21, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
Introduction
There are two common misconceptions held by those who are critical of
globalism. The first error is that there is a very small group of people who
secretly run the world with all-powerful and unrestrained dictatorial powers.
The second error is that there is a large amorphous
and secret organization that runs the world. In both cases,
the use of the word "they" becomes the culprit for all our troubles,
whoever "they" might be. If taxes go up, it is "they" that did it.
If the stock market goes down, "they" are to blame.
Of course, nobody really knows who "they" are so a few figureheads
(people or organizations) are often made out to be the scapegoats.
Depending on a person's politics and philosophy,
the scapegoats could be the U.S.
President, the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, or Vladimir Putin.
The point is, the real power structure is not correctely defined,
and thus escapes exposure. These misconceptions are understandable
because when things are wrong, we all have a driving need to know
who to blame! In some cases, elitist slight-of-hand initiates a
nd then perpetuates false assumptions.
This writer has never been accused of charging that all large
corporations are guilty of initiating and perpetuating globalization.
There are manybusinesses, including banks, who are led by moral,
ethical and good-hearted businessmen or businesswomen.
Just because a company might touch globalism does not mean
it and its management or employees are evil.
Every bit of thirty-five years of research indicates that there is a relatively
small yet diverse group of global players who have been the planners
and instigators behind globalization for many decades.
The primary driving force that moves this "clique" is greed;
the secondary force is the lust for power. In the case of the academics
who are key to globalism, a third force is professional recognition
and acceptance (a subtle form of egoism and power.)
It is also important to understand that core globalists
have full understanding of their goals, plans and actions.
They are not dimwitted, ignorant, missinformed or naive.
The global elite march in three essential columns:
— Corporate, — Political and — Academic. —
For the sake of clarity, these names
will be used herein to refer to these 3 groups.
In general, the goals for globalism are created by Corporate.
Academic then provides studies and white papers
that justify Corporate's goals.
Political sells Academic's arguments to the public
and if necessary, changes laws to accommodate
and facilitate Corporate in getting what it wants.
An important ancillary player in globalism
is the media, which we will call -Press- in this report.
— Press- is necessary to filter - Corporate-, -Academic -
and - Political's - communications to the public.
Press is not a fourth column,
however, because it's purpose is merely reflective.
However, we will see that Press is dominated
by members of Corporate, Political and Academic who sit
on the various boards of directors of major Press organizations.
This report will attempt to identify and label the core players
in the globalization process. The intent is to show the makeup
and pattern of the core, not to list every person in it.
Nevertheless, many people will be named and their associations
and connections revealed. This is done for 2 reasons.
— First, it will equip the reader to be able to accurately identify
other core players as they are brought into focus.
— Secondly, the reader will be able to pass over minor players
who may sound like "big fish" but in fact are only pedestrians.
Organizational Memberships
The old saying, "Birds of a feather, flock together" is appropriate
for the perpetrators of globalism. Sociologically speaking, they are
like any other people group with like interests: they naturally tend
to form societies that will help them achieve their common interests.
A side-benefit of fellowship is mutual support and encouragement.
Once formed, such groups tend to be self-perpetuating,
at least as long as common interests remain.
In modern history, the pinnacle of global drivers has been the
Trilateral Commission. Founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller
and Zbigniew Brzezinski, this group is credited with being
the founder of the New International Economic Order
that has given rise to the globalization we see today
.
The Council on Foreign Relations
Prior to the founding of the Trilateral Commission,
the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was the most
significant body of global-minded elitists in the United States.
As far back as 1959, the CFR was explicit
about a need for world government:
"The U.S. must strive to build a new international order...
including states labeling themselves as 'socialist'... to maintain
and gradually increase the authority of the United Nations."
The site for the United Nations headquarters in New York
was originally donated by the Rockefeller family, and the CFR
world architects worked for many years to use the U.N.
as a means to develop an image of world order.
Indeed, the CFR membership roster has been, and still is
a Who's Who of the elitist eastern establishment.
The first problem with the CFR is that it became too large
and too diverse to act as a "cutting edge" in global policy creation.
The second problem is that it's membership was limited to north America:
What group could effect global changes without a global membership?
The CFR continues to be significant in the sense that politicians
often look to its membership when searching for people to fill
various appointments in government. It also continues to be
a policy mill through its official organ, Foreign Policy.
While there are several core global elitists in the ranks of the CFR,
they represent a very small percentage of the total membership.
Conversely, there are many CFR members
who are only lightly involved with globalism. For this reason,
we do not count the CFR as being central to globalization today.
The Trilateral Commission
David Rockefeller recognized the shortcomings of the CFR when
he founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973 with Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Rockefeller represented Corporate and Brzezinski represented Academic.
Together, they chose approximately 300 members from north America,
Europe and Japan, whom they viewed as being their "birds of a feather."
These members were at the pinnacle of their profession, whether
Corporate, Academic, Political or Press. It is a testimony to the influence
of Rockefeller and Brzezinski that they could get this many people
to say "Yes" when they were tapped for membership.
Out of the 54 original U.S. members of the Trilateral Commission,
Jimmy Carter was fronted to win the presidential election in 1976.
Once inaugurated, Carter brought no less than 18 fellow members
of the Commission into top-level cabinet and government agencies.
Perhaps no one has described the Trilateral operation as succinctly
as veteran reporter Jeremiah Novak in the Christian Science Monitor
(February 7, 1977): "Today a new crop of economists,
working in an organization known as the Trilateral Commission,
is on the verge of creating a new international economic system,
one designed by men as brilliant as Keynes and White.
Their names are not well known, but these modern thinkers
are as important to our age as Keynes and White were to theirs.
"Moreover, these economists, like their World War II counterparts,
are working closely with high government officials, in this case
President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale.
And what is now being discussed at the highest levels of government,
in both the United States and abroad, is the creation
of a new world economic system - a system that will affect
— jobs in America and elsewhere, — the prices consumers pay, —
and the freedom of individuals, corporations, and nations
to enter into a truly planetary economic system.
Indeed, many observers see the advent of the Carter administration
and what is now being called the "Trilateral" cabinet
as the harbinger of this new era."[1]
The pernicious influence of the Commission and its dominance
of the U.S. Executive branch remains unchallenged to this day.
Ronald Reagan was not a member of the Trilateral Commission,
but his Vice President, George H. W. Bush, was a member.
The Commission's influence was safely perpetuated into the Reagan years.
The 1988 election of George H.W. Bush to the presidency
further consolidated Trilateral influence in the U.S.
In 1992, Trilateral member William Jefferson Clinton followed
in the presidency and contributed greatly to the cause of globalization.
In 2000, George W. Bush assumed the presidency.
While it can be demonstrated that Bush is closely aligned with and totally
dedicated to Trilateral goals, he is not a member of the Commission.
However, Vice President Dick Cheney is a member of the Commission.
Obviously, Corporate's partnerships with
Political, Academic and Press has been very successful.
NEXT:
Explore the original membership of the Trilateral Commisison
and it's influence on politics and the economy.
Footnotes:
1, Novak, Jeremiah, Christian Science Monitor (February 7, 1977)
THEY?
PART 2 of 3
Patrick Wood
November 21, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
The Original Membership: 1973-1978
A short look at the first U.S. membership list is instructive.
We have taken liberty to organize the names according to broad
functions, which is not fully adequate to explain the interrelationships.
As one examines the biographies of these individuals, one sees
a "revolving door" phenomenon where people rotate in and out
of government, business, think-tanks, etc., on a regular basis.
This is one of several tests used to identify a member
of the true core of global elite.
Trilateral Commission Membership, 1973[1]
Banking Related
· Ernest C. Arbuckle Chairman, Wells Fargo Bank
· George W. Ball Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers
· Alden W. Clausen President, Bank of America
· Archibald K. Davis Chairman, Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
· *Peter G. Peterson Chairman, Lehman Brothers
· *David Rockefeller Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
· Robert V. Roosa Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Company
· Bruce K. MacLaury President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
· John H. Perkins President, Continental Illinois
National Bank and Trust Company Press Related
· Doris Anderson Editor, Chantelaine Magazine
· Emmett Dedmon Vice-President and Editorial Director, Field Enterprises, Inc.
· Hedley Donovan Editor-in-Chief, Time, Inc.
· Carl T. Rowan Columnist
· Arthur R. Taylor President, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
Labor Related
· *I. W. Abel, President United Steelworkers of America
· Leonard Woodcock President, United Automobile Workers
· Lane Kirkland Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
Senate/Congress
· John B. Anderson House of Representatives
· Lawton Chiles United States Senate
· Barber B. Conable, Jr. House of Representatives
· John C. Culver United States Senate
· Wilbur D. Mills House of Representatives
· Walter F. Mondale United States Senate
· William V. Roth, Jr. United States Senate
· Robert Taft Jr. United States Senate
Other Political
· James E. Carter, Jr. Governor of Georgia
· Daniel J. Evans Governor of Washington
· *William W. Scranton Former Governor of Pennsylvania Corporate
· J. Paul Austin Chairman, The Coca-Cola Company
· W. Michael Blumenthal Chairman, Bendix Corporation
· *Patrick E. Haggerty Chairman, Texas Instruments
· William A. Hewitt Chairman, Deere and Company
· Edgar F. Kaiser Chairman, Kaiser Industries Corporation
· Lee L. Morgan President, Caterpillar Tractor Company
· David Packard Chairman, Hewlett-Packard Company
· Charles W. Robinson President, Marcona Corporation
· Arthur M. Wood Chairman, Sears, Roebuck & Company
· William M. Roth Roth Properties
Academic
· David M. Abshire Chairman, Georgetown University Center
for Strategic and International Studies
· Graham Allison Professor of Politics, Harvard University
· Robert R. Bowie Clarence Dillon Professor
of International Affairs, Harvard University
· *Harold Brown President, California Institute of Technology
· Richard N. Cooper Provost and Frank Altschul Professor
of International Economics, Yale University
· Paul W. McCracken Edmund Ezra Day Professor
of Business Administration, University of Michigan
· Marina von N. Whitman Distinguished Public Service
Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
· Carroll L. Wilson Professor of Management,
Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, MIT
· Edwin O. Reischauer University Professor,
Harvard University; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Law Firms
· Warren Christopher Partner, O’Melveny and Myers
· William T. Coleman, Jr. Senior Partner,
Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Levy & Coleman
· Lloyd N. Cutler Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering
· *Gerard C. Smith Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
· Cyrus R. Vance Partner, Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett
· *Paul C. Warnke Partner, Clifford, Warnke, Glass, McIlwain & Finney
Associations
· Lucy Wilson Benson President,
League of Women Voters of the United States
· Kenneth D. Naden Executive Vice President,
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Think-Tanks
· Thomas L. Hughes President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Henry D. Owen Director, Foreign Policy Studies Program,
the Brookings Institution
Miscellaneous
· Anthony Solomon Consultant
* Indicates member of Executive Committee
Rockefeller and Brzezinski's strategy was nefarious, yet brilliant.
The election of democrat James Earl "I will never lie to you"
Carter was assured by delivering the mostly democratic labor vote.
This was accomplished by adding to the inner core:
Leonard Woodcock (UAW), I.W. Abel (United Steelworkers) and
Lane Kirkland (AFL-CIO).
By 1977, three more labor leaders were added to the membership:
Glenn E. Watts (Communications Workers of America),
Martin J. Ward (president of United Association
of Journeymen and Apprentices), and
Sol Chaikin, Pres. of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Leonard Woodcock served as Chief Envoy to China under Carter,
and was largely responsible for solidifying economic and political ties
with Communist China. [Editor's note: Any reader who is or was
a member of one of these unions will instantly have flashes of insight
as to the enduring duplicity of labor management -- you were effectively
"Sold Down the River" starting 1973 and continuing into the present.]
Those commissioners who Carter brought into his administration
(the initial "steering committee", if you will) were
— Walter Mondale (Vice President),
— Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Advisor),
— Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State),
— Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) and
— W. Michael Blumenthal (Secretary of the Treasury,) among others.
As the Washington Post phrased it:
"Trilateralists are not three-sided people.
They are members of a private, though not secret, international organization
put together by the wealthy banker, David Rockefeller, to stimulate the
establishment dialogue between Western Europe, Japan and the U.S...
"But here is the unsettling thing about the Trilateral Commission.
The President-elect is a member.
So is Vice-President-elect Walter F. Mondale.
So are the new Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury,
Cyrus R. Vance, Harold Brown and W. Michael Blumenthal.
So is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is a former Trilateral director,
and, Carter's national security advisor, also a bunch of others
who will make foreign policy for America in the next four years."[2]
Before Carter's term was completed, no less than 18 members
(thirty percent of the U.S. Commission membership) of the
Trilateral Commission served in his administration.
Coincidence? Hardly!
This article purposely leaves out discussion of the non-U.S. membership
of the Commission membership, which will be saved for another day.
Suffice it to say that the European and Japanese contingents
were just as powerful and effective in their respective home countries.
Approximately one-third of the membership came from Europe
and the other third from Japan. The joint membership met annually
(no press allowed) to formulate policy
and action plans for their respective regions.
Many, if not most, of their policies were published
in the Commission's quarterly journal, Trialogue.
The most damning argument ever launched against the Trilateral
Commission is the unconstitutional influence of other governments
and forces upon the U.S. For instance, Commission members
are not elected nor representative of the general population of the U.S.,
yet they effectively dominated the Executive Branch of the U.S. government.
When the Commission resolved policies (behind closed-doors)
with non-U.S. members, who were a mere one-third minority,
could it be said that foreign influences effectively controlled U.S. policy?
These concerns were never addressed by Congress or the Judiciary.
The Executive branch would have nothing to address because
it has been continuously dominated by Commission members -
- who repeatedly assured us that there was no such conflict of interest.
Of course, the answer to these questions are self-evident:
U.S. interests, economic and political, have been subverted.
The economic subversion of the U.S. was studied
in The August Review's
For Sale: The United States of America and was likened to the plundering
of a nation, the likes of which have not been seen in modern history.
Current Trilateral Membership
The following list of north American members is not exhaustive.
These are selected because of their high visibility
in positions within Corporate, Political or Economic and Press.
A future installment of The August Review will examine
the entire membership list more carefully and completely.
The purpose here is to show that the Trilateral Commission has grown,
rather than declined, in strength over the years.
Keep in mind that there is no enrollment or application process
to belong to the Trilateral Commission. One is invited to join in a manner
similar to a college student being "tapped" for membership in a fraternity.
Thus, the process is highly selective and discrete.
Candidates are thoroughly screened before invitation is delivered.
For this reason, one can be relatively sure that anyone who is or who has
ever been a member of the Commission is in the core of the global elite.
There are likely a few members who are not truly a part of the core,
but for the sake of aggregate analysis, this is not an important issue.
NEXT:
Analyze the current membership of the Trilateral Commission
and compare to the original membership list.
Footnotes:
1, The Trilateral Commission, Membership List, http://ww.trilateral.org
2, Washington Post, January 16, 1977
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November 21, 2005
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U.S. Members who have been subsequently added to the Commission
over the years include, in part, the following list.
Additional Trilateral Commission Membership through 2005[1]
Banking Related
· Paul Wolfowitz President, World Bank
· Paul A. Volker
Former Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New York;
Frederick H. Schultz
Professor Emeritus, International Economic Policy,
Princeton University; former Chairman, Board of Governors,
U.S. Federal Reserve System; Honorary North American Chairman
and former North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Alan Greenspan
Chairman of the Federal Reserve,
Board of Directors of Bank for International Settlements
· Geoffrey T. Boisi
former Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY
· E. Gerald Corrigan Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.,
New York, NY; former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
· Jamie Dimon
President and Chief Operating Officer,
JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY
· Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. Vice Chairman, Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
· Stanley Fischer Governor of the Bank of Israel, Jerusalem;
former President, Citigroup International and Vice Chairman,
Citgroup, New York, NY; former First Deputy Managing Director,
International Monetary Fund
· Richard W. Fisher President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX; former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative
· Michael Klein Chief Executive Officer, Global Banking, Citigroup Inc.;
Vice Chairman, Citibank International PLC; New York, NY
· *Sir Deryck C. Maughan former Vice Chairman, Citigroup,
New York, NY Jay Mazur President Emeritus,
UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees);
Vice Chairman, Amalgamated Bank of New York; and President,
ILGWU's 21st Century Heritage Foundation, New York, NY
· Hugh L. McColl, Jr. Chairman, McColl Brothers Lockwood, Charlotte, NC;
former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America Corp.
· Robert S. McNamara Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission,
Washington, DC; former President, World Bank; former
U.S. Secretary of Defense; former President, Ford Motor Company.
· Kenneth Rogoff Professor of Economics and Director,
Center for International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;
former Chief Economist and Director, Research Department,
International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC
· John Thain Chief Executive Officer, New York Stock Exchange, Inc.;
former President and Co-Chief Operating Officer,
Goldman Sachs & Co., New York, NY
· Lawrence H. Summers President, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Press Related
· David G. Bradley Chairman, Atlantic Media Company, Washington, DC
· David Gergen Professor of Public Service, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;
Editor-at-Large, U.S. News and World Report
· Donald E. Graham Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
The Washington Post Company, Washington, DC
· Karen Elliott House Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company,
and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
· Gerald M. Levin Chief Executive Officer Emeritus,
AOL Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY
· Fareed Zakaria Editor, Newsweek International, New York, NY
· Mortimer B. Zuckerman Chairman and Editor-in-Chief,
U.S. News & World Report, New York, NY
Labor Related
· Sandra Feldman President Emeritus,
American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC
· John J. Sweeney President, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC
Intelligence Related
· John M. Deutch Institute Professor, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA; former
Dir.of Central Intelligence; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
· Henry A. Kissinger Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York, NY;
former U.S. Secretary of State; former U.S. Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs
· James B. Steinberg Vice President and Director of the
Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
· William H. Webster Senior Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence;
former Director, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation;
former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
· Susan Rice Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC;
former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs;
former Special Assistant to the President and
Senior Director for African Affairs, National Security Council
Senate/Congress
· Richard A. Gephardt former Member (D-MO), U.S. House of Reps.
· Jim Leach Member (R-IA), U.S. House of Representatives
· Charles B. Rangel Member (D-NY), U.S. House of Representatives
· John D. Rockefeller IV Member (D-WV), U.S. Senate
· Dianne Feinstein Member (D-CA), U.S. Senate
· *Thomas S. Foley Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-WA);
North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Other Political
· George H. W. Bush President of the United States
· William Jefferson Clinton President of the United States
· Richard B. Cheney Vice President of the United States
· Paula J. Dobriansky U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
· Robert B. Zoellick Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State,
U.S. Trade Representative
· Madeleine K. Albright Principal, The Albright Group LLC,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of State
· C. Fred Bergsten Director, Institute for International Economics,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for International Affairs
· William T. Coleman, Jr. Senior Partner and the Senior Counselor,
O’Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC; former U.S. Sec.of Trans.
· Lynn Davis Senior Political Scientist, The RAND Corporation,
Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State
for Arms Control and International Security
· Richard N. Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY; former
Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State; former
Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
· *Carla A. Hills
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company, International
Consultants, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative;
former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
· Richard Holbrooke
Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC, New York, NY; Counselor, Council on
Foreign Relations; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations;
former Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs;
and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
· Winston Lord
Co-Chairman of Overseeers and former Co-Chairman of the Board,
International Rescue Committee, New York, NY;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs;
former U.S. Ambassador to China
· *Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;
former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
· Richard N. Perle
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC;
member and former Chairman, Defense Policy Board,
U.S. Department of Defense;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy
· Thomas R. Pickering
Senior Vice President, International Relations, The Boeing Company,
Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs;
former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel,
El Salvador, Nigeria, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the U.N.
· Strobe Talbott President, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC;
former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
Miscellaneous
· Ernesto Zedillo
Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University, NH, CT;
former President of Mexico [Ed . Note: not an American citizen]
· David J. O'Reilly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA.
* Indicates member of Executive Committee
The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
The occupational makeup of the Trilateral Commission
has obviously changed over time,
but that only represents the maturing of the globalization process.
What was needed in 1973 is not what is needed today.
Still, there are some consistencies that are easily observed.
The most obvious consistency (and expansion) is the very large
representation by the banking cartel: two chairmen and two board members
of of the Federal Reserve System, two presidents of the World Bank,
director of the International Monetary Fund, and chairmen/CEO's
of several prominent global banks. This does not take into account
any linkages from Commission members who are also directors
of commercial and investment banks. Financial representation
is not incidental because money is the life-blood of globalism.
The August Review's coverage in
Global Banking: The Bank for International Settlements
detailed the apex and makeup of global banking.
Through membership, the Trilateral Commission dominates the executive
branch of the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve System,
and is closely aligned with the Bank for International Settlements,
which controls the world's currencies and money supply.
This is seen even without analyzing the remaining two-thirds
of Commission membership that resides outside of the U.S.
The Institute for International Economics (IIE)
The IIE is an example of a key organization in which one might identify
other core members of the global elite. Founded in 1981,
IIE is a small policy-wonk organization with only 60 employees
and an annual budget of $7 million. According to its own web site,
"The Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan
research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy.
Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely, objective analysis
and concrete solutions to key international economic problems.
"The Institute attempts to anticipate emerging issues and
to be ready with practical ideas to inform and shape public debate.
Its audience includes government officials and legislators, business
and labor leaders, management and staff at international organizations,
university-based scholars and their students, other research institutions
and nongovernmental organizations, the media, and the public at large.
It addresses these groups both in the United States and around the world."[2]
This would be easily overlooked unless you examine IIE's board of directors. Trilateralist Peter G. Peterson is chairman of the board.
Anthony M. Solomon is honorary chairman of the executive committee.
Solomon is the former chairman of Warburg (USA) Inc.,
former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
and former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs.
Solomon was listed only as "Consultant"
on the 1973 Commission membership list.[3]
There are 12 other Trilateral Commission members
(including David Rockefeller) on IIE's board of directors!
Having established Trilateral influence (if not total domination),
consider the following non-Commission IIE board members who
might well be candidates for inclusion in the core of the global elite:
· Chen Yuan
- Governor, China Development Bank;
former Deputy Governor, Peoples Bank of China.
· Jacob A. Frenkel
- Former governor of the Bank of Israel and former IMF economic
counselor and director of research.
· Maurice R. Greenberg
- Chairman, American International Group.
· David O'Reilly - Chairman and CEO, ChevronTexaco Corp.
· James W. Owens - Chairman and CEO of Caterpillar.
· Lawrence H. Summers - President, Harvard University;
former Secretary of the Treasury.
These are just a few of the non-Trilateral board members,
and are reviewed only to show the process by which
one might identify additional global elite core members.
There are other organizations like IIE that could stand similar
analysis of purpose, leadership and directorship.
Conclusion
As was declared in the beginning of this analysis, the stampede
to globalism is conducted by a small group of individuals
with aspirations for global dominance. It should be noted again
that there are members of the global "core"
who are not members of the Trilateral Commission.
In general, they are driven by lust for money and power.
They have clearly made an end-run around the American people
in order to achieve personal goals that, in many cases,
are diametrically opposed to U.S. interests.
If the American people fully understood the magnitude of the deception
and power-grab, they would immediately and totally repudiate
these individuals and their self-serving global schemes.
In 1971, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in
Between Two Ages: The Technetronic Era,
"...the nation-state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life
has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks
and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms
that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state."[4]
Brzezinski could not have been more clear than this.
Of the few people who paid attention to Brzezinski previously,
only one person needed to receive his message fully: David Rockefeller,
chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and consummate globalist.
When they teamed up to start the Trilateral Commisison in 1973,
the rest, as we say, "became history."
So, how can one determine if an individual is a member of the core
of the global elite? There is a good chance that such a person will be:
· closely aligned with and accepted by many of the people
already identified as core;
· often family-related to other core members
(i.e., the Bush family, Rockefeller family, etc.);
· part of the "revolving-door" that switches them in and out of important
and critical positions in government, academia and business;
· a member (director or high-level executive)
of an organization identified as a core company, such as
J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Caterpillar Tractor, etc.;
· educated at a prestigious and global-minded university;
· belong to one or more organizations that are dominated
by people already identified as core.
This list is not comprehensive,
nor is it meant to be some simplistic litmus test.
It is important to realize that many names being bandied about
— are NOT part of the core of the global elite, but rather become
decoys that shift the focus away from the real elite core.
Discretion, common sense and study is required to understand
the difference between the two.
Footnotes:
1, op. cit.
2, About Us, http://www.iie.com/institute/aboutiie.cfm
3, Board of Directors, http://www.iie.com/institute/board.cfm
4, Brzezinski, Zbigniew, Between Two Ages:
The Technetronic Era, (Penguin Books , 1971)
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Subject: POLICE STATE 1
Friends:
The "Police State" is at your doorstep! We who have been the
"voices crying in the wilderness" feel no satisfaction in saying
"WE TOLD YOU SO!" It is time (in fact long past) time to wake up!
Thank God for people like Deborah Davis who have the moral strength
to stand up for what they believe in. It is the little, piece meal
usurpations of power which ultimately create the police state.
One thing you should always keep in mind is that
*"EVERY GOVERNMENT POWER WAS ONCE
AN INDIVIDUAL RIGHT! When government has total power,
the people have no rights! By definition, that is totalitarianism!!!*
~ Al Burns
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*Commuting By Bus In Denver? Papers, Please. *
http://www.papersplease.org/davis/index.html
*Next Stop: Big Brother
* Meet Deborah Davis. She's a 50 year-old mother of four
who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Her kids are all grown-up:
her middle son is a soldier fighting in Iraq.
She leads an ordinary, middle class life. You probably never would
have heard of Deb Davis if it weren't for her belief in the U.S. Constitution.
*Federal Public Transportation Pass*
This is not America. When honest, law-abiding citizens can't
commute to work on a city bus without a demand for their 'papers',
something is very, very wrong.
One morning in late September 2005, Deb was riding
the public bus to work. She was minding her own business,
reading a book and planning for work, when a security guard got on
this public bus and demanded that every passenger show their ID.
Deb, having done nothing wrong, declined.
The guard called in federal cops, and she was arrested and charged
with federal criminal misdemeanors after refusing to show ID on demand.
On the 9th of December 2005, Deborah Davis will be arraigned
in U.S. District Court in a case that will determine whether Deb
and the rest of us live in a free society, or in a country
where we must show "papers" whenever a cop demands them.
*Commuting By Bus In Denver? Papers, Please.
* DEB DAVIS LIKES to commute to work by public bus.
She uses the time to read, crochet or pay bills. It's her quiet time.
What with the high price of gas, she saves money, too:
a week's worth of gas money gets her a month's worth of bus rides.
*Deborah Davis and Son
* Deborah Davis defends freedom at home
while her son serves abroad in Iraq.
The bus she rides crosses the property of the Denver Federal Center,
a collection of government offices such as the Veterans Administration,
the U.S. Geological Survey, and part of the National Archives.
The Denver Federal Center is not a high security area:
it's not Area 51 or NORAD.
On her first day commuting to work by bus, the bus stopped
at the gates of the Denver Federal Center. A security guard got on
and demanded that all of the passengers on this public bus produce ID.
She was surprised by the demand of the man in uniform, but she complied:
it would have meant a walk of several miles if she hadn't.
Her ID was not taken and compared to any "no-ride" list.
The guard barely glanced at it.
When she got home, what had happened on the bus
began to bother her.
'This is not a police state or communist Russia', she thought.
>From her 8th grade Civics class she knew there is no law requiring her,
as an American citizen, to carry ID or any papers,
much less show them to anyone on a public bus.
She decided she would no longer show her ID on the bus.
*The Compliance Test
* On Monday, September 26th 2005, Deb Davis headed
off to work on the route 100 bus. When the bus got to the gates
of the Denver Federal Center, a guard got on and asked her
if she had an ID. She answered in the affirmative.
He asked if he could see it. She said no.
*Welcome.
* Visitors Welcome (to be arrested). The entrance to the Denver
Federal Center. When the guard asked why she wouldn't show her ID,
Deb told him that she didn't have to do so. The guard then ordered her
off the bus. Deb refused, stating she was riding a public bus
and just trying to get to work.
The guard then went to call his supervisor, and returned shortly
with a federal policeman. The federal cop then demanded her ID.
Deb politely explained once again that she would not show her ID,
and she was simply commuting to work.
He left, returning shortly thereafter with a second policeman in tow.
*The Second Compliance Test
* This second cop asked the same question
and got the same answer: no showing of ID, no getting off the bus.
The cop was also annoyed with
the fact that she was on the phone with a friend and didn't feel like
hanging up, even when he 'ordered' her to do so.
The second cop said everyone had to show ID any time they were asked
by the police, adding that if she were in a Wal-Mart and was asked
by the police for ID, that she would have to show it there, too.
She explained that she didn't have to show him
or any other policeman my ID on a public bus or in a Wal-Mart.
She told him she was simply trying to go to work.
*The Arrest
* Suddenly, the second policeman shouted "Grab her!" and
he grabbed the cell phone from her and threw it to the back of the bus.
With each of the policemen wrenching one of her arms behind her back,
she was jerked out of her seat, the contents of her purse and book bag
flying everywhere. The cops shoved her out of the bus, handcuffed her,
threw her into the back seat of a police cruiser, and drove her
to a police station inside the confines of the Denver Federal Center.
Once inside, she was taken down a hall and told to sit in a chair,
still handcuffed, while one of the policemen went through her purse,
now retrieved from the bus.
The two policemen sat in front of their computers, typing and
conferring, trying to figure out what they should charge her with.
Eventually, they wrote up several tickets, took her outside
and removed the handcuffs, returned her belongings,
and pointed her toward the bus stop. She was told that if she ever
entered the Denver Federal Center again, she would go to jail.
She hasn't commuted by public bus since that day.
*The Legal Case
* Deborah Davis' case is about one thing: the right to travel.
The reason why she was charged has absolutely nothing to do with security.
The guard at the Denver Federal Center wasn't checking IDs
against a 'no ride' list: there is no such thing. The demands made
against Deb Davis were nothing more than a compliance test,
a demand that she kowtow to officialdom. And lest we forget,
having to show your ID is a search without a warrant.
By 'Welcome', they mean 'Show us your papers'.
Yet more signs at a Denver Federal Center entrance.
The significance of Deb's case was readily apparent to the
Haddon" TARGET="_blank">http://www.hmflaw.com>Haddon
,
Morgan, Mueller, Jordan, Mackey & Foreman, P.C.
are mounting a vigorous defense on Deborah Davis' behalf.
Deborah Davis responded to this compliance test in a way that would
have made the Founding Fathers proud. She is being prosecuted
for no reason other than being 'uppity' in the face of authority.
When Deb is arraigned in U.S. District Court on the 9th of December,
she will most likely be charged with the following federal criminal
misdemeanors: 41 CFR § 102-74.375 (Admission to Property)
and 41 CFR § 102-74.385 (Conformity to Official Signs and Directions).
Through these charges, it appears that the Feds are claiming that
people were on notice that they had to show ID. Nowhere is this evident,
unless 'Public Welcome' flags are bureaucratese for 'Papers, please'.
In addition, Deb wasn't even visiting the Denver Federal Center.
That the public bus transits the facility isn't her fault. If the Center
really is Denver's answer to Area 51, then public buses
should be driving around not through the Center.
*What's Wrong With Showing ID?
* "There are good people with bad papers;
and bad people with good papers." - Bertold Brecht
What does an ID, any ID, do for security?
The honest answer is 'not much'. If anyting, relying on ID
for security purposes actually makes things worse.
Showing ID only affects honest people. If you're dishonest,
you can obtain false documents or steal the identity of an honest person.
If a 19 year-old college student can get a fake ID to drink,
why couldn't a bad person get one, too?
And no matter how sophisticated the security embedded into the ID,
wouldn't a well-financed terrorist be able to falsify that, too?
The answer to both questions is obviously 'yes'.
Honest people, on the other hand, go to Pro-Life rallies.
Honest people attend gun shows.
Honest people protest the President of the United States.
Honest people fly to political conventions.
Honest people also commute by public bus to work.
What if those with the power to put people on a 'no ride' list
decided that they didn't like the reason for which you wanted to travel?
The honest people wouldn't be going anywhere.
Bad people, besides using fake IDs and stolen identities,
can also make the system of checking IDs work in their favor.
The Carnival Booth effect, as described by researchers at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, means that terrorists
can probe an ID security system by sending a number of people
on innocent trips through the system and noting who is flagged
for extra searches and who isn't. They then send only those
who the system doesn't flag on terrorist missions.
Still, some Americans think that /"If you have nothing to hide,
you have nothing to fear."/ Were the Founding Fathers
criminals trying to protect themselves when they inserted
the 4th and 5th amendments into the Bill of Rights?
After all, nobody who hasn't done anything wrong needs to worry
about being searched or being forced to testify against himself.
ver the years, Americans have become accustomed to showing ID
in any number of circumstances. Few have asked the question,
'Why?'.The Department of Homeland Security has attempted
to institute programs predicated on the use of ID to improve security.
The fact of the matter is that demands for ID do nothing
for security while making honest Americans less free.
*Legal Documents
*Deborah Davis: Defendant
Other legal documents from Deb's case
will be added to this page as they become available.
Deb's personal information has been redacted.Gail Johnson,
a volunteer ACLU lawyer and respected criminal defense
attorney from the law offices of U.S" TARGET="_blank">http://www.papersplease.org/davis/_dl/Admission_Violation.pdf>U.S
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District Court Violation Notice
26 September 2005 (128 KB pdf)
*Conforming with signs
and instructions citation issued by arresting officer:
*http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20051124/bs_prweb/prweb314382_
http://www.ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=CNBCHYPE&read=62000
http://archive.mail-list.com/paycheck-piracy/msg00439.html
http://www.newfrontiercoalition.com/Communist_Federal_Reserve.pdf
Beaver Cole - Kilgore, Texas
The paper money in your wallet contains these words:
"Federal Reserve Note.
This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.
" Why does paper money not state that
it is a note from the Treasury of the United States?
The Federal Reserve is not the Treasury,
it is a privately owned central bank.
To put it in every day terms, it is a private corporation,
which claims to provide a service to the people of the United States
by furnishing the money which is used in our banking system.
The monetary system of the United States is in the hands
of a few very wealthy and powerful individuals who control our economy.
What this means is that the power of the Federal Reserve
exceeds and supercedes that of our President and Congress.
The Federal Reserve is not accountable to them. They have never
published an annual report and their meetings are not reported
to the press until 6 months after they have made a monetary decision.
WHO OWNS the Federal Reserve System?
There has always been much speculation
about who owns the Federal Reserve System.
We don't mean the managers of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks,
nor the members of the Federal Reserve Board
who makes decisions in favor of the owners, nor those who sit
in the Open Market Committee, which operates
only through the New York Branch of the Federal Reserve.
We mean the real owners of the Federal Reserve.
This has been one of the best-kept secrets of all time,
because the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 provided that
the names of the owner banks must remain secret.
However, R. E. McMaster, publisher of the newsletter The Reaper,
asked his Swiss and Saudi Arabian contacts which banks
hold controlling stock in the Federal Reserve System.
The answer:
a.. Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin
b.. Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris
c.. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
d.. Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam
e.. Lehman Brothers Bank of New York
f.. Kuhn, Loeb Bank of New York
g.. Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
h.. Goldman, Sachs Bank of New York
The Federal Reserve has NEVER been audited, nor has the Federal
Reserve NEVER paid a single penny in taxes other than property tax.
TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS of TAX FREE DOLLARS
have been laundered off the backs of the simple minded people
under the income tax scheme for payment of the erroneous
and fictitious National Debt owed to the Federal Reserve.
Why did Congress surrender it's obligation
set forth by the Constitution to regulate and maintain
our national monetary system? Does the Constitution allow
Congress to delegate their responsibilities to the Federal Reserve?
The Federal Reserve is no more FEDERAL than the Federal Express.
It is a private banking cartel.
Why are Sovereign citizens of the states so willing to surrender
their freedoms and liberties caused by unconstitutional acts such as
Executive Orders, Income Tax, Sales Tax, War Powers, NAFTA, GATT,
and a host of other communist goals? Are we brain dead?
Have our brain cells quit talking to each other?
Abreviated references such as the FED, GATT, NAFTA,
and WTO have become familiar to most Americans.
The news media provide reports about free trade when there is a debate
among politicians, but the details presented are usually scant.
The public has not been given the complete and proper picture
when it comes to these international agreements.
"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times,
Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors
have attended our meetings and respected their promise
of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible
for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject
to the bright lights of publicity during those years.
But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march
towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty
of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable
to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
~ David Rockefeller, at a 1991 Bilderberger meeting.
On November 20, 1993, the Senate voted on a treaty called
the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The Senate approved it by a vote of 61 to 38, but a perplexing question
lingers to this day. Since NAFTA was passed by less than two thirds
of the Senate, how could it possibly be valid under the Constitution?
After a long and heated discussion of pertinent issues, why was there
no mention of this constitutional concern? Considering the fact that
38 senators voted against NAFTA, and numerous high profile leaders
sought the demise of the treaty, it would seem as if all arguments
would have been used in an attempt to defeat the measure.
Make no mistake that GATT, NAFTA, WTO, FEDS (Federal Reserve),
and the alleged ratification of the 16th Amendment (imposing income tax),
all form a conspiracy for ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT being
implemented by the intellectual elite and world bankers.
The trend towards world government involves the quite networking
of thousands of individuals. If there is a conspiracy to establish
a one world government, it has become an open one.
Consider the title of H. G. Wells' book,
The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution.
— The coporate elite reveal much about their plans, because they look
at the people with contempt, having had had their way for many years.
President Nixon told The New York Times on November 10, 1972:
"The average American is just like the child in the family."
Averell Harriman said the American people wanted
nothing better than to "go to the movies and drink Coke."
In 1996, Ted Truner, head of CNN, said before an international forum:
"The U.S. has got some of the dumbest people in the world.
I want you to know that."
People attack the view that there is a conspiracy involving
the wealthy and powerful to achieve world government. This is done
because globalist advocates are unable to refute these claims.
When the message can not be refuted, the messenger is attacked.
Thomas Jefferson warned:
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day.
But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period,
and pursued unalaterably through every change of ministers, too plainly
proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."
"Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize
a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great
idea after all." - Strobe Talbott, former Deputy Secretary of State
and Bill Clinton's Oxford roommate, in Time magazine, July 1992.
"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter
to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.
- President George Bush, addressing the U.N. General Assembly,
February 1, 1992.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
2}Patrick Wood
November 21, 2005
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Introduction
There are two common misconceptions held by those who are critical of
globalism. The first error is that there is a very small group of people who
secretly run the world with all-powerful and unrestrained dictatorial powers.
The second error is that there is a large amorphous
and secret organization that runs the world. In both cases,
the use of the word "they" becomes the culprit for all our troubles,
whoever "they" might be. If taxes go up, it is "they" that did it.
If the stock market goes down, "they" are to blame.
Of course, nobody really knows who "they" are so a few figureheads
(people or organizations) are often made out to be the scapegoats.
Depending on a person's politics and philosophy,
the scapegoats could be the U.S.
President, the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, or Vladimir Putin.
The point is, the real power structure is not correctely defined,
and thus escapes exposure. These misconceptions are understandable
because when things are wrong, we all have a driving need to know
who to blame! In some cases, elitist slight-of-hand initiates a
nd then perpetuates false assumptions.
This writer has never been accused of charging that all large
corporations are guilty of initiating and perpetuating globalization.
There are manybusinesses, including banks, who are led by moral,
ethical and good-hearted businessmen or businesswomen.
Just because a company might touch globalism does not mean
it and its management or employees are evil.
Every bit of thirty-five years of research indicates that there is a relatively
small yet diverse group of global players who have been the planners
and instigators behind globalization for many decades.
The primary driving force that moves this "clique" is greed;
the secondary force is the lust for power. In the case of the academics
who are key to globalism, a third force is professional recognition
and acceptance (a subtle form of egoism and power.)
It is also important to understand that core globalists
have full understanding of their goals, plans and actions.
They are not dimwitted, ignorant, missinformed or naive.
The global elite march in three essential columns:
— Corporate, — Political and — Academic. —
For the sake of clarity, these names
will be used herein to refer to these 3 groups.
In general, the goals for globalism are created by Corporate.
Academic then provides studies and white papers
that justify Corporate's goals.
Political sells Academic's arguments to the public
and if necessary, changes laws to accommodate
and facilitate Corporate in getting what it wants.
An important ancillary player in globalism
is the media, which we will call -Press- in this report.
— Press- is necessary to filter - Corporate-, -Academic -
and - Political's - communications to the public.
Press is not a fourth column,
however, because it's purpose is merely reflective.
However, we will see that Press is dominated
by members of Corporate, Political and Academic who sit
on the various boards of directors of major Press organizations.
This report will attempt to identify and label the core players
in the globalization process. The intent is to show the makeup
and pattern of the core, not to list every person in it.
Nevertheless, many people will be named and their associations
and connections revealed. This is done for 2 reasons.
— First, it will equip the reader to be able to accurately identify
other core players as they are brought into focus.
— Secondly, the reader will be able to pass over minor players
who may sound like "big fish" but in fact are only pedestrians.
Organizational Memberships
The old saying, "Birds of a feather, flock together" is appropriate
for the perpetrators of globalism. Sociologically speaking, they are
like any other people group with like interests: they naturally tend
to form societies that will help them achieve their common interests.
A side-benefit of fellowship is mutual support and encouragement.
Once formed, such groups tend to be self-perpetuating,
at least as long as common interests remain.
In modern history, the pinnacle of global drivers has been the
Trilateral Commission. Founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller
and Zbigniew Brzezinski, this group is credited with being
the founder of the New International Economic Order
that has given rise to the globalization we see today
.
The Council on Foreign Relations
Prior to the founding of the Trilateral Commission,
the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was the most
significant body of global-minded elitists in the United States.
As far back as 1959, the CFR was explicit
about a need for world government:
"The U.S. must strive to build a new international order...
including states labeling themselves as 'socialist'... to maintain
and gradually increase the authority of the United Nations."
The site for the United Nations headquarters in New York
was originally donated by the Rockefeller family, and the CFR
world architects worked for many years to use the U.N.
as a means to develop an image of world order.
Indeed, the CFR membership roster has been, and still is
a Who's Who of the elitist eastern establishment.
The first problem with the CFR is that it became too large
and too diverse to act as a "cutting edge" in global policy creation.
The second problem is that it's membership was limited to north America:
What group could effect global changes without a global membership?
The CFR continues to be significant in the sense that politicians
often look to its membership when searching for people to fill
various appointments in government. It also continues to be
a policy mill through its official organ, Foreign Policy.
While there are several core global elitists in the ranks of the CFR,
they represent a very small percentage of the total membership.
Conversely, there are many CFR members
who are only lightly involved with globalism. For this reason,
we do not count the CFR as being central to globalization today.
The Trilateral Commission
David Rockefeller recognized the shortcomings of the CFR when
he founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973 with Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Rockefeller represented Corporate and Brzezinski represented Academic.
Together, they chose approximately 300 members from north America,
Europe and Japan, whom they viewed as being their "birds of a feather."
These members were at the pinnacle of their profession, whether
Corporate, Academic, Political or Press. It is a testimony to the influence
of Rockefeller and Brzezinski that they could get this many people
to say "Yes" when they were tapped for membership.
Out of the 54 original U.S. members of the Trilateral Commission,
Jimmy Carter was fronted to win the presidential election in 1976.
Once inaugurated, Carter brought no less than 18 fellow members
of the Commission into top-level cabinet and government agencies.
Perhaps no one has described the Trilateral operation as succinctly
as veteran reporter Jeremiah Novak in the Christian Science Monitor
(February 7, 1977): "Today a new crop of economists,
working in an organization known as the Trilateral Commission,
is on the verge of creating a new international economic system,
one designed by men as brilliant as Keynes and White.
Their names are not well known, but these modern thinkers
are as important to our age as Keynes and White were to theirs.
"Moreover, these economists, like their World War II counterparts,
are working closely with high government officials, in this case
President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale.
And what is now being discussed at the highest levels of government,
in both the United States and abroad, is the creation
of a new world economic system - a system that will affect
— jobs in America and elsewhere, — the prices consumers pay, —
and the freedom of individuals, corporations, and nations
to enter into a truly planetary economic system.
Indeed, many observers see the advent of the Carter administration
and what is now being called the "Trilateral" cabinet
as the harbinger of this new era."[1]
The pernicious influence of the Commission and its dominance
of the U.S. Executive branch remains unchallenged to this day.
Ronald Reagan was not a member of the Trilateral Commission,
but his Vice President, George H. W. Bush, was a member.
The Commission's influence was safely perpetuated into the Reagan years.
The 1988 election of George H.W. Bush to the presidency
further consolidated Trilateral influence in the U.S.
In 1992, Trilateral member William Jefferson Clinton followed
in the presidency and contributed greatly to the cause of globalization.
In 2000, George W. Bush assumed the presidency.
While it can be demonstrated that Bush is closely aligned with and totally
dedicated to Trilateral goals, he is not a member of the Commission.
However, Vice President Dick Cheney is a member of the Commission.
Obviously, Corporate's partnerships with
Political, Academic and Press has been very successful.
NEXT:
Explore the original membership of the Trilateral Commisison
and it's influence on politics and the economy.
Footnotes:
1, Novak, Jeremiah, Christian Science Monitor (February 7, 1977)
THEY?
PART 2 of 3
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November 21, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
The Original Membership: 1973-1978
A short look at the first U.S. membership list is instructive.
We have taken liberty to organize the names according to broad
functions, which is not fully adequate to explain the interrelationships.
As one examines the biographies of these individuals, one sees
a "revolving door" phenomenon where people rotate in and out
of government, business, think-tanks, etc., on a regular basis.
This is one of several tests used to identify a member
of the true core of global elite.
Trilateral Commission Membership, 1973[1]
Banking Related
· Ernest C. Arbuckle Chairman, Wells Fargo Bank
· George W. Ball Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers
· Alden W. Clausen President, Bank of America
· Archibald K. Davis Chairman, Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
· *Peter G. Peterson Chairman, Lehman Brothers
· *David Rockefeller Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
· Robert V. Roosa Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Company
· Bruce K. MacLaury President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
· John H. Perkins President, Continental Illinois
National Bank and Trust Company Press Related
· Doris Anderson Editor, Chantelaine Magazine
· Emmett Dedmon Vice-President and Editorial Director, Field Enterprises, Inc.
· Hedley Donovan Editor-in-Chief, Time, Inc.
· Carl T. Rowan Columnist
· Arthur R. Taylor President, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
Labor Related
· *I. W. Abel, President United Steelworkers of America
· Leonard Woodcock President, United Automobile Workers
· Lane Kirkland Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
Senate/Congress
· John B. Anderson House of Representatives
· Lawton Chiles United States Senate
· Barber B. Conable, Jr. House of Representatives
· John C. Culver United States Senate
· Wilbur D. Mills House of Representatives
· Walter F. Mondale United States Senate
· William V. Roth, Jr. United States Senate
· Robert Taft Jr. United States Senate
Other Political
· James E. Carter, Jr. Governor of Georgia
· Daniel J. Evans Governor of Washington
· *William W. Scranton Former Governor of Pennsylvania Corporate
· J. Paul Austin Chairman, The Coca-Cola Company
· W. Michael Blumenthal Chairman, Bendix Corporation
· *Patrick E. Haggerty Chairman, Texas Instruments
· William A. Hewitt Chairman, Deere and Company
· Edgar F. Kaiser Chairman, Kaiser Industries Corporation
· Lee L. Morgan President, Caterpillar Tractor Company
· David Packard Chairman, Hewlett-Packard Company
· Charles W. Robinson President, Marcona Corporation
· Arthur M. Wood Chairman, Sears, Roebuck & Company
· William M. Roth Roth Properties
Academic
· David M. Abshire Chairman, Georgetown University Center
for Strategic and International Studies
· Graham Allison Professor of Politics, Harvard University
· Robert R. Bowie Clarence Dillon Professor
of International Affairs, Harvard University
· *Harold Brown President, California Institute of Technology
· Richard N. Cooper Provost and Frank Altschul Professor
of International Economics, Yale University
· Paul W. McCracken Edmund Ezra Day Professor
of Business Administration, University of Michigan
· Marina von N. Whitman Distinguished Public Service
Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
· Carroll L. Wilson Professor of Management,
Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, MIT
· Edwin O. Reischauer University Professor,
Harvard University; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Law Firms
· Warren Christopher Partner, O’Melveny and Myers
· William T. Coleman, Jr. Senior Partner,
Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Levy & Coleman
· Lloyd N. Cutler Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering
· *Gerard C. Smith Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
· Cyrus R. Vance Partner, Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett
· *Paul C. Warnke Partner, Clifford, Warnke, Glass, McIlwain & Finney
Associations
· Lucy Wilson Benson President,
League of Women Voters of the United States
· Kenneth D. Naden Executive Vice President,
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Think-Tanks
· Thomas L. Hughes President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Henry D. Owen Director, Foreign Policy Studies Program,
the Brookings Institution
Miscellaneous
· Anthony Solomon Consultant
* Indicates member of Executive Committee
Rockefeller and Brzezinski's strategy was nefarious, yet brilliant.
The election of democrat James Earl "I will never lie to you"
Carter was assured by delivering the mostly democratic labor vote.
This was accomplished by adding to the inner core:
Leonard Woodcock (UAW), I.W. Abel (United Steelworkers) and
Lane Kirkland (AFL-CIO).
By 1977, three more labor leaders were added to the membership:
Glenn E. Watts (Communications Workers of America),
Martin J. Ward (president of United Association
of Journeymen and Apprentices), and
Sol Chaikin, Pres. of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Leonard Woodcock served as Chief Envoy to China under Carter,
and was largely responsible for solidifying economic and political ties
with Communist China. [Editor's note: Any reader who is or was
a member of one of these unions will instantly have flashes of insight
as to the enduring duplicity of labor management -- you were effectively
"Sold Down the River" starting 1973 and continuing into the present.]
Those commissioners who Carter brought into his administration
(the initial "steering committee", if you will) were
— Walter Mondale (Vice President),
— Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Advisor),
— Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State),
— Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) and
— W. Michael Blumenthal (Secretary of the Treasury,) among others.
As the Washington Post phrased it:
"Trilateralists are not three-sided people.
They are members of a private, though not secret, international organization
put together by the wealthy banker, David Rockefeller, to stimulate the
establishment dialogue between Western Europe, Japan and the U.S...
"But here is the unsettling thing about the Trilateral Commission.
The President-elect is a member.
So is Vice-President-elect Walter F. Mondale.
So are the new Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury,
Cyrus R. Vance, Harold Brown and W. Michael Blumenthal.
So is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is a former Trilateral director,
and, Carter's national security advisor, also a bunch of others
who will make foreign policy for America in the next four years."[2]
Before Carter's term was completed, no less than 18 members
(thirty percent of the U.S. Commission membership) of the
Trilateral Commission served in his administration.
Coincidence? Hardly!
This article purposely leaves out discussion of the non-U.S. membership
of the Commission membership, which will be saved for another day.
Suffice it to say that the European and Japanese contingents
were just as powerful and effective in their respective home countries.
Approximately one-third of the membership came from Europe
and the other third from Japan. The joint membership met annually
(no press allowed) to formulate policy
and action plans for their respective regions.
Many, if not most, of their policies were published
in the Commission's quarterly journal, Trialogue.
The most damning argument ever launched against the Trilateral
Commission is the unconstitutional influence of other governments
and forces upon the U.S. For instance, Commission members
are not elected nor representative of the general population of the U.S.,
yet they effectively dominated the Executive Branch of the U.S. government.
When the Commission resolved policies (behind closed-doors)
with non-U.S. members, who were a mere one-third minority,
could it be said that foreign influences effectively controlled U.S. policy?
These concerns were never addressed by Congress or the Judiciary.
The Executive branch would have nothing to address because
it has been continuously dominated by Commission members -
- who repeatedly assured us that there was no such conflict of interest.
Of course, the answer to these questions are self-evident:
U.S. interests, economic and political, have been subverted.
The economic subversion of the U.S. was studied
in The August Review's
For Sale: The United States of America and was likened to the plundering
of a nation, the likes of which have not been seen in modern history.
Current Trilateral Membership
The following list of north American members is not exhaustive.
These are selected because of their high visibility
in positions within Corporate, Political or Economic and Press.
A future installment of The August Review will examine
the entire membership list more carefully and completely.
The purpose here is to show that the Trilateral Commission has grown,
rather than declined, in strength over the years.
Keep in mind that there is no enrollment or application process
to belong to the Trilateral Commission. One is invited to join in a manner
similar to a college student being "tapped" for membership in a fraternity.
Thus, the process is highly selective and discrete.
Candidates are thoroughly screened before invitation is delivered.
For this reason, one can be relatively sure that anyone who is or who has
ever been a member of the Commission is in the core of the global elite.
There are likely a few members who are not truly a part of the core,
but for the sake of aggregate analysis, this is not an important issue.
NEXT:
Analyze the current membership of the Trilateral Commission
and compare to the original membership list.
Footnotes:
1, The Trilateral Commission, Membership List, http://ww.trilateral.org
2, Washington Post, January 16, 1977
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November 21, 2005
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U.S. Members who have been subsequently added to the Commission
over the years include, in part, the following list.
Additional Trilateral Commission Membership through 2005[1]
Banking Related
· Paul Wolfowitz President, World Bank
· Paul A. Volker
Former Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New York;
Frederick H. Schultz
Professor Emeritus, International Economic Policy,
Princeton University; former Chairman, Board of Governors,
U.S. Federal Reserve System; Honorary North American Chairman
and former North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Alan Greenspan
Chairman of the Federal Reserve,
Board of Directors of Bank for International Settlements
· Geoffrey T. Boisi
former Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY
· E. Gerald Corrigan Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.,
New York, NY; former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
· Jamie Dimon
President and Chief Operating Officer,
JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY
· Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. Vice Chairman, Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
· Stanley Fischer Governor of the Bank of Israel, Jerusalem;
former President, Citigroup International and Vice Chairman,
Citgroup, New York, NY; former First Deputy Managing Director,
International Monetary Fund
· Richard W. Fisher President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX; former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative
· Michael Klein Chief Executive Officer, Global Banking, Citigroup Inc.;
Vice Chairman, Citibank International PLC; New York, NY
· *Sir Deryck C. Maughan former Vice Chairman, Citigroup,
New York, NY Jay Mazur President Emeritus,
UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees);
Vice Chairman, Amalgamated Bank of New York; and President,
ILGWU's 21st Century Heritage Foundation, New York, NY
· Hugh L. McColl, Jr. Chairman, McColl Brothers Lockwood, Charlotte, NC;
former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America Corp.
· Robert S. McNamara Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission,
Washington, DC; former President, World Bank; former
U.S. Secretary of Defense; former President, Ford Motor Company.
· Kenneth Rogoff Professor of Economics and Director,
Center for International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;
former Chief Economist and Director, Research Department,
International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC
· John Thain Chief Executive Officer, New York Stock Exchange, Inc.;
former President and Co-Chief Operating Officer,
Goldman Sachs & Co., New York, NY
· Lawrence H. Summers President, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Press Related
· David G. Bradley Chairman, Atlantic Media Company, Washington, DC
· David Gergen Professor of Public Service, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;
Editor-at-Large, U.S. News and World Report
· Donald E. Graham Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
The Washington Post Company, Washington, DC
· Karen Elliott House Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company,
and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
· Gerald M. Levin Chief Executive Officer Emeritus,
AOL Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY
· Fareed Zakaria Editor, Newsweek International, New York, NY
· Mortimer B. Zuckerman Chairman and Editor-in-Chief,
U.S. News & World Report, New York, NY
Labor Related
· Sandra Feldman President Emeritus,
American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC
· John J. Sweeney President, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC
Intelligence Related
· John M. Deutch Institute Professor, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA; former
Dir.of Central Intelligence; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
· Henry A. Kissinger Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York, NY;
former U.S. Secretary of State; former U.S. Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs
· James B. Steinberg Vice President and Director of the
Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
· William H. Webster Senior Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence;
former Director, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation;
former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
· Susan Rice Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC;
former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs;
former Special Assistant to the President and
Senior Director for African Affairs, National Security Council
Senate/Congress
· Richard A. Gephardt former Member (D-MO), U.S. House of Reps.
· Jim Leach Member (R-IA), U.S. House of Representatives
· Charles B. Rangel Member (D-NY), U.S. House of Representatives
· John D. Rockefeller IV Member (D-WV), U.S. Senate
· Dianne Feinstein Member (D-CA), U.S. Senate
· *Thomas S. Foley Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-WA);
North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Other Political
· George H. W. Bush President of the United States
· William Jefferson Clinton President of the United States
· Richard B. Cheney Vice President of the United States
· Paula J. Dobriansky U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
· Robert B. Zoellick Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State,
U.S. Trade Representative
· Madeleine K. Albright Principal, The Albright Group LLC,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of State
· C. Fred Bergsten Director, Institute for International Economics,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for International Affairs
· William T. Coleman, Jr. Senior Partner and the Senior Counselor,
O’Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC; former U.S. Sec.of Trans.
· Lynn Davis Senior Political Scientist, The RAND Corporation,
Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State
for Arms Control and International Security
· Richard N. Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY; former
Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State; former
Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
· *Carla A. Hills
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company, International
Consultants, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative;
former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
· Richard Holbrooke
Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC, New York, NY; Counselor, Council on
Foreign Relations; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations;
former Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs;
and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
· Winston Lord
Co-Chairman of Overseeers and former Co-Chairman of the Board,
International Rescue Committee, New York, NY;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs;
former U.S. Ambassador to China
· *Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;
former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
· Richard N. Perle
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC;
member and former Chairman, Defense Policy Board,
U.S. Department of Defense;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy
· Thomas R. Pickering
Senior Vice President, International Relations, The Boeing Company,
Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs;
former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel,
El Salvador, Nigeria, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the U.N.
· Strobe Talbott President, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC;
former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
Miscellaneous
· Ernesto Zedillo
Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University, NH, CT;
former President of Mexico [Ed . Note: not an American citizen]
· David J. O'Reilly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA.
* Indicates member of Executive Committee
The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
The occupational makeup of the Trilateral Commission
has obviously changed over time,
but that only represents the maturing of the globalization process.
What was needed in 1973 is not what is needed today.
Still, there are some consistencies that are easily observed.
The most obvious consistency (and expansion) is the very large
representation by the banking cartel: two chairmen and two board members
of of the Federal Reserve System, two presidents of the World Bank,
director of the International Monetary Fund, and chairmen/CEO's
of several prominent global banks. This does not take into account
any linkages from Commission members who are also directors
of commercial and investment banks. Financial representation
is not incidental because money is the life-blood of globalism.
The August Review's coverage in
Global Banking: The Bank for International Settlements
detailed the apex and makeup of global banking.
Through membership, the Trilateral Commission dominates the executive
branch of the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve System,
and is closely aligned with the Bank for International Settlements,
which controls the world's currencies and money supply.
This is seen even without analyzing the remaining two-thirds
of Commission membership that resides outside of the U.S.
The Institute for International Economics (IIE)
The IIE is an example of a key organization in which one might identify
other core members of the global elite. Founded in 1981,
IIE is a small policy-wonk organization with only 60 employees
and an annual budget of $7 million. According to its own web site,
"The Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan
research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy.
Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely, objective analysis
and concrete solutions to key international economic problems.
"The Institute attempts to anticipate emerging issues and
to be ready with practical ideas to inform and shape public debate.
Its audience includes government officials and legislators, business
and labor leaders, management and staff at international organizations,
university-based scholars and their students, other research institutions
and nongovernmental organizations, the media, and the public at large.
It addresses these groups both in the United States and around the world."[2]
This would be easily overlooked unless you examine IIE's board of directors. Trilateralist Peter G. Peterson is chairman of the board.
Anthony M. Solomon is honorary chairman of the executive committee.
Solomon is the former chairman of Warburg (USA) Inc.,
former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
and former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs.
Solomon was listed only as "Consultant"
on the 1973 Commission membership list.[3]
There are 12 other Trilateral Commission members
(including David Rockefeller) on IIE's board of directors!
Having established Trilateral influence (if not total domination),
consider the following non-Commission IIE board members who
might well be candidates for inclusion in the core of the global elite:
· Chen Yuan
- Governor, China Development Bank;
former Deputy Governor, Peoples Bank of China.
· Jacob A. Frenkel
- Former governor of the Bank of Israel and former IMF economic
counselor and director of research.
· Maurice R. Greenberg
- Chairman, American International Group.
· David O'Reilly - Chairman and CEO, ChevronTexaco Corp.
· James W. Owens - Chairman and CEO of Caterpillar.
· Lawrence H. Summers - President, Harvard University;
former Secretary of the Treasury.
These are just a few of the non-Trilateral board members,
and are reviewed only to show the process by which
one might identify additional global elite core members.
There are other organizations like IIE that could stand similar
analysis of purpose, leadership and directorship.
Conclusion
As was declared in the beginning of this analysis, the stampede
to globalism is conducted by a small group of individuals
with aspirations for global dominance. It should be noted again
that there are members of the global "core"
who are not members of the Trilateral Commission.
In general, they are driven by lust for money and power.
They have clearly made an end-run around the American people
in order to achieve personal goals that, in many cases,
are diametrically opposed to U.S. interests.
If the American people fully understood the magnitude of the deception
and power-grab, they would immediately and totally repudiate
these individuals and their self-serving global schemes.
In 1971, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in
Between Two Ages: The Technetronic Era,
"...the nation-state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life
has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks
and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms
that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state."[4]
Brzezinski could not have been more clear than this.
Of the few people who paid attention to Brzezinski previously,
only one person needed to receive his message fully: David Rockefeller,
chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and consummate globalist.
When they teamed up to start the Trilateral Commisison in 1973,
the rest, as we say, "became history."
So, how can one determine if an individual is a member of the core
of the global elite? There is a good chance that such a person will be:
· closely aligned with and accepted by many of the people
already identified as core;
· often family-related to other core members
(i.e., the Bush family, Rockefeller family, etc.);
· part of the "revolving-door" that switches them in and out of important
and critical positions in government, academia and business;
· a member (director or high-level executive)
of an organization identified as a core company, such as
J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Caterpillar Tractor, etc.;
· educated at a prestigious and global-minded university;
· belong to one or more organizations that are dominated
by people already identified as core.
This list is not comprehensive,
nor is it meant to be some simplistic litmus test.
It is important to realize that many names being bandied about
— are NOT part of the core of the global elite, but rather become
decoys that shift the focus away from the real elite core.
Discretion, common sense and study is required to understand
the difference between the two.
Footnotes:
1, op. cit.
2, About Us, http://www.iie.com/institute/aboutiie.cfm
3, Board of Directors, http://www.iie.com/institute/board.cfm
4, Brzezinski, Zbigniew, Between Two Ages:
The Technetronic Era, (Penguin Books , 1971)
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Subject: POLICE STATE 1
Friends:
The "Police State" is at your doorstep! We who have been the
"voices crying in the wilderness" feel no satisfaction in saying
"WE TOLD YOU SO!" It is time (in fact long past) time to wake up!
Thank God for people like Deborah Davis who have the moral strength
to stand up for what they believe in. It is the little, piece meal
usurpations of power which ultimately create the police state.
One thing you should always keep in mind is that
*"EVERY GOVERNMENT POWER WAS ONCE
AN INDIVIDUAL RIGHT! When government has total power,
the people have no rights! By definition, that is totalitarianism!!!*
~ Al Burns
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*Commuting By Bus In Denver? Papers, Please. *
http://www.papersplease.org/davis/index.html
*Next Stop: Big Brother
* Meet Deborah Davis. She's a 50 year-old mother of four
who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Her kids are all grown-up:
her middle son is a soldier fighting in Iraq.
She leads an ordinary, middle class life. You probably never would
have heard of Deb Davis if it weren't for her belief in the U.S. Constitution.
*Federal Public Transportation Pass*
This is not America. When honest, law-abiding citizens can't
commute to work on a city bus without a demand for their 'papers',
something is very, very wrong.
One morning in late September 2005, Deb was riding
the public bus to work. She was minding her own business,
reading a book and planning for work, when a security guard got on
this public bus and demanded that every passenger show their ID.
Deb, having done nothing wrong, declined.
The guard called in federal cops, and she was arrested and charged
with federal criminal misdemeanors after refusing to show ID on demand.
On the 9th of December 2005, Deborah Davis will be arraigned
in U.S. District Court in a case that will determine whether Deb
and the rest of us live in a free society, or in a country
where we must show "papers" whenever a cop demands them.
*Commuting By Bus In Denver? Papers, Please.
* DEB DAVIS LIKES to commute to work by public bus.
She uses the time to read, crochet or pay bills. It's her quiet time.
What with the high price of gas, she saves money, too:
a week's worth of gas money gets her a month's worth of bus rides.
*Deborah Davis and Son
* Deborah Davis defends freedom at home
while her son serves abroad in Iraq.
The bus she rides crosses the property of the Denver Federal Center,
a collection of government offices such as the Veterans Administration,
the U.S. Geological Survey, and part of the National Archives.
The Denver Federal Center is not a high security area:
it's not Area 51 or NORAD.
On her first day commuting to work by bus, the bus stopped
at the gates of the Denver Federal Center. A security guard got on
and demanded that all of the passengers on this public bus produce ID.
She was surprised by the demand of the man in uniform, but she complied:
it would have meant a walk of several miles if she hadn't.
Her ID was not taken and compared to any "no-ride" list.
The guard barely glanced at it.
When she got home, what had happened on the bus
began to bother her.
'This is not a police state or communist Russia', she thought.
>From her 8th grade Civics class she knew there is no law requiring her,
as an American citizen, to carry ID or any papers,
much less show them to anyone on a public bus.
She decided she would no longer show her ID on the bus.
*The Compliance Test
* On Monday, September 26th 2005, Deb Davis headed
off to work on the route 100 bus. When the bus got to the gates
of the Denver Federal Center, a guard got on and asked her
if she had an ID. She answered in the affirmative.
He asked if he could see it. She said no.
*Welcome.
* Visitors Welcome (to be arrested). The entrance to the Denver
Federal Center. When the guard asked why she wouldn't show her ID,
Deb told him that she didn't have to do so. The guard then ordered her
off the bus. Deb refused, stating she was riding a public bus
and just trying to get to work.
The guard then went to call his supervisor, and returned shortly
with a federal policeman. The federal cop then demanded her ID.
Deb politely explained once again that she would not show her ID,
and she was simply commuting to work.
He left, returning shortly thereafter with a second policeman in tow.
*The Second Compliance Test
* This second cop asked the same question
and got the same answer: no showing of ID, no getting off the bus.
The cop was also annoyed with
the fact that she was on the phone with a friend and didn't feel like
hanging up, even when he 'ordered' her to do so.
The second cop said everyone had to show ID any time they were asked
by the police, adding that if she were in a Wal-Mart and was asked
by the police for ID, that she would have to show it there, too.
She explained that she didn't have to show him
or any other policeman my ID on a public bus or in a Wal-Mart.
She told him she was simply trying to go to work.
*The Arrest
* Suddenly, the second policeman shouted "Grab her!" and
he grabbed the cell phone from her and threw it to the back of the bus.
With each of the policemen wrenching one of her arms behind her back,
she was jerked out of her seat, the contents of her purse and book bag
flying everywhere. The cops shoved her out of the bus, handcuffed her,
threw her into the back seat of a police cruiser, and drove her
to a police station inside the confines of the Denver Federal Center.
Once inside, she was taken down a hall and told to sit in a chair,
still handcuffed, while one of the policemen went through her purse,
now retrieved from the bus.
The two policemen sat in front of their computers, typing and
conferring, trying to figure out what they should charge her with.
Eventually, they wrote up several tickets, took her outside
and removed the handcuffs, returned her belongings,
and pointed her toward the bus stop. She was told that if she ever
entered the Denver Federal Center again, she would go to jail.
She hasn't commuted by public bus since that day.
*The Legal Case
* Deborah Davis' case is about one thing: the right to travel.
The reason why she was charged has absolutely nothing to do with security.
The guard at the Denver Federal Center wasn't checking IDs
against a 'no ride' list: there is no such thing. The demands made
against Deb Davis were nothing more than a compliance test,
a demand that she kowtow to officialdom. And lest we forget,
having to show your ID is a search without a warrant.
By 'Welcome', they mean 'Show us your papers'.
Yet more signs at a Denver Federal Center entrance.
The significance of Deb's case was readily apparent to the
Haddon" TARGET="_blank">http://www.hmflaw.com>Haddon
,
Morgan, Mueller, Jordan, Mackey & Foreman, P.C.
are mounting a vigorous defense on Deborah Davis' behalf.
Deborah Davis responded to this compliance test in a way that would
have made the Founding Fathers proud. She is being prosecuted
for no reason other than being 'uppity' in the face of authority.
When Deb is arraigned in U.S. District Court on the 9th of December,
she will most likely be charged with the following federal criminal
misdemeanors: 41 CFR § 102-74.375 (Admission to Property)
and 41 CFR § 102-74.385 (Conformity to Official Signs and Directions).
Through these charges, it appears that the Feds are claiming that
people were on notice that they had to show ID. Nowhere is this evident,
unless 'Public Welcome' flags are bureaucratese for 'Papers, please'.
In addition, Deb wasn't even visiting the Denver Federal Center.
That the public bus transits the facility isn't her fault. If the Center
really is Denver's answer to Area 51, then public buses
should be driving around not through the Center.
*What's Wrong With Showing ID?
* "There are good people with bad papers;
and bad people with good papers." - Bertold Brecht
What does an ID, any ID, do for security?
The honest answer is 'not much'. If anyting, relying on ID
for security purposes actually makes things worse.
Showing ID only affects honest people. If you're dishonest,
you can obtain false documents or steal the identity of an honest person.
If a 19 year-old college student can get a fake ID to drink,
why couldn't a bad person get one, too?
And no matter how sophisticated the security embedded into the ID,
wouldn't a well-financed terrorist be able to falsify that, too?
The answer to both questions is obviously 'yes'.
Honest people, on the other hand, go to Pro-Life rallies.
Honest people attend gun shows.
Honest people protest the President of the United States.
Honest people fly to political conventions.
Honest people also commute by public bus to work.
What if those with the power to put people on a 'no ride' list
decided that they didn't like the reason for which you wanted to travel?
The honest people wouldn't be going anywhere.
Bad people, besides using fake IDs and stolen identities,
can also make the system of checking IDs work in their favor.
The Carnival Booth effect, as described by researchers at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, means that terrorists
can probe an ID security system by sending a number of people
on innocent trips through the system and noting who is flagged
for extra searches and who isn't. They then send only those
who the system doesn't flag on terrorist missions.
Still, some Americans think that /"If you have nothing to hide,
you have nothing to fear."/ Were the Founding Fathers
criminals trying to protect themselves when they inserted
the 4th and 5th amendments into the Bill of Rights?
After all, nobody who hasn't done anything wrong needs to worry
about being searched or being forced to testify against himself.
ver the years, Americans have become accustomed to showing ID
in any number of circumstances. Few have asked the question,
'Why?'.The Department of Homeland Security has attempted
to institute programs predicated on the use of ID to improve security.
The fact of the matter is that demands for ID do nothing
for security while making honest Americans less free.
*Legal Documents
*Deborah Davis: Defendant
Other legal documents from Deb's case
will be added to this page as they become available.
Deb's personal information has been redacted.Gail Johnson,
a volunteer ACLU lawyer and respected criminal defense
attorney from the law offices of U.S" TARGET="_blank">http://www.papersplease.org/davis/_dl/Admission_Violation.pdf>U.S
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District Court Violation Notice
26 September 2005 (128 KB pdf)
*Conforming with signs
and instructions citation issued by arresting officer:
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