The Global Elite: Who are they?
by Patrick Wood
NewsWithViews.com, November 21,
2005
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
and 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 many businesses, 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 three 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 two 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.
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, president 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 United States.
"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.
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
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
Corporation
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, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; former Director 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 Representatives
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. Secretary of
Transportation
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 United Nations
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, New Haven, 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 Chief Executive Officer, ChevronTexaco
Corporation.
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.
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