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Subject: TRILATERALS OVER AREA 51
Date: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:57 PM

TRILATERALS OVER AREA 51
A dissertation on interlocking directorates, international banks, The
Trilateral Commission and the United Federation of Earth

By Jerry E. Smith

I was first made aware of the problem of interlocking directorates in the
late 1970s when I heard the story of a student at MIT who had made a
startling discovery.  Taking the names of the members of the Boards of
Directors of America's top 500 corporations he in-put those names into the
MIT computer and had it delete duplicate names.  To his surprise there were
only 180-odd names on the final list!  The shocked MIT student reportedly
discovered that the average board member sat on 14 and a fraction boards.
With a little work on your part you can make the same discovery.  Anti-trust
laws be damned, at the top it's all one big company.

This article is an examination of some of the evidence that Big Business and
Big Government, like Siamese twins, form one interlinked entity.  This Janus
headed creature is controlled through interlocking directorates and "other
relationships," a Good Ol' Boys' network of the Rich and Famous.  Further,
we will look at evidence that, contrary to the ideals of Lincoln's
government "of, by and for the people," America's real government is of, by
and for a moneyed elite, one that is quite possibly ultimately controlled by
the handful of men who own and/or control the banks.  Don't like this
"Bircher" Conspiracy Theory discourage you from reading on, we are going to
cover a lot of other ground, including "globalism" and alien contact!

Let us start with taking a look at just one major American bank and the kind
of power it really has to shape our society to its will (should it have one,
of course)...

In 1968 a 1,945 page report on corporate interlocks in America was published
by the staff of the House Subcommittee on Domestic Finance, entitled
"Commercial Banks And Their Trust Activities: Emerging Influence On The
American Economy."  Let me give you just the highlights from "TABLE
76.--INTERLOCKING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK, NEW YORK,
N.Y., AND MAJOR CORPORATIONS."  The Rockefeller owned First National City
Bank is today known as Citibank, which, among many other distinctions, is a
major issuer of consumer credit cards.  Below is a list of the major
American corporations that had director interlocks with First National City
Bank (one or more individuals sitting on both the bank's and the cited
corporation's board of directors at the time of the Congressional study):
Stone & Webster, Inc
General Foods Corp
General Mills, Inc
National Distillers and Chemical Corp
Wyomissing Corp
St. Regis Paper Co
Kimberly-Clark Corp
Potlatch Forests, Inc
Upson Co
American Book Co
Meredith Publishing Co
Monsanto Co
W. R. Grace Co
Allied Chemical Corp
Koppers Co., Inc
Bristol-Myers Co
Procter & Gamble Co
Colgate-Palmolive Co
Standard Oil of New Jersey
Mobil Oil Corp
Sinclair Oil Corp
Owens-Illinois, Inc
Corning Glass Works
Johns-Manville Corp
United States Steel Corp
Anaconda Co
Kennecott Copper Corp
Phelps Dodge Corp
Arwood Corp
Dresser Industries, Inc
Ritter Pfaudler Corp
Ingersoll-Rand Co
International Business Machines, Corp
National Cash Register Co
General Electric Co
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Magnavox Co
International Telephone & Telegraph
Ford Motor Co
Borg-Warner Corp
Boeing Co
United Aircraft Corp
ACF Industries, Inc
Bell & Howell Co
Xerox Corp
Southern Pacific Co
Union Pacific RR. Co
Great Northern Ry. Co
Northern Pacific Ry. Co
Trans-Caribbean Airways, Inc
D.C. Transit System, Inc
Pan American World Airways
American Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Southern New England Telephone Co
New Jersey Bell Telephone Co
New York Telephone Corp
Wisconsin Telephone Co
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
ABC, Inc
Communications Satellite Corp
Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc
Long Island Lighting Co
Intermountain Gas Co
Consumers Power Co
Rochester Gas & Electric Corp
Mercantile Stores Co., Inc
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Canteen Corp
J. C. Penney Co
Metropolitan Life
New York Life
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co
Travelers, Inc
Mutual Life of New York
United States Life Insurance Co
Great American Insurance Co
Federal Insurance Co
City Investing Co

Note how just this one bank had board members who sat on several different
and supposedly competing companies in the same industries.  How could, say
Sears, really compete with J. C. Penney if the guys who direct the company
work for both firms? much less their both working for the bank that issues
them and their customers credit?

It is important to note that interlocking directorates are not the sole
means a bank has of controlling a corporation's activities.  Banks hold huge
blocks of stock in America's corporations, as well as manage many of their
employee benefits packages.  In more than a few cases the banks possess
controlling interests in these companies, even in whole sectors of the
economy.  Here is an example as cited by the Subcommittee under the heading:
"The Commercial Banks and the News and Information Media:"

"An area which should be of special concern because of its impact on public
knowledge and opinion is the news and information media business.  Several
newspapers and magazine publishers have large blocks of stock held by
commercial banks covered in the Subcommittee's survey.  This includes 18
companies publishing 31 newspapers and 17 magazines, as well as operating 17
radio and TV stations.

"Among the most prominent are Time, Inc., Newsday, Inc., The Evening News
Association (Detroit), Booth Newspapers, Inc., The Tribune Company
(Chicago), the Copley Press, Inc., The Hartford Courant Company, A. S. Abell
Company (Baltimore Sun Papers), and The Dow Jones Company.

"The percentages of common stock held and voted by some banks are indeed
impressive and clearly constitute enough to control the corporation.  For
example, the Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co., of Baltimore, Maryland,
holds 61.3 percent of the common stock of A. S. Abell Company, having sole
voting rights over 27 percent of the total outstanding stock and partial
voting rights over another 23.4 percent.  In addition, Mercantile-Safe
Deposit & Trust has three interlocking directorates with A. S. Abell
Company.  A. S. Abell is the owner and publisher of the Baltimore Sun, The
Evening Sun, and the owner and operator of WMAR-TV, Baltimore, and WBOC-TV,
Salisbury, Maryland."

Or, as it was expressed in The People's Almanac No. 2, by David Wallechinsky
and Irving Wallace:

"...control of the corporations that run the television networks and major
sources of printed news is particularly important, because the news media
influence the population as a whole.  The top twenty-five newspapers that
also own TV stations, book publishers, etc., have more than half of the
daily newspaper circulation.  Not only are most of the TV stations in the
country associated with three media-conglomerate networks, but major banks
hold controlling interests in each one.  For instance, the trust department
of eleven banks hold a total of 38% of the stock in CBS; Chase Manhattan
Bank, which holds 14% of CBS stock, also has substantial holdings in ABC and
RCA, the parent of NBC.  ...media corporations do not dictate the news, but
they place important constraints upon news managers and reporters."

Yes, in the last few years the names and percentages held of these business
entities have changed greatly; but, if anything, through mergers and
down-sizing, the concentration of ownership has only put more of the
nation's media into fewer, and bigger, controlling hands.

As the Subcommittee stated the situation in their SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
section:

"The problem of concentration of economic wealth has been of concern to
Congress and the public for many years.  On occasion this concern has led to
the enactment of important legislation, particularly between 1890 and 1914,
and again during the New Deal Era.

"Since World War II the nature of the problem has changed considerably, in
large part because of the dramatic growth of institutionally managed funds,
including mutual funds, insurance funds, employee benefit funds, and private
trust funds held by bank trust departments.  It appears that the trend
identified in the 1930's of major corporations in the United States being
controlled by corporate management because of the wide dispersal of stock
ownership among large segments of the public, may now be giving way to a new
trend toward control of these vital elements of our economy through control
of the voting of large blocks of stock in these corporations held for
beneficiaries by a relatively few giant financial institutions.

"There are many factors to be considered in judging the potential for
influence and control that banks and other financial institutions may have
over other corporations.  These include the supply of capital, the holding
and voting of large blocks of stock of companies and extensive interlocking
directorships between financial institutions and other corporations.  All of
these factors, as well as many others, appear to exist to an extensive
degree at the present time.

"Some of the consequences of bank influence over major corporations involve
potential restraint of competition, both among financial institutions, and
between competing nonfinancial corporations which may be linked together
through a single banking institution.  Mergers, which would not otherwise
take place, may also be fostered by the influential position of banks with
one or more companies involved.  The ties between banks and other
corporations may also unduly restrict the sources of credit available to
competing businesses which do not have the same links with banks.  This,
too, is a form of restraint on competition.

"In addition, there are a number of serious conflict of interest problems
that arise from extensive interrelationships between banks and other
corporations.

"In addition to the general discussion of the activities of the trust
departments of the 49 banks surveyed...  These 49 banks reported that they
had a total of 8,019 director interlocks with 6,591 companies, and average
of 164 director interlocks with an average of 135 companies per bank.  These
49 banks also reported the names of 5,270 companies in which they hold
individually 5 percent or more of the outstanding share of one or more
classes of stock, an average of 108 companies per bank.

"This clearly put each of these banks in a position of great influence over
a large segment of business in their areas.  More important, it gives the
banking community enormous potential power, for good or evil, over important
parts of the nation's corporate structure.

"What this all adds up to is that the major banking institutions in the
country are emerging as the single most important force in the economy, both
through the huge overall financial resources at their command and through
the concentration of these resources and other interrelationships with a
large part of the non-banking business community in the country.  Earlier
reports have discussed both the trend toward concentration within commercial
banking itself during the post-war period and --even more
significantly --the growing interlocking relationships between these major
banking institutions and other major financial institutions, such as
insurance companies and mutual savings banks.  The power of the banks alone
is quite impressive.  In combination with these other financial institutions
it would be overwhelming.

"When the power of these financial institutions, in the combination which
appears to be evolving, is examined in connection with their power --both
existing and potential --over a large part of the nonfinancial sectors of
our economy, the picture is complete.  The kind of snowballing economic
power described in this study, with its literally thousands of interlocking
relationships, is a situation which can only be ignored at great peril."

Let me repeat that last line, to wit, this "...is a situation which can only
be ignored at great peril."  So far our Congress, comprised of the best
politicians that big business and big banking can buy, has successfully
ignored this problem.  We dare not.

This concentration at the top has achieved, I believe, a far greater
centralization than hinted at above.  In this piece I shall attempt to
detail some of the principal forms of that centralization and interlocks
between governments, the multinational corporations and the international
bankers, as well as with other societal organizations, such as the
philanthropic trusts and academia.  Here is a preview: with the creation of
the Trilateral Commission by David Rockefeller in 1973 (and its placement of
key people into the bought-and-paid-for Carter Administration) the bankers
created what investigative reporter Craig Karpel called "the closest thing
possible to a board of directors of the world."

These same bankers and board members also serve on endless civic,
charitable, educational and cultural boards and committees; creating
interlocks between the banks/business and all sectors of society.  They
provide legislators with assistants, and Congressional Committees rely
heavily on the expertise of big business/banking.  Important posts, at all
levels of government, are regularly filled with these same executives,
on-loan or after "retirement."  At the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) it
is common practice for FDA employees to "graduate" from working for the FDA
to taking jobs with six figure incomes at Monsanto and other firms whose new
products they had approved.

Bankers are among the oldest of the "old money" ruling elites.  Many of the
European bankers are royalty with connections going back centuries.  They
finance governments as well as businesses, gaining a say in the operations
of both.  They also own, or have control of (via director interlocks, voting
blocks of stock, etc.) the media: newspapers, movies, radio and television
around the world; indirectly controlling the information that reaches you.
Additionally, some researchers have claimed that they also finance the
intelligence communities of the world's great powers and may even be the
kingpins of the world's drug trade.

They have also played a role in the creation of "think tanks" (like The
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions and The Brookings
Institution in the U.S. or the Royal Institute for Foreign Affairs and the
Tavistock Institute of England) and "citizens" advisory and cooperation
groups (like Cecil Rhodes' Round Table in England; Groupe Bilderberg and The
Davos Meetings; The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) here or the
"world-wide" Trilateral Commission --more on these coming up shortly).
These organizations put a whole new meaning to the phrase "spin bin."  They
are where the opinions of the government and business are formulated before
being promulgated by their lackeys in the media.

If the above is more-or-less true, then it would give the international
bankers and their symbiotes enormous potential not only for unimaginable
wealth, but immense power to control whole societies.  This, in capsule
form, is one telling of The Conspiracy, one told primarily from what the
conspiracy owned media calls the "paranoid ultra-right."

There are, of course, other theories...

Those of you familiar with UFO conspiracy theories will probably have heard
of "MJ-12," the supposed super-secret group that is above the government
keeping a lid on UFOs and the presence of extra-terrestrials (E.T.s) among
us.

For a good laugh (once you stop shaking from fear) you should read the tall
tales being spun by the likes of John Lear (the CIA's top pilot), William
Moore and other admitted intelligence assets.  Theirs is a Weekly World News
story of crashed flying saucers recovered and aliens, alive and dead, in the
hands of the government; aliens from outer space who have signed an
interplanetary treaty with the U.S. government; secret joint human-alien
facilities and much, much more.  At the core of these stories is the tale
that, in exchange for extra-terrestrial technology, President Eisenhower
inked a deal that gave the E.T.s permission to live in underground bases in
the Southwestern United States.  Additionally, it is claimed that the deal
included our allowing them to kidnap (and return unharmed) U.S. citizens
(with their memories of the event erased) as part of jointly conducted
bizarre human-alien genetic hybridization experiments.

The promulgators of these tales insist that the E.T.s have not lived up to
their end of the bargain.  It is claimed by these UFO "insiders" that the
aliens have not given us enough of the technology for us to be able to
duplicate it here on earth; leaving us much the way that the colonial powers
left the Africans a century ago when they sold them trains but refused to
educate their technicians, leaving the "mother countries" in control of the
railroads.  Further, these researchers claim that the E.T.s have killed or
have otherwise harmed their kidnap victims.  Supposedly this continues
because the U.S. government is powerless to stop them.  It is still further
averred that the E.T.s and/or MJ-12 had JFK killed to prevent him form going
public with their presence among us.  And, of course, we all know that E.T.s
love to eat strawberry ice cream while watching Oprah...

Frankly, I am still undecided about how much truth there is in these
stories.  The most probable answer is that this is a line of disinformation,
spread by the minions of the military-industrial-intelligence complex to
keep the lid on some very terrestrial secrets.  Modern history has taught
us, if little else, that the quickest way to discredit a story in the
main-stream media is to link it to UFOs or a conspiracy.  That is why Gary
Allen called his book "None Dare Call It Conspiracy."  That is why Rush
Limbaugh, who used to talk about the conspiracy constantly, would never
allow the "c" word to be used.

William Cooper is another who has made a name for himself in the UFO field
spreading these tales.  He has linked the classic John Birch Society
right-wing international banker conspiracy theories (as encapsulated above)
with this alleged MJ-12 group, deep underground bases, cattle mutilations
and the Kennedy hit.  In 1989 he released a rather hysterical rant called
"The Secret Government: The Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12."  In
1991 MidOhio Research Associates attempted a detailed dissection of Cooper's
treatise.  I would like to quote from their "Bill Cooper and the Need for
More Research (UFOs, Conspiracies, and the JFK Assassination)," by W. Jones
and R. Minshall:

"In his paper, Cooper refers to a supposed secret society known as the
"Bilderburgers," headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.  He states that this
organization was formed originally "to coordinate and control international
efforts in order to hide the [alien] secret from the normal scrutiny of
governments by the press."  It then "evolved into a secret world government
that now controls everything."  Connecting this organization further to
UFOs, Cooper claims that the "Bilderburgers, the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Trilateral Commission are THE SECRET GOVERNMENT [his
emphasis] and rule this nation through MJ-12."

"There is an organization called by various names, such as the Bilderberg
Meetings, the Bilderberg Group and the Groupe Bilderberg, that does indeed
exist.  (Note the difference in spelling here from Cooper's as quoted in the
paragraph above.)  The group was founded in 1954 at the Hotel de Bilderberg,
from which it takes its name, in Oosterbeek (Netherlands) as a series of
annual conferences.  According to the 1990/91 edition of the Yearbook of
International Organizations, this group provides "an informal atmosphere for
off-the-record discussions on political, economic and military problems of
mutual concern, between politicians, scholars, businessmen and labour
leaders from the North Atlantic alliance."  A recent work describes the
Bilderberg Group as a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) connected
organization "which seems to play a role of promoting informal international
communication, and which has a tradition of secretiveness."  It is not a
formal organization and has no membership, charter, or elected group of
officers.  Attendance at the meeting is by invitation of the Chairman.

"The Chairman as of 1979, according to the Yearbook noted above, was Dr.
Eric Roll.  According to the International Who's Who, 1990-91, 54th Edition,
Dr. Roll is a banker, former British civil servant and the Baron of Ipsden
in the County of Oxfordshire.  His list of credentials, and past posts and
positions is befitting of the British upper class."

The first meeting of Groupe Bilderberg was held at the invitation of the
Crown Prince of the Netherlands.  Each year roughly half the attendees are
from Europe, half from North America.  Some of the participants from the
U.S. in 1991, as an example: were Paul Allaire; Chairman of Xerox
Corporation; Dwayne Andreas, Chairman of Archer Daniels Midland Corporation;
John Chafee, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, Richard Furland, Director of
Bristol Meyers-Squibb; Karen Elliot House, International Vice President of
Dow-Jones, Inc.; Henry Kissinger; David Rockefeller; Jack Sheinkman,
President of the AFL-CIO; and Lynn Williams, President of the United
Steelworkers of America.

Continuing to quote from Jones and Minshall...  "Finding information on the
Bilderberg Group is not easy.  References to it are occasionally found in
books that are both right wing (conservative) and left wing (liberal) in
nature.  The right wing sees this and related organizations, such as the
United States based CFR and the internationally oriented Trilateral
Commission, as being behind a conspiracy to bring a totalitarian one-world
government into being.  On the other hand, the left wing sees them behind an
effort to spread a non-democratic capitalist economic system over the world
to the exclusion of all others.  The amount of verifiable information on the
Bilderberg Group is sparse; documentation on the CFR and the Trilateral
Commission is widely available."

A literal mountain of books has been written on the CFR and more than a few
(mole?) hills worth on the Trilateral Commission.  Indeed, one can hardly
find a Conspiracy Theory book that does not list one or both of these
organizations.  Usually they are pointed to as being either The Conspiracy,
or a major part thereof.

The CFR was created by diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes in 1921 as one of
several organizations he founded with the (secretly) expressed intention of
bringing about a one world government.

Rhodes created the Rhodes Scholarship program at about the same time to
train likely candidates for being the future leaders of his Brave New World.
Indeed, a plaque at Oxford University, home of the Rhodes Scholarships,
proclaims one of the intentions of the program as returning the United
States to the British Empire (!).  Might not an American Rhodes Scholar,
like say, Bill Clinton (who was one in the '60s), come out of the program
with, at best, somewhat muddled loyalties?

Per its official documents, the CFR was established as "a nonprofit and
nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving understanding of American
foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of
ideas."  The Council holds meetings, panel discussions and the like for its
members, and selected invited audiences, to hear the views of foreign policy
officials and other assorted experts (such as speakers from their allied
think tanks and university professors).  While most of their meetings are
kept highly confidential, these days one can catch a few of them on CSPAN
(the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network).  It also publishes books and
papers and its own in-house magazine, Foreign Affairs; all of which are
available to the general public.  Indeed, Foreign Affairs is available in
most public libraries.  Its membership is limited to U.S. citizens only.
Membership in the CFR's English sister group, The Round Table, is similarly
limited to Brits.  Per its annually published membership roster, the CFR had
2,670 members in 1990.

The Trilateral Commission, established in 1973, was a spin off from the CFR.
The majority of its American members are also in the CFR.  The "trilateral"
part of the name refers to where the "commissioners" come from: North
America, Europe and Japan.  Per many right-wing conspiratologists, the then
CFR Chairman, David Rockefeller, wanted to rule the world, and unhappy with
the CFR's slow progress in setting up a world government for him,
established the Trilateral Commission (with the help of future Presidential
foreign policy advisor, Zbigniew Brezinski) to speed up the process.  The
Trilateral Commission certainly appears to have achieved being an
interlocking structure between business, banking, organized labor, academia
and government itself, both in Europe and Japan, as well in North America.

Here I want to introduce you to Karl Grossman and his 1980 book: "Cover Up:
What You Are Not Supposed To Know About Nuclear Power."  This book, from The
Permanent Press of Sagaponack, New York, is by far the best book I have seen
on the subject of nuclear power, and, horror novels included, is the
scariest book I have ever read.  Mr. Grossman, an award winning
investigative journalist and TV news anchor covers the subject from how
nuclear power plants work through accident hazards, medical consequences,
and radioactive waste, to, as described on the book's dust wrapper, "the
deception and economic blackmail that have been utilized by a small but
powerful group of government and corporate officials to 'sell' nuclear power
to the public," and ends with an in-dept look at the alternatives to nuclear
power and what you, the reader, can do about it.  This is a how-to book you
need on your shelf.  In detailing how the nuclear industry came about and
who benefits from nuclear power Mr. Grossman dives deep into Conspiracy
Theory.  This is not the work of some "tree-hugging" crank, however; this
book is meticulously documented --for which I shall be forever grateful...

According to him, The Trilateral Commission began as an "action committee
...made up of the top executives of the most important multinational
corporations and financial institutions ranging from J. Paul Austin,
chairman of The Coca-Cola Company and Peter G. Peterson, chairman of Lehman
Brothers, to political figures: from Rockefeller family advisor Henry
Kissinger to Democrat Jimmy Carter and Representative John Anderson and, at
one point, Republican George Bush; and including representatives of labor,
education and media."

Mr. Grossman included in his book a reprinting of an official membership
list of the North American members of The Trilateral Commission (from some
time late in the Carter Administration).  I want to include it here, as
well.  How many of these names do you recognize?

David Rockefeller, North American Chairman, The Trilateral Commission;
Chairman, The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
George S. Franklin, Coordinator, The Trilateral Commission; former Executive
Director, Council on Foreign Relations
Mitchell Sharp, North American Secretary, The Trilateral Commission; Member
of Parliament; former Minister of External Affairs

North American Members

W. Abel, Former President, United Steelworkers of America
David M. Abshire, Chairman, Georgetown University Center for Strategic and
International Studies
Gardner Ackley, Henry Carter Adams University Professor of Political
Economy, University of Michigan
Graham Allison, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University
Doris Anderson, Former Editor, Ch�telaine Magazine
John B. Anderson, House of Representatives
Anne Armstrong, Former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain
J. Paul Austin, Chairman, The Coca-Cola Company
George W. Ball, Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers
Michel Belanger, President, Provincial Bank of Canada
Robert W. Bonner, Q.C., Chairman, British Columbia Hydro
John Brademas, House of Representatives
Andrew Brimmer, President, Brimmer & Co, Inc.
William E. Brock, III, Chairman, Republican National Committee
Arthur F. Burns, Senior Adviser, Lazard Freres & Co.; former Chairman of
Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve Board
Hugh Calkins, Partner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
Claude Castonguay, President, Fonds Laurentien; Chairman of the Board,
Imperial Life Assurance Company; former Minister in the Quebec Government
Sol Chaikin, President, International Ladies Garment Workers Union
William S. Cohen, House of Representatives
William T. Coleman, Jr., Senior Partner, O'lveny & Myers; former Secretary
of Transportation
Barber B. Conable, Jr., House of Representatives
John Cowles, Jr., Chairman, Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co.
Alan Cranston, United States Senate
John C. Culver, United States Senate
Gerald L. Curtis, Director, East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Lloyd N. Cutler, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Louis A. Desrochers, Partner, McCuaig and Desrochers, Edmonton
Peter Dobell, Director, Parliamentary Centre for Foreign Affairs and Foreign
Trade, Ottawa
Hedley Donovan, Editor-in-Chief, Time Inc.
Cluade A. Edwards, Member, Public Service Staff Relations Board; former
President, Public Service Alliance of Canada
Daniel J. Evans, President, The Evergreen State College; former Governor of
Washington
Gordon Fairweather, Chief Commissioner, Canadian Human Rights Commission
Thomas S. Foley, House of Representatives
Donald M. Fraser, House of Representatives
John Allen Fraser, Member of Parliament, Ottawa
John H. Glenn, Jr., United States Senate
Donald Southam Harvie, Deputy Chairman, Petro Canada
Philip M. Hawley, President, Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc.
Walter W. Heller, Regents' Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
William A. Hewitt, Chairman, Deere & Company
Carla A. Hills, Senior Resident Partner, Latham, Watkins & Hills; former
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Alan Hockin, Executive Vice President, Toronto-Dominion Bank
Hendrik S. Houthakker, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Thomas L. Hughes, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Robert S. Ingersoll, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The
University of Chicago; former Deputy Secretary of State
D. Gale Johnson, Provost, The University of Chicago
Edgar F. Kaiser, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, Kaiser
Resources Ltd.
Michael Kirby, President, Institute for Research on Public Policy, Montreal
Lane Kirkland, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
Henry A. Kissinger, Former Secretary of State
Sol M. Linowitz, Senior Partner, Coudert Brothers; former Ambassador to the
Organization of American States
Winston Lord, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Donald S. Macdonald, Former Canadian Minister of Finance
Bruce K. MacLaury, President, The Brookings Institution
Paul W. McCraken, Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Business Administration,
University of Michigan
Arjay Miller, Dean, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Lee L. Morgan, President, Caterpillar Tractor Company
Kenneth D. Naden, President, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
David Packard, Chairman, Hewlett-Packard Company
Gerald L. Parsky, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; former Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
William R. Pearce, Vice President, Cargill Incorporated
Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Lehman Brothers
Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and Director of Japan Institute,
Harvard University; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Charles W. Robinson, Vice Chairman, Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co.; former
Deputy Secretary of State
John D. Rockefeller, IV, Governor of West Virginia
Robert V. Roosa, Partner, Brown Bros., Harriman & Company
William M. Roth, Roth Properties
William V. Roth, Jr., United States Senate
John C. Sawhill, President, New York University; former Administrator,
Federal Energy Administration
Henry B. Schacht, Chairman, Cummins Engine Inc.
William W. Scranton, Former Governor of Pennsylvania; former U.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations
Mark Shepperd, Jr., Chairman, Texas Instruments Incorporated
Robert Taft, Jr., Partner, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister
Arthur R. Taylor [no information given]
James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois
Russell E. Train, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Philip H. Trezise, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
Paul A. Volcker, President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Martha R. Wallace, Executive Director, The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
Martin J. Ward, President, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices
of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada
Glenn E. Watts, President, Communications Workers of America
Caspar W. Weinberger, Vice President and General Counsel, Bechtel
Corporation
George Weyerhaeuser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Weyerhaeuser
Company
Marina v.N. Whitman, Distinguished Public Service Professor of Economics,
University of Pittsburgh
Carroll L. Wilson, Mitsui Professor in Problems of Contemporary Technology,
Alfred P. Sloan School of Management; Director, Workshop on Alternative
Energy Strategies, MIT
T. A. Wilson, Chairman of the Board, The Boeing Company

Former Members in Public Service

Lucy Wilson Benson, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance
W. Michael Blumenthal, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Robert R. Bowie, U.S. Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for
National Intelligence
Harold Brown, U.S. Secretary of Defense
Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs
Jimmy Carter, President of the United States
Warren Christopher, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
Richard N. Cooper, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
Richard N. Gardner, U.S. Ambassador to Italy
Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs
Walter F. Mondale, Vice President of the United States
Henry Owen, Special Representative of the President for Economic Summits;
U.S. Ambassador at Large
Jean-Luc Pepin, P.C., Co-chairman, Task Force on Canadian Unity
Elliot L. Richardson, U.S. Ambassador at Large with Responsibility for UN
Law of the Sea Conference
Gerard C. Smith,  U.S. Ambassador at Large for Non-Proliferation Matters
Anthony M. Solomon, U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary
Affairs
Cyrus R. Vance, U.S. Secretary of State
Paul C. Warnke, Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Chief
Disarmament Negotiator
Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

Mr. Grossman then adds: "The last series of names, 'Former Members in Public
Service,' is, as you will notice, about all of the top members of the Carter
administration --virtually every major post in the Departments of State,
Defense and the Treasury and, of course, the President himself and his Vice
President."  You will no doubt have noticed that a number of these folks did
it all over again in the Clinton Administration.  Did I mention that
President Clinton was also a member of The Trilateral Commission?  So, by
the way, were his supposed opponents, George H. W. Bush and Ross Perot.
Extra points for anyone who can send me a list of Trilats in the George W.
Bush Administration!

The late Elliot Richardson is one name on this list I'd like us to take a
closer look at.  He had last been the President's Special Representative for
the Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines, Department of
State, before his death in recent years.

Richardson graduated from Harvard (cum laude) in 1947.  He started out as a
law clerk to Judge Learned Hand, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit, N.Y.; then went on to clerk for Justice Felix Frankfurter, U.S.
Supreme Court.  This may be where he was recruited into the "New World
Order."  Justice Frankfurter is quoted to have said: "The real rulers in
Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes."

In the early 1950's Richardson was an associate at the law firm of Ropes,
Gray, Best, Coolidge & Rugg of Boston, Massachusetts.  From there he became
assistant to Senator Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts.  He then began
to get busy in Massachusetts political affairs and became Acting Counsel to
Governor Christian A. Herter.

Then, in 1957, under President Eisenhower and his Republican administration,
he became Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.

He began the '60s by returning to Massachusetts as U.S. Attorney for
Massachusetts.  But soon after he returned to Washington as Special
Assistant to U.S. Attorney General, in the Democratic administration of
President Kennedy (perhaps it was just because they were all from
Massachusetts).  After one year in D.C. he returned to his former law
practice with Ropes, Gray, et al.  In 1965 he became the Lieutenant Governor
of Massachusetts.  After two years of that he spent another two years as the
Attorney General of Massachusetts.

In 1969 he returned to federal service as Under Secretary of State, back
under a Republican administration.  In 1970 President Nixon appointed him
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.  For a short, stormy while he
was later Secretary of Defense.  Then, taking a cooler chair, moved over to
Attorney General of the U.S.

In 1975 he took some time out of the spotlight to become a Fellow at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., a
major pro-world-government think tank.  Then later that year he was
appointed by Republican President Ford to be the U.S. Ambassador to the
United Kingdom, London.

He returned the following year to be Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Commerce.
Oops!  How did this Republican Cabinet Member suddenly become a Democratic
one?  And for that matter, what were his qualifications to be Commerce
Secretary?  Certainly nothing in his resume up to this point leaps out as
showing him to be a stellar player in the world of business and industry.

Next, as mentioned in the list of Trilateral members above, in 1977, he
became the Ambassador-at-Large and Special Representative of the President
to the United Nations Law of the Sea Conference.

>From that time till his death he held two jobs, the one mentioned above in
the State Department, the other as a senior resident partner, Milbank,
Tweed, Hadley & McCloy of Washington, D.C.  So, he was a lawyer in private
practice and a career diplomat, working for --whom?  The American People?
The President?  The Trilateral Commission?  David Rockefeller?

There are several publications that give the names of the 10,000 or so top
members of the government, both Executive, Legislative and Judicial.  Some
of these publications also give short biographies.  There are also several
variations on "Who's Who" that also fill one in on what these people have
been up to.  The librarian in the Reference Room of any good library will be
happy to introduce you to them.  A few minutes digging in these reference
tools can be quite rewarding.

For example, of the seven names under the letter "A" on the above Trilateral
Commission membership list, I found bios for four of them after less than
thirty minutes of digging.  Graham Allison, was listed as being a member of
both the Trilateral Commission and the CFR, as well as being associated with
the Rand Corporation, the Brookings Institution and the Center for Advanced
Studies at Stanford University, all "New World Order" think tanks.

Former Congressman John B. Anderson is listed in several of these
directories as President of, what I am sure could rightfully be called a New
World Order "front" organization, the World Federalist Association (WFA).
Per the "Encyclopedia of Associations," 30th edition, 1996, the World
Federalist Association's postal address is P.O. Box 15250, Washington, DC
20003, with a toll-free phone number of 800 WFA-0123 (in D.C. its number is
202 546-3950, fax 202 546-3749) and available on-line via Peacenet, WFAWDC.
That listing does not mention Congressman Anderson, but gives one Tim Barner
as the organization's Executive Officer.

According to the "Encyclopedia of Associations" the World Federalist
Association was founded in 1947; has 10,000 members paying a $30.00 annual
fee; and has an annual budget of $800,000.00 (where does the other
$500,000.00 come from?).  It previously operated under the names of United
World Federalists and World Federalists USA.  The World Federalist
Association is described by that encyclopedia as being an "educational
organization working to transform the United Nations into a 'democratic
world federation capable of ensuring peace, economic progress, and
environmental protection.'"  That encyclopedia further states that the WFA
"seeks to institute international environmental controls and effective arms
control and establish world institutions to handle problems, including
pollution, terrorism, and the population explosion.  ...espouses the
principle of voluntary, shared participation that would presuppose an
ordered, manageable world."

The WFA seems to be in the mold of the Council on Foreign Relations and
similar groups.  It maintains a speakers' bureau; organizes study groups;
conducts a semi-annual assembly and periodic seminars, discussions,
conferences and conventions; funds and conducts research and educational
programs; sponsors a permanent representative to the United Nations (!);
annually presents the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award to journalists
who place the media piece that "best" contributes to the general public's
"understanding of the need for global governance;" publishes a quarterly
in-house magazine: World Federalist; etc.

Another Trilat I found listings for was Mrs. Armstrong, who, as well as also
being a member of the CFR, sat as a Director on the boards of General Motors
Corp., Haliburton Company, Boise Cascade Corp., American Express Co., and
Glaxo Holdings, plus she was a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution.  Oh,
and she co-chaired the Reagan-Bush campaign of 1980.  Busy girl.

What is it that the Trilateralists want?  Do you detect a certain blurring
of the distinctions between liberal and conservative in this crowd?  One
could argue that business transcends politics --but the "commissioners" are
hardly all businessmen.  What unifying principle brings seeming opposites
together?

Being a firm believer in letting someone shoot himself with his own gun, how
about this quote from one of the Trilateral Commission's own publications,
"The Triangle Paper. 8, The Crisis of Democracy." from 1975:  "...the
problems of governance in the United States today stems from an excess of
democracy ... Needed, instead, is a greater degree of moderation in
democracy ... Democracy is only one way of constituting authority, and it is
not necessarily a universally applicable one.  In many situations the claims
of expertise, seniority, experience, and special talents may override the
claims of democracy as a way of constituting authority."  Technocracy, any
one?

In his book, Mr. Grossman makes reference to a series of articles published
in Penthouse Magazine by investigative reporter Craig Karpel (whom I
mentioned earlier).  Grossman quotes Karpel as claiming: "The key to
Rockefeller and Brzezinski's plan was to gain control of the executive
branch of the U.S. government.  The first step was the selection in 1973 of
an ambitious, capable presidential candidate."

According to Grossman, Jimmy Carter became ..."an original member of The
Trilateral Commission after coming to the Rockefeller family's attention
while he was Governor of Georgia.  David Rockefeller, Chairman of Chase
Manhattan Bank, has multi-million dollar personal investments around
Atlanta, Ga., sometimes called "Rockefeller Center South."

"Carter," Grossman explains, "gave his support to Rockefeller and
Brzezinski's notion of a system of unrestricted multinational trade.
Brzezinski's major work, Between Two Ages, describing such trade and his
concept of a global 'technetronic' society is what attracted the
Rockefellers to him.  Importantly, Carter was an enthusiast of the energy
form that both the Rockefellers and Brzezinski saw fueling the multinational
future they sought: nuclear power.

"A former member of Admiral Hyman Rickover's Division of Naval Reactors,
Carter has described his profession as an engineer and nuclear physicist.'"

Grossman goes on to explain that "...with Brzezinski writing all of Carter's
foreign policy speeches, according to Karpel, and with support by other
Trilateral members and from the media conglomerates managed by Trilateral
members, what next happened was --as Karpel writes --'the presidency of the
United States and the key cabinet departments of the federal government'
were 'taken over by a private organization dedicated to the subordination of
the domestic interests of the United States to the international interests
of the multinational banks and corporations.  This seizure of public power
by private interests is the most serious political scandal in American
history.  Watergate was someone named Martinez breaking into the office of
the Democratic National Committee in the dead of night.  Cartergate is David
Rockefeller breaking into the Oval Office in broad daylight.'"

Here, in the CFR and The Trilateral Commission we see two of the key
structures of that power elite.  To quote from sociology professor G.
William Domhoff's scholarly examination of America's upper crust "The Higher
Circles" he wrote: "American foreign policy is initiated, planned, and
carried out by members and organizations of a power elite that is rooted in
and serves the interests of an upper class of rich businessmen and their
descendants.  ...If there is one issue-area truly and solely the domain of
the power elite, it is foreign policy.  ...public opinion is rarely felt and
...Congress is usually by-passed.  ...the most important institutions in
foreign policy decision-making are the large corporations and banks, closely
intertwined charitable foundations, two or three discussion and research
associations financed by these corporations and foundations, and the
National Security Council, State Department, Defense Department, and
specially appointed committees of the federal government."  Let me add, as
we have seen in the above membership list, those decision points in the
White House, State, Defense and special committees are manned by members of
the power elite, and more specifically, in most cases by members of the
Trilateral Commission and/or Council on Foreign Relations.  Here is more
proof of this:

Theodore H. White, in his "The Making of the President 1964," wrote of the
CFR: "Its roster of members has for a generation, under Republican and
Democratic administrations alike, been the chief recruiting ground for
Cabinet-level officials in Washington.  Among the first eighty-two names on
a list prepared for John F. Kennedy for staffing his State Department, at
least sixty-three were members of the Council, Republicans and Democrats
alike.  When, finally, he made his appointments, both his Secretary of State
(Rusk, Democrat) and Treasury (Dillon, Republican) were chosen from Council
members; so were seven assistant and undersecretaries of State, four senior
members of Defense, ...as well as two members of the White House staff
(Schlesinger, Democrat; Bundy, Republican)."

Virtually since its inception, members of the CFR have held key posts in
every administration, Democratic and Republican.  Indeed, both Jimmy Carter
and George Bush were members of the CFR (as well as the Trilateral
Commission) while holding the Office of President.  Trilateralist Bill
Clinton is currently a member of the CFR and his first Administration had no
less than eighty CFR members in important positions: such as Bruce Babbitt,
Secretary of the Interior; General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff; James Woolsey, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency;
and Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.  There were at
least two dozen CFR members in the State Department alone, from Warren
Christopher, Secretary of State and Strobe Talbot, Deputy Secretary of
State, down.  Another dozen, roughly, were U. S. Ambassadors, such as
Madeleine Albright, Ambassador to the United Nations and former Vice
President Walter Mondale.  Another fifteen CFR members were United States
Senators and yet another fifteen, or so, had seats in the House of
Representatives.  Three more served on the Supreme Court: Justices O'Connor,
Breyer and Ginsburg.  My sources indicate that his second Administration had
an even larger number of CFR and/or Trilateral members in it!  George W.
Bush is currently filling positions, but I would be very surprised if he
didn't include a slug of CFRs in his recommendations.

Senator Barry Goldwater in his book, "With No Apologies," declared: "The
Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which
organized in England ...believes national boundaries should be obliterated
and one world rule established.  The Trilateral Commission is international
...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the
commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political
government of the United States.  The Trilateral Commission represents a
skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four
centers of power --political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical."

Since the time of Cecil Rhodes, founder of the Round Table and CFR, the
movement to end war, poverty and hunger through the creation of a world
governing body has swept through the liberal intelligencia of Europe and
North America.  Today a sizable percentage of the world's leading
intellectuals, statesmen and wealthy philanthropists (big businessmen and
big bankers) support the idea of a single, one world government --such men
as George H. W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, David Rockefeller, and President
Clinton's mentor, Dr. Carroll Quigley, whom he mentioned in his First
Inaugural Address.

The CFR and The Trilateral Commission are hardly the only such agencies of
the power elite, though they are probably the most powerful and certainly
are the best known to conspiratologists.  Other elite-dominated
organizations in the U.S. include: the Committee for Economic Development
(CED); The Rand Corporation; the MIT Center for International Studies; The
Brookings Institution; The Center for Advanced Studies at Stanford
University; the National Planning Association; the AdCouncil; The Centre for
the Study of Democratic Institutions; the Heritage Foundation; the Ford
Foundation; the Foreign Policy Association; and hundreds of others.

The idea I want you to get is that since the 19th century, members of the
power elite have recognized that change was inevitable and that their only
wise course was to become the agents of change; controlling the direction of
history into avenues that would be least damaging/most profitable to their
economic empires.  They have had the time and resources to set up mechanisms
among themselves to arrive at a consensus of what they want to do (The CFR,
Trilateral Commission, The Bilderberg, Bohemian Grove and Davos meetings,
etc.).  That they have had the wealth to endow colleges and universities,
which have in turn have created special schools and other academic
organizations (like The Center for Advanded Studies at Stanford University)
that have aided in those internal deliberations by supplying experts and
generations of student intellectual manpower and, more importantly, these
institutions have originated model legislation that would later be rubber
stamped by Congress; additionally, these institutions trained both the
elite, their offspring and their hand picked employees in the skills needed
to implement these desires.  Further, the elite have been instrumental in
the creation of governmental agencies (The Atomic Energy Commission, the
Food and Drug Administration, etc.) and special boards, panels and
committees to infiltrate the government with themselves and their employees
to ensure that their plans are carried out.

Back to Jones and Minshall and their analysis of Bill Cooper's
psychobabble...  Attempting to steer a "middle" course, they write of The
Trilateral Commission thusly:

"The ultimate goal of the Commission is said by some to be the creation of a
global economic and political system, with coordination of domestic and
foreign policy occurring among the Trilateral members.  Accordingly, it is
hoped by the Trilateralists that the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Third
World countries will eventually be integrated with the Trilateral world to
make up a cooperative one-world interdependent economy.  Some see the
Trilateral Commission involved in a malevolent conspiracy, while others view
it as the vehicle for promoting a better world order by some of the world's
leading intellectuals.  Whether one views the Commission's goals as "good"
or "bad" depends upon one's political and economic viewpoints.

"For those who instinctively think a Bilderberger-CFR-Trilateral
Commission-international banker conspiracy provides an international basis
for easily explaining the Cosmic Watergate [the supposed UFO cover-up]...
It must ...be understood when researching this subject that claims of this
conspiracy make up a material part of the political ideology of the extreme
right-wing including the National Caucus of Labor Committees headed by
Lyndon LaRouche and the John Birch Society.  The historical, political and
propaganda morass that one must sift through to find out the truth in these
matters is beyond the training of most UFO researchers; we are truly out of
our element.  Tread carefully."

Amen, Brother!  As the former Executive Director of the National UFO Museum
(did I just "out" myself?) I can tell you for sure, for sure, the
nuts-and-bolts field UFOlogist with his camera and binoculars has no idea
what he is up against.

Above, I pooh-poohed the likes of Cooper and Lear, but what if they are
right (telling the truth as they understand it)?  What if there really is an
ultimate conspiracy between extra-terrestrials (E.T.s) and, say, the
Trilateral Commission?  Sure, anyone with half a brain can see that people
like "Commander X" are just modern day P. T. Barnums (as I put it a few
years back, what with the New Age, there's a sucker reborn every minute),
but what about the Michael Lindemanns, Linda Moulton Howes and Bob Lazars of
the UFO world who tell consistent stories, and genuinely sound like they
believe what they are telling you?

Is it possible that the earth has actually been contacted by
extra-terrestrials?  Have the E.T.s been guiding human evolution for
centuries, perhaps millennia; directing us to some ultimate end of their
design?  Has this been a benevolent shepherding of our childlike race toward
its eventual standing as an adult member in a Universal Community of
Consciousness (or some such), or has theirs been a sinister breeding
program, leading us toward some evil, unthinkable end? (Reminds one of the
"Twilight Zone" episode with the "friendly" space aliens whose revered book,
"To Serve Man," turns out to be a cook book, eh?)

I must admit, it does make sense that if an alien culture wanted to make
official contact with us, they might very well want us to have a single
voice (i.e. a one world government) to speak for Mankind.  ("Star Trek: The
Next Generation" did an interesting episode on this theme, with The
Federation (in violation its own vaunted Prime Directive) using undercover
agents to direct a backward planet with rival nations into a eventual single
planetary government and subsequent admission into the Federation of
Planets.  Just science-fiction, or subliminal programming of a target
populace?)  Is the current apparent push to create a one world government a
movement to bring us into some larger galactic order?  Is MJ-12 the real
savior of earth?  Will a United Federation of Earth soon be building real
spaceports?  Are we about to find ourselves in a trade imbalance with the
Pleiades star cluster?

Most of the UFO whistle-blowers on this plot, however, insist that the
aliens are not here for our benefit.  In most of their stories they say that
the E.T.s consider us to be a stupid, inferior lifeform; regarding us in
much the same way as we regard cattle.  They are said to consider us useful
only as DNA suppliers, and, perhaps, as lunch meat.  Is the Earth about to
become a planet-wide genetics factory --or a fast food restaurant, one with
humanburgers as the principal entre?  Is there a central contact group, such
as the alleged MJ-12, being used by the aliens to create a single earth
government which would ultimately become the sheep with the bell for the
rest of us to follow (into the slaughterhouse or shearing pen, as they
elect)?

UFOs aside, it is a fair question to ask: are the CFR and Trilats "harmless"
business men and academics, or something closer to the Biblical Beast 666?
Is theirs a plan to better mankind, or enslave him?  Just what is this
"better world order" that Jones and Minshall so blithely alluded to above?

"Two centuries ago our forefathers brought forth a new nation: now we must
join with others to bring forth a new world order."

-- The Declaration of Interdependence

Signed on January 30, 1976, in Washington, D.C., by 32 Senators and 92
Representatives

Take a one dollar bill out of your pocket.  On the back side of the bill are
the obverse and reverse faces of the Great Seal of the United States of
America.  Notice the eye-in-the-triangle at the top of the unfinished
pyramid?  Those are important symbols within Freemasonry.  The eye may
represent a number of things, not the least of which is the "All Seeing Eye"
of the Supreme God of the Freemasons, GAOTU or Great Architect of the
Universe.  The unfinished pyramid also represents a number of things
including the idea that God's plan for this world is not yet complete.  The
pyramid is also a classic depiction of an aristocratic social order with the
ruling few at the top and the powerless many at the base.  Beneath the
pyramid is a scroll that reads: "NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM."  This translates from
the Latin as: NOVUS: new; ORDO: order; SECLORUM: the secular world: a.k.a.:
New World Order.  For the last 200+ years the phrase "New World Order" has
been something of a campaign slogan for the conspiracy.  Conspiracy
researchers around the globe were therefore terribly startled when George
Bush, Sr. began using it in public.  This was the equivalent of the
conspiracy waving a red flag before the conspiracy research community's
eyes.

What is this New World Order?  The following transcript should prove
illuminating.  Author Lindsey Williams speaking on the Jim French Show on
KIRO radio, Seattle, Washington, on 10/2/91...

Lindsey Williams:  "There's a new expression that's very common now, heard
quite often [from] our President, entitled "New World Order," and no one
ever seems to know the definition to it."

Jim French:  "Do you have a definition of it?  Is there an official
definition of it?  When George Bush says "New World Order" what does he
mean?"

Lindsey Williams:  "Well...  there was some very close friends of President
Bush who met in Germany recently at what was dubbed as the Brandt
Commission; it was also called the Fifth Socialist International.  A very
prestigious group of people and at their meeting they formally adopted a
definition of the expression "New World Order."  Ah, just a few individuals
who were there...  Former World Bank President, Robert McNamara was there,
who by the way is a personal friend of President Bush; former Secretary of
Commerce, Peter Peterson was present; none other than Newsweek magazine's
owner and editor, Katherine Graham, was there... just to name a few of the
very prestigious individuals who were there."  [Trilats all! -JS]

Jim French:  "This is the "Brandt Commission?""

Lindsey Williams:  ""Brandt Commission."  I don't know why they called it
the "Fifth Socialist International," or why they called it "Brandt
Commission."  All I know is that they met in West Germany and in the course
of their meeting they officially adopted a definition of the expression "New
World Order," and all of these individuals approved it, and signed it,
saying that they officially adopted this as the definition, for the first
time by any prestigious organization of the expression that's being used by
our President and Mr. Gorbachev, and Mr. Yeltsin, the expression 'New World
Order.'"

Jim French:  "So, what is their definition?"

Lindsey Williams:  "I will read it.  Quote: 'A supranational authority to
regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that
would control the production and consumption of oil; an international
currency that would replace the dollar; a world development fund that would
make funds available to free and Communist nations alike; an international
police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order.'"

Jim French:  "What are you reading that from?"

Lindsey Williams:  "This was published in the McAlvany Intelligence Advisory
and Don McAlvany produces one of the most respected financial newsletters in
the world today.  He got it right from the minutes of the Brandt Commission
when they met in West Germany in February of Nineteen and Ninety-one."

Well, it isn't called The New World Order any more.  By the time George
Bush, Sr. left office the cat was out of the bag.  By the end of Clinton's
first term the new phrase was "global governance."  That phrase took a
beating during the Battle in Seattle when the world, left and right, rallied
against it.  Today this movement to create a single world government is
simply called "globalization."  As Shakespeare pointed out, a rose by any
name smells the same, and government of, by and for the ruling elite still
stinks.

Jerry E. Smith is a thirty-year veteran free-lance writer and poet.  His
last book was "HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy" from Adventures
Unlimited Press (AUP).  He currently lives in Reno, Nevada, working on his
next book for AUP, "Weather Warfare," and examination of the growing
possibilities for geophysical warfare in the 21st Century.  Visit his
website at: www.blazing-trails.com/jesmith




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