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Natalia The Global Elite: Who are they? Volume 5, Issue 12 (part I) 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.) ..... 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. ..... 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. ..... 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 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 several tests used to identify a member of the true core of global elite. Trilateral Commission Membership, 1973 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 ...... * Indicates member of Executive Committee ...... 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. |
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