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a centralized global financing system" ...  Today, CFR has thousands of
influential members (including important ones in the corporate media) but
keeps a low public profile, especially regarding its real agenda.

Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Junior called it a "front organization (for)
the heart of the American Establishment". It meets privately and only
publishes what it wishes the public to know. Its members are only
Americans.

The Trilateral Commission (discussed below) is a similar group that
"brings together global power brokers". Founded by David Rockefeller, he's
also a leading Bilderberger and CFR Chairman Emeritus, organizations he
continues to finance and support.

Their past and current members reflect their power:

-  nearly all presidential candidates of both parties;

-  leading senators and congressmen;

-  key members of the fourth estate and their bosses; and

-  top officials of the FBI, CIA, NSA, defense establishment, and other
leading government agencies, including state, commerce, the judiciary and
treasury.

For its part, "CFR has served as a virtual employment agency for the
federal government under both Democrats and Republicans". Whoever occupies
the White House, "CFR's power and agenda" have been unchanged since its
1921 founding.

It advocates a global superstate with America and other nations
sacrificing their sovereignty to a central power. CFR founder Paul Warburg
was a member of Roosevelt's "brain trust". In 1950, his son, James, told
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "We shall have world government
whether or not you like it - by conquest or consent".

Later at the 1992 Bilderberg Group meeting, Henry Kissinger said:

"Today, Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to
restore order; tomorrow, they will be grateful. This is especially true if
they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or
promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all
people of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from
this evil ... individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the
guarantee of their well-being granted to them by their world government."

CFR planned a New World Order before 1942, and the "UN began with a group
of CFR members called the Informal Agenda Group". They drafted the
original UN proposal, presented it to Franklin Roosevelt who announced it
publicly the next day. At its 1945 founding, CFR members comprised over
forty of the US delegates.

According to Professor G William Domhoff, author of Who Rules America (3rd
edition, 1998), the CFR operates in "small groups of about twenty-five,
who bring together leaders from the six conspirator categories
(industrialists, financiers, ideologues, military, professional
specialists - lawyers, medical doctors, et cetera - and organized labor)
for detailed discussions of specific topics in the area of foreign
affairs". Domhoff added:

"The Council on Foreign Relations, while not financed by government, works
so closely with it that it is difficult to distinguish Council action
stimulated by government from autonomous actions. (Its) most important
sources of income are leading corporations and major foundations." The
Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations to name three, and they're
directed by key corporate officials.


Dominant Media Partners

Former CBS News president Richard Salant (1961 to 1964 and 1966 to 1979)
explained the major media's role: "Our job is to give people not what they
want, but what we decide they ought to have".

CBS and other media giants control everything we see, hear and read -
through television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, films, and large
portions of the Internet. Their top officials and some journalists attend
Bilderberg meetings - on condition they report nothing.

The Rockefeller family wields enormous power, even though its reigning
patriarch, David, will be 94 on June 12 and surely near the end of his
dominance. However, for years "the Rockefellers (led by David) gained
great influence over the media. (With it) the family gained sway over
public opinion. With the pulse of public opinion, they gained deep
influence in politics. And with this politics of subtle corruption, they
are taking control of the nation" and now aim for total world domination.

The Bilderberger-Rockefeller scheme is to make their views "so appealing
(by camouflaging them) that they become public policy (and can) pressure
world leaders into submitting to the 'needs of the Masters of the
Universe'". The "free world press" is their instrument to disseminate
"agreed-upon propaganda".


CFR Cabinet Control

"The National Security Act of 1947 established the office of Secretary of
Defense". Since then, 14 DOD secretaries have been CFR members.

Since 1940, every Secretary of State, except James Byrnes, has been a CFR
member and/or Trilateral Commission (TC) one.

For the past eighty years, "Virtually every key US National Security and
Foreign Policy Advisor has been a CFR member.

Nearly all top generals and admirals have been CFR members.

Many presidential candidates were/are CFR members, including Herbert
Hoover, Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon,
Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter (also a charter TC member), George H W Bush,
Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and John McCain.

Numerous CIA directors were/are CFR members, including Richard Helmes,
James Schlesinger, William Casey, William Webster, Robert Gates, James
Woolsey, John Deutsch, George Tenet, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, and Leon
Panetta.

Many Treasury Secretaries were/are CFR members, including Douglas Dillon,
George Schultz, William Simon, James Baker, Nicholas Brady, Lloyd Bentsen,
Robert Rubin, Henry Paulson, and Tim Geithner.

When presidents nominate Supreme Court candidates, the CFR's "Special
Group, Secret Team" or advisors vet them for acceptability. Presidents, in
fact, are told who to appoint, including designees to the High Court and
most lower ones.


Programming the Public Mind

According to sociologist Hadley Cantril in his 1967 book, The Human
Dimension - Experiences in Policy Research:

Government "Psycho-political operations are propaganda campaigns designed
to create perpetual tension and to manipulate different groups of people
to accept the particular climate of opinion the CFR seeks to achieve in
the world".

Canadian writer Ken Adachi (1929 - 1989) added:

"What most Americans believe to be 'Public Opinion' is in reality
carefully crafted and scripted propaganda designed to elicit a desired
behavioral response from the public".

And noted Australian academic and activist Alex Carey (1922 - 1988)
explained the three most important 20th century developments - "The growth
of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate
propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy".


Web of Control

Numerous think tanks, foundations, the major media, and other key
organizations are staffed with CFR members. Most of its life-members also
belong to the TC and Bilderberg Group, operate secretly, and wield
enormous power over US and world affairs.


The Rockefeller-Founded Trilateral Commission (TC)

On page 405 of his Memoirs (2002), David Rockfeller wrote:

"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best
interests of the United States characterizing my family and me as
'internationalists' and conspiring with others around the world to build a
more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if
you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

In alliance with Bilderbergers, the TC also "plays a vital role in the New
World Order's scheme to use wealth, concentrated in the hands of the few,
to exert world control". TC members share common views and all relate to
total unchallengeable global dominance.

Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Washington, its powerful US, EU and
East Asian members seek its operative founding goal - a "New International
Economic Order", now simply a "New World Order" run by global elites from
these three parts of the world with lesser members admitted from other
countries.

According to TC's web site, "each regional group has a chairman and deputy
chairman, who all together constitute the leadership of the Committee. The
Executive Committee draws together a further 36 individuals from the wider
membership", proportionately representing the US, EU, and East Asia in its
early years, now enlarged to be broadly global.

Committee members meet several times annually to discuss and coordinate
their work. The Executive Committee chooses members, and at any time
around 350 belong for a three-year renewable period. Everyone is a
consummate insider with expertise in business, finance, politics, the
military, or the media, including past presidents, secretaries of state,
international bankers, think tank and foundation executives, university
presidents and selected academics, and former senators and congressmen,
among others.

Although its annual reports are available for purchase, its inner
workings, current goals, and operations are secret - with good reason. Its
objectives harm the public so mustn't be revealed. Trilaterals over
Washington (1978) author Antony Sutton wrote:

"this group of private citizens is precisely organized in a manner that
ensures its collective views have significant impact on public policy".

In her book, Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning
for World Management (1999), Holly Sklar wrote:

Powerful figures in America, Europe, and East Asia let "the rich ...
safeguard the interests of Western capitalism in an explosive world -
probably by discouraging protectionism, nationalism, or any response that
would pit the elites of one against the elites of another", in their
common quest for global dominance.

Trilateralist Zbigniew Brzezinski (TC's co-founder) wrote in his Between
Two Ages - America's Role in the Technotronic Era (1976):

"people, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of
multinational banks and corporations. (The Constitution is) inadequate ...
the old framework of international politics, with their sphere of
influence ... the fiction of sovereignty ... is clearly no longer
compatible with reality" ... 

TC today is now global with members from countries as diverse as
Argentina, Ukraine, Israel, Jordan, Brazil, Turkey, China and Russia. In
his Trilaterals Over America, Antony Sutton believes that TC's aim is to
collaborate with Bilderbergers and CFR in "establishing public policy
objectives to be implemented by governments worldwide". He added that
"Trilateralists have rejected the US Constitution and the democratic
political process". In fact, TC was established to counter a "crisis in
democracy" - too much of it that had to be contained.

An official TC report was fearful about "the increased popular
participation in and control over established social, political, and
economic institutions and especially a reaction against the concentration
of power of Congress and of state and local government".

To address this, media control was essential to exert "restraint on what
newspapers may publish (and TV and radio broadcast)". Then according to
Richard Gardner in the July 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs (a CFR
publication):

CFR's leadership must make "an end run around national sovereignty,
eroding it piece by piece", until the very notion disappears from public
discourse.

Bilderberg/CFR/Trilateralist success depends on finding "a way to get us
to surrender our liberties in the name of some common threat or crisis.
The foundations, educational institutions, and research think tanks
supported by (these organizations) oblige by financing so-called 'studies'
which are then used to justify their every excess. The excuses vary, but
the target is always individual liberty. Our liberty" and much more.

Bilderbergers, Trilateralists and CFR members want "an all-encompassing
monopoly" - over government, money, industry, and property that's
"self-perpetuating and eternal". In Confessions of a Monopolist (1906),
Frederick C Howe explained its workings in practice:

"The rules of big business: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you. So
long as we see all international revolutionaries and all international
capitalists as implacable enemies of one another, then we miss a crucial
point ... a partnership between international monopoly capitalism and
international revolutionary socialism is for their mutual benefit."

In the Rockefeller File (1976), Gary Allen wrote:

"By the late nineteenth century, the inner sanctums of Wall Street
understood that the most efficient way to gain a monopoly was to say it
was for the 'public good' and 'public interest' ".

David Rockefeller learned the same thing from his father, John D Junior
who learned it from his father, John D Senior. They hated competition and
relentlessly strove to eliminate it - for David on a global scale through
a New World Order.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Trilateralists and CFR members collaborated on the
latter's "1980 Project", the largest ever CFR initiative to steer world
events "toward a particular desirable future outcome (involving) the utter
disintegration of the economy". Why so is the question?

Because by the 1950s and 1960s, worldwide industrial growth meant more
competition. It was also a model to be followed, and "had to be strangled
in the cradle" or at least greatly contained. In America as well beginning
in the 1980s. The result has been a transfer of wealth from the poor to
the rich, shrinkage of the middle class, and plan for its eventual demise.


The North American Union (NAU)

The idea emerged during the Reagan administration in the early 1980s.
David Rockefeller, George Schultz and Paul Volker told the president that
Canada and America could be politically and economically merged over the
next fifteen years except for one problem - French-speaking Quebec. Their
solution - elect a Bilderberg-friendly prime minister, separate Quebec
from the other provinces, then make Canada America's 51st state. It almost
worked, but not quite when a 1995 secession referendum was defeated -
50.56% to 49.44%, but not the idea of merger.

At a March 23 2005 Waco, Texas meeting, attended by George Bush, Mexico's
Vincente Fox, and Canada's Paul Martin, the Security and and Prosperity
Partnership (SPP) was launched, also known as the North American Union
(NAU). It was a secretive Independent Task Force of North America
agreement - a group organized by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives
(CCCE), the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, and CFR with the
following aims:

-  circumventing the legislatures of three countries and their
constitutions;

-  suppressing public knowledge or consideration; and

-  proposing greater US, Canadian and Mexican economic, political, social,
and security integration with secretive working groups formed to devise
non-debatable, not voted on agreements to be binding and unchangeable.

In short - a corporate coup d'etat against the sovereignty of three
nations enforced by hard line militarization to suppress opposition.

If enacted, it will create a borderless North America, corporate
controlled, without barriers to trade or capital flows for business
giants, mainly US ones and much more - America's access to vital
resources, especially oil and Canada's fresh water.

Secretly, over 300 SPP initiatives were crafted to harmonize the
continent's policies on energy, food, drugs, security, immigration,
manufacturing, the environment, and public health along with militarizing
three nations for enforcement.

SPP represents another step toward the Bilderberg/Trilateralist/CFR goal
for World Government, taking it one step at a time. A "United Europe" was
another, the result of various treaties and economic agreements:

-  the December 1951 six-nation European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC);

-  the March 1957 six-nation Treaty of Rome establishing the European
Economic Community (EEC); also the European Atomic Energy Commission
(EAEC) by a second Treaty of Rome;

-  the October 1957 European Court of Justice to settle regional trade
disputes;

-  the May 1960 seven-nation European Free Trade Association (EFTA);

-  the July 1967 European Economic Community (EEC) merging the ECSC, EAEC
and EEC together in one organization;

-  the 1968 European Customs Union to abolish duties and establish uniform
imports taxing among EEC nations;

-  the 1978 European Currency Unit (ECU);

-  the February 1986 Single European Act revision of the 1957 Treaty of
Rome; it established the objective of forming a Common Market by December
31 1992;

-  the February 1992 Maastricht Treaty creating the EU on November 01
1993; and

-  the name euro was adopted in December 1995; it was introduced in
January 1999 replacing the European Currency Unit (ECU); euros began
circulating on January 2002; they're now the official currency of sixteen
of the 27 EU states.

Over half a century, the above steps cost EU members their sovereignty "as
some seventy to eighty per cent of the laws passed in Europe involve just
rubber stamping of regulations already written by nameless bureaucrats in
'working groups' in Brussels or Luxembourg".

The EU and NAU share common features:

-  advocacy from a influential spokesperson;

-  an economic and later political union;

-  hard line security, and for Europe, ending wars on the continent
between EU member states;

-  establishment of a collective consciousness in place of nationalism;

-  the blurring of borders and creation of a "supra-government", a
superstate;

-  secretive arrangements to mask real objectives; and

-  the creation of a common currency and eventual global one.


Steps Toward a North American Union

-  the October 04 1988 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and
Canada, finalized the previous year;

-  at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting, David Rockefeller got governor Bill
Clinton's support for NAFTA if he became president;

-  on January 01 1994, with no debate under "fast-track" rules, Congress
approved WTO legislation;

-  in December 1994 at the first Summit of the Americas, 34 Hemispheric
leaders committed their nations to a Free Trade of the Americas agreement
(FTAA) by 2005 - so far unachieved;

-  on July 04 2000, Mexican president Vincente Fox called for a North
American common market in twenty years;

-  on February 2001, the White House published a joint statement from
George Bush and Vincente Fox called the "Guanajuato Proposal"; it was for
a US-Canada-Mexico prosperity partnership (aka North American Union);

-  in September 2001, Bush and Fox agreed to a "Partnership for Prosperity
Initiative";

-  the September 11 2001 attack gave cover to including "security" as part
of a future partnership;

-  on October 07 2001, a CFA meeting highlighted "The Future of North
American Integration in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks"; for the first
time, "security" became part of a future "partnership for prosperity";
also, Canada was to be included in a "North American" agreement;

-  in 2002, the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) was established
in Montreal "to address the issues raised by North American integration as
well as identify new ideas and strategies to reinforce the North American
region";

-  in January 2003, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE -
composed of 150 top CEOs) launched the "North American Security and
Prosperity Initiative" calling for continental integration;

-  in April 2004, Canadian prime minister Paul Martin announced the
nation's first ever national security policy called Securing an Open
Society;

-  on October 15 2004, CFR established an Independent Task Force on the
Future of North America - for a future continental union;

-  in March 2005, a CFR report titled Creating a North American Community
called for continental integration by 2010 "to enhance, prosperity, and
opportunity for all North Americans"; and

-  on March 23 2005 in Waco, Texas, America, Canada and Mexico leaders
launched the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) - aka North
American Union (NAU).

Secretive negotiations continue. Legislative debate is excluded, and
public inclusion and debate are off the table. In May 2005, the CFR
Independent Task Force on the Future of North America published a
follow-up report titled Building a North American Community - proposing a
borderless three-nation union by 2010.

In June and July 2005, the Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade
Agreement (DR-CAFTA) passed the Senate and House establishing
corporate-approved trade rules to further impoverish the region and move a
step closer to continental integration.

In March 2006, the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) was
created at the second SPP summit in Cancun, Mexico. Composed of thirty top
North American CEOs, it serves as an official trilateral SPP working group.

Secret business and government meetings continue so there's no way to
confirm SPP's current status or if Barack Obama is seamlessly continuing
George Bush's agenda. In an earlier article, this writer said:

SPP efforts paused during the Bush to Obama transition, but "deep
integration" plans remain. Canada's Fraser Institute proposed renaming the
initiative the North American Standards and Regulatory Area (NASRA) to
disguise its real purpose. It said the "SPP brand" is tarnished so
re-branding is essential - to fool the public until it's too late to
matter.

Bilderbergers, Trilaterists, and CFR leaders back it as another step
toward global integration and won't "stop until the entire world is
unified under the auspices and the political umbrella of a One World
Company, a nightmarish borderless world run by the world's most powerful
clique" - comprised of key elitist members of these dominant organizations.

In April 2007, the Transatlantic Economic Council was established between
America and the EU to:

-  create an "official international governmental body - by executive fiat;

-  harmonize economic and regulatory objectives;

-  move toward a Transatlantic Common Market; and

-  a step closer to One World Government run by the world's most powerful
corporate interests.


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