Trilateral Commission:
World Shadow Government
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The Trilateral Commission was established in 1973. Its founder and
primary financial angel was international financier, David
Rockefeller, longtime chairman of the Rockefeller family-controlled
Chase Manhattan Bank and undisputed overlord of his family's global
corporate empire.
Rockefeller's idea for establishing the commission emerged after he
had read a book entitled Between Two Ages written by an Establishment
scholar, Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University.
In his book Brzezinski proposed a vast alliance between North America,
Western Europe and Japan. According to Brzezinski, changes in the
modern world required it.
"Resist as it might," Brzezinski wrote elsewhere, "the American system
is compelled gradually to accommodate itself to this emerging
international context, with the U.S. government called upon to
negotiate, to guarantee, and, to some extent, to protect the various
arrangements that have been contrived even by private business."
In other words, it was necessary for the international upper class to
band together to protect its interests, and to ensure, in the
developed nations, that political leaders were brought to power who
would ensure that the global financial interests (of the Rockefellers
and the other ruling elites) would be protected over those of the hoi
polloi.
POCANTICO HILLS CONFABS
Although the initial arrangements for the commission were laid out in
a series of meetings held at the Rockefeller's famous Pocantico Hills
estate outside New York City, Rockefeller first introduced the idea of
the commission at an annual meeting of the Bilderberg group, this one
held in Knokke, Belgium in the spring of 1972.
(The Bilderberg group is similar to the Trilateral Commission in that
it is funded and heavily influenced by the Rockefeller empire, and
composed of international financiers, industrialists, media magnates,
union bosses, academics and political figures.
(However, the much older Bilderberg group's membership is strictly
limited to participants from the United States, Canada and Western
Europe: i.e. the NATO alliance. For more on the Bilderberg group, keep
an eye out for future stories in this paper.
The Trilateral Commission was unique, though, in that it brought the
Japanese ruling elite into the inner councils of the global power
brokers, a recognition of Japan's growing influence in the world
economic and political arena.
RULING CLASSES UNITE
"The Commission's purpose is to engineer an enduring partnership among
the ruling classes of North America, Western Europe and Japan -- hence
the term 'Trilateral' -- in order to safeguard the interests of
Western capitalism in an explosive world. The private commission is
attempting to mold public policy and construct a framework for
international stability in the coming decades.
"To put it simply, Trilateralists are saying: The people, governments
and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational
banks and corporations.
"In short, Trilateralism is the current attempt by ruling elites to
manage both dependence and democracy -- at home and abroad."
Another Trilateral critic, now-retired Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.),
views the commission as a Rockefeller family operation through and
through. According to Goldwater:
"The Trilateral organization created by David Rockefeller was a
surrogate -- the members selected by Rockefeller, its purposes defined
by Rockefeiler, its funding supplied by Rockefeller. David Rockefeller
screened and selected every individual who was invited to
participate."
PICKING POLICYMAKERS
David Rockefeller and Brzezinski then began the process of selecting
from among the "Trilateral" nations the several hundred elite power
brokers who would be permitted to join in Trilateral policymaking in
the coming years.
One of the commission's primary goals was to place a
Trilateral-influenced president in the White House in 1976, and to
achieve that goal it was necessary to groom an appropriate candidate
who would be willing to cooperate with Trilateral aims.
Rockefeller and Brzezinski selected a handful of well-known liberal
Democrats and a scattering of Republicans (primarily of the
liberal-internationalist bent) to serve on the commission.
And in an effort to give regional balance to the commission
Rockefeller invited the then-obscure one-term Democratic governor of
Georgia, Jimmy Carter, to join the commission.
ROCKEFELLER CENTER SOUTH
Rockefeller had longtime ties to the local Atlanta political and
economic Establishment. In fact, much of Rockefeller's personal
investment portfolio is in Atlanta real estate. (According to David
Horowitz, co-author of The Rockefellers, "Atlanta is Rockefeller
Center South.")
And Rockefeller himself had once even invited Carter to dine with him
at the Chase Manhattan Bank several years before, as early as 1971,
the year Carter began serving as governor.
Carter very definitely impressed Rockefeller and Brzezinski, more so
than another Southern Democrat, Florida Gov. Reuben Askew, also
selected to serve on the commission and viewed, like Carter, as a
possible Trilateral candidate.
In fact, according to Brzezinski, "It was a close thing between Carter
and Askew, but we were impressed that Carter had opened up trade
offices for the state of Georgia in Brussels and Tokyo. That seemed to
fit perfectly into the concept of the Trilateral."
Carter, in fact, like Askew, did announce for the 1976 Democratic
presidential nomination, but because of Rockefeller's interest, Carter
had the inside shot.
So much so that in a speech at the commission's first annual meeting
in Kyoto, Japan in May of 1975, Rockefeller's man Brzezinski promoted
the then-still obscure Carter to his fellow Trilateralists as an ideal
presidential candidate.
CUT AND DRIED
From that point on, it was all cut and dried. According to Goldwater:
"Rockefeller and Brzezinski found Carter to be their ideal candidate.
They helped him win the Democratic nomination and the presidency.
"To accomplish this purpose they mobilized the money-power of the Wall
Street bankers, the intellectual influence of the academic community
-- which is subservient to the wealth of the great tax-free
foundations -- and the media controllers represented in the membership
of the CFR and the Trilateralists."
(The aforementioned Council on Foreign Relations -- is another
Rockefeller-financed foreign policy pressure group similar to the
Trilateralists and the Bilderberg group, although the CFR is composed
solely of American citizens.)
(In his book The Carter Presidency and Beyond, published in 1980 by
the Ramparts Press, Prof. Laurence H. Shoup devotes an entire chapter
to demonstrating how the Trilateral-linked and Trilateral-controlled
Establishment media promoted the presidential candidacy in 1976 of the
then-obscure Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter.)
Carter, of course, campaigned as a "populist" -- as a "man of the
people" -- as an "outsider" with no ties to the Establishment. The
fact is, however, Carter, who said he'd never lie, was an elitist, an
insider, the Trilateral Commission's "man on the white horse."
And with the power of the commission and the Rockefeller empire and
its media influence behind him, Carter made his way to the presidency,
establishing the first full-fledged Trilateral administration,
appointing numerous Trilateralists to key policymaking positions and
carrying out the Trilateral agenda to the hilt.
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The CFR and the Trilateral Commission ...
dominate key positions in America's government, military, industries,
media outlets, educational foundations and institutions.
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