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well-publicized incidents such as myencounter with Castro to attack theRockefeller family for the inordinateinfluence they claim we wield overAmerican political and economic in-stitutions. Some even believe we are

part of a secret cabal working againstthe best interests of the United States,characterizing my family and me asinternationalists and of conspiringwith others around the world to builda more integrated global political andeconomic structure one world, if you will. If thats the charge, I standguilty, and I am proud of it.

Two major means the establishment em-ploys for controlling government policy:(1) through its influence within the twomajor parties and the mass media, it canusually assure that both the Republicanand Democratic presidential candidateswill be its own hand-picked men; (2) bystacking presidential cabinets with CFRmembers at key positions especiallythose involving defense, finance, foreignpolicy, and national security it can as-sure that America will move in the direc-tion it wants. Since the councils foundingin 1921, 21 secretaries of defense or war,19 secretaries of the treasury, 17 secretariesof state, and 15 CIA directors have hailedfrom the Council on Foreign Relations.

BackgroundPrior to the CFRs founding, what Con-gressman Charles Lindbergh, Sr. (thefather of the famous aviator) called theMoney Trust a cabal of internationalbankers including the houses of Rockefel-ler, Morgan, and Rothschild conspiredto create the Federal Reserve System. Theiragents, such as Paul Warburg and Benja-min Strong, who had secretly planned the

Fed at a nine-day meeting on Jekyll Island,were then put in charge of the system it-self. This gave them control of Americaninterest rates, and, by virtue of this, controlof the stock market, as well as the capacityto have the U.S. government spend with-out limit by having the Fed create moneyfrom nothing. The result has been decadesof inflation and skyrocketing national debt.(For full details, see the April 13, 2009N EW A MERICAN or www. thenewamerican.com/history/american/946. )

Not just an accumulation of wealth,but a consolidation of political power wasinvolved. The Money Trust had backedWoodrow Wilson in the presidential elec-tions, and then controlled him through theirfront man, Edward Mandell House, wholived in the White House. The trust recog-nized how the power of government couldbe used to advance their own interests.

Wilson, surrounded by the bankers,traveled to the Paris Peace Conference of

1919, which was settlingthe aftermath of World

War I. His chief proposalthere, of course, was theLeague of Nations afirst step toward worldgovernment. However,although the League wasestablished by the Ver-sailles Treaty, the UnitedStates did not join be-cause the Senate refusedto ratify the treaty.

In response to this rejection, the bank-ers circle, still in Paris, held a series of meetings and proposed to establish a neworganization in the United States, whosepurpose would be to lead America into theLeague. This organization was incorporat-ed in New York City two years later as theCouncil on Foreign Relations.

Architects of a New World OrderThe CFRs goal was formation of an incre-mentally stronger world government. Ad-

miral Chester Ward, former Judge Advo-cate of the U.S. Navy, was a CFR memberfor 16 years before resigning in disgust. Hestated: The main purpose of the Councilon Foreign Relations is promoting the dis-armament of U.S. sovereignty and nationalindependence, and submergence into anall-powerful one-world government.

After World War II, the Leagues suc-cessor, the United Nations, was born.Contrary to what the public is commonlytold, the UN was not founded by nationswho had tired of war. The UN was con-

ceived by a group of CFR members in theState Department calling themselves theInformal Agenda Group. They drafted theoriginal proposal for the UN, and securedthe approval of President Roosevelt, whothen made establishing the UN his high-est postwar priority. When the UN heldits founding meeting in San Francisco in1945, 47 of the American delegates wereCFR members.

Though the UN was not initially set up

Admiral Chester Ward was a CFR memberfor 16 years before resigning in disgust.He stated: The main purpose of theCouncil on Foreign Relations is promotingthe disarmament of U.S. sovereignty andnational independence, and submergenceinto an all-powerful one-world government.

The UNwas developed by the CFRs Informal Agenda Group not by nations tired ofwar and financed by the Rockefellers.

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as a world government, the intent was thatit would develop into one over time. JohnFoster Dulles (CFR), an American delegateto the UN founding meeting who later be-came Secretary of State under Eisenhower,acknowledged as much in his book War or

Peace : The United Nations represents nota final stage in the development of worldorder, but only a primitive stage. Thereforeits primary task is to create the conditionswhich will make possible a more highlydeveloped organization.

Two other postwar institutions, theWorld Bank and International MonetaryFund, were technically created at the 1944Bretton Woods Conference. But the initialplanning was done by the CFRs Economicand Finance Group, part of their wartimeWar and Peace Studies Project. The WorldBank and IMF act as a loan-guaranteescheme for multinational banks. When aloan to a foreign country goes awry, theWorld Bank and IMF step in with taxpay-er money, ensuring that the private bankscontinue to receive interest payments. Fur-thermore, the World Bank and IMF dictateconditions to the countries receiving bail-outs, thus giving the bankers a measure of political control over indebted nations.

Despite what Americans were told, thepostwar Marshall Plan was not invented

by General George Marshall, though hedid announce it in a 1947 Harvard com-mencement speech. The Marshall Planwas dreamed up at a CFR study group withDavid Rockefeller as its secretary. Marshallwas simply selected to announce the plan

because, as a general, he would be per-ceived as politically neutral and help gar-ner bipartisan congressional support for theplan. Unknown to the public, Marshall Planfunds were circuitously rerouted by JohnJ. McCloy appointed U.S. High Com-missioner to Germany to Jean Monnet,founder of the Common Market, whichevolved into todays European Union, amicrocosm of world government. McCloyreturned home to become chairman of theCouncil on Foreign Relations in 1953.

The tragic Vietnam War was run almostentirely by CFR members. William P.Bundy (CFR) drafted the Tonkin Gulf Res-olution before the now-discredited TonkinGulf Incident even took place. Bundysfather-in-law, Dean Acheson (CFR), asleader of a senior team of advisers nick-named the Wise Men, persuaded LyndonBaines Johnson to dramatically escalate thewar beginning in 1965. And Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (CFR) helpeddevelop the rules of engagement (e.g.,preventing the Air Force from attacking

critical targets) that guaranteed the warsdisastrous prolongation. This generated ahuge slide to the left among American col-lege students. When Bundy left the StateDepartment, David Rockefeller appointedhim editor of the CFRs journal Foreign

Affairs . And McNamara, one of the lead-ing architects of the Vietnam War debacle,became president of the World Bank.

Broadening the SchemeThe CFR is not a uniquely American phe-nomenon. It has counterpart organizationsthroughout the world e.g., the RoyalInstitute of International Affairs in Eng-land, the French Institute of InternationalRelations, etc.

To help coordinate policy on an interna-tional scale, CFR chairman David Rock-efeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski foundedthe Trilateral Commission in 1973. Tri-lateral refers to the coordination of threeglobal regions: North America, Europe,and Asia. The commissions meetingsallow the gathering together of heads of state, banks, multinational corporations,and media. Republican Senator BarryGoldwater called the commission DavidRockefellers newest cabal, and said, Itis intended to be the vehicle for multina-tional consolidation of the commercial andbanking interests by seizing control of thepolitical government of the United States.

The commission, like the annual secretivemeetings of the Bilderbergers and thenotorious Bohemian Grove, enables theinternational power elite to privately as-semble and plan our destiny.

Jimmy Carter was a member of the com-mission, hand-picked to be president aftermeeting with Brzezinski and Rockefellerat the latters Tarrytown, New York, estate.Carter filled his administration with CFRmembers and Trilateralists. Indeed, Brzez-inski noted in his memoirs that all the keyforeign policy decision makers of the Cart-

er Administration had previously servedin the Trilateral Commission. Carter thenembarked on a destructive course of for-eign policy that included betraying theShah of Iran, leading to the installment of Ayatollah Khomeini and the U.S. hostagecrisis; betraying President Anastasio So-moza of Nicaragua, resulting in a Marxistdictatorship under the Sandinistas; and be-traying Taiwan in order to recognize Com-munist China a move previously set up

Vietnamese commandos are dropped from American helicopters during a battle with theViet Cong in 1964. Unprecedented rules of engagement prolonged the Vietnam Warand precluded victory.

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by Richard Nixons overturesto China, dictated by his ownCFR advisers.

Under Bill Clinton (a CFRmember who selected 12 CFRmembers for his cabinet), the

United States enacted NAFTA,an economic alliance with Mex-ico and Canada. This arrange-ment was created by the estab-lishment, not by the Americanpeople, who did not suspect thegame being played on them.Not only did NAFTA swampus with cheap, job-destroyingimports, but it was designed tobe the foundation for a conti-nental economic union leadingto political union. Robert Pastor(CFR), a key architect of NorthAmerican integration, acknowl-edged in the January/February 2004 issueof Foreign Affairs : NAFTA was merely thefirst draft of an economic constitution forNorth America. And Andrew Reding of theWorld Policy Institute said: NAFTA willsignal the formation, however tentatively,of a new political unit North America.With economic integration will come politi-cal integration. By whatever name, this isan incipient form of international govern-ment. Following the lead of the Europeans,North Americans should begin consider-

ing formation of a continental parliament.[Emphasis added.]

A similar stratagem had been usedagainst the peoples of Europe by firstdeceptively hooking them into an eco-nomic alliance called the Common Mar-ket, which then, requiring common lawsto regulate trade, transformed via a seriesof steps into the European Union, the su-per-national government of Europe that isswallowing up national sovereignty.

Following the initial step enacted underClinton, President George W. Bush, whose

father was a CFR director, moved towardpoliticizing the NAFTA alliance. OnMarch 23, 2005, he met Mexican Presi-dent Vicente Fox and Canadian PrimeMinister Paul Martin to launch the Secu-rity and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), therudiments of a North American Union.CNNs Lou Dobbs said of it: PresidentBush signed a formal agreement that willend the United States as we know it.

Furthermore, regional alliances such as

the European Union and proposed NorthAmerican Union are not ends, but onlysteppingstones to world government. AsCFR/Trilateralist Zbigniew Brzezinskistated: We cannot leap into world govern-ment in one quick step. The preconditionfor genuine globalization is progressiveregionalization.

In furtherance of this, on April 30,2007, President Bush stood at the WhiteHouse beside Angela Merkel, president of the European Council, and Jos Manuel

Barroso, president of the European Com-mission, and announced the signing of anew agreement to strengthen transatlanticeconomic integration. It called for jointwork in the areas of regulatory coopera-tion, financial markets, trade and transportsecurity, innovation and technological de-velopment, intellectual property rights,energy, investment, competition, services,and government procurement, and vari-ous other steps toward economic integra-tion. But as usual, economic integrationis the predecessor of political integration.

CFR members have dreamed of a politi-cal union between the United States andEurope since the 1950s, when the CFR-dominated Atlantic Union Committee pro-moted a merger they called Atlantica.

Enter ObamaCandidate Barack Obama revealed hewould proceed with the Bush initiatives.In a speech in Berlin on July 24, 2008, hestated:

That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide usfrom one another. The walls betweenold allies on either side of the Atlan-tic cannot stand. The walls betweenthe countries with the most and thosewith the least cannot stand. The wallsbetween races and tribes; natives andimmigrants; Christian and Muslimand Jew cannot stand. These now arethe walls we must tear down.... Yes,there have been differences between

America and Europe. No doubt, therewill be differences in the future. Butthe burdens of global citizenship con-tinue to bind us together.... In this newcentury, Americans and Europeansalike will be required to do more not less. Partnership and cooperationamong nations is not a choice; it isthe one way, the only way, to protectour common security and advanceour common humanity.

Obama had only been president for a little

over two months when he traveled to Eu-rope for a series of meetings with Euro-pean leaders. He attended the G20 Summit,which ended with a tentative agreement tolaunch a new global financial system, usingas the rationale for this major step towardglobal government the recent Fed- andgovernment-spawned financial meltdown.

Henry Kissinger foreign policymouthpiece of the establishment for fourdecades wrote an article for the January

Beginning the SPP : President Bush meets with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian PrimeMinister Paul Martin to launch the Security and Prosperity Partnership in March 2005.

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12, 2009 issue of the International Herald Tribune entitled The Chance for a NewWorld Order. He stated:

As the new U.S. administration pre-pares to take office amid grave fi-nancial and international crises, itmay seem counterintuitive to arguethat the very unsettled nature of theinternational system generates aunique opportunity for creative di-plomacy....

Even the most affluent countrieswill confront shrinking resources.Each will have to redefine its nationalpriorities. An international order willemerge if a system of compatible pri-orities comes into being....

The alternative to a new interna-tional order is chaos.

Kissinger also stated on CNBCs Squawk on the Street: The president-elect is com-ing into office at a moment when there isupheaval in many parts of the world simul-

taneously.... His task will be to develop anoverall strategy for America in this periodwhen, really, a new world order can be cre-ated. Its a great opportunity, it isnt justa crisis.

Past statements reveal that the estab-lishment wants a single currency for theworld, just as the EU has consolidated itscurrencies into the euro. As far back asthe 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, JohnMaynard Keynes proposed a world cur-

rency he dubbed bancor . Richard L. Gard-ner (CFR) wrote in the Fall 1984 Foreign

Affairs : I suggest a radical alternativescheme for the next century: the creationof common currency for all the industrialdemocracies and a joint Bank of Issue todetermine that Monetary Policy.

In March of this year, Obama and Brit-ish Prime Minister Gordon Brown metwith reporters at the White House. Brownannounced that there is the possibility inthe next few months of a global new deal

that will involve all the countries of theworld in sorting out and cleaning up thebanking system. Obama added that

Globalization can be an enormousforce for good.... But what is also trueis we still have a 1930s regulatorysystem in place in most countries de-signed from the last great crisis, thatweve got to update our institutions,our regulatory frameworks, so thatthe power of globalization is chan-neled for the benefit of ordinary men

and women.

If trends continue, however,the changes can be expectedto benefit a tiny handful of the global elite, not ordinarymen and women. Further ev-idence that Obamas admin-istration will simply continuethe globalist agenda is indi-cated by his appointments.

CFR Domination ContinuesDuring his campaign, Obama selected theubiquitous Zbigniew Brzezinski (CFR),promoter of the regional approachto world government, as one of his topforeign policy advisors. Obama calledBrzezinski one of our more outstandingthinkers and somebody I have learnedan immense amount from. PresumablyBrzezinskis teachings included the worldgovernment he advocates.

For Treasury Secretary, Obama chose

Timothy Geithner: Senior Fellow in Inter-national Economics at the CFR, Bilder-berger, former head of the New York Fed-eral Reserve, and former employee of boththe IMF and Kissinger Associates. Onedoesnt get more establishment than that!It is Geithner who is managing the bailoutof Wall Street with taxpayer dollars. As-sisting Geithner at Treasury in overseeingthe auto industry bailout is fellow CFRmember Stephen Rattner.

For Director of the National EconomicCouncil a U.S. government agency cre-

Robert Pastor (CFR), a key architectof North American integration,acknowledged in the January/February2004 issue of Foreign Affairs : NAFTAwas merely the first draft of an economicconstitution for North America.

President Obama is flanked by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (CFR, Bilderberger) and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke (Bilderberger)at a White House economic briefing, March 23, 2009.

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