Nov 26, 2008

THE INSIDERS - NOW AND THEN



The more things change, the more they stay the same.


“Most people tend to forget complex history when faced with the immediacy of self-gratification”



In 'The Insiders' by John F. McManus, McManus states that one of President Jimmy Carter's favourite themes during his campaign for the Presidency in 1976 was that, if he were elected, he would bring new faces and new ideas to Washington. He repeatedly told campaign audiences that he was not part of the federal government and not beholden to the Washington and New York based Establishment that had been running things for so long.


The Insiders:


Perhaps the clearest example of his campaign oratory against what he called "The Insiders" was given at a Carter-for-President Rally in Boston on February 17, 1976. What he said on that occasion showed up in a widely distributed paperback 'I'll Never Lie To You ' — Jimmy Carter In His Own Words. On page 48, Mr. Carter's statement at that Boston Rally is given as follows:




"The people of this country know from bitter experience that we are not going to get these changes merely by shifting around the same groups of insiders.... The insiders have had their chance and they have not delivered."


The message undoubtedly persuaded a good many Americans to cast their ballots for Jimmy Carter, for the existence of such an inside group running things is both widely suspected and widely resented. And yet, while the former governor of Georgia played up to this resentment throughout the campaign, he carefully avoided naming any names or discussing any of the organisational ties of the easily identifiable Insiders.

Despite his strong pledge to the contrary, Jimmy Carter literally filled his Administration with these same individuals. The man popularly credited with devising the strategy that landed Jimmy Carter in the White House is Hamilton Jordan. A few weeks prior to the November 1976 election, he stated:

"If, after the inauguration, you find a Cyrus Vance as Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I would quit. You're going to see new faces and new ideas."


After the election, Mr. Carter promptly named Cyrus Vance to be his Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski to be the head of National Security, exactly what Mr. Jordan had said would never happen. But the real question is: What is it about Mr. Vance and Mr. Brzezinski that prompted Jordan to make such a statement? And the answer is that these two men are pillars of the very Establishment that candidate Carter so often attacked. When Jimmy Carter appointed him to be Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance was a Wall Street lawyer and the Chairman of the Board of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Zbigniew Brzezinski had taught at Harvard and Columbia Universities, served in the State Department during the Johnson Administration, and authored numerous books and articles for various Establishment publishers and periodicals. But, beyond all of these Establishment credentials, at the time of their appointment by Jimmy Carter, both Vance and Brzezinski were members of the Board of Directors of a little-known organisation called the Council on Foreign Relations. Also, each was a member of the very exclusive Trilateral Commission.

Most Americans have never heard of these two organisations. But knowing something about them is essential to understanding what has been going on in America for several decades. So, let us examine, first, the Council on Foreign Relations and then, the Trilateral Commission.




The Council on Foreign Relations



http://www.cfr.org/ -


The Council on Foreign Relations was incorporated in 1921. It is a private group which is headquartered at the corner of Park Avenue and 68th Street in New York City, in a building given to the organization in 1929.

The CFR's founder, Edward Mandell House, had been the chief adviser of President Woodrow Wilson. House was not only Wilson's most prominent aide, he actually dominated the President. Woodrow Wilson referred to House as "my alter ego" (my other self), and it is totally accurate to say that House, not Wilson, was the most powerful individual in our nation during the Wilson Administration, from 1913 until 1921.

Unfortunately for America, it is also true that Edward Mandell House was a Marxist whose goal was to socialise the United States. In 1912 House wrote the book, Philip Dru: Administrator; in it, he said he was working for "Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx." The original edition of the book did not name House as its author, but he made it clear in numerous ways that he indeed was its creator.

In Philip Dru: Administrator, Edward Mandell House laid out a fictionalised plan for the conquest of America. He told of a "conspiracy" (the word is his) which would gain control of both the Democratic and Republican parties, and use them as instruments in the creation of a socialistic world government.

The book called for passage of a graduated income tax and for the establishment of a state controlled central bank as steps toward the ultimate goal. Both of these proposals are planks in The Communist Manifesto. And both became law in 1913, during the very first year of the House-dominated Wilson Administration.

The House plan called for the United States to give up its sovereignty to the League of Nations at the close of World War I. But when the U.S. Senate refused to ratify America's entry into the League, Edward Mandell House's drive toward world government was slowed down. Disappointed, but not beaten, House and his friends then formed the Council on Foreign Relations, whose purpose right from its inception was to destroy the freedom and independence of the United States and lead the nation into a world government — if not through the League of Nations, then through another world organisation that would be started after another world war. The control of that world government, of course, was to be in the hands of House and like-minded individuals.

In the late 30's, important financing for the CFR came from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. In 1940, at the invitation of President Roosevelt, members of the CFR gained domination over the State Department, and they have maintained that domination ever since.



The Making of Presidents

By 1944, Edward Mandell House was deceased but his plan for taking control of the nation's major political parties began to be realised. In 1944 and in 1948, the Republican candidate for President, Thomas Dewey, was a CFR member. In later years, the CFR could boast that Republicans Eisenhower and Nixon were members, as were Democrats Stevenson, Kennedy, Humphrey, and McGovern. The American people were told they had a choice when they voted for President. But with precious few exceptions, Presidential candidates for decades have been CFR members.

But the CFR's influence had also spread to other vital areas of American life. Its members have run, or are running, NBC and CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post and many other important newspapers. The leaders of Time, Life, Newsweek, Fortune, Business Week, and numerous other publications are CFR members. The organisation's members also dominate the academic world, top corporations, the huge tax-exempt foundations, labour unions, the military, and just about every segment of American life.

Let's look at the Council's Annual Report published in 1978. The organization's membership list names 1,878 members, and the list reads like a Who's Who in America. Eleven CFR members are U.S. senators; even more congressmen belong to the Organisation. Sitting on top of this immensely powerful pyramid, as Chairman of the Board, is David Rockefeller.

As can be seen in that CFR Annual Report, 284 of its members are U.S. government officials. Any organisation which can boast that 284 of its members are U.S. government officials should be well-known. Yet most Americans have never even heard of the Council on Foreign Relations.

One reason why this is so is that 171 journalists, correspondents and communications executives are also CFR members and they don't write about the organisation. In fact, CFR members rarely talk about the organisation inasmuch as it is an express condition of membership that any disclosure of what goes on at CFR meetings shall be regarded as grounds for termination of membership.



Toward World Government

The CFR publishes a very informative quarterly journal called Foreign Affairs. More often than not, important new shifts in U.S. policy or highly indicative attitudes of political figures have been telegraphed in its pages. When he was preparing to run for the Presidency in 1967, for instance, Richard Nixon made himself acceptable to the Insiders of the Establishment with an article in the October 1967 issue of Foreign Affairs. In it, he called for a new policy of openness toward Red China, a policy which he himself later initiated in 1972.

The April 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs carried a very explicit recommendation for carrying out the world-government scheme of CFR founder Edward Mandell House. Authored by State Department veteran and Columbia University Professor Richard N. Gardner (himself a CFR member), "The Hard Road to World Order" admits that a single leap into world government via an organisation like the United Nations is unrealistic.

Instead, Gardner urged the continued piecemeal delivery of the nation's sovereignty to a variety of international organisations He called for “an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece. That means an end to our nation's sovereignty." And he named as organisations to accomplish his goal the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the Law of the Sea Conference, the World Food Conference, the World Population Conference, disarmament programs, and a United Nations military force. This approach, Gardner said, "can produce some remarkable concessions of sovereignty that could not be achieved on an across-the-board basis."

Richard Gardner's preference for destroying the freedom and independence of the United States in favour of the CFR's goal of world government thoroughly dominates top circles today. The men who would scrap the nation's Constitution are praised as "progressives" and "far-sighted thinkers." The only question that remains among these powerful Insiders is which method to use to carry out their treasonous plan.



The Trilateral Commission


http://www.trilateral.org/


Unfortunately, the Council on Foreign Relations is not the only group proposing an end to the sovereignty of the United States. In 1973, another organisation which now thoroughly dominates the US Administration first saw the light of day. Also based in New York City, this one is called the Trilateral Commission.

The Trilateral Commission's roots stem from the book Between Two Ages written by Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1970. The following quotations from that book show how closely Brzezinski's thinking parallels that of CFR founder Edward Mandell House.

On page 72, Brzezinski writes: "Marxism is simultaneously a victory of the external, active man over the inner, passive man and a victory of reason over belief."

On page 83, he states: "Marxism, disseminated on the popular level in the form of Communism, represented a major advance in man's ability to conceptualize his relationship to his world."

And on page 123, we find: "Marxism supplied the best available insight into contemporary reality."

Nowhere does Mr. Brzezinski tell his readers that the Marxism "in the form of Communism," which he praises, has been responsible for the murder of approximately 100 million human beings in the Twentieth Century, has brought about the enslavement of over a billion more, and has caused want, deprivation and despair for all but the few criminals who stage-manage the show from behind the scenes. On page 198, after discussing America's shortcomings, Brzezinski writes: "America is undergoing a new revolution" which "unmasks its obsolescence."

On page 260, he proposes "Deliberate management of the American future... with the... planner as the key social legislator and manipulator." The central planning he wants for our country is a cardinal underpinning of communism and the opposite of the way things are done in a free country.

On page 296, Mr. Brzezinski suggests piecemeal "Movement toward a larger community of the developed nations...through a variety of indirect ties and already developing limitations on national sovereignty." Here, we have the same proposal that has been offered by Richard Gardner in the CFR publication Foreign Affairs.

Brzezinski then calls for the forging of community links among the United States, Western Europe, and Japan; and the extension of these links to more advanced communist countries. Finally, on page 308 of his 309-page hook, he lets us know that what he really wants is "the goal of world government".


A Meeting of Minds

Zbigniew Brzezinski's Between Two Ages was published in 1970 while he was a professor in New York City. What happened, quite simply, is that David Rockefeller read the book. And, in 1973, Mr. Rockefeller launched the new Trilateral Commission whose purposes include linking North America, Western Europe, and Japan "in their economic relations, their political and defence relations, their relations with developing countries, and their relations with communist countries."

The original literature of the Trilateral Commission also states, exactly as Brzezinski's book had proposed, that the more advanced communist states could become partners in the alliance leading to world government. In short, David Rockefeller implemented Brzezinski's proposal. The only change was the addition of Canada, so that the Trilateral Commission presently includes members from North America, Western Europe, and Japan, not just the United States, Western Europe, and Japan.

Then, David Rockefeller hired Zbigniew Brzezinski away from Columbia University and appointed him to be the Director of the Trilateral Commission. Later, in 1973, the little known former Governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, was invited to become a founding member of the Trilateral Commission. When asked about this relationship, Mr. Carter stated:

“Membership on this Commission has provided me with a splendid learning opportunity, and many of the members have helped me in my study of foreign affairs.”










What It All Means

As with the CFR, we do not believe that every member of the Trilateral Commission is fully committed to the destruction of the United States. Some of these men actually believe that the world would be a better place if the United States would give up its independence in the interests of world government. Others go along for the ride, a ride which means a ticket to fame, comfortable living, and constant flattery. Some, of course, really do run things and really do want to scrap the United State’s independence.

On March 21, 1978, the New York Times featured an article about Zbigniew Brzezinski's close relationship with the President. In part, it reads:

The two men met for the first time four years ago when Mr. Brzezinski was executive director of the Trilateral Commission...and had the foresight to ask the then obscure former Governor of Georgia to join its distinguished ranks. Their initial teacher-student relationship blossomed during the campaign and appears to have grown closer still.

The teacher in this relationship praises Marxism, thinks the United States is becoming obsolete, and is the brains behind a scheme to end the sovereignty of the United States for the purpose of building a world government. And the student is the President of the United States.




Now, read that in today’s context of Barack Obama’s relationship to Zbigniew Brzezinski.







Let's summarise the situation we have been describing in three short statements.

1. President Carter, who was a member of the Insider-controlled Trilateral Commission as early as 1973, repeatedly told the nation during the 1976 political campaign that he was going to get rid of the Establishment Insiders if he became President. But when he took office, he promptly filled his Administration with members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, the most prominent Insider organisations in America.

2. The Council on Foreign Relations was conceived by a Marxist, Edward Mandell House, for the purpose of creating a one-world government by destroying the freedom and independence of all nations. Its Chairman of the Board is David Rockefeller. And its members have immense control over the government and much of American life.

3. The Trilateral Commission was conceived by Zbigniew Brzezinski, who praises Marxism, who thinks the United States is becoming obsolete, and who also wants to create a one-world government. Its founder and driving force is also David Rockefeller. And it, too, exercises extraordinary control over the government of the United States. The effect of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission on the affairs of the nation is easy to see.


More Observations

The foreign policy of the Carter Administration, which was totally dominated by CFR and Trilateral Commission members, could hardly have been worse. But the domestic policies of the current (as well as the incoming) US Government also fit into the scheme to weaken the United States and destroy the freedom of its people. Government-caused inflation through the fractional reserve banking system continues to weaken the dollar and stage-manage the collapse of the economy.

The real goal of government “insider” leaders is to make the United States into a carbon copy of a totalitarian-fascist-dictatorship state, and then to merge all nations into a one-world system run by a powerful few. And in 1953, one of the individuals committed to exactly that goal said as much in a very explicit way.

That individual was H. Rowan Gaither, a CFR member who was the president of the very powerful Ford Foundation. It was during the preliminary stages of a Congressional investigation into the activities of the huge tax-exempt foundations that Mr. Gaither invited Norman Dodd, the Director of Research for the Congressional Committee, to Ford Foundation headquarters in New York City. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the reasons why Congress wanted to investigate the foundations. At the meeting, Rowan Gaither brazenly told Norman Dodd that he and others who had worked for the State Department, the United Nations, and other federal agencies had for years “...operated under directives issued by the White House, the substance of which was that we should make every effort to so alter life in the United States as to make possible a comfortable merger with the Soviet Union.”

Then he added, "We are continuing to be guided by just such directives."

When the thoroughly shocked Norman Dodd asked Rowan Gaither if he would repeat that statement to the full House Committee so that the American people would know exactly what such powerful individuals were trying to accomplish, Gaither said: "This we would not think of doing.”



"New World Order" Nightmare

But the drive toward a merger of the United States with communism using communitarian ideologies continues. The final goal, as we have already stated, is a world government ruled by a powerful few. And lest anyone think that such a development will be beneficial to the world or agreeable to their own selves, let us list four certain consequences of world government.

One: Rather than improve the standard of living for other nations, world government will mean a forced redistribution of all wealth and a sharp reduction in the standard of living for Americans as well as people in all other nations.

Two: Strict regimentation will become commonplace, and there will no longer be any freedom of movement, freedom of worship, private property rights, free speech, or the right to publish.

Three: World government will mean that the once glorious land of opportunity will become another socialistic nightmare where no amount of effort will produce a just reward.

Four: World order will be enforced by agents of the world government in the same way that agents of the Nazis enforced their rule throughout Germany in the 30's and 40's.

That is not the kind of world that anyone should have to tolerate. And it is surely not the kind of an existence that a parent should leave for a child. Yet, that is what is on our near horizon right now, unless enough Americans rise up from their complacency to stop it.

The Insiders must be stopped. The control they have over the government must be broken. And the disastrous policies of our so-called leaders must be changed. The way to accomplish these urgent tasks is to expose the Insiders and their conspiracy.

The American people must be made aware of what is happening to their own country and who is doing it. If sufficient awareness can be created in time, the Insiders and their whole sinister NWO plan can be stopped.

Let’s inspire to counter-conspire!