who are the global elite--- Who are the oligarchs--- Who are the wealthiest men on the planet by name, and do they make our laws, do they control us serfs and exploit us??

The Global Elite: Who are they?
Christian Science monitor piece. A PROPAGANDA RICH MAN'S DENIAL of his OLIGARCH THEFT AND ENDLESS WAR
There are two common misconceptions held by those who are critical of globalism. The first error is that there is a very small group of people who secretly run the world with all-powerful and unrestrained dictatorial powers. (and who make a billion a year and don't share it, don't pay taxes and who ALLOW a sixth of humanity starve to death.) ERROR? RUMOR? DITHER ON, P.R. GUY!

The second error is that there is a large amorphous and secret organization that runs the world. (Bilderbergers, Trilateral? 14 Families ? You mean they DON'T!?)

In both cases, the use of the word "they" becomes the culprit for all our troubles, (oh yes poor us, hungry, jobless, evicted, unable to marry and have children as we owe some COLLEGE LOAN at huge % points.) so we hate whomever "they" might be. If taxes go up, it is "they" that did it. If the stock market goes down, "they" are to blame. Of course, nobody really knows who "they" are so a few figureheads (people or organizations) are often made out to be the scapegoats.

Depending on a person's politics and philosophy, the scapegoats could be
the U.S. President, the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, or Vladimir Putin.
The point is, the real power structure is not correctely defined, and
thus escapes exposure. LIES, nobody blames this group of campers. We aren't that stupid !

These misconceptions are understandable because when things are wrong,
we all have a driving need to know who to blame! In some cases, elitist
slight-of-hand initiates and then perpetuates false assumptions.

This writer has never been accused of charging that all large
corporations are guilty of initiating and perpetuating globalization.
There are many businesses, including banks, who are led by moral,
ethical and good-hearted businessmen or businesswomen. Just because a
company might touch globalism does not mean it and its management or
employees are evil.

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.)

It is also important to understand that core globalists have full
understanding of their goals, plans and actions. They are not dimwitted,
ignorant, misinformed or naive.

The global elite march in three essential columns: Corporate,
Political and Academic. For the sake of clarity, these names will be used
herein to refer to these three groups.

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.

This report will attempt to identify and label the core players in the
globalization process. The intent is to show the makeup and pattern of the
core, not to list every person in it. Nevertheless, many people will be
named and their associations and connections revealed. This is done for two
reasons.

First, it will equip the reader be able to accurately identify other
core players as they are brought into focus. Secondly, the reader will be
able to pass over minor players who may sound like "big fish" but in fact
are only pedestrians.

Organizational Memberships
The old saying, "Birds of a feather, flock together" is appropriate
for the perpetrators of globalism. Sociologically speaking, they are like
any other people group with like interests: they naturally tend to form
societies that will help them achieve their common interests. A side-benefit
of fellowship is mutual support and encouragement. Once formed, such groups
tend to be self-perpetuating, at least as long as common interests remain.

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.

The Council on Foreign Relations
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 CFR continues to be significant in the sense that politicians
often look to its membership when searching for people to fill various
appointments in government. It also continues to be a policy mill through
its official organ, Foreign Affairs.

While there are a several core global elitists in the ranks of the
CFR, they represent a very small percentage of the total membership.
Conversely, there are many CFR members who are only lightly involved with
globalism. For this reason, we do not count the CFR as being central to
globalization today.

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.
HOW? WHEN HE TURNED WELFARE into FOODLESS-FARE? BY LAW?
SINGLE MOTHERS had to CLEAN FREEWAYS TO GET FOOD? STATE could
FIRE UNION EMPLOYEES? Oh Billy Blythe was thinking of the PEOPLE.

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. SEE FILM "VICE"
to see what a Dick he is. He engineered a TWO DECADE COSTLY WAR
on MUSLIM COUNTRIES to control their OIL for their own cabal of OILMEN.
Got the IQ 80 "W" to sign up for it.

Obviously, Corporate's partnerships with Political, Academic and Press
has been very successful. FOR THEM. You pay 4$ at the pump.

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
Law Firms
Warren Christopher Partner, O'Melveny and Myers
William T. Coleman, Jr. Senior Partner, Dilworth, Paxson,
Kalish, Levy & Coleman
Lloyd N. Cutler Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering
*Gerard C. Smith Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Cyrus R. Vance Partner, Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett
*Paul C. Warnke
Partner, Clifford, Warnke, Glass, McIlwain & Finney
Associations
Lucy Wilson Benson President, League of Women Voters of the
United States
Kenneth D. Naden Executive Vice President, National Council of
Farmer Cooperatives
Think-Tanks like RAND, totally CIA funded.
Thomas L. Hughes President, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
Henry D. Owen Director, Foreign Policy Studies Program, the
Brookings Institution
Miscellaneous
Anthony Solomon Consultant

* Indicates member of Executive Committee

Rockefeller and Brzezinski's strategy was nefarious, yet brilliant.

The election of democrat James Earl "I will never lie to you" Carter
was assured by delivering the mostly democratic labor vote. This was
accomplished by adding to the inner core: Leonard Woodcock (UAW), I.W. Abel
(United Steelworkers) and Lane Kirkland (AFL-CIO).

By 1977, three more labor leaders were added to the membership: Glenn
E. Watts (Communications Workers of America), Martin J. Ward (president of
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices), and Sol Chaikin,
president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

Leonard Woodcock served as Chief Envoy to China under Carter, and was
largely responsible for solidifying economic and political ties with
Communist China. [Editor's note: Any reader who is or was a member of one of
these unions will instantly have flashes of insight as to the enduring
duplicity of labor management -- you were effectively "sold down the river"
starting 1973 and continuing into the present.]

Those commissioners who Carter brought into his administration (the
initial "steering committee", if you will) were Walter Mondale (Vice
President), Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Advisor), Cyrus Vance
(Secretary of State), Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) and W. Michael
Blumenthal (Secretary of the Treasury,) among others.

As the Washington Post phrased it:

"Trilateralists are not three-sided people. They are members of a
private, though not secret, international organization put together by the
wealthy banker, David Rockefeller, to stimulate the establishment dialogue
between Western Europe, Japan and the United States.

"But here is the unsettling thing about the Trilateral Commission.
The President-elect is a member. So is Vice-President-elect Walter F.
Mondale. So are the new Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury, Cyrus R.
Vance, Harold Brown and W. Michael Blumenthal. So is Zbigniew Brzezinski,
who is a former Trilateral director, and, Carter's national security
advisor, also a bunch of others who will make foreign policy for America in
the next four years."3

Before Carter's term was completed, no less than 18 members (thirty
percent of the U.S. Commission membership) of the Trilateral Commission
served in his administration. Coincidence? Hardly!

This article purposely leaves out discussion of the non-U.S.
membership of the Commission membership, which will be saved for another
day. Suffice it to say that the European and Japanese contingents were just
as powerful and effective in their respective home countries. Approximately
one-third of the membership came from Europe and the other third from Japan.
The joint membership met annually (no press allowed) to formulate policy and
action plans for their respective regions. Many, if not most, of their
policies were published in the Commission's quarterly journal, Trialogue.

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.

The economic subversion of the U.S. was studied in The August Review's
America Plundered by the Global Elite and was likened to the plundering of a
nation, the likes of which have not been seen in modern history.

Current Trilateral Membership
The following list of north American members is not exhaustive. These
are selected because of their high visibility in positions within Corporate,
Political or Economic and Press. A future installment of The August Review
will examine the entire membership list more carefully and completely. The
purpose here is to show that the Trilateral Commission has grown, rather
than declined, in strength over the years.

Keep in mind that there is no enrollment or application process to
belong to the Trilateral Commission. One is invited to join in a manner
similar to a college student being "tapped" for membership in a fraternity.
Thus, the process is highly selective and discrete. Candidates are
thoroughly screened before invitation is delivered. For this reason, one can
be relatively sure that anyone who is or who has ever been a member of the
Commission is in the core of the global elite. There are likely a few
members who are not truly a part of the core, but for the sake of aggregate
analysis, this is not an important issue.

U.S. Members who have been subsequently added to the Commission over
the years include, in part, the following list.

Additional Trilateral Commission Membership through 20054
Banking Related
Paul Wolfowitz President, World Bank
Paul A. Volker Former Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New
York; Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus, International Economic
Policy, Princeton University; former Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S.
Federal Reserve System; Honorary North American Chairman and former North
American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Alan Greenspan Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Board of
Directors of Bank for International Settlements
Geoffrey T. Boisi former Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase, New
York, NY
E. Gerald Corrigan Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co., New
York, NY; former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Jamie Dimon President and Chief Operating Officer, JPMorgan
Chase, New York, NY
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. Vice Chairman, Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
Stanley Fischer Governor of the Bank of Israel, Jerusalem;
former President, Citigroup International and Vice Chairman, Citgroup, New
York, NY; former First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Richard W. Fisher President and Chief Executive Officer,
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX; former U.S. Deputy Trade
Representative
Michael Klein Chief Executive Officer, Global Banking, Citigroup
Inc.; Vice Chairman, Citibank International PLC; New York, NY
*Sir Deryck C. Maughan former Vice Chairman, Citigroup, New
York, NY
Jay Mazur President Emeritus, UNITE (Union of Needletrades,
Industrial and Textile Employees); Vice Chairman, Amalgamated Bank of New
York; and President, ILGWU's 21st Century Heritage Foundation, New York, NY
Hugh L. McColl, Jr. Chairman, McColl Brothers Lockwood,
Charlotte, NC; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America
Corporation
Robert S. McNamara Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission,
Washington, DC; former President, World Bank; former U.S. Secretary of
Defense; former President, Ford Motor Company.
Kenneth Rogoff Professor of Economics and Director, Center for
International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Chief
Economist and Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund,
Washington, DC
John Thain Chief Executive Officer, New York Stock Exchange,
Inc.; former President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, Goldman Sachs & Co.,
New York, NY
Lawrence H. Summers President, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Press Related
David G. Bradley Chairman, Atlantic Media Company, Washington,
DC
David Gergen Professor of Public Service, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Editor-at-Large,
U.S. News and World Report
Donald E. Graham Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The
Washington Post Company, Washington, DC
Karen Elliott House Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company,
and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
Gerald M. Levin Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, AOL Time
Warner, Inc., New York, NY
Fareed Zakaria Editor, Newsweek International, New York, NY
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News &
World Report, New York, NY
Labor Related
Sandra Feldman President Emeritus, American Federation of
Teachers, Washington, DC
John J. Sweeney President, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC
Intelligence Related
John M. Deutch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA; former Director of Central Intelligence; former
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
Henry A. Kissinger Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New
York, NY; former U.S. Secretary of State; former U.S. Assistant to the
President for National Security Affairs
James B. Steinberg Vice President and Director of the Foreign
Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; former
U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
William H. Webster Senior Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &
McCloy LLP, Washington, DC; former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence;
former Director, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation; former Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Susan Rice Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC;
former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former Special
Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs, National
Security Council
Senate/Congress
Richard A. Gephardt former Member (D-MO), U.S. House of
Representatives
Jim Leach Member (R-IA), U.S. House of Representatives
Charles B. Rangel Member (D-NY), U.S. House of Representatives
John D. Rockefeller IV Member (D-WV), U.S. Senate
Dianne Feinstein Member (D-CA), U.S. Senate queen of pork barrel to her hubby in CALIF
*Thomas S. Foley Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former Speaker of the U.S.
House of Representatives (D-WA); North American Chairman, Trilateral
Commission
Other Political
George H. W. Bush President of the United States
William Jefferson Clinton President of the United States
Richard B. Cheney Vice President of the United States
Paula J. Dobriansky U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global
Affairs
Robert B. Zoellick Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, U.S.
Trade Representative
Madeleine K. Albright Principal, The Albright Group LLC,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of State
C. Fred Bergsten Director, Institute for International
Economics, Washington, DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for International Affairs
William T. Coleman, Jr. Senior Partner and the Senior
Counselor, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of
Transportation
Lynn Davis Senior Political Scientist, The RAND Corporation,
Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and
International Security
Richard N. Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations, New
York, NY; former Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State;
former Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
*Carla A. Hills Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills &
Company, International Consultants, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade
Representative; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Richard Holbrooke Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC, New York, NY;
Counselor, Council on Foreign Relations; former U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations; former Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston
Corporation; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and
Canadian Affairs; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian
and Pacific Affairs; and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
Winston Lord Co-Chairman of Overseeers and former Co-Chairman
of the Board, International Rescue Committee, New York, NY; former U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former U.S.
Ambassador to China
*Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard
University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA; former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government; former
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Richard N. Perle Resident Fellow, American Enterprise
Institute, Washington, DC; member and former Chairman, Defense Policy Board,
U.S. Department of Defense; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Policy
Thomas R. Pickering Senior Vice President, International
Relations, The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of
State for Political Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian
Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan, and the United Nations
Strobe Talbott President, The Brookings Institution,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

Ernesto Zedillo Director, Yale Center for the Study of
Globalization, Yale University, New Haven, CT; former President of Mexico
[Ed . Note: not an American citizen]
David J. O'Reilly Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron
Corporation, San Ramon, CA

* Indicates member of Executive Committee

The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
The occupational makeup of the Trilateral Commission has obviously
changed over time, but that only represents the maturing of the
globalization process. What was needed in 1973 is not what is needed today.
Still, there are some consistencies that are easily observed.

The most obvious consistency (and expansion) is the very large
representation by the banking cartel: two chairmen and two board members of
of the Federal Reserve System, two presidents of the World Bank, director of
the International Monetary Fund, and chairmen/CEO's of several prominent
global banks. This does not take into account any linkages from Commission
members who are also directors of commercial and investment banks. Financial
representation is not incidental because money is the life-blood of
globalism. The August Review's coverage in Global Banking: The Bank for
International Settlements detailed the apex and makeup of global banking.

Through membership, the Trilateral Commission dominates the executive
branch of the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve System, and is closely
aligned with the Bank for International Settlements, which controls the
world's currencies and money supply. This is seen even without analyzing the
remaining two-thirds of Commission membership that resides outside of the
U.S.

The Institute for International Economics (IIE)
The IIE is an example of a key organization in which one might
identify other core members of the global elite. Founded in 1981, IIE is a
small policy-wonk organization with only 60 employees and an annual budget
of $7 million. According to its own web site,

"The Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit,
nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international
economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely, objective
analysis and concrete solutions to key international economic problems.

"The Institute attempts to anticipate emerging issues and to be
ready with practical ideas to inform and shape public debate. Its audience
includes government officials and legislators, business and labor leaders,
management and staff at international organizations, university-based
scholars and their students, other research institutions and nongovernmental
organizations, the media, and the public at large. It addresses these groups
both in the United States and around the world."5

This would be easily overlooked unless you examine IIE's board of
directors. Trilateralist Peter G. Peterson is chairman of the board. Anthony
M. Solomon is honorary chairman of the executive committee. Solomon is the
former chairman of Warburg (USA) Inc., former president and CEO of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and former Under Secretary of the Treasury
for Monetary Affairs. Solomon was listed only as "Consultant" on the 1973
Commission membership list.6

There are 12 other Trilateral Commission members (including David
Rockefeller) on IIE's board of directors! Having established Trilateral
influence (if not total domination), consider the following non-Commission
IIE board members who might well be candidates for inclusion in the core of
the global elite:

a.. Chen Yuan - Governor, China Development Bank; former Deputy
Governor, Peoples Bank of China.
b.. Jacob A. Frenkel - Former governor of the Bank of Israel and
former IMF economic counselor and director of research.
c.. Maurice R. Greenberg - Chairman, American International Group.
d.. David O'Reilly - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
ChevronTexaco Corporation.
e.. James W. Owens - Chairman and CEO of Caterpillar.
f.. Lawrence H. Summers - President, Harvard University; former
Secretary of the Treasury.
These are just a few of the non-Trilateral board members, and are
reviewed only to show the process by which one might identify additional
global elite core members.

There are other organizations like IIE that could stand similar
analysis of purpose, leadership and directorship.

Conclusion
As was declared in the beginning of this analysis, the stampede to
globalism is conducted by a small group of individuals with aspirations for
global dominance. It should be noted again that there are members of the
global "core" who are not members of the Trilateral Commission.

In general, they are driven by lust for money and power. They have
clearly made an end-run around the American people in order to achieve
personal goals that, in many cases, are diametrically opposed to U.S.
interests. If the American people fully understood the magnitude of the
deception and power-grab, they would immediately and totally repudiate these
individuals and their self-serving global schemes.

In 1971, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in Between Two Ages: The
Technetronic Era,

"...the nation-state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life
has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and
multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in
advance of the political concepts of the nation-state."7

Brzezinski could not have been more clear than this. Of the few people
who paid attention to Brzezinski previously, only one person needed to
receive his message fully: David Rockefeller, chairman of Chase Manhattan
Bank and consummate globalist. When they teamed up to start the Trilateral
Commisison in 1973, the rest, as we say, "became history."

So, how can one determine if an individual is a member of the core of
the global elite? There is a good chance that such a person will be:

a.. closely aligned with and accepted by many of the people already
identified as core;
b.. often family-related to other core members (i.e., the Bush
family, Rockefeller family, etc.);
c.. part of the "revolving-door" that switches them in and out of
important and critical positions in government, academia and business;
d.. a member (director or high-level executive) of an organization
identified as a core company, such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup,
Caterpillar Tractor, etc.;
e.. educated at a prestigious and global-minded university;
f.. belong to one or more organizations that are dominated by people
already identified as core.
This list is not comprehensive, nor is it meant to be some simplistic
litmus test. It is important to realize that many names being bandied about
are NOT part of the core of the global elite, but rather become decoys that
shift the focus away from the real elite core. Discretion, common sense and
study is required to understand the difference between the two.

Footnotes

1.. Novak, Jeremiah, Christian Science Monitor (February 7, 1977)
2.. The Trilateral Commission, Membership List, www.trilateral.org
3.. Washington Post, January 16, 1977
4.. op. cit.
5.. About Us, http://www.iie.com/institute/aboutiie.cfm
6.. Board of Directors, http://www.iie.com/institute/board.cfm
7.. Brzezinski, Zbigniew, Between Two Ages: The Technetronic Era,
(Penguin Books , 1971)

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