The roots of Bush-Cheney's New World Order
Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 01:46:39 AM PDT
Much attention has been devoted to Dick Cheney's role in supporting the "unitary executive" doctrine, and his assault on the Constitutional balance of powers. Much has also been made of the role of the "Neo-con cabal" of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and others, including one of their most prominent think-tanks, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). But wait! There's more!
What's less well known is the association of this bunch with the elite "Bilderberger Group."
Wikipedia provides this description today:
The Bilderberg Group or Bilderberg conference is an unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of business, media, and politics.
Due to discussions by public officials and powerful business leaders (and others) being off the record, these annual meetings are the subject of much criticism (for circumventing the democratic process of discussing issues openly and publicly) and numerous conspiracy theories.
The elite group meets annually at exclusive, four or five-star resorts throughout the world, normally in Europe, once every four years in the United States or Canada. It has an office in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands.
The Declared Purpose:
The original intention of the Bilderberg Group was to further the understanding between Western Europe and North America through informal meetings between powerful individuals. Each year, a "steering committee" devises a selected invitation list with a maximum of 100 names. Invitations are only extended to residents of Europe and North America. The location of their annual meeting is not secret, but the public and press are strictly kept at distance by police force and private security guards. Although the agenda and list of participants are openly available to the public meanwhile - mainly in the internet and posted there by outsiders - whose sources and reliability are not known — it is not clear that such details are disclosed by the group itself. Also the contents of the meetings are kept secret and attendees pledge not to divulge what was discussed.
The group's stated justification for secrecy is that it enables people to speak freely without the need to carefully consider how every word might be interpreted by the mass media. However, it could easily be argued that the elite and secretive nature of the meeting antithetical to the democratic ideals of public debate.
According to another source,
The group has been depicted as an international cabal of the influential and the affluent: politicians, financiers, and media and business moguls; the elite of the elite. Some believe that they have dictated national policies, rigged (or outright stolen) national elections, caused wars, recessions, and ordered murders and ousters of world leaders such as American president John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. . . .
The official stance of the Bilderberg Group is that their secrecy prevents these individuals' discussions from being manipulated by the media. However, social class-related exclusivity is considered by many to be the primary motive. Security is managed by military intelligence.
A detailed source on each annual meeting is here.
According to Uri Dowbenko,
1998 Bilderberg Group attendees included the usual Globalist Good Ole Boys, regulars like David Rockefeller, Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank; and Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State and current Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., a schmooze-for-hire firm that sells high-level introductions to world-class tyrants, arms dealers and their ilk.
Dowbenko quoted from Peter Thompson's essay, "Bilderberg and the West," published in the book "Trilateralism" (edited by Holly Sklar, South End Press, Boston). Thompson wrote,
Bilderberg is not the only means of Western collective management of the world order, it is part of an increasingly dense system of transnational management. . . Where necessary, a consensus is engineered on issues which must get congressional/parliamentary approval, but wherever possible executive agreements between governments are used to avoid the democratic process altogether.
. . .bodies like the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the British Royal Institute for International Affairs, commonly known as ’Chatham House, and transnational counterparts like Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission play a crucial role in formulating policy directions, molding establishment consensus and even testing for likely opposition.
Dowbenko continued,
Since its founding, the Bilderberg Group has functioned as a defacto private Global Politburo with 120 attendees at recent yearly meetings.
The New World Order? In any case, this group's love of Democracy seems in doubt.
Who might these folks be? According to Wikipedia, "Donald Rumsfeld is an active Bilderberger," and "Former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary and current World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz is also a member..." Others listed include
- Henry Kissinger (2004[5],2005,2006), Secretary of State, 1973 - 1977
- Richard Perle (2003), assistant Secretary of Defense, 1981 - 1987
But that's not all. Look who else: According to Dowbenko,
Historically, the Group’s power is awesome. Bill Clinton, an obscure Arkansas governor, was tapped to run for president. Likewise, Margaret Thatcher as well as Tony Blair were tapped by the Bilderbergers to assume the reins of government in the United Kingdom.
Bill Clinton, (1991)[3], US President, was a member from 1993 - 2001 according to the Wikipedia.
Hmmm. Lookee here:
After Clinton was invited to a 1991 meeting of the Bilderberg Group in Baden-Baden, Germany, he became a front-running candidate for President in 1992. Then, despite --- or maybe because of -- his well-known sexual/drug addictions and compromised background, Clinton was selected as the Group’s choice for U.S. President.
Does the stance Clinton's DLC takes on international issues, and Bill's coziness with Poppy Bush suddenly start to make more sense?
Dowbenko also added
Congressman Gerald Ford --- later U.S. president --- also attended Group meetings in 1964 and 1966.
It should be noted, however, that Ford is not mentioned in Wikipedia's not-entirely-complete list of attendees, nor on the most complete list of attendees I know of.
Let's try to connect the dots a little bit here.
- Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, was a long-standing Bilderberger. Nixon, of course, was the first 'modern' president who sought to greatly expand presidential powers to imperial proportions, and was forced to resign due to over-reach. And guess who still has frequent access to the White House, in recent years, as well as years gone by? (H/t to Bob Woodward's book, 'State of Denial'). Here's what good ol' Henry the K said at the Bilderberger meeting in 1991:
"Today, America 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 that 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 to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the world government." - Henry Kissinger (Bilderburg Conference 1991 Evians, France)
That worked pretty well after 9/11, didn't it?
- Gerald Ford attended the Group's meetings in 1964 & 1966, according to Dowbenko-- before Ford became President. One of Ford's protegés, Donald Rumsfeld became an important member. A Rumsfeld protegé, Paul Wolfowitz, also gets invited, and is now president of the World Bank.
- Is it enough to know that the Cheney-Rumsfeld government-within-the-government was run by Bilderbergers, and that Cheney himself, if not a Bilderberger, seems like-minded?
But wait! There's more!
David Rockefeller was an original U.S. founding member, life member, and member of the Steering Committee (1954-).
Bilderberger proceedings are supposed to be secret. But one short statement by Rockefeller is all over the Internet:
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the NY Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings, and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop OUR PLAN for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a World Government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual ELITE and World Bankers is surely preferable to the national auto - determination practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller CFR Kingpin, Founder of the Trilateral Commission, NOW Godfather / June 1991
The same web page quotes David Rockefeller again with this:
"We are on the verge of a Global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." - David Rockefeller
So much, I guess, for good ol' democracy.
Oh, and what about Jay Rockefeller, "the only Democrat in what has been traditionally a staunchly Republican dynasty"? Isn't he chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence? What does he think of Uncle David, the only surviving brother of Jay's father's generation?
I think someone ought to ask him. He is in a very critical position, and we need him to do his sworn duty and defend the Constitution.
Bob in HI
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