THE TENTACLES
One cannot talk about Bilderberg without mentioning the two other members of the triad.
The first is the Trilateral Commission, a private organization that fosters closer cooperation among the US, Europe and Japan. It was established in 1973 when mutual relations between these three blocs were on a downward spiral.
Senator Barry Goldwater, the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election, wrote in his book With No Apologies: "The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power: political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateralists truly intend is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved. They believe the abundant materialism they propose to create will overwhelm existing differences. As managers and creators of the system they will rule the future."
The Trilateral Commission is widely seen as an off-shoot of the Council on Foreign Relations, Established in 1921, the Council has a murkier history going back to Cecil Rhodes, the architect of Apartheid in South Africa. It starts looking murkier from here on.
Says the UK's Independent: "Unlike the African press, the Western media rarely invoke the name of Cecil John Rhodes; his name is more associated with Oxford Scholarships than with murder. But it was Rhodes who originated the racist "land grabs" to which Zimbabwe's current miseries can ultimately be traced. It was Rhodes, too, who in 1887 told the House of Assembly in Cape Town that "the native is to be treated as a child and denied the franchise. We must adopt a system of despotism in our relations with the barbarians of South Africa". In less oratorical moments, he put it even more bluntly: "I prefer land to niggers."
When, in 1877, he first made his will, he urged his executors to use his fortune to establish a secret society that would aim to redden every area of the planet. He envisioned a world in which British settlers would occupy Africa, the Middle East, South America, the Pacific and Malay islands, China and Japan, before restoring America to colonial rule and founding an imperial world government.
"He was deeply impressed," writes his lifelong companion Leander Starr Jameson, "with a belief in the ultimate destiny of the Anglo-Saxon race. He dwelt repeatedly on the fact that their great want was new territory fit for the overflow population to settle in permanently, and thus provide markets for the wares of the old country -- the workshop of the world." It was a dream of mercantile Lebensraum for the English.
Rhodes used some of his vast wealth acquired from diamond mining to set up his Rhodes Scholarships and also to fund the Royal Institute of International Affairs in the UK, and in America, the Council on Foreign Relations. These institutes are ostensibly think tanks but in reality are designed to steer the political processes of the Anglo-American imperium.
With funding provided mainly by the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, today the Council has some 5,000 members, and some of them have been key officials in many US administrations. It has influence with the CIA and the American armed forces as well, and can count on Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as its backers.
Together, the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission have a degree of influence that is truly alarming. Collectively, they have the ability to subvert democracy and bypass elected representatives.
Tucker shows Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission are good at picking future presidents. "Actually, they like to own both horses in a two-horse race. Here is the line-up: Jerry Ford, Bilderberg; Jimmy Carter, Trilateral; President Bush the Elder; Trilateral and Bill Clinton, Bilderberg." In fact, Clinton was an obscure Governor from Arkansas when he attended the conference in 1991; a year later he was elected president.
Who knows, perhaps the mockery of democracy that was the 2000 US Presidential election, in which the winning candidate Al Gore miraculously became the loser, was an inside job.
NOT OMNIPOTENT
The saving grace, if one can call it that, is that these people are in the NATO zone. So while they may have big ideas about controlling the world, it may not pan out the way they want because of the rise of China, India, Brazil, South Africa and numerous other countries. Whether the unexpected emergence of India and China will upend the Bilderbergs' grandiose plans or if the elites of New Delhi, Beijing and Brasilia will also get sucked into these cabals remains to be seen.
Also, the intellectual intensity of these luminaries may not be all what it's cracked up to be. The fact that Dan Quayle, former US Vice-President, and the king of gaffes, was an attendee reflects poorly on Bilderberg. David Rockefeller was reported to be highly impressed by Quayle. What more can one say about Rockefeller?
Another blow to the rock-solid club was in 1976 when the conference in Hot Springs, Virginia, was cancelled after Prince Bernhard was caught taking a $1 million bribe from US aerospace giant Lockheed.
THE ENDGAME
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