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Terms and Organizations©
Below are some capsule definitions of organizations and terms
that may be used frequently on this page. It is intended to refresh
or clarify readers' knowledge of these groups and some shortcut
words that may be used.
Bilderbergers - The name comes from
a hotel where the founders met in Holland in 1954. Bilderberg and
the Trilateral Commission (TC) have somewhat different modes of
operation as noted in Trilateralism (p176). Both organizations
have closed meetings, but Bilderberg is far more secretive in all
its activities. Its members encompass many heads of state, other
top government officials and royalty. Efforts to influence public
opinion also are indirect whereas the TC takes both indirect and
direct action, the study points out. Bilderberg membership does
overlap with the TC and The Council on Foreign Relations and bankers
are among its most influential participants. Members from the European
Community, The North American Treaty Organization (NATO), the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and GATT (now WTO, or World Trade
Organization) regularly attend its meetings. Memberships include
powerful West Europeans and North Americans but no Japanese. It
is involved in the global aspirations of the elite of these continents
and is super-secret. It prefers no publicity whatever, not even
its membership list. Peter Thompson of the London Collective, State
Research, writes in Trilateralism (p.58): ''Bilderberg is
not the only means of Western collective management of the world
order; it is part of an increasingly dense system of transnational
coordination.'' He adds: ''Democratic interference in foreign policy
is avoided, in so far as possible, throughout the Western capitalist
democracies.''
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - It was founded
in 1921 and was regarded by the Royal Institute of International
Affairs (RIIA) as its American branch, according to Carroll Quigley
(The Anglo-American Establishment p.191). The RIIA was a
branch of the Rhodes, Milner or Round Table group formed by Cecil
Rhodes to promote and extend the British Empire and regain control
of the United States, if possible, or at least influence its direction.
The CFR has become very active in planning the United States' future
in foreign policy and global economics. It clearly supports globalization
at the expense of U.S. sovereignty as well as the so-called New
World Order. Secrecy was one of its tenets for years, but it has
been going more public in recent years, although the minutes of
its policy meetings are still secret. Its support and acceptance
by the press and its infiltration of government without much criticism
or objection has led it to project itself now as just another ''think
tank.'' But it is more than that and practically directs U.S. foreign
policy. It is headquartered in New York (The Harold Pratt House,
58 East 68th St., New York, N. Y. 10021). It bills itself as a research
and educational institution ''that does not take any position on
questions of foreign policy.'' If you believe that you won't have
any problem with believing Communist China is truly a ''People's
Republic.'' If the CFR takes no position, then one has to wonder
why it has infiltrated the government from the presidency to all
top official posts and has since the Roosevelt days. Quigley said
the CFR's parent Milner Group almost destroyed Western Civilization
(p.309 The Anglo-American Establishment). The CFR's membership
list reads like a ''Who's Who'' in government, politics, corporations
and the news media. Its members involved in the recent passage of
China trade bill is a prime example of its establishment clout -
Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Brent Snowcroft, Donald Rumsfeld,
Colin Powell, Presidents Clinton and Bush - all members of the CFR,
plus Tri-lat Jimmy Carter, to name a few. Barry Goldwater wrote
in With No Apologies that ''almost without exception the
members of the CFR are united by a congeniality of birth, economic
status, and educational background.'' Goldwater quoted Rear Admiral
Chester Ward, USN (Ret.), who was a CFR member for 16 years, as
saying the most powerful CFR members have one objective in common.
''They want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and
the national independence of the United States.'' They want national
boundaries and one-world government, Goldwater pointed out.
The Trilateral Commission (TC) - It includes the ruling
classes of Japan, Western Europe and North America. It was formed
in 1973 by David Rockefeller during the rapid economic growth and
power of Japan following World War II. The trilateralists are involved
in the domestic economies of the three areas mentioned and have
interlocks with the CFR and Bilderbergers. The commission meets
secretly but reports what it wants to be known. Holy Sklar, who
edited the book Trilateralism (South Bend Press, Boston)
notes: ''Trilateralists are not only concerned with managing international
events. They are determined to manage North American, West European,
and Japanese democracy, fitting these societies ever more closely
to the needs of global capitalism.'' The public has no meaningful
participation in the TC decisions. Memberships cross party lines
and include the establishment elite. Goldwater said (p.280)
''It (TC) is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation
of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the
political government of the United States.'' He added (p284)
''In my view, the Trilateral Commission represents a skillful,
coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers
of power-political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical.''
He noted that a report presented at the plenary meeting of the TC
in Japan in 1975 called for an enlargement of central authority
and expressed a lack of confidence in democratically arrived-at
public decisions. It also called for, among other things, a program
to lower the job expectations of those who received a college education,
and centralized economic and social planning. Paul Volcker, TC chairman,
was quoted by Sklar (p.560) as saying: ''The standard of
the average {sic} American has to decline.''
The Order of Skull and Bones (The Order) - It is a
chapter (322) of a German secret society, according to Antony C.
Sutton who probably has made the most in depth study of it. Its
origins go back to 1833 when it was founded at Yale University by
William H. Russell and Alphonso Taft, father of William Howard Taft.
It was incorporated by the Russell Trust in 1856, Sutton writes
on America's Secret Establishment, an Introduction to the Order
of Skull & Bones (Liberty House Press, Billings, Montana, 1986).
Members are sworn to secrecy and that in itself raises the question
of how President Bush and his aspiring son, George W., can take
an oath to support the Constitution and belong to The Order, not
to mention other organizations such at the TC and CFR and Freemasonry.
Sutton writes (p31) that member of The order ''…have created
wars and revolutions, they have ransacked public treasuries, they
have oppressed, they have pillaged, they have lied - even to their
countrymen.'' The core of The Order, he states, comprises about
20 families who are mostly descendants from the original settlers
in Massachusetts in the United States, or old line Yankee families.
It has penetrated government and other opinion and policy-making
institutions to the extent that it determines the basic direction
of American society, Sutton Claims. It is alleged to be tied to
the Illuminati, and also has an affiliation with Freemasonry. Sutton
concludes from his research (p.186) that The Order ''is a clear
and obvious threat to the constitutional freedom in the United States.''
He contends the CFR is on the fringes of conspiracy but states that
The Order is a conspiracy because, among other things, its objectives
''are plainly unconstitutional.''
Other Related Groups -- Pilgrim Society, a suspect
but probably harmless social club devoted to promoting the American
and British establishment. Two other fringe groups are the Bohemian
Club (of San Francisco) and the Atlantic Council.
The World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA)
- Founded in 1959, it's goal is to replace the U.S. Constitution
with a world constitution, according to Gary H. Kah, En Route
to Global Occupation, (Huntington House Publishers, Lafayette,
La.)
Tri-lats -- This term may be used to describe the
various groups collectively unless the organization is specifically
mentioned since all interlock somewhat and are related often with
the same members.
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