WHY AND WHEREFORE?

Any discerning reader of daily newspapers or periodicals can’t help but conclude these publications have a liberal bias that echoes the view of the elite establishment.  

One has only to have read the reporting by The New York Times of the offense conducted by homosexuals over the past five years or so to prove the point about bias.  If still in doubt research the support and biased reporting given global trade, global currency, the Federal Reserve Board, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and on and on by The Dallas Morning News, The Times and other major newspapers. 

The News’ editorial page editor, Rena Peterson, and its international economics reporter, Jim Landers, are both members of the Council on Foreign Relations, an extension of a British Group (Round Table) that the late Dr. Carroll Quigley said in The Anglo-American Establishment ‘’almost destroyed Western Civilization.’’  Some news people join the CFR for prestige and don’t participate in the policy direction of the CFR, but most members espouse the organization’s agenda, which it says it doesn’t have.

I cite the Times and the News for examples because they are the two newspapers I read daily, but most major newspapers, magazines and TV networks are home to members of the CFR and related organizations such as  Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergs.    As example, Catherine Graham who heads The Washington Post and Newsweek is a prominent member of CFR and Bilderbergs.  The New York Times and major networks and magazines are loaded with members.  Reporters belonging to these organizations are too many  to list here.  Some of the better known names include Tom Brokaw, Bill Moyers, Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, Dan Rather. Lesley R. Stahl, and  David Brinkley.   

The aim of this Web site is to offer a view of events free from establishment bias and the strictures of organizations that require a party line of propaganda that disseminates the aims and goals of the elites in charge.  It will attempt to be an honest view based on available facts and will not be directed by any policy trickling down from the elite power structure.  Most publications now treat the policy-making CFR, which has saturated government, as one of the liberal ‘’think tanks’’ that stand ready in Washington to espouse the establishment line to ‘’hard-working’’ reporters.  It is the intent of this writer to offer a commentary on obvious errors and propaganda that we see daily.

 As an example, an editorial backing Alan Greenspan  for a fourth term at the Fed in the Dallas Morning News in August, 1999.  It misrepresented what Greenspan has been doing concerning interest rates and has him fighting to hold them down even when 59 Congressmen protested his raising of rates two years before without justification, in their minds.  He has jawboned and tried to justify raises since that time and finally told Congress he would do it without the facts, which he did.

Now he is raising rates to counter the brakes he previously put on the economy with low rates.  He also has done a 180 degree turn on tax reductions, and has raised a concern about zero deficits and the possibility of the government investing the yet-to-be-realized budget surpluses.  

In his latest (2/13/2001) testimony, he’s back supporting debt payoff over tax reduction and hinting that other government-backed securities and not just decreasing federal securities can be used to manipulate the money supply.  He also  is jawboning Congress on fiscal policy, which is none of his prerogative. It is time to retire this ‘’money czar’’ or flim-flam man who speaks in designed conundrums to obfuscate or engage in needless pedantry.  It is also time for Congress to abolish this unconstitutional private central bank, or ‘’the high priests of finance’’ as Steve Forbes calls the Fed members.

As former Fed member Alice Rivlin wrote recently, Greenspan may be a ‘’brilliant economist,’’ but he is no oracle and should be listened to critically.  When one controls the money and credit of the United States one gets little open criticism.  It’s like the late J. Edgar Hoover who lawmakers and presidents were afraid to challenge because of the dossiers he kept on everybody.  Even President Bush has already said he won’t be critical of the Fed’s decisions.  That means more room for Greenspan to be in either economic control or as some might argue, out of control.

The commentary on this page will critique establishment practices like this.  If the space offers a different perspective, adds clarity or background to events, then it will have served it purpose.  It is not intended to support the right, left or any other view but to counter the obvious bias and propaganda from the establishment elite that controls the political class and major U.S. institutions.

Richard C. Sizemore