Trilateral Commission

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The Trilateral Commission is a semi-secret society and was formed in 1973 by private citizens of Japan, Europe (European Union countries), and North America (United States and Canada) to foster closer cooperation among these core democratic industrialized areas of the world with shared leadership responsibilities in the wider international system. Originally established for three years, our work has been renewed for successive triennia (three-year periods), most recently for a triennium to be completed in 2006.

Contents 1 Chairmen, Deputy Chairmen and Directors as of March 2005 2 Former North American Chairmen 3 Former European Chairmen 4 Former Japanese Chairmen 5 Executive Committee, as of March 2005 6 Articles 7 POCANTICO HILLS CONFABS 8 RULING CLASSES UNITE 9 PICKING POLICYMAKERS 10 CUT AND DRIED 11 Sources Quoted 12 Related Discussion Threads on AboveTopSecret.com 13 External Links

Chairmen, Deputy Chairmen and Directors as of March 2005

Thomas Foley - North American Chairman Peter Sutherland - European Chairman Yotaro Kobayashi - Pacific Asian Chairman Allan Gotlieb - North American Deputy Chairman Lorenzo Zambrano - North American Deputy Chairman Herve de Carmoy - European Deputy Chairman Andrzej Olechowski - European Deputy Chairman Kim Kyung-Won - Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman Shijuro Ogata - Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman Michael Neil - North American Director Paul Revay - European Director Tadashi Yamamoto Pacific Asia Director

Former North American Chairmen

Paul Volcker - Honorary North American Chairman 1991 - 2001 David Rockefeller - Founder and Honorary North American Chairman 1977 - 1991 Gerard Smith - 1973- 1977

Former European Chairmen

Otto Graf Lambsdorff - Honorary European Chairman 1992 - 2001 Georges Berthoin - Honorary European Chairman 1976 - 1992 Max Kohnstamm 1973 - 1976

Former Japanese Chairmen

Kiichi Miyazawa - Acting Chairman 1993 - 1997 Akio Morita - 1992 - 1993 Isamu Ymashita - 1985 - 1992 Takeshi Watanabe]] - 1973 - 1985 [edit]

Executive Committee, as of March 2005

Stelios Argyros | Charlene Barshefsky | Erik Belfrage | Fred Bergsten | Georges Berthoin | Jorge Braga de Macedo | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Francois Bujon de l'Estang | Vladimir Dlouhy | Bill Emmott | Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta | Michael Fuchs | Toyoo Gyohten | Stuart Harris | Carla Hills | Toomas Hendrik Ilves | Mugur Isarescu | Max Jakobson | Baron Daniel Janssen | Bela Kadar | Otto Graf Lambsdorff | Lee Hong-Koo | Cees Maas | Minoru Makihara | Sir Deryck Maughan | Kiichi Miyazawa | Minoru Murofushi | Joseph Nye | Yoshio Okawara | Silvio Scaglia | Guido Schmidt-Chiari | Carlo Secchi | Toger Seidenfaden | Myles Staunton | Thorvald Stoltenberg | Petar Stoyanov | George Vassiliou | Paul Volcker | Marko Voljc | Jusuf Wanandi | Serge Weinberg | Norbert Wieczorek | Emilio Ybarra

Articles

The Trilateral Commission was established in 1972. Its founder and primary financial angel was international financier, David Rockefeller, longtime chairman of the Rockefeller family-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank and undisputed overlord of his family's global corporate empire.

Rockefeller's idea for establishing the commission emerged after he had read a book entitled Between Two Ages written by an Establishment scholar, Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University.

In his book Brzezinski proposed a vast alliance between North America, Western Europe and Japan. According to Brzezinski, changes in the modern world required it.

"Resist as it might," Brzezinski wrote elsewhere, "the American system is compelled gradually to accommodate itself to this emerging international context, with the U.S. government called upon to negotiate, to guarantee, and, to some extent, to protect the various arrangements that have been contrived even by private business."

In other words, it was necessary for the international upper class to band together to protect it's interests, and to ensure, in the developed nations, that political leaders were brought to power who would ensure that the global financial interests (of the Rockefellers and the other ruling elites) would be protected over those of the hoi polloi.

POCANTICO HILLS CONFABS

Although the initial arrangements for the commission were laid out in a series of meetings held at the Rockefeller's famous Pocantico Hills estate outside New York City, Rockefeller first introduced the idea of the commission at an annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group, this one held in Knokke, Belgium in the spring of 1972.

(The Bilderberg group is similar to the Trilateral Commission in that it is funded and heavily influenced by the Rockefeller empire, and composed of international financiers, industrialists, media magnates, union bosses, academics and political figures.

(However, the much older Bilderberg group's membership is strictly limited to participants from the United States, Canada and Western Europe: i.e. the NATO alliance. For more on the Bilderberg group, keep an eye out for future stories in this paper.

The Trilateral Commission was unique, though, in that it brought the Japanese ruling elite into the inner councils of the global power brokers, a recognition of Japan's growing influence in the world economic and political arena.

RULING CLASSES UNITE

"The Commission's purpose is to engineer an enduring partnership among the ruling classes of North America, Western Europe and Japan -- hence the term 'Trilateral' -- in order to safeguard the interests of Western capitalism in an explosive world. The private commission is attempting to mold public policy and construct a framework for international stability in the coming decades, with its primary goal as a New World Order; with a one-world government controlled completely by the ruling elite, therefore eliminating all civilian power in politics, economics, social sciences, and civil liberties...if any at all.

"To put it simply, Trilateralists are saying: The people, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.

"In short, Trilateralism is the current attempt by ruling elites to manage both dependence and democracy -- at home and abroad."

Another Trilateral critic, now-retired Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), views the commission as a Rockefeller family operation through and through. According to Goldwater:

"The Trilateral organization created by David Rockefeller was a surrogate -- the members selected by Rockefeller, its purposes defined by Rockefeller, its funding supplied by Rockefeller. David Rockefeller screened and selected every individual who was invited to participate."

PICKING POLICYMAKERS

David Rockefeller and Brzezinski then began the process of selecting from among the "Trilateral" nations the several hundred elite power brokers who would be permitted to join in Trilateral policymaking in the coming years.

One of the commission's primary goals was to place a Trilateral-influenced president in the White House in 1976, and to achieve that goal it was necessary to groom an appropriate candidate who would be willing to cooperate with Trilateral aims.

Rockefeller and Brzezinski selected a handful of well-known liberal Democrats and a scattering of Republicans (primarily of the liberal-internationalist bent) to serve on the commission.

And in an effort to give regional balance to the commission Rockefeller invited the then-obscure one-term Democratic governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, to join the commission.

ROCKEFELLER CENTER SOUTH

Rockefeller had longtime ties to the local Atlanta political and economic Establishment. In fact, much of Rockefeller's personal investment portfolio is in Atlanta real estate. (According to David Horowitz, co-author of The Rockefellers, "Atlanta is Rockefeller Center South.")

And Rockefeller himself had once even invited Carter to dine with him at the Chase Manhattan Bank several years before, as early as 1971, the year Carter began serving as governor.

Carter very definitely impressed Rockefeller and Brzezinski, more so than another Southern Democrat, Florida Gov. Reuben Askew, also selected to serve on the commission and viewed, like Carter, as a possible Trilateral candidate.

In fact, according to Brzezinski, "It was a close thing between Carter and Askew, but we were impressed that Carter had opened up trade offices for the state of Georgia in Brussels and Tokyo. That seemed to fit perfectly into the concept of the Trilateral."

Carter, in fact, like Askew, did announce for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, but because of Rockefeller's interest, Carter had the inside shot.

So much so that in a speech at the commission's first annual meeting in Kyoto, Japan in May of 1975, Rockefeller's man Brzezinski promoted the then-still obscure Carter to his fellow Trilateralists as an ideal presidential candidate.

CUT AND DRIED

From that point on, it was all cut and dried. According to Goldwater: "Rockefeller and Brzezinski found Carter to be their ideal candidate. They helped him win the Democratic nomination and the presidency.

"To accomplish this purpose they mobilized the money-power of the Wall Street bankers, the intellectual influence of the academic community -- which is subservient to the wealth of the great tax-free foundations -- and the media controllers represented in the membership of the CFR and the Trilateralists."

(The aforementioned Council on Foreign Relations -- is another Rockefeller-financed foreign policy pressure group similar to the Trilateralists and the Bilderberg group).

(In his book The Carter Presidency and Beyond, published in 1980 by the Ramparts Press, Prof. Laurence H. Shoup devotes an entire chapter to demonstrating how the Trilateral-linked and Trilateral-controlled Establishment media promoted the presidential candidacy in 1976 of the then-obscure Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter.)

Carter, of course, campaigned as a "populist" -- as a "man of the people" -- as an "outsider" with no ties to the Establishment. The fact is, however, Carter, who said he'd never lie, was an elitist, an insider, the Trilateral Commission's "man on the white horse."

And with the power of the commission and the Rockefeller empire and its media influence behind him, Carter made his way to the presidency, establishing the first full-fledged Trilateral administration, appointing numerous Trilateralists to key policymaking positions and carrying out the Trilateral agenda to the hilt.

Sources Quoted

[1 http://www.trilateral.org/about.htm] http://www.trilateral.org/about.htm

Related Discussion Threads on AboveTopSecret.com

• The Trilateral Commission: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2008
• (CFR) and Trilateral Commission
• Trilateral Commission, David Rockefeller
• The Secret Society Network

External Links

http://www.trilateral.org/

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