Joe W. wrote: "- unmolested by the professional activists who protest the World Bank/IMF confabs, but studiously ignore meetings of the real power brokers." Maybe our elite sycophant, Nalini, has an explanation for this phenomenon? -----Original Message----- >From: Joseph Wanzala <wanzala@xxxxxxxxx> >Sent: May 15, 2008 8:21 AM >To: newpacifica <NewPacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Fulcrums of Change ><fulcrumsofchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [Fulcrumsofchange] [Fulcrums] Global Elite Gather in DC > >- unmolested by the professional activists who protest the World >Bank/IMF confabs, but studiously ignore meetings of the real power >brokers. > >Joe W. > > >http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8914 > >Trilateral Commission: Global Elite Gather in D.C. >Trilateral Commission members want suffering U.S. taxpayers to shell >out even more money > >by James P. Tucker Jr. > >Global Research, May 6, 2008 >American Free Press, Issue no. 19 > >Email this article to a friend >Print this article > >The Trilateral Commission—one of the three most powerful globalist >groups in the world—held closed-door meetings right here in >Washington, D.C. from April 25 to 28. True to form, those members of >the media who knew about the meeting—or were themselves participants >in the proceedings—refused to discuss what went on inside or report on >the attendees. Luckily, AFP's own editor, Jim Tucker, was on the scene >to bust this clandestine confabulation wide open. > >Luminaries at the Trilateral Commission meeting in Washington >expressed confidence that they own all three major presidential >candidates, who, despite political posturing, will support >sovereignty-surrendering measures such as NAFTA and the "North >American Union." > >"John has always supported free trade, even while campaigning before >union leaders," said one. "Hil and Barack are pretending to be unhappy >about some things, but that's merely political posturing. They're >solidly in support." > >He was referring to Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Hillary Clinton >(D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.). > >Mrs. Clinton, they noted, held strategy sessions as first lady on how >to get Congress to approve NAFTA "without changes." As president, they >agreed, she would do no more than "dot an i or cross a t." > >Candidate Obama has not denied news reports in Canada that his top >economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, assured Canadian diplomats that the >senator would keep NAFTA intact and his anti-trade talk is just >"campaign rhetoric." > >PETRIFIED ABOUT PAUL > >While they are confident they can deal with any "potential president," >the Trilateralists paid huge tribute to Ron Paul in an equally large >twist of irony, by expressing alarm that he is causing "significant >future damage." > >They expressed concern that Paul's rallies have attracted multitudes >of young people who are getting "their political education." They want >Republicans to pressure Paul to drop out now and stop his education >rallies. This assignment was given to Thomas Foley, former U.S. House >speaker. > >The reasons Paul's "education campaign" strikes fear into Trilateral >hearts are obvious. Paul would refuse to surrender an ounce of U.S. >sovereignty to an international organization and TC wants world >government. > >Paul would immediately bring U.S. troops home from Iraq, Afghanistan >and from 130 UN "peacekeeping" missions around the globe. TC wants to >enjoy war profiteering and global power. Paul would abolish the >federal income tax while the TC wants to pile on a global tax payable >to the UN. > >The formal agenda was loaded with everything Paul and American >patriots detest: higher taxes, more foreign giveaways, more >immigration, both legal and illegal, into the United States and >"engaging Iran," among others. > >AMERICA NEEDS TO PAY HER FAIR SHARE? > >The Trilaterals got down to real work on Saturday, April 26, with a >high-powered panel called "U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policy: Broad >Outlines for a New Administration." > >It was presided over by journalistic pimp David Gergen, who will write >nothing about TC in his magazine, U.S News and World Report. Also >participating were Kenneth Duberstein, former White House chief of >staff for President Ronald Reagan; Strobe Talbot, president of the >Brookings Institution and former deputy secretary of state; and Joseph >Nye, former assistant secretary of defense. Henry Kissinger, former >secretary of state and long-time Bilderberg leader, was present and >listed as a participant. But a TC staff member crossed his name out. >Some speculated he had throat problems. > >This panel had these orders for the next president: increase foreign >aid across the board because "America does not pay its fair share," >pay up the arrears in UN dues, allow as many immigrants into the >United States as want to come and provide "amnesty" for illegal aliens >already here. > >Little, if anything, was said about the fact that American taxpayers >pay one-fourth of the UN's operating costs and one-third of the cost >of 130 "peacekeeping missions" or the fact that immigrants from South >America depress wages here and the average immigrant family costs the >government thousands of dollars a year in welfare, health and other >"benefits." > >Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank and another long-time >Bilderberg boy, largely echoed these views in a sweetheart "interview" >by another journalistic strumpet, Lionel Barber, editor of The >Financial Times, who will obediently report nothing. > >FIGHT WARMING; ALLOW IMMIGRANTS > >There were "subgroup" meetings on "climate change," "water and >sanitation" and "migration and development." Every nation, especially >the U.S., should spend big bucks to fight "global warming," they >agreed. The United States should spend more "because Americans cause >the most pollution," one argued. Americans should send more money to >Africa so natives can drink clean water and scrub themselves, they >said. > >Antonio Garrigues Walker, chairman of Garrigues Abogadas y Asesores >Tributarios, joined Peter Sutherland, the UN secretary-general's >"special representative on migration and development," to call on the >United States to not only allow unlimited immigration, but to throw >more money at Mexico and other impoverished Latin countries. It was, >somehow, their "right" to have more U.S. dollars. Sutherland is >chairman of British Petroleum and Goldman Sachs International. He is >also a long-time Bilderberg leader. > >MEDIA BLACKOUT > >Bill Emmott, another kept journalist, spoke on "the rise of Asia" at a >reception-dinner held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Emmott, >former editor of The Economist, will report nothing. > >Sunday morning, Robert Blackwill, former U.S. deputy national security >adviser for Iraq, led a panel discussion on "engaging Iran and >building peace in the Persian Gulf Region." For the first time, there >was dissent. Blackwill tried to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. >Others doubted that Saddam Hussein was connected to the 9-11 terrorist >attacks or was a nuclear threat. Blackwill said the military option >remains but he hopes diplomatic efforts succeed. > >Other participants were Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign >Relations, which functions as the propaganda ministry for TC and >Bilderberg; Volker Perthes, head of the German Institute for >International and Security Affairs and Hitoshi Tanaka, former Japanese >deputy minister of Foreign Affairs. > >MORE, MORE, MORE MONEY > >More foreigners demanded more U.S. money at a lunch panel called >"European and Asian views on U.S. Foreign and Security Policy." >Participants were Elisabeth Guigou, a member of the French National >Assembly and former minister for European affairs and Han Sung-joo, >former minister of foreign affairs for South Korea. > >An afternoon session addressed "global health" with more calls for >American tax dollars. A major voice in this cause came from Sylvia >Mathews Burwell, president of Global Development Programs, Bill & >Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates has attended at least one >Bilderberg meeting. > >EXCUSES FOR IRAQ; PLANS FOR IRAN > >John Negroponte, U.S. deputy secretary of state, addressed the evening >dinner on "U.S. foreign policy perspectives." Again, the invasions of >Iraq and Afghanistan were rationalized and an invasion of Iran held >out as a possibility. > >The Monday morning finale addressed the Global Financial Crisis >involving these luminaries: Robert Kimmitt, U.S. deputy secretary of >the treasury; Martin Feldstein, former chairman of the President's >Council of Economic Advisers; David Rubenstein, managing director of >The Carlyle Group; Naoki Tanaka, president of the Center for >International Public Policy Studies and Sir Andrew Crockett, president >of JP Morgan Chase International. > >Among them, there was much talk of the U.S. government's "duty" to >"intervene" on behalf of "financial institutions under stress." Little >or nothing was said of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who are >losing their homes because financial institutions lured them into >buying houses they could not afford. > >Throughout the weekend, no American voices were heard objecting to the >demands on their country. Instead, there were smiles, nods and >applause. > > >AFP editor James P. Tucker Jr. is a veteran journalist who spent many >years as a member of the "elite" media in Washington. Since 1975 he >has won widespread recognition, here and abroad, for his pursuit of >on-the-scene stories reporting the intrigues of global power blocs >such as the Bilderberg Group. Tucker is the author of Jim Tucker's >Bilderberg Diary. Loaded with photos—many never published before—the >book recounts Tucker's experiences over the last quarter century at >Bilderberg meetings. $25 from AFP. 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