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Biweekly Discussion - Who's Behind The "New World Order"?

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Biweekly Discussion - Who's Behind The "New World Order"?

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We're currently hosting our discussions at Café Walnut, near the corner of 7th & Walnut in Olde City, just across the street from Washington Square Park. The cafe's entrance is below street level down some stairs, which can be confusing if it's your first time. Our group meets in the large room upstairs.

Since we're using the cafe's space, they ask that each person attending the meetup at least purchase a drink or snack. Please don't bring any food or drinks from outside. If you're hungry enough to eat a meal, they have more substantial fare such as salads, soups & sandwiches which are pretty good and their prices are reasonable.

The cafe is fairly easy to get to if you're using public transit. With SEPTA, take the Market-Frankford Line & get off at the 5th Street Station (corner of 5th & Market), and walk 2 blocks south on 5th and then turn right on Walnut Street and walk 2 blocks west. With PATCO, just get off at the 9th-10th & Locust stop and walk 3 blocks east & 1 block north. For those who are driving, parking in the neighborhood can be tough to find. If you can't find a spot on the street, I'd suggest parking in the Washington Square parking deck at 249 S 6th Street which is just a half block away.

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WHO'S BEHIND THE "NEW WORLD ORDER"?

ASSESSING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT THE BOHEMIAN GROVE, THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, THE BILDERBERG MEETING & THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION

INTRODUCTION:

In this discussion, we'll explore the conspiracy theories about the so-called "New World Order" and look at the rumors & allegations swirling around four shadowy organizations that are supposedly conspiring to bring it about.

MEANING OF THE TERM "NEW WORLD ORDER" & A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NWO CONSPIRACY THEORY IN THE U.S.:

First of all, we need to define what the term "New World Order" means and where it comes from. Wikipedia gives a decent history of the term:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_world_order_(politics)#Historical_usage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)#History_of_the_term

The phrase "new world order" was initially used in connection with Woodrow Wilson's global zeitgeist during the period just after World War I during the formation of the League of Nations. Contemporaries called it "the war to end all wars" as it was a powerful catalyst in international politics, and many felt the world could simply no longer operate as it once had. World War I had been justified not only in terms of U.S. national interest, but in moral terms—to "make the world safe for democracy". After the war, Wilson argued for a "new world order" which transcended traditional great power politics, instead emphasizing collective security, democracy and self-determination. However, the US Senate rejected membership of the League of Nations, and the term fell from use when it became clear the League was not living up to expectations.

During World War II, British author H.G. Wells wrote a book entitled The New World Order (1940) arguing for the establishment of a technocratic world state and of a planned economy to prevent future wars. Despite the popularity of his ideas in some state-socialist circles, Wells failed to exert a deeper and more lasting influence.

The term "new world order" was used very little in the immediate period after World War II, although the phrase was used by some in retrospect when assessing the creation of the post-World War II set of international institutions, including the United Nations, NATO, the Bretton Woods system, the International Monetary Fund, and the Marshall Plan.

During the Red Scare of 1947–1957, agitators of the American political right, influenced by the work of Canadian conspiracy theorist William Guy Carr, increasingly embraced and spread fears of Freemasons & Jews as the alleged driving forces behind an "International Communist Conspiracy". The Red Scare came to shape one of the core ideas of the political right in the United States, which was that socialist sentiment was pervasive in America, and that by advocating for social welfare programs & involvement in international institutions, both New Deal Democrats & Rockefeller Republicans were contributing to a gradual process of collectivism that would inevitably lead to a communist one-world government.

Right-wing activist groups such as the John Birch Society disseminated a multitude of conspiracy theories in the 1960s claiming that the governments of both the United States and the Soviet Union were controlled by a cabal of corporate internationalists, greedy bankers and corrupt politicians who were intent on using the U.N. as the vehicle to create a "One World Government". This right-wing anti-globalist conspiracism fuelled the Bircher campaign for US withdrawal from the UN. American writer Mary M. Davison, in her 1966 booklet The Profound Revolution, traced the alleged New World Order conspiracy to the establishment of the US Federal Reserve in 1913 by international bankers, whom she claimed later formed the Council on Foreign Relations in 1921 as a shadow government.

The John Birch Society's hardline isolationalist stance & accusations of communism against even Dwight Eisenhower led to them being marginalized from the Republican Party by the early 1960s. However, their conspiratorial views spread to many of the Republican followers of Barry Goldwater, leading to a rift within the GOP in the election of 1964.

American writer Gary Allen proliferated the NWO conspiracy theory in the 1970s & 1980s with his books None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1971), Rockefeller: Campaigning for the New World Order (1974), and Say "No!" to the New World Order (1987), and his books articulated the anti-globalist theme of much of the current right-wing populist conspiracism in the US. The political activist Lyndon LaRouche also spread the NWO conspiracy theory during these decades, tailoring it in such a way that it appealed to people on both the far left & the far right.

After the fall of communism in the early 1990s, the main scapegoat of the American far right shifted from "crypto-communists" to "globalists" plotting on behalf of the New World Order. American televangelist Pat Robertson, with his 1991 best-selling book The New World Order, popularized a belief among the Religious Right that Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, and the Trilateral Commission control the flow of events from behind the scenes, nudging politics covertly in the direction of world government for the Antichrist.

In the early 21st century, the NWO conspiracy theories got a significant boost from the spectacular & shocking nature of the 9/11 attacks, which resulted in the proliferation of online conspiracy theories about an "inside job" orchestrated by a shadow government within the US. After the 2003 Iraq invasion revealed that Saddam Hussein didn't have any WMDs as Bush had claimed, this led to further online speculation that the "New World Order" was pushing the US into needless wars.

Shortly after the 2008 financial crisis, several politicians and pundits used the term "new world order" in their advocacy for a comprehensive reform of the global financial system. These statements had the unintended consequence of providing fresh fodder for New World Order conspiracism, culminating in Fox News host Sean Hannity stating that "the conspiracy theorists were right".

The election of Barack Obama also elicited more NWO conspiracy theories from conservative pundits, with Glenn Beck regularly arguing on Fox News that Obama was pushing a crypto-socialist agenda and about to enact martial law, while provocateur Alex Jones attracted a lot of attention by making even more outrageous claims at Infowars.

In 2013, Public Policy Polling found that about 28% of Americans claim to believe that "a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government or New World Order", while another 25% says they're "not sure". Perhaps not surprisingly, there's a strong partisan bent to this belief, with 34% of Republicans and 35% of independents saying they believe in the New World Order threat compared to just 15% of Democrats.
https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf

  • NOTE: If you'd like to see a more in-depth coverage of the history of the "New world Order" conspiracy theory, check out Tim Callahan's article from the Oct. 2010 edition of Skeptic Magazine entitled, "The End of the World and the New World Order: Black Helicopters, Hong Kong Gurkhas, Global Conspiracies & the Mark of the Beast":
    https://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/10-10-20/

VARIETIES OF "NEW WORLD ORDER" CONSPIRACY THEORIES:

From reading a lot of articles & blog posts about the New World Order from a variety of sources, I've identified a range of views that fall into roughly 5 categories, which I've ranked in order of increasing plausibility of the claims they make:

  1. Supernatural/Pseudo-Scienific NWO Conspiracy Theories: There's a variety of NWO conspiracy theories that are wildly implausible because they incorporate supernatural elements, alleging that global elites are Satanists & practice black magic (e.g. Pat Robertson's "New World Order"), that they are aliens in disguise (e.g. David Icke's reptilians) or in league with aliens (e.g. Majestic 12), or that they possess advanced technology like zero-point energy or geoengineering tech that can produce hurricanes & earthquakes.

  2. Pseudohistorical NWO Conspiracy Theories: There's a variety of NWO conspiracy theories that don't have any supernatural or pseudo-scientific elements, but that make claims that are inherently implausible because they involve groups that mainstream scholars say either never existed (e.g. Elders of Zion, Priory of Sion, Fourth Reich) or existed in the past but no longer exist today (e.g. Knights Templar, Rosicrucians, Bavarian Illuminati, Hellfire Club, Jacobins).

  3. NWO Super-Conspiracy Theories: There's a range of NWO conspiracies that don't contain pseudo-scientific or pseudo-historical elements, but are nevertheless highly implausible because they allege plots that are wide-ranging & long-lasting and organizations that are almost omnipotent yet highly secretive. The political scientist Michael Barkun calls these "super-conspiracy theories" because they often link multiple alleged conspiracies together hierarchically (e.g. see the above diagram). The classic examples of NWO super-conspiracy theories are historian Carroll Quigley's theory about an Anglo-American "Round Table" conspiracy for world domination hatched by Cecil Rhodes in 1880 and the John Birch Society theory that an "International Communist Conspiracy" controlled both sides during the Cold War and still exists today.

  4. NWO Quasi-Conspiracy Theories: There's a somewhat more plausible range of claims about international conspiracies by corporations, think tanks & politicians which are not quite as large, long-lasting or powerful as those in the "super-conspiracy theories". Often these "quasi-conspiracy theories" (my term) come from journalists & amateur historians who are careful to cite primary sources and adept at weaving compelling narratives, but they are still hyperbolic in their rhetoric, cherrypick evidence, and conflict with the current consensus in academic fields like political history, political science, political sociology & institutional economics. Good examples of NWO quasi-conspiracy theories are Naomi Klein's book Shock Doctrine and John Perkins' book Confessions of an Economic Hitman, as well as the conspiracy theory about imminent plans for a "North American Union" that went viral during Obama's presidency.

  5. Elite Theory, Institutional Analysis, Public Choice Theory & Social Network Analysis: These are 4 somewhat related types of academic analysis of political networks that can appear somewhat similar to the NWO quasi-conspiracy theories but make more sophisticated & more empirically sound arguments. Social scientists occasionally use the term "New World Order" but usually talk instead about somewhat related concepts that define the political & economic climate of the post-WWII era like the Liberal International Order, Pax Americana, Late Capitalism, Transnational Capitalism, Post-/Trans-nationalism, Managerial Capitalism, the Managerial State, Globalization, etc.

RELEVANT MATERIAL FROM PAST MEETUPS:

The origins of the "New World Order" conspiracy theories are linked to older allegations about corrupt bankers & robber barons in the 19th century. In October of 2018, we had a meetup entitled "Do Bankers Rule the World?" where we discussed two classic targets of conspiracy theories - the Rothschilds banking dynasty & J.P. Morgan's money trust. We also looked at how concerns about U.S. gold reserves and the U.S. departure from the gold standard under FDR & Nixon tie in with conspiracy theories. We finished up by analyzing the allegations of corrupt banking practices & political cronyism at Goldman Sachs:
https://www.meetup.com/Philly-Skeptics/events/255695734/

Conspiracy theories about elite bankers have sometimes alleged that they've conspired to lure the U.S. into wars for various nefarious reasons, such as war profiteering & burying the US & other countries in debt in order to make them more dependent on the central banks. In November of 2018, we had a meetup entitled "False Pretexts & Acts of War" where we looked at conspiracy theories that allege that the sinking of the USS Maine that led to the Spanish-American War, the sinking of the Lusitania that led to the US entry into WWI, the Pearl Harbor attack that led to the US entry into WWII, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to US entry into the Vietnam War were all the product of conspiracies:
https://www.meetup.com/Philly-Skeptics/events/lckqkqyxpbgb/

Since the 1990s, the "New World Order" has come to be associated with the process of growing interdependence of the world's economies via trade & investment which we now call "globalization". In October of 2018, we had a meetup where we discussed the research we have on the economic effects of globalization, as well as left-wing arguments from Naomi Klein book The Shock Doctrine & John Perkins' book Confessions of an Economic Hitman about the evil schemes they allege underlie globalization. We also discussed right-wing concerns over an alleged covert plan to unite the US with Canada & Mexico in a "North American Union":
https://www.meetup.com/Philly-Skeptics/events/255269097/

Recently, since around the time of the 2016 election, the organizations that are supposedly conspiring to create the "New World Order" have become associated with a newer term - i.e. the "Deep State". In a meetup back in September of 2017, we had a meetup where we addressed the concept of "the deep state" in political science. We also discussed the military's influence on US politics via the "military-industrial complex", domestic spying by our intelligence agencies and growth of the "surveillance state", and allegations of corruption within the federal bureaucracy that prompted Trump's claim that he would "drain the swamp":
https://www.meetup.com/Philly-Skeptics/events/240273022/

NOTE: This meetup will be preceded by a related meetup hosted by the Philly Political Agnostics from 1-3pm entitled "Is the Liberal International Order Dying?" The concept of a "liberal international order" is essentially a positive take on the int'l institutions that critics allege are behind the New World Order.
https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-Political-Agnostics/events/chrnnqyzgblc/

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DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO PREPARE FOR OUR DISCUSSION:

The videos & articles you see linked below are intended to give you a basic a sense of the rumors & allegations surrounding four of the shadowy organizations supposedly conspiring to bring about the "New World Order". As usual, I certainly don't expect you to read all the articles & watch all the videos prior to attending our discussion.

The easiest way to prepare for our discussion is to just watch the numbered videos linked under each section - the videos come to about about 63 minutes total. I know that's more time than I usually ask our members to devote to preparation, so if you want to skip video 3b that shaves off 16 minutes and gets it down to a more reasonable 47 minutes.

As usual, the articles marked with asterisks are just there to supply additional details. You can browse and look at whichever ones you want, but don't worry - we'll cover the stuff you missed in our discussion.

In terms of the discussion format, my general idea is that we'll address the topics in the order presented here. I figure we'll spend about 30 minutes on each section. As you can see, I've listed some questions under each section heading to stimulate discussion. We'll try to answer most of them during our discussion.

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I. THE BOHEMIAN CLUB (FOUNDED 1872):

  • HOW MUCH OF THE PUBLIC SUSPICION SURROUNDING THE BOHEMIAN GROVE MEETINGS IS JUST DUE TO ITS SECRECY, EXCLUSIVITY & HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDEES?

  • WHAT'S THE BETTER EXPLANATION OF THE BOHEMIANS' "CREMATION OF CARE" CEREMONY - (1) MOST OF AMERICA'S LEADERS ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN THE OCCULT & PRACTICE HUMAN SACRIFICE (AS ALEX JONES ALLEGED) OR (2) THAT IT'S A BIT OF PAGEANTRY LEFT OVER FROM THE ARTISTS & WRITERS WHO FOUNDED THE BOHEMIAN GROVE MIXED WITH "SILLY GROWN-UP FRAT KIND OF NONSENSE" (AS JON RONSON CALLED IT)?

  • SINCE THE BOHEMIAN CLUB IS MOSTLY LIMITED TO U.S. REPUBLICANS & OFFICIALLY DISCOURAGES "WEAVING SPIDERS" (I.E. BUSINESS TALK), DOES THAT SUGGEST IT'S NOT LINKED TO "GLOBALIST" COORDINATION EFFORTS?

  • DID EDWARD TELLER'S SECRET DISCUSSION OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT AT THE GROVE IN 1942 OCCUR DURING THE SUMMER RETREAT OR NOT?

  • WHAT'S THE SIGNIFICANCE, IF ANY, OF THE BOHEMIAN CLUB'S DRAG SHOWS THAT NIXON DERIDED IN THE WATERGATE TAPES & THAT ALEX JONES EQUATED WITH "GAY RITUALS"?

  • DOES THE FACT THAT MULTIPLE JOURNALISTS & AMATEUR SLEUTHS (E.G. PHILLIP WEISS, JON RONSON, ALEX JONES) HAVE SNUCK INTO THE BOHEMIAN GROVE & LIVED TO TELL THE TALE SUGGEST THEIR POWER IS LIMITED?

  • DOES THE FACT THAT BOHEMIAN GROVE HAD THEIR LOGGING PERMIT DENIED AND THEIR POLICY OF ONLY HIRING MALE EMPLOYEES TO SERVE GUESTS WAS CHALLENGED IN A LAWSUIT & RULED TO BE UNLAWFUL SEX DISCRIMINATION BY THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT SUGGEST THEY'RE NOT THAT POWERFUL?

  • DOES COLIN POWELL'S HACKED EMAILS REVEALING THAT MOST BOHEMIAN ATTENDEES DESPISED TRUMP SUGGEST THEY'RE NOT THAT POWERFUL - I.E. THEY CAN'T EVEN CONTROL THE GOP PRIMARY?

  1. Brian Dunning, "The Bohemian Club Conspiracy: Wealthy and powerful men gather annually at the mysterious Bohemian Grove -- but not to plot global domination." (video - 12:57 min.)
    https://youtu.be/VWj0o8kCoqs

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II. THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (FOUNDED 1921):

  • WHAT ARE THE LINKS BETWEEN THE FOUNDING OF THE CFR & THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INT'L AFFAIRS (A.K.A. CHATHAM HOUSE)? WAS THE CFR ORIGINALLY PART OF CECIL RHODES' SECRET "ROUND TABLE" PLAN TO PROP UP THE BRITISH EMPIRE? OR IS THE CFR MORE RELATED TO "THE INQUIRY" - I.E. THE THINK TANK THAT ASSISTED WOODROW WILSON WITH HIS ATTEMPT AT CREATING A "LEAGUE OF NATIONS" AFTER WWI?

  • DID THE CFR PLAY A MAJOR ROLE IN ERECTING THE POST-WW2 "LIBERAL INTERNATIONAL ORDER", INCLUDING THE IMF & THE WORLD BANK?

  • IS THERE ANY TRUTH TO THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY'S ALLEGATIONS THAT THE CFR WAS "SOFT" ON COMMUNISM OR SECRETLY PRO-COMMUNIST?

  • IS PETER GROSE'S HISTORY OF THE CFR CORRECT IN SAYING THE CFR OPPOSED THE VIETNAM WAR & COUNSELED DIPLOMACY? OR IS G. WILLIAM DOMHOFF RIGHT THAT THE CFR URGED U.S. INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW WE'D EVENTUALLY LOSE THE WAR?

  • IS THE CFR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 2003 IRAQ INVASION? DOES RICHARD HAASS DESERVE CREDIT FOR ADMITTING IT WAS A MISTAKE? HAS THIS CHANGED HIS VIEW THAT THE U.S. SHOULD BE THE WORLD'S "RELUCTANT SHERIFF"?

  • ACCORDING PEW'S 2013 SURVEY, HOW DO THE FOREIGN POLICY VIEWS OF CFR MEMBERS DIFFER FROM THE AVERAGE AMERICAN? HOW MUCH OF THIS DIFFERENCE SHOULD WE ATTRIBUTE TO THEIR SUPERIOR FOREIGN POLICY KNOWLEDGE VS DIFFERENCE IN VALUES (I.E. GLOBALISM VS NATIONALISM)?

  • DOES "BESTSCHOOLS.ORG" & THE "GLOBAL GO-TO THINK TANK INDEX" UNDERESTIMATE THE CFR'S INFLUENCE BY FOCUSING ON LESS IMPORTANT CRITERIA? OR DO CFR CRITICS EXAGGERATE ITS INFLUENCE & MISS HOW FOREIGN POLICY IDEAS EMERGE FROM A MUCH BROADER NETWORK OF THINK TANKS?

  • WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT THE CFR'S CURRENT AMBITIONS & CONCERNS FROM RICHARD HAASS'S 2018 ESSAY, "HOW A WORLD ORDER ENDS"? DOES THE FACT THAT THEY'VE BEEN UNABLE TO STOP TRUMP FROM THWARTING THEIR GOALS (E.G. TPP, PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT, IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL) SUGGEST THE CFR IS NOT THAT POWERFUL AFTER ALL?

2a) Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, "The CFR" (video - 6:12 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggzhTW68rX4

2b) NPR w/ Richard Haass, "President Of The Council On Foreign Relations Discusses His Article: 'How A World Order Ends'" (podcast - 5:27 min.)
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/20/678815032/president-of-the-council-on-foreign-relations-discusses-his-article-how-a-world-

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III. THE BILDERBERG GROUP (FOUNDED 1954):

  • DID BILDERBERG FOUNDER JOZEF RETZINGER'S PURPOSE FOR THE GROUP MERELY INVOLVE COUNTERING ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT IN EUROPE & FOSTERING TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COLD WAR, OR DID HE EVER SAY HE SAW IT AS A STEP TOWARDS WORLD GOV'T? DID HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE PUSH FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION SUGGEST HE SAW IT AS A STEP TOWARDS WORLD GOV'T OR MERELY A SAFEGUARD AGAINST WW3?

  • DOES THE FACT THAT THE BILDERBERG GROUP EMPLOYS THE "CHATHAM HOUSE RULE" & DOESN'T ALLOW REPORTERS OR RELEASE ITS MINUTES MEAN IT'S INHERENTLY NEFARIOUS OR IS THIS JUSTIFIABLE IF IT ALLOWS FOR MORE OPEN & FRANK DISCUSSIONS?

  • DOES ATTENDANCE BY U.S. CITIZENS VIOLATE THE LOGAN ACT, OR IS IT LEGAL BECAUSE IT'S JUST AN INFORMAL DISCUSSION RATHER THAN A NEGOTIATION WITH A FOREIGN GOV'T?

  • DO THE LEAKED BILDERBERG MINUTES FROM 1955 & A 2009 INTERVIEW WITH ETIENNE DAVIGNON BOTH PROVE THAT THE BILDERBERGERS CAME UP WITH THE PLAN FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION & THE EURO CURRENCY? WERE PLANS FOR THE EU & EURO SECRET UNTIL THEY WERE "FOISTED" ON THE EUROPEAN POPULACE AS CONSPIRACY THEORISTS ALLEGE, OR WAS IT OPENLY DISCUSSED & VOTED ON?

  • WHAT CAN WE GLEAN FROM WILLY CLAES'S RADIO INTERVIEW IN 2010 ABOUT THE 1994 BILDERBERG MEETING? DOES ANYTHING HE SAID SUPPORT THE ALLEGATION THAT THE BILDERBERG LEADERSHIP ISSUES COMMANDS TO ATTENDEES TO HELP THEM ERECT A WORLD GOV'T?

  • DID OBAMA SNEAK AWAY FROM REPORTERS TO ATTEND THE BILDERBERG MEETING IN VIRGINIA WITH HILLARY CLINTON IN THE SUMMER OF 2008? WHAT SHOULD WE MAKE OF THE FACT THAT NONE OF OBAMA'S STAFF APPEARED ON THE BILDERBERG ATTENDEE LIST IN 2013 OR 2014?

  • DID THE 2010 LEAK OF NOTES FROM PAST BILDERBERG MEETINGS UNCOVER ANY NEFARIOUS PLANS? DO THEY TELL US ANYTHING NEW ABOUT THE 2003 IRAQ INVASION OR THE CREATION OF THE E.U.?

  • DID THE BILDERBERG GROUP FAVOR MARCO RUBIO FOR V.P. IN 2012 AND/OR PRESIDENT IN 2016? IF SO, DOES THIS SUGGEST THEIR ABILITY TO INFLUENCE U.S. POLITICS IS VERY LIMITED?

  • IF THE BILDERBERG GROUP OPPOSES TRUMP'S POLICIES, WHY CAN'T THEY STOP HIM? OR DOES THE FACT THAT SEVERAL MEMBERS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION ATTENDED THE 2017 SUMMIT SUGGEST THEY'RE SUBVERTING HIM?

  • IF THE BILDERBERG GROUP "CONTROLS THE MEDIA", WHY CAN'T THEY PREVENT NEGATIVE COVERAGE OR BLOCK THE STORY FROM THE DAILY MAIL REPORTER WHO SNUCK INTO THEIR MEETING IN 2018?

3a) Brian Dunning, "Beware the Bilderberg Group! The annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group is not to plan global domination." (video - 11:57 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvUjlT3NMKs

3b) Dan Dicks, "Bilderberg Documents Leaked! Iraq War Plan Exposed!" (video - 16:00 min.)
https://youtu.be/N4lQwyw0AFQ

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IV. THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION (FOUNDED 1973):

  • WAS THE FOUNDER OF THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION, DAVID ROCKEFELLER, OPENLY IN FAVOR OF WORLD GOVERNMENT OR MERELY IN FAVOR OF MORE INT'L COOPERATION? WHY DO LEFT-WING CRITICS SEE HIM AS A DIEHARD CAPITALIST WHO LOOTED IRAN UNDER THE SHAH & HELPED TOPPLE ALLENDE IN CHILE, WHILE RIGHT-WING CRITICS SEE HIM AS A CRYPTO-COMMUNIST WHO PRAISED MAO'S CHINA & PROMOTED TRADE WITH THE USSR & EASTERN BLOC?

  • DID THE INITIAL CHAIRMAN OF THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION, ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, BETRAY AN ADMIRATION FOR COMMUNISM & A DESIRE FOR WORLD GOV'T IN HIS 1970 BOOK BETWEEN TWO AGES? OR DID HE MERELY SEE SOME MARXIST CRITIQUES OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE CAPITALISM AS JUSTIFIED & ADVOCATE FOR MORE INT'L COOPERATION IN WHAT HE FORESAW AS AN EMERGING ERA OF GLOBALIZATION?

  • DID THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION ORCHESTRATE JIMMY CARTER'S RISE FROM AN OBSCURE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIE TO THE PRESIDENCY? DID JIMMY CARTER PRETEND TO BE A LIBERAL REFORMER & WASHINGTON OUTSIDER TO MASK HIS TRUE POLITICAL IDENTITY AS A "ROCKEFELLER REPUBLICAN" & STOOGE FOR THE TRILATERALS?

  • DOES NOAM CHOMSKY ACCURATELY CHARACTERIZE THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION'S 1975 REPORT "THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY" AS A COMPLAINT THAT ACTIVISM FROM THE NEW LEFT IN THE 1960s CONSTITUTED AN "EXCESS OF DEMOCRACY"? OR WAS THEIR CRITICISM THAT THE PUBLIC MADE CONTRADICTORY DEMANDS FOR LESS GOV'T AUTHORITY BUT MORE GOV'T SERVICES?

  • HAS THE INFLUENCE OF THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION DECLINED IN RECENT YEARS, SINCE THEY NOW GARNER LESS ATTENTION FROM BOTH THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA & CONSPIRACY THEORISTS?

  • WHAT ROLE DID BRZEZINSKI PLAY IN ADVISING OBAMA? HOW MUCH OF THE CRITICISM OF BRZEZINSKI'S ROLE IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS DUE TO ANGER OVER HIS CRITICISM OF THE ISRAEL LOBBY? IS THERE PARALLELS BETWEEN HOW BRZEZINSKI ADVOCATED ARMING THE MUJAHEDDIN IN AFGHANISTAN IN THE 1970s-80s & ARMING ANTI-ASSAD REBELS IN SYRIA, WHICH BOTH CREATED JIHADIST BLOWBACK?

  • DOES TRUMP'S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL THAT BRZEZINSKI BOASTS OF HELPING TO ORCHESTRATE BACK IN 2007 SHOW A MAJOR LIMIT TO THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION'S POWER?

4a) Stuff They Don't Want You to Know, "The Trilateral Commission" (video - 4:05 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4GcuIhsShM

4b) Noam Chomsky, "The Crisis of Democracy" (video - 3:27 min.)
https://youtu.be/2F9rKBYwIlA

4c) C-SPAN w/ Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Brzezinski on CFR, Bilderberg, and Trilateral Commission" (video - 3:19 min.)
https://youtu.be/VOk6ENxyAh0

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