A Review of Daniel Estulin’s Book<\/i><\/p>\n
For over 14 years, Daniel Estulin has investigated and researched the Bilderberg Group\u2019s far-reaching influence on business and finance, global politics, war and peace, and control of the world\u2019s resources and its money.<\/p>\n
His book, \u201cThe True Story of the Bilderberg Group,\u201d was published in 2005 and is now updated in a new 2009 edition. He states that in 1954, \u201cthe most powerful men in the world met for the first time\u201d in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, \u201cdebated the future of the world,\u201d and decided to meet annually in secret. They called themselves the Bilderberg Group with a membership representing a who\u2019s who of world power elites, mostly from America, Canada, and Western Europe with familiar names like David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Lloyd Blankfein, George Soros, Donald Rumsfeld, Rupert Murdoch, other heads of state, influential senators, congressmen and parliamentarians, Pentagon and NATO brass, members of European royalty, selected media figures, and invited others \u2013 some quietly by some accounts like Barack Obama and many of his top officials.<\/p>\n
Always well represented are top figures from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), IMF, World Bank, Trilateral Commission, EU, and powerful central bankers from the Federal Reserve, the ECB\u2019s Jean-Claude Trichet, and Bank of England\u2019s Mervyn King.<\/p>\n
For over half a century, no agenda or discussion topics became public nor is any press coverage allowed. The few invited fourth estate attendees and their bosses are sworn to secrecy. Nonetheless, Estulin undertook \u201can investigative journey\u201d that became his life\u2019s work. He states:<\/p>\n
\u201cSlowly, one by one, I have penetrated the layers of secrecy surrounding the Bilderberg Group, but I could not have done this withot help of \u2018conscientious objectors\u2019 from inside, as well as outside, the Group\u2019s membership.\u201d As a result, he keeps their names confidential.<\/p>\n
Whatever its early mission, the Group is now \u201ca shadow world government\u2026.threaten(ing) to take away our right to direct our own destinies (by creating) a disturbing reality\u201d very much harming the public\u2019s welfare. In short, Bilderbergers want to supplant individual nation-state sovereignty with an all-powerful global government, corporate controlled, and check-mated by militarized enforcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagine a private club where presidents, prime ministers, international bankers and generals rub shoulders, where gracious royal chaperones ensure everyone gets along, and where the people running the wars, markets, and Europe (and America) say what they never dare say in public.\u201d<\/p>\n
Early in its history, Bilderbergers decided \u201cto create an \u2018Aristocracy of purpose\u2019 between Europe and the United States (to reach consensus to rule the world on matters of) policy, economics, and (overall) strategy.\u201d NATO was essential for their plans \u2013 to ensure \u201cperpetual war (and) nuclear blackmail\u201d to be used as necessary. Then proceed to loot the planet, achieve fabulous wealth and power, and crush all challengers to keep it.<\/p>\n
Along with military dominance, controlling the world\u2019s money is crucial for with it comes absolute control as the powerful 19th century Rothschild family understood. As the patriarch Amschel Rothschild once said: \u201cGive me control of a nation\u2019s money and I care not who makes its laws.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bilderbergers comprise the world\u2019s most exclusive club. No one buys their way in. Only the Group\u2019s Steering Committee decides whom to invite, and in all cases participants are adherents to One World Order governance run by top power elites.<\/p>\n
According to Steering Committee rules:<\/p>\n
\u201cthe invited guests must come alone; no wives, girlfriends, husbands or boyfriends. Personal assistants (meaning security, bodyguards, CIA or other secret service protectors) cannot attend the conference and must eat in a separate hall. (Also) The guests are explicitly forbidden from giving interviews to journalists\u201d or divulge anything that goes on in meetings.<\/p>\n
Host governments provide overall security to keep away outsiders. One-third of attendees are political figures. The others are from industry, finance, academia, labor and communications.<\/p>\n
Meeting procedure is by Chatham House Rules letting attendees freely express their views in a relaxed atmosphere knowing nothing said will be quoted or revealed to the public. Meetings \u201care always frank, but do not always conclude with consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Membership consists of annual attendees (around 80 of the world\u2019s most powerful) and others only invited occasionally because of their knowledge or involvement in relevant topics. Those most valued are asked back, and some first-timers are chosen for their possible later usefulness.<\/p>\n
Arkansas governor Bill Clinton, for example, who attended in 1991. \u201cThere, David Rockefeller told (him) why the North American Free Trade Agreement\u2026.was a Bilderberg priority and that the group needed him to support it. The next year, Clinton was elected president,\u201d and on January 1, 1994 NAFTA took effect. Numerous other examples are similar, including who gets chosen for powerful government, military and other key positions.<\/p>\n
Bilderberg Objectives<\/b><\/p>\n
The Group\u2019s grand design is for \u201ca One World Government (World Company) with a single, global marketplace, policed by one world army, and financially regulated by one \u2018World (Central) Bank\u2019 using one global currency.\u201d Their \u201cwish list\u201d includes:<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u201cone international identify (observing) one set of universal values;\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 centralized control of world populations by \u201cmind control;\u201d in other words, controlling world public opinion;<\/p>\n
\u2013 a New World Order with no middle class, only \u201crulers and servants (serfs),\u201d and, of course, no democracy;<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u201ca zero-growth society\u201d without prosperity or progress, only greater wealth and power for the rulers;<\/p>\n
\u2013 manufactured crises and perpetual wars;<\/p>\n
\u2013 absolute control of education to program the public mind and train those chosen for various roles;<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u201ccentralized control of all foreign and domestic policies;\u201d one size fits all globally;<\/p>\n
\u2013 using the UN as a de facto world government imposing a UN tax on \u201cworld citizens;\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 expanding NAFTA and WTO globally;<\/p>\n
\u2013 making NATO a world military;<\/p>\n
\u2013 imposing a universal legal system; and<\/p>\n
\u2013 a global \u201cwelfare state where obedient slaves will be rewarded and non-conformists targeted for extermination.\u201d<\/p>\n
Secret Bilderberg Partners<\/b><\/p>\n
In the US, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is dominant. One of its 1921 founders, Edward Mandell House, was Woodrow Wilson\u2019s chief advisor and rumored at the time to be the nation\u2019s real power from 1913 \u2013 1921. On his watch, the Federal Reserve Act passed in December 1913 giving money creation power to bankers, and the 16th Amendment was ratified in February creating the federal income tax to provide a revenue stream to pay for government debt service.<\/p>\n
From its beginnings, CFR was committed to \u201ca one-world government based on a centralized global financing system\u2026.\u201d Today, CFR has thousands of influential members (including important ones in the corporate media) but keeps a low public profile, especially regarding its real agenda.<\/p>\n
Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called it a \u201cfront organization (for) the heart of the American Establishment.\u201d It meets privately and only publishes what it wishes the public to know. Its members are only Americans.<\/p>\n
The Trilateral Commission (discussed below) is a similar group that \u201cbrings together global power brokers.\u201d Founded by David Rockefeller, he\u2019s also a leading Bilderberger and CFR Chairman Emeritus, organizations he continues to finance and support.<\/p>\n
Their past and current members reflect their power:<\/p>\n
\u2013 nearly all presidential candidates of both parties;<\/p>\n
\u2013 leading senators and congressmen;<\/p>\n
\u2013 key members of the fourth estate and their bosses; and<\/p>\n
\u2013 top officials of the FBI, CIA, NSA, defense establishment, and other leading government agencies, including state, commerce, the judiciary and treasury.<\/p>\n
For its part, \u201cCFR has served as a virtual employment agency for the federal government under both Democrats and Republicans.\u201d Whoever occupies the White House, \u201cCFR\u2019s power and agenda\u201d have been unchanged since its 1921 founding.<\/p>\n
It advocates a global superstate with America and other nations sacrificing their sovereignty to a central power. CFR founder Paul Warburg was a member of Roosevelt\u2019s \u201cbrain trust.\u201d In 1950, his son, James, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: \u201cWe shall have world government whether or not you like it \u2013 by conquest or consent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later at the 1992 Bilderberg Group meeting, Henry Kissinger said:<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow, they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil\u2026.individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by their world government.\u201d<\/p>\n
CFR planned a New World Order before 1942, and the \u201cUN began with a group of CFR members called the Informal Agenda Group.\u201d They drafted the original UN proposal, presented it to Franklin Roosevelt who announced it publicly the next day. At its 1945 founding, CFR members comprised over 40 of the US delegates.<\/p>\n
According to Professor G. William Domhoff, author of Who Rules America, the CFR operates in \u201csmall groups of about twenty-five, who bring together leaders from the six conspirator categories (industrialists, financiers, ideologues, military, professional specialists \u2013 lawyers, medical doctors, etc. \u2013 and organized labor) for detailed discussions of specific topics in the area of foreign affairs.\u201d Domhoff added:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Council on Foreign Relations, while not financed by government, works so closely with it that it is difficult to distinguish Council action stimulated by government from autonomous actions. (Its) most important sources of income are leading corporations and major foundations.\u201d The Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations to name three, and they\u2019re directed by key corporate officials.<\/p>\n
Dominant Media Partners<\/b><\/p>\n
Former CBS News president Richard Salant (1961 \u2013 64 and 1966 \u2013 79) explained the major media\u2019s role: \u201cOur job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.\u201d<\/p>\n
CBS and other media giants control everything we see, hear and read \u2013 through television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, films, and large portions of the Internet. Their top officials and some journalists attend Bilderberg meetings \u2013 on condition they report nothing.<\/p>\n
The Rockefeller family wields enormous power, even though its reigning patriarch, David, will be 94 on June 12 and surely near the end of his dominance. However, for years \u201cthe Rockefellers (led by David) gained great influence over the media. (With it) the family gained sway over public opinion. With the pulse of public opinion, they gained deep influence in politics. And with this politics of subtle corruption, they are taking control of the nation\u201d and now aim for total world domination.<\/p>\n
The Bilderberger-Rockefeller scheme is to make their views \u201cso appealing (by camouflaging them) that they become public policy (and can) pressure world leaders into submitting to the \u2018needs of the Masters of the Universe.\u2019 \u201d The \u201cfree world press\u201d is their instrument to disseminate \u201cagreed-upon propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n
CFR Cabinet Control<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThe National Security Act of 1947 established the office of Secretary of Defense.\u201d Since then, 14 DOD secretaries have been CFR members.<\/p>\n
Since 1940, every Secretary of State, except James Byrnes, has been a CFR member and\/or Trilateral Commission (TC) one.<\/p>\n
For the past 80 years, \u201cVirtually every key US National Security and Foreign Policy Advisor has been a CFR member.<\/p>\n
Nearly all top generals and admirals have been CFR members.<\/p>\n
Many presidential candidates were\/are CFR members, including Herbert Hoover, Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter (also a charter TC member), George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and John McCain.<\/p>\n
Numerous CIA directors were\/are CFR members, including Richard Helmes, James Schlesinger, William Casey, William Webster, Robert Gates, James Woolsey, John Deutsch, George Tenet, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, and Leon Panetta.<\/p>\n
Many Treasury Secretaries were\/are CFR members, including Douglas Dillon, George Schultz, William Simon, James Baker, Nicholas Brady, Lloyd Bentsen, Robert Rubin, Henry Paulson, and Tim Geithner.<\/p>\n
When presidents nominate Supreme Court candidates, the CFR\u2019s \u201cSpecial Group, Secret Team\u201d or advisors vet them for acceptability. Presidents, in fact, are told who to appoint, including designees to the High Court and most lower ones.<\/p>\n
Programming the Public Mind<\/b><\/p>\n
According to sociologist Hadley Cantril in his 1967 book, The Human Dimension \u2013 Experiences in Policy Research:<\/p>\n
Government \u201cPsycho-political operations are propaganda campaigns designed to create perpetual tension and to manipulate different groups of people to accept the particular climate of opinion the CFR seeks to achieve in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Canadian writer Ken Adachi (1929 \u2013 1989) added:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat most Americans believe to be \u2018Public Opinion\u2019 is in reality carefully crafted and scripted propaganda designed to elicit a desired behavioral response from the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
And noted Australian academic and activist Alex Carey (1922 \u2013 1988) explained the three most important 20th century developments \u2013 \u201cThe growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Web of Control<\/b><\/p>\n
Numerous think tanks, foundations, the major media, and other key organizations are staffed with CFR members. Most of its life-members also belong to the TC and Bilderberg Group, operate secretly, and wield enormous power over US and world affairs.<\/p>\n
The Rockefeller-Founded Trilateral Commission (TC)<\/p>\n
On page 405 of his Memoirs, David Rockfeller wrote:<\/p>\n
\u201cSome even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States characterizing my family and me as \u2018internationalists\u2019 and conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure \u2013 one world, if you will. If that\u2019s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In alliance with Bilderbergers, the TC also \u201cplays a vital role in the New World Order\u2019s scheme to use wealth, concentrated in the hands of the few, to exert world control.\u201d TC members share common views and all relate to total unchallengeable global dominance.<\/p>\n
Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Washington, its powerful US, EU and East Asian members seek its operative founding goal \u2013 a \u201cNew International Economic Order,\u201d now simply a \u201cNew World Order\u201d run by global elites from these three parts of the world with lesser members admitted from other countries.<\/p>\n
According to TC\u2019s web site, \u201ceach regional group has a chairman and deputy chairman, who all together constitute the leadership of the Committee. The Executive Committee draws together a further 36 individuals from the wider membership,\u201d proportionately representing the US, EU, and East Asia in its early years, now enlarged to be broadly global.<\/p>\n
Committee members meet several times annually to discuss and coordinate their work. The Executive Committee chooses members, and at any time around 350 belong for a three-year renewable period. Everyone is a consummate insider with expertise in business, finance, politics, the military, or the media, including past presidents, secretaries of state, international bankers, think tank and foundation executives, university presidents and selected academics, and former senators and congressmen, among others.<\/p>\n
Although its annual reports are available for purchase, its inner workings, current goals, and operations are secret \u2013 with good reason. Its objectives harm the public so mustn\u2019t be revealed. Trilaterals over Washington author Antony Sutton wrote:<\/p>\n
\u201cthis group of private citizens is precisely organized in a manner that ensures its collective views have significant impact on public policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
In her book, Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management, Holly Sklar wrote:<\/p>\n
Powerful figures in America, Europe, and East Asia let \u201cthe rich\u2026.safeguard the interests of Western capitalism in an explosive world \u2013 probably by discouraging protectionism, nationalism, or any response that would pit the elites of one against the elites of another,\u201d in their common quest for global dominance.<\/p>\n
Trilateralist Zbigniew Brzezinski (TC\u2019s co-founder) wrote in his Between Two Ages \u2013 America\u2019s Role in the Technotronic Era:<\/p>\n
\u201cpeople, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations. (The Constitution is) inadequate\u2026.the old framework of international politics, with their sphere of influence\u2026.the fiction of sovereignty\u2026.is clearly no longer compatible with reality\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
TC today is now global with members from countries as diverse as Argentina, Ukraine, Israel, Jordan, Brazil, Turkey, China and Russia. In his Trilaterals Over America, Antony Sutton believes that TC\u2019s aim is to collaborate with Bilderbergers and CFR in \u201cestablishing public policy objectives to be implemented by governments worldwide.\u201d He added that \u201cTrilateralists have rejected the US Constitution and the democratic political process.\u201d In fact, TC was established to counter a \u201ccrisis in democracy\u201d \u2013 too much of it that had to be contained.<\/p>\n
An official TC report was fearful about \u201cthe increased popular participation in and control over established social, political, and economic institutions and especially a reaction against the concentration of power of Congress and of state and local government.\u201d<\/p>\n
To address this, media control was essential to exert \u201crestraint on what newspapers may publish (and TV and radio broadcast).\u201d Then according to Richard Gardner in the July 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs (a CFR publication):<\/p>\n
CFR\u2019s leadership must make \u201can end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece,\u201d until the very notion disappears from public discourse.<\/p>\n
Bilderberg\/CFR\/Trilateralist success depends on finding \u201ca way to get us to surrender our liberties in the name of some common threat or crisis. The foundations, educational institutions, and research think tanks supported by (these organizations) oblige by financing so-called \u2018studies\u2019 which are then used to justify their every excess. The excuses vary, but the target is always individual liberty. Our liberty\u201d and much more.<\/p>\n
Bilderbergers, Trilateralists and CFR members want \u201can all-encompassing monopoly\u201d \u2013 over government, money, industry, and property that\u2019s \u201cself-perpetuating and eternal.\u201d In Confessions of a Monopolist (1906), Frederick C. Howe explained its workings in practice:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe rules of big business: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you. So long as we see all international revolutionaries and all international capitalists as implacable enemies of one another, then we miss a crucial point\u2026.a partnership between international monopoly capitalism and international revolutionary socialism is for their mutual benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the Rockefeller File, Gary Allen wrote:<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the late nineteenth century, the inner sanctums of Wall Street understood that the most efficient way to gain a monopoly was to say it was for the \u2018public good\u2019 and \u2018public interest.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
David Rockefeller learned the same thing from his father, John D., Jr. who learned it from his father, John D. Sr. They hated competition and relentlessly strove to eliminate it \u2013 for David on a global scale through a New World Order.<\/p>\n
In the 1970s and 1980s, Trilateralists and CFR members collaborated on the latter\u2019s \u201c1980 Project,\u201d the largest ever CFR initiative to steer world events \u201ctoward a particular desirable future outcome (involving) the utter disintegration of the economy.\u201d Why so is the question?<\/p>\n
Because by the 1950s and 1960s, worldwide industrial growth meant more competition. It was also a model to be followed, and \u201chad to be strangled in the cradle\u201d or at least greatly contained. In America as well beginning in the 1980s. The result has been a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, shrinkage of the middle class, and plan for its eventual demise.<\/p>\n
The North American Union (NAU)<\/b><\/p>\n
The idea emerged during the Reagan administration in the early 1980s. David Rockefeller, George Schultz and Paul Volker told the president that Canada and America could be politically and economically merged over the next 15 years except for one problem \u2013 French-speaking Quebec. Their solution \u2013 elect a Bilderberg-friendly prime minister, separate Quebec from the other provinces, then make Canada America\u2019s 51st state. It almost worked, but not quite when a 1995 secession referendum was defeated \u2013 50.56% to 49.44%, but not the idea of merger.<\/p>\n
At a March 23, 2005 Waco, Texas meeting, attended by George Bush, Mexico\u2019s Vincente Fox, and Canada\u2019s Paul Martin, the Security and and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) was launched, also known as the North American Union (NAU). It was a secretive Independent Task Force of North America agreement \u2013 a group organized by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, and CFR with the following aims:<\/p>\n
\u2013 circumventing the legislatures of three countries and their constitutions;<\/p>\n
\u2013 suppressing public knowledge or consideration; and<\/p>\n
\u2013 proposing greater US, Canadian and Mexican economic, political, social, and security integration with secretive working groups formed to devise non-debatable, not voted on agreements to be binding and unchangeable.<\/p>\n
In short \u2013 a corporate coup d\u2019etat against the sovereignty of three nations enforced by hard line militarization to suppress opposition.<\/p>\n
If enacted, it will create a borderless North America, corporate controlled, without barriers to trade or capital flows for business giants, mainly US ones and much more \u2013 America\u2019s access to vital resources, especially oil and Canada\u2019s fresh water.<\/p>\n
Secretly, over 300 SPP initiatives were crafted to harmonize the continent\u2019s policies on energy, food, drugs, security, immigration, manufacturing, the environment, and public health along with militarizing three nations for enforcement.<\/p>\n
SPP represents another step toward the Bilderberg\/Trilateralist\/CFR goal for World Government, taking it one step at a time. A \u201cUnited Europe\u201d was another, the result of various treaties and economic agreements:<\/p>\n
\u2013 the December 1951 six-nation European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC);<\/p>\n
\u2013 the March 1957 six-nation Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC);<\/p>\n
also the European Atomic Energy Commission (EAEC) by a second Treaty of Rome;<\/p>\n
\u2013 the October 1957 European Court of Justice to settle regional trade disputes;<\/p>\n
\u2013 the May 1960 seven-nation European Free Trade Association (EFTA);<\/p>\n
\u2013 the July 1967 European Economic Community (EEC) merging the ECSC, EAEC and EEC together in one organization;<\/p>\n
\u2013 the 1968 European Customs Union to abolish duties and establish uniform imports taxing among EEC nations;<\/p>\n
\u2013 the 1978 European Currency Unit (ECU);<\/p>\n
\u2013 the February 1986 Single European Act revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome; it established the objective of forming a Common Market by December 31, 1992;<\/p>\n
\u2013 the February 1992 Maastricht Treaty creating the EU on November 1, 1993; and<\/p>\n
\u2013 the name euro was adopted in December 1995; it was introduced in January 1999 replacing the European Currency Unit (ECU); euros began circulating on January 2002; they\u2019re now the official currency of 16 of the 27 EU states.<\/p>\n
Over half a century, the above steps cost EU members their sovereignty \u201cas some 70 to 80 per cent of the laws passed in Europe involve just rubber stamping of regulations already written by nameless bureaucrats in \u2018working groups\u2019 in Brussels or Luxembourg.\u201d<\/p>\n
The EU and NAU share common features:<\/p>\n
\u2013 advocacy from a influential spokesperson;<\/p>\n
\u2013 an economic and later political union;<\/p>\n
\u2013 hard line security, and for Europe, ending wars on the continent between EU member states;<\/p>\n
\u2013 establishment of a collective consciousness in place of nationalism;<\/p>\n
\u2013 the blurring of borders and creation of a \u201csupra-government,\u201d a superstate;<\/p>\n
\u2013 secretive arrangements to mask real objectives; and<\/p>\n
\u2013 the creation of a common currency and eventual global one.<\/p>\n
Steps Toward a North American Union<\/p>\n
\u2013 the October 4, 1988 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and Canada, finalized the previous year;<\/p>\n
\u2013 at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting, David Rockefeller got governor Bill Clinton\u2019s support for NAFTA if he became president;<\/p>\n
\u2013 on January 1, 1994, with no debate under \u201cfast-track\u201d rules, Congress approved WTO legislation;<\/p>\n
\u2013 in December 1994 at the first Summit of the Americas, 34 Hemispheric leaders committed their nations to a Free Trade of the Americas agreement (FTAA) by 2005 \u2013 so far unachieved;<\/p>\n
\u2013 on July 4, 2000, Mexican president Vincente Fox called for a North American common market in 20 years;<\/p>\n
\u2013 on February 2001, the White House published a joint statement from George Bush and Vincente Fox called the \u201cGuanajuato Proposal;\u201d it was for a US-Canada-Mexico prosperity partnership (aka North American Union);<\/p>\n
\u2013 in September 2001, Bush and Fox agreed to a \u201cPartnership for Prosperity Initiative;\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 the September 11, 2001 attack gave cover to including \u201csecurity\u201d as part of a future partnership;<\/p>\n
\u2013 on October 7, 2001, a CFA meeting highlighted \u201cThe Future of North American Integration in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks; for the first time, \u201csecurity\u201d became part of a future \u201cpartnership for prosperity;\u201d also, Canada was to be included in a \u201cNorth American\u201d agreement;<\/p>\n
\u2013 in 2002, the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) was established in Montreal \u201cto address the issues raised by North American integration as well as identify new ideas and strategies to reinforce the North American region;\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 in January 2003, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE \u2013 composed of 150 top CEOs) launched the \u201cNorth American Security and Prosperity Initiative\u201d calling for continental integration;<\/p>\n
\u2013 in April 2004, Canadian prime minister Paul Martin announced the nation\u2019s first ever national security policy called Securing an Open Society;<\/p>\n
\u2013 on October 15, 2004, CFR established an Independent Task Force on the Future of North America \u2013 for a future continental union;<\/p>\n
\u2013 in March 2005, a CFR report titled Creating a North American Community called for continental integration by 2010 \u201cto enhance, prosperity, and opportunity for all North Americans;\u201d and<\/p>\n
\u2013 on March 23, 2005 in Waco, Texas, America, Canada and Mexico leaders launched the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) \u2013 aka North American Union (NAU).<\/p>\n
Secretive negotiations continue. Legislative debate is excluded, and public inclusion and debate are off the table. In May 2005, the CFR Independent Task Force on the Future of North America published a follow-up report titled Building a North American Community \u2013 proposing a borderless three-nation union by 2010.<\/p>\n
In June and July 2005, the Dominican Republic \u2013 Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) passed the Senate and House establishing corporate-approved trade rules to further impoverish the region and move a step closer to continental integration.<\/p>\n
In March 2006, the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) was created at the second SPP summit in Cancun, Mexico. Composed of 30 top North American CEOs, it serves as an official trilateral SPP working group.<\/p>\n
Secret business and government meetings continue so there\u2019s no way to confirm SPP\u2019s current status or if Barack Obama is seamlessly continuing George Bush\u2019s agenda. In an earlier article, this writer said:<\/p>\n
SPP efforts paused during the Bush to Obama transition, but \u201cdeep integration\u201d plans remain. Canada\u2019s Fraser Institute proposed renaming the initiative the North American Standards and Regulatory Area (NASRA) to disguise its real purpose. It said the \u201cSPP brand\u201d is tarnished so re-branding is essential \u2013 to fool the public until it\u2019s too late to matter.<\/p>\n
Bilderbergers, Trilaterists, and CFR leaders back it as another step toward global integration and won\u2019t \u201cstop until the entire world is unified under the auspices and the political umbrella of a One World Company, a nightmarish borderless world run by the world\u2019s most powerful clique\u201d \u2013 comprised of key elitist members of these dominant organizations.<\/p>\n
In April 2007, the Transatlantic Economic Council was established between America and the EU to:<\/p>\n
\u2013 create an \u201cofficial international governmental body \u2013 by executive fiat;<\/p>\n
\u2013 harmonize economic and regulatory objectives;<\/p>\n
\u2013 move toward a Transatlantic Common Market; and<\/p>\n
\u2013 a step closer to One World Government run by the world\u2019s most powerful corporate interests.<\/p>\n
Insights into the 2009 Bilderberg Group Meeting<\/p>\n
From May 14 \u2013 17, Bilderbergers held their annual meeting in Vouliagmeni, Greece, and according to Daniel Estulin have dire plans for global economies.<\/p>\n
According to his pre-meeting sources, they\u2019re divided on two alternatives:<\/p>\n
\u201cEither a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty (or) an intense but shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other agenda items included:<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u201cthe future of the US dollar and US economy;\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 continued deception about green shoots signaling an end to recession and improving economy later in the year;<\/p>\n
\u2013 suppressing the fact that bank stress tests were a sham and were designed for deception, not an accurate assessment of major banks\u2019 health;<\/p>\n
\u2013 projecting headlined US unemployment to hit 14% by year end \u2013 way above current forecasts and meaning the true number will be double, at minimum, with all uncounted categories included; and<\/p>\n
\u2013 a final push to get the Lisbon Treaty passed for pan-European (EU) adoption of neoliberal rules, including greater privatizations, fewer worker rights and social benefits, open border trade favoring developed over emerging states, and greater militarization to suppress civil liberties and human rights.<\/p>\n
After the meeting, Estulin got a 73-page report on what was discussed. He noted that \u201cOne of Bilderberg\u2019s primary concerns\u2026.is the danger that their zeal to reshape the world by engineering chaos (toward) their long term agenda could cause the situation to spiral out of control and eventually lead to a scenario where Bilderberg and the global elite in general are overwhelmed by events and end up losing their control over the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Estulin also noted some considerable disagreement between \u201chardliners\u201d wanting a \u201cdramatic decline and a severe, short-term depression (versus others) who think that things have gone too far\u201d so that \u201cthe fallout from the global economic cataclysm\u201d can\u2019t be known, may be greater than anticipated, and may harm Bilderberger interests. Also, \u201csome European bankers (expressed great alarm over their own fate and called the current) high wire act \u2018unsustainable.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
There was a combination of agreement and fear that the situation remains dire and the worst of the crisis lies ahead, mainly because of America\u2019s extreme debt level that must be resolved to produce a healthy, sustainable recovery.<\/p>\n
Topics also included:<\/p>\n
\u2013 establishing a Global Treasury Department and Global Central Bank, possibly partnered with or as part of the IMF;<\/p>\n
\u2013 a global currency;<\/p>\n
\u2013 destruction of the dollar through what longtime market analyst Bob Chapman calls \u201ca stealth default on (US) debt by continuing to issue massive amounts of money and credit and in the process devaluing the dollar,\u201d a process he calls \u201cfraud;\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 a global legal system;<\/p>\n
\u2013 exploiting the Swine Flu scare to create a WHO global department of health; and<\/p>\n
\u2013 the overall goal of a global government and the end of national sovereignty.<\/p>\n
In the past, Estulin\u2019s sources proved accurate. Earlier, he predicted the housing crash and 2007 \u2013 2008 financial market decline, preceded by the kind of financial crisis triggered by the Lehman Brothers collapse. Watch for further updates from him as new information leaks out on what the world\u2019s power elites have planned going forward.<\/p>\n
Estulin will be the featured guest on The Global Research News Hour Tuesday, June 2. He can be heard live or afterwards through the program archive. <\/i><\/p>\n
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Stephen Lendman<\/i> is a Research Associate of the Centre of Research for Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. <\/i><\/p>\n