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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.

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.” 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. 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. No charge for S&H in U.S. The Trilateral Commission: North American Group 2008 TRILATERAL COMMISSION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Thomas S. Foley North American Chairman Peter Sutherland European Chairman Yotaro Kobayashi Pacific Asia Chairman Allan E. Gotlieb North American Deputy Chairman Herve De Carmoy European Deputy Chairman Han Sung-Joo Pacific Asia Deputy Chairman Lorenzo H. Zamibrano North American Deputy Chairman Ainijrzej Olechowski European Deputy Chairman Shijuro Ogata Pacific Asia Deputy Chairman David Rockefeller Founder And Honorary Chairman Paul A. Volcker North American Honorary Chairman Georges Berthoin Chairman European Honorary Otto Graf Lambsdorf European Honorary Chairman Michael J. O’Neil North American Director Paul Revay European Director Tadashi Yamamoto Pacific Asia Director NORTH AMERICAN GROUP Madeleine K Albright The Albright Group LLC Washington, D.C. Graham Allison Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Cambridge, Mass. Richard L. Armitage Armitage International Washington, D.C. James L. Balsillie Co-Chief Exec. Officer, Research in Motion Waterloo, Ontario Charlene Barshefsky Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Washington, D.C. Alan R. Batkin Eton Park Capital Management New York, N.Y. Lael Brainard The Brookings Institution Washington, D.C. Doug Bereuter The Asia Foundation San Francisco. C. Fred Bergsten Peterson Institute for Int’l Economics Washington, D.C. Catherine Bertini Syracuse University Syracuse, N.Y. Robert D. Blackwill Former Deputy Asst, to the President Washington D.C. Dennis Blair, USN (Ret.) Institute for Defense Analyses Alexandria, Va. H. Blanco Mendoza Private Office of Herminio Blanco Mexico City Stephen W. Bosworth Dean, Tufts University Medford, Mass. David G. Bradley Atlantic Media Company Washington, D.C. Harold Brown Center for Strategic and Int’l Studies Washington, D.C. Zbigniew Brzezinski Center for Strategic and Int’l Studies Washington, D.C. Sylvia Mathews Burwell President Global Development Program Hinton, WV Louis C. Camilleri Altria Group, Inc New York, N.Y. Kurt Campbell CEO Center New American Security Washington, D.C. Raymond Chrétien Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Montreal, Quebec William T. Coleman III Cassatt Corporation San Jose, Calif. Timothy C. Collins Ripplewood Holdings New York, N.Y. Richard N. Cooper Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. F. Gerald Corrigan Goldman, Sachs & Co. New York, N.Y. Michael J. Critelli Pitney Bowes Inc. Stamford, Conn. Lee Cullum “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” Dallas, Texas H. Lawrence Culp, Jr CEO of Danaher Washington, D.C. Gerald L. Curtis Columbia University New York, N.Y. Douglas Daft The Coca Cola Company Atlanta, Ga. Lynn Davis The RAND Corporation Arlington, Va. Arthur A. DeFehr Palliser Furniture Winnipeg André Desmarais Power Corporation of Canada Montréal, Quebec John M. Deutch Mass. Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass. Jamie Dimon JP Morgan Chase & Co. New York, N.Y. Peter C. Dobell Parliamentary Centre Ottawa, Ontario Wendy K Dobson University of Toronto Toronto Kenneth M. Duberstein The Duberstein Group Washington, D.C. Robert Eckert Mattel, Inc. El Segundo, Calif. Jessica P. Einhorn The Johns Hopkins University Washington, D.C. Jeffrey Epstein J. Epstein & Company, Inc. New York, N.Y. Dianne Feinstein U.S. Senate (D-Calif.) Washington, D.C. Martin S. Feldstein Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. Swiss Re America Holding Corp. Washington, D.C. Stanley Fischer Bank of Israel; frmr president, Citigroup New York, N.Y. Richard W. Fisher Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Dallas, Texas Thomas S. Foley Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Washington, D.C. Kristin J. Forbes Associate Prof. of Int’l Management Cambridge Mass. Michael B.G. Froman Citigroup Inc. New York, N.Y. Francis Fukuyama The Johns Hopkins University Washington, D.C. Dionisio Garza Medina ALFA Mexico Richard A. Gephardt Former member House of Reps. (D-Mo.) Washington, D.C. David Gergen Harvard; Editor, USN&WR Cambridge, Mass. Peter C. Godsoe Scotiabank (ret.) Toronto, Ontario Allan E. Gotlieb Bennett Jones LLP Toronto, Ontario Bill Graham Canadian House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario Donald E. Graham CEO of The Washington Post Company Washington, D.C. Jeffrey W. Greenberg Aquiline Capital Partners, LLC New York, N.Y. Richard N. Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations New York, N.Y. James T. Hackett Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Texas John J. Hamre Center for Strategic and Int’l Studies Washington, D.C. William A. Haseltine Haseltine Global Health, LLC Washington, D.C. Richard F. Haskayne University of Calgary Alberta Charles B. Heck Senior Adviser, Trilateral Commission Washington, D.C. Carlos Heredia International Affairs Mexico Carla A. Hills Hills & Company, Int’l Consultants Washington, D.C. Richard Holbrooke Perseus LLC New York, N.Y. Karen Elliott House Dow Jones & Co. & Wall Street Journal Princeton, N.J. Alej. Junco de la Vega Grupo Reforma Monterrey, Mexico Robert Kagan Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace Washington, D.C. Arnold Kanter The Scowcroft Group Washington, D.C. Charles R. Kaye Warburg Pincus LLC New York, N.Y. James Kimsey Founding CEO of AOL Washington, D.C. Michael Klein Citigroup Inc. New York, N.Y. Steven E. Koonin British Petroleum London Enrique Krauze Editorial Clio Libros y Videos, S.A. de C.V. Mexico City Robert Lane Deere & Company Moline, Ill. Fred Langhammer The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. New York, N.Y. Jim Leach Former U.S. Representative (R-IA) Washington, D.C. Gerald M. Levin AOL Time Warner, Inc. New York, N.Y. Winston Lord International Rescue Committee New York, N.Y. E. Peter Lougheed Bennett Jones, Banisters & Solicitors Calgary, Alberta Roy MacLaren Former High Commissioner to the UK Toronto, Ontario John A. MacNaughton Frmr CEO Canada Pension Plan Invest. Brd Toronto, Ontario Antonio Madero San Luis Corporacion, S.A. de C.V. Mexico John Manley McCarthy Tétrault LLP Ottawa, Ontario Sir Deryck C. Maughan KKR Asia, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. New York, N.Y. Jay Mazur Union of Needletrades, Textile Employees New York, N.Y. James Moore Canadian Parliament Ottawa, Ontario Marc H. Morial National Urban League New York, N.Y. Heather Munroe-Blum McGill University Montreal, Quebed Brian Mulroney Ogilvy Renault Montréal, Quebec Indra K. Nooyi PepsiCo, Inc. Purchase, N.Y. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Cambridge, Mass. David J. O’Reilly Chevron Corporation San Ramon, Calif. Meghan O’Sullivan Former Deputy National Security Adviser Washington, D.C. Richard N. Perle American Enterprise Institute Washington, D.C. Thomas R. Pickering Consultant, The Boeing Company Arlington, Va. Martha C. Piper The University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C. Richard Plepler Executive Vice President, HBO New York, N.Y. Joe Ralston, USAF (Ret) The Cohen Group Washington, D.C. Charles B. Rangel U.S. House of Representatives (D-N.Y.) Washington, D.C. Susan Rice Brookings Institution Washington, D.C. Hartley Richardson James Richardson & Sons, Ltd. Winnipeg, Manitoba Joseph E. Robert, Jr. J.E. Robert Companies McLean, Va. John D. Rockefeller IV U.S. Senate (D-W.V.) Washington, D.C. Kenneth Rogoff Center for Int’l Development, Harvard Cambridge, Mass. Charles Rose The Charlie Rose Show, PBS New York, N.Y. Irene B. Rosenfeld CEO Kraft Foods Northfield, Ill Dennis Ross Ambassador Counselor and Ziegler Washington, D.C. David M. Rubenstein The Carlyle Group Washington, D.C. Luis Rubio Center of Research for Development Mexico City, Mexico Arthur F. Ryan Prudential Financial, Inc. Newark, N.J. Jaime Serra SAI Consulting Mexico City, Mexico Dinakar Singh TPG-Axon Capital New York, N.Y. Anne-Marie Slaughter Princeton University Princeton, N.J. Gordon Smith Centre for Global Studies, U. of Victoria Victoria, B.C. Donald R. Sobey Empire Company Ltd. Halifax, Nova Scotia Ronald D. Southern ATCO Group Calgary, Alberta James B. Steinberg LBJ School of Public Affairs, U. of Texas Austin, Texas Jessica Stern Program on Terrorism & the Law, Harvard Cambridge, Mass. Barbara Stymiest RBC Financial Group Toronto, Ontario Lawrence H. Summers Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. John J. Sweeney AFL-CIO Washington, D.C. Strobe Talbott The Brookings Institution Washington, D.C. George J. Tenet Georgetown Univ., former CIA Director Washington, D.C. John Thain New York Stock Exchange, Inc. New York, N.Y. G. Richard Thoman Columbia University New York, N.Y. Paul A. Volcker Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., frmr Fed. Res. Chair.New York, N.Y. William H. Webster Former CIA Director Washington, D.C. Fareed Zakaria Newsweek International New York, N.Y. Lorenzo H. Zambrano CEMEX Monterey, Mexico Ernesto Zedillo Former president of Mexico; Yale Univ. New Haven, Conn. Mortimer B. Zuckerman Chairman, U.S. News & World Report New York, N.Y. William T. Coleman, Jr. Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission Washington, D.C. Henry A. Kissinger Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission Washington, D.C. Robert S. McNamara Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission, frmr pres., World Bank; frmr sec.of Defense; frmr pres., Ford Motor. Washington, D.C. David Rockefeller Founder, Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Comm. New York, N.Y. NEW TRILATERAL MEMBERS ATTENDING FROM EUROPE Patricia Barbizet CEO Artemis Group, France Dermot Gleeson Chairman, AIB Group, Ireland Elisabeth Guigou French National Assembly, France Nigel Higgins Senior Partner N M Rohschild & Sons, UK Jerzy Kozminski President & CEO Polish-American Freedom, Poland Thomas Leysen CEO Umicore, Belgium Manfred Bischoff Chairman, SNCF, France Arpad Kovacs Pres. State Audit Office Hungary, Budapest Friedrich Merz Member of the German Bundestag, Germany Pietro Modiano Mng. Director CEO Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy Hans Reisenhuber (returning) Member of the German Bundestag, Germany Jeroen van der Veer Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell, The Netherlands

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