Professor Carroll Quigley, once a professor at Georgetown University, has been quoted as saying, "The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England...(and)...believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established." He was also quoted as having written, "The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreement arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences."
So? What else is new? The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are all appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate...and are all members of the C.F.R. So is Alan Greenspan, the Chairman. So was Paul Volker, Chairman before Greenspan. And so on as far back as we can trace it.
Do you understand that the Federal Reserve System has control of our money system? Do you understand that, despite the ‘Federal', it is not a part of our government? In Article I, Section 8, paragraph 5, we find Congress shall have power; (5) To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures. Congress surrendered its responsibility of regulating our money supply when the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913. But wait! The Constitution said the Congress is supposed to have control of our money supply! The only way the Constitution may be changed is through the amendment process. And there was no such amendment...then the Federal Reserve has been operating unconstitutionally for more than 80 years! The Fed sells our Treasury bonds, notes, and bills. Our money system has no value outside the "full faith and credit of the United States."
Since 1981, our Treasury securities have been sold to foreign countries. And now, those foreign countries own 60% of our debt! Despite what you might have heard, other countries are losing confidence in our dollar. After World War II ended the dollar was worth about 385 yen on the currency exchange. Last year it was down to 87 yen. Now it is around 100 yen. Last year some of those foreign countries dumped about $100-billion worth of our Treasury securities on the world market. Does that really sound like they have a lot of confidence in our dollar?
Isn't it interesting that Robert Strange McNamara was the architect of the no-win, no plan, ‘limited' war in Vietnam which had no purpose, no plan for victory...only it cost the lives of more than 58,000 of our men and women, and caused another 100,000 plus to be wounded, and no telling how many psychologically scarred beyond repair. McNamara is a member of the C.F.R.
The real beginning of the concept of "limited war" was in Korea. It seems that in the spring of 1950, Dean Acheson, who was Secretary of State under Truman...and a member of the C.F.R....made a speech in which he said that South Korea was no longer within our perimeter of defense. Only a few weeks later, North Korea invaded South Korea. And Truman put our troops into Korea within 24 hours without so much as a by-your-leave to Congress. In that first exercise in "limited war", we had 54,000 men and women killed, and another 100,000 plus wounded.
It wasn't a ‘war', but they were shooting at each other, so they had to call it something. How about "police action"? Yeah, man! That had a nice ring to it. Call it a U.N. police action. Get some troops from other members of the U.N. to make it look good. That was one we weren't supposed to win, either. But MacArthur didn't know what losing was about. So they took him out of the game. That "police action" started at the 38th Parallel, er...no...it really started at the Yalta Conference in 1945. Roosevelt listened to some of his top advisers and they told him to let Stalin have claim to half of Korea! The deal was that 90 days after the end of hostilities in Europe, the Soviets would declare war on Japan. Can you believe it? Ninety days after the end of the war in Europe, they did declare war on Japan...a day or so after Hiroshima was erased with the first A-bomb! But who do you suppose those advisers were? Members of the C.F.R. (Averill Harriman and Alger Hiss ).
That is how Korea was partitioned to give one half to the communists and leave the other half free. The Soviets saved their best troops for Japan...or so they said. And as badly whipped as the Japanese were, they still were able to kick the slats out of the Russians! Oh yes, the Soviets did eventually overcome them, but only because the Japanese at that point had little left with which they could fight. And the communists got North Korea for free - at Yalta!
Actually, it was the same sort of arrangement that set up Vietnam. As soon as World War II ended, the communists started their plan of world conquest by stirring up "people's revolutions" in all the colonies of the European colonial powers. Even after the War, France, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, England, and Spain still had colonies all over the world. The communists had agents everywhere starting those revolutions, which the American media called "brushfire wars". We weren't getting involved in all those fights because that was the business of the Europeans.
Not long after the end of the War, we confirmed what had been suspected; the Soviets had been spying on us, and trying to get military secrets, all during the war. (And they were getting them, too.) What made matters worse was we discovered the French and British had been spying on us too! We had a "dirty tricks" organization during the War - the Office of Strategic Services, O.S.S. for short. We had never felt the need for an intelligence organization in peacetime...until we found out our allies had been spying on us. The C.I.A. came into existence about that time...or at least that is what we were told...and the first Director of the C.I.A. was a member of the C.F.R. (And nearly all of them since, too.)
Among other things, the C.I.A. was to be our primary international intelligence agency. One of their roles was to be counterinsurgency. They were supposed to defuse those revolutions the communists were starting everywhere. The Agency was to have an almost unlimited budget, and it was not accountable to anyone!
Okay, now let's pursue one of the more important ‘revolutions' - the one in which the French colonies in Southeast Asia were trying to gain their freedom. That was called French Indo-China, but the countries were Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. That went on for nearly 10 years, and France finally threw in the sponge in 1954. Another treaty partitioned a country - Vietnam - and the northern part was communist, and the southern part was "democratic". (Actually, all three of those countries were turned back to the rightful rulers - mostly princes who were more friendly with the communists than our side. But South Vietnam favored our side.) They were to have free elections in all of Vietnam after 10 years and they could decide for themselves. Quite expectedly, the communists started sending their guerrillas in from all directions. Those guerrillas were called the Viet Cong. Eisenhower was president, and he said it would be foolhardy for anyone to get involved in a ground war on the mainland of Asia, so we didn't send troops until the end of the fifties. Eisenhower finally sent from 3,000 to 5,000 troops there to act as "military advisers", and teach the South Vietnamese how to fight for themselves. Many of them were Buddhists, and didn't believe in killing. They simply would fire their weapons over the heads of the V.C. Our people were not even supposed to have loaded weapons, even though they were fired upon often.
It turns out, Eisenhower and Nixon were both members of the C.F.R. In the 1960 election, Kennedy was also a member of the C.F.R. There was some question about the legality of the vote in Illinois, the pivotal state which elected Kennedy, but Nixon made no protest. He had a reason, but it never really rang true. Immediately, Kennedy increased our forces in Vietnam to around 15,000 troops, and they could "lock and load", shoot back if fired upon. That's when McNamara became Secretary of Defense. Dean Rusk was Secretary of State...both C.F.R. members. Meanwhile the prince who was leader of South Vietnam was assassinated. The rumor went around that Kennedy had him taken out because he was not cooperative, but I still refuse to believe an American president would cause such a thing to happen. But then I believed the lie of Tonkin Gulf.
After Kennedy himself was assassinated, Johnson became president. He was not a member of the C.F.R., but he had an advisory group made up of a dozen or more members of the C.F.R. And McNamara was still around. The lie of an attack by Vietnamese gunboats attacking an American destroyer was used to get us fully involved in Vietnam, and we had more than 150,000 troops there. Still, there was no strategic plan for victory, and our troops were required to respond to attacks, rather than take action to eliminate the threat. Our aircraft were deliberately prevented from making strikes on key places, and they actually had to get permission to fire on enemy planes!
Quite without warning, Johnson announced he would not seek, nor would he accept the nomination to run for president in his second term. In 1968, Nixon won the presidency, and though he made some tough sounds, Vietnam went on "business as usual".He eventually withdrew our forces, and our S.E.A.T.O. allies lost a lot of confidence in the reliability of the United States. That treaty dissolved itself. (Who was it said treaties were for an eternity, and could not be changed?)
Evidently something happened in those secret one-world conferences because late in 1971, Nixon broke off with the Bilderbergers, and evidently the C.F.R. as well. As an odd coincidence, the Watergate burglary happened in 1972, and the stage was set to drive Nixon from office. Hmm.
Nixon caught a lot of flak from both sides. His vice president was Nelson Rockefeller, a long time member of the C.F.R. (Incidentally, Nelson Rockefeller was named after Senator Nelson Aldridge, one of the seven men who planned the Federal Reserve System at a secret meeting at Aldridge's lodge on Jekyll Island, Georgia. See Griffin's book, The Creature From Jekyll Island, about the planning and installation of the Federal Reserve System.), stood to become president if Nixon was removed, but he died. Gerald Ford was appointed to take his place, and he became president when Nixon resigned in 1974.
All this time, Secretaries of State, Secretaries of Defense, Secretaries of the Treasury, and any number of lesser members of presidential cabinets were members of the C.F.R. more often than not. In 1973, David Rockefeller, also a member of the C.F.R., formed another group called the Trilateral Commission. That group was also associated with the C.F.R. and the Round Table in England, and the Bilderbergers in Belgium. All of those groups have the same goals; one-world government, the New World Order - world socialism.
Most of our media sources are controlled by members from those groups, and the cries of media bias are well founded! The slant of the news is always in favor of their desired goals. Jimmy Carter was ballyhooed by the media as a very progressive governor, and his credentials lauded to put him into the limelight. He was the candidate who ran against Gerald Ford, also a member of C.F.R., and won pretty much by default. The media had so overblown Watergate, not even loyal Republicans wanted to vote for their party candidates, lest Nixon had rubbed off on any of them.
Carter, and virtually his whole cabinet, were members of the C.F.R. Something must have gone wrong with their plans because by the end of his term, Carter had 21% interest rates, 14% inflation, and 9.9% unemployment, the worst since the Depression years. The debt had risen 46% during his time, and was on its way up like a rocket.
Though Reagan himself was probably not C.F.R., most of the people in his administration were. Bush was a member, and Bush had another crop of C.F.R. people come in when he was elected. Bush's administration wasn't anything to write home about, but he did get a chance to lead a successful war effort. (Just so you will know, the only major war in this century in which there was a Republican in the White House was Desert Storm. Wilson, a Democrat, presided over our part of W.W.I. He had been reelected with the slogan, "He kept us out of war!"; Roosevelt, a Democrat, was the one who presided over most of W.W.II. He too had promised American mothers their sons would not have to fight in a war; Truman was in on the end of W.W.II, and he was the president who managed our "police action" in Korea; Kennedy increased our force in Vietnam, and Johnson got us fully involved in it; Grenada and Panama could not be considered major wars, but Desert Storm had the largest number of ground forces involved since World War II. Bush, you may recall, made fervent references to there being a New World Order. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are both members of the C.F.R. (That is the best reason I can think of not to have Colin Powell as a vice presidential candidate.)
Again, the media managed to turn Bush's success into failure by proclaiming the recession in the late years of the Bush administration a major recession. Interest rates were down to about 7.5%, inflation was only 4%, and unemployment was only about 7.7%. The recession actually ended in March of ‘92, but the media neglected to inform the public of that fact until we were well into the Clinton administration. That couldn't be an indication of bias...Clinton was C.F.R. too. Why do you suppose Bush didn't make more of an effort to win? Why do you suppose the media failed to inform the public of the negative aspects of the Clintons before the election? They knew about them. Why do you suppose we weren't informed? We may never know.
Clinton has a dozen or more in his administration who are members of the C.F.R. Many of them are also Marxists. There are about 30 members of the media who are members of the C.F.R., feeding us the propaganda for the New World Order nearly every day. Seventeen members of the Senate (104th Congress) are C.F.R. members. (No wonder nothing of any consequence is making it through the Senate!) And there are probably 15 members of the House who are members, including Gingrich and Gebhardt!
Now recall the quotes from Professor Quigley. Can you really have any doubt that those C.F.R. members have a very strong influence on our governmental policies? Can you have any doubt that their ultimate goal is to eradicate the nation-state, and put us into a one-world government, a New World Order - world socialism with those "chosen few" directing all our lives?
James Madison once said, "The accumulation of all power - legislative, executive, and judicial - in the same hands ...may justify being pronounced the very definition of tyranny. " If the good ole boys all belong to the same "club", what do you think?