The Power Behind The Politics
Bruce Collins
Bruce Collins is the book reviewer on Monster Radio, which is a nationally syndicated program in over 50 radio markets. He also hosts an internet radio show called the Big Finale on Friday nights at 12pm EST/ 9pm PST at fantalklive.com. Archived shows are available at www.brucedcollins.com. Bruce was also a pro wrestling promoter in Northern California and has published two books on professional wrestling, including "So, You Want To Be A Wrestling Promoter?".
Bruce Collins
August 25, 2003
"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values."
– Zbigniew Brzeninski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter and President Bush as co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force; executive director of the Trilateral Commission
"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
- Quote from David Rockefeller's Memoirs (2002)
On the evening of November 22, 1910, the nation’s top financiers left the train station in Hoboken, New Jersey on a covert journey.
Unbeknownst to the citizens of the United States and most certainly without their consent, the fate of the nation was sealed with that journey.
With blinds drawn on their railway cars, the expedition chugged along to Jekyll Island.
Representing one sixth of the total wealth in the world, these men, led by Senator Nelson Aldrich, the head of the National Monetary Commission, were to hammer out the details of a Central Bank. Membership to their club was only granted by inheritance.
What was their reason for a central bank and why the secrecy surrounding their plans?
The control of the money supply of the United States was at stake. A Central Bank would give these powers what they had always wanted -- an elite status as one-world money creators.
It took them nine days to complete their work.
They decided to call it a Federal Reserve System so as to throw suspicion off that it was, in fact, a central bank. However, it was a central bank, owned by private individuals who profited from share ownership. It would control the nation’s money and credit.
The Constitution gives Congress the power to coin and regulate money. So, this plan effectively destroyed the system of checks and balances that Thomas Jefferson set up in the Constitution.
The Federal Reserve promised then what it promises today, that it can keep interest rates from fluctuating wildly and that it can keep prices stable. Yet, aren’t they the cause of inflation?
How successful is our central bank?
At the time of the Federal Reserve Act, public debt was almost non-existent. Today, it is in the trillions.
Since 1913, the US dollar has lost 95% of it’s worth.
On a related note, The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was established in 1933, and the public supported it due to the status of that era’s worldwide socialist movement, as a way to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor. It probably sounded pretty good during the Great Depression.
Yet, for some reason, we still have the great divide between rich and poor.
The debasement of our currency is not only a secret tax on the consumers but it also is a disincentive for the public to put their money in savings. As the prices of goods go up, controlled not by supply and demand but by the Fed’s debasement, consumers are manipulated into buying that good today in the belief that tomorrow that product will be higher in price. This is inflation turning into hyper-inflation.
Hyper-inflation can cause this buying to become a frenzy. A certain asset is believed to be of more value than the currency and everyone pours their money into it. This herd mentality is the reason for asset bubbles.
Inflation, or, specifically, the Federal Reserve, causes the currency exodus. Speculation causes the bubble.
There are several groups that operate today in agenda-based collaboration. They are the wealthy, the elite, the powerful and they appear to want more.
One of the standout organizations is the Trilateral Commission (TC). Patrick Wood has a great website at
WWW.AugustReview.com which documents the actions of the TC.
According to the website, the Trilateral Commission was formed with heavy influence from Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1973. Brzezinski had written a book in 1970 called “Between Two Ages.”
In the book, Brzezinksi stated that the United States was obsolete, that Marxism was ideal and advocated the formation of a one world government.
On page 83, the author wrote, "Marxism disseminated on the popular level in the form of Communism, represented a major advance in man's ability to conceptualize his relationship to his world." Also, on page 123, he went on to state,” Marxism supplied the best available insight into contemporary reality."
David Rockefeller embraced the book, and in 1973, he launched the Trilateral Commission. He also appointed Brzezinski to the title of Director of the Trilateral Commission.
Obviously, for a plan to work, you must have influence on the political process in society. Jimmy Carter also became a founding member of the Trilateral Commission. Looking on this with 30 years perspective, it is not surprising that Carter became President a few years later.
On March 21, 1978, the New York Times wrote about Brzezinski and Carter’s deep relationship.
"The two men met for the first time four years ago when Mr. Brzezinski was executive director of The Trilateral Commission… and had the foresight to ask the then obscure former Governor of Georgia to join its distinguished ranks. Their initial teacher-student relationship blossomed during the campaign, and appears to have grown closer still."
Carter ran as an outsider, a peanut farmer from Georgia. He insinuated that he would clean up the ‘insider’ game in Washington if he won. However, when he won, he filled the roles of his administration with members of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. His Vice President, Walter Mondale, was also a member of the Trilateral Commission.
Former Presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater, was once asked about the Trilateral Commission. He said,” The Trilateral Commission is international, and it is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power – political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical."
Author Jack Newell researched the Trilateral Commission in a book titled Why A Bankrupt America?
Newell wrote "The real goal of our own Government’s leaders is to make the United States into a carbon copy of a Communist state, and then to merge all nations into a one-world system run by a powerful few."
Since Carter, all Presidents have had connections to the Trilateral Commission. Reagan had Vice President Bush (also head of the CIA). Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush are both members of the Trilateral Commission today. President George W. Bush is not- but Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, are.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was first signed in 1947. It’s successor or even overseer is the World Trade Organization or WTO. The WTO sets limits on how governments may regulate national economies on behalf of their citizens and in doing so affects almost every aspect of people's lives.
Restated another way, the WTO supersedes the laws and the economies of every government.
GATT 1993 was a successor to GATT1947. From this, it was discovered that only one member of the Congress, Hank Brown, actually read the proposal. Once he read the 28,000 plus page document, he said there was no way he’d vote for it. Yet, the rest of the Congress, who hadn’t read it, ratified the treaty!
James Goldsmith, a financier from France, speaking before the Ernest Hollings committee stated that GATT1993 would destroy the American manufacturing base. The following are some quotes from the Washington Times of Goldsmith’s responses, dated December 6, 1993: 'Global free trade will force the poor of the rich countries to subsidize the rich in poor countries. What GATT means is that our national wealth, accumulated over centuries, will be transferred from a developed country like Britain to developing countries like Communist China, now building its first oceangoing navy in 500 years. China, with its 1.2 billion people, three Indochinese states with 900 million, the former Soviet republics with some 300 million, and many more can supply skilled labor for a fraction of Western costs. Five dollars in Communist China is the equivalent of a $100 wage in Europe. '
'It is quite amazing that GATT is sowing the seeds for global social upheaval and that it is not even the subject of debate in America ... If the masses understood the truth about GATT, there would be blood in the streets of many capitals. A healthy national economy has to produce a large part of its own needs. It cannot simply import what it needs and use its labor force to provide services for other countries. We have to rethink from top to bottom why we have elevated global free trade to the status of sacred cow, or moral dogma. It is a fatally flawed concept that will impoverish and destabilize the industrialized world while cruelly ravaging the Third World.'
Now, over thirteen years later, Goldsmith’s prophetic words ring true. Communist China’s wealthy are wealthier (the average wage earner with only modest increases) and the manufacturing base of the United States is disappearing!
The Council on Foreign Relations is another group, walking hand in hand with the Trilateral Commission, that is comprised of elite men and women bent on power and greed.
The CFR was founded in 1921 by Edward Mandell House. House was a chief advisor of President Woodrow Wilson. House had great power in the Wilson administration and was called the President’s ‘alter ego’.
This is the same Woodrow Wilson who signed the Federal Reserve into existence. This is the Woodrow Wilson who tried to establish the League of Nations, the precursor to the global entity known as the United Nations. The Woodrow Wilson who once admitted, "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
Wilson also passed the 16th Amendment of the Constitution, which introduced the graduated income tax once proposed by Karl Marx.
Getting back to Mr. House, he was a Marxist whose goal was to socialize the United States. He wrote the book “Philip Dru: Administrator” in 1912. His work stated that he was working for “socialism as dreamed by Karl Marx”. He also discussed a plan for the capture of America, mapping out how the Democratic and Republican parties would be controlled to create a socialist government.
In 1921, House and his acquaintances formed the Council on Foreign Relations to destroy the freedom of the United States and to lead it into a one world government. He received generous funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. They have had a stronghold in government ever since.
The late Carroll Quigley (who was a mentor of Bill Clinton), a member of the CFR, wrote in his book “Tragedy & Hope”: "The CFR is the American Branch of a society which originated in England, and which believes that national boundaries should be obliterated, and a one-world rule established."
Rear Admiral Chester Ward, a former member of the CFR for 16 years, sounded a warning of the group’s intent to the American people: "The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have one objective in common — they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty of the national independence of the United States. A second clique of international members in the CFR comprises the Wall Street international bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government."
Dan Smoot, a former member of the FBI Headquarters staff in Washington, D.C., once said, "The ultimate aim of the CFR is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it."
President Nixon was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In his book,” With No Apologies”, Barry Goldwater wrote, "Does it not seem strange to you that these men just happened to be CFR and just happened to be on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, that absolutely controls the money and interest rates of this great country without benefit of Congress? A privately owned organization, the Federal Reserve, which has absolutely nothing to do with the United States of America!"
Congressman John Rarick, a recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart in World War II and a Democrat from Louisiana who once argued with his party over its increasing liberalism, said, "The CFR, dedicated to one-world government, financed by a number of the largest tax-exempt foundations, and wielding such power and influence over our lives in the areas of finance, business, labor, military, education, and mass communication-media, should be familiar to every American concerned with good government, and with preserving and defending the U.S. Constitution and our free-enterprise system. Yet, the nation’s right-to-know machinery, the news media, usually so aggressive in exposures to inform our people, remain conspicuously silent when it comes to the CFR, its members and their activities. "
"The CFR is the establishment. Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also finances and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitution Republic into a servile member of a one-world dictatorship."
Many members of the media have been invited into the Council on Foreign Relations. On the Council on Foreign Relations website, you can see that Tom Brokaw is on the board of directors!
Today the CFR’s headquarters is located in New York City at Park Avenue and 68th Street.
The building was given to them by the Rockefeller family.
David Rockefeller continues to be the CFRs honorary chairman and honorary chairman of the Trilateral Commission.
In 2004, there was a very close, heart pounding campaign run between two very different candidates for the highest position in the land.
John Kerry and George W. Bush ran neck and neck to the finish line. They each carried the platform of their respective parties. Yet, they both shared secretive similarities.
Both John Kerry and George W. Bush came from Yale University and both had membership in the secret society on campus, known as Skull & Bones.
John Edwards, Kerry’s Vice Presidential running mate, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft put together the ultra-secretive society in 1932. It would be made up of the children of white Wall Street banking establishment elites. Alphonso Taft is the grandfather of the former President Howard Taft.
It all started at Yale. Fifteen members were handpicked each year by the former graduating class. Many of their rituals sound occultic in nature as they have many ceremonies in and around a coffin.
William Averill Harriman was a major player in Skull & Bones. Harriman was the key backer of the Democratic Party for over fifty years.
Three generations of the Bush family, all politicians, were Skull & Bones. There has been some conjecture as to the connection between Skull & Bones and the United States’ intelligence community.
Prescott and George H.W. Bush, grandfather and father to our current President, were heavily involved in the intelligence world. The statue in front of the C.I.A. is of Nathan Hale. This statue was copied from the Nathan Hale statue at Connecticut Hall at Yale. Hale was a member of another secret society, the Freemasonry.
The history of Freemasonry is extensive and not the agenda of this article. However, it is interesting to note that our dollar bill has proof of the elitist agenda. On the back of the bill is a pyramid with the words, Novus Ordo Seclorum, which means NEW WORLD ORDER.
Some other notable “Bonesmen” include William F. Buckley, Harold Stanley (founder of Morgan Stanley), John Daniels (founder of Archer Daniels Midland), Henry P. Davison (senior partner Morgan Guaranty Trust), Pierre Jay (first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Artemus Gates (President of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific, TIME, Boeing Company), and many others.
So, one could speculate that whoever won, whether Kerry or Bush, the outcome would produce the same results- a consistent push toward globalization.
The first Bush President proposed NAFTA, Clinton got it approved and the second Bush gently is moving us toward the North American Union (
www.spp.gov ).
Over 2,000 years ago, the scriptures predicted a time when the world would push toward a one world government, would use a 'mark' instead of currency, and would be led by a satanic ruler, the anti-christ.
So, the real question is, what or who is the power behind the power?
