THE GRAND CHESS BOARD PART 1
The Deep Politics of God (Part One): The CNP, Dominionism, and the Ted Haggard Scandal
By Phillip Collins and Paul Collins
RaidersNewsNetwork.com
Currently, the majority of people in America associate the name of Ted Haggard with sexual scandals within the U.S. Evangelical movement. On November 2, 2006, Haggard was accused of engaging in a homosexual tryst (Harris, no pagination). This accusation was made by Michael Jones; a former gay escort/body builder who claims Haggard paid him for sex and drugs (no pagination). Jones went on Peter Boyles radio show on KHOW volunteering to take a polygraph test (Gorski and McPhee, no pagination). The test was administered by John Kresnik, who characterized Jones’ answers about sex as "deceptive" (no pagination). However, Jones said that he probably would not take another polygraph test (no pagination). This raises substantial doubts about the voracity of Jones’ claims, especially in light of Kresnik’s willingness to disregard the initial results because of Jones’ prior stress, lack of sleep, and an inability to eat (no pagination). Thus, at least some of the allegations against Haggard may prove to be false. Yet, that being said, it has been firmly established that Haggard bought methamphetamines (Harris, no pagination). Methamphetamines are supposed to enhance the sexual experience for homosexuals. Haggard also admitted to receiving a massage from Jones, which, of course, raises suspicions (no pagination).In the end, America has been presented with an evangelical leader who has been involved in drug use and sexual immorality. The latest installment in a long series of depraved fiascos was engineered, in part, by Michael Jones. Essentially, Jones is a homosexual who wants to frustrate the efforts of traditionalists and conservatives who are trying to prevent homosexuality from being normalized. To achieve such an end, Jones probably exaggerated and embellished his story. Before anyone takes Jones’ story at face value, it should be remembered that he is a drug-dealing prostitute. Given that shady background, one does not have to be an evangelical Christian to suspect Jones of perpetrating some deception. The Haggard story is very tragic because there are no "good guys." Instead, there are merely varying degrees of evil. A beleaguered America, tired of all the scandals and demoralization, is presented with the familiar portrait of a preacher who has fallen to immorality and hypocrisy. Yet, the only revelations that have been made available thus far are being provided by a moral reprobate whose only interest in exposing Haggard is the subversion of the traditionalist campaign to maintain sexual sanity.However, beyond the lurid haze of a story that makes the 1977 Thornbirds novel seem tame, there is an important component being missed here. An investigation into Ted Haggard’s background reveals a much deeper story. This investigation begins with a glance back to June of 2006 when Israel was fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Ted Haggard, who was head of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) at the time, announced that the NAE would not be supporting Israel in its conflict with Hezbollah (Berkowitz, no pagination). Haggard had been approached by Israeli officials who wanted Haggard to issue a public statement of support for Israel. Haggard refused (no pagination). Why would Haggard refuse to support opposition to Hezbollah, a known terrorist organization?The answer may lie in the fact that Haggard is tied to the pro-Muslim and possible Muslim convert Grover Norquist. Norquist is a Bush/GOP operative who connects the government to the very terrorist network America is supposed to be fighting. The Nation magazine referred to Norquist as "‘Field Marshal of the Bush Plan" (Gitell, no pagination). However, Norquist cannot be described as just another benign Bush cheerleader. Grover Norquist is best described as the liaison between the Administration and Islamists. Seth Gitell elaborates:The Protestant Norquist is a founding director of the Islamic Institute, a socially conservative Muslim think tank that eschews international issues in favor of domestic issues such as tax cuts and faith-based initiatives. In addition, Norquist’s lobbying firm, Janus-Merritt Strategies LLC, was officially registered as a lobbyist for the Islamic Institute as well as for Abdurahman Alamoudi, the founder and former executive director of the American Muslim Council. Public records show that Alamoudi has done more than $20,000 worth of business with Norquist’s firm, on issues relating to Malaysia. (No pagination)If Norquist’s Islamic associations were moderate, then all suspicions concerning his activities could be dismissed. However, Norquist’s Islamic links appear to have a dark side. Consider the aforementioned Abdurahman Alamoudi. Alamoudi has been involved in activities that could be characterized as extremist. Seth Gitell informs us that Alamoudi:attended an anti-Israel protest outside the White House on October 28, 2000. Alamoudi revved up the crowd, saying: "I have been labeled by the media in New York as being a supporter of Hamas. Anybody supporters of Hamas here? "The crowd cheered." Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of Hamas ... I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah." (Both groups are on the State Department’s official list of terrorist organizations.) (No pagination)Another individual tied to the Alamoudi’s American Muslim Council is Sami Al-Arian, a Kuwaiti born Palestinian associate professor at the University of South Florida. In House of Bush, House of Saud, Craig Unger describes Al-Arian’s 1998 guest appearance at the American Muslim Council:In 1998, he appeared as a guest speaker before the American Muslim Council. According to conservative author Kenneth Timmerman, Al-Arian referred to Jews as ‘monkeys and pigs’ and added, ‘Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel. Revolution! Revolution! Until victory! Rolling, rolling to Jerusalem!’ That speech was part of a dossier compiled on al-Arian by federal agents who have had him under surveillance for many years because of suspected ties to terrorist organizations. (207)On March 12, 2000, Al-Arian was among a group of Muslim leaders who had the opportunity to meet with George and Laura Bush at a local mosque in Tampa Florida (206). Doubtless, such a meeting would not have been possible without the influence of Grover Norquist.There is even evidence that seems to suggest that Norquist is now a convert to Islam. Daniel Pipes provides evidence that this is the case:Paul Sperry, author of the new book, Infiltration, in an interview calls Grover Norquist "an agent of influence for Islamists in Washington." When asked by FrontPageMag.com why a Republican anti-tax lobbyist should so passionately promote Islamist causes, Sperry implied that Norquist has converted to Islam: "He's marrying a Muslim, and when I asked Norquist if he himself has converted to Islam, he brushed the question off as too ‘personal.'" As Lawrence Auster comments on this exchange, "Clearly, if Norquist hadn't converted to Islam, or weren't in the process of doing so, he would simply have answered no." (No pagination)Norquist’s marriage to a Muslim woman further supports the contention that the GOP/Bush operative is no longer a Protestant. Pipes elaborates:Indeed, Norquist married Samah Alrayyes, a Palestinian Muslim, on April 2, 2005, and Islamic law limits a Muslim woman to marrying a man who is Muslim. This is not an abstract dictum but a very serious imperative, with many "honor" killings having resulted from a woman ignoring her family's wishes.Alrayyes (now known as Samah Norquist) has radical Islamic credentials of her own; she served as communications director at the Islamic Free Market Institute, the Islamist organization Norquist helped found. Now, she is employed as a public affairs officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development – and so it appears that yet another Islamist finds employment in a branch of the U.S. government. (No pagination)Pipes is known for subscribing to some very bizarre and paranoid anti-Arab conspiracy theories. Nonetheless, his contention concerning Norquist is confirmed by other sources that have looked into Norquist’s activities.Both Haggard and Norquist connect through their shared membership in the highly secretive Council for National Policy (CNP) ("Council for National Policy," no pagination). Haggard was a member of the CNP until the sex scandal. The CNP is the nexus for several odd confluences. It exhibits many of the features of the traditional globalist machinations that comprise the neoliberal wing of the ruling elite. Yet, many of its members are ostensibly opposed to several neoliberal initiatives and agendas. Succinctly encapsulating this intersection of strange confluences, ABC’s Marc J. Ambinder characterizes the CNP as "the conservative version of the Council on Foreign Relations" (Ambinder, no pagination). Thus, one is confronted by a decidedly "right-wing" brand of elitism. Of course, within the dialectical climate that is the product of the elite’s continuous Hegelian activism, appellations like "right-wing" and "left-wing" become virtually meaningless. The CNP seems to the result of cross-pollination between neoconservatives, the Iran-Contra fraternity, and Nazis. It is within this shady organization that individuals like Haggard and Norquist meet.Can one say with any degree of certainty that Haggard’s failure to support Israel and oppose Hezbollah was a result of Norquist’s influence? In all honesty, one must label such contention a theory. That being said, it is still important to look into the secret society that both Norquist and Haggard hold in common, the Council for National Policy. The CNP appears to be a creation of factions of the power elite designed to mobilize well-meaning Christians to unwittingly support elite initiatives. The CNP could also be considered a project in religious engineering that empties Christianity of its metaphysical substance and reconceptualizes many of its principles and concepts according to the socially and politically expedient designs of the elite. These contentions are supported by the fact that many CNP members are also members of other organizations and/or criminal enterprises that are tied directly to the power elite. Therefore, the best way to learn about the CNP’s pedigree is to examine the background of its members. Here are the credentials of some of the CNP’s more infamous members.Howard Ahmanson, Jr.Ahmanson is an heir to Home Savings bank fortune ("Howard Ahmanson, Jr.," no pagination). A multi-millionaire, Ahmanson has used a portion of his tremendous fortune to fund elite conduits. His Ahmanson Foundation funded the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) (no pagination). As was previously stated, the CNP aspires to be the so-called "conservative version" of the CFR. The CFR is one of the principal arbiters of American foreign policy and a premiere purveyor of globalism. The organization is devoted to the realization of Cecil Rhodes’ vision for a one-world socialist totalitarian system dominated by an Anglophile elite. John Ruskin, a professor at Oxford University, was the chief inspiration for Rhodes’ imperialistic vision. However, Cecil Rhodes not the only adherent of Ruskin’s imperialistic message. Evidently, others had taken to heart the Anglophilic gospel of Ruskin and, eventually, became associated with Rhodes. Together, this network would establish a secret society devoted to the cause of British expansionism. Carroll Quigley explains:Among Ruskin’s most devoted disciples at Oxford were a group of intimate friends including Arnold Toynbee, Alfred (later Lord) Milner, Arthur Glazebrook, George (later Sir George) Parkin, Philip Lyttelton Gell, and Henry (later Sir Henry) Birchenough. These were so moved by Ruskin that they devoted the rest of their lives to carrying out his ideas. A similar group of Cambridge men including Reginald Baliol Brett (Lord Esher), Sir John B. Seeley, Albert (Lord) Grey, and Edmund Garrett were also aroused by Ruskin’s message and devoted their lives to the extension of the British Empire and uplift of England’s urban masses as two parts of one project which they called "extension of the English-speaking idea."They were remarkably successful in these aims because of England’s most sensational journalist William Stead (1849 - 1912), an ardent social reformer and imperialist, brought them into association with Rhodes. This association was formally established on February 5, 1891, when Rhodes and Stead organized a secret society of which Rhodes had been dreaming for sixteen years. In this secret society Rhodes was to be leader; Stead, Brett (Lord Esher), and Milner were to form an executive committee; Arthur (lord) Balfour, (Sir) Harry Johnston, Lord Rothschild, Albert (Lord) Grey, and others were listed as potential members of a "Circle of Initiates;" while there was to be an outer circle known as the "Association of Helpers" (later organized by Milner as the Round Table organization). Brett was invited to join this organization the same day and Milner a couple of weeks later, on his return from Egypt. Both accepted with enthusiasm. Thus the central part of the secret society was established by March 1891. It continued to function as a formal group, although the outer circle was, apparently, not organized until 1909-1913. This group was able to get access to Rhodes’ money after his death in 1902 and also to funds of loyal Rhodes supporters like Alfred Beit (1853-1906) and Sir Abe Bailey (1864-1940). With this backing they sought to extend and execute the ideals that Rhodes had obtained from Ruskin and Stead. Milner was the chief Rhodes Trustee and Parkin was Organizing Secretary of the Rhodes Trust after 1902, while Gell and Birchenough, as well as others with similar ideas, became officials of the British South Africa Company. They were joined in their efforts by other Ruskinite friends of Stead’s like Lord Grey, Lord Esher, and Flora Shaw (later Lady Lugard). In 1890, by a stratagem too elaborate to describe here, Miss Shaw became Head of the Colonial Department of the Times while still remaining on the payroll of Stead’s Pall Mall Gazette. In this past she played a major role in the next ten years in carrying into execution the imperial schemes of Cecil Rhodes, to whom Stead had introduced her in 1889. (131-32)After Rhodes’ death, his enormous fortune would be used to establish the Rhodes Scholarship Fund, a program devoted to promoting the Ruskinite variety of globalism within academia. Rene Wormser examines the prolific diffusion of Rhodes Scholars and their occupancy of politically and socially significant positions:Of a total of 1,372 American Rhodes scholars up to 1953, 431 held or hold positions in teaching and educational administration (among them, 31 college presidents); 113 held government positions; 70 held positions in press and radio; and 14 were executives in other foundations. (201)With Rhodes’ passing, the responsibility for the perpetuation of the imperialistic crusade became the burden of chief Rhodes Trustee Alfred Milner. Milner was the governor-general and high commissioner of South Africa between 1897 and 1905 (132). During this period, Milner assembled recruits from Toynbee Hall and Oxford that would "win influential posts in government and international finance and become the dominant influence in British imperial and foreign affairs up to 1939" (132). Known as "Milner’s Kindergarten," this network established semisecret organizations called Round Table Groups (132). The Round Table Groups sprouted up in America and in Britain’s chief dependencies (132). These semisecret groups would produce:the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) for which the chief financial supporters were Sir Abe Bailey and the Astor Family (owners of The Times). Similar Institutes of International Affairs were established in the chief British dominions and in the United States (where it is known as the Council on Foreign Relations) in the period of 1919-1927. (132-33)Since its inception in 1921, the CFR has acquired an impressive body of members and sizable quantities of political capital. The Council has been peopled by prominent power brokers like Dick Cheney, George H.W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, and Zbigniew Brzezinski (Kah 31). Other Establishment luminaries that have been CFR members include Walter Lippmann, Cyrus Vance, Adlai Stevenson, Robert O. Anderson, Theodore M. Hesburgh, Brent Scrowcroft, Lane Kirkland, and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (31). Financing for the Council’s founding came from the very same individuals responsible for the formation of the Federal Reserve: Paul Warburg, Jacob Schiff, Otto Kahn, Bernard Baruch, J.P. Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller (31). Of course, several Federal Reserve chairmen would share membership in the CFR, including Paul Warburg, Paul Volker, and Alan Greenspan (31). Thus, one could convincingly argue that American monetary policy is largely influenced by Council initiatives and agendas.The oligarchical Rockefeller dynasty has enjoyed prolonged representation within the CFR. David Rockefeller, grandson of John D. Rockefeller, was a Council director for thirty-six years and a chairman of the board for fifteen years (Kah 31). John D. Rockefeller IV, David Rockefeller Jr., and Rodman C. Rockefeller have also inhabited the Council roster (31). The Council itself has received continued financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation (Wormser 209). Interestingly enough, the director of the Rockefeller Foundation during the 50s was also a Rhodes Scholar (Wormser 201).Populated and supported by individuals with overtly elitist ambitions, the Council on Foreign Relations hardly represents the interests of the American public. Instead, it represents the interests of the ruling class. Concerning this organizational conduit for elitist initiatives, congressman John R. Rarick has issued the following admonition:The Council on Foreign Relations—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. And I find that few university students and graduates have even heard of the Council on Foreign Relations.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 from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the United States from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship. (Qutd. in Roberts 203)In short, the CFR is an elitist machination for the consolidation of political power. That the CNP wishes to emulate such an organization should prompt considerable suspicion. Howard Ahmanson, Jr.’s shared membership in the CNP and CFR suggests that there might be ideological commonalities between the two. Given his Establishment pedigree, Ahmanson, Jr. is more than qualified to help the CNP more closely approximate the CFR model.In the second installment of this series, we shall examine CNP members John Ashcroft and Gary Bauer. We shall also examine the dubious organizational ties held by these CNP members.
Sources Cited
All sources will be presented in the twelfth and final installment of this series.
By Phillip Collins and Paul Collins
RaidersNewsNetwork.com
Currently, the majority of people in America associate the name of Ted Haggard with sexual scandals within the U.S. Evangelical movement. On November 2, 2006, Haggard was accused of engaging in a homosexual tryst (Harris, no pagination). This accusation was made by Michael Jones; a former gay escort/body builder who claims Haggard paid him for sex and drugs (no pagination). Jones went on Peter Boyles radio show on KHOW volunteering to take a polygraph test (Gorski and McPhee, no pagination). The test was administered by John Kresnik, who characterized Jones’ answers about sex as "deceptive" (no pagination). However, Jones said that he probably would not take another polygraph test (no pagination). This raises substantial doubts about the voracity of Jones’ claims, especially in light of Kresnik’s willingness to disregard the initial results because of Jones’ prior stress, lack of sleep, and an inability to eat (no pagination). Thus, at least some of the allegations against Haggard may prove to be false. Yet, that being said, it has been firmly established that Haggard bought methamphetamines (Harris, no pagination). Methamphetamines are supposed to enhance the sexual experience for homosexuals. Haggard also admitted to receiving a massage from Jones, which, of course, raises suspicions (no pagination).In the end, America has been presented with an evangelical leader who has been involved in drug use and sexual immorality. The latest installment in a long series of depraved fiascos was engineered, in part, by Michael Jones. Essentially, Jones is a homosexual who wants to frustrate the efforts of traditionalists and conservatives who are trying to prevent homosexuality from being normalized. To achieve such an end, Jones probably exaggerated and embellished his story. Before anyone takes Jones’ story at face value, it should be remembered that he is a drug-dealing prostitute. Given that shady background, one does not have to be an evangelical Christian to suspect Jones of perpetrating some deception. The Haggard story is very tragic because there are no "good guys." Instead, there are merely varying degrees of evil. A beleaguered America, tired of all the scandals and demoralization, is presented with the familiar portrait of a preacher who has fallen to immorality and hypocrisy. Yet, the only revelations that have been made available thus far are being provided by a moral reprobate whose only interest in exposing Haggard is the subversion of the traditionalist campaign to maintain sexual sanity.However, beyond the lurid haze of a story that makes the 1977 Thornbirds novel seem tame, there is an important component being missed here. An investigation into Ted Haggard’s background reveals a much deeper story. This investigation begins with a glance back to June of 2006 when Israel was fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Ted Haggard, who was head of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) at the time, announced that the NAE would not be supporting Israel in its conflict with Hezbollah (Berkowitz, no pagination). Haggard had been approached by Israeli officials who wanted Haggard to issue a public statement of support for Israel. Haggard refused (no pagination). Why would Haggard refuse to support opposition to Hezbollah, a known terrorist organization?The answer may lie in the fact that Haggard is tied to the pro-Muslim and possible Muslim convert Grover Norquist. Norquist is a Bush/GOP operative who connects the government to the very terrorist network America is supposed to be fighting. The Nation magazine referred to Norquist as "‘Field Marshal of the Bush Plan" (Gitell, no pagination). However, Norquist cannot be described as just another benign Bush cheerleader. Grover Norquist is best described as the liaison between the Administration and Islamists. Seth Gitell elaborates:The Protestant Norquist is a founding director of the Islamic Institute, a socially conservative Muslim think tank that eschews international issues in favor of domestic issues such as tax cuts and faith-based initiatives. In addition, Norquist’s lobbying firm, Janus-Merritt Strategies LLC, was officially registered as a lobbyist for the Islamic Institute as well as for Abdurahman Alamoudi, the founder and former executive director of the American Muslim Council. Public records show that Alamoudi has done more than $20,000 worth of business with Norquist’s firm, on issues relating to Malaysia. (No pagination)If Norquist’s Islamic associations were moderate, then all suspicions concerning his activities could be dismissed. However, Norquist’s Islamic links appear to have a dark side. Consider the aforementioned Abdurahman Alamoudi. Alamoudi has been involved in activities that could be characterized as extremist. Seth Gitell informs us that Alamoudi:attended an anti-Israel protest outside the White House on October 28, 2000. Alamoudi revved up the crowd, saying: "I have been labeled by the media in New York as being a supporter of Hamas. Anybody supporters of Hamas here? "The crowd cheered." Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of Hamas ... I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah." (Both groups are on the State Department’s official list of terrorist organizations.) (No pagination)Another individual tied to the Alamoudi’s American Muslim Council is Sami Al-Arian, a Kuwaiti born Palestinian associate professor at the University of South Florida. In House of Bush, House of Saud, Craig Unger describes Al-Arian’s 1998 guest appearance at the American Muslim Council:In 1998, he appeared as a guest speaker before the American Muslim Council. According to conservative author Kenneth Timmerman, Al-Arian referred to Jews as ‘monkeys and pigs’ and added, ‘Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel. Revolution! Revolution! Until victory! Rolling, rolling to Jerusalem!’ That speech was part of a dossier compiled on al-Arian by federal agents who have had him under surveillance for many years because of suspected ties to terrorist organizations. (207)On March 12, 2000, Al-Arian was among a group of Muslim leaders who had the opportunity to meet with George and Laura Bush at a local mosque in Tampa Florida (206). Doubtless, such a meeting would not have been possible without the influence of Grover Norquist.There is even evidence that seems to suggest that Norquist is now a convert to Islam. Daniel Pipes provides evidence that this is the case:Paul Sperry, author of the new book, Infiltration, in an interview calls Grover Norquist "an agent of influence for Islamists in Washington." When asked by FrontPageMag.com why a Republican anti-tax lobbyist should so passionately promote Islamist causes, Sperry implied that Norquist has converted to Islam: "He's marrying a Muslim, and when I asked Norquist if he himself has converted to Islam, he brushed the question off as too ‘personal.'" As Lawrence Auster comments on this exchange, "Clearly, if Norquist hadn't converted to Islam, or weren't in the process of doing so, he would simply have answered no." (No pagination)Norquist’s marriage to a Muslim woman further supports the contention that the GOP/Bush operative is no longer a Protestant. Pipes elaborates:Indeed, Norquist married Samah Alrayyes, a Palestinian Muslim, on April 2, 2005, and Islamic law limits a Muslim woman to marrying a man who is Muslim. This is not an abstract dictum but a very serious imperative, with many "honor" killings having resulted from a woman ignoring her family's wishes.Alrayyes (now known as Samah Norquist) has radical Islamic credentials of her own; she served as communications director at the Islamic Free Market Institute, the Islamist organization Norquist helped found. Now, she is employed as a public affairs officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development – and so it appears that yet another Islamist finds employment in a branch of the U.S. government. (No pagination)Pipes is known for subscribing to some very bizarre and paranoid anti-Arab conspiracy theories. Nonetheless, his contention concerning Norquist is confirmed by other sources that have looked into Norquist’s activities.Both Haggard and Norquist connect through their shared membership in the highly secretive Council for National Policy (CNP) ("Council for National Policy," no pagination). Haggard was a member of the CNP until the sex scandal. The CNP is the nexus for several odd confluences. It exhibits many of the features of the traditional globalist machinations that comprise the neoliberal wing of the ruling elite. Yet, many of its members are ostensibly opposed to several neoliberal initiatives and agendas. Succinctly encapsulating this intersection of strange confluences, ABC’s Marc J. Ambinder characterizes the CNP as "the conservative version of the Council on Foreign Relations" (Ambinder, no pagination). Thus, one is confronted by a decidedly "right-wing" brand of elitism. Of course, within the dialectical climate that is the product of the elite’s continuous Hegelian activism, appellations like "right-wing" and "left-wing" become virtually meaningless. The CNP seems to the result of cross-pollination between neoconservatives, the Iran-Contra fraternity, and Nazis. It is within this shady organization that individuals like Haggard and Norquist meet.Can one say with any degree of certainty that Haggard’s failure to support Israel and oppose Hezbollah was a result of Norquist’s influence? In all honesty, one must label such contention a theory. That being said, it is still important to look into the secret society that both Norquist and Haggard hold in common, the Council for National Policy. The CNP appears to be a creation of factions of the power elite designed to mobilize well-meaning Christians to unwittingly support elite initiatives. The CNP could also be considered a project in religious engineering that empties Christianity of its metaphysical substance and reconceptualizes many of its principles and concepts according to the socially and politically expedient designs of the elite. These contentions are supported by the fact that many CNP members are also members of other organizations and/or criminal enterprises that are tied directly to the power elite. Therefore, the best way to learn about the CNP’s pedigree is to examine the background of its members. Here are the credentials of some of the CNP’s more infamous members.Howard Ahmanson, Jr.Ahmanson is an heir to Home Savings bank fortune ("Howard Ahmanson, Jr.," no pagination). A multi-millionaire, Ahmanson has used a portion of his tremendous fortune to fund elite conduits. His Ahmanson Foundation funded the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) (no pagination). As was previously stated, the CNP aspires to be the so-called "conservative version" of the CFR. The CFR is one of the principal arbiters of American foreign policy and a premiere purveyor of globalism. The organization is devoted to the realization of Cecil Rhodes’ vision for a one-world socialist totalitarian system dominated by an Anglophile elite. John Ruskin, a professor at Oxford University, was the chief inspiration for Rhodes’ imperialistic vision. However, Cecil Rhodes not the only adherent of Ruskin’s imperialistic message. Evidently, others had taken to heart the Anglophilic gospel of Ruskin and, eventually, became associated with Rhodes. Together, this network would establish a secret society devoted to the cause of British expansionism. Carroll Quigley explains:Among Ruskin’s most devoted disciples at Oxford were a group of intimate friends including Arnold Toynbee, Alfred (later Lord) Milner, Arthur Glazebrook, George (later Sir George) Parkin, Philip Lyttelton Gell, and Henry (later Sir Henry) Birchenough. These were so moved by Ruskin that they devoted the rest of their lives to carrying out his ideas. A similar group of Cambridge men including Reginald Baliol Brett (Lord Esher), Sir John B. Seeley, Albert (Lord) Grey, and Edmund Garrett were also aroused by Ruskin’s message and devoted their lives to the extension of the British Empire and uplift of England’s urban masses as two parts of one project which they called "extension of the English-speaking idea."They were remarkably successful in these aims because of England’s most sensational journalist William Stead (1849 - 1912), an ardent social reformer and imperialist, brought them into association with Rhodes. This association was formally established on February 5, 1891, when Rhodes and Stead organized a secret society of which Rhodes had been dreaming for sixteen years. In this secret society Rhodes was to be leader; Stead, Brett (Lord Esher), and Milner were to form an executive committee; Arthur (lord) Balfour, (Sir) Harry Johnston, Lord Rothschild, Albert (Lord) Grey, and others were listed as potential members of a "Circle of Initiates;" while there was to be an outer circle known as the "Association of Helpers" (later organized by Milner as the Round Table organization). Brett was invited to join this organization the same day and Milner a couple of weeks later, on his return from Egypt. Both accepted with enthusiasm. Thus the central part of the secret society was established by March 1891. It continued to function as a formal group, although the outer circle was, apparently, not organized until 1909-1913. This group was able to get access to Rhodes’ money after his death in 1902 and also to funds of loyal Rhodes supporters like Alfred Beit (1853-1906) and Sir Abe Bailey (1864-1940). With this backing they sought to extend and execute the ideals that Rhodes had obtained from Ruskin and Stead. Milner was the chief Rhodes Trustee and Parkin was Organizing Secretary of the Rhodes Trust after 1902, while Gell and Birchenough, as well as others with similar ideas, became officials of the British South Africa Company. They were joined in their efforts by other Ruskinite friends of Stead’s like Lord Grey, Lord Esher, and Flora Shaw (later Lady Lugard). In 1890, by a stratagem too elaborate to describe here, Miss Shaw became Head of the Colonial Department of the Times while still remaining on the payroll of Stead’s Pall Mall Gazette. In this past she played a major role in the next ten years in carrying into execution the imperial schemes of Cecil Rhodes, to whom Stead had introduced her in 1889. (131-32)After Rhodes’ death, his enormous fortune would be used to establish the Rhodes Scholarship Fund, a program devoted to promoting the Ruskinite variety of globalism within academia. Rene Wormser examines the prolific diffusion of Rhodes Scholars and their occupancy of politically and socially significant positions:Of a total of 1,372 American Rhodes scholars up to 1953, 431 held or hold positions in teaching and educational administration (among them, 31 college presidents); 113 held government positions; 70 held positions in press and radio; and 14 were executives in other foundations. (201)With Rhodes’ passing, the responsibility for the perpetuation of the imperialistic crusade became the burden of chief Rhodes Trustee Alfred Milner. Milner was the governor-general and high commissioner of South Africa between 1897 and 1905 (132). During this period, Milner assembled recruits from Toynbee Hall and Oxford that would "win influential posts in government and international finance and become the dominant influence in British imperial and foreign affairs up to 1939" (132). Known as "Milner’s Kindergarten," this network established semisecret organizations called Round Table Groups (132). The Round Table Groups sprouted up in America and in Britain’s chief dependencies (132). These semisecret groups would produce:the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) for which the chief financial supporters were Sir Abe Bailey and the Astor Family (owners of The Times). Similar Institutes of International Affairs were established in the chief British dominions and in the United States (where it is known as the Council on Foreign Relations) in the period of 1919-1927. (132-33)Since its inception in 1921, the CFR has acquired an impressive body of members and sizable quantities of political capital. The Council has been peopled by prominent power brokers like Dick Cheney, George H.W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, and Zbigniew Brzezinski (Kah 31). Other Establishment luminaries that have been CFR members include Walter Lippmann, Cyrus Vance, Adlai Stevenson, Robert O. Anderson, Theodore M. Hesburgh, Brent Scrowcroft, Lane Kirkland, and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (31). Financing for the Council’s founding came from the very same individuals responsible for the formation of the Federal Reserve: Paul Warburg, Jacob Schiff, Otto Kahn, Bernard Baruch, J.P. Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller (31). Of course, several Federal Reserve chairmen would share membership in the CFR, including Paul Warburg, Paul Volker, and Alan Greenspan (31). Thus, one could convincingly argue that American monetary policy is largely influenced by Council initiatives and agendas.The oligarchical Rockefeller dynasty has enjoyed prolonged representation within the CFR. David Rockefeller, grandson of John D. Rockefeller, was a Council director for thirty-six years and a chairman of the board for fifteen years (Kah 31). John D. Rockefeller IV, David Rockefeller Jr., and Rodman C. Rockefeller have also inhabited the Council roster (31). The Council itself has received continued financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation (Wormser 209). Interestingly enough, the director of the Rockefeller Foundation during the 50s was also a Rhodes Scholar (Wormser 201).Populated and supported by individuals with overtly elitist ambitions, the Council on Foreign Relations hardly represents the interests of the American public. Instead, it represents the interests of the ruling class. Concerning this organizational conduit for elitist initiatives, congressman John R. Rarick has issued the following admonition:The Council on Foreign Relations—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. And I find that few university students and graduates have even heard of the Council on Foreign Relations.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 from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the United States from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship. (Qutd. in Roberts 203)In short, the CFR is an elitist machination for the consolidation of political power. That the CNP wishes to emulate such an organization should prompt considerable suspicion. Howard Ahmanson, Jr.’s shared membership in the CNP and CFR suggests that there might be ideological commonalities between the two. Given his Establishment pedigree, Ahmanson, Jr. is more than qualified to help the CNP more closely approximate the CFR model.In the second installment of this series, we shall examine CNP members John Ashcroft and Gary Bauer. We shall also examine the dubious organizational ties held by these CNP members.
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All sources will be presented in the twelfth and final installment of this series.
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