Time to Test Iran
Richard N. Haass
Richard N. Haass, President of the Council on Foreign
Relations since 2003, previously served as Director of Policy Planning
for the US State Department (2001-2003), and was President George W.
Bush’s special envoy to Northern Ireland and Pakistan, before resigning
from the Bush administration in protest against the Iraq war. He was
also Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near
East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council under
President George H.W. Bush.
17 October 2012
http://www.project-syndicate.org/print/can-iran-compromise-on-its-nuclear-program-by-richard-n--haass
NEW YORK – Most of the
debate about how to address Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear-weapons
capacity focuses on two options. The first is to rely on deterrence and
live with an Iran that has a small nuclear arsenal or the ability to
assemble one with little advance notice. The second is to launch a
preventive military strike aimed at destroying critical parts of the
Iranian program and setting back its progress by an estimated two or
more years.
But now a
third option has emerged: negotiating a ceiling on the nuclear program
that would not be too low for Iran’s government and not too high for the
United States, Israel, and the rest of the world.
In
fact, such an option has been around for years – and in several rounds
of negotiations. What has changed, however, is the context. And changes
in context can be critical; indeed, what happens away from the
negotiating table almost always determines the outcome of face-to-face
talks.
The single most
important change in context is the rapidly deteriorating state of Iran’s
economy. The many financial and oil-related sanctions that have been
implemented in recent months and years are starting to bite. They were
designed not to impede Iran’s nuclear program directly, but rather to
increase the price that Iran’s leaders must pay for pursuing their
nuclear ambitions. The thinking (or, more accurately, the hope) was that
Iran’s leadership, if forced to choose between regime survival and
nuclear weapons, would choose the former.
This
hypothesis may soon get a real-world test. Iran’s currency, the rial,
has fallen roughly 40% in recent weeks, sharply increasing Iran’s
inflation rate and what Iranians must pay for imports and many staples.
The result is the first signs of serious public discontent with the
regime since the violent repression of the Green Movement in 2009.
Iran’s merchant class, one of the pillars of the clerical establishment
that has ruled the country since the 1979 revolution, is grumbling as
well.
Other factors also
could give negotiations a real chance. Upheavals in the Arab world
suggest that no regime in the Middle East is entrenched; Iran’s leaders
would have to be blind not to have taken note. In his speech at the
United Nations in late September, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu signaled a willingness to give sanctions more time, until at
least the summer of 2013. And there are signs that, regardless of who
wins November’s presidential election, the US might well undertake an
armed strike, with potential destruction much greater than if Israel
were to act alone. Again, the Iranians might see compromise as the
lesser of the threats that it faces.
Until
now, negotiations have been desultory at best. The compromise that
Iranian officials are suggesting is nowhere near what they would have to
accept to avert military action and gain an easing of sanctions. But
now is the time to present to Iran a comprehensive package – what it
must do and what the reward would be if it agreed. It would also be
essential to set a deadline for Iran to accept such an accord, lest it
use further negotiations to buy time to improve its nuclear
capabilities.
The precise
terms would have to be determined, but Iran would have to give up all of
the uranium that it has enriched to 20% and stop enriching to that
level. It would also have to accept a ceiling on how much uranium it
could possess or enrich at lower levels. Limits on the number of
centrifuges and where they could be housed might also be necessary.
Inspections would need to be frequent and intrusive to reassure the
outside world of what Iran is doing – or, perhaps more to the point,
what it is not doing. In return, Iran would receive substantial relief
from the removal of those sanctions imposed in response to its nuclear
program.
Moreover, the
offer’s essential elements should be made public. That way, if the
regime balked, it would have to explain to its own people why it was not
prepared to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, despite a reasonable
US proposal that was not designed to humiliate Iran, and that, if
accepted, promised a major improvement in Iranian living standards.
It
is possible that the new economic and political context will lead
Iran’s rulers to accept what they have rebuffed until now. If, on the
other hand, the regime remains determined to pursue its nuclear goals,
regardless of cost, then we will know that there is no alternative to
the first two options: attacking Iranian facilities or living with a
nuclear-armed Iran. Both outcomes are potentially risky and costly, but
the US public, in particular, should be made aware that it was Iran that
rejected a reasonable alternative to war before one began.
And,
if push came to shove, it would be good for other governments to know
that the US and/or Israel decided to attack only after offering Iran a
face-saving way out. That would make it less difficult to keep economic
pressure on Iran in the aftermath of any strike.
Going
public makes sense for another reason: Iran’s people ought to know that
any attack on the country was one that it had largely brought on
itself. This realization might mute any “rally around the flag” reaction
and thus not rule out regime change down the road.
We
tend to think of diplomacy as something carried out in secret;
sometimes, however, it is better to hide in plain sight. This is such a
moment. But time is of the essence; diplomacy needs to move faster if it
is not to be overtaken by Iran’s march to a nuclear weapon – and, with
it, the march to conflict.
About CFR
http://www.cfr.org/about/
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan
membership organization, think tank, and publisher. CFR members,
including Brian Williams, Fareed Zakaria, Angelina Jolie, Chuck Hagel,
and Erin Burnett, explain why the Council on Foreign Relations is an
indispensable resource in a complex world.
Membership
CFR's current membership of nearly 4,700 is divided among those living in New York, Washington, DC, and across the country and abroad.
For those between the ages of thirty and thirty-six there is the Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program.
The Corporate Program serves an international membership of about two hundred leading global corporations.
The Think Tank
The David Rockefeller Studies Program—CFR's think tank—is composed of more than eighty full-time and adjunct fellows
who cover the major regions and significant issues shaping today's
international agenda. The program also includes recipients of several
one-year fellowships.
The Studies Program is organized into more than a dozen program areas and centers that focus on major geographical areas of the world or significant foreign policy issues, including the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, the Center for Preventive Action, the International Institutions and Global Governance program, the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy initiative, and the Renewing America initiative.
Informing the Public Debate
Access to CFR's high-level discussions—with world leaders, U.S.
government officials, CEOs, policy analysts, and others—is available
through select videos, audio recordings, and unedited transcripts.
Outreach initiatives target constituencies increasingly important to the national foreign policy debate: educators and students; religious and congregational leaders; state and local officials; and nonprofit, civic, and community leaders.
The Washington Program actively engages decision-makers in Congress, the executive branch, and the diplomatic community.
The bimonthly Foreign Affairs
is widely considered to be the most influential magazine for the
analysis and debate of foreign policy and economics. Its website, ForeignAffairs.com, publishes original daily features and hosts the complete archives going back to 1922.
Independent Task Forces work to reach consensus on how to deal with critical foreign policy challenges.
CFR's website is a trusted, nonpartisan source of timely analysis
and context on international events and trends. CFR.org publishes backgrounders, interviews, "first-take" analysis, expert blogs, and a variety of multimedia offerings that include videos, podcasts, interactive timelines, and the Emmy-winning Crisis Guide series. The site also presents the work of CFR's Think Tank, including books, reports, congressional testimony, and op-eds, as well as audio, video, and transcripts of CFR events. Each weekday morning, the Daily News Brief delivers subscribers an authoritative digest of global news and analysis compiled by CFR.org's editors.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and The New World Order
- By W.E.B.
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Council_Foreign_Relations.htm
For those who may be confused by the controversies
surrounding the "New World Order", a One-World-Government, and
American concern over giving the UN more power; those unaware of
the issues involved; and those wishing more background, I offer the
following.
Originally presented for an Honors Class, "Dilemmas of War and
Peace," at New Mexico State University, the paper was ridiculed and
characterized by Dr. Yosef Lapid, (an acknowledged and locally
quoted "expert" on Terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs) as
"paranoid... possibly a symptom of mental illness." You may judge
for yourself.
Citing source data is the "scientific method," but does not seem to
apply to "Conspiracy Theories." A thousand sources may be quoted,
yet will not convince the "skeptics," the "realists." It seems to
me the "symptoms of mental illness" are on their side, if they
refuse to look at evidence ("There are none so blind as those who
WILL not see"); or perhaps something more sinister is at work, such
as a knowledge of the truth, that does not want YOU to know.
To be paranoid means to believe in delusions of danger and
persecution. If the danger is real, and the evidence credible, then
it cannot be delusional. To ignore the evidence, and hope that it
CANNOT be true, is more an evidence of mental illness.
The issue involves much more than a difference of philosophy, or
political viewpoint. Growing up in the midst of the "Cold War," our
generation were taught that those who attempted to abolish our
national sovereignty and overthrow our Constitutional government
were committing acts of treason. Please judge for yourself if the
group discussed is guilty of such.
If one group is effectively in control of national governments and
multinational corporations; promotes world government through
control of media, foundation grants, and education; and controls
and guides the issues of the day; then they control most options
available. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the
financial powers behind it, have done all these things, and promote
the "New World Order", as they have for over seventy years.
The CFR is the promotional arm of the Ruling Elite in the United
States of America. Most influential politicians, academics and
media personalities are members, and it uses its influence to
infiltrate the New World Order into American life. Its' "experts"
write scholarly pieces to be used in decision making, the academics
expound on the wisdom of a united world, and the media members
disseminate the message.
To understand how the most influential people in America came to be
members of an organization working purposefully for the overthrow
of the Constitution and American sovereignty, we have to go back at
least to the early 1900's, though the story begins much earlier
(depending on your viewpoint and beliefs).
That a ruling power elite does indeed control the U.S. government
behind the scenes has been attested to by many americans in a
position to know. Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the Supreme Court
(1939-1962), said: "The real rulers in Washington are invisible and
exercise power from behind the scenes." In a letter to an associate
dated November 21, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt wrote, "The
real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial
element in the large centers has owned the government ever since
the days of Andrew Jackson."
February 23, 1954, Senator William Jenner
warned in a speech: "Outwardly we have a
Constitutional government. We have operating within our government
and political system, another body representing another form of
government, a bureaucratic elite which believes our Constitution is
outmoded."
Baron M.A. Rothschild wrote, "Give me control over a nation's
currency and I care not who makes its laws."
All that is needed to effectively control a government is to have
control over the nation's money: a central bank with a monopoly
over the supply of money and credit. This had been done in Western
Europe, with the creation of privately owned central banks such as
the Bank of England.
Georgetown professor Dr. Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton's mentor
while at Georgetown) wrote about the goals of the investment
bankers who control central banks: "... 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... controlled in a feudalist fashion by the
central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements
arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences."
The Bank of the United States (1816-36), an early attempt at an
American central bank, was abolished by President Andrew Jackson,
who believed that it threatened the nation. He wrote: "The bold
effort the present bank had made to control the government, the
distress it had wantonly produced...are but premonitions of the
fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a
perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another
like it."
Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The Central Bank is an institution of the
most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of
our Constitution...if the American people allow private banks to
control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then
by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around
them will deprive the people of all their property until their
children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered."
Does that not describe the situation in America today?
The U.S. managed to do without a central bank until early in this
century, when, according to Congressman Charles Lindbergh, Sr.,
"The Money Trust caused the 1907 panic, and thereby forced Congress
to create a National Monetary Commission." Headed by Senator Nelson
Aldrich, father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the Commission
recommended creation of a central bank.
Though unconstitutional, as only "The Congress shall have
Power...To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof..." (Article I,
Section 8, U.S. Constitution) the Federal Reserve Act was passed in
December 1913; ostensibly to stabilize the economy and prevent
further panics, but as Lindberg warned Congress: "This act
establishes the most gigantic trust on earth...the invisible
government by the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust
investigation, will be legalized." The Great Depression and
numerous recessions later, it is obvious the Federal Reserve
produces inflation and federal debt whenever it desires, but not
stability.
Congressman Louis McFadden, House Committee on Banking and Currency
Chairman (1920-31), stated: "When the Federal Reserve Act was
passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a
world banking system was being set up here. A super-state
controlled by international bankers and industrialists...acting
together to enslave the world...Every effort has been made by the
Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is--the Fed has usurped the
government."
Although called "Federal," the Federal Reserve system is privately
owned by member banks, makes its own policies, and is not subject
to oversight by Congress or the President. As the overseer and
supplier of reserves, the Fed gave banks access to public funds,
which enhanced their lending capacity.
Peter Kershaw, in "Economic Solutions" lists the ten major
shareholders of the Federal Reserve Bank System as: Rothschild:
London and Berlin; Lazard Bros: Paris; Israel Seiff: Italy; Kuhn-
Loeb Company: Germany; Warburg: Hamburg and Amsterdam; Lehman Bros:
New York; Goldman and Sachs: New York; Rockefeller: New York. (That
most, if not all of these families just happen to be Jewish, you
may judge the significance of yourself). The balance of stock is
owned by major commercial member banks.
According to Devvy Kidd, "Why A Bankrupt America?" The Federal
Reserve pays the Bureau of Engraving & Printing approximately
$23 for each 1,000 notes printed. 10,000 $100 notes (one million
dollars) would thus cost the Federal Reserve $230. They then secure
a pledge of collateral equal to the face value from the U.S.
government. The collateral is our land, labor, and assets...
collected by their agents, the IRS. By authorizing the Fed to
regulate and create money (and thus inflation), Congress gave
private banks power to create profits at will.
As Lindberg put it: "The new law will create inflation whenever the
trusts want inflation...they can unload the stocks on the people at
high prices during the excitement and then bring on a panic and buy
them back at low prices...the day of reckoning is only a few years
removed." That day came in 1929, with the Stock Market crash and
Great Depression.
One of the most important powers given to the Fed was the right to
buy and sell government securities, and provide loans to member
banks so they might also purchase them. This provided another
built-in mechanism for profit to the banks, if government debt was
increased. All that was needed was a method to pay off the debt.
This was accomplished through the passage of the income tax in
1913.
A national income tax was declared unconstitutional in 1895 by the
Supreme Court, so a constitutional amendment was proposed in
Congress by none other than ...Senator Nelson Aldrich. As presented
to the American people it seemed reasonable enough: income tax on
only one percent of income under $20,000, with the assurance that
it would never increase.
Since it was graduated, the tax would "soak the rich", ...but the
rich had other plans, already devising a method of protecting
wealth. As described by Gary Allen in his 1976 book "The
Rockefeller File," "By the time the (16th) Amendment had been
approved by the states, the Rockefeller Foundation was in full
operation...about the same time that Judge Kenesaw Landis was
ordering the breakup of the Standard Oil monopoly...John D...not
only avoided taxes by creating four great tax-exempt foundations;
he used them as repositories for his 'divested' interests...made
his assets non-taxable so that they might be passed down through
generations without...estate and gift taxes...Each year the
Rockefellers can dump up to half their incomes into their pet
foundations and deduct the "donations" from their income tax."
Exchanging ownership for control of wealth, foundations are also a
handy means for promoting interests that benefit the wealthy.
Millions of foundation dollars have been "donated" to causes such
as promoting the use of drugs, while degrading preventive medicine.
Since many drugs are made from coal tar derivatives, both oil
companies and drug manufacturing concerns (many Rockefeller owned
or controlled) are the main beneficiaries.
With the means to loan enormous sums to the government (the Federal
Reserve), a method to repay the debt (income tax), and an escape
from taxation for the wealthy, (foundations), all that remained was
an excuse to borrow money. By some happy "coincidence," in 1914
World War I began, and after American participation national debt
rose from $1 billion to $25 billion.
Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1913, beating incumbent
William Howard Taft, who had vowed to veto legislation establishing
a central bank. To divide the Republican vote and elect the
relatively unknown Wilson, J.P. Morgan and Co. poured money into
the candidacy of Teddy Roosevelt and his Progressive Party.
According to an eyewitness, Wilson was brought to Democratic Party
headquarters in 1912 by Bernard Baruch, a wealthy banker. He
received an "indoctrination course" from those he met, and in
return agreed, if elected: to support the projected Federal Reserve
and the income tax, and "listen" to advice in case of war in Europe
and on the composition of his cabinet.
Wilson's top advisor during his two terms was a man named Colonel
Edward M. House. House's biographer, Charles Seymour, called him
the "unseen guardian angel" of the Federal Reserve Act, helping to
guide it through Congress. Another biographer wrote that House
believed: "...the Constitution, product of eighteenth-century
minds...was thoroughly outdated; that the country would be better
off if the Constitution could be scrapped and rewritten..." House
wrote a book entitled "Philip Dru: Administrator," published
anonymously in 1912. The hero, Philip Dru, rules America and
introduces radical changes, such as a graduated income tax, a
central bank, and a "league of nations."
World War I produced both a large national debt, and huge profits
for those who had backed Wilson. Baruch was appointed head of the
War Industries Board, where he exercised dictatorial power over the
national economy. He and the Rockefellers were reported to have
earned over $200 million during the war. Wilson backer Cleveland
Dodge sold munitions to the allies, while J.P. Morgan loaned them
hundreds of millions, with the protection of U.S. entry into the
war.
While profit was certainly a motive, the war was also useful to
justify the notion of world government. William Hoar reveals in
"Architects of Conspiracy" that during the 1950s, government
investigators examining the records of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, a long- time promoter of globalism, found that
several years before the outbreak of World War I, the Carnegie
trustees were planning to involve the U.S. in a general war, to set
the stage for world government.
The main obstacle was that Americans did not want any involvement
in European wars. Some kind of incident, such as the explosion of
the battleship Main, which provoked the Spanish - American war,
would have to be provided as provocation. This occurred when the
Lusitania, carrying 128 Americans on board, was sunk by a German
submarine, and anti-German sentiment was aroused. When war was
declared, U.S. propaganda portrayed all Germans as Huns and fanged
serpents, and all Americans opposing the war as traitors.
What was not revealed at the time, however, was that the Lusitania
was transporting war munitions to England, making it a legitimate
target for the Germans. Even so, they had taken out large ads in
the New York papers, asking that Americans not take passage on the
ship.
The evidence seems to point to a deliberate plan to have the ship
sunk by the Germans. Colin Simpson, author of "The Lusitania,"
wrote that Winston Churchill, head of the British Admiralty during
the war, had ordered a report to predict the political impact if a
passenger ship carrying Americans was sunk. German naval codes had
been broken by the British, who knew approximately where all
U-boats near the British Isles were located.
According to Simpson, Commander Joseph Kenworthy, of British Naval
Intelligence, stated: "The Lusitania was deliberately sent at
considerably reduced speed into an area where a U-boat was known to
be waiting...escorts withdrawn." Thus, even though Wilson had been
reelected in 1916 with the slogan "He kept us out of war," America
soon found itself fighting a European war. Actually, Colonel House
had already negotiated a secret agreement with England, committing
the U.S. to the conflict. It seems the American public had little
say in the matter.
With the end of the war and the Versailles Treaty, which required
severe war reparations from Germany, the way was paved for a leader
in Germany such as Hitler. Wilson brought to the Paris Peace
Conference his famous "fourteen points," with point fourteen being
a proposal for a "general association of nations," which was to be
the first step towards the goal of One World Government-the League
of Nations.
Wilson's official biographer, Ray Stannard Baker, revealed that the
League was not Wilson's idea. "...not a single idea--in the
Covenant of the League was original with the President." Colonel
House was the author of the Covenant, and Wilson had merely
rewritten it to conform to his own phraseology.
The League of Nations was established, but it, and the plan for
world government eventually failed because the U.S. Senate would
not ratify the Versailles Treaty.
Pat Robertson, in "The New World Order," states that Colonel House,
along with other internationalists, realized that America would not
join any scheme for world government without a change in public
opinion.
After a series of meetings, it was decided that an "Institute of
International Affairs", with two branches, in the United States and
England, would be formed.
The British branch became known as the Royal Institute of
International Affairs, with leadership provided by members of the
Round Table. Begun in the late 1800's by Cecil Rhodes, the Round
Table aimed to federate the English speaking peoples of the world,
and bring it under their rule.
The Council on Foreign Relations was incorporated as the American
branch in New York on July 29, 1921. Founding members included
Colonel House, and "...such potentates of international banking as
J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Paul Warburg, Otto Kahn, and
Jacob Schiff...the same clique which had engineered the
establishment of the Federal Reserve System," according to Gary
Allen in the October 1972 issue of "AMERICAN OPINION."
The founding president of the CFR was John W. Davis, J.P. Morgan's
personal attorney, while the vice-president was Paul Cravath, also
representing the Morgan interests. Professor Carroll Quigley
characterized the CFR as "...a front group for J.P. Morgan and
Company in association with the very small American Round Table
Group." Over time Morgan influence was lost to the Rockefellers,
who found that one world government fit their philosophy of
business well. As John D. Rockefeller, Sr. had said: "Competition
is a sin," and global monopoly fit their needs as they grew
internationally.
Antony Sutton, a research fellow for the Hoover Institution for
War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, wrote of this
philosophy: "While monopoly control of industries was once the
objective of J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller, by the late
nineteenth century the inner sanctums of Wall Street understood the
most efficient way to gain an unchallenged monopoly was to 'go
political' and make society go to work for the monopolists-- under
the name of the public good and the public interest."
Frederick C. Howe revealed the strategy of using government in a
1906 book, "Confessions of a Monopolist": "These are the rules of
big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and
remember that the best of all business is politics..."
As corporations went international, national monopolies could no
longer protect their interests. What was needed was a one world
system of government controlled from behind the scenes. This had
been the plan since the time of Colonel House, and to implement it,
it was necessary to weaken the U.S. politically and economically.
During the 1920's, America enjoyed a decade of prosperity, fueled
by the easy availability of credit. Between 1923 and 1929 the
Federal Reserve expanded the money supply by sixty-two percent.
When the stock market crashed, many small investors were ruined,
but not "insiders." In March of 1929 Paul Warburg issued a tip the
Crash was coming, and the largest investors got out of the market,
according to Allen and Abraham in "None Dare Call it Conspiracy."
With their fortunes intact, they were able to buy companies for a
fraction of their worth. Shares that had sold for a dollar might
now cost a nickel, and the buying power, and wealth, of the rich
increased enormously.
Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking Committee declared:
"It was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived
occurrence...The international bankers sought to bring about a
condition of despair here so that they might emerge as rulers of us
all."
Curtis Dall, son-in-law of FDR and a syndicate manager for Lehman
Brothers, an investment firm, was on the N.Y. Stock Exchange floor
the day of the crash. In "FDR: My Exploited Father-In-Law," he
states: "...it was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the
World-Money powers triggered by the planned sudden shortage of call
money in the New York Market."
The Crash paved the way for the man Wall Street had groomed for the
presidency, FDR. Portrayed as a "man of the little people", the
reality was that Roosevelt's family had been involved in New York
banking since the eighteenth century.
Frederic Delano, FDR's uncle, served on the original Federal
Reserve Board. FDR attended Groton and Harvard, and in the 1920's
worked on Wall Street, sitting on the board of directors of eleven
different corporations.
Dall wrote of his father-in-law: "...Most of his thoughts, his
political 'ammunition,'...were carefully manufactured for him in
advance by the CFR-One World Money group. Brilliantly... he
exploded that prepared 'ammunition' in the middle of an
unsuspecting target, the American people--and thus paid off and
retained his internationalist political support."
Taking America off the gold standard in 1934, FDR opened the way to
unrestrained money supply expansion, decades of inflation--and
credit revenues for banks. Raising gold prices from $20 an ounce to
$35, FDR and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (son of a
founding CFR member), gave international bankers huge profits.
FDR's most remembered program, the New Deal, could only be financed
through heavy borrowing. In effect, those who had caused the
Depression loaned America the money to recover from it. Then,
through the National Recovery Administration, proposed by Bernard
Baruch in 1930, they were put in charge of regulating the economy.
FDR appointed Baruch disciple Hugh Johnson to run the NRA, assisted
by CFR member Gerard Swope. With broad powers to regulate wages,
prices, and working conditions, it was, as Herbert Hoover wrote in
his memoirs: "...pure fascism;...merely a remaking of Mussolini's
'corporate state'..." The Supreme Court eventually ruled the NRA
unconstitutional.
During the FDR years, the Council on Foreign Relations captured the
political life of the U.S. Besides Treasury Secretary Morgenthau,
other CFR members included Secretary of State Edward Stettinus, War
Secretary Henry Stimson, and Assistant Secretary of State Sumner
Welles.
Since 1934 almost every United States Secretary of State has been a
CFR member; and ALL Secretaries of War or Defense, from Henry L.
Stimson through Richard Cheney.
The CIA has been under CFR control almost continuously since its
creation, starting with Allen Dulles, founding member of the CFR
and brother of Secretary of State under President Eisenhower, John
Foster Dulles. Allen Dulles had been at the Paris Peace Conference,
joined the CFR in 1926, and later became its president.
John Foster Dulles had been one of Woodrow Wilson's young proteges
at the Paris Peace Conference. A founding member of the CFR...he
was an in-law of the Rockefellers, Chairman of the Board of the
Rockefeller Foundation, and Board Chairman of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace.
In 1940 FDR defeated internationalist Wendell Willkie, who wrote a
book entitled "One World," and later became a CFR member.
Congressman Usher Burdick protested at the time on the floor of the
House that Willkie was being financed by J.P. Morgan and the New
York utility bankers. Polls showed few Republicans favored him, yet
the media portrayed him as THE Republican candidate.
Since that time nearly ALL presidential candidates have been CFR
members. President Truman, who was not a member, was advised by a
group of "wise men," all six of whom were CFR members, according to
Gary Allen. In 1952 and 1956, CFR Adlai Stevenson challenged CFR
Eisenhower.
In 1960, CFR Kennedy (who was probably killed because he had the
courage NOT to go along with all their plans) CFR Nixon. In 1964
the GOP stunned the Establishment by nominating its candidate over
Nelson Rockefeller.
Rockefeller and the CFR wing proceeded to picture Barry Goldwater
as a dangerous radical. In 1968 CFR Nixon ran against CFR Humphrey.
The 1972 "contest" featured CFR Nixon vs. CFR McGovern.
CFR candidates for president include George McGovern, Walter
Mondale, Edmund Muskie, John Anderson, and Lloyd Bentsen. In 1976
we had Jimmy Carter, who is a member of the Trilateral Commission,
created by David Rockefeller and CFR member Zbigniew Brzezinski
with the goal of economic linkage between Japan, Europe, and the
United States, and: "...managing the world economy...a smooth and
peaceful evolution of the global system." We have also had (though
his name strangely disappears from the membership list in 1979) CFR
director (1977-79) George Bush, and last but not least, CFR member
Bill Clinton.
They have all promoted the "New World Order," controlled by the
United Nations. The problem is that "...the present United Nations
organization is actually the creation of the CFR and is housed on
land in Manhattan donated to it by the family of current CFR
chairman David Rockefeller," as Pat Robertson describes it.
The original concept for the UN was the outcome of the Informal
Agenda Group, formed in 1943 by Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
All except Hull were CFR members, and Isaiah Bowman, a founding
member of the CFR, originated the idea.
The American delegation to the San Francisco meeting that drafted
the charter of the United Nations in 1949 included CFR members
Nelson Rockefeller, John Foster Dulles, John McCloy, and CFR
members who were communist agents--Harry Dexter White, Owen
Lattimore, and the Secretary-General of the conference, Alger Hiss.
In all, the Council sent forty-seven of its members in the United
States delegation, effectively controlling the outcome.
Since that time the CFR and its friends in the mass media (largely
controlled by CFR members such as Katherine Graham of the
"Washington Post" and Henry Luce of" Time, Life"), foundations, and
political groups have lobbied consistently to grant the United
Nations more authority and power. Bush and the Gulf War were but
one of the latest calls for a "New World Order."
Admiral Chester Ward, a member of the CFR for over a decade, became
one of its harshest critics, revealing its inner workings in a 1975
book, "Kissinger ON THE COUCH." In it he states "The most powerful
cliques in these elitist groups have one objective in common: they
want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and national
independence of the United States."
Most members are one-world-government ideologists whose long- term
goals were officially summed up in September 1961 State Department
Document 7277, adopted by the Nixon Administration: "...elimination
of all armed forces and armaments except those needed to maintain
internal order within states and to furnish the United Nations with
peace forces...by the time it (UN global government) would be so
strong no nation could challenge it."
Within the CFR there exists a "much smaller group but more
powerful...made up of Wall Street international bankers and their
key agents. Primarily, they want the world banking monopoly from
whatever power ends up in control of the global government ...This
CFR faction is headed by the Rockefeller brothers," according to
Ward.
What must be remembered is that this is not some lunatic- fringe
group...these are members of one of the most powerful private
organizations in the world: the people who determine and control
American economic, social, political, and military policy. Members'
influence and control extends to "leaders in academia, public
service, business, and the media," according to the CFR 1993
"Annual Report."
Their founding they describe as: "American Participants in the
Paris Peace Conference decided that it was time for more private
Americans to become familiar with the increasing responsibilities
and obligations of the United States...there was a need for an
organization able to provide for the continuous study of U.S.
foreign police for the BENEFIT OF ITS MEMBERS (emphasis mine) and a
wider audience of interested Americans."
They sponsor hundreds of programs, where members "exchange views
with American and foreign officials and policy experts... discuss
foreign policy issues...consider international issues of concern to
the business community" (Corporate business), and "...affiliated
groups of community leaders throughout the United states...meet
with decision makers."
The CFR states that it is "host to many views, advocate of none,"
and it "has no affiliation with the U.S. government." No, no
affiliation at all, if you don't count: "A Council member was
elected president of the United States...Dozens of other Council
colleagues were called to serve in cabinet and sub-cabinet
positions," as they describe it in "Foreign Affairs," along with
many members of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs, the
Federal Reserve, and many other Federal bureaucrats.
They are not AFFILIATED with government, they ARE the government,
in effect.
One re-occurring view was stated in the 50th anniversary issue of
"Foreign Affairs," the
official publication of the CFR. In an article by Kingman Brewster,
Jr. entitled "Reflections on Our National Purpose." Our purpose
should be, according to him, to do away with our nationality, to
"take some risks in order to invite others to pool their
sovereignty with ours..."
These "risks" include disarming to the point where we would be
helpless against the "peace-keeping" forces of a global UN
government. We should happily surrender our sovereignty to the
world government in the interests of the "world community."
Today we have the spectacle of Spc. 4 Michael New, a U.S. soldier
in Germany who refuses to wear the uniform of the UN, facing an
"administrative discharge." He states rightly that he swore an oath
to defend the U.S. Constitution, not the United Nations. Many other
Americans have taken that same oath, such as myself, and believe it
is our sworn duty still to defend the Constitution, since an oath
sworn before God must be fulfilled. (Why else do we swear to tell
the truth in our courts, or when taking public office?) Is it a
crime these days to actually BELIEVE in God and the oath that was
taken?
Meanwhile, others who attempt to destroy the Constitution and our
sovereignty are given honors and position...At least they are not
hypocrites...only supremely arrogant.
"In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from
the bottom up rather than from the top down...An end run around
national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish
much more than the old fashioned assault..." in the opinion of
Richard N. Gardner, former deputy assistant Secretary of State in
"Foreign Affairs," April 1974.
James Warburg, son of CFR founder Paul Warburg, and a member of
FDR's "brain trust," testified before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee on February 17, 1950, "We shall have world government
whether or not you like it--by conquest or consent."
Is this an AMERICAN speaking, or a dangerous lunatic? Who is this
"We" who threatens to CONQUER us?
They are a group that actually has the power to do it, and is doing
it every day, bit by bit.
CFR Members in the mass media, education, and entertainment push
their propaganda of "humanism" and world brotherhood. We should all
live in peace under a world government, and forget about such
selfish things as nationalities and patriotism. We can solve our
own problems. We don't need God, or morals, or values: it's all
relative, anyway, right?...Because if we actually had some moral
character and values, we might be able to discern that these people
are actually EVIL.
The Bible says that the LOVE of money is the root of all evil (1
Tim. 6:10). These people are evil because they love money and
power, and greed drives them to do anything to achieve their goals.
They have lost all morality and conscience, and believe such
concepts, as well as our Constitution, "outdated".
THAT is insanity--to have more wealth than can be spent, and still
it is never enough. They have to control governments, start wars,
conspire to rule the world; least the "common people" wake up to
how they have gained their wealth, take it away from them, and
demand that they pay the price for their crimes.
That is why they constantly pit us one against the other, with
"Diversity," Affirmative Action, and other programs,...black
against white, men against women, rural against urban, ranchers
against environmentalists, and on and on...least we look in their
direction.
We The People are held to a much higher standard. If we threaten
the President or a public official, we are charged with a
crime...yet the One-World-Gang can threaten the Constitution and
the liberties of We The People, the sovereign rulers of this
nation, and nothing is said or done.
Perhaps they do not fear what Man can do to them... they believe
they have arranged everything, and their power and wealth will
prevail in this world. However, those among them who have sworn an
oath before God to uphold and defend the Constitution: the
President, members of Congress, and the military; may find one day
that they do indeed have something to fear.
List of CFR Members
Colonel House, the fallen angel, still has relatives controlling
the CFR. Karen Elliot House is Chairman of the Membership
Committee, and a member of the Nominating Committee, along with
Jeane Kirkpatrick. David Rockefeller is now "Honorary Chairman of
the Board", after serving as Chairman 1970-1985; and "Director
Emeritus," after serving as a Director 1949-1985. Peter G. Peterson
is Chairman, Admiral B. R. Inman is Vice Chairman, while Thomas
Foley and Jeane Kirkpatrick are Directors serving on the Executive
Committee.
These "private citizens" have access to government officials and
policy makers as often as they wish, yet the results of their
meetings can only be given to other government officials, corporate
officers, or law partners. Participants are forbidden to transmit
an attributed statement to any public medium, such as newspapers or
TV, where there is "risk that it will promptly be widely circulated
or published," as the "Annual Report" puts it.
Should not OUR public officials be forbidden to meet in secret with
private groups? Public officials should only be allowed to discuss
public business and policy in a public forum. The Public...remember
US?
There is much more to say about this group and their plans for
America. Gary Allen, in "The Rockefeller File," states that they
are behind the many regional government plans, which would abolish
city, county, and state lines, leaving us at the mercy of federal
bureaucrats; and behind the push for "land use" controls. They want
"federal control of everything. Since they intend to control the
federal government..."
There are also the many allegations of involvement in gun running,
drug smuggling, prostitution and sex slaves; and the many
mysterious assassinations and "suicides" of witnesses and others
who get too close to the truth...but that is another story.
References
- Bo Adelmann, 1986. "The Federal Reserve System." The New American, October 17.
- Gary Allen, 1976. The Rockefeller File. Seal Beach, CA: '76 Press.
- Gary Allen with Larry Abraham, 1972. None Dare Call it Conspiracy. Rossmoor, CA: Concord Press.
- "Congressional Record," December 22, 1913, Vol. 51.
- Phoebe and Kent Courtney, 1962. America's Unelected Rulers, The Council on Foreign Relations. New Orleans: Conservative Society of America.
- Curtis B. Dall, 1970. FDR My Exploited Father-In-Law. Washington D.C.: Action Associates.
- A. Ralph Epperson, 1985. The Unseen Hand. Tucson, AZ: Publius Press.
- F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1950. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
- William P. Hoar, 1984. Architects of Conspiracy. Belmont MA: Western Islands.
- Herbert Hoover, 1952. The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, The Great Depression 1929-1941. New York: Macmillan.
- Frederick C. Howe, 1906. Confessions of a Monopolist. Chicago: Public Publishing Co.
- Robert C. Johansen, 1980. Models of World Order, in "Dilemmas of War and Peace."
- Peter Kershaw, 1994. "Economic Solutions."
- Devvy Kidd, 1995. "Why A Bankrupt America?" Colorado: Project Liberty.
- Ferdinand Lundberg, 1938. America's 60 Families. New York: Vanguard.
- Louis T. McFadden, 1934. "The Federal Reserve Corporation, remarks in Congress." Boston: Forum Publication Co.
- James Perloff, 1988. The Shadows of Power. Appleton, WI: Western Islands.
- Carroll Quigley, 1966. Tragedy and Hope. New York: Macmillan.
- Pat Robertson, 1991. The New World Order. Dallas: Word Publishing.
- Charles Seymour, ed., 1926. The Intimate Paper of Colonel House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Colin Simpson, 1972. The Lusitania. Boston: Little, Brown.
- Arthur D. Howde Smith, 1940. "Mr House ob5 Texas." New York: Funk and Wagnalls.
- Antony C. Sutton, 1975. Wall Street and FDR. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House.
- George Sylvester Viereck, 1932. The Strangest Friendship in History. New York: Liveright.
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar