GLOBAL ELITE GATHER IN D.C.

 Trilateral Commission members want suffering U.S. taxpayers to shell out even more money

The
Trilateral Commission—one of the three most powerful globalist groups
in the world—held closed-door meetings right here in Washington, D.C.
from April 25 to 28. True to form, those members of the media who knew
about the meeting—or were themselves participants in the
proceedings—refused to discuss what went on inside or report on the
attendees. Luckily, AFP’s own editor, Jim Tucker, was on the scene to
bust this clandestine confabulation wide open.

By James P. Tucker Jr.

Luminaries
at the Trilateral Commission meeting in Washington expressed confidence
that they own all three major presidential candidates, who, despite
political posturing, will support sovereignty-surrendering measures
such as NAFTA and the “North American Union.”

“John has always
supported free trade, even while campaigning before union leaders,”
said one. “Hil and Barack are pretending to be unhappy about some
things, but that’s merely political posturing. They’re solidly in
support.”

He was referring to Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

Mrs.
Clinton, they noted, held strategy sessions as first lady on how to get
Congress to approve NAFTA “without changes.” As president, they agreed,
she would do no more than “dot an i or cross a t.”

Candidate
Obama has not denied news reports in Canada that his top economic
adviser, Austan Goolsbee, assured Canadian diplomats that the senator
would keep NAFTA intact and his anti-trade talk is just “campaign
rhetoric.”

PETRIFIED ABOUT PAUL

While they are confident
they can deal with any “potential president,” the Trilateralists paid
huge tribute to Ron Paul in an equally large twist of irony, by
expressing alarm that he is causing “significant future damage.”

They
expressed concern that Paul’s rallies have attracted multitudes of
young people who are getting “their political education.” They want
Republicans to pressure Paul to drop out now and stop his education
rallies. This assignment was given to Thomas Foley, former U.S. House
speaker.

The reasons Paul’s “education campaign” strikes fear
into Trilateral hearts are obvious. Paul would refuse to surrender an
ounce of U.S. sovereignty to an international organization and TC wants
world government.

Paul would immediately bring U.S. troops home
from Iraq, Afghanistan and from 130 UN “peacekeeping” missions around
the globe. TC wants to enjoy war profiteering and global power. Paul
would abolish the federal income tax while the TC wants to pile on a
global tax payable to the UN.

The formal agenda was loaded with
everything Paul and American patriots detest: higher taxes, more
foreign giveaways, more immigration, both legal and illegal, into the
United States and “engaging Iran,” among others.

AMERICA NEEDS TO PAY HER FAIR SHARE?

The
Trilaterals got down to real work on Saturday, April 26, with a
high-powered panel called “U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policy: Broad
Outlines for a New Administration.”

It was presided over by journalistic pimp David Gergen, who will write nothing about TC in his magazine, U.S News and World Report.
Also participating were Kenneth Duberstein, former White House chief of
staff for President Ronald Reagan; Strobe Talbot, president of the
Brookings Institution and former deputy secretary of state; and Joseph
Nye, former assistant secretary of defense. Henry Kissinger, former
secretary of state and long-time Bilderberg leader, was present and
listed as a participant. But a TC staff member crossed his name out.
Some speculated he had throat problems.

This panel had these
orders for the next president: increase foreign aid across the board
because “America does not pay its fair share,” pay up the arrears in UN
dues, allow as many immigrants into the United States as want to come
and provide “amnesty” for illegal aliens already here.

Little,
if anything, was said about the fact that American taxpayers pay
one-fourth of the UN’s operating costs and one-third of the cost of 130
“peacekeeping missions” or the fact that immigrants from South America
depress wages here and the average immigrant family costs the
government thousands of dollars a year in welfare, health and other
“benefits.”

Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank and
another long-time Bilderberg boy, largely echoed these views in a
sweetheart “interview” by another journalistic strumpet, Lionel Barber,
editor of The Financial Times, who will obediently report nothing.

FIGHT WARMING; ALLOW IMMIGRANTS

There
were “subgroup” meetings on “climate change,” “water and sanitation”
and “migration and development.” Every nation, especially the U.S.,
should spend big bucks to fight “global warming,” they agreed. The
United States should spend more “because Americans cause the most
pollution,” one argued. Americans should send more money to Africa so
natives can drink clean water and scrub themselves, they said.

Antonio
Garrigues Walker, chairman of Garrigues Abogadas y Asesores
Tributarios, joined Peter Sutherland, the UN secretary-general’s
“special representative on migration and development,” to call on the
United States to not only allow unlimited immigration, but to throw
more money at Mexico and other impoverished Latin countries. It was,
somehow, their “right” to have more U.S. dollars. Sutherland is
chairman of British Petroleum and Goldman Sachs International. He is
also a long-time Bilderberg leader.

MEDIA BLACKOUT

Bill
Emmott, another kept journalist, spoke on “the rise of Asia” at a
reception-dinner held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Emmott,
former editor of The Economist, will report nothing.

Sunday
morning, Robert Blackwill, former U.S. deputy national security adviser
for Iraq, led a panel discussion on “engaging Iran and building peace
in the Persian Gulf Region.” For the first time, there was dissent.
Blackwill tried to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. Others doubted
that Saddam Hussein was connected to the 9-11 terrorist attacks or was
a nuclear threat. Blackwill said the military option remains but he
hopes diplomatic efforts succeed.

Other participants were Ray
Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations, which functions as the
propaganda ministry for TC and Bilderberg; Volker Perthes, head of the
German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Hitoshi
Tanaka, former Japanese deputy minister of Foreign Affairs.

MORE, MORE, MORE MONEY

More
foreigners demanded more U.S. money at a lunch panel called “European
and Asian views on U.S. Foreign and Security Policy.” Participants were
Elisabeth Guigou, a member of the French National Assembly and former
minister for European affairs and Han Sung-joo, former minister of
foreign affairs for South Korea.

An afternoon session addressed
“global health” with more calls for American tax dollars. A major voice
in this cause came from Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of Global
Development Programs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates
has attended at least one Bilderberg meeting.

EXCUSES FOR IRAQ; PLANS FOR IRAN

John
Negroponte, U.S. deputy secretary of state, addressed the evening
dinner on “U.S. foreign policy perspectives.” Again, the invasions of
Iraq and Afghanistan were rationalized and an invasion of Iran held out
as a possibility.

The Monday morning finale addressed the Global
Financial Crisis involving these luminaries: Robert Kimmitt, U.S.
deputy secretary of the treasury; Martin Feldstein, former chairman of
the President’s Council of Economic Advisers; David Rubenstein,
managing director of The Carlyle Group; Naoki Tanaka, president of the
Center for International Public Policy Studies and Sir Andrew Crockett,
president of JP Morgan Chase International.

Among them, there
was much talk of the U.S. government’s “duty” to “intervene” on behalf
of “financial institutions under stress.” Little or nothing was said of
the hundreds of thousands of Americans who are losing their homes
because financial institutions lured them into buying houses they could
not afford.

Throughout the weekend, no American voices were
heard objecting to the demands on their country. Instead, there were
smiles, nods and applause.

AFP editor James P. Tucker Jr. is
a veteran journalist who spent many years as a member of the “elite”
media in Washington. Since 1975 he has won widespread recognition, here
and abroad, for his pursuit of on-the-scene stories reporting the
intrigues of global power blocs such as the Bilderberg Group. Tucker is
the author of Jim Tucker’s Bilderberg Diary. Loaded with
photos—many never published before—the book recounts Tucker’s
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