In Part 2 of this series I showed how our current government was founded by a tiny elite in a conspiratorial manner. I know full well that many will say, "But that was then, this is now and the USA is a huge country that cannot be ruled by a tiny group of people, no matter how powerful or well placed." Well, I wish. Back in 1787 an opponent of the House Of Representatives grilled Madison on the terror it could be in the future when the nation would have expanded and the House made up of several hundred men, some by then of dubious (i.e., Democratic) character. Madison's answer? "No matter how large the group there is an iron law of oligarcy and only a few will seek to manipulate." We will soon see how prescient Madison was and how even today there is well and true an iron law.
The numbers below refer to notes I have made in a book, "The Rockefellers, A Family Dynasty", 1978.
(1) We are concerned here with David Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller II and grandson of the original John D. Rockefeller. Those who have read Lundberg's America's Sixty Families (1941) and The Rich And The Super Rich (1967) know that the Rockefellers and their relations (see Stephen Birmingham's Our Crowd and The Right People) are the leading faction of the real power elite in the United States at this time. As you will soon see, this statement is not an exaggeration.
(2) David Rockefeller in 1974 was chairman of the Chase Bank, one of the three greatest and most important banks in the world. The quote from Finance magazine is telling as is the following sentence about "systems of power guiding the nation." What can the source of this power be? Well, the next two paragraphs outline the facts: ". . .insofar as the private sector had a general interest, bankers expressed it; their very boards were the gathering places for corporate collectivities of power." Then just below we read, "It was the growing dominance of financial over industrial institutions, and of the large institutional investors over shareholding individuals as the legal owners of the country's leading corporations. These trends intersected in the emergence of banks as the epicenter of the economy. Controlling huge trusts and even larger pension funds, they had become the great powers of the economic order." You see, it is not the legal owners who necessarily control. . .it is the trust officers and directors of the banks who do, because they vote the stock! David Rockefeller "chaired a board of directors interlocked with the boards of Allied Chemical, Exxon, Standard of Indiana, Shell Oil, AT&T, Honeywell, General Foods and dozens of other corporate giants. The Chase was a leading stockholder in CBS, Jersey Standard, Atlantic Richfield, United Airlines, and a galaxy of other corporations--from AT&T and IBM to Motorola and Safeway. The power this stockholding position conferred was immense." Just a a few months ago the Clinton administration guided a new banking bill through Congress, a bill that received almost no attention in the media, obsessed as it was with OJ and abortion and school prayer. This bill gives banks like the Chase carte blanche to expand throughout the nation and to eventually underwrite stocks, something forbidden since the mid-1930s and the Glass-Stegall act.
(3) In January of 1992 David Rockefeller II took over as chairman of the Chase Bank, his father having just retired. How is this possible? It is possible because at the very top of the U.S. power pyramid we see an intermarried, hereditary, plutocracy, the current version in place since the 1890's (see Lundberg) and still in the saddle today. The heirs, assigns, cousins, nephews, friends and employees of this group run the country, period. For instance, note that David took over in part for John McCloy, a man who had been a Rockefeller lawyer for decades and who was Allied administrator for the occupation of Germany in the late 1940s and the Undersecretary of War who signed (in 1942) the order creating Los Alamos. Later he was to be made DCl [ed - Director of Central Intelligence] and chairman of the board of IT&T.
(4) What a shock it was to see that the odious George Gilder, relentless promoter of Reaganomics in academia in the early 1980s, is a godson of David Rockefeller. But, of course, something like this had to be true because Gilder has only a BA in English! Over and over again one sees this, unknown people suddenly appearing on national television as "experts" and debating with real people like Walter Heller. Now we know how and why! Today, Gilder has resurfaced as an "expert" on futurism and the New World Order. Reading George is to get the offical view of power concerning the shape of the world you and your children will be living in for the next generation or so.
(5) David [ ed-Rockefeller] and JFK were contemporaries, born in 1915 and 1917 respectively. The strange relationship of the families goes backto the 1930s when Joseph Kennedy was made the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission by Franklin Roosevelt. Rockefeller II, David's father, used the New Deal and Kennedy to break the absolute power of the Morgan and Mellon Banks and give his three family banks, Chase, First National of New York (now CitiCorp), and Chemical Bank, a leg up to take Morgan's place. Part of this campaign involved the Glass-Stegall Act, which forbade banks from underwriting stock. Now that the Rockefeller banks truly rule the roost this act can be done away with, and it HAS BEEN, under Democrat Clinton, man of the people and flaming liberal (so-called). The point is the that the Kennedys were employees, flunkies, of the Rockefellers and their ilk. That's why they could be shot. Ditto for Clinton, former member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former Rhodes Scholar, who can (and will) be removed (hopefully without gunfire) when his task is finished.
(6) The Rockefeller Brothers Study of the late 1950s (Chair: Henry Kissinger, member of the staff of Nelson Rockefeller) was an outline for the massive military build-up of the Cold War and was implemented in its entirety by Kennedy and Johnson. You have to understand that the real profit on guns and bombs approaches 50% on invested capital and if Quayle's trust fund ($100 million) is to keep paying that 8 per cent interest the money has to come from somewhere. Weapons really pay and Uncle Sam is not going out of that business for a long, long time--ask those who count.
(7) As ruinous as these tax cuts and war-fighting budgets were for the country in the 1960s it was re-played in the 1980s under Reagan and Bush. How can this walk? Who benefits? Well, in the last election something like 37% of the eligible voters went to the polls, which means that something like 19% of the eligible voters put in the Newt-Man. The fact is that this economy can fall a long way and still keep the loyalty of about one-sixth of the population. See Lundberg for the means and methods that keep voter participation low enough for the plutocrats to call all the shots.
(8) It seems that Rockefeller interests in Cuba were large and that Professor A.A. Berle, University of Chicago, author of the academically accepted account of the history of The Standard Oil, was a Rockefeller family advisor! How quaint! Note, too, that Rockefeller employees seem to wind up on the National Security Council in large numbers. Dean Rusk was chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation, as were other Secretaries of State John Foster Dulles and Christian Herter. Henry Kissinger also was, for a time, chairman of the fund.
(9) The interests of the Rockefellers in Latin America are immense. They own vast oil fields in Venezuela, as do minor- leaguers like the Bush family and William F. Buckley. Their planning horizons are suitably long and the recent NAFTA treaty is simply the endstage of a generation of effort on the part of these people. Kennedy's interest in improving the lot of the average peasant in Latin American didn't get very far when faced with opposition from the Rockefellers at home and the brutal elite families of the countries in question. One of the first results of the counterattack was the 1964 coup in Brazil, engineered by CIA and hailed by Rusk at the bottom of page 416. The late 1960s saw one coup after another and together they put paid to any spread of Cuban-style reorganizations. See Sampson's "The Sovereign State of IT&T" for more on how CIA and corporate America arranges the assassinations of inconvenient foreign leaders who will not play ball with Rockefellers and Mellons.
(10) In the last days of the Roman Republic, after the Punic Wars, the Gracci Brothers tried to reform Rome and forestall the emergence of out-and-out Empire. For their trouble they were both assassinated. You could look it up. America today is the New Rome, with its legions stationed around the world and its money accepted everywhere, just as was the case under Augustus and his successors. Rome was ruled by a few dozen families, you could look that up, too, and there was literally nothing they would not do to retain their power, up to and including assassinating inconvenient members of their own cadre. Is Richard Condon right and did old Joe Kennedy have to sign off on the killing of his own son once it became the desired end of those who truly rule? Such is more than possible in the New Rome, much as it was in the Old One. We'll have some information on Old Rome in a later number of this series.
Is not the above very interesting? And now we know that these are the kinds of people financing UFO research in the USA. What should our take on this be? Are they doing this for the benefit of all the little people in the world or for their own long-run interest? To ask such a question is to answer it.