From: "George A. Stathis" <hyperlex@hol.gr>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:04:06 -0800 (PST)
To: "Mark M." <hyperlex@hol.gr>
Subject: The TRILATERAL COMMISSION -was: [REBUTTAL] Censorship on...
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At 12:34 ðì 14/11/1996 -0500, Mark M. wrote:
(in response to me saying):
>> Man you're nutts. There are very few and quite vast Media Companies
>> in the world, and they're on the verge of becoming monopolies.
>> 
>> Even your American President is in reality a puppet of the Trilateral
>> Commission, who effectively also control CNN, the Washington Post,
>> and many many many other things all over the world.
>> 
>> And you are saying that control of the media by ownership is
>> impossible?  You're far out maaan! :-)
>> 
>> Only in America such a naive opinion could actually be _believed_.
>> (here I go again... aga! :-) )
>
>Is this a troll?

Nope; It's the truth. Expressed like a sarcastic joke as well, but
it's _true_. And not intended to be a troll at all.

As regards the "gullibility", it's plainly dangerous; And cultivated
by the Media, apparently stronger in the U.S. than in many other places.

But: How many times do I have to state explicitly that my grumbles about
America are not "anti-American" (troll) propaganda? Nope; They're grumbles
about _freedoms_, that if you Americans lose, the rest of the world will
_also_ lose, (even quicker, I think)... Here is a REAL example:



(written by E. Francis, on the "Trilateral Commission", and distributed
 to all members of his own -private- mailing list, of which I'm a part).


>THE LAND OF SHADOWS
>
>     Early this month is the last presidential 
>"election" before the year 2000. As of this writing and 
>long before, the election was decided in favor of Bill 
>Clinton. It works out astrologically, but the real 
>reason is because Clinton's bosses control the 
>corporations that control the nation, and they also 
>happen to own the major media which, shall we say, help 
>the public make up its mind about who to vote for -- 
>media like CNN, NBC, The Washington Post, The New York 
>Times, Tribune Co., Time-Warner and others.
>     This is not speculation, and if you would allow me 
>to pre-empt this astrological column with a brief 
>exposé, I will explain. All of these news organizations 
>are members of an international institution called the 
>Trilateral Commission (which is listed in the Manhattan 
>phone book, by the way). Bill Clinton and more than 20 
>of his cabinet ministers are also on the list. Bob Dole 
>isn't a member, and neither is Jack Kemp, so in a very 
>real sense, they are the outsider candidates.
>     Since the organization's creation in 1973, every 
>White House has had Trilateral Commission 
>representation, starting with former Vice President 
>Nelson D. Rockefeller, the brother of the Commission's 
>co-founder, David Rockefeller. In 1976, Jimmy Carter, a 
>member of the Commission and close associate of the 
>Rockefellers, was "elected" president, and so on down 
>the line in an unbroken chain through Bill Clinton. In 
>one presidential election in the 1980s, all three 
>candidates were Trilateralists! And in the election 
>right before the current one, it was Trilateralist 
>George Bush versus Trilateralist Bill Clinton. It's a 
>little like both candidates in the old Soviet elections 
>coming from the Communist party.
>     You may wonder, "What's the big deal?" But look at 
>it this way. What if every president or vice president 
>for the past 22 years had been an executive of Grumman 
>Aerospace or a graduate of Harvard University? You 
>might suspect that Grumman or Harvard had a little 
>extra influence and was getting its people into 
>positions of power. But since the nation's most 
>powerful media are also represented on the Commission, 
>its existence rarely gets reported, and its true nature 
>is never accurately reported except in the alternative 
>media. Check the National Newspaper Index in any 
>library and you'll find, at most, one or two references 
>to the Commission, and both seek to belittle its 
>importance.
>     And people who are involved in the organization 
>don't like to talk about it. I recently caught up with 
>Secretary of the Interior (and Trilateral Commission 
>member) Bruce Babbit while he was on a speaking 
>engagement at the posh Mohonk Mountain House in my 
>area. A number of newspaper reporters were gathered 
>around him asking him the usual trivia. When I asked 
>him directly about his involvement on the commission, 
>and the president's, and that of some two dozen other 
>cabinet members, with the red light of a video camera 
>coming from behind me, Bruce cracked a joke about how I 
>would be a popular guy "out west" (ostensibly where 
>everybody has weird political theories), then he turned 
>tail and ran away from the news conference.
>     Commission membership also includes key federal 
>legislators, people on the incredibly powerful Federal 
>Reserve Board, major bankers and the CEOs of numerous 
>corporations of the General Electric and General Foods 
>ilk. And it's an international institution as well, 
>_majority-dominated by business and political interests 
>in other lands, particularly Germany and Japan_. 
>Consider the implications. It is arguable that the 
>Trilateral White House is dominated by government and 
>business interests of foreign nations, which is 
>clearly, blatantly unconstitutional.
>     The above-mentioned national media directly 
>involved with this organization, which set the national 
>news agenda here in the U.S. and for much of the 
>western world, are the same ones which are manipulating 
>the current election by sanitizing all the news that 
>should be coming out of Washington and elsewhere, by 
>not tallying the impressive pile of corpses collecting 
>around the President, and most of all, by bombarding us 
>with PR-generated trivia and commercials 24 hours a day 
>when there are somewhat more significant things to 
>concern ourselves with.
>     And of course, the economy keeps getting better.
>     But just in case you ever wondered just how it 
>happened that some unknown governor of Arkansas ended 
>up tooling around the globe aboard Air Force One, now 
>you have a clue. And in case you thought people were 
>stupid, well, this makes a good case for people just 
>being manipulated. But of course, you'd have no way of 
>knowing this if the only place you got your information 
>was a television set or newspaper. Perhaps this is why 
>big government is so interested in censoring the 
>Internet.
>     I don't believe that the Trilateral Commission is 
>a conspiracy, I believe it's just one fact of how the 
>ruling class of the Western world organizes itself. 
>     There are other levels of aristocratic shadow-
>government organization, and they're quite worth while 
>to study, but this one sure points to some interesting 
>possibilities, and boy, the fact that you never hear it 
>mentioned should make really you wonder.
>     Not that there isn't enough to wonder about 
>already, and not that any of it matters.
>     After all, nothing really happens nowadays. Flight 
>800 got shot down, but nobody did it. It just sort of 
>exploded and fell out of the sky. Not only wasn't there 
>a perpetrator, there wasn't even a cause determined for 
>the explosion!
>     We have wars -- safe ones, where nobody comes back 
>with their arms and legs blown off. The federal budget 
>deficit increased by a few billion dollars in the time 
>it took me to write this article, and yet it's 
>meaningless. There is no public mention of the 
>Constitutional amendment, the famous 14th Amendment, 
>which explicitly states, "The validity of the public 
>debt of the United States...shall not be questioned." 
>It's the law of the land!
>     So, lest I blow a few too many of my brain cells 
>thinking about this, I will now go back to being an 
>astrologer.
>     End of exposé	
>