- Opinion
- 11 Feb 10
Or are they? Tom Prendeville takes a look at the shadowy ‘Trilateral Commission’ and ponders: is it, despite its protestations, a sinister ‘world government’ in disguise?
The Trilateral Commission is coming to Dublin on May 7th for their annual three-day World Conference.
Long accused of being a shadow world government, the Trilateral Commission is top-heavy with global bankers, multi-national corporations, media barons and government heavyweights such as ex-President George Bush Senior, Dick Cheney and Alan Greenspan.
The secretive organization has a membership of 390, including several Irish members, including Peter Sutherland who is listed as the European Chairman.
Other Irish members include: Senator Richard Conroy; the former Governor of Bank of Ireland, Richard Burrows; and Dermot Gleeson, who is the former Chairman of the AIB Bank. Past members include John Bruton, Mary Robinson and Garret FitzGerald.
According to critics, the Trilateral Commission advocates a One World Government.
Founded in 1973 by billionaire David Rockefeller, its first director was Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force and the mastermind behind Barack Obama’s meteoric rise to the office of Presidency.
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However, alarm bells started to ring about the Trilaterals from the word go, when Zbigniew Brzeninski advocated a post-democratic world run by a select elite. “The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society,” he said. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.”
The deeply conservative Senator Barry Goldwater, who ran unsuccessfully for the US Presidency in 1964, later warned: “The Trilateral Commission is international and is intended to be the vehicle for multi-national consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government. The Trilateral Commission represents a skilful, co-ordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centres of power – political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical.”
Stung by the chorus of criticism it has attracted over the years, the organization now claims on its website that it has no hidden agenda to rule the world.
“The Trilateral Commission encourages international co-operation on many issues,” it says, “but does not promote a world government. No Commission report proposes that national governments be dissolved and a world government be created. Individuals or organizations who believe the Trilateral Commission supports or intends to form a world government are misinformed.”
However, in 1991 in Baden in Germany, the founder of the Trilateral Commission, David Rockefeller — who still holds the title of Chairman — told a gathering of the Bilderberg Group, a sister organization which has overlapping membership with the TLC, something different.
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years,” he said. “It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supra-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practised in past centuries.”
With the world economy now in ruins thanks to the ‘elite’ world bankers, it would appear that Rockefeller’s Shangri-La now lies in ruins. No matter. The Trilateral Commission carries on.
When these world luminaries touch down in Dublin in May 7th-9th, the three-day event is likely to be a major headache for Gardaí, who will have to provide protection for almost 400 delegates. Previous gatherings have attracted very negative attention, occasionally accompanied by riots:
“We don’t normally discuss security arrangements for VIP’s, especially heads of Government,” explained a spokesperson for the Garda Siochana.
The Trilateral Commission event is being handled by Delahunty Event Management, who confirmed that the function is taking place in the capital.
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“The event is taking place in Dublin in May, it is a private function,” explained Elaine Delahunty.
The prestige corporate event management company would not reveal the chosen venue.