The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy (34 page)

Many of these same names plus others appear on the roster of the Trilateral Commission, cofounded in 1973 by Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller Sr. Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker, both of whom went on to head the Federal Reserve System, also were founding members of the commission. Brzezinski, a former chairman of the commission, was Obama’s principal foreign policy adviser during the 2008 campaign, and it was generally accepted that Trilateral members groomed Obama for office. The Trilateral Commission is generally considered a spin-off organization of the Council on Foreign Relations that was designed to include Asian nations.

Additional Trilateralists in the Obama administration include: Tim Geithner; Susan Rice; the deputy national security adviser, Thomas Donilon; the director of national intelligence, Admiral Dennis C. Blair; the assistant secretary of state for Asia and the Pacific, Kurt M. Campbell; the deputy secretary of state, James Steinberg; and State Department special envoys Richard Haass, Dennis Ross, and Richard Holbrooke.

“According to official Trilateral Commission membership lists, there are only 87 members from the United States (the other 337 members are from other countries). Thus, within two weeks of his inauguration, Obama’s appointments encompassed more than 12 percent of [the] Commission’s entire U.S. membership,” noted researchers at Project Censored.

Patrick Wood, author of the Project Censored paper “Obama: Trilateral Commission Endgame,” stated, “The concept of ‘undue influence’ comes to mind when considering the number of Trilateral Commission members in the Obama administration. They control the areas of our most urgent national needs: financial and economic crisis, national security, and foreign policy. The conflict of interest is glaring. With 75 percent of the Trilateral membership consisting of non-U.S. individuals, what influence does this super-majority have on the remaining 25 percent? For example, when Chrysler entered bankruptcy under the oversight and control of the Obama administration, it was quickly decided that the Italian carmaker Fiat would take over Chrysler. The deal’s point man, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, is a member of the Trilateral Commission. Would you be surprised to know that the chairman of Fiat, Luca di Montezemolo, is also a fellow member? Congress should have halted this deal the moment it was suggested.”

In his book
With No Apologies,
the late senator Barry Goldwater described the commission with distrust: “In my view, the Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power: political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical. All this is to be done in the interest of creating a more peaceful, more productive world community. What the Trilateralists truly intend is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved. They believe the abundant materialism they propose to create will overwhelm existing differences. As managers and creators of the system they will rule the future.” Trilateralists and others within globalist societies have displayed very little concern for the United States as a sovereign nation. Their policies often run counter to the best interests of the United States and, in fact, appear to support the allegation that they seek a one-world government.

A COMFORTABLE STAFF

I
T MAY BE THAT
President Obama is connected to too many of the nation’s elite globalists to affect policy in any one direction without appearing hypocritical. He also came under fire for perceived conflicts of interest, such as the time he golfed with Robert Wolf, president of UBS Investment Bank and the chairman and CEO of UBS Group Americas. Wolf had been an early supporter of Obama and had raised $250,000 for his campaign back in 2006. Moreover, according to ProPublica reporter Sharona Coutts and Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, their golf game took place only three days after UBS had reached an agreement with the IRS to give up the names of forty-five hundred American clients suspected of hiding billions in secret Swiss bank accounts. This was done in an effort to avoid criminal charges. UBS already had admitted to aiding the clients in tax evasion and agreed to pay a $780 million fine. In February 2009, Wolf was appointed to the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, tasked with trying to fix America’s new depression.

What is perhaps both ironic and tragic about the UBS situation is that the man who had been the whistle-blower on UBS’s shady dealings was sentenced to a forty-month prison sentence. As a UBS banker involved with the Swiss accounts, Bradley Birkenfeld had initiated the investigation. It was Birkenfeld’s disclosures and cooperation with authorities that provided inside information into the bank’s conduct and allowed the government to gain $780 billion in fines and stop a massive tax-evasion scheme. Yet, for his trouble, Birkenfeld was given a harsher sentence by Fort Lauderdale federal judge William Zloch than was asked for by the case’s prosecutors.

Stephen Kohn pointed out that while the government announced it would investigate the forty-five hundred names handed over by UBS, Birkenfeld had actually turned in fifty-two thousand account identifications. “But the whole case is puzzling,” Kohn added, “because if the United States wants to crack tax fraud, if they want to crack money laundering or stop these practices in secret banks, why are they putting into prison for forty months the whistleblower? The billionaire to whom he was serving got probation. How are they ever going to get another banker to step forward and cooperate with an investigation?”

But it was not just Obama’s corporate buddies that raised the ire of many citizens. His wife took flak as more outrage resulted from the news of First Lady Michelle Obama’s well-paid staff.

“No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession,” wrote Dr. Paul L. Williams in the
Canada Free Press.
“Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.”

Williams quoted Mrs. Obama’s statement from the Democratic National Convention—“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service.” Paul Williams then lamented, “If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public.”

The listing of White House staffers assigned to the first lady and their salaries made ripples through the Internet. They included:

Williams noted this list did not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, age forty-nine, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, thirty-one, both of whom traveled to Europe with the Obamas aboard Air Force One.

While to many the first lady’s staff seems excessively large, “Michelle Obama’s staff is not ‘unprecedented,’ but rather on a par with her predecessor’s,” according to the Internet fact-checking site, snopes.com. Though Michelle Obama has more than twenty staffers working for her, the 2008 White House staff list included sixteen names working for First Lady Laura Bush.

HELPING HAMAS TERRORISTS

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ANY BELIEVED
O
BAMA’S POLICY
of unrestrained illegal immigration would destroy the last vestiges of national cohesion, especially when he issued Presidential Determination No. 2009-15, entitled “Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Related to Gaza.” In early 2009, alternative news outlets reported that Obama actually was aiding immigration through organizations formerly linked to terrorism, such as the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

In Presidential Determination No. 2009-15, sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in January 2009, Obama claimed authority under the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 to spend up to $20.3 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for assistance in relocating Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza to the United States. Though Obama’s action received little notice in the corporate mass media, it nevertheless stirred up both the anti-Obama crowd as well as the pro-Israel lobby.

Such actions play into the hands of those who decry Obama as pro-Muslim. They remember the words of Libya’s Mu’ammar Gadhafi, who, in 2008, said, “There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency.”

OBAMA’S “CIVILIAN ARMY”

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NY VIABLE SOCIALIST SYSTEM
has needed to indoctrinate its citizenry and use government snitches to gather intelligence. Under President Obama, the United States is no different. President Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, have tried to create a seven-million-person “civilian army” reportable to only the president. In July 2008, Obama stated, “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

In 2008, Obama’s official campaign website, Change.gov, announced that President-elect Obama would expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps and create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in low-income schools. Additionally, Obama planned to create a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps for his civilian army.