On the day of the Flight 253 incident, reporter Michael Rosenfield of WXYZ in Detroit appeared live on CNN during the evening news and reported that, earlier that day, another passenger was arrested on a different flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Same route, same airline, same day. This report appears to have been corroborated by a woman who was apparently a passenger on that flight in an on-camera interview; an interview which was even played at least once on CNN on December 25. However, the media subsequently blended this separate incident with the widely-reported “failed bombing” incident. Hence, the many media reports of Mutallab “screaming about Afghanistan” despite the fact that the witnesses actually describe him as being amazingly calm and totally silent. The End Run deconstructs this apparent, suspicious, and convenient misreporting.

TheEndRun.com
January 3, 2010

On Christmas Day, the public was inundated with reports that a 23-year-old Nigerian had attempted to blow up Northwest/Delta Flight 253, which had departed from Amsterdam, as it neared its destination in Detroit. We are already seeing information coming out that indicates a deliberate cover-up on many fronts, to say the least.

One thing we have now learned is that a second man from Flight 253 was handcuffed and taken away by authorities on Christmas Day. According to witness Kurt Haskell and his wife Lori, bomb sniffing dogs had detected something in his bag, which led to an extended period of questioning in another room, followed by his (apparent) arrest.

Government officials initially denied that anyone other than Mutallab was detained; but, after other witnesses came forward to corroborate the Haskells, they had to admit that someone else was detained. However, they cited “immigration charges” as the reason, and have since changed their story at least three more times. As of now it seems they are trying to claim that this man was from a totally different flight, a claim that Kurt Haskell says is false and impossible because the passengers from his plane were “quarantined” and absolutely not permitted to comingle with passengers from any other planes. He facetiously suggests that the government official who made this claim “should become a comedian”.

Haskell also says that he witnessed a “nicely dressed” Indian-looking man around 50 years of age approach the ticket counter with Mutallab in Amsterdam. He says Mutallab “never said a word” as the Indian-looking man pressed the person behind the counter to allow Mutallab to fly, even though he did not, according to the Indian-looking man, have a passport. Eventually the two were sent down a hallway to talk to a manager, according to Haskell. So far neither U.S. nor Dutch authorities have acknowledge that this took place, instead opting to make what Haskell calls “self serving play[s] on semantics”.

Other passengers have reported that there was a mysterious man who video taped the entire flight with a camcorder, and when the “attempted bombing” occured, he “sat up and videotaped the entire thing, very calmly”. Passenger Patricia “Scotty” Keepman, who witnessed this along with her daughter Richelle, has said: “We do know that the FBI is looking for him intensely. Since then, we’ve heard nothing about it.”

The rest of this article will provide new information that further points to a cover-up.

THE REPORT FROM THE “UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE PASSENGER”

On the day of the event, numerous passengers from Flight 253 were interviewed on camera while they were still in the airport.

One woman reported the following:

He was — stood up. He was belligerent. Uh, he was yelling, swearing. He would put hats on. He was screaming about Afghanistan. Umm. He was fighting with the wonderful s– err, stewards that we had. There were five men — big men — and three women. I said to my husband I was so thankful that there were three — er, five men on the, um, flight.

The video recording of this short interview is not easy to find online, but as of this writing it can still be viewed here, on the website of The Daily Telegraph, sandwiched in between interviews with two other passengers.

For your convenience I have uploaded her interview by itself:

Unlike most if not all of the other passengers who have been interviewed and quoted by the media, this woman was not identified by name at the time, and still (to my knowledge) has never been identified. As far as I can tell she has never been interviewed again.

The other two interviewees in that Telegraph video, on the other hand, were both identified by name on Christmas day in many other places as Richelle Keepman and Melinda Dennis. Both have been quoted in myriad other articles, and have subsequently appeared on mainstream news stations (For example, Keepman was interviewed on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees and Dennis on NBC’s The Today Show.)

In this early BBC article she is quoted along with six other passengers. She is referred to as an “unidentified female passenger”, while all others are referred to by their full name.

THE MUTE CONSENSUS

Given that a week has now passed and the dust has been able to settle a bit, many readers who have been following the Mutallab story will likely be able to see that there is something wrong with this witness account. Namely, all of the other passengers report Mutallab’s behavior as being the total opposite of what this woman describes.

For example, in a video-recorded interview in the airport shortly after the event (later aired and transcribed by CNN), passenger Melinda Dennis (mentioned above) told WXYZ news:

“He didn’t say anything. He was injured. He was burnt quite severely on his leg [...] He was very calm. He didn’t show any reaction to pain or any feeling of shock or nervousness. He just looked like a normal individual.

Appearing on the Fox News show “On The Record” on December 28 (transcript), passenger Daniel Huisinga told guest host Shannon Breem:

…that’s one of the strangest things about this experience is he was burned very badly, he was in a situation where he was being put in a headlock, dragged into the aisle, handcuffed, but he wasn’t screaming, he wasn’t yelling, he wasn’t really struggling. And, the — the scariest part of the whole experience was looking into the eyes of the person who at that time I thought had just sealed my death warrant and seeing no emotion, not even anger, no fear, just a blank stare, blank expression in the face of this unbelievable evil that he was attempting to commit against all of these innocent people.

Syed Jafry, a passenger who was three rows away from Mutallab, was interviewed by CNN’s Ali Velshi on the day of the event. Here’s what he said:

VELSHI: …did he look like he was struggling?

JAFRY: No, he — I don’t recall that he was struggling, more that he appeared to be more stunned and sort of surprised with the whole act.

[...]

VELSHI: Did he seem to be yelling anything or saying anything, uttering any threats?

JAFRY: No, nothing at all. I, at least, didn’t hear anything. Maybe some other people who were closer to him may have heard him, but I did not hear anything…

Jasper Schuringa, who the Herald Sun says “has been hailed as the hero of Northwest Airlines Flight 253″ for subduing Mutallab, agrees:

FREDRICKA WHITFELD (CNN ANCHOR): Now tell me about him. Was he fighting you? Was he struggling? Did he just seem to, uhh, upon discovery just kind of let it go, and — and you all were able to kind of manhandle him?

JASPER SCHURINGA: No, he was — he was just very calm. Uhh, he was shaking though. But he didn’t resist anything. And uh, he was just sitting there. And, uh, he looked like a normal guy as well. But, you know, it was just, uh, just hard to — to believe that, you know, he was going to try — trying to blow up this plane.

WHITFELD: Was there — was there anything about him prior to that incident that ever made you look at him? Did you suspect anything? Did anything catch your attention about him?

SCHURINGA: No. Nothing, nothing, nothing. Absolutely nothing. So, it was a big, uh, surprise when we heard the first explosion people were just like looking around like, you know, “Okay, this is not good. What’s going on?” And then the first person shouted “Fire!” And then, uh, like I got to my sense and [I thought] okay this is wrong.

[...]

WHITFELD: Were there any words?… was there any yelling, any screaming?

SCHURINGA: No. Yeah, well the — like the — like, like whole plane was screaming. And uh, but the suspect, he, he, like he didn’t say a word. No nothing like that.

WHITFELD: Never said a word. Not prior, not during, not even once you all had subdued him and you were holding him waiting for authorities.

SCHURINGA: Well we were holding him, but he wasn’t, uh, struggling, he wasn’t saying a word, nothing. He was just [inaudible] I guess.

[..]

SCHURINGA: Well he was, uh, like, he was in trance.

By December 30, the uniformity of the witness accounts with regard to Mutallab’s behavior could not be denied, even by the major media. Writing for Time Magazine that day, Michael Duffy and Mark Thompson summarized the descriptions:

Passengers later said there was something curious about the spare young man who had tried to bring down their plane: he was silent throughout the attack. He didn’t panic. He didn’t yell any last-second religious slogans. He was calm and methodical as he set himself on fire. It was as though he had been trained.

THE ANOMALOUS REPORT EXPLAINED

I began researching the “failed bombing” incident in the very early morning on December 26. I watched and read dozens of news reports, paying careful attention to the accounts of the passengers (amongst other things). I did this because I know that when these kinds of “terrorist events” occur there are usually early witness reports that contradict what will eventually become the official (government-endorsed) storyline. Since I was looking critically at the witness accounts from the very beginning in this way, it did not take me long to recognize that the “unidentified female passenger” was an anomalous account.

Later that day, while discussing the incident with a family member, I mentioned the report of this unidentified woman. She replied, “Oh, she was probably on that other flight.”

I, of course, had no idea what she was talking about. She proceeded to tell me (nonchalantly) that it was reported on television the previous day that there was another man arrested on another flight from Amsterdam to Detroit whose behavior fit the description of this unidentified female passenger. Having just spent hours reading dozens of media reports, I informed her that none of them said a word about such a thing, and asked if she could be mistaken. She insisted that she was not.

I went online and searched, but could not find any reports of this. Not one. Then, finally, I found a single blog post which stated: “CNN is also reporting a weird coincidence: Another guy was arrested today on the same route, same airline, (different flight) for shouting “pro-Afghanistan, anti-American” statements and generally being rowdy. Law enforcement say the two incidents aren’t related—the guy was just drunk”.

The post included a link to the CNN video clip from Christmas Day — the same one my family member saw, which was, as far as I can tell, the only broadcast in which this story was ever reported on live. (Part of it re-aired at least once, see below).

Here it is:

Here is a transcript:

MICHAEL ROSENFIELD: We have also learned about another incident, also on board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit this afternoon. Another passenger was arrested on that flight as well. Federal officials and local law enforcement here don’t think the two incidents were connected, but it also did happen on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. A passenger was yelling pro-Afghanistan statements, anti-American statements as well. He was throwing food on passengers in the back part of the plane. He was taken into custody, but law enforcement officials here on the ground tell us they think that it was just a drunk passenger. They do not think these two incidents were connected. Live in Detroit, I’m Michael Rosenfield. Back to you.

ALI VELSHI (CNN ANCHOR): Mike, was that a — was that a Northwest flight as well coming in from Amsterdam, or was that a different flight?

ROSENFIELD: Yeah, that was also a Northwest Delta flight also coming in from Amsterdam to Detroit. Another incident on that case. But again, law enforcement officials think that they were not connected. But, uh, pretty coincidental that both happened on the same route on the same day.

Now does the unidentified woman — who, in diametric opposition to all of the other witnesses, reported that “he” (who?) “stood up”, was “beligerent”, “yelling”, “swearing”, “screaming about Afghanistan”, “fighting with the stewards”, and “would put hats on” — make sense? If you go back and watch her interview (or read the transcript), you’ll notice that she gives no indication that she was on the plane with Mutallab whatsoever. She does not say one word about the “failed bombing”. She simply describes someone’s unruly behavior (clearly not Mutallab), and even seems somewhat amused by it. Can there be any doubt that she corroborates Rosenfield’s report and was in fact on that other flight that the media, for some reason, has failed to speak of ever again?

THE SUNDAY INCIDENT

If you answered “no, there can be no doubt” to that question, then this information ought to raises a lot of new questions. For instance, are we to believe that CNN and WXYZ did not see Rosenfield’s report as worthy of following up on? Or even mentioning ever again (save one partial re-airing the following morning as described below)? Are we to believe that every other news station simply missed this story, or else saw it and found it equally uninteresting?

These kinds of considerations are particularly implausible in light of the fact that (”coincidentally”, I guess) an extremely similar “coincidence” occurred on Sunday, and became a top news story of the day, if not the top story. It was covered in detail by most if not all major media outlets, including CNN. Here are a few of the countless headlines with links to the articles.

Another Delta Flight Scare in Detroit CBS/AP Dec 27

Food Poisoning Blamed In Second Northwest Flight 253 Bomb Scare ABC News ABC News Dec 27

Northwest Airlines Passenger Taken Into Custody in Detroit Bloomberg Dec 27

New Detroit scare declared ‘nonserious’ CNN Dec 27

Unruly Passenger Disrupts Another Amsterdam-to-Detroit Flight Politics Daily Dec 27

Detroit terror attack: second Nigerian arrested on Amsterdam flight The Daily Telegraph Dec 27

Déjà vu on Flight 253 in Detroit Free Press Dec 28

Not one of these articles about the Sunday incident makes any mention of the extremely similar incident reported by Rosenfield on Friday; not even the one published by CNN! Did CNN have amnesia?

THE RE-AIRING

The full, live Rosenfield report aired shortly before 8:45pm EST on Christmas day. The Christmas Day part is made clear by his statements. That it’s nighttime is obvious in the video. I originally derived the timeframe based on two posts found on message boards from Christmas Day.

Post #1: On the Professional Pilots Rumor Network (PPRuNe.org) the user “AASLF” in “DFW, Tx” said:

“CNN News here reporting a SECOND – separate NWA flt ex-AMS/DET today had a pax arrested on landing for shouting anti-American/pro-AQ speech in cabin and throwing food at pax. It is believed this pax was “merely” drunk. Coincidence???”

This post was dated December 25, 2009, at 2:45. After browsing the PPRuNe.org site it seems that their clock is set six hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time, meaning that it was posted at 8:45pm EST.

Post #2: Another post made by a user on the DetroitLuv.com message board, stamped 8:54pm on Dec 25 (that forum’s clock appears to be on set to EST) reads:

“…and to add more strangeness, a second man, on a separate Amsterdam to Detroit flight, was taken off a plane upon landing shouting anti-American slogans (and pro-Afghani ones) and throwing food on the other passengers. Weirdness.”

CNN has now released a transcript of that Dec 25 broadcast, which begins at “20:00 ET” (8:00pm EST). Rosenfield’s report comes roughly two-thirds of the way through the broadcast, confirming the time frame implied by those message board posts.

The CNN transcript reveals a few things:

1) Rosenfield’s entire report was considerably longer than that video clip. Before giving the “second flight” report, he first reported on the main Mutallab incident for what must have been at least two or three minutes, playing clips from witnesses.

2) A few minutes after Rosenfield’s report, Velshi did summarized it in his own words:

“We did hear from a reporter in Detroit a few minutes ago, Michael Rosenfield, about another passenger on a different flight also a Delta Northwest flight coming in from Amsterdam to Detroit. This passenger was arrested earlier today. Now have word from Delta Airlines that that passenger was intoxicated, caused a disturbance and was subdued. That flight was also met by authorities at the request of the crew. Delta at least for now does not believe that that incident was in any way related to the incident on Northwest 253 that we’re discussing now. That is the Northwest flight that came in from Amsterdam to Detroit and moments before landing, a passenger attempted to ignite something on the plane.

3) Remember that, after Rosenfield finished his report, Velshi asked him if the second incident was on the same airline, to which Rosenfield said yes, it was the same airline and route on the same day. That is where the video I found cuts off, but in the transcript we can see that, before moving on, Velshi replied “Michael, thanks very much for all this information. We appreciate it. We’ll be checking in with you again.”

I see no indication that they ever did check in with him again.

I see zero articles written about this story by CNN or a single other news outlet.

I see no indication that Rosenfield’s report was ever re-aired except for one time the following morning (Dec 26) on CNN Saturday Morning News. The transcript begins around 7:00am EST, and the re-airing of Rosenfield’s report is found about two-third of the way down the page, so it probably aired sometime between 7:30 and 8:00am EST.

Calling it a re-airing isn’t exactly accurate, though. It was a partial re-airing. What’s interesting is that they play his entire report (starting just after his original three-sentence introduction of general background information about the Mutallab incident), but the clip is cut off just before Velshi asks about which airline the flight was from. Rosenfield’s response that it was the same airline as the “failed bombing”, and his comment about the whole thing being “pretty coincidental”, were therefore not re-aired.

This is from the transcript of this Dec 26 re-airing:

We have also learned about another incident also aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit this afternoon. Another passenger was arrested on that flight, as well. Federal officials and local law enforcement here don’t think the two incidents were connected. But it also did happen on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

A passenger was yelling pro-Afghanistan statement, anti-American statements, as well. He was throwing food on passengers in the back part of the plane. He was taken into custody. But law enforcement officials here on the ground tell us they think it was just a drunk passenger. They did not think these two incidents were connected. (END VIDEOTAPE)

HOLMES: Well, a little scary there from our reporter from WXYZ, Rosenfield.

But everybody a little on edge and they will be for some time, especially during this holiday season.

BALDWIN: Yes, for good reason.

HOLMES: Yes.

BALDWIN: So that’s the situation on the ground at Detroit.

Again, in the original live report from Rosenfield, just after the “(END VIDEOTAPE)” mark on the re-airing, Velshi asked Rosenfield, “Mike, was that a — was that a Northwest flight as well coming in from Amsterdam, or was that a different flight?”, to which Rosenfield responded, “Yeah, that was also a Northwest Delta flight also coming in from Amsterdam to Detroit. Another incident on that case. But again, law enforcement officials think that they were not connected. But, uh, pretty coincidental that both happened on the same route on the same day.”

It’s a bit odd that Rosenfield didn’t include this very interesting and “coincidental” information in his original report until prompted, and it’s also interesting that CNN left this key point out of the single re-airing of the clip, especially since the incident was apparently “dropped down the memory hole” after that entirely.

BLENDING THE UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE’S ACCOUNT WITH THE MUTALLAB INCIDENT

What did the major media do with the odd, extremely anomalous report given by the unidentified female “passenger”? Did they connect the dots to the second incident reported by Rosenfield? If not, did they investigate why on earth someone would be reporting Mutallab’s behavior as being the total opposite of what all of the other witness reported?

No. What happened was the woman was rarely quoted at length after the first 24-48 hours. Even during that initial period, her account was already significantly edited.

Here is an article from WITN, an NBC affiliate in North Carolina, published on Dec 25, the day of the incident. Like everywhere else, the unidentified female is presented as having been on the Mutallab plane. Notice, however, that she is quoted in full, except for the part where she says that “he would put hats on”, which is possibly the most blatantly eyebrow raising part. They simply omitted it:

The White House is now calling the frightening incident on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit an attempted terrorist attack. Passengers on that Northwest flight are talking about the experience. Administration officials say a passenger ignited a small explosive device at the end of the flight. Three people were injured, one of them the suspect. A federal bulletin lists the suspect as a Nigerian national who claims to have extremist affiliations. One passenger describes what she saw: “He stood up, he was belligerent, he was yelling… swearing. He… screaming about Afghanistan. Um, he was fighting with the stewardesses. There were five men on the flight. I said to my husband I was thankful that there were five men on the flight and I kept tapping him because I was nervous and he kept telling me relax, relax.” The suspect has been taken into custody and is being treated for burns from the explosion.

In an article on Dec 26 entitled “‘Smoke and screams’ on board plane“, BBC News quoted her this way. (”The “man” she is describing, at least according to BBC News, is Mutallab):

Another unidentified female passenger described the man’s behavior during the incident.

“He stood up. He was belligerent. He was yelling, swearing,” she said.

“He was screaming about Afghanistan. He was fighting with the wonderful stewards that we had.”

Just like in the WITN report, the bizarre “he would put hats on” line (bizarre if you are trying to make this work as a description of Mutallab’s behavior) is omitted. Also, again, note that she is the only unidentified passenger mentioned in the article. There are six other witnesses quoted in the article, and full names are given for all of them.

On Dec 27, Express.co.uk quoted her the exact same way as BBC News word-for-word, while also implying that she was talking about Mutallab. The one difference is that Express.co.uk presents it all as one continuous quote. Remember, in between the “yelling, swearing” part and the “screaming about Afghanistan” part, the unidentified female said that the person she was describing “would put hats on”. WITN at least included an ellipsis (dot-dot-dot) to indicate that some words had been omitted. BBC broke theirs up into two pieces with a “she said” in the middle, which is a little more ambiguous. Express.co.uk gives us no ellipsis or anything else to that effect. The “hats” comment has simply disappeared. (Note: this could have just been a result of copying it from BBC News or elsewhere and not watching the primary source video.)

Another passenger described the man’s behavior during the incident. She said: “He stood up. He was belligerent. He was yelling, swearing. He was screaming about Afghanistan. He was fighting with the wonderful stewards that we had.”

Ironically, they quote Jasper Schuringa in the very same article saying that Mutallab was “out of it” and “staring into nothing”.

While the dropping of the odd “hats” line was significant, the media went on to make almost the entire rest of the quote disappear after December 26. All but one little part, that is. If you’ve followed the Mutallab story, you probably know which one I am referring to: the “screaming about Afghanistan” line.

Here are a some examples of the many articles in which the major news outlets used this one little snippet from the unidentified female’s account and ascribed the behavior to Mutallab, even though it was not corroborated by any other passenger, and in fact was contradicted by them (as was the rest of her account):

“Detroit terror attack: ‘He was screaming about Afghanistan’”
- Telegraph.co.uk (headline) Dec 26

“A woman passenger from the plane described the man as standing up and shouting and “screaming about Afghanistan”. Investigators were examining the residue of the device, which was thought to contain powder and liquid.”
- Financial Times, Dec 26

”The suspected terrorist was said to have been yelling and swearing and “screaming about Afghanistan”.
- The Guardian, Dec 27

”As the bomber was being manhandled away one woman passenger said he was yelling, swearing and “screaming about Afghanistan”.
- News of the World, subisidiary of News International Ltd., which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Dec 27

Abdulmutallab, described as a devout Muslim, attempted to ignite an explosive device on a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day after shouting about Afghanistan.
- Times Online Dec 27

”When he was overpowered, Abdulmutallab was said by witnesses to be “screaming about Afghanistan”
- The Guardian Dec 28

”Although Abdulmutallab was screaming about Afghanistan when he was overpowered, it is to Africa we should look for the source of his fanaticism.”
- Mail Online, Dec 28

“Abdulmutallab, described as a devout Muslim, was charged on Saturday with trying to destroy the plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day and placing a destructive device in the plane. He had attempted to ignite explosives after shouting about Afghanistan.”
- Times Online Dec 27

” Although it has been reported that he shouted slogans about Afghanistan as he tried to trigger the device, 23-year-old Abdulmutallab does not fit the stereotype of a poverty-stricken jihadi…”
- The Independent, Dec 28

CNN APPARENTLY REMOVES THE UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN FROM AN ARTICLE ON THEIR WEBSITE

Notice that CNN is not one of the networks who makes mention of the “reports” that Mutallab was “screaming about Afghanistan”.

At least not anymore.

On Google, if you preface your search terms with “site:”, it allows you to search just within a specified domain (like CNN.com) or even subdomain (like TRANSCRIPTS.CNN.com). For example, the following search terms…

site:transcripts.cnn.com “Richard Gage”

…will search the “transcripts” subdomain of CNN.com for any references to “Richard Gage”. (Incidentally, Richard Gage is never mentioned in any of CNN’s thousands of transcripts.) If a subdomain is not specified, then it simply searches the entire domain (all of CNN.com in this case).

If one searches CNN.com for the “he would put hats on” quote, they will discover that CNN played the full clip of the unidentified woman on Dec 25.

However, viewing the full transcript that this search turns up reveals that they misattribute her words to Melinda Dennis. Dennis herself is mislabeled as an “unidentified female”, the title that should have gone to the first woman.

MELINDA DENNIS, PASSENGER: He was — stood up. He was belligerent. He was yelling, swearing. He would put hats on. He was screaming about Afghanistan. He was fighting with the wonderful stewards that we had. There were five men, big men. and three women. I said to my husband, I was so thankful there were three — five men on the flight, because I kept tapping him that I was nervous. And he kept telling me, “Relax, relax.”

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He didn’t say anything. He was injured. I — he was burnt quite severely on his leg. They were very careful in trying to make sure that he had nothing else on him so it was easy to see that — from the exposure that he had gotten significantly burned.

If we search CNN.com for just the phrase “screaming about Afghanistan” we get four results. One is the aforementioned transcript. The other three are all for the article entitled “Passenger: Terrorist suspect seemed ’stunned’”:

We can see from the Google snippets that she is quoted just before Elias Fawaz in the article. However, if one clicks any of the three links to the article, they are met with a message saying “The content item you requested is not available at this moment.”

Here is a working link to the current incarnation of the article on the CNN page (it works at the time of this writing, at least). This article still contains the part about Fawaz seen in the Google snippets in the image above; however, the unidentified female’s quote, which immediately preceded it, has been removed.

If we go back to our original search results and click the “Cached” link for each of the three “Terror suspect ’seemed stunned’” listings, copies of the article do come up, but they also do not contain the unidentified female’s quote. What we can see by looking at these, however, is that the article was edited at least twice: once at 10:15pm EST on Dec 25 and once the following morning at 10:24am EST.

A search within the CNN domain for the article title, plus “12.25″, reveals that one more edit took place at 9:27pm EST on Dec 25, before the other two (although this could have just been the time that the article was first posted).

Another Google search reveals that the section about the unidentified female immediately followed the section about Syed Jafry — a section which still remains in the article. Further advanced Google searching yields the entire section where the unidentified female was quoted. Here is the deleted passage from the CNN report, which was previously appeared between Jafry and Fawaz, but was subsequently removed by CNN:

At one point the suspect grew agitated, a female passenger who didn’t want to identify herself, told WDIV-TV in Detroit, Michigan.

“He stood up, he was belligerent, he was yelling swearing,” she said.

“He was screaming about Afghanistan.”

The current version on the CNN website gives no notice of there ever having been edited or updated, even though this passage is now gone. It just says “December 26, 2009 10:24 a.m. EST”.

SOME MORE QUESTIONS

Why did someone at CNN apparently make a conscious decision to quietly remove this quote? Was it because they realized that she was not on Flight 253? If so, why didn’t they notify the public of the initial error? Even if they didn’t originally think it was a big deal, it certainly became one once the media began quoting the same tiny snippet from her interview ad nauseam, painting a false picture of Mutallab’s behavior. Did they really not connect the dots and realize that she was apparently talking about the same man Rosenfield reported on? Did no one in the media make this connection? Did no one in the media remember anything about the story that CNN’s Holmes called “a little scary”and Mike Rosenfield himself called “pretty coincidental”, even as it became increasingly significant, especially Sunday?

CONVENIENT MISREPORTING

The introduction to this article makes reference to how all of this was “convenient misreporting”. It was convenient because more and more information is coming out that makes this event look like a set up, and Mutallab a patsy/dupe manipulated by U.S. intelligence assets and other interested parties to play a role in this “failed bombing”, which will now serve as a pretext for further military action and probably an invasion of Yemen, virtual-strip-search body scanners at airports, renewal of the Patriot Act, and much, much more.

If you think this is a “conspiracy theory”, and that our wise and benevolent leaders would never consider doing such a thing (guess again), let alone actually go through with it, you had better read some real history. False flag terrorism is nothing new. In fact, if this was an actual (failed) surprise attack, it would be an exception to the rule.

In the critical first days after the “failed bombing”, when the public was most actively seeking out information about the event and people were still forming their opinions about what had transpired, the widespread reports that Mutallab was “screaming about Afghanistan” at the time of the attack surely helped sell the claims being made by usually-anonymous “official sources” that Mutallab was a monster; a true radical, linked to a larger “al Qaeda”-affiliated network which is planning to launch more attacks. “The Man, The Menace”, as reporter Andrea Isom called him on Dec 25. Not a dull, quiet, “poor”-looking, “surprised”-looking patsy “in a trance”.

The mainstream press seems to have essentially quietly dropped the “screaming about Afghanistan” meme. However, people who do not usually follow current events have largely tuned out already. Most people who are still following the story, and who have noticed all of the passenger reports about how calm and quiet Mutallab was, will not have the information contained in this article and therefore will not realize that the reports to the contrary were apparently bogus all along. Many will simply reconcile the supposedly “conflicting reports” in their minds as meaning that he must have been calm and quiet at one point, and “screaming about Afghanistan” at another. This means that this convenient mythical image will live on in the minds of many.

Further Reading:
False Flag Event in Detroit a Pretext to Invade Yemen by Kurt Nimmo
Obama Blames al-Qaeda for Christmas False Flag, Sets Stage for Yemen Attack by Kurt Nimmo
Billions in Recent Yememi Investments and The Underwear Bomber’s Daddy. It’s a Small World Ain’t It? by Scott Creighton

E-mail the author of this article at TheEndRunBlog@gmail.com. The source for this article is TheEndRun.com.

TheEndRun.com
May 9, 2009

More and more people today are waking up to the demonstrable fact that there is a relatively small, well-defined group of individuals working in concert to bring about a “one world” system of centralized power and totalitarian control that the perpetrators themselves fondly refer to as a “new world order”.

However, there is so much misinformation, disinformation, and so many red herrings out there related to this topic (especially on the internet) that many people still do not have a well-developed and factually sound grasp of the nuts and bolts of this system, backed by direct, valid evidence; nor do they understand the underlying ideology (collectivism) of the elitists behind this “end run around national sovereignty” (as Richard Gardner once put it).

This is indicative that (amongst other things) many people still have not payed close enough attention to the work of G. Edward Griffin.

Most people who are awake to the reality of the Federal Reserve System at least vaguely know that Griffin is an expert on that particular topic. Most have heard of his famous book The Creature From Jekyll Island, and have seen him in documentaries such as America: Freedom To Fascism and Fiat Empire. They “like” him; they perceive that he is intelligent, articulate, and knowledgeable; but I suspect that many still do not fully appreciate the unusual clarity with which he sees the “big picture”, nor the scope and depth of his knowledge regarding the details that make it up.

Before many of us were born, Griffin was not only keenly aware of the covert drive towards a “global government based on the model of collectivism”, but he had already become one of the most tenacious researchers and articulate communicators of the evidence. As Alex Jones said when introducing Griffin as a guest on his radio show in 2007, “G. Edward Griffin [is] really a legend in the alternative media New World Order resistance movement; one of the last living icons — the great grandaddies — in the fight.”

Later in the interview, Jones elaborated:

“A lot of you woke up to the New World Order because of G. Edward Griffin, [but] you don’t know it. Some other author… some other person woke you up, but you don’t know that he woke them up. That’s how these “ripples in a pond” happen; it’s the guy who was there 20, 30, 40, I guess now 48 years ago when [he] got started throwing rocks in the pond, [back when] there were very few people [in the fight].”

This is exactly right. The problem is that many of the “authors” and “other people” who are waking people up today do not apply the level of scholarship, thoughtfulness, and attention to detail that Griffin has consistently displayed. One consequence of this is the proliferation of the credibility-damaging misinformation that I mentioned a moment ago. But another equally if not more important consequence of inferior researchers acting as teachers, leaders, and de-facto mentors is that, besides perpetuating inaccurate information, they fail to impart the kind of work ethic that we need if we are to win over true academics and skeptics who are willing to listen to this information, but who will fact-check what we say (as they should), and who will reject our message if those facts do not check out.

Thus, I contend that the lessons that can be learned by observing Griffin’s attitude and work ethic are just as important as the explosive, eye-opening content contained within his books, videos, and lectures. He is one of the few individuals in this “movement” whose research you can “take to the bank”. If he quotes something and sources it, you can bet he has viewed the source document and transcribed it accurately. He has not simply pulled an unsourced or unverified quote off of an internet page.

There are two more very important things that those of us who wish to spread the word about what is really going on in the world can and must learn from G. Edward Griffin that I would like to mention. The first is this:

In the aforementioned 2007 interview with Alex Jones, Griffin said, “Dan Smoot was one of the great mentors for me. And I remember thinking one time as I was reading Dan Smoot Report, ‘I wish I could write like that; with such clarity of thought; with no garbage in it; right to the point.’” As anyone who is familiar with Griffin’s work can attest, it turned out that he was capable of writing like that (highly capable), and as his oft-cited bio says, he is today “well known because of his talent for researching difficult topics and presenting them in clear terms that all can understand.” This straight-to-the-point approach is one of the major things that makes him such an effective communicator of information that people often have a very hard time accepting psychologically (due to its paradigm-shifting implications). Conversely, it is the failure to adhere to this approach that has made some researchers much less effective than they could be. It is incumbent upon the next generation of anti New World Order researchers and activist that we “inherit” this important trait from Griffin, just as he inherited it from Smoot, if we wish to reach a “critical mass” of awareness in the general public as quickly as possible.

Griffin put this imperative succinctly in the introduction to his 1969 lecture More Deadly Than War:

“Ladies and gentlemen, again let me say welcome to our home, and thank you for taking the time to be here. I’m well aware that whether you are here in person, or through the medium of motion picture, that for most of you it is not easy to fit meetings of this kind into your schedules. But the fact that you are here indicates that you do have an interest in the subject, and that means that there is a tremendous obligation on my part to develop that subject with the kind of usable information that will make it worth your while.”

The last thing about G. Edward Griffin that I would like to point out is his rare combination of 1) the kind of intense, sincere passion and unwavering dedication that comes from an eyes-wide-open understanding of what losing this “war” against the “new world order” crowd will mean, and 2) a calm, down to Earth demeanor, derived from his understanding of the long-range nature of this “war” and the detrimental effect to one’s health and effectiveness as a communicator to be any other way.

ALEX JONES: Do you ever get frustrated — because you’ve been a prolific, creative guy, and it seems like you’re doing more now than ever — that there’s just so much you want to warn, so many people you want to do, so many fact you’ve got, but then you’ve just got so much info that there’s just not enough time to do it all?

G. EDWARD GRIFFIN: (laughs) Do I ever get that way? I’m constantly that way. But I decided some years ago that I had to put a lid on it, because otherwise I’d be so filled with anxiety and frustration that I wouldn’t be able to think straight. … That’s the way I was when I was your age actually.  And then I realized that it was getting to my health, and so I kind of backed off a little bit.  And people say “Oh, you’re so calm now. Nothing seems to bother you.”  They have no idea what fire is raging inside.  Yeah.  Constant anxiety and frustration about what is going on in the world.  But somewhere along the line as you mature you think “Well, okay, you’ve got to survive all of this.  You’ve got to live.  So cool down and take it one step at a time.” That’s what I try to do.

And from the conclusion of his lecture entitled An Idea Whose Time Has Come, the final part of his series The Future Is Calling:

“I’m going to close by telling you that the future is calling. It really is. Can you hear it like I do? I hear it every morning when I wake. I hear it all day long, and usually the last thing before I sleep.

I hear the voices of my grandchildren, and their grandchildren, and they call me by name: “Papa. Papa. What are you doing? What’s happening to our freedom? What are you doing?” And in my mind’s ear I hear myself reply: “Hold on. Hold on. I’m doing everything I can.”

Doesn’t anyone else hear these voices? I wonder if the world is so deafened by the sound of cash registers and rock music and sporting events and sitcom laugh tracks that they cannot hear.

Well I have heard, and I have given my answer for all to hear. And now it would please me so much if you would add your voices to mine, so that together we can answer the future back and say, “Hold on. Hold on. We’re doing everything we can. We will not let you down.”

Because I feel that there is so much to be learned from G. Edward Griffin, both in terms of information and in terms of attitude and work-ethic; and because I feel that — despite the significant amount of respect that he does receive — he is still quite underrated, especially by those who are fairly new to this game, I have compiled a fairly comprehensive list of links to many of his most important works below. Please do yourself a favor and dig in.

The Fearful Master: A Second Look at the United Nations (1964)

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Description from Amazon Reviewer: This is an excellent book to show you how the United Nations evolved, and what it is doing up to the year 1964. It tells about the motives and goals, including the final goal of moving toward the New World Order. It has a wonderful index and glossary. A must have for those who want to know more about globalism.”

The Grand Design: A Lecture on U.S. Foreign Policy (1968)

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“For a long time there’s been a generally accepted view that our foreign policy has been so bungled and confused it couldn’t possibly have followed any design, much less a grand one. But… the purpose of this presentation is to show, not only that there is a Grand Design, but also that it has been the consistent, dominant force behind absolutely every major move by the United States in the foreign policy field since at least the end of World War II. This Grand Design has provided the motivation for all we have done in the past, and unless some basic changes are made, it will determine everything we shall do in the future. Regardless of one’s opinion of this Grand Design, it’s the outgrowth of a powerful and compelling argument, a profound statement of philosophy, and a deceptively attractive appeal to reason… Unless we are able to counter this argument and to offer a superior philosophy, we’ll continue to be like putty in the hands of its advocates.”

More Deadly Than War: The Blueprint for Revolution in America (1969)

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Examines Communist theory and practice of revolution — particularly as applied to the United States — as taught by them and advocated by them in their own manuals, textbooks, and schools. This presentation is still highly relevant today because, as Mr. Griffin put it in a recent speech, “the old former Communist commissars simply took their hat off that said Communist on the front of it and turned it around and now it says Social Democrat, but you notice it’s the same heads underneath the hats. The heads didn’t change, nor did their real policies.

The Capitalist Conspiracy (1972)

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Description from The Reality Zone: “An illustrated presentation by G. Edward Griffin. This is a video adaption of a documentary filmstrip tracing the history of a small group of people who control the money systems of the world. It shows how this monopoly is protected by governments and how the group’s vast wealth is derived from creating money out of nothing. We see how this group wields power through government, foundations, education, and the mass media.”

World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17/Laetrile (1974)

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Description from The Reality Zone: “Mr. Griffin marshals the evidence that cancer is a deficiency disease—like scurvy or pellagra— aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound in modern man’s diet. That substance is vitamin B17. In its purified form developed for cancer therapy, it is known as Laetrile. This story is not approved by orthodox medicine. The FDA, the AMA, and The American Cancer Society have labeled it fraud and quackery. Yet the evidence is clear that here, at last, is the final answer to the cancer riddle. Why has orthodox medicine waged war against this non drug approach? The author contends that the answer is to be found, not in science, but in politics—and is based upon the hidden economic and power agenda of those who dominate the medical establishment. This is is the most complete and authoritative treatise available on this topic.”

The Hidden Agenda: Merging America into World Government, told by Norman Dodd, investigator of tax-exempt foundations (1982)

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Description from The Reality Zone: In this program you will learn that the major tax-exempt foundations, since at least 1945, have been operating to promote an agenda that has little to do with charity, good works, or philanthropy. The real objectives include the creation of a world-wide collectivist state which is to be ruled from behind the scenes by those same interests which control the foundations. This story is told by Norman Dodd who, in 1954, was the staff director of the Congressional Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations, known as the Reece Committee, in recognition of its Chairman, Congressman Carroll Reece. Mr. Dodd speaks from experience with the leaders of the great foundations of that period, some of whom were amazingly frank about their goals. This interview, conducted by G. Edward Griffin, has captured a rare piece of history and illustrates the continuity between the past and present drive for a “New World Order.”

No Place To Hide: The Strategy and Tactics of Terrorism (1982)

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Description from The Reality Zone: “This documentary removes the mystery from international terrorism. On the surface, terrorism appears to be irrational and counter-productive but, when the long-range strategy and tactics are understood, it becomes recognizable as part of a larger plan to weaken and destroy target governments. It is but one phase of the Marxist-Leninist dogma of so-called Wars of National Liberation. The terrorists themselves are dispensable players in this deadly game because, when the target governments are finally toppled, it will not be the terrorists who come to power, but the international Marxist apparatus which has trained and supplied them. Here are the documented facts which show the detailed operation of this network. The program is built upon sound research and offers powerful visual images and amazing historical footage.”

The Subversion Factor: A History of Treason in Modern America (1983)

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Description from Amazon: “This program is presented in two parts. Part 1: Moles In High Places and Part 2: The Open Gates of Troy . It exposes the systematic and disturbing history of subversion by enemy agents of the US government from 1920s to the present day. Evidence is culled from public records and supported by remarkable newsreel footage. Learn the real truth about Alger Hiss and the theft of atomic bomb secrets. Discover how Communist spies penetrated the OSS before it became the CIA. Most disturbing of all is the revelation that every defense the US government once had against subversion has now been dismantled.”

Deception Was My Job: The Testimony of Yuri Bezmenov, Propagandist for the KGB (1984)

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Description from The Reality Zone: “Yuri Bezmenov, the son of a high-ranking Soviet officer, was a member of the elite propaganda arm of the KGB, known as the Novasti Press Agency. One of his assignments was to accompany journalists visiting the Soviet Union to make sure they did not discover the truth about Soviet life. After becoming disillusioned with the oppressive system, he escaped to the West at great risk to his life. In this interview, conducted by G. Edward Griffin, Mr. Bezmenov tells how the Soviets used propaganda against their own citizens; how he hoodwinked American journalists into publishing Soviet propaganda, how slave laborers are concealed from foreign visitors, and how he escaped to the West posing as an American hippie. Includes many photographs brought with him on microfilm at the time of his escape.”

The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (1992)

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Description from The Reality Zone: Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician’s secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A boring subject? Just wait. You’ll be hooked in five minutes. It reads like a detective story – which it really is, but it’s all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of history. It’s all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Your world view will definitely change. Putting it quite simply, this may be the most important book on world affairs you will ever read.

The Future Is Calling (2004)
*** Possibly the best concise overview of the big picture in existence

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Description from the website of Freedom Force International: “This is Mr. Griffin’s analysis of the War on Terrorism and much more. Terrorism is a distraction for deeper issues. Both hawks and doves are playing into the hands of those who are using the conflict for their own hidden agendas. You will discover the Council on Foreign Relations, an organization that has dominated U.S. public policy since World War I. You will learn about the ideology called collectivism that motivates this group and find that its members believe that the best way to bring about desirable changes in society is to engage in war. Mr. Griffin meticulously documents how these people, working within the American government, plotted to involve the U.S. in both World Wars. They even encouraged enemy attacks so they could claim the status of victim instead of aggressor. The lessons and parallels for the War on Terrorism are chilling.”

The Science and Politics of Cancer (circa 2005)

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In this presentation, Mr. Griffin discusses the two opposed views of cancer, the use of pancreatic enzymes and food factors in the control of cancer, how the pharmaceutical cartel captured the medical profession, how (and why) Sloan Kettering falsified research to discredit Laetrile, and more. He also addresses the question, “Is there a conspiracy to withhold a control for cancer?

G. Edward Griffin interviewed in-studio by Alex Jones (2008)

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From Google Video: “Alex Jones is joined by legendary author and lecturer G. Edward Griffin to discuss the banking system, the credit crunch and the collapse of the dollar and U.S. sovereignty. Griffin lucidly explains how we need to re-assert our own power to fight the corrupt institutions of power that have taken control over our lives in this fascinating in-depth interview which offers real answers and solutions”

From Freedom Force International: “Alex Jones is one of the premier talk-show hosts in America with over a million daily listeners. He is considered by many to be the grandfather of what has come to be known as the 9/11 Truth Movement. In a July 2001 television taping, six weeks before 9/11, he warned that Globalists were going to attack New York and blame it on Osama bin Laden and that their motive was to create the fear of terrorism as an excuse for bringing martial law to America… He has been featured on Good Morning America, 20/20 Downtown, 60 Minutes, The Discovery Channel, A&E, and has appeared on many radio and TV stations across the country. He broadcasts nationwide on the Genesis Communications Radio Network”

G. Edward Griffin has written: “Alex Jones is one of my favorite guerilla journalists. He goes where the timid will never be seen. And he is in a hurry. He shoots from the hip, which means that once in a while he may not get the facts entirely right; but, most of the time, he hits the bull’s-eye with his first shot. He is loud. He is crude. And he has done more to awaken the sleeping masses to the truth than anyone else on the scene today. I really like Alex Jones.”

The Quigley Formula: A Conspiratorial View of History as Taught by the Conspirators Themselves (2008)

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“We have been taught from the beginning that we do live in a democracy, and in a democracy the majority should rule. The majority is always right and no matter what the issue is. In fact, the more complex and the more important the issue is, the more necessary it is to submit it to a vote because the majority shall rule (we are told). The purpose of this talk is to offer the idea that this — although it’s a cherished American tradition and in many other countries too, it is a dangerous tradition, and in fact is being used against the common man to take away his freedom.”

The Dangerous Servant: A Discourse on Government (circa 2008)

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Description from The Reality Zone: “This program consists of unedited responses to questions presented to G. Edward Griffin by a camera crew creating a documentary on the U.S. Constitution. In this session, he answers the most difficult questions imaginable in the fields of political and social science. The depth and clarity of his response is amazing, especially considering he is speaking extemporaneously without benefit of script or notes. In an era when many people are just now waking up to the WHAT of current events, here are issues for the brain that go far beyond that shallow pool into the deep water of WHY and HOW.”

Select Essays (2001-2009) by G. Edward Griffin

How Collectivists Create Their Own Opposition and How Not To Be Fooled By It PDF, 386 KB

Thirteen Predicts for the War on Terrorism Originally published three days after 9/11. Astounding accuracy is the result of knowing the collectivist agenda.

The Report From Iron Mountain: Using fear to make people subservient to the government

The Creed of Freedom

How Collectivists Use The Diamond Tactic To Sway Public Meetings and How To Twart Them

Was Mr. Griffin a member of the John Birch Society and Isn’t That An Extremist Group?

Meet Edward Flaherty, Conspiracy Poo-Pooist A response to a critic of The Creature from Jekyll Island

Are Jews and Masons and Jesuits Conspiring To Rule The World?

What Role Does Religion Play in Freedom Force?

The JFK Myth: Was he assassinated because he opposed the Fed?

The U.S. Government Did Not Fail Its Mission In The Wake of Hurricane Katrina “It was a huge success in promoting its own agenda. Unfortunately, that agenda was not to rescue American citizens.”

Aren’t you afraid of harm from the powerful forces you oppose?

Video Reviews by G. Edward Griffin

The Money Masters and Capitol Crimes “They are excellent productions with a great deal of history and professionally created images. … There is just one problem. They offer a false solution – which is to say they offer no solution at all.”

Money As Debt “An instructional video that gets a flunking grade”

Zeitgeist Addendum “This program does not offer a cure. It offers a mega dose of the disease itself.”

The Power of Nightmares “There are good and not-so-good elements in this series.“

Websites of G. Edward Griffin

Freedom Force International An organization founded by G. Edward Griffin in 2002

The Reality Zone A subsidiary of American Media, the publisher of many of Griffin’s works. Sells most of the books, videos, and lectures listed on this site, as well as many other extremely important works by others.

Unfiltered News A weekly news compilation by G. Edward Griffin. Click “Current Issue” to view the most recent edition. There is a link for a free subscription within the body of each issue. We encourage you to take him up on that offer.

(This compendium of links was compiled by TheEndRun.com)

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On the evening of March 19, 2009, Lawrence Korb spoke at the University of Pittsburgh (video at the end of this article).

Korb was the Vice President of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) from 1998-2002. He was also the CFR’s director of National Security Studies during that same period. From 1985-1986 he was Vice President of Corporate Operations at Raytheon. He was Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1981-1985 during the Reagan Administration. He was an advisor to Barack Obama when Obama was campaigning for president.  He currently is a Senior Fellow at The Center for American Progress (CAP) and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Defense Information.

Afghanistan: Deadly, Unaffordable Quagmire For Sale

The National parties and their presidential candidates, with the Eastern Establishment assiduously fostering the process behind the scenes, moved closer together and nearly met in the center with almost identical candidates and platforms, although the process was concealed as much as possible, by the revival of obsolescent or meaningless war cries and slogans (often going back to the Civil War).…The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy. … Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.” – Carroll Quigley, Council on Foreign Relations member and historian, as well as mentor to CFR and Trilateral Commission member Bill Clinton, in his book Tragedy & Hope (1966), pp. 1247-1248

Korb discussed Obama’s plans for Afghansistan at length.  He said, “The indications are that, you know, he’s gonna be going big in Afghanistan.”

He acknowledged that this is a betrayal of what his supporters — many of whom are anti-war — were led to believe about Obama’s agenda during his campaign.

“A lot of people say, ‘Well, no.  We voted for him because we didn’t want [to go] to any wars!’” Korb said with an amused smirk.

In a mocking tone, he continued: “And… you know on the ‘BLOGOSPHERE’ you should see the stuff.  I mean, these people are mobilizing to stop going to Afghanistan.”

But Korb did not seem to think that this pervasive, adamant grassroots opposition to “going big” in Afghanistan should give Obama a moment’s pause, despite the fact that, according to Korb, “seeing it through” will require America to pay a high price, in both money and lives.

“I think what the president has to say if he wants to do it is be honest with the American people and say, ‘Look, if you want to do this, and you want to do it right, you’re going to be there for another ten years.’” Korb said.

Later, Korb indicated that ten years may not even be long enough.  He said, “Within ten years it should be okay if you do everything right.  But there’s no guarantee.” (emphasis added)

This is especially noteworthy considering that he also acknowledged that so far “we haven’t done it very well”

Korb went on to say (possibly still in presidential ventriloquist mode), “You’re gonna have to have at least 100,000 troops… and what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna put the troops in the areas to protect the population [inaud] where the Taliban is.  That’s gonna be more casualities, okay?  And you’re gonna have to do that, and it’s gonna be expensive.”

He also acknowledged that the Afghan people have become increasingly unsupportive of the U.S. occupation, and admitted that, in fact, the U.S. may never be able to regain widespread support from the Afghan people.

According to a poll conducted in late December through mid-January by the Afghan Center for Socio-Economic and Opinion Research in Kabul for ABC News, the BBC and ARD German television, only 47 percent of Afghans hold a favorable view of the United States.  This number has fallen 36 percent since 2005, and the steepest drop has occured in the past year.  This may be due to the fact that, as the Guardian reported last month, “The number of civilians killed in the war in Afghanistan increased by 40% last year to a record 2,118 people”.

More than 420 U.S. troops have already been killed in combat in Afghanistan since the war began, according to USA Today.

Despite all of this, the former Council on Foreign Relations Vice President and Obama Advisor said that the president has “got to see it through” in Afghanistan, and that Afghanistan is a “real threat to the United States.”

“It’s gonna be a very, very difficult sell.”

“Once the ruling members of the CFR have decided that the U.S. Government should adopt a particular policy, the very substantial research facilities of CFR are put to work to develop arguments, intellectual and emotional, to support the new policy, and to confound and discredit, intellectually and politically, any opposition.  The most articulate theoreticians and ideologists prepare related articles, aided by the research, to sell the new policy and to make it appear inevitable and irresistible.” - Rear Admiral Chester Ward,  Former Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy and a member of the CFR for sixteen years, in his book Kissinger on the Couch (1975), co-authored by Phyllis Schlafly, p. 151

“This is not a war of choice; it’s a war of necessity”, Korb said.

Narco State

One way that Korb attempted to “sell” his plan for Afghanistan was by expressing concern that Afghanistan could “become a narco state”.

It is interesting that he would say that in light of the fact that in 2000, the year prior to the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, the Taliban had banned opium poppy growing, causing the country’s opium yield to drop by a whopping 94% in 2001. [source]

However, within a couple months of the CFR-dominated U.S. government announcing its “War on Terrorism” and invading Afghanistan (using the false flag attack of 9/11 as a pretext),  The Independent ran a story headlined, “Opium Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of the Taliban”.  This article indicated that massive opium planting was underway all over the country.

In actuality, the invasion was planned months before 9/11, and Bush was presented with detailed war plans for Afghanistan two days before the event. [source]

Another article in late 2001 in The Observer stated that farmers were “being encouraged to plant as much opium as possible” by warlords allied with the victorious Americans.

Then, in December of 2001, The Asia Times reported that the U.S. had gotten convicted drug lord and opium kingpin Ayub Afridi released from jail, allegedly to help establish control in Afghanistan.

A few months later, it was reported that estimated opium harvests in Afghaistan in the late-spring of 2002 would reach a world record 4,500 metric tons.  In 2007, that number was a record-breaking 8,000 tons; and in 2008 it was 7,700 tons.

Last month, Reuters reported that today Afghanistan “grows more than 90 percent of the world’s illegal opium poppies, the source of heroin.”

Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor at the UC Berkeley.  He has studied what he calls the “deep state” (as opposed to the “public state”) for decades, and has written nine heavily-footnoted books, some of which deal in large part with CIA covert operations and/or the drug trade.  On 3/18/09, the evening before Korb spoke in Pittsburgh, he had this to say on the Alex Jones Radio Show:

We had the cocaine epidemic that turned into the crack epidemic. And so much of it was as a result of what the CIA was doing.  It’s now official that in the first year that the CIA started operations in Afghanistan back in 1980, within months — certainly in that year — we went from virtually no heroin coming from that part of the world to the United States to forty percent of our heroin coming from that part of the world to the United States.  And it’s very striking right now that we can’t get the people who are in Afghanistan to target the big drug lords, you know?  Drug refineries… they process the heroin right there in Afghanistan.

Three days later, Global and Mail, Canada’s largest-circulation national newspaper, published an article entitled “Afghan officials in drug trade cut deals across enemy lines”, and subtitled, “Corrupt politicians are safeguarding traffickers who then help the Taliban, Globe investigation finds”.

The article relates the story of a specially trained unit of police in Afghanistan which caught a drug dealer moving 183 kilograms of pure heroin, only to discover that the man had “a signed letter of protection” from “their own boss… General Mohammed Daud Daud, the deputy minister of interior responsible for counternarcotics, widely considered Afghanistan’s most powerful anti-drug czar.”

“That document, along with other papers and interviews with well-placed sources, show that Gen. Daud has safeguarded shipments of illegal opiates even as he commands thousands of officers sworn to fight the trade”, the article said.

And who is propping up these “corrupt politicians”?

“The annual budget for the entire Afghan government… is largely provided by the United States and other international donors.”  – NY Times 3/18/09

It’s Pakistan

Korb said:

And its not just Afghanistan; it’s Pakistan…  I mean Pakistan has hundreds of nuclear weapons… you can destabilize that whole region.  And this is where Al Qaeda Central is.  If you walk away, you know, they’ll get ready to, you know, begin to do other things.

Personally, this came to mind when I was listening to him say that.

When the Iranians had a message for the Bush administration, they called the VP of the CFR

Korb told this story:

I was in New York in 2001 [inaud] The Council on Foreign Relations… 68th and Park.  About a week after that I get a call from the Iranian Ambassador to the U.S., because, remember we don’t have relations in Washington… and I at that time was Vice President [of the Council on Foreign Relations]… He said ‘I’d like you to come over for dinner with some of your scholars that work on that part of the world… And basically he said ‘We want you to convey this message to the government: We’re with you in Afghanistan.  We don’t like the Taliban; we don’t like this narco stuff; we don’t like Al Qaeda; we’ll do whatever we can to help you.’  Well, I think they had an exaggerated opinion of the Council on Foreign Relations… [inaud]… I called Condi Rice and told her.

Now, come 2002, January, Bush gives the “Axis of Evil” Speech.  I get a call from the ambassador; this time [inaud]… and of course they have not been helpful in Afghanistan since then.  And you may know that in 2003 they offered to sit down and talk to us about a whole bunch of issues, and we got mad at the Swiss Ambassador for transmitting the thing.

“Previous attempts to document CFR’s influence have been ignored or smeared… as ‘exaggerated’.  This is to be expected, considering the beachheads that key CFR members hold in all parts of the media, and especially because any attempts to tell the truth about the power and activities of CFR members is bound to sound exaggerated.  Actually, however, all the published accounts thus far have understated CFR’s influence…” – Rear Admiral Chester Ward, Former Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy and CFR member for sixteen years, in his book Kissinger on the Couch (1975), co-authored by Phyllis Schlafly, p. 148

Posse Comitatus

Members We Are Change Pittsburgh were on hand to film this talk, and the group’s organizer Dave Beard was able to ask Korb two questions during the Q&A session.

In the preface to his first question, Beard first mentioned recent plans to station active U.S. Army unit’s inside the United States.

In September of 2008, Democracy Now! reported:

Beginning in October, the Army plans to station an active unit inside the United States for the first time to serve as an on-call federal response in times of emergency. The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent thirty-five of the last sixty months in Iraq, but now the unit is training for domestic operations. The unit will soon be under the day-to-day control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. The Army Times reports this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to Northern Command. The paper says the Army unit may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control. The soldiers are learning to use so-called nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals and crowds.

Beard asked, “Doesn’t that violate Posse Comitatus?”

Beard also cited a recent plan by the Iowa Army National Guard to conduct urban warfare training exercises.  These plans were canceled as a result of public outcry.

Korb paced around the stage with a perplexed look on his face throughout Beard’s question, rocking back and forth.

Beard asked “Have you heard anything about that?  What are your thoughts on that?”

Interestingly, despite his aforementioned body language and facial contortions, Korb did not answer the former question (”Have you heard anything about that?”) directly.

KORB: Well you got two… you’ve got to be careful.  You know, the National Guard, when it’s not mobilized is under the government.  We can use the national guard in a state function and that does not violate Posse Comitatus…

BEARD: …But… I’m sorry to interupt you.  But, we used them in Katrina to [inaud] towns.  They were used in New Orleans to disarm the public.

KORB: Well, yeah, okay, but then… and that’s an interesting legal question.  Whose authority were they under?  And basically they were under the control, theoretically, of the governor.  You had the [General?] in there to coordinate it.  And remember, the [inaud] Coast Guard… But yeah, that’s, uh, there’s been a lot of people that have argued we ought to drop that now, you know, given the fact we might have a terrorist attack and so on and so forth.  But the president can announce that he’s recinding it temporarily.  Johnson did it in ‘68 when we had riots in Detriot at the height of, you know, after Dr. King’s death and uh, people protesting the war.  Um, President… the first President Bush sent Marines to Los Angeles after the Rodney King and… see what happens… the governor has to say “My National Guard can’t handle it, can you send in active.”  And if you’re requested you can do that.  In fact, if you go back and look at the history of Katrina it was one of these things… Bush kept saying “The governor hasn’t asked me”… you see… you know… and that delayed the thing.

False Flags

“Naturally, the common people don’t want war… That is understood.  But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communicst Dictatorship…  the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.  That is easy.  All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.  It works the same way in any country.” – Hermann Goering, a leading member of the Nazi Party and Hitler’s designated successor, as quoted by Gustave Gilbert in the book Nuremberg Diary

One interesting comment by Korb came in response to a question about the American people’s lack of support for the occupation of Afghanistan.

In 2002, the people who voted no all lost the elections. (laughs)

You know, it’s interesting that you mention that.  Go back and look at the Gulf of Tonkin, which everybody remembers was the authorization to go to Vietnam; and it turns out that that incident never happened.  I remember — I was on active duty — my commanding officer [inaud] said “Why would the North Vietnamese do this!?  You know?  I mean, it doesn’t make sense!”  Well [inaud] they didn’t do it.

The only two Senators who voted against that, Ernest Gruening and Wayne Morse, lost the next election.  So it’s us when you get right down to it.

Just to be clear, the “us”, in this context, seemed to mean the American people.

Korb’s point is only slightly valid at best, and an outright canard at worst.  It is disingenuous not to assign any culpability for these policies to the elitist collectivists who have dominated our federal government for decades.  As a matter of fact, they deserve the lion’s share.  It is well documented that the ruling establishment in this country (and other countries as well) frequently uses the problem, reaction, solution paradigm, whereby (often criminal) elements within the government create, facilitate the creation of, or just plain fabricate a “problem” to incite a “reaction” from the people in order to get them to accept a “solution”, which is, in reality, the establishment’s predetermined political agenda.  The key aspect of this paradigm is the inherent deceit; deceit as a catalyst for manufacturing consent for a policies that the public would otherwise not be likely to support.  There’s a word for this: it’s called “fraud”.

It may be tempting to blame the people (fraud victims) for “falling for” these ruses, but the truth is that it is ultimately the ruling establishment who is primarily to blame for the success of these tactics.  By seizing control of the education system and mass media, these people have deliberately and systematically worked to program generations of Americans from birth to be mostly oblivious to their machinations.

(Nevertheless, “when you get right down to it”, even if average Americans are not the primary ones to blame for the widespread ignorance in this country, it is “us”, and only us, who can save ourselves from the tyranny that they have endeavored to condition us to acquiesce to.  What is needed [and is in fact underway right now] is a mass “awakening”, not only to their endgame, but also their means to that end.  This is why exposing the problem reaction solution paradigm and real-world examples thereof is a critical aspect of combating the “new world order” agenda.)

It is especially interesting that Korb would bring up a false flag lie such as the Gulf of Tonkin in response to a question about the public’s initial support for war in Afghanistan considering that 9/11, the supposed justification for the invasion and subsequent occupation of that country, is the mother of all modern false flag events and the quintessential example of “problem, reaction, solution”.

Beard Questioned Korb on this.

BEARD: I noticed that you talked a lot about Afghanistan, but I don’t think there’s enough said about why we’re in Afghanistan.  Obviously 9/11 happened, but going back to the Commission Report, it was kind of a whitewash if you ask me.  And in light of the fact that we know that there’s been a lot of false flag events perpetrated by the United States – there was the Gulf of Tonkin, Operation Gladio in Europe, the U.S.S. Liberty Incident – why wasn’t there a proper investigation of 9/11?  And do you support a new investigation?

KORB: Well, you did have the 9/11 Commission… whether… I’ll leave it up to you to judge.  I think that, um…

BEARD: Well even the Commissioners said they were stifled, there wasn’t…

KORB: …Well, ok I’m just… (trails off into laughter)

BEARD: (finishes brief comment, inaudible)

KORB: Alright, well you had… the administration did not even want to have [a] 9/11 Commission… if it were not for the, the, you know, the victims you know [inaud].  No, I agree!  And they talk about now… I’m not worried about putting people in jail, but I think we ought to investigate and see what happened so we don’t do it, you know, we don’t do it again.  Because – go back and look at your history – in the 70’s [when we had] the Church Commission, we found out that, you know, some of the things that were going on that we didn’t really know, and, you know, we shouldn’t have been involved [with].

Dozens of people commented on the article (in the public comments section), most of whom expressed disdain for Clinton and the New World Order agenda, and implicit or explicit support for the article. However, one person wrote:

As with all ’secret orders’ and the like; I will ask you to please devote some time to establishing what the pecking order of the society is. The goal of sites like this is to prove their existence; well, okay. Show me the pyramid of ‘Illuminati,’ and ‘Rothschild,’ and ‘The NAU.’

Lay it out. Give us a map or something.

Here was my response:

To begin with, the words “Illuminati”, “Rothschild”, and “The NAU” do not appear in this article.

Secondly, the article links to two essays (complete with footnotes) which go into much more depth about the history, ideology, interrelation, and “pecking order” of the organizations working to create a totalitarian world government

That you ignore these two obvious facts seems to indicate that you are not sincerely seeking this information but merely trying cast unwarranted doubt on the information presented in this article.

As a matter of fact, one of the essays, The Future Is Calling (Part 2): Secret Societies and Hidden Agendas by G. Edward Griffin, explicitly says, “There is no reason to think that Rhodes was a member of the Illuminati, which according to Bavarian records, was disbanded there in 1784.”

However, as Griffin explains (and Quigley confirms) the “pyramid” that exists today is “based on the classical conspiracy model taken from Adam Weishaupt’s Illuminati”.

Griffin, summarizing Quigley, says:

It is characterized by organizational rings within rings. At the center is the leader and a few trusted associates called the Elect. These people create a slightly larger organization around themselves, which attracts members who have no knowledge that there is an inner core of direction. This outer ring then creates another, larger organization around itself with the same relationship to its inner ring of control. The larger organization then creates yet another larger organization, and so forth. These rings extend outward until, finally, they reach into the mainstream community where they enlist the services of innocent people who perform various tasks of the secret society without realizing who is creating the agenda or why.

Members of the outer rings are not allowed to see the existence of the inner rings. Only those few who prove themselves worthy are shown the deeper connection and invited to advance. It is through this structure that a small group of men can direct the activities of mass organizations and determine the policies of nations

[...]

The inner circle of this conspiracy is called the Society of the Elect. Originally, it consisted of Rhodes and a small brain trust from British banking and politics. After Rhodes’ death, and with the arrival of such powerful participants as Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and John D, Rockefeller, the center of gravity began to shift from London to New York and eventually came to rest in the Rockefeller group with additional centers of influence in such organizations as the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission. It was at this point that the goal also shifted from the expansion of the British Empire to the creation of global collectivism.

The secondary ring around the Society of the Elect is called The Round Table. It was established with branches in Britain, each of the British dependencies, and the United States. These, in turn, created outer rings in each country as front groups for the inner Round Tables. In Britain and it dependencies, the outer rings are called The Royal Institute for International Affairs. In Britain, it is informally known as Chatham House, named after the 18th century mansion in which it is located once occupied by William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham. The word Royal is not attractive to Americans; so, in the United States, the outer ring was called The Council on Foreign Relations.

Quigley himself says:

This organization has been able to conceal its existence quite successfully, and many of its most influential members, satisfied to possess the reality rather than the appearance of power, are unknown even to close students of British history … partly because of the deliberate policy of secrecy which this Group has adopted, partly because the Group itself is not closely integrated but rather appears as a series of overlapping circles or rings partly concealed by being hidden behind formally organized groups of no obvious political significance.

He also says:

In the secret society, Rhodes was to be leader. Stead, Brett (Lord Esher), and Milner were to form an executive committee [called “The Society of the Elect”]. Arthur (Lord) Balfour, (Sir) Harry Johnston, Lord Rothschild, Albert (Lord) Grey, and others were listed as potential members of a “Circle of Initiates”; while there was to be an outer circle known as the “Association of Helpers” (later organized by Milner as the Round Table organization).

He also says:

Through Lord Milner’s influence, these men were able to win influential posts in government, in international finance, and become the dominant influence in British imperial affairs and foreign affairs up to 1939. In 1909 through 1913, they organized semi-secret groups known as known as Round Table Groups, in the chief British dependencies and the United States. These still function in eight countries…. Once again the task was given to Lionel Curtis who established, in England and each dominion, a front organization to the existing local Round Table Group. This front organization, called the Royal Institute of International Affairs, had as its nucleus in each area the existing, submerged Round Table Group. In New York it was known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a front for J.P. Morgan and Company.

These quotes are all sourced in the Griffin essay.

Finally, as Wood explains in The Trilateral Commission: Usurping Sovereignty:

If the Council on Foreign Relations could be said to be a spawning ground for the concepts of one-world idealism, then the Trilateral Commission was the “task force” assembled to assault the beachheads…. While virtually all Trilateral Commission members from North America have also been members of the CFR, the reverse is certainly not true. It is easy to over-criticize the CFR because most of its members seem to fill the balance of government positions not already filled by Trilaterals. The power structure of the Council is seen in the makeup of its board of directors: No less than 44 percent (12 out of 27) are members of the Commission! If director participation reflected only the general membership of the CFR, then only 3-4 percent of the board would be Trilaterals.

TheEndRun.com

I’ve been doing a lot of research lately, and I recently came across this little-known quote while reading through Bill Clinton’s book My Life. In Chapter 24, on pages 338-339, he writes (emphasis added):

“I ended 1987 with my third speech of the decade at the Florida Democratic convention…

I told the Florida Democrats, “We have to do nothing less than create a new world economic order and secure the place of the American people within it.” The central arguments I made were “We’ve got to pay the price today to secure tomorrow” and “We’re all in it together.”

In retrospect, my speeches in the late eighties seem interesting to me because of their similarity to what I would say in 1992 and what I tried to do as President.”

Recall that Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. Recall also that one of Clinton’s professors at Georgetown was Carroll Quigley, and that he has quoted Quigley and payed homage to him as a mentor many times in his speeches, including his 1992 nomination acceptance speech. In My Life he discusses the “lasting impact” that Quigley’s “insights” had on him.

On page ix* of The Anglo-American Establishment, Quigley writes:

“The Rhodes scholarship established by the terms of Cecil Rhodes’ seventh will are known to everyone. What is not so widely known is that Rhodes, in five previous wills, left his fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote itself to the preservation and expansion of the British Empire. And what does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secret society … continues to exist to this day. To be sure, [it] is not a childish thing like the Ku Klux Klan, and it does not have any secret robes, secret handclasps, or secret passwords. It does not need any of these, since its members know each other intimately. It probably has no oaths of secrecy nor any formal procedure of initiation. It does, however, exist and holds secret meetings…. This Group is, as I shall show, one of the most important historical facts of the twentieth century.”

And what were the goals of this “Group”? According to Quigley (Tragedy and Hope, p. 324; emphasis added):

“…nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. The system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basil, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank …sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world”

And how does he know that? Two pages later he writes:

“I know of the operation of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years during the 1960’s to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have for much of my life been close to it and to many of its instruments. In general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown.”

This is merely the tip of the iceberg. If you really want to understand the relevance of this quote by Clinton, I highly recommending reading the five part series entitled The Future Is Calling by G. Edward Griffin. All of these Quigley quotes can be found in part two, entitled Secret Societies and Hidden Agendas (though you will benefit greatly if you start with part one.)

Also, read The Trilateral Commission: Usurping Sovereignty by Patrick Wood. Bill Clinton is a member of the Trilateral Commission, which — as you will learn if you don’t already know — was founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski with the explicit goal of creating the “new world economic order” that Clinton is talking about. The creation of this new world order, according to the Trilateral Commissioners’ own writings, means “working against the best interest of the United States”[1] to accomplish an “end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece”[2], which will eventually give way to a one world collectivist government run by them from behind the scenes.

Senator Barry Goldwater tried to warn us about this thirty years ago. In his book With No Apologies (1979), he wrote:

“Where I differ from [then Governor Nelson Rockefeller] is in the suggestion implicit throughout his [1962 lectures at Harvard University] that… the United States must submerge its national identity and surrender substantial matters of sovereignty to a new political order. The implications in Governor Rockefeller’s presentation have become concrete proposals advanced by David Rockefeller’s newest international cabal, the Trilateral Commission. Whereas the Council on Foreign Relations is distinctly national in membership, the Trilateral Commission is international… It is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller screened and selected every individual who was invited to participate in shaping and administering the proposed new world order.” (pg 293)

“What the Trilaterals truly intend is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved… As managers and creators of the system they will rule the future.” (pg. 299)

See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSQFySxzznw

[1] Trilateral Commission founder David Rockefeller, in his book Memoirs, pg. 405. He also openly says that he is part of a “secret cabal” that is “conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will”
[2] Trilateral Commissioner Richard Gardner, “The Hard Road to World Order“, Foreign Affairs, April 1974, pg. 558

* ix is a Roman numeral.  It is not a typo.

Today Obama named Richard Holbrooke special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan

Holbrooke is on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. **

He is also a member of the Trilateral Commission.

He is also a Bilderberg attendee. Here is footage of Holbrooke outside of the Bilderberg at the Brookstreet Hotel in Ottawa, Canada in 2006 (getting yelled at by Alex Jones).

He is certainly not the first of his kind to receive such an appointment in the new administration, however. Obama has already appointed many other members of the CFR, members of the Trilateral Commission, and Bilderberg Attendees, not the least of which being CFR member/globalist Hillary Clinton, whose husband tried to “create a new world economic order” when he was president, by his own admission.

** Update 5/19/09: It seems that Holbrooke’s name no longer appears on the CFR’s Board of Directors page. Fortunately I saved a copy of that page on 1/26/09.  Click here to see this cached version, which shows Holbrooke on the Board of Directors at the time of this writing.  His name also appears on this list of CFR Board of Directors members,  which was also cached directly from the CFR’s website on 10/5/2007 by archive.org.