In 1881, Frank Podmore, who had joined the early Sidgwick group, met Edward Pease at one of the Spiritualist séances that were the vogue in London, at which time they became close friends. The next year he invited Pease to attend a meeting of this group in which the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was formed. Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie relate this epic event in their history of The Fabians:

"In this same period a group of young dons from Trinity College, Cambridge, were also turning to psychic research as a substitute for their lost Evangelical faith. In February 1882, Podmore took Pease to a meeting at which this group founded the Society for Psychical Research . . . Among those who founded the SPR were Henry Sidgwick, Arthur Balfour -- later a conservative Prime Minister -- and his brother, Gerald."

Edward Pease spent one year in the SPR as secretary of its haunted-houses committee, but then turned to politics with the conviction that a social revolution was necessary. For a time he worked with an associate of Karl Marx, Henry Hyndman who founded the radical Social Democratic Federation. However, Pease was of the opinion that social revolution must begin with educating the intellectual and wealthy classes rather than fomenting agitation among the working class. He organized a Progressive Association which was joined by Podmore and other young fallen away Evangelicals.

The Association split into the Fellowship of the New Life, a commune with utopian illusions, and a research/debating group which Podmore named the Fabian Society, after the Roman general Fabius Cunctator, 'the delayer' who advocated a war of attrition rather than direct confrontation against Hannibal. The Fabians believed that social reform could be achieved by a new political approach of gradual and patient argument, 'permeating' their ideas into the circles of those with power: "the inevitability of gradualism" was an early slogan.

Fabius Cunctator's strategy which was to guide the Fabians was summarized in Podmore's words: "For the right moment you must wait…when the time comes you must strike hard." The Fabians soon attracted intellectuals from various other dissident organizations. Of these, Sidney Webb, Bernard Shaw and Annie Besant were members of the Dialectical Society influenced by the liberal millenarian aspirations of John Stuart Mill. As of 1886, the Fabian executive committee was comprised of Pease, Podmore, Besant, Shaw and Webb. However in 1889, Annie Besant was converted to the cult of Theosophy by Madame Blavatsky, whom she succeeded in 1891 as president of the Theosophical Society.

Upon this revolutionary base, Sidney Webb, his wife Beatrice and playwright George Bernard Shaw built an organization which educated the intellectuals, bohemians and disillusioned clergy of England in the art of "permeating" and using the machinery of government for their own socialist ends. As Sidney Webb wrote to Edward Pease in 1886, "Nothing is done in England without the consent of a small intellectual yet political class in London, not 2000 in number. We alone could get at that class." The MacKenzies observed, "There was, indeed, no clear dividing line between spiritual discontent and political radicalism in the netherworld of dissent." Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb argued that "socialism could be proposed without forfeiture of moral credit by a bishop as well as a desperado." The formation of the Christian Socialists and Christian Social Union created the vehicle by which socialist doctrine would permeate the Anglican Church.

"…the first Fabians…had almost all been lapsed Anglicans from Evangelical homes. There was a Christian fringe to the London socialism of the eighties, but this too was Anglican. The Christian Socialists came together in Stewart Headlam's Guild of St. Matthew and the Land Reform Union; and the more respectable Christian Social Union, formed in 1889 - seeking in Fabian style to permeate the Anglican Church - soon attracted more than two thousand clerical members. Dissenting clergymen too began to find a place in the Fabian Society and the London Progressives, while Unitarian churches and centres like Stanton Coit's Ethical Church provided a meeting place for believers and idealist agnostics....Socialism was for all of them, the new Evangelism."

As Bishop of Durham, B.F. Westcott also served as first president of the Christian Social Union. The subject of an address at Manchester in November of 1895 was Christian Law, which Westcott postulated changes to adapt to variable social conditions:

"The Christian Law, then is the embodiment of the truth for action, in forms answering to the conditions of society from age to age. The embodiment takes place slowly and can never be complete. It is impossible for us to rest indolently in conclusions of the past. In each generation the obligation is laid on Christians to bring new problems of conduct into the divine light and to find their solution under the teaching of the Spirit."

In 1894, the Fabian Society designated a large bequest to found the London School of Economics and Political Science. Philosopher Bertrand Russell served on the Administration Committee while Arthur Balfour contributed £2000 and also collaborated with Sidney Webb to introduce legislation in Parliament which would give the school university status. H.G. Wells, who had recently joined the Fabians, was "branching out into speculations about a new social order which naturally interested the Webbs." An elite group of Twelve Wise Men, which included Russell and Wells, were selected as the "Co-Efficients" who met to discuss and formulate "ideas about racial improvement by selecting out the efficient…and Shaw was working on these 'eugenic' notions in his new play Man and Superman. Beatrice Webb called it 'the most important of all questions, the breeding of the right sort of man'....Above all they were avowed elitists, intolerant of the cumbersome and apparently wasteful processes of democracy, who wanted to see England ruled by a superior caste which matched an enlightened sense of duty with a competence to govern effectively. All of them, moreover, shared Sidney's belief - which had led him to spend so much effort on London education and on the School of Economics - that social improvement depended upon the training of the superior manpower needed to carry out schemes of reform. Shaw was suggesting in his latest play that universal suffrage was a disaster, putting power in the hands of the 'riff-raff' and....Webb who could not wait until a new race of supermen had been bred up to establish the millennium, felt that improved education and intelligent politics would at least start the necessary process of regeneration."

Established as a long-term investment to educate and train an elite workforce to carry out the schemes of socialist reform, the London School of Economics is now one of the largest schools of the University of London, having also an international reputation. Over half of its 5,000 students and academic staff are from outside of the United Kingdom. Five of its former staff members have won Nobel Prizes and its Journal of International Studies, Millennium, enjoys world-wide circulation and recognition.

The London School of Economics (LSE) also provides consultants to many organizations, including the U.K. government, international bodies such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations. The Ford Foundation, which funds and whose members serve as trustees on the Council on Foreign Relations, provided a grant in 1967 to the LSE for a Centre for International Studies. The European Institute of the LSE participates actively in the European Series conferences and hosted the 1996 conference which held discussions on the European Union, European governance and law and Europe in the world economy. The Fabian Society continues today with over 6,000 members.

What began as a series of meetings organized by Colonel Edward Mandell House, President Woodrow Wilson's confidential adviser during World War I, is now widely acknowledged to be the biggest globalist secret society - the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

In New York in 1917, Wilson assembled about 100 important men to discuss a peace settlement and postwar plans. The self-styled "inquiry" wrote most of Woodrow Wilson's 14 points which he put before Congress in January 1918. They proposed the removal of "all economic barriers" between nations, free trade, and the formation of a "general association of nations" (the League of Nations). Wilson's peace terms formed the basis of the Treaty of Versailles that required Germany to pay crippling reparations, and caused the depression that fostered Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

Wilson's peace plans were rejected by the United States Senate, which was wary of anything that smacked of a supernational organization. However, Colonel House and the British and American peace conference delegates met again in Paris in May 1919 and agreed to form an Institute of International Affairs with the aim of steering the world towards the acceptance of a one-world government. Its British branch is called the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the United States branch was constructed on July 21, 1921, as the Council on Foreign Relations. One of CFR's rules states that any member divulging information about CFR meetings will lose membership.

The Harold Pratt House in New York City is the CFR headquarters and has lavishly housed the New York liberal elite since it was donated in 1945 y the Pratt family of Rockefeller's Standard Oil. Originally there were about 1,600 members, but this has grown to 3,300 as influential figures in finance, politics, communications and academics have swelled its ranks after careful selection and rigorous screening.

Original CFR members included Elihu Root, John Foster Dulles and Christian Herter, all three of whom served as secretary of state; also Dulles' brother Allen Dulles, who later became the director of the CIA, was a member. Since the nearly every one of Dulles' successors has been a CFR member, including George Bush and William Casey. Founder members John W. Davis and Russell Leffingwell were financier J.P. Morgan's right-hand men, and many of the other early members had strong links with him, so CFR policy must have served Morgan's interests and allegedly still does.

Not only does the CFR run the CIA, they also control the State Department. This started when President Truman established the Psychological Strategy Board (PSB) to coordinate psycho-political operations. It was headed by CFR members Gordon Gray and Henry Kissinger. The PSB has close links with the State Department and the CIA. Eisenhower changed its name to the Operations Coordination Board (OCB), and when President Kennedy abolished it, the OCB became an ad hoc committee called the Special Group which continues today. It is run by CFR members.

In February 1941 the CFR took control of the State Department with the establishment of the Division of Special Research, forming groups of experts to mastermind research into security, armaments, economics and politics. Like the PSB and OCB, the Division of Special Research is run by CFR cronies.

Originally CFR funding came from bankers and financiers, including Morgan, Rockefeller, and Otto Kahn, and today comes from the State Department and corporations, including Xerox, General Motors, Texaco and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Like the Bilderbergers, albeit with less secrecy, the CFR communicates its ideas through conferences and smaller luncheon or dinner meetings. It also acts as a think tank to produce research to further its globalist agenda. The CFR's publication Foreign Affairs is the public mouthpiece. It is widely acknowledged that just as Broadway shows rise or fall on the opinion of the New York Times critic, ideas rarely make it into United States government foreign policy until they have gained the approval in this CFR club magazine.

Admiral Chester Ward, a retired senior figure in the United States Navy and CFR member, co-authored a book in 1975 with Phyllis Schafly, called Kissinger on the Couch in which he states, "Once the ruling members of the CFR have decided that the United States government should adopt a particular policy, the very substantial research facilities of the 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."

Henry Kissinger rose to prominence by exploiting his CFR connections, which included David Rockefeller. Through the CFR he gained inside knowledge of the Atomic Energy Commission, the military, the CIA, and the State Department to write his best-selling book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, which put forth the case that a nuclear war might be "winnable."

The CFR has placed 100 of its members in every presidential administration since Woodrow Wilson. Both the Republican George W. Bush and his Democrat opponent in the 2000 election, Al Gore, are CFR men, and the Clinton administration included more than 100 CFR members, many of whom have become foreign ambassadors to spread the good new about federalism and globalism.

Some critics of the CFR claim that the Marshall Plan and the subsequent North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) came into being after an "anonymous" letter that appeared in Foreign Affairs gave Truman the nod to take a hard line against the threat of Soviet expansion. Ever since, despite the collapse of Soviet Communism, the attitude towards armaments has been spend, spend, spend.

Evidently the prudent words of Thomas Jefferson have been long forgotten: "I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared."

The Bilderberg Group is named after the hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland, where it met in the early years of its existence after its creation in 1954. Officially it has no name, but then "officially" it doesn't exist. In reality it is composed of more than 100 of the global power elite - international financiers, multinational bosses, and political leaders and European royalty, including Prince Charles, Queen Sophia of Spain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. The two leading power brokers are the American Rockefeller family and European Rothschilds.

Each year they meet for four days at a secret location in Europe of the United States. The 2003 gathering took place between ay 15 and 18 at the luxurious and historic Trianon Palace at Versailles, but it was barely mentioned in the press. This is because top media figures are either members or on the guest list. The publisher of the Washington Post attends every meeting and the news chiefs of the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and TV networks have also taken part on the understanding that discussions are off the record. As French broadcaster Thierry de Segonzac put it, "The Bilderbergers are too powerful and omnipresent to be exposed."

The meetings were chaired by former Nazi SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands until his resignation in 1976 following his involvement in the Lockheed Scandal. The current chair is Lord Peter Carrington, a former British government cabinet minister and secretary general of NATO, who is connected to the Rothschild family through marriage.

Reporter Emma Jane Kirby has described the Bilderberger Group as,"an extremely influential lobbying group with a good deal of political clout on both sides of the Atlantic."

This is hugely understating their influence. A unified Europe, the Treaty of Rome, the single European currency, the ending of the Cold War, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Brady plan (President Reagan's pledge to provide $50 billion to Third World and Communist countries), and the ousting of Margaret Thatcher as prime minister of Britain because she resisted the European super state are just a few of the ideas that materialized at Bilderberger meetings.

Like its related groups the Trilateral Commission and the CFR, the Bilderberger aim is a one-world government and to promote the idea that national sovereignty is antiquated and regressive. Author Neal Wilgus has described them as a "sort of unofficial CFR, expanded to an international scale." Many critics believe they have the clout to mastermind world events and engineer policies and international projects that increase their wealth and power. If power is what they seek, then one group of politicians would be easier to bribe, corrupt and influence than those of several countries. These high priests of globalization benefit greatly from "internationalism" since it inevitably lead to large-scale, publicly funded projects that can be used to increase the Bilderbergers' wealthy and power (for example sending billions in financial aid to the former Soviet Union and then extracting natural resources at rock-bottom prices; disastrous International Monetary Fund policies that deliberately keep Third World Countries crippled and powerless).

Each year, in addition to the core membership, a few ambitious new faces are invited, selected when they seem in a promising political position, dropped when they cease to be of use. Douglas Wilder, the first black United States governor was invited when his political career looked set to go stratospheric, but in 1984 when he failed to gain more than 1% of the vote in the Democratic presidential primary, he was removed from the guest list. However, the Bilderbergers struck lucky in 1991 when they invited the governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, into their fold at their confab in Baden Baden, Germany. A year later he was elected president.

It is alleged that the Bilderbergers have had every president since the early 1970s in their pocket. Gerald Ford was a Bilderberger; Jimmy Carter and his vice president Walter Mondale were members of the Trilateral Commission. During the 1980 primaries Ronald Reagan said he would have nothing to do with the Trilaterals, but later appointed Trilateralist George Bush his vice president. His son George W. Bush is not connected to these groups, but several in his administration are Bilderberger attendees.

Former British intelligence officer Dr. John Coleman claims that the conference is sanctioned by Britain's MI6 with authority from the Royal Institute of International Affairs (of which Lord Carrington is president). In America, the CIA provides intelligence and security for the meetings. This isn't surprising since the framework of the CIA - the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was built by none other than John J. McCloy, a former Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Chairman of the Rockefeller Chase Manhattan Bank.

The fact that the police arrest and charge card-carrying journalists who attempt to expose them is clear evidence that Bilderberger meetings are more than a "private" event. The organization and security cordon surrounding them makes White House security look like the Home Guard. In Versailles the security perimeter was unprecedented and local residents had their movements restricted by Bilderberger security and the French military, although no one was given a satisfactory explanation, and nothing appeared in the press.

A member of the European Commission and Bilderberger attendee, Mario Monti, recently played down the conferences saying,

"The participants attend meetings in a private capacity and the statements which they make are not binding on the [European] Commission; no resolutions are passed, no votes are taken and no political communiqués are issued."

The reality is that the Bilderbergers' off-record briefings are way above democracy and the law.

Formed in 1968 by Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei, the Club of Rome can be variously described as a Hamburg-based global think tank or, depending on your point of view, another elite cabal of globalist one-worlders trying to manipulate international politics and economics through their close ties with the ruling elite, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.

One its website (www.clubofrome.org) it sets out its mission "to act as an independent, global, non official catalyst of change" through "the identification of the most crucial problems facing humanity, their analysis in the global context of the world-wide problematique, the research of future alternative solutions and the elaboration of scenarios for the future." and "the communication of such problem to the most important public and private decision-makers as well as to the general public."

All well and good. A "full" list of names and addresses of its hundred or so members (active, associate, and honorary) are printed on the website (except for its host of dominant figures in the world establishment), along with details of its conferences and numerous research papers.

The Club of Rome became well known in 1972 with its publication of The Limits to Growth that warned that the Earth's resources were finite and highlighted the negative consequences of a rapidly growing global population. The book became an instant best seller, was translated in 30 languages and sold more the 4 million copies.

It was these revelations that have since sparked debate that the Club of Rome has been instrumental in one of the biggest genocides the world has ever known: namely, the spread of AIDS, which some sources claim is a man-made virus developed as a result of top secret recommendations made by the Club of Rome to the ruling elite (the CIA and the Bilderberg Group).

This alleged plan was to target "undesirable elements of society" for extermination, including black, Hispanic and homosexual communities. According to William Cooper, the name of the project that developed AIDS is MK-NAOMI. The African continent was infected via the smallpox vaccine in 1977. The United States population was infected in 1978 with the hepatitis B vaccine through the Centers of Disease Control and the New York Blood Center.

It wasn't the first time that calls had been made for population control In 1948 George W. McKennan from the US State Department issued Foreign Policy Statement-21 (FPS-21) highlighting the necessity for the United States to "devise a scheme" to deal with "burgeoning populations." On March 16, 1970, President Richard Nixon allegedly signed off law PL91-213 that authorizes "stabilization" of the population of Sub-Saharan African and appointed John D. Rockefeller III to oversee this "problem."

Neither was MK-NAOMI the first CIA research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents. In 1953 a 10-year project called MK-ULTRA developed nerve agents for mind control and behavior modification. This was followed by MK-SEARCH and MK-OFTEN. Then, in 1969, Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requested $10 million from Congress to develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists. The funding was granted in 1970 under H.R. 15090 and financed the MK-NAOMI project that used sub-molecular biology techniques to produce AIDS-like retroviruses. At this time the CIA was also exploring the viability of "ethnic weapons" that could selectively target specific groups based on genetic differences and variations in DNA. All these experiments took place at the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. A vital piece of proof cited by those who believe that AIDS is man-made is a 1971 AIDS flowchart that is said to coordinate more than 20,000 scientific papers and 15 years of research into a federal program to develop a virus that shows an identical match to the epidemiology of AIDS.

Well-documented facts have already been made public under the Freedom of Information Act about the sordid history of United States human experimentation over the last 70 years.

In the 1930s American soldiers and civilian hospital patients were unwittingly used as guinea pigs in a series of radiation exposure experiments. Also in the 1930s, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study began tracking 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis who were never informed of their illness so that the long-term effects of the disease could be observed. A Senate committee that investigated the practices of MK-ULTRA has concluded, "From its beginning in the early 1950s until its termination in 1963, the program of surreptitious administration of LSD to unwitting non-volunteer human subjects demonstrates a failure of the CIA's leadership to pay adequate attention to the rights of individuals and to provide effective guidance to CIA employees. though it was known that the testing was dangerous, the lives of subjects were placed in jeopardy and were ignored....Although it was clear that the laws of the United States were being violated, the testing continued." Even as recently as the last Gulf War, soldiers were given a cocktail of experimental drugs that left thousands suffering from Golf War Syndrome.

On October 3, 1995, President Clinton finally admitted that the radiation exposure experiments took place and that the United States government was liable for compensation.

Meanwhile AIDS, largely under control in the West, continues to spread across the African continent. It matters not that The Limits to Growth has since been debunked as a fraudulent document that, according to one of the club's directors, used a misleading computer model. Of the 50 million people who have died of AIDS during the last 25 years, over 70% were from Africa and the epidemic there is growing. The origins of AIDS are still largely shrouded in mystery, but one thing is certain: whatever the truth, the urgent recommendations made by the Club of Rome are being played out today with ruthless and exponential efficiency.

This is public offshoot of the CFR but with two important distinctions: first, it brought the Japanese ruling elite into the inner circle of global power brokers. Second, it is the brainchild of David Rockefeller. Its website (www.trilateral.org) states its public aims:

"The Trilateral Commission was former in 1973 by private citizens in Europe, Japan and North America to help think through the common challenges and leadership responsibilities of these democratic industrialized areas of the wider world."

It fails to mention that most of these "private citizens" are the richest and most influential individuals on the planet, and that all of the 350 members have been hand-picked by David Rockefeller. Neither does it explain that it was given the stamp of approval at a secret Bilderberg meeting in April 1972 in the tiny Belgian town of Knokke-Heist.

The website also says that, "originally established for three years, our work has been renewed for successive triennia (3-year periods), most recently for a triennium to be completed in 2006." This cleverly gives the impression that its tenure is limited and thus reduces the significance of its extensive and continuing stranglehold on domestic and foreign policy.

Many members of "David Rockefeller's newest international cabal" (With No Apologies, by Senator Barry Goldwater) are also Bildeberger and/or CFR members. They have headquarters in New York, Paris and Tokyo, and they meet once a year in one r other of the regions. Their house publication is called Trialogue, and it publishes "Triangle Papers" that are in the public domain.

Rockefeller was heavily influenced by the research of Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the head of the Russian Studies department at Columbia University. Brzezinski wrote in Foreign Affairs and later in his book Between Two Ages, that balance-of-power politics needed to be replaced with world-order politics. Brzezinski and many others within the CFR believed that national sovereignty was "no longer a viable concept," and he also supported a "global taxation system."

In the Wall Street Journal David Rockefeller has claim that the Trilateral Commission is "in reality, a group of concerned citizens interested in fostering greater understanding, and cooperation among international allies." In a letter to the New York Times he stressed that "there are about as many republicans and Democrats, and most regions of the nation are represented." Which is another way of shifting focus away from the core issue - that the Commission members are one-worlders above all else. He continued, "We try to select only the most able and outstanding citizens from the industrial democracies. In that context, it is gratifying and not at all surprising that many former members are now Administration officials."

Even allowing for the merit of Commission members, that alone does not credibly explain the presence of so many of them in every administration since President Carter (17 of his top officials were from the Trilateral Commission). As far back as July, 1973, Brzezinski had highlighted in Foreign Affairs the importance "for a Trilateralist to soon become President." Carter's election may have been a miracle, but it was no accident.

Seven months before the Democratic nominating convention, a Gallup poll showed less than 4% of Democrats supporting him for president. His fortunes changed once David Rockefeller and Brzezinksi shoe-horned him into the White House. The irony is that Carter campaigned as a man of the people who was outside the Establishment, when in fact he was Rockefeller's golden boy and the first Trilateral president.

Senator Barry Goldwater explains:

"They mobilized the money power of the Wall Street bankers, the intellectual influence of the academic community - which is subservient to the wealth of the great tax-free foundations - and the media controllers represented in the membership of the CFR, and the Trilateral."

In 1980, in an attempt to make the activities of the Trilateral Commission more transparent, Congressman Larry McDonald introduced resolutions in the House of Representatives calling for a congressional investigation, but they came to nothing. His very vocal criticism of secret societies ended abruptly on September 1, 1983 - he was one of the 269 passengers aboard Korean Airlines Flight 007, which strayed off course over a Soviet missile installation in the far Pacific and was shot out of the sky.

It is important to remember in al this that the Trilateral Commission is also a front organization for the Council on Foreign Relations to defuse criticism about its secrecy, but it wasn't the first. In 1925 the CFR established the American Institute of Pacific Relations, which heavily influenced United States policy towards Russia, China and Japan. It was investigated in 1951 by the McCarren Committee, a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Internal Security, but unfortunately this did not result in a wider examination of the CFR. Today it appears that the Commission's role to take the focus away from the CFR, and protect it from the scrutiny of a congressional investigation.

Perhaps the situation is best summed up by a flippant remark of Winston Lord (president of the CFR from 1977-1985) and one time assistant secretary of state to the United States State Department:

"The Trilateral Commission doesn't run the world, the Council of Foreign Relations does that!"