The most important letter you'll ever sign!

Please...it only takes a minute to sign this,so will you all do it? Thanks.... http://blackboxvoting.org/petition.htm

Thanks for pointing this out.

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for the post!

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I just signed myself. This is very worthwhile.

just signed.



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To put it simply, Trilateralists are saying: The people, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.

In short, Trilateralism is the current attempt by ruling elites to manage both dependence and democracy -- at home and abroad.


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Less well known than his reliance on the Commission for his foreign policy is the fact that Carter used Commission sources for much of his campaign strategy. Brzezinski stressed as early as 1973 that the 1976 Democratic candidate "will have to emphasize work, the family, religion, and, increasingly, patriotism, if he has any desire to be elected." Samuel P. Huntington's 1975 Commission report on U.S. democracy seems to have been even more important in setting Carter's campaign strategy. Huntington, a longtime friend of Brzezinski and a Carter adviser during the campaign became coordinator of security planning for the National Security Council in the Carter Administration until resigning in August 1978. 14 To become president, Huntington argued, a candidate should cultivate "the appearance of certain general characteristics-honesty, energy, practicality, decisiveness, sincerity, and experience." His next piece of analysis was even more striking. After reviewing the political history of the 1960s and 1970s, Huntington summed up the experience by saying:

the "outsider" in politics, or the candidate who could make himself or herself appear to be an outsider, had the inside road to political office. In New York in 1974, for instance, four out of five candidates for statewide office endorsed by the state Democratic convention were defeated by the voters in the Democratic primary; the party leaders, it has been aptly said, did not endorse Hugh Carey for governor because he could not win, and he won because they did not endorse him. The lesson of the 1960s was that American political parties were extraordinarily open and extraordinarily vulnerable organizations, in the sense that they could be easily penetrated, and even captured, by highly motivated and well-organized groups with a cause and a candidate.

Needless to say, Carter was an "insider" who campaigned as an "outsider." As Carter himself expressed it, his campaign did best "whenever we'd project ourselves as the underdog fighting the establishment...fighting a valiant battle..." ~ 7 And as president, Carter has followed several of Huntington's suggestions on domestic policy, such as tightening control over the Democratic Party and lowering expectations about what government can and should do.
One of the Commission's main initial objectives, as stated in its own publications, was to gain governmental influence in each of the three industrial capitalist sectors of the world: the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan. Only then could plans and policies be put into effect. As a 15 March 1973 memorandum put it, one of the objectives of the Commission's work would be "to foster understanding and support of Commission recommendations both in governmental and private sectors in the three regions." In choosing members, Rockefeller and other leaders of the Commission stressed the need to find and recruit "men and women of sufficient standing to influence opinion leaders both public and private in favor of the Commission's recommendations." Carter was thus only one of many who Commission leaders felt could be influential in the future. Commission founders also chose other politicians for membership such as Senators Walter Mondale and Robert Taft Jr.;Governor Daniel J. Evans; former Governor William W. Scranton; and Elliot Richardson. They were clearly trying to cover as many future possibilities as they could by involving a spectrum of politicians-both Democrats and Republicans-in their work.

more...

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Trilateralism/JimmyCarter_Trilat.html

I was signature #940.

Kickin' this back onto the front page. :-)

Julie

wah hooooooooooooo

Incredible!!! I am so impressed.

(about Carter being on the trilateral commission. Well.....I bet he isn't so thrilled with that set up now. After witnessing soooooo much poverty and hunger and sickness and misery the world over since he left the white house. I need to check to see if he is still a member.........)