A friend posted this, I don't think he'll mind if I pass it along
Book review of
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making (Hardcover)
by David Rothkopf
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/03/14/superclass/ Man, check that 2 page article out. By now many people dismiss any notion of a new world order globalist elite as mere paranoid far right/patriot/Alex Jones/John Birch/Protocols of Zion delusions.
The same people who claim to be anti war and hate the corporations turn around and say any talk of a global elite or nwo is "paranoid right wing nonsense, masquerading as anti Jewish hysteria"
Yet what happens, when one of these insiders, long after the famed writings of globalist Carrol Quigley not only acknowledges it...but goes into great detail? Relishing every truth to it?
From the reviews I'm reading, it seems like an astonishing, if not frightening book. The idea that 6000 global elites truly do control the world and everything. From war and defense, to finances, to even Islamic terrorism.
What? You didn't know Osama bin Laden is just a willing tool of the globalists? Oh yeah....
Not everyone Rothkopf writes about in "Superclass" is a Davos man,
but despite his efforts to remain impartial toward "the global power elite" he describes, you can tell that the elect milieu of the WEF gives him a palpable thrill. The book opens with a scene of the author making his way through the town's frozen streets, recognizing CEOs, oil company executives and Harvard professors on his way to a fondue restaurant. Suddenly, he's greeted effusively by a bestselling inspirational writer with whom he has been trading e-mail: Paulo Coelho, "an icon of the global literary scene"! (The literary scene? I don't think so, though Coelho certainly is a publishing phenomenon.)
Rothkopf's credible, if not especially original argument in "Superclass" is that over the past several decades a "global elite" has emerged whose connections to each other have become more significant than their ties to their home nations and governments. They schmooze regularly at conferences like Davos, go to the same schools, serve together on corporate and nonprofit boards, and above all do business with each other constantly --
to the point that they have become a kind of culture in themselves, a "class without a country," as Rothkopf puts it. Furthermore, these people are "the new leadership class for our era.
This isnt some Alex Jones or World Net Daily guy writing this...
No, this guy is hardcore.
A former undersecretary of commerce in the Clinton administration and an officer in an assortment of "advisory" firms (including Kissinger Associates, run by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and the consulting company Rothkopf himself founded, Garten Rothkopf), Rothkopf is an insider of sorts, well enough connected to sit in on meetings of power brokers without quite being one himself. He also writes Op-Eds on international affairs for major newspapers and is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, positions that require the display of some critical distance. "Superclass" isn't as condemnatory as Naomi Klein's anti-globalization manifesto "No Logo," let alone the conspiracy theorizing of "The Iron Triangle," Dan Briody's exposé of the Carlyle Group, but it doesn't merely fawn over its subjects, either.
He identifies what makes a global elite
Rothkopf announces that he and his researchers have identified "just over 6,000" people who match his definition of the superclass -- that is, who have met complicated (and vaguely explained) metrics designed to determine "the ability to regularly influence the lives of millions of people in multiple countries worldwide." These include heads of state and religious and military leaders -- even the occasional pop star, like Bono -- but the core membership is businessmen: hedge fund managers, technology entrepreneurs and private equity investors.
Money alone doesn't cut the mustard. A fabulously wealthy widow living out the end of a quiet life isn't in the superclass; you must not only possess power, but also freely exercise it. Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of the Blackstone Group, is the paradigm: In addition to running a huge private equity firm, he sits on the boards of a half-dozen cultural foundations and belongs to a laundry list of forums and councils, including the WEF. (He also granted Rothkopf a lunch interview at the Four Seasons Grill Room, as the author takes pains to inform his readers.)
For years people have been saying that yes, al Qaeda's top leadership and BCCI like arms smuggling connections are mere proxies of the global elite NWO structure...therefore even if they were behind 9/11, 9/11 is still an NWO job.
The pope is a member of the superclass, as is Osama bin Laden, who can undoubtedly claim influence over current international affairs, even if he sometimes lives in a cave. The Russian illegal arms dealer Viktor "Merchant of Death" Bout is a member, as are Rupert Murdoch and Bill Clinton, who, while no longer commander in chief of the world's remaining superpower, nevertheless heads the Clinton Global Intiative, a brand new dynamo in the area of international philanthropy.
We know for a fact that even as of 1999 and 2000, Osama bin Laden and top aides were meeting with royalty of the Arab world, leadership of Dubai, Western CEOS, etc all at "Falcon hunting camps".
And we know, that as the Rockefeller/Saudi BinLaden Group favored architect built Twin Towers came crumbling down, Poppy Bush and Shafig bin Laden were having quaint little Carlyle chats.
Rothkopf says how the days of national sovereignty are over, that the elites are transnational through corporate ties than recognized borders, and he says how a one world government sounds good, it's not quite
as simple as that in practice
The difficulty is that most of them exercise their power transnationally, while laws and regulations are confined within the borders of nation-states (which Rothkopf, in classic Davos-man style, regards as doomed). "We must resist the temptation to reflexively attack elites," he writes, since human societies need leaders and this is an able bunch, but elites ought to be more accountable to the millions of people whose lives they affect. Otherwise, as history (and the current upsurge in religious extremism) shows, they may provoke a violent and chaotic backlash.
Nevertheless, the likelihood of a world government forming to handle the situation is remote -- not while nation-states have any life left in them to defend their sovereignty. International institutions -- the U.N., especially, but also the IMF and the World Bank -- are weak, or weakening, and are hemorrhaging credibility. The answer, according to Rothkopf, is not global government, but "governance," fewer formal agreements and mechanisms among international entities. The registration and management of Internet domain names (via a collection of organizations) is one example of this sort of governance, orderly and helpful in a way you wouldn't automatically associate with Rothkopf's ominous-sounding definition of the term: "Fulfilling government roles with mechanisms" that "lack the full traditional power, authority or mandates of governments."
He talks how there is a growing rise of anti globalists that are trouble makers, elluding to needing to be dealt with. One such is Hugo Chavez he notes
" One such "backlash" is the administration of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, a leader characterized by Rothkopf as part of "the global network of antiglobalists." Chavez has made political theater out of taunting and thwarting the global elite. No wonder one of the book's chapter sections is titled "Is a Crisis Inevitable?"
He talks about how the Ted Turner and Bill/Melinda Gates are doing great work in Africa(puhlease), and how at their little gettogethers of super elites they talk about global warming, boosting economic control, etc.
If you dont think everyone from the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, leaders of Dubai, Blackstone, and Chase to SBG, al Qaeda, Halliburton, blood diamond comanies, arms companies and the post BCCI framework is all part of this NWO, I'm pretty sure he makes applauded mention in his book.
I get the impression there's three clans within the global elite power structure. The neo liberal Fabian socialists who make sipping wine in the Hamptons seem ghetto, who love parading about their Global Warming and African crisis awareness programs while making money off defense corporations. They are a mix of liberal and far right, eugenicist minded types, the Poppy Bush and Kissinger types, etc.
Then there's the non WASP, non Western elites. The propped up dictators, the Saudi and Arab country elites and corporations, China, and all the genocide tied proxy leaders and foundations.
Then there is the old guard, the royal aristocrat and occult secret society types.
Below of course are the criminal networks of arms/terrorism/child kidnapping/genocidal militias/etc all puppeteered through paramilitary and agencies linked to governments and transnational corporations.
In other words, it seems like we're screwed.