Meet the Elite Business and Think-Tank Community That's Doing Its Best to Control the World

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http://www.alternet.org/occupy-wall-street/elite-business-and-think-tank-attempts-control-world



"The corporate-policy network is highly centralized, at both the level of individuals and that of organizations. Its inner circle is a tightly interwoven ensemble of politically active business leaders..." -- Academics William K. Carroll and Jean Philippe Sapinski

In an article titled "The Global Corporate Elite" in the journal International Sociology, William K. Carroll and Jean Philippe Sapinski examined the relationship between the corporate elite and the emergence of a “transnational policy-planning network,” beginning with its formation in the decades following World War II and speeding up in the 1970s with the creation of “global policy groups” and think tanks such as the World Economic Forum, in 1971, and the Trilateral Commission, in 1973, among many others.

The function of such institutions was to help mobilize and integrate the corporate elite beyond national borders, constructing a politically “organized minority.” These policy-planning organizations came to exist as “venues for discussion, strategic planning, discourse production and consensus formation on specific issues,” as well as “places where responses to crises of legitimacy are crafted,” such as managing economic, political, or environmental crises where elite interests might be threatened. These groups also often acted as “advocates for specific projects of integration, often on a regional basis.” Perhaps most importantly, the organizations “provide bridges connecting business elites to political actors (heads of states, politicians, high-ranking public servants) and elites and organic intellectuals in other fields (international organizations, military, media, academia).”

One important industry association, according to researchers Carroll and Carson in the journal Global Networks (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2003), is the International Chamber of Commerce. Launched by investment bankers in 1919, immediately following WWI, the Paris-based Chamber groups roughly 7,000 member corporations together across 130 countries, adhering to largely conservative, “free market” ideology. The “primary function” of the ICC, write Carroll and Carson, “is to institutionalize an international business perspective by providing a forum where capitalists and related professionals... can assemble and forge a common international policy framework.”

Another policy group with outsized global influence is the Bilderberg group, founded between 1952 and 1954, which provided “a context for more comprehensive international capitalist coordination and planning.” Bringing together roughly 130 elites from Western Europe and North America at annual closed meetings, “Bilderberg conferences have furnished a confidential platform for corporate, political, intellectual, military and even trade-union elites from the North Atlantic heartland to reach mutual understanding.”

[sibelian]

1. K+R

[cantbeserious]

2. Mr And Mrs America (Main Street) Meet Your Nemeses - Oligarchs, Wall Street And Global Corporate Elite

eom

[Nay]

7. Yeah. Mr and Mrs A, you just keep on voting for one or another of the twins so you'll

feel like you're doing something. Sign some petitions on the internet, too, and maybe go stand on a street corner with a sign for an afternoon. That'll get 'em.

When, oh when, will people realize they have NO SAY in what goes on in this country??? Do they have any idea what would happen to them if the elite really found them to be a threat???

[raouldukelives]

10. They do have a say. Sadly, they choose to support Wall St over Main St.

Every dollar that flows into the markets, every hour logged on the payroll of a corporation, only leads us further down the rabbit hole.
They are literally funding the destruction we are witnessing of our lands, our labor and our political process. They are choosing to side with the corporations over democracy.
One is only as liberal as their most conservative investment. Or as you so aptly pointed out, they are willing to sign some petitions but afraid to live a life that stands up to their perceived ideals. Afraid to be a liberal, afraid to be an American, even as they watch it all burn, they are stoking the flames with gasoline.

[JW2020]

3. authoritarians dismissing this article as conspiracy theory in

3... 2... 1... because it mentions Bilderberg and Tri-lateral Commission.

[nenagh]

4. Ex-Senior Council of World Bank, Karen Hudes, former insider and whistleblower

cites 2011 Swiss study, reported in Plos One journal, on the network of global corporate control..

Unfortunately my level of understanding of the World Bank or corporate entities is not sufficient to understand this...

She was interviewed by BBC... thought you might be interested...

[HiPointDem]

5. kr

[Civilization2]

6. anti-democratic organizations of the 1%,. secrete meeting to plan the carving up of the world for $.

the corporate-military comes out of hiding, they no longer need to keep themselves under wraps, as they have now removed all vestiges of functioning democracy. There is currently little opposition to the anti-democratic corporate-military organisations, people rise up in opposition,. and are quickly stomped on by Orwell's Boot.

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
-George Orwell

[Dustlawyer]

8. From personal experience I can tell you that the U.S. Chamber of (Horrors) Commerce

has been working a grass roots plan of local election influence for Republican and Judicial elections, creating and funding newspapers (They are called ____ Record such as Southeasttexasrecord.com.com). The 1st year of the Southeast Texas Record they did not even sell ads. The papers are free outside the Courthouse next to the jury assembly room. Although toned down now, they still have a propaganda filled editorial and letters to the editor. They will do stories based on what types of trials will be starting so that the issue will talk about how lawsuits are running off Texas doctors if there is a medical malpractice case about to pick a jury and start.
They spread a lot of money around in nefarious ways! The money has corrupted our system completely. Trust me, at fundraisers with the big donors the politician sits down and the Fat Cat tells the politician what he/she wants and clearly makes sure the politician promises to vote and fight for their measures. This is all legal and it leaves no room for the little guys. That is why we have what is known as "spineless Democrats!"
We need COMPLETE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM (CCFR)!!! Public financing of our elections needs to be a reality and will solve most of our problems if we are willing to be single minded in our fight for it. Corporations control our government right now! This is the fight that we have to win! Until we take up this battle, things will only get worse!

[pampango]

9. The odd thing is that the republican right wing believes in a "secretive power elite" or NWO.

Of course they view the coming NWO as a liberal evil led by FDR creations such as the UN and the WTO/GATT.

Do you believe that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order, or not?

'Very Liberal' : Yes - 12%, No - 69%;
'Somewhat Liberal' : Yes - 20%, No - 51%;
'Moderate': Yes - 23%, No - 56%;
'Somewhat Conservative' : Yes - 33%, No - 38%;
'Very Conservative' : Yes - 45%, No - 26%.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf

[Electric Monk]

11. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The Great Oz has spoken!

[Mnemosyne]

12. K&R nt