Part III: Exposing Our Enemy - Meet the Economic Elite

http://ampedstatus.com/part-iii-exposing-our-enemy-meet-the-economic-elite



“The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes… As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it’s reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” – Abraham Lincoln

U.S. Elite Institutions:

• Federal Reserve
  
• Business Council
  
• Bilderberg Group
  
• Conference Board
  
• Brookings Institute
  
• Advertising Council
  
• Heritage Foundation
  
• Trilateral Commission
  
• Business Round Table
  
• Chamber of Commerce
  
• Federal Trade Commission
  
• Council on Foreign Relations
  
• American Petroleum Institute
  
• American Enterprise Institute
  
• American Bankers Association
  
• Pharm Research & Manufacturers
  
• Public Relations Society of America
  
• American Psychological Association
  
• Project for a New American Century
  
• Securities and Exchange Commission
  
• Committee for Economic Development
  
• National Association of Manufacturers
  
• Carnegie / Ford / Rockefeller foundations
  
• Military / Media / Prison Industrial Complex

I don’t view the Economic Elite as a small group of men who meet in secrecy to control the world. They do feature elements of conspiracy and are clearly composed of secretive organizations like the Bilderberg Group - this is not a conspiracy theory, this is a conspiracy fact - but as a whole the Economic Elite are primarily united by ideology. They’re made up of thousands of individuals who subscribe to an ideology of exploitation and the belief that wealth and resources need to be concentrated into the fewest hands possible (theirs), at the expense of the many.

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In total, the Economic Elite are made up of about 0.5% of the US population. At the center of this group is the Business Roundtable, an organization representing Fortune 500 CEOs that is also interlocked with several lead elite organizations. Most Americans have never heard of the Business Roundtable. However, in my analysis, it is the most influential and powerful Economic Elite organization.

“The Business Roundtable joined the Business Council at the heart of both the corporate community and the policy-formation network and now has the most powerful role…. The Roundtable’s interlocks with other policy groups and with think tanks are presented .” -– G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America?



The Roundtable’s first year of operation was 1972, which coincided with the beginning of the CEO salary explosion, and has been the driving force behind the unprecedented concentration of wealth since their inception. Their dominance over the US economy and government is unparalleled. Their members are a Who’s Who of everything that is wrong with our economy. Here is a partial list of some of their lead members:

• Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman Sachs
  
• James Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  
• James P. Gorman, Morgan Stanley
  
• Vikram S. Pandit, Citigroup, Inc.
  
• Brian T. Moynihan, Bank of America
  
• Brendan McDonagh, HSBC
  
• Robert W. Selander, MasterCard Incorporated
  
• Kenneth I. Chenault, American Express Company
  
• Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation
  
• Glenn A. Britt, Time Warner Cable Inc.
  
• Philippe Dauman, Viacom, Inc.
  
• Jeffrey R. Immelt, General Electric Company
  
• Brian L. Roberts, Comcast Corporation
  
• Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft Corporation
  
• John T. Chambers, Cisco Systems, Inc.
  
• Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T Inc.
  
• Ivan G. Seidenberg, Verizon Communications
  
• David G. DeWalt, McAfee, Inc.
  
• Steven R. Loranger, ITT Corporation
  
• Paul T. Hanrahan, AES Corporation, The
  
• Riley P. Bechtel, Bechtel Group, Inc.
  
• W. James McNerney , Boeing Company, The
  
• Rex W. Tillerson, Exxon Mobil Corporation
  
• Marvin E. Odum, Shell Oil Company
  
• John S. Watson, Chevron Corporation
  
• James J. Mulva, ConocoPhillips
  
• John B. Hess, Hess Corporation
  
• James E. Rogers Duke Energy Corporation
  
• J. Larry Nichols, Devon Energy Corporation
  
• Ronald A. Williams, Aetna Inc.
  
• David Cordani, CIGNA
  
• Jeffrey B. Kindler , Pfizer Inc.
  
• Angela F. Braly, WellPoint, Inc.
  
• John C. Lechleiter, Eli Lilly and Company
  
• Edward B. Rust, Jr., State Farm
  
• Andrew N. Liveris, Dow Chemical
  
• James W. Owens, Caterpillar Inc.
  
• Ellen J. Kullman, DuPont
  
• Edward E. Whitacre Jr., General Motors Company
  
• Michael T. Duke, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  
  http://ampedstatus.com/part-iii-exposing-our-enemy-meet-the-economic-elite

Why are their names not mentioned?

The Clintons - got this nation aboard NAFTA and GATT (in fact they pressed for these policies)

Tim Geithner - was sent by the IMF over to Japan during the banking crisis that hit that nation during the 1990's. He knew that traditional wisdom explained how there were only two solutions to even need to consider - and he choose the one that guaranteed that that nation face a long and horrible "L" shaped recovery. (Many speculate that Geithner was a childhood friend of Obama's - both Obama's mother and Geithner's father worked for the Ford Foundation at the same point in time while those men were growing up.)

Geither is mentioned - go to the link for the full piece.

Clintons are mentioned in Part II among other places.

However, this is bigger than one individual or even one political administration.

I am in the middle of reading the whole thing.

And was grateful for seeing it up and running. Fabulous pieces, those three.

Like I added to the other comment K & R.

and decided to take over the media and propagandize America. It worked. Nothing will change if that is not changed. It is over in America if we don't get our party back and change that.

If you're not outraged your still not paying attention!
:kick: & R

A few companies control much of the economy and oligopolies exert control in nearly every sector of the economy. The people who head up these companies swap on and off the boards from one company to another, and in and out of government committees and positions. These people run the most powerful institutions on the planet, and we have almost no say in who they are. This is not a conspiracy. They are proud to rule. And yet these connections of power are not always visible to the public eye.

Karl Marx once called this ruling class a 'band of hostile brothers.' They stand against each other in the competitve struggle for the continued accumulation of their capital, but they stand together as a family supporting their interests in perpetuating the profit system as whole. Protecting this system can require the cover of a 'legitimate' force - and this is the role that is played by the state. An understanding of this system can not be gleaned from looking at the inter-personal relations of this class alone, but rather how they stand in relation to other classes in society. Hopefully They Rule will raise larger questions about the structure of our society and in whose benefit it is run.

http://www.theyrule.net/2004/tr2.php
http://www.theyrule.net/html/about.php


"It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in The big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy."

Carlin

nearly every aspect of life, lives which their progenitors molded going back to the 19th Century.

I was going to post this a few days ago but figured, with names like Bilderberg Group, it would just end up in the Dungeon. And I HATE the Dungeon. There are operatives in there derailing any discussion that veers from the official story of, well, everything. I'm glad to see you post it and it being received so well.

And, for you researchers, look a little deeper into the Business Roundtable. Then, think of your children and grandchildren. YIKES!

The original author did a very good job of sticking pretty much with the facts, and avoided some of the more speculative or controversial theories. He fairly mentioned the Bilderberg Group, but did not wade in hip-deep into that particular topic, which I think - for the purposes of his article - was very wise move.

There are so many facts not in dispute that we can agree on about our our system works. I think first priority should be to force them into the light and get more and more people to really pay attention to them. Then we can tackle any of the more controversial (but possibly true) stuff.

are systematically changing the game and, so far, We the People are losing. BIG TIME!

Thanks for all you do, PH.

I thought they were a liberal think tank
http://www.brookings.edu/

for the Bushies and still don't seem to know what to do about it--is discipline necessary? Possible? They dunno...

Remember, the list in which they appear is in a list of elite US institutions.

It wasn't a list of "evils" or a "hate these people" list. It was something a truthful observation of the institutions that wield the most power in our society....

The reason why the APA is on that list is something I describe in a post right below this one.

In the OP, the APA is listed as one of the elite institutions. But that doesn't mean that is role in our society is about manipulated wealth or economics, necessarily.

The APA quite literally defines who is sick and who is well in our society.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (IV) is the bible on mental and emotional illness. Clinicians, psychiatrists, psychologist, LMSWs, CLSWS and all social workers are required to use the DSM as the basis of clinical assessment.

That's not all bad. As a social worker, and in my masters studies I have been trained to do mental assessment and clinical intervention and treatment planning making diagnosis that correspond to the "codes" of the DSM. There are things about the DSM that can be very helpful in understanding symptoms and in being extremely cautious in making diagnosis.

But, its a lot of power for any one institution to wield. Especially if you take a foucauldian perspective of society and classification/categorization of things like mental illness... such classification and categorization power is used as much to constrain those outside the accepted system as it is to help conform those inside the system to a standard definition of "normalcy" as defined by the elite.

Yes, I know that sounds very over the top. But its not really. I'm not saying the APA is a big conspiracy full of evil people twisting their moustache's deciding how to be "evil" today. :) I use the DSM regularly in my profession.

But the APA is an elite institution with an incredibly amount of social power, simply by its power to categorize the sane form the "insane."

As were many of the elite family members who's offspring are on the boards of many of the top corporations and institutions today.

With the extreme emphasis on testing in public schools today I can't help but get a twinge in my gut, since those that push it are some of the same names that pushed the eugenics ideology in the early to mid 1900's.

Thanks.