@LaFeminista

lot harder next time unless the socialists and unions wake the fuck up. 1968 all over again but this time no rolling over.

@gustogirl

Press. Sklar was a true 'leftist' investigative reporter. I've only seen her interviewed by Bill Moyers.

Jimmy Carter and the Trilateralists: Presidential Roots by Laurence H. Shoup, excerpted from the book Trilateralism, edited Holly Sklar, South End Press, 1980

Here's an excerpt:

Conclusion

... Jimmy Carter, using a combination of charm, hard work, middle-of-the-road policy positions, and a keen sense of where power lies in the U.S., built his political career by gaining support, first from the Establishment of his local area, and then from the dominant sector of the national ruling class.

Traditional democratic constituencies like labor, intellectuals, minorities, ethnics, and big city machines provided support as time went on but the key to Carter's victory was the early support given by upper class groups centered in Atlanta and New York, especially the latter's large financial and media corporations.

The makeup and locus of power in Carter's administration supplies strong additional evidence of the validity of this perspective. The individuals Carter chose to fill the central policy making positions in his administration were overwhelmingly from Eastern Establishment organizations: the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Committee for Economic Development. In addition, at least six assistant secretaries of State and Treasury are also either Commissioners or CFR members, as are numerous ambassadors, advisers, and government negotiators. These men make the most important foreign, economic, and domestic policy decisions of the U.S. government today; they set the goals and direction for the administration.

The Eastern Establishment-through the Trilateral commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and key media corporations-helped elect Jimmy Carter president.

What does this mean for the future?

It means increased ruling class control over U.S. politics, leaving minorities, the women's movement, the Left and even traditional Democratic Party constituencies like unions and liberals with less and less influence. This increased control is deemed necessary by Eastern Establishment leaders in order to give them freer reign to address the domestic and international crises facing the capitalist system during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.

The shape of their plans to deal with these problems add up to an increased appetite for authority, discipline, and control.

The U.S. ideological climate has shifted to the right over the past few years, providing the basis for a forced decline in the living standards of the working class.

This trend bears close watching and appropriate ~ action by all those who desire a more, rather than less, democratic world.

[Re-paragraphed for my emphasis--also, my bolding and italics.]

Hope folks take a moment to read the entire essay. Of course, much of this was the brainchild of the late Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Advisor.

that we can't trust the media:

David Rockefeller’s 1991 Speech at a Bilderberg Group Meeting

We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a world government. . . . The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. (source)

(Bolding mine.)

The rest of the article hits the nail on the head.

It would be nice to have the time to develop a compilation of all the evidence that the MSM is untrustworthy and should be completely shunned. The fact WaPo is a CIA propaganda tool, for just one of so many juicy examples. One page with links to sources. I'd print reams and leave a page wherever I go. We need more waking up going on.

@MarilynW have you forgotten the NYT role in justifying the Iraq invasion via Judith Miller's now discredited lies?

And WaPo was purchased by Amazon's Jeff Bezos shortly after the CIA gave him $400 million for cloud services. Since, WaPo has been the primary purveyor of Russia Russia lies.

As far as I'm concerned, WaPo is the propaganda tool of the CIA. I can't believe a single column inch of that formerly glorious rag.

any more than I trust Fox News. Fortunately not all MSM is as corrupt. There's The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Harper's, CBC in Canada, McClatchy's, New York Times, & WaPo. They make mistakes too but they do not appear to be complete propaganda.

@MarilynW largely fiction.

any more than I trust Fox News. Fortunately not all MSM is as corrupt. There's The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Harper's, CBC in Canada, McClatchy's, New York Times, & WaPo. They make mistakes too but they do not appear to be complete propaganda.