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My first exposure to the elite was back in 1972 when I read a book titled None There
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called A Conspiracy by Gary Allen. Gary sold over six million dollars of this small book and this
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book stayed in the back of my mind for quite a number of years. I couldn't get it out of my mind
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until in 1992. I was doing research for a book that will later be titled What's Wrong in the
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United States and How to Fix It. This book will be about government corruption and our industrial
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and business world corruption. And as I was doing research for this book I kept running into these
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secret societies. I decided that was much more important subject so I set that book aside and
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did an intense study of the elite. In 1995 I published my first book titled Who's Who of the
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Elite which was later revised in the year 2000 and it contains all the members of the three
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secret organizations the Villebergs, the Council for Foreign Relations, the Tri-Lateral Commission.
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This plot to control the entire world politically and economically was first revealed in my first
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book titled Who's Who of the Elite members of the Villebergs, the Council on Foreign Relations,
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and the Tri-Lateral Commission. The research for this book first began in 1992 and ended in the
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publication of the first issue in 1995. It was revised later in the year 2000. There's a goal
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of the elite which is to create a one-world government. The term used when President George
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Herbert Orpah Bush was in office was new or ordered. That has since been changed to globalization
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because when George Bush used that term the public's eyes opened up and the ears opened up
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and so they became more alert about what he was talking about and so the elite decided that they
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needed to pick a more mundane term so they switched to the term globalization or global and whenever
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they talk about global economy, global environment, global architecture, global village, or any terms
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like this that contain the word global or globalization, those terms exactly equal the old term the new
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or order. Now the global union is made up essentially of four regions. The first region is called the
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European Union so let's get into the evolution of the European Union.
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The first discussions of the creation of the European Union began as far back as 1954 Bilderberg
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conference in Osterbeek the Netherlands, their first conference and David Rockefeller attended that
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conference was one of the main speakers on this subject. Then in 1958 the Western European leaders
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created what they then call the European Economic Community or the EEC.
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Then on May the 3rd 1960 these western Europeans created or changed the name to the European
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Free Trade Association or the EFTA. The next step in this transition was in 1967 when they changed
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the name to the European Community or the EC. The next transition was in 1972 when they renamed the
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group and called it the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development or the OECD.
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Then on November 1st 1993 they changed the name to the European Union which is now
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widely used and it was made up of 12 nations of western Europe.
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Then on January the 1st 1995 Austria, Finland and Sweden were invited to join the European Union.
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The European Union is still in transition but was officially completed in the year 2000.
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The European Union has one monetary system with the exception of Denmark, United Kingdom and Sweden,
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the only three holdouts at this time. There's only one central bank which is located in Frankfurt,
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by the way this is where the central banking system first got its start when the first
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person to be called Rothschild set up central bank in Frankfurt. They also have one judicial
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system and one military force. Eventually this military force will replace the present NATO force.
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There's still dispute between the United States and Europe about this transition but it would
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eventually take place. The EU has only one governing body called the European Parliament
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and now they do not require visas when citizens of the EU pass from one nation to the other.
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The new constitution for the European Union is still being written and
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it's been presented in rough-graff form a couple of times but has not been ratified by all the
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15 nations of the European Union yet but it will then replace any constitution in effect
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in any of those 15 nations. The global union is broken down into 10 regions as is the United
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Nations. There are 10 regions within the United Nations, there are 10 regions within the European
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Union and FEMA is set up in 10 regions within the United States which is consistent with the
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overall plan. The second region to be formed under the global union is called the African Union.
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So let's get into the evolution of the African Union.
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The
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let's talk about the creation of the next phase of the global union which is now called
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the African Union but it started on May 25, 1963 and was then called the Organization of African
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Unity or OAU. On July the 11th the year 2000 they finally all the nations 53 nations of Africa
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primarily sub-Saharan Africa created what they called the African Union or the AU and it's made
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up of one governing body, they have one peacekeeping force, one central bank, one court of justice
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and one currency. The third region to be brought under the global union is one that they will later
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call the American Union. So let's get into the evolution of the soon to be American Union.
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Now as we get into the creation of the American Union which will be a carbon copy of the European
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Union, it started back in 1965 when David Rockefeller created the Council of the Americas,
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a commonly called America Society and it's made up of all the nations of North Central and South
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American and Caribbean islands with the exception of Cuba. They meet at least annually and more
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often than recent years as they move closer into the creation of the American Union.
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The next phase in the creation of the American Union happened in January 1994 when the NAFTA
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or North American Free Trade Agreement was implemented between Canada, United States and
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Mexico. This is the first official phase of the American Union. The elite have been conducting
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meetings on the expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the next phase will be
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what they call CAFTA or the Central American Free Trade Area and this is scheduled for completion
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probably by December 2003. The final establishment of the Free Trade Area of the Americas
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final establishment of the Free Trade Area of the Americas is scheduled for completion
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at least by December 31st 2004. So then after the Free Trade Area of the Americas is complete
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by December 31st 2004, they will then change the name to the American Union and this will be
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officially done somewhere in the year 2005 or 2006. Now they won't create the American Union
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in the year 2004 because that's a major presidential election year and they want
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Bush to be re-elected and so even though they will be working on the Free Trade Area of the Americas
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they won't change the name to the American Union until after that election is over
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sometime in 2005 and 2006 but it will then be a carbon copy of the European Union with one central
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bank, one governing body, one military force, one police force, one judicial system, one monetary
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system all for North Central and South America and Caribbean islands with the possible exception
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of Cuba. By then something may happen to Castro and that may include Cuba by then.
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The next region of the global union will be the Pacific Union so let's get into the evolution of the
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Pacific Union. Now let's discuss the fourth phase of the creation of a global union that
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will be the Asian Union. In November 1989 the Asian Pacific Economic Corporation or APIC
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was founded and made up of all the nations of the Pacific realm. They meet annually and
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they are the fourth phase of the global union.
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Now I've talked about the creation of the global union in my book, Who's Who? The Elite,
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which has been in print since 1985 and I just gave you a discussion of the evolution that
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will be leading toward the global union and so for those that don't believe what I'm talking about
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let's go to some video clips that were taken from C-SPAN's broadcast about some very powerful people,
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insiders in these elite organizations as they talk about the creation of the global union
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and the American union so let's get right into the videos.
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...that is happening in New York City.
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In an age even of computer communication and international communication and the ability to
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communicate with the people by fax and in all kinds of different ways it still is important
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to be somewhere, to be in a place, to see people, to deal with them and to be face to face with
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them and New York City gives you that opportunity. The Rockefeller family understood that and foresaw
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that New York was any inevitable home for the United Nations, the geographical center for the
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voice of humanity. In a brief video introduced by the United Nations Secretary General Buczorz
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Buczorz Gali and containing some exceptional footage the connection between the United Nations,
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New York City and the Rockefeller Foundation is clearly drawn so if we could play the video
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I really would appreciate your watching and I think you're going to enjoy it very very much.
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...on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations it is important to recognize
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more than just an event. Arriving at the critical juncture in history this anniversary holds immense
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potential for the peoples of the world to appreciate preserve and strengthen the
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achievements of the United Nations to examine new challenges which require creative action
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and most importantly to chart a course for the future. In doing this the United Nations
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in doing this it is appropriate to reflect and to draw strength from the early history of the
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United Nations. The Rockefeller family embodied the idealism of those years. John D. Rockefeller
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jr.'s early backing of the League of Nations in the 1920s demonstrated the Rockefeller family's
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commitment to international peaceful cooperation. Grants promoting investigations into the narcotics
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trade and the traffic in women and children and his endowment of a League of Nations library
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were evidence of his moral and financial support. While the League of Nations floundered and
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ultimately failed its ideals lived on. As World War II was drawing to a close a new world organization
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was conceived the United Nations. This historic footage shows how the concept became reality.
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The idea initiated at the famous Yalta conference in the closing days of World War II was to be
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followed through to completion by the delegations of some 50 nations including that of the United
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States shown here at a preliminary meeting in Washington. April 25th 1945 while the war was
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still raging overseas the free nations of the world assembled for the first meeting of the
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historic conference from which was to evolve the final drafting of the charter. The president
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spoke to the assemblage from a radio microphone in Washington DC. The world has experienced a revival
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of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a
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more important conference or a more necessary meeting than this one in San Francisco.
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You members of this conference are to be the architects of a better world. In your hands
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rests our future. By your labors at this conference we shall know if suffering humanity
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is to achieve a just and lasting peace. If we do not want to die together in war
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we must learn to live together in peace. On June 25th 1945 the charter was signed in a formal ceremony
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by each of the 50 nations present at the conference. Out of the chaos of World War II
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had come a global brotherhood that carried within its legislative structure the seeds of world
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peace for the generations to come. Many tasks were set before the young United Nations including
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the resettlement of World War II refugees, the drive to secure fundamental human rights,
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the struggle to limit the growing proliferation of atomic weapons, and the task of finding a
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permanent home for the organization. The world looked on as a search was initiated.
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Arriving in New York to choose United Nations headquarters delegates from seven nations are
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welcomed by Grover Whelan. They must choose a site within the New York or Boston areas.
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The committee calls on President Truman at the White House before proceeding to inspect locations.
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The eastern United States will soon hold the new capital of the world.
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Nelson Rockefeller, a former member of the U.S. delegation to San Francisco, was appointed by
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New York City Mayor O'Dwyer to interest the U.N. in building on the 1939 World's Fairgrounds in
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Flushing Meadow. When the U.N. rejected this proposal the Rockefeller family considered
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offering part of their own estate, Pocantico, and adjoining properties for the headquarters site.
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No decision had been made when the U.N. convened in the fall of 1946. The Rockefeller family
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was more concerned than ever with bringing the U.N. to New York City.
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News accounts from the period convey the atmosphere. As the weary delegates of 54 nations prepare to
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end their meeting, the world takes stock of recent weeks highlighted by the beginnings of
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cooperation. Hopeful signs are the unanimously passed resolution on armaments reduction
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and atomic controls. And there was big news in the last days as headlines told another story,
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the gift of a site by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. for a permanent world capital in New York.
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Quickly accepted, the strip along Manhattan's East River is valued at eight and a half million
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dollars. An ideal site for skyscraper headquarters, the six-block area extends from 42nd to 48th
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Street. The Rockefeller family formally presented its gift to the U.N. in March of 1947.
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The future of this country and the lives of our children and our children's children are
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interwoven with the success of the United Nations. In it lies the hope of the people of the world.
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My father considers it a privilege to have had a part in the development of its permanent home.
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I'm glad to hand you, Mr. Lee, my father's check.
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Thank you, Mr. Rockefeller.
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Thank you, Mr. Rockefeller.
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Mr. Rockefeller,
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Mayor of Lyon, the United Nations extends its sincere thanks to you and to your father
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for this magnificent gift. We intend to go ahead and create on the history of the site
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the dignified and appropriate headquarters for the United Nations, which will stand
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for generations to come as a great monument to peace and security. Your family can be proud
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of its contribution to this cause. Thank you very much.
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The Rockefeller gift changed the course of history and brought the United Nations to New York City.
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It is a gift which gave practical and moral support to the young United Nations,
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thus enabling it to succeed where the League of Nations had failed.
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It is a gift which furthered the United Nations mission to help save succeeding generations from
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the scourge of war. And the Rockefeller family's commitment to the United Nations did not end
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with this exceptional gift. It continues to the present day and it is personified
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by David Rockefeller, whom we honor for his dedication to democratic principles,
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for his dedication to development, and for his dedication to international peace.
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The Medal of the Business Council for the United Nations is presented every year to an individual
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who has made a significant contribution to the United Nations and to world peace.
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Past recipients include Margaret Thatcher, Thomas Pickering,
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Javier Perez Duquea, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush.
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This evening, the prestige of this famous award is enhanced again as it's bestowed upon one of the
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formidable figures of the 20th century, a force for freedom and peace in the world, David Rockefeller.
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Please stand up.
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You hold that.
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I'm going to list just a very, very few of David's contributions. He was the founder of the America
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Society, an organization that promotes inter-American cooperation. He helped found the
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Trilateral Commission, designed to promote understanding and cooperation among the nations
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of North America, Western Europe, and Japan. He was instrumental in creating the International
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Executive Service Corps, a group of volunteers from the private sector who provide technical
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and managerial assistance to private enterprise in developing nations. For 15 years, he served
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as the chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. Among other international achievements,
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David Rockefeller is the honorary chairman of the Japan Society, an honorary trustee of the
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International House, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Bilderberg Conference.
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David, as the mayor of New York City, I want to thank you very, very much for bringing the United
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Nations to New York City. As a citizen of the United States, I want to thank you very much for
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all that you have done for America, you and your family, and as a citizen of the world,
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thank you for everything you've done for world peace.
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Mr. Mayor, ladies and gentlemen, I must say I'm quite overwhelmed by this wonderful reception,
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and I do wish to extend a great many thanks to the mayor and to all of you for this extraordinary
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offer of an award to me on behalf of my family this evening. I'd have to say that I would like
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in turn to add my voice to others who have already spoken about Mayor Giuliani for the outstanding
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leadership that I feel he's provided to this city, something that we greatly needed in just a short
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time. As Dick Boll has said, he's reversed a downward trend in the city. And as...
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And I think he's given New Yorkers a sense of hope and confidence that we haven't had
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for a considerable amount of time. Mr. Mayor, we're very grateful to you for that. I think I'd also
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be remiss if I didn't take this occasion to express my thanks to my good friends Dick Boll and Bill
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Murray and Sam Brookfield, and to all of you in the Business Council for the United Nations for
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selecting me as the recipient of this year's well-respected honor and medal. All the more so,
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because in pursuing the names of the six previous recipients of the Business Council's medal,
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I find the following, one Secretary General, one Ambassador, and four heads of state.
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Frankly, ladies and gentlemen, I wonder how a mere retired banker could have been allowed to join
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that distinguished company. But I quickly add that I hasten to accept the award before you
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change your minds. I've long been an admirer of the works of the Business Council and
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wholeheartedly endorse its role of encouraging the interest and backing of the business community
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in the vitally important mission of the United Nations. Now, as the United Nations approaches
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its 50th anniversary, business support for the numerous internationally related problems
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in which it is involved has never been more urgently needed. But before sharing with you
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a few thoughts on the need for strong leadership in the world of today, I think I should just take
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a moment to express how deeply touched I was by the wonderful film that we've just witnessed,
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which traced my family's involvement in the early days of the United Nations.
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My father, as the film suggests, was a man of peace who believed deeply in the ultimate benefits
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of peaceful cooperation and continuous dialogue among the peoples and nations of the world.
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Recalling his role and that of my brothers, John and Nelson, as you may have noted, makes this
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occasion very especially meaningful for me. Had they still been alive, and I wish they were,
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I would have supported your conferring on one or all of them this award this evening.
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The film touched me briefly, but it also touched briefly on the history of the United Nations.
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I'd like to begin my own remarks this evening with a brief reflection on the history of the
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United States as it sheds light on our own involvement with the United Nations today.
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The United States, as the saying goes, is a nation of immigrants. The pilgrims and other early
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pioneers came here from Britain and Western Europe to escape religious persecution and to
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find a new life of opportunity and freedom. Subsequent waves of immigrants from Southern
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and Eastern Europe brought both ethnic diversity and exceptional levels of talent and dedication
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to hard work. The reprehensible slave trade of the 17th and 18th centuries brought Africans to these
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shores and created institutions and social divisions that took a civil war and more than
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a century of concentrated effort to overcome. Yet African Americans today have become an essential
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and positive strand in the fabric of our nation. Most recently, waves of Latinos and Asians
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have contributed new elements to our rich cultural and ethnic diversity. For more than 400 years,
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the strength of this nation has lain in our capacity to absorb and transform a complex
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and diverse population into a homogeneous nation where a single primary language provides a common
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basis for communication and mutual understanding. As our nation grew in numbers and expanded across
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the continent, opportunities flourished for anyone with ability and ambition.
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Underpinning this process of national expansion was our constitution,
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crafted at the moment of our national independence by a group of talented and far-sighted leaders
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whose principles were firmly rooted in the ideals of democracy and individual freedom.
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Two world wars in the first half of this century forced the United States to emerge from its
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primary preoccupation with internal expansion and economic growth to become a power with global
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influence and responsibilities. That is the position in which we find ourselves today
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as the most powerful nation on earth, near the peak of our worldwide influence and authority.
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Indeed, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the discrediting of centrally planned economies,
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the opportunity for enlightened American leadership is perhaps even greater than it was
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in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War or in 1945 when the Cold War began.
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But this persistent window and this present window of opportunity during which a truly peaceful
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and interdependent world order might be built will not be here for open for too long.
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Already there are powerful forces at work that threaten to destroy all of our hopes and efforts
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to erect an enduring structure of global cooperation. I refer here to those ruthless advocates of
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ethnic nationalism who seek to break apart existing nations as well as to militant fundamentalists
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who want to subordinate or even eliminate anyone who refuses to comply with their own rigid
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ideological beliefs. In contrast to those radical and divisive forces, our contemporary world has
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also seen the emergence of an array of scientific, technological, and economic phenomena
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that are linking nations more closely together, making enhanced cooperation not only possible
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but absolutely imperative. Breakthroughs and advances in many fields such as genetics,
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molecular biology, computers, and telecommunications have given mankind the ability to revolutionize
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the ability to revolutionize most aspects of our common life. Properly applied, these advances
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can be used to improve the human condition throughout the world, an objective to which I
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would believe that we all aspire. Ironically, however, the very innovations that are making
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possible dramatic improvements in human well-being are also creating new problems
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which raise the specter of an alarming and possibly catastrophic disaster to the biosphere we
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live in. And herein lies the dilemma that we all face. Let me illustrate. Improved public health
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has caused the world's infant mortality rate to decline by 60 percent over the last 40 years.
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In the same period, the world's average life expectancy has increased from 46 years in 1950s
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to 63 years today. This is a development which, as individuals, we can only applaud. However,
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the result of these positive measures is a world population that has risen during the same short
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period of time geometrically to almost six billion people and could easily
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exceed six billion, eight billion by the year 2020. The negative impact of population growth
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on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.
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And when he says this, is he implying that there are too many eaters in the world
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and that billions must die to bring the population under control by financing both sides of wars,
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by using harp to cause famine, and by spreading spreading deadly diseases such as HIV, Ebola,
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and others. In particular, the rapid growing exploitation of the world's supply of energy
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and water is a matter of deep concern. And the toxic byproducts of widespread industrialization
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have increased us atmospheric pollution to dangerous levels. Unless nations will agree
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to work together to tackle these cross-border challenges posed by population growth, over
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consumption of resources, and environmental degradation, the prospects for a decent life
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on our planet will be threatened. The recent UN meeting in Cairo is appropriately focused on one
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of these key issues, population growth. But the controversies which have erupted at the conference
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illustrate the problem of coming to grips with issues that are deeply divisive and which have
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a profound moral dimension. The United Nations can and should play an essential role in helping
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the world find a satisfactory way of stabilizing world population and stimulating economic
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development in a manner that is sensitive to religious and moral considerations. Economic growth
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is of course an inevitable corollary of a growing population and is essential to improve standards
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of living. But without careful coordination, unrestrained economic growth poses further threats
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to our environment. This was a major subject of discussion at the conference in Rio de Janeiro
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on the environment two years ago. The focus then was on sustainable growth
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and global development. It was pointed out at the conference that growth is most efficiently
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managed by the private sector, but regulation of the process by national governments and
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international bodies is also needed. And once again, United Nations should certainly be among
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the catalysts and coordinators of this process. But in addition, given the importance of
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unencumbered international trade in stimulating and facilitating economic growth, some of the
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newer economic entities such as the European Economic Community, NAFTA, APEC, and most
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importantly GATT, now known as the World Trade Organization, are probably best suited to play
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a major role in ensuring sustainable development. A common requirement for dealing with all of
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these challenges, technological, environmental, political, and economic, is leadership. Leadership
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coupled with mutual trust and economic understanding. There is no magic formula for finding and
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producing leadership. We've seen many fine examples of it in very small nations as well as among the
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great powers. I believe that most of the world is anxiously searching for strong and effective
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leadership, even a great moral vision for the future. And it looks to the United States to play
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that role. In my opinion, we have no choice but to become more intimately involved in the resolution
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of the complex problems that I have outlined, and it is clearly in our national interest
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for us to do so. I recognize that calling for expanded international involvement is not a
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particularly popular proposition in the United States today at a moment when domestic concerns
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and isolationist leanings have a tendency to dominate the debate. But as we have seen in
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recent months in Bosnia and Rwanda, in North Korea and Somalia, in Haiti and Cuba, the fabric
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of social life can be torn very easily and the effects inevitably spill across borders with
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harmful consequences to us all. I do not believe that the United States can afford to look the
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other way. Although we no longer teeter on the edge of nuclear abyss, the world is still a very
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dangerous place. And I fear that without stronger and more focused American leadership, it will
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become even more dangerous. A U.S. foreign policy that is marked by drift and ad hocary,
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having little clarity or vision, leaves our nation and the world vulnerable to
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geopolitical disaster. What is needed is a foreign policy that follows a coherent,
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strategically defined direction based on an understanding of history and national interest,
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but also well attuned to the needs of other nations. The world's complex problems cannot
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be taken up neatly in an orderly sequence. Instead, we must be prepared to deal with issues
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systematically and often simultaneously as they arise. This will require a well coordinated
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foreign policy establishment and a decision-making structure that is given comparable importance
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with domestic policy components of our national government. I do not for a moment wish to
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suggest that world leadership on the part of the United States should imply world domination.
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Clearly, it does not and should not. Nor does it mean the U.S. must alone assume the mantle
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of leadership or become the world's policeman. But like it or not, we live in a global society.
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We must understand it. We must comprehend the forces that are affecting it, and we must act
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forcefully to protect our own interests as well as to promote the continued progress of all the
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world's peoples. In accepting the Business Council's medal last year, President Bush said,
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Real peace is not an accident. It's an art form, the result of planning and patience and sometimes
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personal diplomacy. In his personal message to the program for tonight's event,
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Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali noted that the reaffirmation and strengthening of
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democratic principles is of particular importance at this time. I agree, of course, with
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both of these propositions. I would only add that ultimately the strength and security
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of our nation derives from the purposefulness, self-discipline, and character of our own people.
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At this pivotal moment in our history, we cannot afford to hide our heads in the sand.
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We must make sure that 200 years of scientific progress, economic growth, and democratic rule
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are allowed to serve as the basis for our positive and constructive leadership
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in the family of nations in the 21st century. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you again for
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from the bottom of my heart, for the honor that you have bestowed on me this evening. Thank you very much.
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David really means the billboard union when he makes a statement.
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Good morning and thank you all very much for coming here to the department on this early Monday
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rainy morning. I'm very pleased to have a chance to meet with you on the very
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eve or moment of my departure from Mexico. I'm particularly honored to be back in the distinguished
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company of your founder David Rockefeller as well as John Avery and Ted Briggs. Ted was good enough
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to mention many who are here and I especially welcome those who he mentioned and I am very
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pleased that my colleague Mac McClarty, the president's counselor, is here. He'll be joining
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me on the trip to Mexico but he'll be speaking with you before we both leave. I'm very pleased
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that Ted mentioned Acting Assistant Secretary Jeff Davidoff as former ambassador to Venezuela and
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person with very wide experience in Latin America. I'm very pleased to have you know that he's going
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to be taking over in that key role and will be advancing our interests in Latin America and the
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Caribbean. This council and its members have played an invaluable role in supporting the triumph of
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open market democracies in our hemisphere. Through your commitment to dialogue you have helped foster
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a deeper understanding among the leaders throughout the Americas and as a channel between the United
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States government and the business community you've helped to ensure that our policies meet the real
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needs of our companies and our workers. Since the day he took office President Clinton has placed
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job creation and open and fair trade at the very center of our economic strategy as you all know so
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well he fought to ratify NAFTA and to complete the GATT-URAG way round. He unified the leaders of
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the Asia-Pacific region to form there a commitment to open trade and quite recently he and the
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leaders of the European Union have committed to build a new transatlantic marketplace with more open
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markets and more job creation. At the Miami summit coming down to what interests us most he helped to
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shape the consensus to negotiate a free trade area of the Americas that will encompass a 12 trillion
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dollar market of 850 million consumers. His aim is to make this hemisphere an even more dynamic hub
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of the global economy to open markets to create jobs and to lift living standards throughout this
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vital region. We remain on track to achieve by 2005 a free trade area of the Americas which has
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began to be called for shorthand purposes an FTAA. At the trade ministerials in Denver and
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Cartagena we laid the foundations for negotiations and we established working groups covering
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everything from free market access to intellectual property. We'll consider the recommendations
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of these working groups at the third trade ministerial next year in Brazil where we will
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discuss at that time how to open the formal negotiations for an FTAA.
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In our effort to create an FTAA by 2005 I cannot stress enough the importance of your advice and
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support through your business forum and through other mechanisms. As I told business leaders a few
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weeks ago in San Paulo you must remain involved and be intent. Thank you Mr. Secretary.
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Thank you Mr. Secretary. Again we appreciate your being here with us.
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I would like to ask David Rockefeller to join us now who is going to introduce our next speaker.
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Thank you John. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It's a very special pleasure for me to be able to
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introduce our next speaker. Mack as he's known both inside the Beltway and more broadly across
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the United States is of course a lifelong friend of President Clinton and currently serves as
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counselor to the president prior to assuming his present role. He served ably for two years as
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the president's chief of staff but before coming to Washington Mack was chairman of the board and
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chief executive officer of ARCLA Inc. a Fortune 500 company that is one of this company's country's
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largest natural gas companies. Perhaps because of that background in the private sector
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he has been able to be such an extraordinarily effective voice in the current administration
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for the private sector and for this hemisphere. And I think that the members of the Council of
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the Americas and business leaders throughout the hemisphere owe him a real debt of gratitude for
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being the eloquent advocate that he has been for the private sector and a reliable collaborator in
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the effort to advance the process of hemispheric economic integration. As many of you here know
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Mack was a tireless supporter of the North American Free Trade Agreement
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and took principal responsibility for organizing the very successful
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summit of the Americas in 1994. In my opinion the summit's clear focus on trade issues and
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economic integration owed a great deal to the persistence within the councils of the
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Clinton administration of Mack McLarty. But just on a more personal note I would have to say that
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the large number of conversations that Mack and I have had over the past several years.
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Now why is a retired banker having a large number of conversations with President Clinton's chief
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of staff and counselor Mack McLarty? Was he really meeting with Clinton and McLarty
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were just included in the meeting and has Rockefeller had a large number of conversations
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with every U.S. president since about 1965.
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And when he has these conversations with these presidents does he come to the White House?
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Are they required to go to New York City? Did they meet at Count David or perhaps at the
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Rockefeller ranch out of Jackson Hole? They do get together we just don't know where it happens.
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It gives me to feel that of all the people who have been involved in this administration he perhaps
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more than any other has understood the importance not only of the private sector but of the role of
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the private sector in bringing about a different approach to Latin America both on the economic
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and political front and his quiet but very effective support with the president and with
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others in the administration has really made that difference. So his presence here today I think
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is of great importance to us and also gives us an opportunity to express to him
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our special appreciation for that all-important role that he has played. And so ladies and
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gentlemen please join me in welcoming Mac Pappardi.
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This is precisely the way one would like to start one's week with a particularly warm and
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a particularly generous introduction. David thank you very much. I'm afraid in my fourth year in
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Washington the infamous Washington allergies have finally caught up with me so I apologize this
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morning for my hoarseness but I am delighted to be here and I am very pleased to accept your
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invitation along with my colleagues Ambassador David Dow and Patterson, Ambassador Babbit,
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Ambassador Rich Brown and other colleagues here at the State Department and the White House.
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I must say one of the real privileges in serving as the President's and the Secretary of State's
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Special Envoy to the hemisphere is the close association that I've had the opportunity to
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develop with the America's Society founder David Rockefeller. I have had the opportunity to know
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the Rockefeller family for some time as many of you know Winthrop Rockefeller was Governor in
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Arkansas, a two-term Governor in the 1960s and his family maintains a valued legacy across our
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state and indeed in our national history. And speaking of David and particularly after that
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generous introduction I am reminded of the story of the barren day Rothschild who one day was
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approached in his office above the London Stock Exchange by an American businessman.
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Stock Exchange by an acquaintance requesting a small loan. Now the Baron refused the loan
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offering instead a gift that he claimed would far exceed the value of the requested sum.
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Heading down to the trading floor the Baron put his arm around his acquaintance and the two men
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walked slowly around the room as they conversed in a relaxed manner of trusted and old friends.
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Within hours according to legend the friend was able to raise the necessary funds elsewhere.
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So in a sense this morning I feel as the Baron's friend must have felt.
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Now I have never asked David Rockefeller for a loan
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but he has been a valued mentor to me and I know to so many of you and I certainly count myself
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very fortunate to call him my friend. I've also known Ambassador Ted Briggs since before the
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Summit of the Americas. At this time last year there was shrill voices on the left and on the
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right criticizing almost in a cynical way our collective efforts of hemispheric integration.
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Some claimed the Summit of the Americas in Miami was little more than a glorified photo
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opportunity. Some questioned our real commitment to the implementation
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of the Summit agenda and plan of action and some called us wrong-headed or at least
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naive in thinking that we could fundamentally change and reorient hemispheric relations based
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on truly shared values and common interest. Well as the old song goes what a difference a year makes
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and as the proverbial saying suggests sometimes things do look like a failure in the middle
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and our efforts to reinvent fundamentally change hemispheric relationships
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have certainly had their moments of problems and concerns and frustrations.
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But I think it is fair to say that the Summit has cemented a new consensus based on democracy
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and open markets and as I noted we have placed emphasis on the trade front an emphasis on
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economically integrating the hemisphere. At both the Denver Trade Ministerial last June and the
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Cartagena Ministerial in March we took concrete steps to achieve the free trade area of the
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Americas by the year 2005. Working groups were initially established in Denver they've been
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expanded and they will be gathering the critical information and laying the groundwork for the
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beginning of negotiations. Areas are being identified where early actions an early harvest if
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you will can be put into place to benefit hemispheric business now in the near term
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and at the next trade ministerial schedule for Belo Horizonte Brazil early next year we will be
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in a position to determine when and on what basis to proceed with actual negotiations.
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Now let me say not achieving Chile fast track this year was a disappointment and in this
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political climate with a limited time left legislatively we will not be able to go forward
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this year but even without that fast track legislation we want to move forward and we will
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move forward to strengthen the NAFTA as the cornerstone on which we are building new hemispheric
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trade and investment infrastructure. The President is committed as Secretary Christopher underscored
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in his comments to free and open and fair trade we remain committed to Chile's accession to NAFTA
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and strengthening the NAFTA as we move forward and I look forward to those efforts in 1997 and let
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me say very clearly that we are not focused as some have suggested on establishing a new world
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order but rather bringing order to a new world.
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The question for this team is not whether they are politically agile and whether they're smart and whether they're
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they're not whether they're savvy all of those things they are I think the big question is
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whether they have the capacity to construct a conceptual framework for American policy
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for the years ahead. We have lacked such a framework over the last few years since the
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Berlin Wall collapsed. The consensus we had the understanding we had about what our purpose of
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what our role in the world should be what the underlying tenets of American foreign policy
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obviously have disappeared and no one yet has been able to come up with a coherent framework.
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George Bush tribe you remember just after the war against well during the conflict with Saddam
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was saying which he handled so superbly and in a short-term sense but he kept talking about a new
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world order and then President Bush at the end of that war promised he would give four graduation
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addresses four commencement addresses describing that new world order and what America's role was
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going to be in it turned out he gave one of those addresses and canceled the other three and talked
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about something else that's why because they weren't ready yet to define that new framework
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and that same we've had that same absence of the framework during the Clinton administration it is
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I think the biggest challenge facing us because it it not only can give us a sense of where we are
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going but it also can help in bringing American people more fully into the support of what we're
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trying to do because people now don't quite understand it it seems very ad hoc to them.
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We have a strong U.S. leadership from administrations of both parties. We have in our era an unprecedented
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opportunity to integrate the world around basic principles of democracy, open markets, and a common
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commitment to peace. Not every country is yet able to participate fully in this integration.
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Some are in transition from centralized planning and totalitarian rule to democracy.
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Some have only begun to dip their toes into economic and political reform. Some are still
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too weak to participate meaningfully in the international system and a few such as Iraq,
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Iran, and Castro's Cuba have governments that actively oppose the premises upon which that system
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is based. As a policymaker I see a corresponding four-part challenge. First to strengthen the ties
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and prevent ruptures among full participants in the international system. Second to help
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transitional states to play a greater role. Third to give a boost to the weak states most willing
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to do what is necessary to join the system. And fourth to make it clear to the outlaw states that
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they cannot prosper at the expense of the rest. They must either reform or suffer in isolation.
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Clearly the international system is not a precise term. It refers to a vast network of rules that
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govern ties among countries. Rules that range from the simplest bilateral treaty to the most complex
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global agreement. Because it serves our interests it is U.S. policy to help the system remain
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vibrant and become more inclusive. That is why we're working with our allies to build a NATO
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strengthened by new members and trained for new missions. It is why we have worked with friends
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in Asia to freeze North Korea's nuclear program. It is why we stand with the peacemakers against
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the bomb throwers in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, and other troubled regions.
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And it is why we're determined to build on the 1994 Summit of the Americas to further integrate
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our own hemisphere as a bastion of democracy, a hub of economic growth, and a leader in
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promoting security through law. Progress within our region is not a zero-sum game. As nations,
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corporations, and people we all have a stake in whether we can establish and enforce a system
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of standards that will cause our hemispheric community to grow more peaceful, prosperous,
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stable, and free. That is the philosophical underpinning of NAFTA
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and our goal of a free trade agreement for the Americas by the year 2005.
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But especially I want to express my appreciation being here today with David Rockefeller. I've
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known David for many years and he's the founding member of the council. He's rendered yeoman duty
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to the nation. Family has a long history of strengthening the bonds of friendship
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throughout the Western Hemisphere and of course my predecessor Nelson Rockefeller served as
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Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America in this department back in the 1940s.
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In organizing the council in 1965, David and his colleagues were among the first to grasp the
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enormous consequences and possibilities for the economic and political progress throughout the
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Americas. In the 37 years since then, many of those possibilities have been realized.
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In 1965, Latin America had very few free market economies and only a handful of democracies.
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We've referred to pursue a free trade agreement with the nations of Central America. Success here
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will further strengthen our economic ties with those countries and reinforce the economic and
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political progress they've made over the last decade. Free trade with Central America will
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move us toward an even broader aim, a free trade area of the Americas, up and running by January
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of 2005. The president strongly committed to this goal and all of our trade efforts are pointed in
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this direction. The Council of the Americas has been crucial in bringing us to this moment
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and I know that we can count on your wisdom and your commitment in completing
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the great work that lies ahead. Thank you very much.
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Mr. Vice President, on behalf of all of us here, I'd like to express a word of thanks to you.
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In a time of trepidation and confusion, you have responded with confidence and clarity.
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The administration's leadership has inspired us all. Your own calm has been our comfort.
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Your conviction, our compass, and your resolve, our strength.
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When we are able to go about our business here in the Americas and around the world
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with confidence and security, it's because we know the strength of this government stands behind us.
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For that and for all your other contributions, we thank you very much.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in thanking the Vice Presidents of the United States for
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giving us this. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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This is a sign I just talked about the wealthiest people in the United States and particularly in
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the world. Forbes Magazine every year produces a list of what they call the wealthiest people or
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families in the world. In recent years, Bill Gates has been tatted to be the most wealthy
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and with a net worth of somewhere $40 or $50 billion, depending on the value of his stock on
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the stock exchange. But he's a pauper when compared to the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers.
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Let's look at the wealthiest families in the world. Each year Forbes Magazine ranks the
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wealthiest people in the world, so they say. But none of their lists include the Rockefellers and
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Rothschilds. In 1998, the Rockefeller family was worth $11.48 trillion and the Rothschilds
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family is worth somewhere between $100 and $400 trillion, possibly more. And they get this
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tremendous wealth because they own the central banks of all the nations in the world, except the
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rogue nations. And when they need money, they simply just print it. It's not backed by gold or
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silver or anything of value.
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The U.S. State Department has called several nations rogue nations. And their definition of
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a rogue nation is any nation that harbors or finances terrorists. Now, if we look at the
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current nations on this list, one is Cuba. And there's absolutely no evidence that Cuba harbors
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or finances terrorists. So they cannot meet that definition. Another rogue nation is defined by
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the State Department as North Korea. They do sell weapons to anyone in the world. It'll buy them,
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but there's no evidence that North Korea harbors or finances terrorists.
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A couple of other rogue nations is defined by the State Department or Afghanistan. By the way,
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the elite established a central bank in Afghanistan in the year 2002, one of their objectives.
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Another rogue nation is Iraq. We've invaded Iraq and they've already established a central bank
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in Iraq. And they did it in the year 2003, toward the mid-year.
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The remaining rogue nations as defined by the State Department are Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya,
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and Pakistan. And President Bush has made several conversations about possibly they need to look
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into Syria and Iran next. And if they do, then it won't be long until Sudan, Libya, and Pakistan
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will follow. Now rather than harboring or financing terrorists, the only common thread
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between all these rogue nations is that none of these nations allowed the international bankers
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to own their central bank. That's the real reason that they're called rogue nations.
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Now who's behind all this? Some call them the Luminati, others call them the shadow government.
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When George Herbert Walker Bush was president, he called them the New World Order.
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Others call them the International Banking Cabal. I think we call them the global union.
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Now what will happen in the United States between now and the year 2006? Let's get into that.
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In order to complete the American Union, the elite must create either an economic or civil crisis.
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And it's my contention that they won't do this in the year 2004 because it's a major
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presidential election year and they want to re-elect George Bush. So they will wait until
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the year 2005 to crash the economy of the United States. So somewhere in the early part of 2005
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or no later than 2006, we will have a very heavy recession and possibly a major depression.
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In order to create a civil uprising, they will cause the people that joined the militias back
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before Y2K to come out of the woodwork because no dictator has ever taken over their country or
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their region without first declaring private ownership of firearms illegal. So there will be
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continuing steps to tighten up on the control of firearms within the United States. And then
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sometime in the year 2005, they will outlaw them completely. And this is a deliberate plan to
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bring the militias out, have them create a civil uprising so that they can have justification for
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martial law. They have already created concentration camps on most, if not all, of the military bases
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in the United States. And the purpose is not to harbor or to house terrorists as they're arrested,
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it's to house the militia that are arrested when they create the civil uprising and protest of the
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outlawing of private ownership of weapons. And they've already enacted what they call
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enemy combatants. And when they label a person an enemy combatant, even though they may be
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a citizen of the United States, they will be denied all their civil rights under the
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constitution and the bill of rights. They will not be tried in civil courts, but tried in
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military tribunals. So after we've had this major economic crisis and major civil uprising within
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the United States, the President of the United States will then be justified under the law to
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declare martial law, which voids the constitution and the bill of rights,
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and is a prelude to the creation of the American Union.
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Let's talk about the real reasons why the United States military forces have been involved
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in the last three wars. The war in Kosovo was, happened because they needed to send troops in
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there to take over, control that area so that they could have a route for a pipeline from the
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Caspian Sea oil fields westward to a saltwater port. And that's the major reason that our troops
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went to Kosovo and are still there. Then the President sent our military force into Afghanistan.
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The troops had already been shipped into the area and were ready to go into Afghanistan even
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before 9-1-1 happened. But our troops are there to guarantee that the elite can establish their
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central bank, which they've already done, in the year 2002. The CIA wanted to gain complete control
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of the poppy fields of Afghanistan because that region is responsible for 70 percent of the opium
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that's sold around the world. And the oil companies wanted to run a 48-inch gas pipeline
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from the Caspian Sea oil fields through Afghanistan, Pakistan, south to a saltwater port.
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They also wanted a route through Afghanistan to run both gas and oil pipelines into China because
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China is in desperate need of energy sources. Then we had our troops sent to Iraq
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for very similar reasons, to establish a central bank in Iraq, and that was done
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around mid-year 2003. They needed to gain control of the oil fields of Iraq.
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Iraq, many people have been saying for years that Iraq had the world's second-largest flout of
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oil. There are now speculations that they could possibly have more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia.
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Now, Iraq has never been a threat to the United States, but they have been a direct threat to
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Israel. And so our troops are sent there to protect Israel, not the United States.
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Then they also wanted to get the citizens' minds off of the near-depression that we're in now and
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will later turn into a possible depression. And they want to get the citizens' minds off of the
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creation of the free trade area of the Americas, which will then become the American Union.
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I hope that I have alerted you and maybe alarmed you with the knowledge of what is coming.
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And I don't think that the danger will be in 2004 because this is a progenitive year.
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But I suspect that in the year 2005 and certainly by 2006, they will have created the American
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Union, which after they finished the Pacific Union and possibly a Soviet Union, which will be
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a rejuvenation of the former communist nations. But this time, these regions of
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the Soviet Union will not be under communist control, but under the elite control.
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So let's get into things that you need to do to prepare for these events that are coming
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certainly in the year 2005. I don't think it'll be soon and not a whole lot later than 2005, but
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you need to get ready because they're on the way. We're certainly living in troubled times.
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Now what should we do about it? Many people in the United States went through a lot of
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preparation for the Y2K, which turned out to not be a major crisis, probably because everyone was
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too prepared for it. But what you did in Y2K is just a blip on what you should do to prepare
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for the American Union crisis. So I would advise everyone to do everything that you were advised
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to do in preparation for Y2K. But instead of planning for just a couple of weeks of emergency
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supplies and actions, you might be better preparing for at least one to two years of very hard times.
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So this is going to be at least 10 times the threat that Y2K was in terms of your daily quality of
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life. You should get your personal finances as clean as you possibly can. I know everyone
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can't do that, but you should certainly minimize your risk. And you need to minimize your debt,
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pay off as many loans you can, credit cards and so forth, because the banks will probably be
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foreclosing on the assets of a lot of people due to economic hardship. And certainly avoid
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stocks, bonds and commodities. These markets are controlled by the elite. So whatever cash you have
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or finances you have on hand are available to you. Keep them in a cash-like basis, either in a CD
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or in a savings account of some sort in a bank, but never have more than $100,000 in any one bank.
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Because if the federal government insures bank assets up to $100,000 per person,
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be very careful about your cash in the next three years at least.
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Besides protecting your financial assets, you need to protest to all your elected officials,
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loud, clear and as long as you can stand it. Because the only way they're going to do anything
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about it is if they hear enough flak from the citizenry and they just will say,
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well, the public doesn't care because nobody's really raising a stink about it.
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So you need to start raising some stink. Now don't be allowed to be sucked into any forms of
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violence in response to this creation of the American Union. If we ever have to resort to
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violence, let's use that as the very last ditch stand when it's either slavery or our freedom.
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That is the very last ditch stand when it's either slavery or our freedom.
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Because the elite control the military, most law enforcement, and they certainly control Congress
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and all forms of state and federal government, and you don't stand a chance if you try to resort
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to violence. So Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi had the answer and that's through peaceful
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demonstrations. That's the only way to ever get what you want in life.
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Thank you for your patience in going through this video. Parts of it are not
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too entertaining, but very, very informative. This is probably the most important message
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that you'll receive possibly in your lifetime because it will directly affect your physical
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well-being, your financial well-being, and your quality of life and the advantage of heaven
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knowledge is so that you can prepare for it. I wish you and your family the very best
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and may God bless you. Thank you.