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4 0 July 2017
The passing of the Dark Lords
Zbigniew Brzezinski died (May 26). He, more
than anyone on the planet, deserves condemna-
tion for having stoked the snakepit that is now
the Middle East; not to mention unleashing the
plague of militant Islamic terrorism now explod
-
ing across Europe.
Brzezinski was part of a triumvirate of Western
powerbrokers whose malign influence has
scorched the Earth for more than 50 years. One
of his confreres, David Rockefeller, died last
March aged 101. Now, only the third member of
the coven, Henry Kissinger, is left to serve the
interests of the billionaires and trillionaires of
Wall Street and NATO. When Kissinger goes,
their combined legacy will be plain to see: a
mountain of twisted and broken skeletons.
Brzezinski was born into an aristocratic Polish
family which avoided liquidation by the Soviets
in the Katyn Forest during WWII because his
father was a diplomat on a posting to Canada
when Stalin’s troops rolled across Polish border.
Brzezinski was horrified at the atrocities com-
mitted by the Soviets, especially the slaughter
of the Polish aristocracy, and became an ardent
anti-Communist. Undeniably intelligent and
driven, he rose to become US President Jimmy
Carter’s security adviser, 1976-1980, a perch
which gave him sway over the CIA and its murder
machine. He continued its traditional use as an
instrument to lash out against the Soviets at any
given moment and, when suitable opportunities
failed to materialise, he was perfectly capable
of conjuring them up out of thin air.
‘Some stirred-up muslims’
In January 1998 he admitted to Le Nouvel Obser-
vateur, a French news magazine, that it was he
who initiated the CIA campaign to arm the
Mujahedin in July 1978, a full six months before
the Soviet troops crossed the border into
Afghanistan to prop up its pro-Soviet govern
-
ment. Brzezinski explained that the arming of
the Mujahideen was designed to lure the Soviets
into a conflict they could not win. Asked if he
regretted the horrors he had unleashed, he
responded indignantly: “Regret what? The secret
operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect
of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and
you want me to regret it? The day that the Sovi-
ets officially crossed the border, I wrote to
President Carter: ‘We now have the opportunity
of giving to the USSR a Vietnam War’. Indeed, for
almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war
unsupportable by the government, a conflict that
brought about the demoralisation and finally the
breakup of the Soviet empire”.
When he was asked if he had second thoughts
about arming Islamist extremists, he responded:
“What is most important to the history of the
world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet
Empire? Some stirred-up Muslims or the libera
-
tion of Central Europe and the end of the Cold
War?”.
Readers can make up their own minds about
the wisdom of kicking a hornets’ nest of militant
Muslims.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
and his ilk
by Joseph de Búrca
A
mountain
of broken
skeletons
When opportunities
to lash out against
the Soviets failed to
materialise, he was perfectly
capable of conjuring them up
out of thin air
OBIT(CH)UARY
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Dvid Rockerfeller
July 2017 4 1
Washington’s political
ringmasters
Jimmy Carter was evicted from the White House
after just one term but Brzezinski maintained a
fast grip on the levers of power in Washington.
His prowess had not derived from his associa-
tion with Carter, nor even the Democratic Party,
rather from the billionaires who really run Amer
-
ica. In fact it was Brzezinski who had plucked the
well-meaning Carter from relative political
obscurity because his brand of integrity was
exactly what the American electorate was yearn-
ing for after the nightmare of Watergate.
Brzezinski forged a link with Carter by inviting
him to join the Trilateral Commission (described
in the next section) and getting his billionaire
patrons to back him.
Brzezinski, along with Rockefeller and Kiss-
inger, maintained their hypnotic hold over all of
the US presidents who succeeded Carter up to
and including Barack Obama who had no qualms
about thanking Brzezinski for advising him on
international affairs during his first presidential
election campaign.
Perhaps the one positive result of Donald
Trump’s election is that he doesn’t appear to be
a product of the Brzezinski-Rockefeller-Kiss-
inger (BRK) political conveyor belt. Interestingly
however, Brzezinski’s daughter Mika co-hosts
MSNBC’s weekday morning broadcast Morning
Joe with former Republican representative Joe
Scarborough. Brzezinski is also a visiting fellow
at the Harvard Institute of Politics in the Harvard
Kennedy School of Government.
Trump recently enveloped himself in contro
-
versy by attacking the couple, alleging Mika was
bleeding from cosmetic surgery when he refused
to meet her at Christmas 2016.
The Trilateral Commission
and Ireland
Brzezinski and David Rockefeller established
the Trilateral Commission in 1973, a secretive
organisation employed by high financiers to co-
ordinate banking and economic stratagems
between Washington, Western Europe and
Japan. Rockefeller attended the Trilateral Com-
mission meeting held in the Four Seasons hotel
in Dublin in 2010 without drawing the attention
of the mainstream Irish media.
Irish dignitaries who have served on it
include Garret FitzGerald and Liam
Lawlor, the former Fianna Fáil
TD who died in Russia after
many bruising encounters
at the Mahon Tribunal
where his corrupt politi-
cal career and business
dealings were dis-
sected forensically.
Leon Brittan, who
helped cover-up the
existence of paedophile rings while British
Home Secretary, also served on the Trilateral
Commission.
The art of sphincter oscillation
The tendrils of the Trilateral Commission reach
out to its sister organisations, the Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Bilderberg
Group, through the BRK Nexus. Bilderberg is an
organisation made up of the so-called global
elite which meets in secret annually to discuss
and influence world events from behind closed
doors. The power of these organisations is hard
to pinpoint with exactitude and undoubtedly
waxes and wanes but one thing about Bilderberg
is clear: hopeful US presidential make pilgrim-
ages to it, falling on their bended knees before
its high priests because they know - or at least
believe - they are the powerbrokers who have to
be charmed if they have any chance of having a
decent tilt at the White House. At Bilderberg
hopeful candidates are also provided with an
opportunity to prostrate themselves before
media oligarchs. Those who are sufficiently
skilled in the art of sphincter oscillation tend to
receive the Bilderberger stamp of approval, after
which they are ushered through secret doors to
brown nose the billionaires likely to bankroll
their political campaigns. All they have to do in
return is serve the interests of Wall Street and
NATO whether at the expense of their electorate
or not. Suffice it to say, the likes of Bernie Sand
-
ers, Jeremy Corbyn and other apparently
authentic left-wing firebrands do
not receive invitations to Bilder-
berg, serve on the Trilateral
Commission or join the
CFR.
Zbigniew nd friends
Dvid Rockefeller ouside he Four Sesons Hoel Dublin
fer meeing of he Trilerl Commission in 2010
Lim Lwlor
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OBIT(CH)UARY
Bilderberg for Blueshirts
The list of Irish politicians who have attended
Bilderberg includes Garret FitzGerald, Peter
Sutherland, Michael Noonan, Michael McDowell,
and more recently Simon Coveney, all from Fine
Gael or its gene pool. Michael O’Leary of Ryanair
- party political allegiance unknown - attended
the June 2017 conference in Chantilly, Virginia,
not far from the HQ of the CIA at Langley, Vir-
ginia. It is not believed he flew any of his fellow
130 delegates to Chantilly on board his fleet of
yellow-pack jets.
All told, the Irish delegates have rubbed
shoulders with former NATO chiefs, global press
barons, former US presidents and British Prime
Ministers, and assorted intelligence mandarins.
Henry Kissinger and NATO Secretary Jens
Stoltenberg attended Chantilly last month.
The DNA of the Bilderberg Group is intrinsi
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cally pro-NATO. This was what made it such a
natural fit for Garret FitzGerald who served two
terms as Taoiseach. It was he who forged the link
between Bilderberg and the Blueshirts. As a pre-
cocious student at UCD, the young FitzGerald
had engaged in a lengthy newspaper-letter-writ-
ing debate arguing that Ireland should join
NATO. He also described in his first autobiogra-
phy how it was at a Bilderberg conference that
he first met Margaret Thatcher. After that he vis
-
ited her and her close adviser Airey Neave on a
number of occasions in the House of Commons
while she was leader of the Opposition. Neave
was a former intelligence officer famed for his
escape from Colditz during WWII, as described
in some of his bestselling books on the topic. He
was assassinated as he drove out of the House
of Commons by an INLA car bomb on 30 March
1979.
The toffee-nosed minions of BRK & Co in the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the
thugs in suits they control at MI6 have never dis-
played much interest in luring the malodorous
buffoons of Fianna Fáil to Bilderberg; that type
of distasteful contact is confined to the confer
-
ence rooms of the British-Irish Association (BIA)
where the windows are large and the ventilation
is good. All sorts of unwashed Irish creatures are
tolerated at the BIA, a micro-version of Bilder-
berg with all its cloak-and-dagger palaver. It was
set up by the newspaper baron David Astor, an
MI6 asset with some help from a few other well-
meaning but naïve dignitaries with no links to
the British intelligence community in the early
1970s. It was run for years by Garret FitzGerald’s
friend, Dame Daphne Park, a one-time highflying
MI6 mandarin and self-confessed murderer. (See
page 38 where her role in the violent murder of
Patrice Lumumba of the Congo is described.)
The FCO Oxbridge boys and girls who run the
BIA have a tradition of mocking the Irish behind
their backs. Not even Garret FitzGerald was
immune. He was the victim of a cruel parody by
FCO officials at an amateur Whitehall Christmas
pantomime in 1976 where his perceived grovel
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ling to NI Secretary of State, 1976 – 1979, Roy
Mason, provided much amusement.
Leo’s dilemma
While the Bilderbergers favoured Simon Cov-
eney with an invitation and thereby bestowed
their pre-emptive, if ultimately thwarted, bless-
ing on him in his campaign to become the next
Taoiseach, there is little doubt they will correct
this miscalculation by inviting Leo Varadkar to
the next conclave. Whether he will go is an open
The DNA of the Bilderberg
Group is intrinsically pro-
NATO. This was what made
it such a natural fit for
Garret FitzGerald
An innocen brod: FizGerld nd Kissinger
FizGerld firs go o know Thcher meeing of he Bilderberg Group before she becme
Briish Prime Miniser. He hen visied her nd her poliicl guru Airey Neve Wesminser
before he INLA ssssined him in 1979.
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question. If he does, he should remember that
when you sup with the Devil it is always a good
idea to bring a long spatula with you.
David Rockefeller attended Bilderberg meet-
ings all his life. Its inaugural meeting took place
in 1954. One of Rockefeller’s greatest coups was
to form an alliance with Allen Dulles of the CIA in
the early 1950s transforming it into a truly dia
-
bolical organisation dedicated to the overthrow
of anyone who threatened Rockefeller’s global
business interests, not to mention those of his
fellow billionaires, many of whom were friends
and former clients of Allen Dulles who had been
a Wall Street lawyer before becoming a serial-
killing spook.
This unholy alliance hurled the CIA along a
demonic path of kidnap, blackmail, torture,
political assassination and regime-change of
governments around the world who nationalised
US business interests or threatened the supply
of oil to the West. This accounts for its oft quoted
nickname: Capitalism’s Invisible Army. A Deputy
Garda Commissioner who once served as the
force’s intelligence supremo told me that while
he was in charge he had refused point-blank to
have any dealings with the CIA because “they
would sell you guns to shoot your mother”. That
about sums it up. Under Dulles’ malign influence
and that of his successors, hundreds of thou-
sands of people were murdered, tortured and
vilified in such far-flung places as Vietnam, Laos,
Cambodia, Central and Latin America, not to
mention the Middle East. Readers interested in
learning more about Rockefeller’s alliance with
Dulles should purchase a copy of the chilling
book, ‘The Devil’s Chessboard’ (2016) by David
Talbot.
Brzezinski and Rockefeller have left the stage
now - permanently - while Kissinger’s influence
is undoubtedly on the wane; nonetheless, their
adepts lurk in the shadows ready to step up to
the high altar if they are not already standing
on it.
The sad truth is that the ghouls who ultimately
hold the strings that control these shadowy
organisations rarely have the masks torn from
their faces. The truly diabolical James Jesus
Angleton, who served as Allen Dulles’ right-hand
man at the CIA, finally realised the catastrophe
that had been his life as he neared his death and
dropped his own mask. Ireland’s Bilderberg del-
egates would do themselves no harm by reading
the account David Talbot provides of Angleton at
the end of ‘The Devil’s Chessboard’:
“But as he crept towards death in 1987, Angle-
ton was less bound by the loyalty oaths of the
past, and he began to talk about his career with
a surprisingly raw clarity. By then, his lungs were
cancer-ridden from a lifetime of incessant smok-
ing, and his sunken cheeks and receding eyes
gave him the look of fallen saint. The Catholic
Angleton had always needed to believe in the
holiness of his mission. And now, as he faced the
final judgement, he felt compelled to make con-
fessions, of sorts, to visiting journalists,
including Joseph Trento. What he confessed was
this. He had not been serving God, after all,
when he followed Allen Dulles. He had been on
a satanic quest.
These were some of James Jesus Angleton’s
dying words. He delivered them between fits of
calamitous coughing - lung-scraping seizures
that still failed to break him of his cigarette habit
- and soothing sips of tea. “Fundamentally, the
founding fathers of U.S. intelligence were liars”,
Angleton told Trento in an emotionless voice.
“The better you lied and the more you betrayed,
the more likely you would be promoted …
Outside of their duplicity, the only thing they had
in common was a desire for absolute power. I did
things that, in looking back on my life, I regret.
But I was part of it and loved being in it”.
He invoked the names of the high eminences
who had run the CIA in his day - [Allen] Dulles,
[Dick] Helms, [Frank] Wisner. These men were
“the grand masters”, he said. “If you were in a
room with them, you were in a room full of people
that you had to believe would deservedly end up
in hell”.
Angleton took another slow slip from a steam-
ing cup. “I guess I will see them there soon”.
Beyond question, the Irish delegates to Bilder-
berg are living saints compared to those who run
these secret organisations; nonetheless they are
also quite literally innocents abroad. Our dele-
gates owe it to themselves to read up on the
deeds perpetrated by BRK & Co and then ask
themselves how they could ever have accepted
an invitation to somewhere like Bilderberg. No
doubt they will be offered invitations in the
future to discuss the advancement of the EU, the
perfidy of Putin and Brexit etc, but who gave the
likes of BRK & Co the right to influence these
events behind closed doors? Why should the
Blueshirts dance to their tune? The Bilderberg-
ers exert whatever influence they have because
delegates extend it to them by their presence. If
they did not attend their conferences the world
might see most of them for the naked emperors
they really are. (The media barons, of course, will
always retain their power no matter what.) With
the passing of Brzezinski and Rockerfeller, now
is a good time to say good riddance and hope for
better.
If Varadkar - a purported champion of trans
-
parency - succumbs to the invisible pressures to
bend his knee to the opaque Dark Lords at forth-
coming Bilderberg conferences, he can bank on
the mainstream Irish media looking the other
way. (The Phoenix magazine has been an hon-
ourable exception to this for decades.) If Leo
sneaks out the back door wearing his stylish
dark glasses en route to Bilderberg, we will let
you know.
With the passing
of Brzezinski and
Rockerfeller, now is a good
time to say good riddance
and hope for better.
