Fraternities and sororities
By Sandy Williams Sunday, December 19, 2010
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/31283
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded on 5 December
1776, at the College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, Virginia, is generally recognized
to be the first Greek-letter student society in
North America.[citation needed] It was founded by
John Heath, who had failed at admission to the
two existing Latin-letter fraternities at the
College, the F.H.C. Society (nicknamed as
backronym the “Flat Hat Club”) and the P.D.A.
Society (nicknamed “Please Don’t Ask”). The main
developments associated with Phi Beta Kappa are
the use of Greek-letter initials as a society
name and the establishment of branches or
“chapters” at different campuses, following the pattern set by Masonic lodges.
Phi Beta Kappa:
Stephen J. Hadley was a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa, the under secretary for the U.S.
Department of Defense, and a director at the
Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Note: Paul Wolfowitz was the deputy secretary of
defense, under secretary of defense for policy at
the U.S. Department of Defense, and a 2008
Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Richard N. Perle was the assistant secretary for
the U.S. Department of Defense, is a director at
the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
George P. Shultz was an honorary director at the
Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Condoleezza Rice is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Richard C. Holbrooke was a director at the
Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Henry A. Kissinger is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a
lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of
Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Madeleine K. Albright is a director at the
Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank), a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and a director at the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).
John Vincent Weber is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), a director at the Council
on Foreign Relations (think tank), and a 2008
Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Michael K. Powell is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), Colin L. Powell’s son,
and a board of visitors member for the College of William & Mary.
Colin L. Powell is Michael K. Powell’s father,
was an honorary director at the Atlantic Council
of the United States (think tank), and is a
director at the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Fouad Ajami is a director at the Council on
Foreign Relations (think tank), and a 2008
Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Richard C. Holbrooke was a director at the
Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Martin S. Feldstein was a director at the Council
on Foreign Relations (think tank), and a 2008
Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Henry R. Kravis is a director at the Council on
Foreign Relations (think tank), and a 2008
Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
John Vincent Weber is a director at the Council
on Foreign Relations (think tank), and a 2008
Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
James A. Johnson is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
James H. Lambright is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations (think tank), and the interim
chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout.
The clock is already ticking for the hated financial elite
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/iain-macwhirter/the-clock-is-already-ticking-for-the-hated-financial-elite-1.1079645
Published on 13 Jan 2011
I had hoped to avoid writing about banksters this week, but how can you?
Prime Minister’s Question Time yesterday was once
again dominated by bankers behaving badly,
following the news that Eric Daniels of Lloyds
Banking Group is getting his snout in the trough
to the tune of £2m. He’s playing catch up with
that other state-owned banker boss, Stephen
Hester of RBS, who has awarding himself £2.3 million in bonuses.
Really, how can you ignore this kind of thing?
These people are engaged in legal theft – their
banks only exist because of public subsidy. If
anyone should be getting bonuses, it’s the taxpayers.
I keep reading headlines about how it’s time to
stop “banker bashing”. That it might damage the
City of London’s reputation if we keep harping on
about their bonuses. But I hardly think
reputation comes into it: bankers clearly have no
reputations left to defend. I can’t think of any
group in society which as so unconcerned about
their public image, so unwilling to mend their ways.
We shouldn’t let the bankers off the hook just
because they are impervious to criticism, beyond
shame. When governments fail to act, it is left
only to parliament and the media to focus public
opinion and try to bring bankers to account. It’s
a tough job. At the select committee hearing this
week, the Labour MP John Mann asked Bob Diamond,
the new boss of Barclays (£11 million last year)
if he knew “why it was easier for a camel to get
through the eye of a needle than for a rich man
to get into the kingdom of heaven”. He pretended
he didn’t know what Mr Mann was talking about.
Surely you just pay people to do the needle
thing? It was time, said Mr Diamond, for bankers
to “stop apologising” for themselves. Really? I must have missed it.
The ruthless capitalists of the last century,
like Andrew Carnegie the steel magnate, or John
Paul Getty, the oil billionaire, cared a great
deal about what people thought of them. They did
remorse, too. And they spent huge sums trying to
get posterity to hold them in high esteem – hence
the Carnegie Trust, the Carnegie Halls. Getty
endowed countless museums and galleries hoping
that history would link his name to great art rather than hard cash.
This lot don’t care a toss. The plutocrats of
today seem happy to be regarded as graceless
philistines who care only for personal
self-enrichment. Yes, some hedge fund managers
give to charity – it’s tax efficient after all –
and some bankers even claim to be Christians.
Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs famously said he
was doing “God’s work”. Goldmans has just awarded
£13bn to its staff in bonuses and remuneration –
well, it beats loaves and fishes.
But listen to what bankers say about themselves.
“We eat what we kill” is one of Wall Street’s
favourite sayings. Any profession that abides by
such a morally reprehensible mission statement is
clearly beyond hope. But it also means that they
are on the wrong side of history. People who are
incapable of moral vision are generally brought
down by their own myopia. Like sharks, bankers
are as stupid as they are vicious. They don’t
realise that they need the sea to swim in, and that sea is civil society.
The financiers have achieved a remarkable feat:
they have united Left and Right in common cause
against financial kleptocracy. Keynsians like
Joseph Stiglitz and Thatcherites like Niall
Ferguson disagree about just about everything,
but at the Edinburgh Festival this summer they
laid aside their differences and spent their time
trying to out-bash the bankers. The Right realise
that the banks represent the biggest threat to
capitalism since the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
The fact that this is a moral challenge doesn’t
make it any less potent. Economic systems, like
constitutions, only exist through consent, and
the behaviour of bankers is undermining trust in
the market itself. Who needs the Communist
Manifesto, when you have people like Bob Diamond?
Moreover, the market simply cannot function
properly when it is dominated by concentrations
of oligopolistic financial power, supported by
state subsidy, which are free to plunder the
wealth of society and are beyond restraint. This
diminishes the productive power of the economy by
diverting wealth into unproductive activities
like speculation. Bankers are essentially
parasites: they make nothing but debt. And this,
in the end, is what I believe will bring them down.
No section of society can retain its privileges
without supporters. Not even the Tories try to
defend bankers any more. Prime Minister’s
Question Time has become a bidding war on how to
curb bonuses. So far, neither Labour nor the
Tories have found the will or the means to do so,
but they will get there in the end. Thirty years
ago, the trades unions were eventually curbed
when they lost public support, and the unions,
even during the Winter of Discontent, retained
vastly more public goodwill than the bankers do
today. Shop stewards were, after all, fighting
for their fellow workers, not for themselves.
Call me naive, but I believe the clock is already
ticking for the financial elite. When the banking
commission reports in November, there will be
action to tax bank bonuses, and to break up the
behemoth banks that dominate the high street and
use granny’s savings to speculate on credit
default swaps. Banks will be given a choice: if
they want the security of public subsidy, they
must behave as a public service. If they don’t,
they must accept that, when the next crash comes,
they go bust. That will concentrate minds.
The international character of the financial
crisis will ensure that regulation of the banks
also crosses borders. The European Union is being
destroyed by a sovereign debt crisis which is the
result of irresponsible bank lending. The EU has
no choice now but to act to control banking
behaviour. In 10 years, we will be looking back
in amazement at the behaviour of the Hesters and
Diamonds. They are the great villains of the age
– hate figures, who have run out of moral credit,
and will shortly be foreclosed.
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Please consider seriously the reason why these elite institutions are not discussed in the mainstream press despite the immense financial and political power they wield?
There are sick and evil occultists running the Western World. They are power mad lunatics like something from a kids cartoon with their fingers on the nuclear button! Armageddon is closer than you thought. Only God can save our souls from their clutches, at least that's my considered opinion - Tony
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