New World Order...not so new!

LIST
THE CFR / TRILATERAL
NEW WORLD ORDER CONNECTION


"... building a New International Order [which] must be responsive to
world aspirations for peace, [and] for social and economic
change...and international order [code for world government]
...including states labeling themselves as 'Socialist'"


CFR's Study No. 7, published Nov. 25, 1959


Sources:
1. The United States Government Manual 1991/92, Office of the Federal Register - National Archives and Records Administration.
2. Standard and Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives 1991
3. Annual Report 1991/92, The Council on Foreign Relations, Pratt House, New York City






"The Council on Foreign Relations is the American Branch of a society which originated in England ... (and) ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established" "The Trilateral Commission is international ... (and) ... is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States"
WITH NO APOLOGIES, Senator Barry Goldwater


"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." - David Rockefeller 2002 autobiography Memoirs






Member of the Council on Foreign Relations --------- C
Member of the Trilateral Commission --------- T
Member of the elite Bilderbergs --------- B




AT THE TOP


David Rockefeller Chairman Emeritus
Peter G. Peterson Chairman of the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
58 E. 68th St. New York, NY 10021
Phone (212) 734-0400
FAX (212) 861-1789


Paul Volker
North American CHAIRMAN OF THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION
345 E. 46 St. New York, NY 10017
Phone (212) 661-1180


PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
William Clinton CTB


ASST. SEC. FOR ADMINISTRATION UNITED NATIONS
Dick Thornburgh C


NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR
Anthony Lake C


VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Albert Gore, Jr. C


SECRETARY OF STATE
Warren Christopher C


SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
Lee Aspin C


CHAIRMAN JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
Colin L. Powell C


DIRECTOR CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
James Woolsey C


CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL OF ECONOMICS ADVISORS
Laura Tyson C


TREASURY SECRETARY
Lloyd Bentsen (Former CFR) B


SECRETARY OF INTERIOR
Bruce Babbitt C


SECRETARY OF HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Henry Cisneros C


SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUM. SER.
Donna Shalala CT




JUDICIARY
Sandra Day O'Connor, Asso. Justice, U.S. Supreme Court C
Steve G. Breyer, Chief Judge US Court of Appeals, C
First Circuit, Boston
Rith B. Ginsburg, US Court of Appeals, Wash., DC Circuit C
Laurence H. Silberman, US Court of Appels, Wash., DC Circuit C




U.S. INSTITUTE FOR PEACE
John Norton Moore, Chairman C
Elspeth Davies Rostow, Vice Chmn C
Samuel W. Lewis, President C
John Richardson, Counselor C
David Little, Senior Scholar C
William R. Kintner, Dir. C
W. Scott Thompson, Dir. C


OFFICE OF U.S. TRADE REP.
Gary R. Edson, Ch. of Staff & Counselor C
Joshua Bolten, Gen. Counsel C
Daniel M. Price, Dep. Gen. Counsel C


TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Roger Altman, Deputy Sec. C
Robert R. Glauber, Under Sec., Finance C
David C. Mulford, Under Sec., Intntl Affairs C
Robert M. Bestani, Dep Asst Sec., Intntl. Monetary Affairs C
J. French Hill, Dep. Asst. Sec., Corp Finance C
John M. Niehuss, Dep. Asst. Sec., Intntl. Monetary Affairs C


OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
Joshua Lederberg, V. Chmn Adv. Counc. C
John H. Gibbons, Director C
Lewis M. Branscomb, Adv. Council C


ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
James M. Strock, Asst. Adm., Enforcement and Compliance C


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUND.
Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., Pres C


WHITE HOUSE STAFF
George Stephanopoulos, Director, communications C
Willian J. Crowe, Cheif Foreign Intelligence Advisory Bd. CT
Nancy Soderberg, Staff Director National Secuity Council C
Samuel R. Berger, Deputy Advisor National Security C
W. Bowman Cutter, Deputy Assistant National Econonmic Council C


OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET
Alice Rivlin, Deputy Director C


EXPORT-INPORT BANK
John D. Macomber, Pres. & Chmn C
Eugene K. Lawson, 1st VP & Vice chmn C
Rita M. Rodriguez, Director C
Hart Fessenden, General Council C


OFFICE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
William R. Graham, Jr. Science Advisor to President & Director C


LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
James H. Billington, Librarian, Chmn. Trust Fund Board C
Ruth Ann Stewart, Asst. Librarian National Programs C


NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Frank H. T. Rhodes, Bd. of Directors C
James B. Holderman, Bd. of Directors C
D. Allen Bromley, Bd. of Directors C


U.S. ARMS CONTROL & DISARMAMENT AGENCY
Thomas Graham, Jr., General Council C
William Schneier, Chmn., General Advisory Council C
Richard Burt, Negotiator on Strategic Defense Arms C
David Smith, Negotiator, Defense & Space C


FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER
William W. Schwarzer, Director C


DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Madeleine Albright, UN Amabassador C
Clifton Wharton, Jr., Deputy Sec. C
Lynn Davis, Under Sec. For International Security affairs CT
Brandon H. Grove, Dir. Of Foreign Service Institute C
H. Allen Holms, Asst. Sec Bureau of Politico-Military Aff. C
John H. Kelly, Asst. Sec. Near East-South Asian Affairs C
Alexander F. Watson, Dep. Rep. United Nations C
Jonathan Moore, UN Mission C
Joseph Verner Reed, Cheif of Protocol C
Dennis B. Ross, Dir. Policy Planning Staff C
Edward Perkins, Dir. of Personnel C
Abraham David Sofaer, Legal Advisor C
Peter Tanoff, Under Sec For Political Aff. CT
Brian Atwood, Under sec. For Mngmnt. C
Joan E. Spero, Under Sec. Eco & Ag Affairs C
George E. Moose, Asst Sec. African Affairs C
Winston Lord, Asst. Sec. East Asian & Pacific Affairs CT
Stephen A. Oxman, Asst. Sec. Europ. Affairs C
Timothy E. Wirth, Counselor C&127;


DEPARTMENT OF STATE --- AMBASSADORS
Strobe Talbott (Special Advisor for CIS) C
Thomas R. Pickering, (Russia) C
Morton I. Abramowitz, (Turkey) C
Michael H. Armacost, (Japan) C
Shirly Temple Black, (Czechoslovakia) C
Julia Chang Bloch, (Nepal) C
Henry E. Catto, Jr., (Great Britain) C
Frances Cook, (Camaroon) C
Edward P. Djerejian, (Syria) C
Geoge E. Moose, (Senegal) C
John D. Negroponte, (Mexico) C
Edward N. Ney, (Canada) C
Robert B. Oakley, (Pakistan) C
Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr., (Tunisia) C
Christopher H. Phillips, (Brunei) C
Nicholas Platt, (Phillipines) C
James W. Spain, (Maldives & Sri Lanka) C
Terence A. Todman, (Argentina) C
Frank G. Wisner II, (Egypt) C
Warren Zimmerman, (Yugoslavia) C


UNITED STATES CONGRESS --- SENATORS
David L. Boren (D), OK C
William Bradley (D), NJ C
John H. Chafee (R), RI CT
William S. Cohen (R),ME CT
Christopher J. Dodd (D),CT C
Dianne Feinstein (D),CA T
Bob Graham (D), FL C
Joseph I. Lieberman (D),CT C
George J. Mitchell (D), ME C
Claiborne Pell (D),RI C
Larry Pressler (R),SD C
Charles S. Robb (D),VA CT
John D. Rockefeller, IV (D), WV CT
William Roth, Jr. (R),DE CT


UNITED STATES CONGRESS --- REPRESENTATIVES
Howard L. Berman (D),CA C
Thomas S. Foley (D),WA C
Sam Gejdenson (D),CT C
Richard A. Gephardt (D),MO C
Newton L. Gingrich (R),GA C
Lee H. Hamilton (D),IN T
Amory Houghton, Jr. (R),NY C
Nancy Lee Johnson (R),CT C
Jim Leach (R),IA T
John Lewis (D),GA C
Robert T. Matsui (D),CA C
Dave K. McCurdy (D), OK C
Eleanor Homes Norton (D),DC C
Thomas El Petri (R),WI C
Charles B. Rangel (D),NY T
Carlos A. Romero-Barcelo (D),PR C
Patricia Schroeder (D),CO C
Peter Smith (R),VT C
Olympia J. Snow (R),ME C
John M. Spratt (D),SC C
Louis Stokes (D),OH C




DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Les Aspin, Secretary of Defense C
Frank G. Wisnerll, Under Sec. for Policy C
Henry S. rowen, Asst. Sec. International Security Affairs C
Judy Ann Miller, Dep. Asst. Sec. Nuclear Fcs & Arms Control C
W. Bruce Weinrod, Dep. Asst. Sec. Europe & NATO C
Adm. Seymour Weiss, Chmn, Defense Policy Bd. C
Charles M. Herzfeld, Dir. Def. Research & Eng. C
Andrew W. Marshall, Dir., Net Assessment C
Michael P. W. Stone, Secretary of the Army C
Donald B. Rice, Secretary of the Air Force C
Franklin C. Miller, Dep. Asst. Sec. Nuclear Fcs & Arms Control C


ALLIED SUPREME COMMANDERS
1949-52 Eisenhower C
1952-53 Ridgeway C
1953-56 Gruenther C
1956-63 Norstad C
1963-69 Lemnitzer C
1969-74 Goodpaster C
1974-79 Haig C
1979-87 Rogers CT


SUPERINTENDENTS U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT
1960-63 Westmoreland C
1963-66 Lampert C
1966-68 Bennett C
1970-74 Knowlton C
1974-77 Berry C
1977-81 Goodpaster C


CFR MILITARY FELLOWS, 1991
Col. William M. Drennan, Jr. USAF C
Col. Wallace C. Gregson, USMC C
Col. Jack B. Wood, USA C


CFR MILITARY FELLOW, 1992
Col. David M. Mize, usmc C
Col. John P. Rose USA C


JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
Gen. Colin L. Powell, Chmn. C
Gen. Carl E. Vuono, Army C
Gen. John T. Chain, CO SAC C
Gen. Merril A. McPeak, CO Pac AF C
Lt. Gen. George L. Butler, Dir. Strat Plans & Policy C
Lt. Gen. Charles T. Boyd, Com. Air Univ. C
Lt. Gen. Bradley C. Hosmer, AF Inspector General C


SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE
1957-59 McElroy C
1959-61 Gates C
1961-68 McNamara CT
1969-73 Laird C
1973-75 Richardson CT
1975-77 Rumsfeld C
1977-80 Brown CT
1980-88 Weinberger CT
1988- Carlucci C
1988- Cheney C&127;


ADDITIONAL MILITARY
MG R.C. Bowman C
BG F. Brown C
LT COL W. Clark C
ADM Wm. Crowe C
COL P. M. Dawkins C
V. ADM. Thor Hanson C
COL W. Hauser C
MAJ R. Kimmitt C
GEN W. Knowlton C
V. ADM J. Lee C
COL D. Mead C
MG Jack Merritt C
GEN E. Meyer C
COL Wm. E. Odom C
COL L. Olvey C
COL Geo. K. Osborn C
MG J. Pustay C
LG E.L. Rowny C
CAPT Gary Sick C
MG De Witt Smith C
BG Perry Smith C
LTG Wm. Y. Smith C
COL W. Taylor C
ADM S. Turner C
MG J. Welch C
GEN J. Wickham C


You're Out Gunned, Too!








And you thought they were elected to serve you!


FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
(Past & Present - Partial list)


The Federal Reserve System and Bank is a privately owned corporation established by an act of Congress. By its control of the money supply and the interest rate, it effectively controls our nation.


Alan Greenspan, Chairman CT
E. Gerald Corrigan, V. Chmn. Pres. NY Fed. Res. Bank C
Richard N. Cooper, Chmn. Boston C
Sam Y. Cross, Mgr. Foreign Open Market Acct. C
Robert F. Erburu, Chmn. San Fran C
Robert P. Forrestal, Pres. Atlanta C
Bobby R. Inman, Chmn., Dallas CT
Robert H. Knight, Esq. C
Steven Muller C
John R. Opel C
Anothony M. Solomon CT
Edwin M. Truman, Staff Dir. International Finance C
Cyrus R. Vance C
Paul Volcker CT


BANKING INSTITUTIONS


CHASE MANHATTAN CORP.
Thomas G. Labrecque, Chmn. & CEO CT
Robert R. Douglass, V. Chmn. C
Willard C. Butcher, Dir. C
Richard W. Lyman Dir. C
Joan Ganz Cooney Dir. C
David T. McLaughlin Dir. C
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. Dir. C
Henry B. Schacht Dir. C


CHEMICAL BANK
Walter V. Shipley, Chmn. C
Robert J. Callander, Pres. C
William C. Pierce, Exec. Off. C
Randolph W. Bromery Dir. C
Charles W. Duncan, Jr. Dir. C
George V. Grune Dir. C
Helen L. Kaplan Dir. C
Lawrence G. Rawl Dir. C
Michael I. Sovern Dir. C
Richard D. Wood Dir. C


CITICORP
John S. Reed. Chmn. C
William R. Rhodes, V. Chmn. C
Richard S. Braddock, Pres. C
John M. Deutch Dir. C
Clifton C. Garvin, Jr. Dir C
C. Peter McColough Dir. C
Rozanne L. Ridgeway Dir. C
Franklin A. Thomas Dir. C


FIRST CITY BANCORP, TEXAS
A. Robert Abboud, CEO C


MORGAN GUARANTY
Lewis T. Preston, Chmn. C


BANKERS TRUST NEW YORK CORPORATION
Charles S. Stanford, Jr., Chmn C
Alfred Brittain III Dir C
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. Dir C
Richard L. Gelb, Dir C
Patricia Carry Stewart, Dir C


FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO
Barry F. Sullivan T


MANUFACTURERS HANOVER DIRECTORS
Cyrus Vance C
G. Robert Durham C
George B. Munroe C
Marina V. N. Whitman CT
Charles J. Pilliod, Jr. C


BANK AMERICA
Andrew F. Brimmer Dir C
Ignazio E. Lozano, Jr. Dir C
Ruben F. Mettler Dir C


SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMM.


Michael D. Mann, Dir. Intntl. Aff. C


You're Out Financed, Too!








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


John Swinton Confesses


While giving a toast before the New York Press Club in 1953, John Swinton, former Chief of Staff of the New York Times is quoted as follows: "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write you honest opinions, and if you did, you know before hand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting and independent press! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intelligent prostitutes."


CBS
Laurence A. Tisch,CEO C
Roswell Gilpatric C
James Houghton CT
Henry Schacht CT
Dan Rather C
Richard Hottelet C
Frank Stanton C


NBC/RCA
John F. Welch,Fr.,CEO C
Jane Pfeiffer C
Lester Crystal CT
R.W. Sonnenfeidt CT
John Petty C
Tom Brokaw C
David Brinkley C
John Chancellor C
Marvin Kalb C
Irving R. Levine C
Herbert Schlosser C
Peter G. Peterson C
John Sawhill C


ABC
Thomas S. Murphy,CEO C
Barbara Walters C
John Connor C
Diane Sawyer C
John Scall C


PUBLIC BROADCAST SERVICE
Robert McNeil C
Jim Lehrer C
C. Hunter-Gault C
Hodding Carter III C
Daniel Schorr C


ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stanley Swinton C
Harold Anderson C
Katharine Graham CT


REUTERS
Micheal Posner C


BALTIMORE SUN
Henry Trewhitt C


WASHINGTON TIMES
Arnaud de Borchgrave C


CHILDREN'S TV WORKSHOP (Sesame Street)
Joan Ganz Cooney, Pres. C


CABLE NEWS NETWORK
W. Thomas Johnson, Pres. T
Daniel Schorr C


U.S. NEWS & WORLD REP.
David Gergen T


NEW YORK TIME CO.
Richard Gelb C
William Scranton CT
John F. Akers Dir. C
Louis V. Gerstner,Jr. Dir. C
George B. Munroe Dir. C
Donald M. Stewart Dir. C
Cyrus R. Vance Dir. C
A.M. Rosenthal C
Seymour Topping C
James Greenfield C
Max Frankel C
Jack Rosenthal C
John Oakes C
Harrison Salisbury C
H.L. Smith C
Steven Rattner C
Richard Burt C
Flora Lewis C


TIME, INC.
Ralph Davidson C
Donal M. Wilson C
Henry Grunwald C
Alexander Heard C
Sol Linowitz C
Thomas Watson, Jr. C
Strobe Talbott C


NEWSWEEK/WASH. POST
Katharine Graham C
N. deB. Katzenbach C
Robert Christopher C
Osborne Elliot C
Phillip Geyelin C
Murry Marder C
Maynard Parker C
George Will CT
Robert Kaiser C
Meg Greenfield C
Walter Pincus C
Murray Gart C
Peter Osnos C
Don Oberdorfer C


DOW JONES & CO (Wall St. Journal)
Richard Wood C
Robert Bartley CT
Karen House C


NATIONAL REVIEW
Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. C


READERS DIGEST
George V. Grune,CEO C
William G. Bowen,Dir. C


SYNDICATED COLUMNISTS
Geogia Anne Geyer C
Ben J. Wattenberg C


WITH PROPAGANDA LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS EDUCATION?








"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism and religious dogmas ... We have swallowed all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests, our newspapers and others with vested interests in controlling us.


The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the certainties of the old people, these are the belated objectives ... for charting the changes of human behavior." DIRECTOR, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Brock Chisolm




UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
Graham Allison, Prof. of gov.,Harvard Univ. T
Zbigniew Brzezinski,Prof.Johns Hopkins T
Gerald L. Curtis,Prof.Pol.Sci.,Columbia Univ. T
Martin S. Feldstein,Prof.Econ.,Harvard Univ. T
Richard N. Gardner,Prof.Law,Columbia Univ. T
Joseph S. Nye,Jr.,Prof.Intntl Affrs.,Harvard Univ T
Robert D. Putnam,Prof.Politics,Havard Univ. T
Henry Rosovsky,Prof.Harvard Univ. T
Geoge P. Shultz, Hon.Fellow, Stanford Univ. T
Lester C. Thorow,Dean,SloanSchool of Mgmt.,MIT T
Paul Volcker,Prof. Intnl Econ., Princeton Univ T


COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS
Robert H. Edwards, Bowdoin College C
Vartan Gregorian, Brown University C
Hanna Holbom Gray, University of Chicago C
Joseph S. Murphy, City Univ. of NY. C
Michael I. Sovern, Columbia Univ. C
Frank H.T.Rhodes, Cornell University C
James T. Laney, Emory University C
Rev. Joseph A. O'Hare,Fordham Univ. C
Thomas Ehrlich,Indiana Univ. C
Steven Muller, Johns Hopkins Univ. C
Alice S. IIchman, Sarah Lawrence College C
Edward T. Foote, II, University of Miami C
S. Frederick Starr, Oberlin College CT
Joseph Duffey, Chans., Univ. of Mass. C
John M. Deutch, Institue Professor, MIT CT
Lester C. Thurow, Dean, Sloan Sch.., MIT C
Bernard Harleston, City College of New York C
John Brademus, New York University CT
Wesley W. Posvar, University of Pittsburg C
Harold T. Shapiro, Princeton University C
Charles W. Duncan, Jr., Chmn, Rice University C
Dennis O'Brien, Univ. of Rochester C
David Baltimore, Rockefeller University C
Donald Dennedy, Stanford University C
Richard Wall Lyman, Pres. Em., Stanford C
Hans M. Mark, Chans, Univ. of Texas C
Robert H. Donaldson, Univ. of Tulsa C
Stephen J. Trachtenberg, Geo. Washington Univ. C
William H. Danforth, Washington University St. Louis C
John D. Wilson, Washington & Lee University C
Nannerl O. Keohane, Wellesley University C


WITH ENEMIES LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS FRIENDS?








GENERAL MOTORS CORP.
Marina v.N. Whitman,VP CT
Anne L. Armstrong, Dir. C
Marvin L. Goldberger Dir. C
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. Dir. C
Dennis Weatherstone Dir. C
Leon H. Sullivan Dir. C
Thomas H. Wyman Dir. C


FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Clifton R. Wharton Dir. C
Roberto C. Goizueta Dir. C


GE/NBC Corp
John F. Welch, Jr. Chmn. C
David C. Jones C
Lewis T. Preston C
Frank H.T. Rhodes C
Walter B. Wriston C


DEERE & CO
Hans W. Becherer, Chmn/Ceo C


IBM
John F. Akers, Chmn C
C. Michael Armstrong. Sr.Vp C


AMTRAK
William S. Norman, Exec VP C


ATT
Robert E. Allen, Chmn, & Ceo C
Randall L. Tobias, Vice Chmn C
Louis V. Gerstner, Dir. C
Juanita M. Kreps Dir. C
Donald F. McHenry Dir. C
Henry B. Schacht Dir. C
Michael I. Sovern Dir. C
Franklin A. Thamas Dir. C
Rawleigh Warner, Jr. Dir. C
Thomas H. Wyman Dir. C


CHRYSLER CORP.
Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Dir. C
Peter A. Magowan dir. C


AMERICAN EXPRESS CO.
James D. Robinson,CEO C
Joan Edelman Spero T
Anne L. Armstrong C
William G. Bowen C
Charles W. Duncan, Jr. C
Richard M. Furlaud C
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. CT
Henry A. Kissinger CT
Frank P. Popoff C
Robert V. Roosa C
Joseph H. Williams C




Richard D. Wood, CEO, Eli Lily & Co C&127;
Richar M. Furlaud CEO, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co C
Frank Peter Popoff CEO,Dow Chemical Co. C
Charles Peter McColough Chmn Ex. Comm, Xerox C
Rozanne L. Ridgewar Dir.,3M,RJR Nabisco, Union Carbide C
Ruben F. Mettler former CEO,TRW,Inc. C
Henry B. Schacht CEO,Cummins Engines C
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. CEO,Pfizer,Inc. C
Rand V. Araskog CEO,ITT Corp. CT
W. Michael Blumenthal Chmn,UNISYS Corp. C
Joseph John Sisco Dir., GEICO,Raytheon,Gillette C
J.Fred Bucy former Pres,CEO,Texas Inst. C
Paul A. Allaire chmn, CEO,Xerox Corp. T
Dwayne O. Andreas Chmn, CEO,Archer Midland Daniels T
James E. Burke Chmn, CEO Em.,Johnson & Johnson T
D. Wayne Calloway Chmn, CEO,PepsiCo T
Frank C. Carlucci Vice Chmn.,The Carlyle Group T
Lynn E. Davis VP, Dir.RAND Corp T
Stephen Friedman Sr.VP, Co-Chmn,Goldman,Sachs T
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Chmn,CEO,RJR Nabisco T
Joseph T. Gorman Chmn, Pres,CEO,TRW Inc. T
Maurice R. Greenberg Chmn, CEO, American Interntl Group T
Robert D. Hass Chmn, CEO, Levi Strauss T
David J. Hennigar Chmn, Crownx,V-Chmn,Crown Life T
Robert D. Hormats V. Chmn,Goldman Sachs Int. T
James R. Houghton Chmn,CEO.Corning Inc. T
Donald R. Keough Pres,CEO,The Coca Cola Co. T
Henry A. Kissinger Chmn,Kissinger Assoc. T
Whitney MacMillan Chmn,CEO,Cargill,Inc. T
Robert S. McNamara Former Pres, The World Bank T
William D. Ruckershaus Chmn,CEO,Browning-Ferris Ind. T
David Stockman Gen Ptnr,The Blackstone Group T
Henry Wendt Chmn,SmithKline Beecham T




EXXON CORPORATION
Lawrence G. Rawl, Chmn, C
Lee R. Raymond, Pres. CT
Jack G. Clarke,Sr. VP C
Randolph W. Bromery,Dir. C
D. Wayne Calloway,Dir. C


TEXACO
Alfred C. DeCrane,Jr. Chmn. C
John Brademas Dir. CT
Willard C. Butcher Dir. C
William J. Crowe, Jr. Dir. CT
John K. McKinley Dir. C
Thomas S. Murphy Dir. C


ATLANTIC RICHFIELD-ARCO
Hannah H. Gray, Dir. C
Donal M. Kendall,Dir. CT
Henry Wendt, Dir. T


SHELL OIL CO.
Frank H. Richardson, CEO C
Rand V. Araskog, Dir. CT


MOBIL CORP.
Allan E. Murray, Chmn & Pres. CT
Lewis M. Branscomb Dir. C
Samuel C. Johnson, Dir. T
Helene L. Kaplan Dir. C
Charles S. Sanford, Jr. Dir. C


TENNECO, INC.
James L. Ketelsen, Chmn. C
W. Michael Blumenthal, Dir C
Joseph J. Sisco Dir C








Jay Mazur, International Ladies' Garment Workers Union CT
Jack Sheinkman, Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union C
Albert Shanker, Pres., American Federation of Teachers CT
Glen E. Watts, Communication of Workers of America CT








North American Chairman: JOSEPH S. NYE, JR.
University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Chair, National Intelligence Council and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs


European Chairman: PETER SUTHERLAND
Chairman, BP p.l.c., London; Chairman, Goldman Sachs International; Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Migrations; former Director General, GATT/WTO, Geneva; former Member of the European Commission; former Attorney General of Ireland


Pacific Asian Chairman: YOTARO KOBAYASHI
Chief Corporate Advisor, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo


North American Deputy Chairman: ALLAN E. GOTLIEB
Senior Adviser, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto, ON; Chairman, Sotheby's, Canada; former Canadian Ambassador to the United States


North American Deputy Chairman: LORENZO ZAMBRANO
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, CEMEX, Monterrey, NL, Mexico


European Deputy Chairman: HERVE DE CARMOY
Chairman, Almatis, Frankfurt-am-Main; former Partner, Rhône Group, New York & Paris; Honorary Chairman, Banque Industrielle et Mobilière Privée, Paris; former Chief Executive, Société Générale de Belgique


European Deputy Chairman: ANDRZEJ OLECHOWSKI
Founder, Civic Platform; former Chairman, Bank Handlowy; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw


Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman: HAN SUNG-JOO
President, Korea University, Seoul; former Korean Minister for Foreign Affairs; former Korean Ambassador to the United States


Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman: SHIJURO OGATA
Former Deputy Governor, Japan Development Bank; former Deputy Governor for International Relations, Bank of Japan




North American Director: MICHAEL J. O’NEIL
European Director: PAUL RÉVAY
Pacific Asia Director: TADASHI YAMAMOTO






Former North American Chairmen:
THOMAS S. FOLEY (2001-2008)
PAUL A. VOLCKER (1991-2001) Honorary North American Chairman
DAVID ROCKEFELLER (1977-91) Founder and Honorary North American Chairman
GERARD C. SMITH (1973-77)


Former European Chairmen:
OTTO GRAF LAMBSDORFF (1992-2001) Honorary European Chairman
GEORGES BERTHOIN (1976-92) Honorary European Chairman
MAX KOHNSTAMM (1973-76)


Former Japanese Chairmen:
KIICHI MIYAZAWA, Acting Chairman (1993-97)
AKIO MORITA (1992-93)
ISAMU YAMASHITA (1985-92)
TAKESHI WATANABE (1973-85)








Erik Belfrage, Senior Vice President, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken; Director, Investor AB, Stockholm
C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
Georges Berthoin, International Honorary Chairman, European Movement; Honorary Chairman, The Jean Monnet Association; Honorary European Chairman, The Trilateral Commission
Jorge Braga de Macedo, President, Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon; Professor of Economics, Nova University at Lisbon; Chairman, Forum Portugal Global; former Minister of Finance
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC; Robert Osgood Professor of American Foreign Affairs, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
François Bujon de l'Estang, Ambassadeur de France; Chairman, Citigroup France, Paris; former Ambassador to the United States
Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy Diamonds & Gold, Dublin; Member of Senate, Republic of Ireland
Vladimir Dlouhy, Senior Advisor, ABB; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs; former Czechoslovak Minister of Economy; former Czech Minister of Industry & Trade, Prague
Bill Emmott, former Editor, The Economist, London
Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta, Executive Director of Upstream, Repsol-YPF; former Chairman, Prensa Española, Madrid
Michael Fuchs, Member of the German Bundestag; former President, National Federation of German Wholesale & Foreign Trade, Berlin
Antonio Garrigues Walker, Chairman, Garrigues Abogados y Asesores Tributarios, Madrid
Toyoo Gyohten, President, The Institute for International Monetary Affairs; Senior Advisor, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, UFJ, Ltd., Tokyo
Stuart Harris, Professor of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University; former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canberra
Carla A. Hills, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Karen Elliott House, Writer, Princeton, NJ; Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company, and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal
Mugur Isarescu, Governor, National Bank of Romania, Bucharest; former Prime Minister of Romania
Baron Daniel Janssen, Honorary Chairman, Solvay, Brussels
Béla Kadar, Member of the Hungarian Academy, Budapest; Member of the Monetary Council of the National Bank; President of the Hungarian Economic Association; former Ambassador of Hungary to the O.E.C.D., Paris; former Hungarian Minister of International Economic Relations and Member of Parliament
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell; Member of the House of Lords; Director of Rio Tinto, the Scottish American Investment Trust, London; former Secretary General, European Convention, Brussels; former Permanent Under-Secretary of State and Head of the Diplomatic Service, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London; former British Ambassador to the United States
Sixten Korkman, Managing Director, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) and Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA), Helsinki
Count Otto Lambsdorff, Partner, Wessing Lawyers, Düsseldorf; Chairman, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Berlin; former Member of German Bundestag; Honorary Chairman, Free Democratic Party; former Federal Minister of Economy; former President of the Liberal International; Honorary European Chairman, The Trilateral Commission, Paris
Lee Hong-Koo, Chairman, Seoul Forum for International Affairs; former Prime Minister of Korea; former Korean Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the United States
Marianne Lie, Director General, Norwegian Shipowners Association, Oslo
Cees Maas, Honorary Vice Chairman of the ING Group and former Chief Financial Officer, Amsterdam; former Treasurer of the Dutch Government
Roy MacLaren, former Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; former Canadian Minister of International Trade; Toronto, ON
Minoru Makihara, Senior Corporate Advisor, Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo
Sir Deryck C. Maughan, Managing Director and Chairman, KKR Asia, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., New York, NY; former Vice Chairman, Citigroup
Minoru Murofushi, Counselor, ITOCHU Corporation, Tokyo
Indra K. Nooyi, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, Inc., Purchase, NY
Yoshio Okawara, President, Institute for International Policy Studies, Tokyo; former Japanese Ambassador to the United States
Susan Rice, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies and Global Economy and Development Programs, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs, National Security Council
Luis Rubio, President, Center of Research for Development (CIDAC), Mexico City, DF
Silvio Scaglia, Founder, Chairman and Financial Backer of Babelgum, London; Chairman, S.M.S. Finance S.A., Luxembourg
Guido Schmidt-Chiari, Chairman, Supervisory Board, Constantia Group; former Chairman, Creditanstalt Bankverein, Vienna
Carlo Secchi, Professor of European Economic Policy and former Rector, Bocconi University; Vice President, ISPI, Milan; former Member of the Italian Senate and of the European Parliament
Tøger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Copenhagen
Petar Stoyanov, former President of the Republic of Bulgaria; Member of the Bulgarian Parliament; Chairman, Parliamentary Group of United Democratic Forces; Chairman, Union of Democratic Forces; Sofia
Harri Tiido, Undersecretary for Political Affairs, Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tallinn; former Ambassador of Estonia and Head of the Estonian Mission to NATO, Brussels
George Vassiliou, former Head of the Negotiating Team for the Accession of Cyprus to the European Union; former President of the Republic of Cyprus, former Member of Parliament and Leader of United Democrats; Nicosia
Paul Volcker, former Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New York; Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus, International Economic Policy, Princeton University; former Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System; Honorary North American Chairman and former North American Chairman, The Trilateral Commission
Marko Voljc, Chief Executive Officer, K & H Bank, Budapest; former General Manager of Central Europe Directorate, KBC Bank Insurance Holding, Brussels; former Chief Executive Officer, Nova Ljubljanska Banka, Ljubljana
Panagis Vourloumis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hellenic Tellecommunications Organization (O.T.E.), Athens
Jusuf Wanandi, Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees; Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta
Serge Weinberg, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Accor; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Weinberg Capital Partners; former Chairman Management Board, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute; former President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IRIS), Paris
Heinrich Weiss, Chairman, SMS, Düsseldorf; former Chairman, Federation of German Industries, Berlin

One world government, one world religion and one world language had its earliest roots at the Tower of Babel (Babylon.)

Genesis 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 11 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another' speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

God destroyed Babel and scattered the people because their dictator Nimrod saw himself above God and his wife founded a false fertility cult religion.


Satan diverted the attention of mankind from the coming Savior through the rise of a false religion, Mystery Babylon. As we have already noted, the base of this satanic counterfeit salvation was the myth that after Nimrod's death his wife gave birth to a son whom she named Tammuz. The worship of Nimrod's wife, Semiramis, as the queen of heaven and her god-son spread throughout the world. It exists today in many forms, even within Christendom in the form of Roman Catholicism (mother and child imagery and the worship of Mary.)

A tradition related to the religion of Babylon is that when Nimrod died, his body was cut into pieces, cremated, and the ashes were spread over the earth. In the case of Nimrod, according to the tradition as related by some ancient sources, all of the body was cut up and scattered with the exception of his reproductive organs. It was from this ancient and obscure Babylonian tradition that the worship of the "phallus" began. The next great king of Babylon to arise after Nimrod was Hammurabi, his name signifying that he was a descendant of Nimrod through Ham. The laws of Hammurabi were graven on a large black stone in the shape of a phallus.

In Egypt, Semiramis took the name of Isis, and Tammuz became Horus. The Encyclopedia Of Religions (Vol. 3, p. 264) states that Queen Semiramis in Babylon erected an obelisk one hundred thirty feet high to the memory of Nimrod. Such temples were common in Babylon and later in Egypt. These obelisks are replete in the temples of Luxor and Karnak. Many of the monuments have been removed to other nations. One stands in Central Park in New York City, one in London, and others in Italy.

According to The Two Babylons by Hislop and Babylon Mystery Religion by Woodrow, these obelisks, or standing images as they were called in the Hebrew, are mentioned in both 1 Kings and 2 Kings as a part of Baal worship. Baal is one of the names for Nimrod. It was into this kind of evil and licentious religion that Jezebel enticed Israel. It is to the abolition of the last vestiges of the Babylonian idolatry that Isaiah 27:1 and 9 is addressed, "In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea . . . By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up."

A common practice in Egypt, Greece, and other nations of the Middle East and the Mediterranean area, where the religion of Babylon had spread was to erect an obelisk in front of the temple. This symbolism for the phallus associated the religion with the fertility cult of Nimrod. The temples of Diana, the Ephesian counterpart of Nimrod's wife, the queen of heaven, was supported by the temple prostitutes. According to Ezekiel 8:1-6, this abominable symbol was erected in front of the temple at the north gate. Ezekiel referred to it as the "image of jealousy." We can be certain that it was the Babylonian symbol of Nimrod because we read in verse fourteen that the prophet saw a woman at the temple weeping for Tammuz, the son of Nimrod.

Emperor Caligula was one of the most cruel and degenerate of the Caesars of Rome. According to the book Babylon Mystery Religion, Caligula transported an obelisk from Heliopolis in Egypt to the section of Rome which was called his circus. This hill is the place where the Vatican was later built. The obelisk remained in the Vatican until 1586 when Pope Sixtus V had it moved it front of the church at St. Peter where it is today. The pope had decreed the death penalty if it should be broken or damaged. The mover was a man named Domenico Fontana. Forty-five winches, one hundred sixty horses, and a crew of eight hundred men were required to move the obelisk to its new location. When the task was completed, the pope blessed it and the workmen who had moved it under such an extreme penalty for failure. An inscription in the pagan temple of Heliopolis, from where the obelisk came, reads: "I, Dionysus, dedicated these phalli to Hera, my stepmother. " The account of the moving of the obelisk can be found in the Hasting's Encyclopedia Of Religion and Ethics in a section on "phallicism."

It is also interesting to take note that the obelisk in front of St. Peter's Cathedral came from Heliopolis. We read in Jeremiah 43:13, "He shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire. "The footnote in the Pilgrim Bible on Beth-shemesh reads, "This means 'House of the Sun,' or temples dedicated to sun-worship. . . . This was probably the city which was called Heliopolis by the Greeks."

Wherever in the world, the obelisk is related to the mystery religion of Babylon. In Egypt at the temples of Luxor and Karnak. In China the entire land is punctuated with Buddhist shrines called pagodas. These pagodas rise high in the sky in tiers, much like the Tower of Babel, and the phallus symbol of Nimrod. In China Semiramis, the mother goddess, was called Shingmoo. Throughout the Moslem world from Morocco, to Egypt, to Syria, Jordan, and Iraq we see mosques surrounded by minarets, slender spires with an enlarged section at the top. The symbolism is apparent. Mecca, in the heart of Islam, fractures the skyline with a host of minarets with their slight enlargements at the apex.

In the fourth and fifth centuries, the Roman Empire divided into two parts, with Constantinople becoming the capital city of the eastern leg. The church at St. Sophia was the pride of the holy Byzantine Empire. In front of St. Sophia in the town square was erected a tall obelisk. This obelisk is still standing today. In Istanbul, our guide informed us that it was at this obelisk where doctrinal disagreements were settled through athletic contests. After the Turks captured Constantinople in 1292 and changed the name to Istanbul, St. Sophia was converted to a mosque and minarets were erected around it.

In temples, shrines, mosques, and churches of all religions of the world, obelisk-like spires and towers are included in construction. Many of these elongated units simply follow tradition without any realization of their meaning or relationship to the mystery religion of Babylon.

The obelisk in front of St. Peter's in Rome, including the foundation, is one hundred thirty-two feet high. Inasmuch as it came from Heliopolis in Egypt, it is probably no coincidence that it is approximately the same height as the one that Queen Semiramis erected in honor of her husband, Nimrod. But the largest obelisk in the world is in front of our nation's capitol building in Washington, D.C., the Washington Monument. Again, it was probably no coincidence that the phallus-shaped obelisk was chosen to memorialize George Washington as the father of the United States. We will comment on its relationship to Mystery Babylon later in this study.

As we consider the major religions of mankind, there are literally hundreds of connections that could be made to the mystery religion of Babylon. The most prominent, besides the obelisk, is the worship of idols, or the use of idols in worship.

As evil as the thoughts and deeds of mankind became in the millennium before the flood, there is no evidence that idol worship was among its sins. Idol worship originated at Babel, and after Babel, as the people were scattered over the face of the earth, they carried with them this religious abomination. Throughout Egypt, the Hebrews were confronted with idols to the Egyptian gods, which in reality were only Babylonian gods that had been given Egyptian names. When they passed through the lands of the Canaanite tribes, they saw similar idols which had been given Canaanite names. Therefore, the Lord gave this commandment to Moses for the Israelites: " Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God" {Lev. 26:1).

The Babylonian concept of idol worship was the chief weapon of Satan that the prophets of God had to contend with. There are thousands of references in the Old Testament alone to idol worship. Like a large segment of both Catholic and non-Catholic Christendom today, the Hebrews tried to make a pretense of worshipping God while catering to their idolatry. We read in Jeremiah 7:8-10, 18, 30-31: "Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? . . . The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods . . . For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not. ..."

It was the worship of idols, mainly Baal (Nimrod) and the queen of heaven (Nimrod's wife) that brought the judgment of God upon the nation. In the early church it was idol worshippers and makers at Ephesus and other cities who were the fiercest enemies of the disciples. In Athens, the city was overrun with idols, so much so that they even had an idol to the unknown god!

In Rome, at the Pantheon, there were idols to every god in the known world.

Like the Israelites, there were some in the early church who professed Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, yet clung to their heathen idols. We read of this abomination in 2 Corinthians 6:15-17, "And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? . . . Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."

In India the Hindu temples are filled with idols of the Babylonian fertility cult; in Bangkok the temples are likewise filled with idols; in China the Buddhist temples have the largest idols in the world. After the Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D. sanctioned the worship of the godmother religion, the churches of Asia became filled with idols. When Mohammed ravaged the churches of this territory early in the seventh century, he brought fifteen hundred idols back to Mecca. Regardless how identifiable statues are with Christianity, it is an abomination to worship and kiss them. We read in 1 Kings 19:18,". . . I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." Kissing an idol is associated with the worship of Baal, or Nimrod.

All idol worship is related to the mystery religion of Babylon, and all religions are invested with it to some degree. The time is coming when the world religion of the tribulation. Mystery Babylon, will call upon all idol worshippers on earth to worship one idol, the image of Antichrist. "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed" (Rev. 13:15).

The religion of Babel was centered in the person of Nimrod. This religion was to weld a one-world worship in rebellion against God. After Babel this fractured religion was carried into all the world where it has been propagated and perpetuated in various forms. However, its stronghold was retained in Babylon. It would appear that at the fall of Babylon God placed barriers upon this satanic deception and his fallen angels to prevent it from corrupting the entire world. But according to the prophetic Word of God, at the end of the age fractured Babylonianism would unite once more to produce another world leader who would defy God and declare to the whole world that he is god. This we see taking place today. We read in Revelation 9:13-15: "And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet. Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men."

This prophetic warning is repeated in Revelation 16:12-14: "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty."

The confusion within Christendom today, the rise of Eastern religions in our own nation, and the rapid growth of the New Age movement indicate that mankind is rapidly approaching the Great Tribulation and Jesus Christ will come as a thief for those who are not watching.

The major religions of mankind today are looking for a messiah to come. The New Age religion adherents are predicting that Maitreya will come; messianic fervor is now sweeping Israel; a large segment of the Islamic nations see in Saddam Hussein their Mahdi. This too is a sign that Jesus Christ, the true Messiah, may appear at any time (Matt. 24:23-27).

THE GOOD NEWS:   ''AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDERS."

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