Trilateral Commission 2023: Informal Governance Actors’ 50-Year Run
By Terry Melanson (2023/03/21)
A few days ago, I came across a David Icke post on the Trilateral Commission, which was a repost of Patrick Wood’s “Boom: Trilateral Commission Declares ‘2023 is Year One of this new global order’.” The Trilateral Commission is celebrating 50 years. Nikkei Asia reported on the gathering, in India, with the following report: Trilateral Commission calls 2023 ‘Year One’ of new world order.
The Trilateral Commission operates under Chatham House Rule:
When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.
Journalists Ken Moriyasu and Shigesaburo Okumura, editor of Nikkei Asia, spoke to one of the elite think tank members. It “captured the essence of the three-day discussion,” they write.
“The Biden administration is trying to convince the world that there is this titanic struggle between autocracies and democracies. I am skeptical about that,” says the anonymous participant.
He went on further:
Three decades of globalization — defined as integrated, free-market based and deflationary — has been replaced by what will be a multidecade period of globalization defined as fragmented, not-free-market-based but industrial-policy based and structurally inflationary. This year, 2023, is Year One of this new global order.
The Trilateral Commission seems deflated with this statement. Their old definition of globalism, and the world order they helped create, no longer applies; they are groping in the dark like the rest of us. They still have power to pull levers, like they’ve always had, though. So whatever “Year One” brings, they’ll be in the thick of it as always.
Like the rest of us, they are fascinated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. They decided to ask the AI to write a poem about the group. It replied with the following, recalling the glory days, and the reputation that precedes them:
In secret meetings, you plan and conspire,
To create a new order, of which you aspire.
Your goals are unclear, but some see the end,
As a world government, with you as its friend.
I tried it myself the other day and got the following response:
In secret halls of power and might,
Where global elites convene at night,
The Trilateral Commission takes its seat,
To shape the world with plans discreet.From Tokyo, Washington, and beyond,
Their influence spreads like a magic wand,
A trinity of power, wealth, and fame,
Inscribed with secrets none can claim.A nexus of minds, a web of ties,
That stretch across the earth and skies,
They steer the course of history’s tides,
With power that none can override.Their agendas are shrouded in mystery,
Their reach extends beyond the boundary,
Of nations, borders, and ideologies,
Into a realm of global economies.They speak of unity and harmony,
Of cooperation, growth, and prosperity,
Yet their actions often speak louder,
In the shadows of the ivory tower.The Trilateral Commission, a force to reckon,
A source of inspiration or a cautionary lesson,
For those who seek to understand,
The hidden hands that shape our land.
I looked for the 2023 list of members on the Trilateral Commission site. Going to the following page, brings you to a link to an Adobe account which you have to sign up for to download.
Here’s the list.
TC-MEMBERSHIP-LIST-August-2022-17I’ve also compiled biographies and photos of the 74 leaders of the commission, here. It consists of 127 pages of official biographies.
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I’d like to take this opportunity to plug the work of Dino Knudsen who was the first to gain access to the Trilateral Commission’s archives. Knudsen received his PhD on the group. Here he is defending his thesis:
Dino Knudsen has since published a book in 2016, based on his thesis: The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance: Informal Elite Diplomacy, 1972-82.
Also, recently he was interviewed by Bilderberg stalwart Niall Ferguson on the topic. See below.