"If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit."
I always thought that Hamilton Jordan's quotation meant that Carter et al from Georgia were unwilling puppets for the Rockefeller machine. You seem to be saying that Carter et al willingly brought that machine into the presidency. Hmmm. Seems Carter was the last non-cia president. I'm sure you remember Carter was a dark horse and congress hated him because he wasn't one of them, just like Reagan and Trump. They sabotaged Carter at every turn. I remember having the sense that Carter was a stupid buffoon from the press coverage. Then one day I listened to one of his press conferences and was wowed by how articulate and intelligent he was.
Walter Karp talks about this in one of his books. If you're not familiar with Walter Karp, drop everything and get his books. Indispensable Enemies has some of his thoughts about Tammany Hall.
Loved this episode. Very interesting. Happy new year.
Carter was recommended for Trilateral Commission membership by his friend J Philip Austin, head of Atlanta-based Coca Cola. He had friends in high places. He became the Demo nominee and then president thanks to a big promo campaign on his behalf by Commission member Hedy Donovan, head of Time Magazine, and head of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) during WWII. OSS became ... the CIA after the war. There are myths about Carter, like about Reagan and Trump. Disinformation is how they keep us in the dark. https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Trilateralism/JimmyCarter_Trilat.html
Thanks for that Eric. Tells me that Carter wanted very much to be part of the power elite. Never just a peanut farmer from GA. The packagers, as always, did the job masterfully manipulating the thinking of the American voter, right up to the present. Now we have Trump, a master manipulator of the public mind.
You cannot be unwilling and be in the machine at all.
Jimmy knew exactly what he was doing with respect to TriLaterals and CFR.
I will keep it short....He is disgusting as every other USA Mob Boss President.
By the way from the formation of the CIA forth all presidents have been CIA...what makes you think he is not?
It is the things not told by STRANGERS that TELL A VISION that show another side of Jimmy that is unknown to those who simply do zero research and investigation.
For people such as myself, Eric and Jeffrey Strahl it is apparent to me we will leave zero stone un-turned and are not afraid to ask the questions and or go against what has become the prevailing narrative just to uncover the facts that allow for one to deduce and conclude what is most likely closer to the truth than not.
I’m very uneducated about the Trilateral commission - this is the best explanation I’ve heard to date and has given me so much context in relation to why successive governments keep on with the same agendas despite shouting to the people that they are different.
BTW I loathe groups too for the same reason - the insistence on group think!
***here are some Jimmy Carter quotes sent in by a reader***
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”
Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.
The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. 1.1.25
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
“Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, ‘I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.’”
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.
To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education.
I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
You always get back much more than you give.
It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been the enormous infusion of high quantities of money to campaigns - governors, Congress, president and the U.S. Senate.
God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.
We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened in a foreign country, carefully catalogued, and brought here a few at a time. This just didn't happen.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Here is stuff which Coppolino discussed during the program, the involvement of Brzezinski, effectively Carter’s manager regarding foreign affairs, in creating the 9/11 false flag operation. This is by my late colleague Tod Fletcher, from 2010. Brzezinski, Mr Trilateral, laid out the blueprint for 9/11, well before the Project for a New American Century which gets blamed/credited for 9/11. See here.
"Note: This is a lightly-edited transcript of a radio presentation on "9/11 In Context" on the Resistance Radio Network on December 9, 2010….
I want to talk a little bit more about the ideas of Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose book in 1997 [1996], The Grand Chessboard, laid out a long-term plan, a long-term strategy for the United States. And really, when that book was published the US was already well-advanced along this line. He was really rather articulating a consensus, I believe. The consensus he articulated was the notion of controlling Central Asia. And the purpose of controlling Central Asia was that any power which did control Central Asia would be able to dominate the entire region called Eurasia. It’s like a “two-continental” region, a vast portion of Europe, plus all of Asia, Eurasia. It’s everything to the east of Germany and Poland, all the way to the Pacific coast, is the way Brzezinski defines Eurasia. So he felt that a power which controlled Central Asia would really be able to dominate Eurasia.
The US is already well underway in establishing control of Central Asia. Central Asia are the “Stans”; I think Afghanistan properly is one of them, but this is Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. These were former Soviet Republics in the USSR which became independent when the USSR fell apart. The plan was to peel these countries off from Russian control, to take them out of the Russian zone of influence, so to speak. The US has already essentially done this; we have now military bases in all these countries. Right after Brzezinski’s book came out in ’97, the US Congress in March 1999 passed a major bill called The Silk Road Strategy Act, and this laid out in Congressional formulations basically the same strategy that Brzezinski wrote about in his book, and so his strategy has been formally adopted by the United States government, there’s no doubt about this.
Here the idea is that the US, by controlling Central Asia, would be able to control the flow of natural gas and oil in whatever direction it desired, it would reduce Russia’s influence over these resources, it would be able to control what kind of access China would have to these. Brzezinski’s big notion is, that if you control Eurasia you control the world. And he has an argument to back that up. Brzezinski considered Russia, at that time, the mid-90s, the greater threat to the United States, United States “interests”, that is. And so the book is formulated with Russia in the center more than China. A lot of the goals that he laid out have been achieved, or are in process of being achieved, and so we’re in a later phase now, another fifteen years, approximately, down the line, and in that period China has surged upward in prominence and power. And probably right now the planners are looking more closely at China than Russia, as the recent ramping-up of tensions with China that you may have noticed, especially around what is happening in the Koreas, indicates…..
Brzezinski’s book is pretty extraordinary, and it’s an interesting read in Machiavellian thought in the modern context for anybody. It’s worth checking out. I’ve got a few passages, I thought I’d try this, I haven’t done this before but I thought I’d try a read you a few passages that are interesting. He introduces the language of “Pearl Harbor”, the concept of Pearl Harbor, early in the book, on page 24 he says: “"The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been … ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.” (pp 24-5)
So here’s he laying out an element in his argument that such a shock effect may be necessary to launch the kind of control [in Central Asia] that he forsees as necessary for the US. And then he says: “How America 'manages' Eurasia is critical. Eurasia is the globe's largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for 60 per cent of the world's GNP and about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources." (p.31)
So here he’s laying out the stakes here, this is the Big Prize. Whoever controls this, and if it’s the US, which already controls the Western Hemisphere, then you’ve got it all locked up. Whoever controls Eurasia controls the world, especially if the US can pull it off.
And then he says: “It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization." (p.35)
He’s stating these things as facts. The perspective is that this is not good. He’s complaining, he’s arguing against these restrictions on what he calls “military intimidation.” Military intimidation is a positive for Brzezinski. "
This strategy was indeed implemented by Dubya, whose father was a core member of the Trilateral Commission. But this soured when Dubya went after Saddam and Iraq for personal gains, straying from the focus on Central Asai.drawing a rebuke from Brzezinski, who in fact was instrumental behind Obama’s candidacy.
The strategy then went through several shifts. And it increasingly has focused on creating a Multi—Polar World Order. See another comment by me.
Like all US presidents, Carter was groomed and the population continues to be fooled. Thank you for shining the light. His Baptist church affiliation was effective. My dad, a NSA cyber spy, was a deacon and taught at the Baptist church.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t think you mentioned the CFR. Another notch is Carter’s gun.
The Trilateral Commission was a project initiated by the CFR, David Rockefeller was a dominant figure in the CFR and the initiator of the Commission. Holly Skkar's book Trilateralism does a good job discussing this.
I don't know enough about CFR to comment competently, though I may know more than I think. I am nervous reporting anything I have not nailed down on paper...I studied those early trilateral lists and I understand many of the connections....
Yeah the minister/deacon stuff grants all kinds of cover, doesn't it. And they all march off to war.
One last comment. Spot on, Eric, regarding how the entire "virus" narrative is hanging over us like a precariously-secured sword, ready to be loosened. Five years ago, a "pandemic" was sold to the world on the basis of the results of the PCR test and related tests, in that instant a totally inappropriate application of such tests because they could not be authenticated with an actual physical organism, given the alleged SARS-CoV-2 virus has never been physically isolated and purified and thus no actual samples of it were available for such authentication. And here we are facing another such massive sales con job with the "Bird Flu," Until we jettison the entire germ/contagion narrative, we will be subjected to such con jobs over and over.
And i saw the Grateful Dead cover the Boxer once. Well, sort of. Almost exactly 44 years ago, 12/30/81, the band, minus Brent (who was hiding in the bar :-)), came out for set II but started it by backing up Joan Baez for several numbers. She at the time was "dating" Mickey Hart. And one of the tunes she did was The Boxer. I think Jerry did an imitation of the bass harmonica line. What a long strange trip it was.
People forget that Carter campaigned on getting corporations out of politics, a theme later picked up by Regan. in fact, Carter was Coca Cola's man. After winning the election, he and his wife were wisked away to a private island fo rest and relaxation.To my knowledge, no one has ever documented what went on during those two weeks, but no doubt, Coke was helping him with his agenda, One of Carter's first acts, was to approve the sale of Coca Cola in the Soviet Union, greatly expanding this global market. In counter move, one of Regan's first acts as President was to approve the sale of Pepsi in China. Anybody remember the Cola Wars? Coke traditionally funded Democrats and Pepsi funded Republicans.
well, the trilateral commission was THEIR pluto aries chiron attack on US. now its time for us to have our own rise up (rising of consciousness?) "attack" on them
really enhoyed this peice on Carter. thank you! I was "suppose to" graduate from university in 1980... I really had no idea, but was hacking around the edges for decades until 2016 when i woke up to the general picture.
Omigosh Eric, Everytime I listen to you "on the fly", I later face a bittersweet conundrum. Do I now allow these choice snibbits and bits to free play in my mind, or respond to the urgent need to listen again, properly. To scribble sentiments, and register key phrases in my journal, so I may savor all of the gems you sprinkle.
The Boxer (we had the LP at home. I was K-1st grade in '69, Iowa City hippie town. Dad was completing his UI graduate work English. The MoSynd Milwaukee Concordia 6 yr seminary grad, reborn Linguist. I learned these lyrics at a tender age. Never once recall discussion of a bass harmonica!!!! I always just assumed a Sax! Dad was a huge B Dylan, The Band, Neil Young lover. Sounds of the harmonica were not unfamiliar on the turntable.
18 mos in France with narry a crumb of pastry! No virtue signaling GF guy are you.
Lol the mad race Btw.... Datsun or Nissan?? I suppose not too many recall the earlier rice burner Datsun. with a stick .. of course.
My poly sci brain will be back to fully absorb the Trilateral ~ 💪💪
Still nail it on the CV, too!
I'm sooooo glad to have discovered you during Mike Adams interview re East Palestine, OH train "wreck".
Great music selections. I was a college senior when The Boxer was a big hit, March-April 1969,, but couldn't really understand what it was about, my ability to think was way too superficial.
Quite disgusting how fewer and fewer places and foods are offering gluten-free options, though at least in Berkeley it seems the options have increased. But here's a difficult question: Do we wanna get rid of all gluten for everyone? How about people who don't have Celiac? Do we get rid of all wheat in food, including organic wheat? Many people depend upon it. I generally don't eat it, don't have any bad reactions but think it's healthier to avoid grains, paleo. I have a weekly bagel, doesn't hurt me or even bother my digestion. I don't need it physically, but it's a big help psychologically to have a treat once or twice a week. Difficult question.
In an interview with Jesse Zurawell, Fabio Vighi pointed out that the ability of computers to read minds i s limited because there is the unconscious part of the mind. Unless this is eliminated, that reading ability will have incurable flaws. This may be what's desired in the future transhuman creatures the rulers wanna turn us into, but we're not there yet.
From the 1980 Trilateral list (via Holly Sklar's book "Trilateralism"), here are some members of Team Carter who were Commission alumni: C Fred Bergsten, Asst Sec of Treasury, International Affairs, Michael Blumenthal, Sec of Treasury, Robert Bowie, deputy director CIA. Brzezinski, Carter, VP Walter Mondale, Warren Christopher, deputy Sec of State (he was Sec later on in life), Hedly Donovan, senior adviser domestic and foreign policy and media relations, had been head of Time Inc and head of the OSS, the parent of the CIA, Cyrus Vance the sec of state, Sec of Defense Harold Brown (headed IBM), UN ambassador Andrew Young, John Sawhill deputy sec of Energy, Volcker, Leonard Woodcock, ambassador to Beijing former pres of the UAW,...
Worth more than a mention is the October Surprise engineered by the Reaganites to delay the return of the Iranian hostages and deprive Carter of his hero moment thus assuring the ascent of Reagan as president. By the lights of bourgeois democracy an act of high treason. Several books were written on this in the ensuing years.
I heard about the Trilateral Commission in a lecture recording of Noam Chomsky referring to a pivotal conference, "The Crisis of Democracy". I contacted the TC and ordered a copy of transcript. The list of those present was fascinating....former Gov. Jimmy Carter, Warren Christopher, Lane Kirkland (AFL-CIO), Leonard Woodcock (UAW), Arthur Taylor (CBS)..page 222 https://ia801308.us.archive.org/23/items/TheCrisisOfDemocracy-TrilateralCommission-1975/crisis_of_democracy_text.pdf
Carter was not the saintly man he portrayed after leaving the WH. I read when he was a politician in GA he was ruthless....but then to join the TC you would need to be and then run for WH....his hands are bloody from East Timor and El Salvador and the assassination of Archbishop Romero. Disgraceful.
Thank you Eric and Jeffrey for including this history of Jimmy Carter being ignored by most media. I can say that I have seen this nowhere else. I am one of those rare individuals who has been aware of CFR, and the Trilateral Commission, and their membership. I know the facts that you have presented to be true. But viewing them in a somewhat different context, my assessment of events is similar to yours, but less damning of Jimmy Carter. He was a naval officer who returned to peanut farming, and then became a governor of Georgia who became US president. Not surprisingly, he initially relied on his foreign policy mentors at the Council and Commission. US voters had no idea! Carter soon learned that he was a puppet. He says this in one of his books -- not using those words, of course. He became suspicious to the point of wanting to micromanage the executive branch. Occasionally, he mustered enough courage to show some spine, such as when he reversed his position on the neutron bomb. He initially resisted allowing the Shah of Iran entry to the US, but then caved in to arm twisting by his masters, Kissinger and Rockefeller. Overall, I view him as someone who associated with evil people and was often too weak to stand up to them. And some of that evil became normalized in his administration, and set the stage for Reagan. Speaking of Reagan, I appreciate Carter's mandate for scrubbers on all coal-fired electricity generating plants, of which there were many at the time. However, he did this only before leaving office, and Reagan promptly reversed the Executive Order. So no champagne toast for that. One thing that always perplexed me is that I would hear about Jimmy Carter monitoring elections in various countries around the world, but never in the US. Again, thanks for a great podcast, discussing important points and filling voids. Happy 2025.
Dear Eric,
"If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit."
I always thought that Hamilton Jordan's quotation meant that Carter et al from Georgia were unwilling puppets for the Rockefeller machine. You seem to be saying that Carter et al willingly brought that machine into the presidency. Hmmm. Seems Carter was the last non-cia president. I'm sure you remember Carter was a dark horse and congress hated him because he wasn't one of them, just like Reagan and Trump. They sabotaged Carter at every turn. I remember having the sense that Carter was a stupid buffoon from the press coverage. Then one day I listened to one of his press conferences and was wowed by how articulate and intelligent he was.
Walter Karp talks about this in one of his books. If you're not familiar with Walter Karp, drop everything and get his books. Indispensable Enemies has some of his thoughts about Tammany Hall.
Loved this episode. Very interesting. Happy new year.
Cathy
Carter was recommended for Trilateral Commission membership by his friend J Philip Austin, head of Atlanta-based Coca Cola. He had friends in high places. He became the Demo nominee and then president thanks to a big promo campaign on his behalf by Commission member Hedy Donovan, head of Time Magazine, and head of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) during WWII. OSS became ... the CIA after the war. There are myths about Carter, like about Reagan and Trump. Disinformation is how they keep us in the dark. https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Trilateralism/JimmyCarter_Trilat.html
https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Trilateralism/JimmyCarter_Trilat.html
this is worth reading.
really, really worth reading
Thanks for that Eric. Tells me that Carter wanted very much to be part of the power elite. Never just a peanut farmer from GA. The packagers, as always, did the job masterfully manipulating the thinking of the American voter, right up to the present. Now we have Trump, a master manipulator of the public mind.
You cannot be unwilling and be in the machine at all.
Jimmy knew exactly what he was doing with respect to TriLaterals and CFR.
I will keep it short....He is disgusting as every other USA Mob Boss President.
By the way from the formation of the CIA forth all presidents have been CIA...what makes you think he is not?
It is the things not told by STRANGERS that TELL A VISION that show another side of Jimmy that is unknown to those who simply do zero research and investigation.
For people such as myself, Eric and Jeffrey Strahl it is apparent to me we will leave zero stone un-turned and are not afraid to ask the questions and or go against what has become the prevailing narrative just to uncover the facts that allow for one to deduce and conclude what is most likely closer to the truth than not.
Happy New Year Eric,Jeff and all!
I’m very uneducated about the Trilateral commission - this is the best explanation I’ve heard to date and has given me so much context in relation to why successive governments keep on with the same agendas despite shouting to the people that they are different.
BTW I loathe groups too for the same reason - the insistence on group think!
I loathe groups! Every time I participate in one, I'm reminded as to why. Only the chorus is ok, no soloists allowed
***here are some Jimmy Carter quotes sent in by a reader***
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”
Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.
The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. 1.1.25
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
“Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, ‘I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.’”
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.
To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education.
I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
You always get back much more than you give.
It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been the enormous infusion of high quantities of money to campaigns - governors, Congress, president and the U.S. Senate.
God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.
We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened in a foreign country, carefully catalogued, and brought here a few at a time. This just didn't happen.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Does this square with Carter's presidency?
they square with excellent public relations writing.
Are you saying the above are not his words nor how he lived his life?
Indeed!
Here is stuff which Coppolino discussed during the program, the involvement of Brzezinski, effectively Carter’s manager regarding foreign affairs, in creating the 9/11 false flag operation. This is by my late colleague Tod Fletcher, from 2010. Brzezinski, Mr Trilateral, laid out the blueprint for 9/11, well before the Project for a New American Century which gets blamed/credited for 9/11. See here.
https://dailybattle.pairsite.com/2010/global_fascist_terror_state.shtml
"Note: This is a lightly-edited transcript of a radio presentation on "9/11 In Context" on the Resistance Radio Network on December 9, 2010….
I want to talk a little bit more about the ideas of Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose book in 1997 [1996], The Grand Chessboard, laid out a long-term plan, a long-term strategy for the United States. And really, when that book was published the US was already well-advanced along this line. He was really rather articulating a consensus, I believe. The consensus he articulated was the notion of controlling Central Asia. And the purpose of controlling Central Asia was that any power which did control Central Asia would be able to dominate the entire region called Eurasia. It’s like a “two-continental” region, a vast portion of Europe, plus all of Asia, Eurasia. It’s everything to the east of Germany and Poland, all the way to the Pacific coast, is the way Brzezinski defines Eurasia. So he felt that a power which controlled Central Asia would really be able to dominate Eurasia.
The US is already well underway in establishing control of Central Asia. Central Asia are the “Stans”; I think Afghanistan properly is one of them, but this is Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. These were former Soviet Republics in the USSR which became independent when the USSR fell apart. The plan was to peel these countries off from Russian control, to take them out of the Russian zone of influence, so to speak. The US has already essentially done this; we have now military bases in all these countries. Right after Brzezinski’s book came out in ’97, the US Congress in March 1999 passed a major bill called The Silk Road Strategy Act, and this laid out in Congressional formulations basically the same strategy that Brzezinski wrote about in his book, and so his strategy has been formally adopted by the United States government, there’s no doubt about this.
Here the idea is that the US, by controlling Central Asia, would be able to control the flow of natural gas and oil in whatever direction it desired, it would reduce Russia’s influence over these resources, it would be able to control what kind of access China would have to these. Brzezinski’s big notion is, that if you control Eurasia you control the world. And he has an argument to back that up. Brzezinski considered Russia, at that time, the mid-90s, the greater threat to the United States, United States “interests”, that is. And so the book is formulated with Russia in the center more than China. A lot of the goals that he laid out have been achieved, or are in process of being achieved, and so we’re in a later phase now, another fifteen years, approximately, down the line, and in that period China has surged upward in prominence and power. And probably right now the planners are looking more closely at China than Russia, as the recent ramping-up of tensions with China that you may have noticed, especially around what is happening in the Koreas, indicates…..
Brzezinski’s book is pretty extraordinary, and it’s an interesting read in Machiavellian thought in the modern context for anybody. It’s worth checking out. I’ve got a few passages, I thought I’d try this, I haven’t done this before but I thought I’d try a read you a few passages that are interesting. He introduces the language of “Pearl Harbor”, the concept of Pearl Harbor, early in the book, on page 24 he says: “"The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been … ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.” (pp 24-5)
So here’s he laying out an element in his argument that such a shock effect may be necessary to launch the kind of control [in Central Asia] that he forsees as necessary for the US. And then he says: “How America 'manages' Eurasia is critical. Eurasia is the globe's largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for 60 per cent of the world's GNP and about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources." (p.31)
So here he’s laying out the stakes here, this is the Big Prize. Whoever controls this, and if it’s the US, which already controls the Western Hemisphere, then you’ve got it all locked up. Whoever controls Eurasia controls the world, especially if the US can pull it off.
And then he says: “It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization." (p.35)
He’s stating these things as facts. The perspective is that this is not good. He’s complaining, he’s arguing against these restrictions on what he calls “military intimidation.” Military intimidation is a positive for Brzezinski. "
This strategy was indeed implemented by Dubya, whose father was a core member of the Trilateral Commission. But this soured when Dubya went after Saddam and Iraq for personal gains, straying from the focus on Central Asai.drawing a rebuke from Brzezinski, who in fact was instrumental behind Obama’s candidacy.
The strategy then went through several shifts. And it increasingly has focused on creating a Multi—Polar World Order. See another comment by me.
Like all US presidents, Carter was groomed and the population continues to be fooled. Thank you for shining the light. His Baptist church affiliation was effective. My dad, a NSA cyber spy, was a deacon and taught at the Baptist church.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t think you mentioned the CFR. Another notch is Carter’s gun.
You really hit your stride on the virus pushers.
The Trilateral Commission was a project initiated by the CFR, David Rockefeller was a dominant figure in the CFR and the initiator of the Commission. Holly Skkar's book Trilateralism does a good job discussing this.
https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Trilateralism/Trilateralism_overview.html
I don't know enough about CFR to comment competently, though I may know more than I think. I am nervous reporting anything I have not nailed down on paper...I studied those early trilateral lists and I understand many of the connections....
Yeah the minister/deacon stuff grants all kinds of cover, doesn't it. And they all march off to war.
Another connection to Rockefeller. The CFR predates the Trilateral Commission.
I can’t think of a good book on the CFR.
CFR membership is in Wikipedia.
One last comment. Spot on, Eric, regarding how the entire "virus" narrative is hanging over us like a precariously-secured sword, ready to be loosened. Five years ago, a "pandemic" was sold to the world on the basis of the results of the PCR test and related tests, in that instant a totally inappropriate application of such tests because they could not be authenticated with an actual physical organism, given the alleged SARS-CoV-2 virus has never been physically isolated and purified and thus no actual samples of it were available for such authentication. And here we are facing another such massive sales con job with the "Bird Flu," Until we jettison the entire germ/contagion narrative, we will be subjected to such con jobs over and over.
And i saw the Grateful Dead cover the Boxer once. Well, sort of. Almost exactly 44 years ago, 12/30/81, the band, minus Brent (who was hiding in the bar :-)), came out for set II but started it by backing up Joan Baez for several numbers. She at the time was "dating" Mickey Hart. And one of the tunes she did was The Boxer. I think Jerry did an imitation of the bass harmonica line. What a long strange trip it was.
People forget that Carter campaigned on getting corporations out of politics, a theme later picked up by Regan. in fact, Carter was Coca Cola's man. After winning the election, he and his wife were wisked away to a private island fo rest and relaxation.To my knowledge, no one has ever documented what went on during those two weeks, but no doubt, Coke was helping him with his agenda, One of Carter's first acts, was to approve the sale of Coca Cola in the Soviet Union, greatly expanding this global market. In counter move, one of Regan's first acts as President was to approve the sale of Pepsi in China. Anybody remember the Cola Wars? Coke traditionally funded Democrats and Pepsi funded Republicans.
no doubt they were showing him the same movie every president gets to see as to exactly why they will follow instructions to the letter
well, the trilateral commission was THEIR pluto aries chiron attack on US. now its time for us to have our own rise up (rising of consciousness?) "attack" on them
really enhoyed this peice on Carter. thank you! I was "suppose to" graduate from university in 1980... I really had no idea, but was hacking around the edges for decades until 2016 when i woke up to the general picture.
Omigosh Eric, Everytime I listen to you "on the fly", I later face a bittersweet conundrum. Do I now allow these choice snibbits and bits to free play in my mind, or respond to the urgent need to listen again, properly. To scribble sentiments, and register key phrases in my journal, so I may savor all of the gems you sprinkle.
The Boxer (we had the LP at home. I was K-1st grade in '69, Iowa City hippie town. Dad was completing his UI graduate work English. The MoSynd Milwaukee Concordia 6 yr seminary grad, reborn Linguist. I learned these lyrics at a tender age. Never once recall discussion of a bass harmonica!!!! I always just assumed a Sax! Dad was a huge B Dylan, The Band, Neil Young lover. Sounds of the harmonica were not unfamiliar on the turntable.
18 mos in France with narry a crumb of pastry! No virtue signaling GF guy are you.
Lol the mad race Btw.... Datsun or Nissan?? I suppose not too many recall the earlier rice burner Datsun. with a stick .. of course.
My poly sci brain will be back to fully absorb the Trilateral ~ 💪💪
Still nail it on the CV, too!
I'm sooooo glad to have discovered you during Mike Adams interview re East Palestine, OH train "wreck".
Huge Fan! Love the voice, too.
Sorry so random
Cheers!
It was a Nissan :-) Datsun went out in the 1970s, but it was always Nissan Motors, after Nissan Island.
This will take you down memory lane
https://www.nissanusa.com/about/heritage.html
Very cool ride
Great music selections. I was a college senior when The Boxer was a big hit, March-April 1969,, but couldn't really understand what it was about, my ability to think was way too superficial.
Quite disgusting how fewer and fewer places and foods are offering gluten-free options, though at least in Berkeley it seems the options have increased. But here's a difficult question: Do we wanna get rid of all gluten for everyone? How about people who don't have Celiac? Do we get rid of all wheat in food, including organic wheat? Many people depend upon it. I generally don't eat it, don't have any bad reactions but think it's healthier to avoid grains, paleo. I have a weekly bagel, doesn't hurt me or even bother my digestion. I don't need it physically, but it's a big help psychologically to have a treat once or twice a week. Difficult question.
In an interview with Jesse Zurawell, Fabio Vighi pointed out that the ability of computers to read minds i s limited because there is the unconscious part of the mind. Unless this is eliminated, that reading ability will have incurable flaws. This may be what's desired in the future transhuman creatures the rulers wanna turn us into, but we're not there yet.
From the 1980 Trilateral list (via Holly Sklar's book "Trilateralism"), here are some members of Team Carter who were Commission alumni: C Fred Bergsten, Asst Sec of Treasury, International Affairs, Michael Blumenthal, Sec of Treasury, Robert Bowie, deputy director CIA. Brzezinski, Carter, VP Walter Mondale, Warren Christopher, deputy Sec of State (he was Sec later on in life), Hedly Donovan, senior adviser domestic and foreign policy and media relations, had been head of Time Inc and head of the OSS, the parent of the CIA, Cyrus Vance the sec of state, Sec of Defense Harold Brown (headed IBM), UN ambassador Andrew Young, John Sawhill deputy sec of Energy, Volcker, Leonard Woodcock, ambassador to Beijing former pres of the UAW,...
Regarding Brzezinski and the Trilateralists in general promoting the Multi-polar world order, from two months ago, LONG! https://off-guardian.org/2024/10/23/the-great-multipolar-reset-globalist-vampires-in-bed-with-the-brics/
https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/101726 Look at all the hucksters busting wide with smiles over the signing of NAFTA. 1993. All present except for Reagan. Remember Ross Perot and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_sucking_sound ? Well, he was right.
Reagan is not in that photo...
Pluto will be in Aquarius through 43-44. I was losing my focus there at the end...
Worth more than a mention is the October Surprise engineered by the Reaganites to delay the return of the Iranian hostages and deprive Carter of his hero moment thus assuring the ascent of Reagan as president. By the lights of bourgeois democracy an act of high treason. Several books were written on this in the ensuing years.
I heard about the Trilateral Commission in a lecture recording of Noam Chomsky referring to a pivotal conference, "The Crisis of Democracy". I contacted the TC and ordered a copy of transcript. The list of those present was fascinating....former Gov. Jimmy Carter, Warren Christopher, Lane Kirkland (AFL-CIO), Leonard Woodcock (UAW), Arthur Taylor (CBS)..page 222 https://ia801308.us.archive.org/23/items/TheCrisisOfDemocracy-TrilateralCommission-1975/crisis_of_democracy_text.pdf
Carter was not the saintly man he portrayed after leaving the WH. I read when he was a politician in GA he was ruthless....but then to join the TC you would need to be and then run for WH....his hands are bloody from East Timor and El Salvador and the assassination of Archbishop Romero. Disgraceful.
Thank you Eric and Jeffrey for including this history of Jimmy Carter being ignored by most media. I can say that I have seen this nowhere else. I am one of those rare individuals who has been aware of CFR, and the Trilateral Commission, and their membership. I know the facts that you have presented to be true. But viewing them in a somewhat different context, my assessment of events is similar to yours, but less damning of Jimmy Carter. He was a naval officer who returned to peanut farming, and then became a governor of Georgia who became US president. Not surprisingly, he initially relied on his foreign policy mentors at the Council and Commission. US voters had no idea! Carter soon learned that he was a puppet. He says this in one of his books -- not using those words, of course. He became suspicious to the point of wanting to micromanage the executive branch. Occasionally, he mustered enough courage to show some spine, such as when he reversed his position on the neutron bomb. He initially resisted allowing the Shah of Iran entry to the US, but then caved in to arm twisting by his masters, Kissinger and Rockefeller. Overall, I view him as someone who associated with evil people and was often too weak to stand up to them. And some of that evil became normalized in his administration, and set the stage for Reagan. Speaking of Reagan, I appreciate Carter's mandate for scrubbers on all coal-fired electricity generating plants, of which there were many at the time. However, he did this only before leaving office, and Reagan promptly reversed the Executive Order. So no champagne toast for that. One thing that always perplexed me is that I would hear about Jimmy Carter monitoring elections in various countries around the world, but never in the US. Again, thanks for a great podcast, discussing important points and filling voids. Happy 2025.