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Showing Original Post only (View all)Meet the Elite Business and Think-Tank Community That's Doing Its Best to Control the World [View all]
http://www.alternet.org/occupy-wall-street/elite-business-and-think-tank-attempts-control-world"The corporate-policy network is highly centralized, at both the level of individuals and that of organizations. Its inner circle is a tightly interwoven ensemble of politically active business leaders..." -- Academics William K. Carroll and Jean Philippe Sapinski
In an article titled "The Global Corporate Elite" in the journal International Sociology, William K. Carroll and Jean Philippe Sapinski examined the relationship between the corporate elite and the emergence of a transnational policy-planning network, beginning with its formation in the decades following World War II and speeding up in the 1970s with the creation of global policy groups and think tanks such as the World Economic Forum, in 1971, and the Trilateral Commission, in 1973, among many others.
The function of such institutions was to help mobilize and integrate the corporate elite beyond national borders, constructing a politically organized minority. These policy-planning organizations came to exist as venues for discussion, strategic planning, discourse production and consensus formation on specific issues, as well as places where responses to crises of legitimacy are crafted, such as managing economic, political, or environmental crises where elite interests might be threatened. These groups also often acted as advocates for specific projects of integration, often on a regional basis. Perhaps most importantly, the organizations provide bridges connecting business elites to political actors (heads of states, politicians, high-ranking public servants) and elites and organic intellectuals in other fields (international organizations, military, media, academia).
One important industry association, according to researchers Carroll and Carson in the journal Global Networks (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2003), is the International Chamber of Commerce. Launched by investment bankers in 1919, immediately following WWI, the Paris-based Chamber groups roughly 7,000 member corporations together across 130 countries, adhering to largely conservative, free market ideology. The primary function of the ICC, write Carroll and Carson, is to institutionalize an international business perspective by providing a forum where capitalists and related professionals... can assemble and forge a common international policy framework.
Another policy group with outsized global influence is the Bilderberg group, founded between 1952 and 1954, which provided a context for more comprehensive international capitalist coordination and planning. Bringing together roughly 130 elites from Western Europe and North America at annual closed meetings, Bilderberg conferences have furnished a confidential platform for corporate, political, intellectual, military and even trade-union elites from the North Atlantic heartland to reach mutual understanding.
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Meet the Elite Business and Think-Tank Community That's Doing Its Best to Control the World [View all]
xchrom
Jun 2013
OP
Mr And Mrs America (Main Street) Meet Your Nemeses - Oligarchs, Wall Street And Global Corporate Elite
cantbeserious
Jun 2013
#2
Yeah. Mr and Mrs A, you just keep on voting for one or another of the twins so you'll
Nay
Jun 2013
#7
anti-democratic organizations of the 1%,. secrete meeting to plan the carving up of the world for $.
Civilization2
Jun 2013
#6
From personal experience I can tell you that the U.S. Chamber of (Horrors) Commerce
Dustlawyer
Jun 2013
#8
The odd thing is that the republican right wing believes in a "secretive power elite" or NWO.
pampango
Jun 2013
#9
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The Great Oz has spoken!
Electric Monk
Jun 2013
#11