Published by the government of Zimbabwe
Mabasa Sasa
10 January 2008
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There is also the insidious Council for Foreign Relations which is a "branch of an international group of a secret group of elite Anglo-Americans that has shaped world events for over 100 years".
"It operates on the basis that people's actions are strongly influenced by their knowledge base. People act on their beliefs. You can manipulate a person's actions by corrupting their knowledge base, warping historical truth, or ignoring it completely."
Gwenzi says the CFR is the American arm of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly referred to as Chatham House.
Chatham House was created in 1920 by the Rhodes group then known as the Cliveden Set, which was renamed the Round Table Group RTG, named after the British King Arthur, who had a group of political advisors called the Knights of the Round Table.
The eponymous Rothschilds Family -- creators of the American Federal Reserve -- funded the Round Table Group and its early purpose was to train young political activists and business leaders to be loyal to the British government and do the bidding for the British policy.
They have the monarch as their patron and their "chief financial supporters of Chatham House have been the wealth of South African mining tycoon, Sir Abe Bailey a British (of Jewish origin), and the Astor family (owners of the British Times newspapers). Sir Abe Bailey's son, James Richard Bailey, was the founder of South African Drum magazine and was married to former British prime minister Winston Churchill's daughter."
Apart from the CFR in the US, Chatham House has branches in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, India and Holland and in these countries they are often called Institutes of Pacific Relations.
It is the people behind these societies-cum-institutions that determine policy and then come up with all the studies and reasons why such policies should be pursued.
They then deploy their awesome artillery through the media and other means to convince people that the chosen path is the best way forward.
This perhaps could explain why the developing world accepted structural adjustment when the best development brains in the world, including World Bank and IMF staff, knew these proscriptions could only lead to disaster for poor countries.
Gwenzi also details how the organisations like the IMF and World Bank function. Ultimately his conclusion is simple: either we come up with our own robust and well-defined structures of power or we will forever be vassal states.
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