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Vatic Note: Its amazing what we do not know. 90% of the American members are top members of the bankers and corporate community. This society was set up by the Americans and British American transplants. I have no idea just how strong the british group is, but it must be somewhat stronger than the American group because there is always one member of the khazar royal family that attends their meetings about once a year.
This is the most powerful and secretive group in the world bar none. And yet we know very little about them. This society is “secret”…. one of those. That means they are passing something on to its members that they are holding back from you, the peasants. Now their membership is made up of the wealthiest business men and bankers, along with politicians, and the most influential ones.
Now why am I not surprised the bankers are in that group. It was created to bridge the gap, caused by the revolutionary war. From the looks of it, it appears they did more than bridge the gap, they actually made the gap disappear. At what point does a group like this become the fully functioning shadow government and replaces our real government?
Is this why all the murders/assasinations of various leaders and bankers? I have more to say, but I can't keep my eyes open. LOL Will post more tomorrow If I don't get it all up tonight.
The Pilgrim Society!
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_pilgrimsociety01.htm
by Joël van der Reijden, Bibliotecapleyades
Even today it’s members consist of the wealthiest businessmen and the most influential politicians. It was erected over a century ago and meets at least 2 or 3 times a year. Still, 99% of the world has never heard of it. We’re talking about the Pilgrims Society. An aristocratic Anglo-American dining club who’s members keep themselves informed by inviting politicians to make a speech.
The primary purpose of this club is to keep the ties between the United States and Britain as strong as possible. The official reason was, and is, that the forefathers of most Americans from the Virginia and New York area emigrated from the British Isles, therefore they share a common heritage.
The heart of the British empire and the later British Commonwealth became the Pilgrims Society, it’s philosophies dominated by the executives of the upcoming mega corporations, largely located in the City of London and the city of New York.
The London chapter of the Pilgrims Society was established on July 11, 1902, followed by a New York chapter on January 13, 1903. It’s patron is the British monarch, who has plenty of representatives attending the meetings. A member of the Royal family usually attends the London diners.
As you’ll find out by looking at the membership list, the Pilgrims Society has clearly fused together the business centers of New York and London, together with a large portion of the political centers of both nations. Ninety percent of the American members are top-level bankers and businessmen from New York city.
Only a couple of Pilgrims own or chair companies with headquarters in Boston or Philadelphia. Businesses that have their headquarters in any other location than this small part of the north-east corner of the United States don’t seem to be represented at all (do keep in mind that recent data is sketchy).
Relatively few government officials from Washington are recruited into the Pilgrims Society. Officials from outside the UK or US visit the club occasionally. In the past they usually came from countries incorporated within the British Empire or the Commonwealth, most notably Canada and Australia.
A mistake usually made when people refer to this society, is when they call it the ’Pilgrim Society’, because this name hasn’t been used that often. The most often used name is the ’Pilgrims Society’, sometimes spelled as ’Pilgrim’s Society’. You might think this isn’t such a big deal, but when you search the internet or some archives for the ’Pilgrim Society’, you will hardly find any official sources, simply because they all refer to the ’Pilgrims Society’.
The name ’Pilgrims Society’ is also unique, so you won’t confuse it with this one. Also try searching on ’The Pilgrims’ or more specifically, the ’Pilgrims of the United States’ and the ’Pilgrims of the United Kingdom’/’Pilgrims of Great Britain’.
The club is secret. It might be one of those ’open-secrets’, but it’s secret nonetheless. If it wasn’t, we would have read about it in the history books, we would know all the details of the meetings, and we would have membership lists in the public domain. It is possible to find quite a bit of information in regular newspaper archives, but you really have to look for it. It takes forever to piece the story together.
For example, The Scotsman made numerous references to it in the first half of the century (archives are only available up to 1950 AD). Time Magazine made them much less, but still referred to the club once every few years. After 1958, Time only mentioned the club 2 or 3 times, even though meetings continued as usual. Other newspapers in the U.S., like the New York Times and the Washington Post have referred the Pilgrims at times.
Most other newspapers, including the Scotsman, New York Post, Washington Times, or even the Guardian, seem to have been (almost) completely silent about the Pilgrims in the last 5 to 7 years (that’s how far the digital archives go back). In other countries it’s virtually impossible to get any information on the Pilgrims. Not one large Dutch newspaper has mentioned the name in the past 20 years. References in German or French newspapers are just as uncommon.
Maybe it’s done to give people the impression there’s nothing unusual about the club. Indeed, looking at the speeches there certainly isn’t. All they do is talk about regular pro-NATO politics and kiss up to their “brothers” on the other side of the ocean. Two recent examples:
[1] January 2002, Lord Robertson, ’NATO after September 11’
[2] November 2002, Richard Boucher on Foreign policy, the EU, and NATO
Below you can see which other delegates traditionally are recruited into Pilgrims. Chancellors, Chief Justices, and Attorney Generals seem to be frequent members also. Occasional exceptions have been made to allow writers, composers and art collectors into the society. An example of that was Mark Twain. The patron of the Pilgrims Society is the king or queen of England and a member from the royal family usually attends the Pilgrim dinners in Great Britain.
It lost it’s original function after a couple of decades, but still exists today as an office to the BBC World Service. Above the entrance there’s a large statue, which represents this Anglo-American cooperation. (above image)
Britain is represented on the left by the lions, the USA is represented on the right by the Eagle. The Celtic cross indicates their common heritage. The torch can represent freedom, wisdom, victory, or something along that line. Below the statue you’ll find the inscription “To the friendship of English Speaking Peoples“.
The Pilgrims Society is allied with the English-Speaking Union, which is an organization that promotes the use of the English language all over the world. The patron is the English queen and the president is prince Philip. The chairman, as far as we know, is always a member of the Pilgrims.
N.Y. FED ’Pilgrim-presidents’ | |
Benjamin Strong | 1914-1928 |
George Harrison | 1928-1940 |
Allan Sproul | 1941-1956 |
Alfred Hayes | 1956-1975 |
Paul Volcker | 1975-1979 |
Anthony Solomon | 1980-1985 |
E. Gerald Corrigan | 1985-1993 |
William J. McDonough | 1993-2003 |
Timothy Geithner | 2003-present |
Red = confirmed Pilgrim |
Of course, J.P. Morgan, George F. Baker, John D. Rockefeller, and Jacob Schiff were members also. Keep in mind these people were often competing with each other and weren’t necessarily friends, as so many (conspiracy-oriented) people seem to think.
Because the Pilgrims have a large influence on Washington politics, it would be interesting to see if they have any members on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, also located in D.C. If we have those names, we can estimate the Pilgrims’ level of control over the Federal Open Market Committee.
The FOMC is the main body of the Federal Reserve that decides on the monetary policy. The New York FED then carries out those directives through it’s daily ’open market operations’. In the words of the official Federal Reserve website that I just gave a link to:
“Finally, the Committee [FOMC] must reach a consensus regarding the appropriate course for policy, which is incorporated in a directive to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York—the Bank that executes transactions for the System Open Market Account. The directive is cast in terms designed to provide guidance to the Manager in the conduct of day-to-day open market operations.
The directive sets forth the Committee’s objectives for long-run growth of certain key monetary and credit aggregates. It also sets forth operating guidelines for the degree of ease or restraint to be sought in reserve conditions and expectations with regard to short-term rates of growth in the monetary aggregates.”
“…Traditionally, the Chairman of the Board of Governors is elected Chairman and the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is elected Vice Chairman…”
If that could be confirmed, the FED’s Board of Governors has had Pilgrims as chairman from at least 1930 to 1934 & from 1959 on to 2005. In any case, the Pilgrims Society seems to be represented a disproportionate amount on the most influential places inside the U.S. monetary system, especially for a society that doesn’t want it’s existence to be known to the general public.
It is likely that at least since 1959 the chairman and vice chairman of the FOMC were Pilgrims, together with the persons carrying out the directives of the FOMC through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Striking is the fact that such a large percentage of CFR members are executive officers. About 50% of all the CFR executive officers have been confirmed members of the Pilgrims Society, which seems to indicate that quite possibly all of them are.
I remember looking at an old documentary about the CFR “master conspiracy”. The usual stuff came by; banking, the Illuminati and the dollar bill. At the end they showed these concentric rings, indicating the CFR had unknown inner circles. Guess we can now say for sure what the second circle is, counting from the outside. It’s the Pilgrims Society and it undeniably shows the close link between American and British foreign policy.
Of course, it has long been speculated that the same group that set up the RIIA, set up the CFR, but I was never convinced enough though, because the group connecting both organizations has never been fully identified. The existence of the Round Table, however likely, has never been proven.
For now, the Pilgrims Society, a seemingly larger body, is a fine substitute, because it shares many similarities with the “association of helpers” from the Round Table. Read this text from the 1966 book ’Tragedy and Hope – A history of the world in our time’, written by Oxford professor Carroll Quigley:
“In 1891, Rhodes organized a secret society with members in a “Circle of Initiates” and an outer circle known as the “Association of Helpers” later organized as the Round Table organization. In 1909-1913, they organized semi-secret groups know as Round Table Groups in the chief British dependencies and the United States..The Round Table Groups were semi-secret discussion and lobbying groups whose original purpose was to federate the English speaking world along lines laid down by Cecil Rhodes. By 1915, Round Table groups existed in seven countries including England, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and the United States.Money for their activities originally came from Cecil Rhodes, J.P. Morgan, the Rockefeller and Whitney families and associates of bankers Lazard Brothers and Morgan, Grenfell and Company.
The chief backbone of this organization grew up along the already existing financial cooperation running from the Morgan Bank in New York to a group of international financiers in London led by Lazard Brothers.
Lionel Curtis established in England and each dominion a front organization to the existing local Round Table Group. This front organization called the Royal Institute of Public Affairs, had as its nucleus in each area the existing submerged Round Table Group.
In New York, it was known as the Council on Foreign Relations and was a front for J.P. Morgan and Company in association with the very small American Round Table Group. The American organizers were dominated by the large number of Morgan “experts” including Lamont and Beer, who had gone to the Paris Peace Conference and there became close friends with the similar group of English “experts” which had been recruited by the Milner group.
In fact, the original plans for the Royal Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1928, the Council on Foreign Relations was dominated by the associates of the Morgan bank. Closely allied with this Morgan influence were a small group of Wall Street lawyers whose chief figures were Elihu Root, John W. Davis, the Dulles Brothers, John J. McCloy……There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates to some extent in the way the Radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so…
…It might be pointed out that the existence of this Wall Street Anglo-American axis is quite obvious once it is pointed out. It is reflected by the fact that such Wall Street luminaries such as John W. Davis, Lewis Douglas, [John] Whitney and Douglas Dillon were appointed to be American ambassadors in London.”
All the other names are confirmed Pilgrims. And what is said here about the large number of Morgan representatives is something I also immediately noticed when I was filling in all the biographies. Even though Rockefeller interests, especially in later times, were just as dominant, the history of the Morgan family really shows their ties to England through George Peabody and Junius S. Morgan. At the turn of the century, the Morgans wielded enormous power over the United States economy [1].
Besides the organizations I put in the table above, you will also find that institutions like the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, Bilderberg, the Bohemian Grove, the Trilateral Commission, the Brookings Institution, the Ford Foundation, the Ditchley Foundations, the Fabian Society, the Japan Society, the Asia Society, the American-Australian Association, and some others, are quite frequently represented. I didn’t specifically look for these institutions though, simply because it takes me too much time. Often, these institutes aren’t mentioned in the bios of the person you’re researching.
The reason that you find quite a few Skull & Bones members (or members who have family in Skull & bones) in the Pilgrims Society is probably because Yale is a prestigious University and a first choice for many law and MBA students. It’s also located very close to New York.
Don’t kid yourself however, 20 year old boys don’t rule anything. You’ll also find at least 5 Scroll & Key members and many more Yale students who haven’t been into any society. But as far as I can see, the Pilgrims Society is open to anyone who learns enough, works enough, and winds up in the right place for a Pilgrims invitation. Harvard and Columbia are other common universities where Pilgrims have studied.
It is obvious that the Pilgrims Society has a very interesting history and that it’s membership consists of very influential people. Above all, it seems that the Pilgrims Society represents that old dream of Cecil Rhodes to create a worldwide English-speaking free-trade zone (his exact words), with the dominant position for the Anglo-Saxon race. Rhodes had also been speculating about a network of secret societies that had to absorb the wealth of the world. In fact, the enormous fortune he left behind was probably used to set up the Pilgrims Society just 4 months after he died. But especially these days, ’free-trade’ policies seem to be nothing more than a tool by which western companies wrestle control of foreign markets. This makes it hard to say if their ultimate goal of ’global peace’ really is that noble.
In the course the 20th century, especially after WWII, many organizations with similar objectives have sprung up worldwide. Among them are Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission, the British Invisibles, the European Round Table, the Group of thirty, the European Institute, the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue, the 1001 Club, the EU-Japan Business Dialogue, the Pacific Basin Economic Council, Le Cercle, the Multinational Chairman’s Group, and dozens more.
In every single case, British and American interests are represented more than adequately, at the very least in leadership positions. Even though recent names are in rather short supply it has already become obvious that we can find most, if not all of these leaders back in the Pilgrims Society. This indicates that we are dealing with one of the most important privately funded institutions of the globalist movement. But, like I already said, let’s not exaggerate by saying that we found ’the puppet masters’ or something like that. At any time, there are loads of intelligence operations going on most of the well over a 1000 members know nothing about. Also, looking at the bios, it’s obvious that there is considerable infighting going on and that different members can’t get along with each other at all. So, as for now, I suggest that we focus our energy on gathering as many names as possible. Then the picture will become clear by itself.
A lot of additional information on the Anglo-American establishment and/or the British Empire can be found in the books of professor Carroll Quigley. The articles on Executive Intelligence Review also contain a lot of insightful information.
[1] October 1901, #6, McClure’s Magazine, ‘J. Pierpont Morgan’
[2] February 05, 1903, Reuters, ’Lord C. Beresford in Washington’
[3] March 3, 1903, The Scotsman, ’Great Britain and the United States – Banquet in London’
[4] June 20, 1903, The Scotsman, ’MP George Wyndham at the Pilgrims Club’
[5] February 20, 1908, New York Times, ‘Ambassador Reid – the Pilgrims guest’
[6] April 24, 1910, Associated Press, Mark Twain deceased – Pilgrims visit
[7] February 6, 1913, The Scotsman, King George delivers message at Pilgrims Society
[8] December 24, 1915, The Scotsman, ’Closer Unity of the British Empire’
[9] June 1, 1918, Press Association, ’Hands off the Southern Pacific’
[10] December 22, 1919, The Scotsman, Pilgrims celebrate 299th birthday of original Pilgrims
[11] March 17, 1924, Time Magazine, ’A Summing-Up’
[12] April 21, 1924, Time Magazine, ’The Judgment’
[13] December 2, 1926, The Scotsman, ’Duke of York – Pilgrims God Speed’
[14] May 4, 1928, The Scotsman, Nicholas Butler becomes the new president of the U.S. club
[15] July 6, 1931, Time Magazine, ’30 Years of Picasso’
[16] October 26, 1939, The Scotsman, Pilgrims speaker denounces the Nazis as Barbarian Pagans
[17] November 6, 1939, Time Magazine, ‘Aims and Rights’
[18] 1940, John Whiteford, ‘Sir Uncle Sam, Knight of the British Empire’
[19] January 20, 1941, Time Magazine, ’Churchill & the U.S.’
[20] March 20, 1941, The Scotsman, Nazis denounce Churchill’s Pilgrims speech and the Anglo-Saxons
[21] December 3, 1942, The Scotsman, ’New World Order – Path of Equality and Human Brotherhood’
[22] E.C. Knuth, 1946, ‘The Empire of the City’
[23] December 13, 1947, The Scotsman, ’Marshall on his Mission’
[24] October 23, 1950, Time Magazine, No Pushing
[25] November 7, 1950, The Scotsman, ’No Slackening after Korea’
[26] Oct. 27, 1952, Time Magazine, ’No Pushing’
[26] July 2, 1956, Time Magazine, ’Give ’Em Hell, Harricum!’
[27] Dec. 8, 1958, Time Magazine, ’The Double Dare’
[28] April 16, 1965, Time Magazine, Ambassador Patrick farewell
[29] 1966, Carroll Quigley, ’Tragedy and Hope – A history of the world in our time’
[30] December 1973, Kissinger addresses the Pilgrims and suggests an “International Energy group”
[31] June 1975, American Opinion, William P. Hoar, ‘Henry Kissinger: This Man Is On The Other Side’
[32] January 30, 1981, Reuters, ’Mrs. Thatcher Detects No Sign Of Moscow’s Interest in Detente’ (excerpt)
[33] 1983 (original from 1952), Eustace Mullins, ‘Secrets of the Federal Reserve’
[34] December 10, 1985, New York Times, ’ Excerpts From Shultz Remarks on Aid to Rebels’ (excerpt)
[35] Official Federal Reserve websites
[36] April 20, 1994, The Times, ’Britain belongs to Europe’
[37] April 20, 1994, The Times, ’US ambassador leaves with rebuke for Euro-sceptics; Raymond Seitz’
[38] November 16, 1994, The Times, ’US tries to forge pact on eastward expansion of Nato’
[39] April 6, 1995, The Times, ’FDR and The Times’
[40] June 30, 1999, MOD, Speech of George Robertson
[41] 2002, Anne Baker Pimlott, ‘The Pilgrims of Great Britain – a centennial history’
[42] 2002, Antony Sutton, ‘America’s Secret Establishment’
[43] Watch.pair.com, ‘The Pilgrim Society & The English Speaking Union’
[44] January 31, 2002, nato.int, ‘NATO After September 11’
[45] November 28, 2002, U.S. State Department, ‘State’s Boucher on U.S. Foreign Policy, EU and NATO, Iraq, Freedom’
[46] 2002, University of Dundee, ’Laureation Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne – Professor Alan Newell’
[47] January 21, 2004, Royal.gov.uk, ’Diary of engagements of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh…’
[48] February 4, 2004, Times Online, ’Today’s royal engagements’
[49] February 12, 2004, The UK Mission to the United Nations, ’Speech to Pilgrims of the United States on “A Multilateral Journey”’
[50] September 16, 2004, Chatham House, internal program list names Robert Worcester as a Pilgrim
[51] September 2004, English Speaking Union, ’Panel Discussion on the US Election’
[52] Charles Savoie, Silver Investor, 2004-2005, ‘Meet the World Money Power’-series. (highly recommended. Many names come from this person’s research.)
[53] Kansas City Infozine, biography of Robert M. Worcester (again) confirms he is a chairman of the Pilgrims.
[54] Corporate Entertainer Magazine, ’Banking on Hospitality’ (article on Rupert Hambro, year unknown)