There REALLY IS A Trilateral Commission

Believe it or not, there REALLY IS a Trilateral Commission.

A few months ago a buddy of mine started on me with, "Good God, what conspiracy theory do you have in that head of yours now?" and I thoguht I would start keeping an eye on the web traffic associated with the "major conspiracist terms".

Of course "Illuminati" led me to Denmark Vesey.

And it actually turns out that a few folks not ordinarily fingered as being nuts have some substantive thoughts on the Illuminati, although I have yet to see anyone, in turn, finger who these Illuminati currently are.

Another term, however, commonly associated with the "world domination" crowd is "Trilateral Commission". This term, in fact, was alluded to in some of the old Ron Paul newsletters currently being discussed.

The interesting part about The Trilateral Commission is that, apparently, it's actually REAL.

There is a bona-fide Trilateral Commission web site with something of an explanation page going into some explanation of how it was founded in 1973 and some spooky, spooky stuff about measuring time in "triennia" (three-year periods), with the current triennium ending in 2009 (something to do with why NTSC is going dark that year?).

The Trilateral Commission claims to have about 350 members from business, media, academia, but excludes current national Cabinet Ministers, and apparently primarily publishes newsletters (in cahoots with The Brookings Institution), ironically enough, much like Ron Paul used to ... :)

As to whether or not this outfit is directly running the world is yet to be determined, however ...