of meetings and programs, public and private, leading to the Windy City’s first-ever hosting of a summit of NATO ministers, to happen at McCormick Place May 20-21. AFP will be there.

Yet, another little-known CCGA speech two days later by longtime Australian official Kim Edward Beazley revealed more about NATO’s plans, as the alliance, created in 1949 to counter Soviet expansionism, morphs into a hair-trigger “top cop” for those constructing a world union under the broad planning of the Bilderberg group, in league with a host of world government consensus-builders, including the CCGA and similar World Affairs Councils that reach down to the grassroots.

The Bilderberg group is a Rothschild-and Rockefeller-oriented annual, by-invitation-only meeting of 120 to 140 very rich guests, who gather to plan how to make bigger profitspart of NATO’s eastward expansionism, at the NATO summit itself.

The TPP is pending in Congress. The watchdog group Economy in Crisis of Dublin, Ohio and other pro-middle class groups are monitoring it. They describe it as a dragon that must be slain to avoid a total economic calamity here and abroad.

Meanwhile, various devotees of global governance are carrying out myriad tasks. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who’s been exceedingly busy preparing for the NATO summit, just spoke in Washington at the Export-Import Bank, amid the spring meetings of the Bilderberg-connected World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). The G-20 met just before the World Bank and IMF did, even as the G-8 will meet at Camp David, Md. in mid-May, having been moved out of Chicago where it was