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[TonyGosling]

What David Rockefeller Wanted Built Got Built
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/nyregion/david-rockefeller-development-nyc.html

David Rockefeller, left, chairman of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association, with Edmund F. Wagner, the organization’s president, in New York in 1968.
John Duricka / Associated Press
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
March 26, 2017

David and Nelson were not just the names of two Rockefeller brothers.

They were the names of the twin towers at the World Trade Center.

More accurately, they were nicknames given to the towers — David, because David Rockefeller, as chairman of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association, originated the idea; Nelson, because Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York signed the legislation that made it possible.

“Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you,” the epitaph says above Sir Christopher Wren’s tomb in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, which he designed. It’s a useful cliché for anyone eulogizing a prolific and newly dead architect.

But it can be applied without hesitation or overstatement to David Rockefeller, who died Monday at 101, and his family.

Look around you.

The World Trade Center. One Chase Manhattan Plaza. The United Nations. Rockefeller Center. The Museum of Modern Art. Lincoln Center. The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The Rockefeller University. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Riverside Church. The Cloisters.

The Rockefellers have played a role — sometimes a unique role — in developing these landmarks. The architectural historian Henry Hope Reed even devoted a book to the subject: “Rockefeller New York.”

What many Rockefeller-influenced monuments have in common is an air of confidence, bordering on arrogance. (Actually, the twin towers reached well into arrogance.) There is a sense of noblesse oblige. “Never you mind,” these institutions seem to say to the public. “We and our architects will know just what to do.”
Mr. Rockefeller in his office at Chase Manhattan Bank in 1973, with Edna Bruderly, a secretary.
Eddie Hausner / The New York Times

Mr. Rockefeller was one of the last power brokers who seemed able to change the face of New York City with effortless understatement.

Before he became the chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, he was its executive vice president for planning and development. In 1955, the Chase National Bank had merged with the Bank of the Manhattan Company. The enormous new bank required an enormous new headquarters — 60 stories tall.

Under zoning rules, to construct such a tower without setbacks Chase needed to set it in an especially large plaza. This it proposed to create by combining parcels on the north and south sides of Cedar Street in Lower Manhattan. That meant eliminating a stretch of public way more than 400 feet long from a part of town where every inch of street and sidewalk is precious.

No problem for David Rockefeller.

“The key to getting the plan approved was to have the support of Robert Moses,” he wrote in “Memoirs.”

“I went to see Moses, who, among many other official positions, was the chairman of the City Planning Commission,” Mr. Rockefeller wrote. “Much to my relief, Bob proved to be an easy sale. He believed that a dramatic gesture was needed to save Wall Street, and he liked the concept of opening up more space and letting a little more light into the gloomy downtown streets. Once we had his O.K., other needed approvals came easily.”

Never mind those messy, querulous public hearings. Never mind the objections that other planning commissioners might have brought to the table. It was just David and Bob, longtime acquaintances, having an agreeable little chat about that pesky annoyance called a public way. When their visit was through, so was Cedar Street.

The result, in this case, was terrific. The modernist Chase tower, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was completed in 1961. Its dazzling facade of aluminum and glass dramatically disrupted the romantic but somnolent downtown skyline. The building was generally regarded as a landmark long before it was officially designated one in 2008.

Now named in Mr. Rockefeller’s honor, the two-and-a-half-acre plaza is unquestionably an ornament, with Isamu Noguchi’s “Sunken Garden” and Jean Dubuffet’s “Group of Four Trees,” another David Rockefeller benefaction. The plaza “established a welcome break from the narrow, twisting streets,” the Landmarks Preservation Commission said in its designation report.

Things did not go so smoothly for Museum Tower, however.

Mr. Rockefeller was a longtime board member, chairman and patron of the Museum of Modern Art. In the late 1970s, a financially beleaguered MoMA planned to sell unused development rights from properties along West 53rd Street to a private developer, who would build a 53-story luxury condominium tower, with a west wing for the museum at its base.
Mr. Rockefeller in a Wall Street subway station in 1981.
William E. Sauro / The New York Times

To reap the financial benefit of this project without jeopardizing the museum’s tax-exempt status, MoMA’s lawyers crafted an “ingenious plan,” Mr. Rockefeller said in “Memoirs.” They devised the Trust for Cultural Resources of the City of New York. As a public benefit corporation, the trust could finance the project by issuing tax-exempt bonds.

“The trust would collect the equivalent of property taxes from the new building to amortize the bonds and, after deducting expenses and other costs, pay over the remaining funds to the museum each year,” Mr. Rockefeller wrote.

Mr. Rockefeller said in his memoir that Mayor Edward I. Koch “happily supported the idea,” though it was actually Mayor Abraham D. Beame who did so. “Assemblyman Roy Goodman introduced the bill for us,” Mr. Rockefeller wrote, though, in fact, Mr. Goodman was a well-known state senator.

Anyway, elected officials — whoever they were — played along. The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court did not.

In July 1978, in a case brought by the neighboring Dorset Hotel, the appellate court found that the law creating the trust was unconstitutional in part because it was tailored to benefit only MoMA.

That decision was reversed five months later by the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, which found no showing that other cultural institutions could not avail themselves of the benefits. (Many have done so since 1980.)

However, Charles D. Breitel, the well-respected chief judge, issued a stinging dissent.

“The evil is not that the city will be supporting a valued museum, for that would not be evil at all,” Chief Judge Breitel wrote. Instead, he said, the evil was that the law, stripped of its “ingenious gimmickry,” would conceal from the city’s taxpayers and creditors the “permanent, unreviewable diversion of anticipated city tax revenues to the museum.”

Museum Tower was built all the same. It opened in 1984. Seven years later, when interviewed for an oral history, Mr. Rockefeller said income from the trust had been “an absolute godsend” for the museum. He did not mention that the constitutionality of the trust had been challenged all the way to the Court of Appeals.

“My recollection is that there were, obviously, problems, but I think we were able to overcome them,” he said. With effortless understatement.
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[TonyGosling]

Billionaire ‘Bilderberger’ David Rockefeller dead at 101
March 20, 2017 By Shawn Helton 6 Comments
http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/03/20/billionaire-bilderberger-david-rockefeller-dead-at-101/

“The Trilateral Commission is international and is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power – political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical.”

– Senator Barry Goldwater, from his book ‘With No Apologies’

21st Century Wire says…

Controversial globalist and banker David Rockefeller has died at 101 years of age.

Rockefeller has been described as a philanthropist and banker, yet much of his legacy will forever be tied to the creation of the well-known think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission and his central role on the steering committee for the secretive Bilderberg Group established in 1954.

The Bilderberg Group has often been passed off as an insignificant gathering of corporate CEO’s, barons of oil, government top brass and royalty – most mainstream outlets still continue to mask the group’s influence on foreign policy and world finance – but thankfully their exploits have been slowly uncovered with each passing year, as the list of attendees seem to change and grow with each new conference location.

For those who still doubt there’s a hidden element directing global interests, one only needs to look into the high-powered pursuits of Bilderberg attendees that have been linked to creating a multi-national sovereignty override through many transnational corporations with world trade partnerships like the Transatlantic partnership (TTIP) and Transpacific partnership (TPP), which now excludes the US via an executive order from Donald Trump.

The following passage is from the NY Times:

“He spent his life in the club of the ruling class and was loyal to members of the club, no matter what they did,” The New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote in 2002, citing the profitable deals Mr. Rockefeller had cut with “oil-rich dictators,” “Soviet party bosses” and “Chinese perpetrators of the Cultural Revolution.””

There was also an immense sphere of influence held by various power-hungry groups such as The Trilateral Commission, brought to fruition in 1973 by David Rockefeller and perennial foreign policy advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. The Commission was also joined by fellow Bilderberg attendee and longtime policy advisor Henry Kissinger. Contrary to what most people think – the vast majority of The Trilateral Commission’s members have been from countries outside of America.

Rockefeller, like George Soros, is ultimately tied to globalism and vast social engineering programs.

More from RT below…

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(Photo Illustration 21WIRE’s Shawn Helton)

Billionaire banker David Rockefeller dies aged 101

RT
Former Chase Manhattan Chief Executive David Rockefeller has died at the age of 101.

Rockefeller died in his sleep at home in Pocantico Hills, New York, on Monday morning as a result of congestive heart failure, according to a family spokesperson Fraser P. Seitel.

The businessman, who had an estimated fortune of $3 billion, retired as head of Chase Manhattan in 1981 after a 35-year career.

Rockefeller

In the statement from the The Rockefeller Foundation confirming his death, Rockefeller was described as “one of the most influential figures in the history of American philanthropy and finance, considered by many to be ‘America’s last great international business statesman’.”

Rockefeller, also known as ‘the banker’s banker’, according to the statement, is said to have donated almost $2 billion over his lifetime to various institutions including Rockefeller University, Harvard University and art museum.

David was the youngest of six children born to John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller.

Rockefeller graduated from Harvard in 1936 and received a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1940. Appointed president of Chase Manhattan in 1961, he became chairman and CEO eight years later.

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Henry Kissinger: My friend David Rockefeller, a man who imposed world government

In an egalitarian society such as America, the inheritance of great wealth presents a complex challenge. In an aristocratic world, status provides an automatic legitimacy. But in the United States, great wealth can produce ambivalence. The line between personal advancement and the pursuit of high principle can grow elusive.

For David Rockefeller, who died this month at age 101, that line did not exist. He saw his life as an obligation to enable the consequential issues of our time to be pursued by the most talented and committed men and women, for the sake of our society and the peace of the world. David devoted his long life to identifying the able, forming them into a study or action group, and then supplying the means, often by a combination of financial contributions and assistance in fundraising efforts — a task in which his tenacity often overcame the challenge presented by a Rockefeller raising money. Most frequently, he joined the efforts he was creating, but I can remember no occasion on which he took the floor for personal commentary. Amid prevalent self-absorption, he pursued a staggering range of important objectives with unobtrusive humility.

Character and integrity were the sources of David’s inspiration. We met 60 years ago as part of a study group at the Council on Foreign Relations, among the first such efforts to discipline the ominous aspects of nuclear technology by moral and political purposes. Shortly afterward, he encouraged a discussion group, which later was developed into what is now known as the Bilderberg Group, an annual meeting of European and American leaders to explore their challenges and common purposes.

A decade later, David called on me, at the time secretary of state, to inform me that, in the view of some of the colleagues he had brought with him, the scope of U.S. foreign policy needed broadening. A truly global study to include Asia was required for that challenge. His associates, in fact, included Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale and Zbigniew Brzezinski; in other words, a government in exile waiting to replace the administration in which I served. But David’s combination of dedication and innocence was such that the thought never took hold. Instead, I became a founding member of the Trilateral Commission, which thrives to this day.

I have described David’s activities in the political world, which also included the Americas Society, International House, the Dartmouth Conference, the International Executive Service Corps, the Emergency Committee on American Trade and the Business Group for Latin America, because it was what I could personally observe. In fact, David’s impact was far more embracing. He was a dedicated supporter (and collector) of art and a mentor of medical science. He participated in the leadership of the Museum of Modern Art and of Rockefeller University, dedicated to medical science.

As a universal benefactor, David was received around the world like a head of government. On one occasion, in the late 1980s, I accompanied him to the Soviet Union for a visit to Mikhail Gorbachev to discuss nuclear issues. David had invited former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, former Japanese prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and me to produce a document on dealing with nuclear proliferation. Only David would have been capable of bringing about that combination of participants or, for that matter, conceiving the idea. The only hitch turned out to be that David had brought a gift with him for Gorbachev. His wife, Peggy, had suggested that he deliver a vial of bull semen to the Soviet leader to enhance Russian livestock. The nuclear discussion paled before the impossibility of convincing the staggered customs officials to grant permission to store a gift for which they could discover no applicable regulation.

Service was one facet of David’s life. Devotion to his family was its equal. In 1979, when the Shah of Iran was being exiled, some close friends appealed to David to help find refuge for a ruler who had demonstrated his friendship with America in various international crises. David regretfully refused because of his obligation to Chase Bank. Such was their sense of family that his brother Nelson took David’s place. Three weeks later, Nelson died. And without comment or another request, David assumed the task and helped the Shah find refuge, first in Mexico, then in Panama, regardless of the commercial impact of the decision.

It was uplifting to observe David’s pride in his children and their reciprocal care for him. When he retired from business two decades ago, there was some concern in the family that he might become depressed. Self-pity was not a quality of David’s, nor was imposing his needs on others. Instead, in the last part of his life, he arranged trips to every part of the globe, often accompanied by a grandchild, to look into his many projects, to discover new challenges and to indulge his love of sailing.

David would often mention departed friends with whom he had shared part of his life. They would merge in his recital as if still part of a continuing, never-ending effort. Now, as he joins their number, he will be in our mind as a permanent part of our life, and to our country he will remain a reminder that our ultimate legacy will be service and values, not personal ambitions.

[kevink]

Henry Kissinger: My friend David Rockefeller, a man who served the world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/henry-kissinger-my-friend-david-rockefeller-a-man-who-served-the-world/2017/03/30/bd4789b0-13f6-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html

By Henry A. Kissinger March 30
Henry A. Kissinger was U.S. secretary of state from 1973 to 1977.

In an egalitarian society such as America, the inheritance of great wealth presents a complex challenge. In an aristocratic world, status provides an automatic legitimacy. But in the United States, great wealth can produce ambivalence. The line between personal advancement and the pursuit of high principle can grow elusive.

For David Rockefeller, who died this month at age 101, that line did not exist. He saw his life as an obligation to enable the consequential issues of our time to be pursued by the most talented and committed men and women, for the sake of our society and the peace of the world. David devoted his long life to identifying the able, forming them into a study or action group, and then supplying the means, often by a combination of financial contributions and assistance in fundraising efforts — a task in which his tenacity often overcame the challenge presented by a Rockefeller raising money. Most frequently, he joined the efforts he was creating, but I can remember no occasion on which he took the floor for personal commentary. Amid prevalent self-absorption, he pursued a staggering range of important objectives with unobtrusive humility.

Character and integrity were the sources of David’s inspiration. We met 60 years ago as part of a study group at the Council on Foreign Relations, among the first such efforts to discipline the ominous aspects of nuclear technology by moral and political purposes. Shortly afterward, he encouraged a discussion group, which later was developed into what is now known as the Bilderberg Group, an annual meeting of European and American leaders to explore their challenges and common purposes.

A decade later, David called on me, at the time secretary of state, to inform me that, in the view of some of the colleagues he had brought with him, the scope of U.S. foreign policy needed broadening. A truly global study to include Asia was required for that challenge. His associates, in fact, included Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale and Zbigniew Brzezinski; in other words, a government in exile waiting to replace the administration in which I served. But David’s combination of dedication and innocence was such that the thought never took hold. Instead, I became a founding member of the Trilateral Commission, which thrives to this day.

I have described David’s activities in the political world, which also included the Americas Society, International House, the Dartmouth Conference, the International Executive Service Corps, the Emergency Committee on American Trade and the Business Group for Latin America, because it was what I could personally observe. In fact, David’s impact was far more embracing. He was a dedicated supporter (and collector) of art and a mentor of medical science. He participated in the leadership of the Museum of Modern Art and of Rockefeller University, dedicated to medical science.

As a universal benefactor, David was received around the world like a head of government. On one occasion, in the late 1980s, I accompanied him to the Soviet Union for a visit to Mikhail Gorbachev to discuss nuclear issues. David had invited former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, former Japanese prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and me to produce a document on dealing with nuclear proliferation. Only David would have been capable of bringing about that combination of participants or, for that matter, conceiving the idea. The only hitch turned out to be that David had brought a gift with him for Gorbachev. His wife, Peggy, had suggested that he deliver a vial of bull semen to the Soviet leader to enhance Russian livestock. The nuclear discussion paled before the impossibility of convincing the staggered customs officials to grant permission to store a gift for which they could discover no applicable regulation.

Service was one facet of David’s life. Devotion to his family was its equal. In 1979, when the Shah of Iran was being exiled, some close friends appealed to David to help find refuge for a ruler who had demonstrated his friendship with America in various international crises. David regretfully refused because of his obligation to Chase Bank. Such was their sense of family that his brother Nelson took David’s place. Three weeks later, Nelson died. And without comment or another request, David assumed the task and helped the Shah find refuge, first in Mexico, then in Panama, regardless of the commercial impact of the decision.

It was uplifting to observe David’s pride in his children and their reciprocal care for him. When he retired from business two decades ago, there was some concern in the family that he might become depressed. Self-pity was not a quality of David’s, nor was imposing his needs on others. Instead, in the last part of his life, he arranged trips to every part of the globe, often accompanied by a grandchild, to look into his many projects, to discover new challenges and to indulge his love of sailing.

David would often mention departed friends with whom he had shared part of his life. They would merge in his recital as if still part of a continuing, never-ending effort. Now, as he joins their number, he will be in our mind as a permanent part of our life, and to our country he will remain a reminder that our ultimate legacy will be service and values, not personal ambitions.

[TonyGosling]

Group and Henry Kissinger?
AFTER the world’s oldest billionaire David Rockefeller died at the age of 101, here is a look at his links to the Bilderberg Group and Henry Kissinger.
By Sebastian Kettley
PUBLISHED: 13:30, Tue, Mar 21, 2017 | UPDATED: 16:56, Tue, Mar 21, 2017
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/781951/David-Rockefeller-dead-links-Bilderberg-group-Henry-Kissinger

David Rockefeller died at the age of 101 as the world's oldest billionaire

Mr Rockefeller died from congestive heart failure at his New York home yesterday. Here is a look back at his life and business dealings.
Who was David Rockefeller?

Mr Rockefeller was the grandson of John D Rockefeller, an oil magnate and one of the wealthiest Americans of all-time.

Born in New York City in 1915, he studied in Harvard, London and Chicago before enlisting in the US army to fight in World War Two.

After returning from the war, the billionaire philantropist joined the Chase National Bank where he later served as chief executive for many years.
What were David Rockefeller’s links to the Bilderberg Group?

Mr Rockefeller was one of the attendees of the secret business meetings of the Bilderberg Group.

The annual meetings of world leaders and influential businessmen are held in private, with nothing more than a list of attendees made public.

The Bilderberg website says: "Since its inaugural meeting in 1954, Bilderberg has been an annual forum for informal discussions, designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America.

"Every year, between 120-150 political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media are invited to take part in the meeting.”

Conspiracy theorists have long speculated over what goes on behind the closed doors of the Bilderberg Group meeting rooms.

US diplomatic cables, released by WikiLeaks, revealed that Henry Kissinger asked Mr Rockefeller to find refuge for the deposed Shah and his family in 1979.

Mr Kissinger, then US Secretary of State, was seeking refuge for the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, after he was overthrown during the Iranian revolution in 1979.



The WikiLeaks cable read: “David Rockefeller has now agreed to assist in locating alternative refuge for Shah and entourage.”

It added: “David Rockefeller would like to minimize knowledge of his own involvement in view of interests in Iran.”

The cables said he “apparently agreed to make discreet approaches” on behalf of the Shah’s sister who was looking to move to Mexico, the Bahamas or possibly Argentina.


comment by Islambeawolf
The ongoing deconstruction of Western sovereign nation states, along with the social re-engineering of Europe's native population, is neither an accident of circumstance, nor just bad decision making, but rather cold blooded, ruthless undermining of the existing political and economic system, in order to bring about a 'One World Government' controlled by a mega-wealthy cabal of elitists.
The following quote is self-explanatory of the intent. In his 2002 autobiography “Memoirs,” Rockefeller addressed his reputation, proclaiming himself to be a “proud internationalist.”

He stated: “Ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions.”

“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will.”

He then declared: “If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
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