Franklin D. Roosevelt emphatically stated, "The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power".
He finally fessed up, "The real truth is a financial element in the large centers has owned the Government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson".
Eisenhower warned, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex".
Justice Felix Frankfurter, echoing Benjamin Disraeli's much earlier statement, "The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes", advised, "The real rulers of Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes".
Joseph Kennedy counted them, "Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure".
Bill Clinton confirmed, not the number but, the fact, "By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. Â You may find you can get away with Virtual Presidents, Virtual Prime Ministers, and Virtual Everything".
All the warnings and statements can be summarized in a single word, POWER.  Money makes power.  Power protects money.  Power is what power does.
While earlier moneyed societies and organizations such as Freemasons and the Illuminati existed, for the purpose of this article, the thread of money and power relevant to "who rules America" begins in late 1800's.  A forerunner was the Rhodes-Milner Round Table. Knots on that thread include the American Round Table, the Federal Reserve System, the American Liberty League, the League of Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Liberty League, the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, the United Nations, the CIA, the "Chicago School", the Business Roundtable, the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, NAFTA, the World Trade Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Chamber of Commerce.
This, the 1st of a five part series concludes with commentary on the forerunner, the grandfather of modern ruler-ship, the Rhodes-Milner Roundtable and it's domestic counterpart, the American Roundtable. Â Part 2 will pick-up on the second knot in the American thread, the Federal Reserve System. Â
The Rhodes-Milner Roundtable:  Cecil Rhodes, founder of the de Beers diamond monopoly, drafted a program for world dominion by the British race patriots in 1877.  Operating primarily in secret, upon his death in 1902, Rhodes left his entire estate to Lord Nathan Rothschild as trustee.  Rhodes stipulated that his gigantic fortune be used by his disciples to carry out the program he envisioned.  He also established the Rhodes scholarship awarded to numerous Americans later to arise in influence.  While continued secret, Rothschild appointed Lord Alfred Milner to chair a further effort which in turn recruited a group of graduates and students of Oxford.
In 1909 this group founded the Round Table, the grandfather of all modern think tanks and manipulators of government.  Amongst the original organizers was H.G. Wells, who, several years earlier, had developed a strategy for an organization of intelligent and wealthy men to promote their social and political aims.  Literally "all were avowed elitists, intolerant of the cumbersome and apparently wasteful processes of democracy, who wanted to see England ruled by a superior caste " (suggesting) that universal suffrage, putting power in the hands of the 'riff-raff, was a disaster".
Reflecting back on the Rhodes scholarship program, in 1951 the Chicago Tribune ran a series of articles on Rhodes Scholars. Quoting from the July 15 article, "Key positions in the United States department of state are held by a network of American Rhodes scholars. Rhodes scholars are men who obtained supplemental education and indoctrination at Oxford University in England with the bills paid by the estate of Cecil John Rhodes, British Empire builder. Rhodes wrote about his ambition to cause 'the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British empire.' The late diamond and gold mining tycoon aimed at a world federation dominated by Anglo-Saxons.  His intimates have admitted the scholarships were established for the primary purpose of instilling 'political Bias' rather than providing education."
The American Round Table:  Prior to his death, Rhodes expanded his prior British- only views "to federate the English-speaking peoples and to bring all the habitable portions of the world under their control".  Thus came into being the American Round Table.  Early membership read like a partial li sting of Who's Who in the Elite and included the names of Morgan, Rockefeller and Carnegie.  Colonel Edward M. House, Paul Warburg, Benjamin Strong, Thomas W. Lamont (J.P. Morgan), George Louis Beer, Walter Lippmann, Frank Aydelotte, Whitney Shepardson and Jerome D. Greene were also members.  Much of its influence would be extended through five American newspapers; The New York Times , New York Herald Tribune , Christian Science Monitor , The Washington Post , and the Boston Evening Transcript .
Anthony Sutton of the Hoover Institute has written, "While monopoly control of industries was once the objective of J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller (who once stated "competition to be a sin"), by the late nineteenth century the inner sanctums of Wall Street understood the most efficient way to gain an unchallenged monopoly was to "go political' and make society go to work for the monopolists -" under the name of the public good and the public interest."
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