Henry: Portrait of a serial chiller

As Kissinger creeps up to 100 how influential has he been?

- DUNCAN WADE

IN 1939, there was a penniless recent immigrant in New York, working in a shaving-brush factory... fast forward thirty-five years later and he was one of the most powerful political figures in the U.S.

As Heinz Alfred Kissinger approaches one hundred years of age on May 27, his centenary will be celebrated as a major occasion, plaudits will be thrown his way, celebratory words said by countless politicians who were not even born when he commanded the White House, but nevertheless, the progeny of his political web and international manoeuvering.

Henry Kissinger did not come to power and influence without his own benefactors, and his career is a window into the deeper state. Much of his political agenda is familiar today as the key aspirations of the United Nations, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and their associated acolytes.

Kissinger has been an influential advocate of globalisation, and of international law being defined on the grounds of necessity rather than any moral conscience. He has pushed the view that human rights are non-essential, while the priority of the wealthy elite and corporate giants is paramount. Population control is viewed as a political priority, over which government should exercise control.

Who were the sponsors of Kissinger and his rise to power? These were immensely powerful institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation, U.S. Intelligence, the Bilderberg Group, huge financial institutions, and the U.S. diplomatic service. Today, Kissinger is active with the WEF, working with Bill Gates, and an advocate of the Chinese President's views on developing a new world order.