Vampires in...
The Council on
Foreign Relations
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From wikipedia:
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (at Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. Some international journalists and American paleoconservatives believe it to be the most powerful private organization to influence United States foreign policy. It publishes the bi-monthly journal Foreign Affairs. It has an extensive website, featuring links to its think tank, The David Rockefeller Studies Program, other programs and projects, publications, history, biographies of notable directors and other board members, corporate members, and press releases....
Mission
The Council's mission is promoting understanding of foreign policy and the United States' role in the world. Meetings are convened at which government officials, global leaders and prominent members debate major foreign-policy issues. It has a think tank that employs prominent scholars in international affairs and it commissions subsequent books and reports. A central aim of the Council, it states, is to "find and nurture the next generation of foreign policy leaders." It established "Independent Task Forces" in 1995, which encourage policy debate. Comprising experts with diverse backgrounds and expertise, these task forces seek consensus in making policy recommendations on critical issues; to date, the Council has convened more than fifty times.
The internal think tank is David Rockefeller Studies Program, which grants fellowships and whose programs are described as being integral to the goal of contributing to the ongoing debate on foreign policy; fellows in this program research and write on the most important challenges facing the United States and the world.
At the outset of the organization, founding member Elihu Root said the group's mission, epitomized in its journal Foreign Affairs, should be to "guide" American public opinion. In the early 1970s, the CFR changed the mission, saying that it wished instead to "inform" public opinion....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
November 26, 2008
Obama Picks Come From
Same Old CFR Roster
Written by William F. Jasper
"Brilliant," "brainy," "super-smart," and "Wall Street smarts" — these seemed to be some of the recurring words used to describe President-elect Barack Obama's two top economic picks — Timothy Geithner, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, for secretary of the Treasury; and former Secretary Treasury Lawrence Summers for National Economic Council director.
The praise for Geithner and Summers did not just come from Democrats. According to USA Today, "'Brilliant,' 'outstanding' and 'exceptionally talented' were some of the words used to describe [Obama's] two top choices ... and that came from Republicans."
Not surprisingly, both Summers and Geithner are veteran members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), as have been most of their predecessors, who have led our nation's economy into the present debacle. Both men have been involved in massive government bailouts, manipulation, and intervention in domestic and foreign markets over the past two decades. Here's an excerpt of a biographical sketch of Geithner from the Council on Foreign Relations' website:
Geithner was closely involved in recent talks surrounding the failure of investment bank Lehman Brothers and the bailout of the insurance giant AIG....
Geithner had a previous thirteen-year stint at the Treasury Department, starting in 1988 when he joined the international affairs division. He became undersecretary for international affairs at Treasury during the later years of the Clinton administration.
In 2001, Geithner left Treasury to become a senior fellow in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as director of a CFR Task Force on trade policy that recommended the United States expand free trade. A report published by that task force called on Congress to grant Trade Promotion Authority to President George W. Bush, which he was given by a narrow vote margin.
From 2001 to 2003, Geithner was director of the Policy Development and Review Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). There, he helped craft the IMF's $30.4 billion bailout of the Brazilian economy in September 2002. He also worked on bailouts of the Indonesian, Mexican, and South Korean economies.
As the chart at the end of this article shows, 17 of Mr. Geithner's predecessors at Treasury (including the Treasury's current head, Henry Paulson, and before him, Lawrence Summers) are/were fellow CFR members.
Here's another kudo for Geithner from the same USA Today article cited above:
"It's hard for me to imagine a better team than this one," said Pete Peterson, co-founder of the Blackstone Group, who chaired the search committee that chose Geithner for the New York Fed. Peterson, a veteran of the Nixon administration, said Geithner, 47, "has everything that anyone could ask for" in a Treasury chief.
USA Today doesn't mention it, but Peterson is chairman emeritus of the CFR. Also not
mentioned in the article (or anywhere else in the CFR-dominated major media) is the
fact that the recently bailed-out insurance giant AIG was run for decades by billionaire
CEO Maurice Greenberg, a prominent force in the CFR. Greenberg and AIG poured
considerable funding into the CFR, and the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for
Geoeconomic Studies at the CFR is named in his honor.
It is not the intellectual capabilities of these folks that is in question; they may be as
"brilliant" as their admirers allege. The question is toward what ends are they (and have
they been) applying this alleged brilliance? They have been consistently, "brilliantly"
wrong - with catastrophic results for our economy (though they seem to keep getting
richer and richer). More important is their judgment, their moral convictions, and their
ideological leanings. Unfortunately, CFR membership seems to require a globalist
world view that embraces a politically managed world economy (socialism,
though they won't use that term) and the piecemeal destruction of national
sovereignty (world government).
As John F. McManus notes in "Behind the Obama Agenda," (written just prior to
Obama's Geithner-Summers announcement):
The council has gained a virtual lock-hold on the U.S. government, regardless of which party is in office. No other organization comes close to boasting the kind of clout that the CFR members have held: eight presidents of the U.S.; seven vice presidents; 17 secretaries of state; 20 secretaries of war/defense; 18 secretaries of the Treasury; 15 directors of the CIA. And on it has gone throughout the Cabinets, in seriatim — through Democrat and Republican administrations — with hundreds of deputy secretaries, assistant secretaries, etc.
The Obama Cabinet will be no different.... Other names being mentioned by the media for federal posts starting January 20 read like a membership list of the CFR. (All the individuals whose names follow hold CFR membership.) Will octogenarian former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker actually be tapped? Will he be assisted by New York Fed official Timothy Geithner? Educated guesses for jobs in the new administration include former Cabinet officials Federico Peña, Bill Daley, Lawrence Summers, and Colin Powell.
As McManus notes, based on the experience of the past several administrations, we can expect another 400-plus CFR globalists to be appointed to the Obama administration. Some change!
CFR Members in U.S. Government
(Pre-Obama Administration)
Presidents
Vice Presidents
Secretaries of State
Herbert Hoover
Richard M. Nixon
Henry L. Stimson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hubert Humphrey
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.
John F. Kennedy*
Gerald R. Ford
Dean G. Acheson
Richard M. Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
John Foster Dulles
Gerald R. Ford
Walter Mondale
Christian A. Herter
James E. Carter
Dean Rusk
George H. W. Bush
William P. Rogers
Cyrus R. Vance
Edmund S. Muskie
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
George P. Shultz
Lawrence Eagleburger
Warren M. Christopher
Madeleine K. Albright
Secretaries of War/Defense
Secretaries of the Treasury
CIA Directors
Henry L. Stimson
Andrew W. Mellon
Walter Bedell Smith
Robert P. Patterson
Ogden L. Mills
Allen W. Dulles
James V. Forrestal
William H. Woodin
John A. McCone
Robert A. Lovett
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Richard Helms
Neil H. McElroy
Robert B. Anderson
James R. Schlesinger
Thomas S. Gates, Jr.
C. Douglas Dillon
William E. Colby
Robert S. McNamara
Henry H. Fowler
George H. W. Bush
Melvin R. Laird
David M. Kennedy
Stansfield Turner
Elliot L. Richardson
George P. Shultz
William J. Casey
James R. Schlesinger
W. Michael Blumenthal
Harold Bown
G. William Miller
R. James Woolsey
Caspar W. Weinberger
Donald T. Regan
John M. Deutch
Nicholas F. Brady
George J. Tenet
Michael V. Hayden
Les Aspin
William Perry
William S. Cohen
Donald Rumsfeld**
Robert M. Gates
*John F. Kennedy was never listed on any of the CFR's official membership lists. However, he confirmed in a letter in 1960 [PDF Download] that he was at that time a member of the Council, as well as a "longtime subscriber" to the CFR journal, Foreign Affairs.
** Donald Rumsfeld was counted twice, as he served as Defense Secretary in two separate administrations.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/555
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Originally posted: March 8, 2009, by The Catbird
Last update March 8, 2009