“Where are the health care all-stars?”
Where did they go?
…But nine months later, the Health Information Campaign has all but disappeared. Its website hasn’t been updated since the end of last year. Its executive director and communications director are gone. There’s no sign that it has any money. And neither Daschle nor Dunn will return calls asking about it.”
”The Health Information Campaign’s website directs press inquiries to its communications director, Erikka Knuti, but she did not respond to a phone call or an email message.
In her Twitter bio, she now refers to herself only as a “lady flack doin’ her thing in the world of DC politics.””
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51778.html#ixzz1IVtuXzSG
Erikka Knuti used to be a communications director for Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)
Is Erikka still working for the Health Information Campaign? Did HIC get any money, if so, where did it go? They were expectiing $25m.
I didn’t check to see if politico followed up on this story…intriguing.
Did Erikka Knuti write the glowing press release for ex-Media Matters (though they never really leave) Eric Burns, Karl Frisch, and Clay Johnson, advertising their new site Bullfight Strategies?
http://bullfightstrategies.com/press.htm
Karl Frisch posted it on digg (it was also on democraticunderground…first heard on stephanie millers radio)…
http://digg.com/karlfrisch/submissions
Daily Kos fibs here and there in their praise…
Eric Burns, Karl Frisch, and Clay Johnson recognized a dire need to keep the media accountable when Burns formulated Media Matters for America in 2006.
That knack for recognizing a much-needed service has led these three principles to break away from Media Matters to found the strategic communications firm Bullfight Strategies, which will specialize in left-leaning messaging.
“The three principals of Media Matters first joined forces working on the House Rules Committee for Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) where they spearheaded efforts to address Republican corruption and Congressional ethics.”
“Bullfight will work at different communcations levels, including spokespersons, go-to support for left-leaning media outlets, and they will partner with technology specialists to “develop products that benefit not only progressive media but also communications specialists working within the progressive movement”.
These products are a particular point of fascination for me personally, as a technologist. In what form will we find them to be? Lie counters tuned into the O’Reilly Factor? Plug-and-go research and talking narratives for a particular topic – global climate chaos, Bush’s multiple rationales for the Iraq war, or the master list of recent right-wing violent terrorists, perhaps?”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/03/940920/-Bullfight-Strategiesthe-Media-becomes-the-Messaging
Bullfighting Strategies (note the symbolism)
http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/bull.php#clue
Whose funding bullfight strategies?
Likely Charles Lewis, one of the Directors on the Fund for Investigative Journalism Board and an advisor to Sunlight Foundation, where along with it’s co-founder radical activist Ellen S. Miller, give big grants to leftiest media organizations. Not unlike the grant the Soros funded moveon.org gave to Media Matters.
Benefactors and staff: –
Check their relationship w/ Clintons, Daschele, Corzine, etc.,
Peter Lewis, Steve Bing, Marcy Carsey, Susie Tompkins Buell, LEO HINDREY, Gail Furman, and James Hormel….
Media Matters got advice from Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and Tom Daschele – developed and helped by Joe Podesta and started his Center for American Progress. Soros denied giving money to media matters until 2010 but neglected to mention that Media Matters got money from his well-funded blog moveon.org) read more from leftist wiki here…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America“Media
Matters for America’s partner organization, Media Matters Action Network launched Conservative Transparency in November, 2009.”
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Transparencyhttp://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Matters_Action_Networkhttp://www.muckety.com/Media-Matters/5024728.muckety
QUESTION – who are Media Matters/Media Matters Action Network Board Members? As one can see from the leftist links they’re not telling.
Leo Hindery randomly chosen from the list of donors to Media Matters.
http://www.muckety.com/Leo-J-Hindery-Jr/10248.muckety
Leo Hindery, Daschle, and related stories…
http://news.muckety.com/2009/02/02/leo-hinderys-generosity-helped-cause-daschles-woes/10921?tpLink
LEO HINDRY and PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA – (MEDIA MOGOLS) – run your mouse over the BIG names…
http://www.muckety.com/Paley-Center-for-Media/5025018.muckety
One of the names on the Paley List is PATRICIA E MITCHELL (husband is board chairman of Global Green USA where she’s also a member…she’s also president and CEO of the Museum of Television and Radio where BARRY DILLER is a member…Diller and JULIUS GENACHOWSKI from FCC are old friends – Julius worked for Diller. Julius also interned for Chicago marxist Abner J. Mikva (as did Kagan) – he was a notes editor on the Harvard Law Review when it was headed by Obama – (what does he not know about Obama). Muckety (co-founded by leftie John Decker) states she’s got a past relationship with Knights Ridder but these people never have to leave – they remain advisors. Knights Ridder gave a grant to Sunlight, smallfry money but nonetheless money, where CHARLES LEWIS and ELLEN S. MILLER et al hang out.
Run mouse over all the names at muckety…
http://www.muckety.com/Sunlight-Foundation/5006521.mucketyhttp://sunlightfoundation.com/about/board/http://www.muckety.com/Patricia-E-Mitchell/2109.mucketyhttp://sunlightfoundation.com/about/
Ellen Miller, Charles Lewis, Craigs List, Johnny Wales – Wiki, Omidyar – ebay funded sunlight…
http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/board/
http://sunlightfoundation.com/drupal/
ELLEN S. MILLER is a Co-founder of SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION (and all the branches) – they advocate (as most of them do) for an Open and Transparent Government. One might surmise that they just want ALL information from the government to hook it into their systems – Drupal for one (see last two links above) thereagain I don’t know much about hi-tech…I also believe it’s one of the few areas left that the UN doesn’t have access to…just guessing. Check out the SUNLIGHT STAFF…they come from hi-tech backgrounds, worked at The Center for Public Integrity (Charles Lewis cofounded it), NPR, nonprofit foundations…
ELLEN MILLER (SUNLIGHT) is an American political activist with extensive work in the fields of politics and money.[1] As an advocate for OPEN Government, Miller promotes the use of technology to increase transparency in government, and co-founded both the SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION (a 501(c)3 non-profit) as well as its sister organization, SUNLIGHT NETWORK (a 501(c)4 non-profit) with Michael Klein in 2006 to foster these goals. contin…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_S._Miller
ELLEN MILLER (SUNLIGHT) is
Board of Director at THE CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS…(they maintain opensecrets.org)
MAJOR DONORS ->
SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION,
PEW Charitable Trusts,
CARNEGIE Corporation of New York, OPEN SOCIETY Institute,
JOYCE Foundation,
FORD Foundation.
The Center accepts no contributions from businesses, trade associations or labor unions…
Check out the MSM staff –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Responsive_Politics
ELLEN MILLER (SUNLIGHT) Deputy Director at the
CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE (directed the Project for an Accountable Congress)-
Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) is an American political organization with a STRONGLY PROGRESSIVE orientation. Its main issues of concern include the environment, energy independence, health care reform, Social Security, and education. The Nation editor KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL, AFL-CIO president JOHN SWEENY, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio VILLARAGOSA serve on its board of directors…
…CAF is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. It has a sister organization called the INSTITUTE for AMERICA’s FUTURE which is a 501(c)(3) non-partisan think tank that conducts research and analysis and publishes reports about political and economic policy issues.
The INSTITUTE FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE and the CENTER ON WISCONSIN STRATEGY sponsor a JOINT PROJECT called the APOLLO ALLIANCE (Tides et al), a coalition of environmentalists and labor unions, which seeks to commit the United States to energy independence while providing opportunity for what new “green-collar” jobs in the energy sector. It is named after John F. Kennedy’s Apollo program.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_America%27s_Future
BOARD MEMBERS –
ANDREA BATISTA SCHLESINGER – Drum Major (currently advisor to Mayor Bloomberg)
Orin Hatch PAC,
Inhofe funded,
LEO W. GERARD also board member of Apollo Alliance –
Director Apollo Alliance Robert L. Borosage husband of Barbara Shailor…
Co-Directors CAF
Roger Hickey, President
1825 K Street, NW, Suite 400
Robert L. Borosage, Secretary-Treasurer
1825 K Street, NW, Suite 400
http://www.muckety.com/Campaign-for-Americas-Future/5010846.mucketyhttp://www.ourfuture.org/page/2009052122/campaign-americas-future-board-membershttp://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1183
LEO W. GERARD –
Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations – member
Apollo Alliance – director
Campaign for America’s Future – board member
Economic Policy Institute – director
National Commission on Energy Policy – commissioner
SOLIDARITY CENTER – trustee
United Steelworkers of America – president
Check them all out…
http://www.muckety.com/Leo-W-Gerard/88426.muckety
SOLARITY CENTER (one of them)
Arlene Holt Baker – trustee
R. Thomas Buffenbarger – trustee
Linda Chavez-Thompson – trustee
Larry Cohen – trustee
Mark T. Gaffney – trustee
Leo W. Gerard – trustee
William Lucy – trustee
John J. Sweeney – chairman
Richard L. Trumka – secretary-treasurer
Joslyn N. Williams – trustee
Solidarity Center past relationships:
BARBARA SHAILOR (husband – ROBERT L. BOROSAGE) – executive director
http://www.muckety.com/Solidarity-Center/5015382.muckety
BARBARA SHAILOR
Barbara Shailor, former international affairs director of the AFL-CIO, has been named U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT’S NEW SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR AFFAIRS.
Shailor will lead State’s efforts to promote worker rights, conduct liaison with the global labor movement and focus on strengthening the labor officer operations in U.S. embassies around the world.
Shailor led the AFL-CIO International Department for nearly 15 years, serving as senior adviser to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and AFL-CIO President Emeritus John Sweeney on foreign and international policy issues. Prior to joining the AFL-CIO staff, Shailor served as international affairs director for the Machinists.
A State Department announcement says Shailor is internationally recognized for her lifelong work to secure economic, social, and political rights for workers in the U.S. and throughout the world.
The Bush administration did not fill the special representative position, and the job has been vacant since 2002….
…On June 7, Cathy Feingold will take over as director of international affairs for the AFL-CIO, succeeding Shailor.
http://www.muckety.com/AFL-CIO/5014338.mucketyhttp://blog.aflcio.org/2010/06/03/shailor-named-to-state-department-post/
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Barbara_Shailor
Barbara Shailor’s husband is Robert L. Borosage –
ROBERT L. BOROSAGE is the president of the Institute for America’s Future and co-director of its sister organization, the Campaign for America’s Future.
The organizations were launched by 100 prominent Americans to challenge the rightward drift in U.S. politics, and to develop the policies, message and issue campaigns to help forge an enduring majority for progressive change in America.
http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/robert_l_borosage.html
ROBERT L BOROSAGE
…In a November 2002 L.A. Weekly article, The Nation editor David Corn quoted what Borosage had said backstage during a recent anti-war rally sponsored by International A.N.S.W.E.R.
Robert Borosage – key IPS marxist leader who later went on to head the marxist-oriented Open Society Institute‘s Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) of extreme leftist George Soros.
“A recent State Department appointee is wife to the founder of a radical organization whose leaders include a socialist party founder, communists and a leader of the 1960s anti-American Weather Underground terrorist organization.”
“….Robert Borosage, is a longtime progressive activist who co-founded the Apollo Alliance, far-left group that has been instrumental in helping draft key policies of the Obama administration.”
Borosage was, for many years, a leader of the Marxist Institute for Policy Studies , and was prominently featured in S. Steven Powell’s book Covert Cadre, about this organization. He was behind many of their most successful penetrations of the media and Congress, and he amassed a well-documented list of support for various communist/marxist causes (which will be listed at his KW page site).
According to Corn, BORAGE STATED:
“This [rally] is easy to dismiss as the radical fringe, but it holds the potential for a larger movement down the road…. HISTORY SHOWS THAT PROTESTS ARE ORGANIZED FIRST BY MILLITANT, RADICAL FRINGE PARTIES AND THEN GET TAKEN OVER BY MORE CENTRIST VOICES AS THE MOVEMENT GROWS. They provide a vessel for people who want to protest.”…
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1170
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Robert_Borosage
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Institute_for_Policy_Studies
ROGER HICKEY is a co-founder of the Institute for America’s Future, a sister organization to the Campaign for America’s Future, which supports welfare bloat, socialized medicine, income redistribution, gun control, and open borders.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1183
CATHY FEINGOLD (NEW DIRECTOR OF AFL-CIO INTERNATIONAL SUCCEEDING SHAILOR –
Washington, D.C. – The AFL-CIO today announced that Cathy Feingold will take over as Director of International Affairs for the AFL-CIO beginning June 1. Feingold succeeds Barbara Shailor, who is moving to the United States Department of State to serve as Special Representative for International Labor Affairs. Shailor served as International Affairs Director for nearly 15 years.
Feingold has been with the AFL-CIO for 10 years, starting in the International Affairs Department before moving to the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center.) She has served the last three years as director of the Solidarity Center in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Feingold is a MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (whose coordinating things along with their global counterparts) and most recently worked in Haiti to promote good jobs with fair wages as part of the post earthquake redevelopment effort. The AFL-CIO’s International Affairs Department works with unions throughout the world to strengthen solidarity and promote freedom of association and collective bargaining….
http://www.aflcio.org/mediacenter/prsptm/pr04192010a.cfm
CATALIST
People related to Catalist:
Patricia Bauman – board of managers member
Albert J. Dwoskin – board of managers member
Harold M. Ickes – president
Tom Novick – board of managers member
Michael Podhorzer – board of managers member (AFL-CIO – deputy director, political department)
Laura Quinn – CEO
Vijay Ravindran – CTO
Gerald Rosenfeld – CTO
Michael J. Warren – board of managers member
Other current Catalist relationships:2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign – client
AFL-CIO – client
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee – client
EMILY’s List – client
Catalist past relationships:2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign – client
GEORGE SOROS – investor
Use mouse…
http://www.muckety.com/Catalist/5024587.muckety
INSTITUTE FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE
INSTITUTE FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE is an American THINK TANK which distributes reports, gathers and processes information, and does analysis of various progressive causes. Its issues of focus include the environmental, energy, and health care, social security, education and congressional accountability. The Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
The Institute has a sister organization called CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE which is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization which takes the information and analysis done by the Institute and proposes progressive solutions.
The Institute also funds a popular website, TomPaine.com, which offers news, opinion and policy analysis from a progressive perspective.
The Institute also established a joint project with the Center on Wisconsin Strategy called the Apollo Alliance, which is a 501(c)(3) think tank that deals with energy issues.
(ROBERT L. BOROSAGE HUSBAND OF BARBARA SHAILOR)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_America%27s_Future
“WE ARE ONE” Activism at their site – see MLK VIDEO…
http://www.ourfuture.org/institute/http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1183
THE CENTER ON WISCONSIN STRATEGY – (remember the COWS at the Madison protest) –
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy is a progressive policy institute housed on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It was FOUNDED IN 1991 by UW Professor JOEL ROGERS[1] as a center organized around the concept of “high road” economic development: a path to decent jobs, stronger communities, environmental sustainability, and public accountability. Its work includes research, policy, and projects, generally falling into the major categories of work and wages, energy, and government innovation.
The earliest efforts of COWS were directed at workforce development in Wisconsin and rust-belt states that were losing manufacturing jobs. Since 1996, the center has published a biennial report, The State of Working Wisconsin[2], that quantifies and analyzes trends in that state’s workforce. The work and wages focus continues, but has grown national and has evolved to include “green jobs” that provide family-sustaining wages, for instance in energy efficiency retrofitting.
One of COWS’ most seminal publications in that field is GREENER PATHWAYS,[3] WRITTEN IN COLLABORATION with THE WORKFORCE ALLIANCE and the APOLLO ALLIANCE.
In the 21st century, the focus of COWS EXPANDED to include a number of separate projects aimed at government leaders across the nation who can affect policy in their regions. With Madison Mayor DAVE CIESLEWICZ, COWS co-founded the Mayors Innovation Project. It later added the Center for State Innovation. BOTH PROJECTS ARE AIMED AT HELPING ELECTED OFFICIALS PURSUE PROGRESSIVE POLICIES to improve the lives of their constituents.
COWS also HELPED LAUNCH organizations like the Apollo Alliance and the Economic Analysis Research Network (EARN). The Center on Wisconsin Strategy is a 501(c)(3) organization funded primarily through GRANTS from foundation including:
Alfred P. SLOAN Foundation,
Annie E. CASEY Foundation,
CARNEGIE Corporation of New York,
CAROLYN Foundation,
FORD Foundation,
GARFIELD Foundation,
LIVING CITIES,
JOYCE Foundation,
NATHAN CUMMINGS Foundation,[4]
OPEN SOCIETY Institute,
ROCKEFELLER Foundation,
SURDNA Foundation,
WALLACE GLOBAL Fund.
WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_on_Wisconsin_Strategyhttp://www.cows.org/
STAFF – JOEL ROGERS –
http://www.cows.org/about_staff.asp
JOEL ROGERS BIO
http://www.cows.org/about_staff_detail.asp?id=1
COLLABORATIONS –
http://www.cows.org/collab_index.asp
HENRY A. WALLACE FOUNDATION – (pop control and supposedly the environment)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wallace_Global_Fund
WALLACE GENETIC FOUNDATION
DIRECTORS
Sara Fritz – Acting President, Author and reporter
Margaret Engel – Alicia Patterson Foundation
Gary Fields – The Wall Street Journal
Brant Houston – University of Illinois
George Lardner – Center for the Study of the Presidency
**CHARLES LEWIS – Investigative Reporting Workshop
Deborah Nelson – Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Clarence Page – Chicago Tribune
Terence Smith – The NewsHour
Patrick J. Sloyan – Newsday (Gannett)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fund_for_Investigative_Journalismhttp://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wallace_Genetic_Foundationhttp://www.wallacegenetic.org/board.php
JEAN WALLACE DOUGLAS (dtr of Henry A Wallace)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jean_Douglas
DAVID DOUGLAS (Husband of Jean Wallace Douglas) also on the board and a fellow at the BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE –
THE BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE, which describes itself as a “A PROJECT OF ROCKEFELLER PHILANTROPY ADVISORS”, IS A THINK TANK established by MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER and TED NORDHAUS – (Time magazine named them “Heroes of the Environment 2008” –
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER CO-FOUNDED APOLLO ALLIANCE along with JOEL ROGERS).
On its website it states that it is “COMMITTED TO CREATING A NEW PROGRESSIVE POLITICS, one that is large, aspirational, and asset-based. We believe that any effective politics must speak to core needs and values, not issues and interests, and we thus situate ourselves at the intersection of politics, policy, philosophy, and the social sciences.”[1]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Douglashttp://www.thebreakthrough.org/staff.shtml
APOLLO ALLIANCE BOARD MEMBERS
CHAIRMAN –
Phil Angelides, President, Riverview Capital Investments
MEMBERS
Robert Borosage, President, Institute for America’s Future
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Chief Executive Officer, Green For All
Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers Union
Gerald Hudson, International Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union
Mindy Lubber, President, CERES
Nancy McFadden, Executive Secretary for Legislation, Appointments and Policy, State of California
Terence M. O’Sullivan, General President, Laborers’ International Union of North America
Ellen Pao, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Michael Peck, Founder, MAPA Incorporated
John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress (advisor Tom Daschele in the late 90’s)
Carl Pope, Chairman, Sierra Club
Dan W. Reicher, Executive Director, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University
Jerome Ringo, Senior Executive for Global Strategies, Green Port
Joel Rogers, Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy (one of the top 100 people to bring about “change” in America)
BIO’s at site…
http://apolloalliance.org/about/board/
CHARLES LEWIS – (SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION Advisory Board) –
Charles Lewis co-founded – The Center for Public Integrity (supposedly on a shoestring)- funded initially by Freedom Forum, also funded by Soros, etc
Board of Directors
BILL BUZENBERG (ex-NPR VP NEWS) Executive Director,
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR,
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON,
CHARLES LEWIS,
SUSAN LOEWENBERG,
BEVIS LONGSTRETH,
CRAIG NEWMARK (craigslist),
FREDERIC SEEGAL (advised Gannett, Time Warner…),
MARIANNE SZEGEDY-MASZAK (worked at Newsday…),
MATT THOMPSON (NPR) etc…
http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/our_people/board_of_directors/
http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/our_people/executive_director/Advisory Board
PAUL A. VOLCKER, Craig Newmark…
http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/our_people/advisory_board/
The Center for Public Integrity is starting a new site this month…
The center will continue to collaborate with other media outlets like NPR, ABC and The New York Times to distribute and produce content.
ARTICLES FROM THE CENTER ARE ALSO FEATURED ON THE HUFFINGTON POST AS PART OF ITS MERGER LAST YEAR WITH THE HUFFINGTON POST’S INVESTIGATIVE ARM.
The center will continue to receive money from philanthropic organizations and individual donors. Last year, it won a $1.7 million grant from the John S. and James L. KNIGHT FOUNDATION (closely affiliated w/ Gannett via Freedom Forum) for the completion of a digital newsroom and an additional $250,000 grant to support its merger with the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. As part of the merger, the center also received $2 million in grants and financing from the investigative fund.
The Web site will be available on April 12.
FUNDING –
“However, Meyerson and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman have attacked House Speaker Dennis Hastert for raising questions about where Soros gets his money.”
http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-hidden-soros-agenda-drugs-money-the-media-and-political-power/
SUNLIGHT claims they “broke the story” on Dennis Hastert…Dennis Hastert stuck it to Soros bigtime and all he got in return was a shafting. Bill Moyers and Schlesinger wrtoe intros for the Center when they first started…
Here’s a story on Gannett by the Center but no word of the funding…
http://projects.publicintegrity.org/telecom/search/profile.aspx?id=M000093
JOHN DECKER – GANNETT Co., Inc. (he also cofounded muckety who got a newseum award) but it’s a BIG corp…
http://www.muckety.com/Query?SearchResult=7949&SearchResult=5000759&graph=MucketyMap?_r=2D
Trustees of the Freedom Forum, Newseum and Diversity Institute.
FREEDOM FORUM
ALLEN H. NEUHARTH
Cocoa Beach, Fla.
Founder of the Freedom Forum and Newseum; founder of USA TODAY and former chairman and chief executive officer, GANNETT Co.
JUDY C. WOODRUFF (advisor even before Buzenberg was hired)
Washington, D.C.
Journalist, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
JAN NEUHARTH (Dtr of Allen)
Middleburg, Va.
President, Paper Chase Farms (it doesn’t state it but I believe she’s a lawyer for Gannett Inc who also has contracts with the Defense Dept – Gannett, it appears, is more than a newsmedia mogul).
Jan Neuharth –
http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=11324199http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=11324199http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=7692105
BETTE BAO LORD
New York City
Author
Bette Bao Lord is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She was a director from 1998 to 2003. Lord is chairman of FREEDOM HOUSE (1993-2001) [1], ALLEGED TO BE A CFR FRONT ORGANIZATION (interesting that this leftie site would include that..). Her name is associated with Voice of America and the Asia Foundation. Director of The Freedom Forum and the International Campaign for Tibet.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bette_Bao_Lordhttp://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Rescue_Committee
Winston Lord – Husband
Winston Lord is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations From 1977 to 1985, Lord was president of that organization. Lord served as U.S. Ambassador to China 1985-89 during the Ronald Reagan administration. Under William Jefferson Clinton, Lord served as Assistant Secretary of State for Asian and Pacific Affairs. He is U.S. Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
Winston Lord is married to Bette Bao Lord. His mother is Mary PILLSBURY Lord. From 1973 to 1977, he was Director of the Policy Planning Staff in the State Department. He has also served in the U.S. Government as Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor (1970- 73), on the National Security Council staff (1969-70), and on the Policy Planning Staff in International Security Affairs at the Defense Department (1967-69)….
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Winston_Lord
Winston Bao Lord – Son
“Most recently, Winston was a Principal at Portfolio Logic, a private equity firm. Its founder, Jeff Zients, now serves as President Obama’s Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget…
more trustees at site…
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Winston_Bao_Lord
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=18012
NEWSEUM
JUDY C. WOODRUFF
Washington, D.C.
Journalist, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
BETTE BAO LORD
New York City
Author
GEORGE IRISH
New York City
Vice president and eastern director, Hearst Foundations
ALBERTO IBARGÜEN
Miami
President and chief executive officer, John S. and James L. KNIGHT FOUNDATION (see above on the $1.7 million grant the Center for Public Integrity “won”)
GARY L. GINSBERG
New York City
Executive vice president, Time Warner
SHELBY COFFEY III
McLean, Va.
Former editor, Los Angeles Times, president, CNN Business News, and executive vice president, ABC News
STEVE CAPUS
New York City
President, NBC News
KATHY CALVIN
Ellicott City, Md.
Executive vice president and chief operating officer, UN Foundation
CHARLES L. OVERBY, chairman and chief executive officer
Brentwood, Tenn.
Former newspaper editor and former vice president/news, Gannett Co.
MARGARET CARLSON
Washington, D.C.
Chief political columnist, Bloomberg News
continued…
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=18010
Diversity Institute
CHARLES L. OVERBY, chairman and chief executive officer
Brentwood, Tenn.
Former newspaper editor and former vice president/news, Gannett Co.
NICHOLAS ZEPPOS
Nashville, Tenn.
Chancellor, Vanderbilt University
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=18013
The state-controlled MSM depend on each other as resources for their lying stories. Examples – factcheck, snopes, Sunlight Foundation, Center for Public Integrity, mediamatters, moveon etc.
Here’s a story where mediamatters used factcheck and then embellished from there…
http://mediamatters.org/research/201103310023?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4d99aa6b581f6260,0
Obama started off his reelection campaign in Harlem a few weeks ago. I wonder did he visit the Drum Major Institute where ANDREA BATISTA SCHLESINGER used to work as Director before she because an advisor to Mayor Bloomberg.
“Andrea has doubled DMI’s staff, capacity and budget, making it a leading source for progressive ideas.
Soros connection
On November 29, 2006 Open Society Institute held a roundtable discussion entitled
“How Do Progressives Connect Ideas to Action?”
Individuals and organizations with similarly progressive goals often dilute their power by working alone or even working at cross-purposes. As Americans who are politically left of center move forward, questions of infrastructure, communication, and collaboration are particularly important.
Participants included several key leaders of the “progressive” movement[2];
JOEL ROGERS University of Wisconsin Law School
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL The Nation editor.
JOHN PODESTA Center for American Progress etc
Center for Working Families (ACORN affiliate)
In 2008 Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Drum Major Institute served on the advisory board of Center for Working Families.[3]
Take Back America (see the Institutions above)
On March 17, 2008, at the Take Back America conference in Washington D.C. Larry Cohen, Roger Hickey, Robert Kuttner and Andrea Batista Schlesinger spoke in a session entitled
“Out of the Hole: An Economy that Works for Working People”.[4]
http://keywiki.org/index.php/Andrea_Batista_Schlesinger
DRUM MAJOR INSTITUTE (Why would Morris Pearl from Blackrock be on their Board of Directors?)and then there’s Randi Weingarten, United Federation of Teachers plus the old Clintonite – Bernard (Bernie) Nussbaum …
http://keywiki.org/index.php/Drum_Major_Institute
DMI 2003 Annual Benefit:
Honoring Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rep. Charles B. Rangel for their work in securing the extension of unemployment benefits, illustrating the progressive ideal that governments act to protect the interest of the people.
Presenting the Drum Major for Justice Award to:
Anthony L.Watson, Chairman & CEO, HIP Health Plan of New York
Benefit Co-Chairmen:
Honorable H. Carl McCall, Director, Health Point
LEO HINDERY, Jr., Chairman & CEO,
The YES Network (as in Leo Hindery of PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA donor to Media Matters),
Fernando Ferrer, President, Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
Friday June 6, 2003
VIP Reception 5:30 – 6:30 PM
General Reception 6:00 PM
1199/SEIU Cherkasky-Davis Conference Center
330 West 42nd Street / Penthouse
http://drummajorinstitute.org/events/unique_event.php?ID=32
DONORS – Rockefeller, SEIU, Teachers etc
http://www.drummajorinstitute.org/pdfs/2003ar.pdf
DMI 2005 Annual Benefit: Honoring Harry Belafonte and Arianna Huffington for Speaking Truth to Power
Host committee –
David Axelrod, John Catsimitidis, Bruce Charash, Con Edison, Jennifer Cunningham, Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas, Mark Gallogy and Lise Strickler, Danny Goldberg, Jeffrey Gural, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Martin Luther King III, Hon. H. Carl McCall, Daniel T. McGowan, Chris McNickle, Open Society Institute, Morris Pearl, Andrew Rasiej, Bruce Raynor and Amalgamated Bank, Dennis Rivera, Stephen Siegel, William Wachtel, Tom Watson, Melvyn I. Weiss
Event moderated by Andrea Batista Schlesinger,
2005 – Drum Major for Justice Award presented to Harry Belafonte by Ambassador Andrew Young
2005 – Drum Major for Justice Award presented to Arianna Huffington by Al Franken, The Al Franken Show, Air America Radio
with remarks by William Wachtel, DMI Founder.
http://www.drummajorinstitute.org/events/unique_event.php?ID=5
“Drum Major Institute for Public Policy is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to challenging the tired orthodoxies that impede the achievement of social and economic justice.”
http://www.drummajorinstitute.org/library/pressrelease.php?ID=25
Andrea Batista Schlesinger studied public policy at the University of Chicago (where else). Works for Bloomberg, sent a nasty twitter to Sarah Palin, telling her ti mind her own business about the 9-11 mosque. Drum Major claims to be for the middle class (as does Fabian Socialism). Writes for the usual leftie media especially the Nation. You can buy her book for a dollar at the progressive book club.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Andrea+Batista+Schlesinger&form=MS8TDF&pc=MS8TDF&src=IE-SearchBox
QUADRANTONE (partnered in ads):-
Gannett Co., Inc. – PARTNER
Hearst Newspapers – PARTNER
New York Times Co.- PARTNER
Tribune Company – PARTNER
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Gannett Company Inc
http://www.mediaowners.com/company/gannett.html
Hearst Newspapers
http://www.mediaowners.com/company/hearst.html
New York Times Company
http://www.mediaowners.com/company/newyorktimes.html
Tribune
http://www.mediaowners.com/company/tribune.html
The New York Times Company profile and media properties –
Janet L. Robinson is the CEO of The New York Times Company. The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is an American media company which publishes major newspapers including The New York Times, The Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune, along with about 20 other regional newspapers in the United States.
Originally called the New York Daily Times, the New York Times was first published on September 18, 1851. The newspaper was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones. A few years later, in 1856, Raymond was also one of the founders of The Associated Press.
Adolph S. Ochs acquired the New York Times in 1896, and he led the newspaper to achieve the international prominence it holds today. Ochs coined the newspaper’s slogan “All The News That’s Fit To Print.” The Times moved into a new office building at the beginning of the 20th century, and the area was named Times Square in 1904. Nine years later, the Times opened an annex at 229 43rd Street, which is the current company headquarters.
The New York Times nickname, “the gray lady,” is thought to have been coined around 1950 and to be taken from the phrase “the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street,” long used to describe the Bank of England.
Until 2007, The New York Times Company owned nine local television stations which operated as a unit called the Broadcast Media Group. On May 7, 2007, the TV stations were sold to Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity firm, for $575 million.
In 2009, the company sold its classical music radio station WQXR, which it had owned for 65 years, to WNYC for $45 million.
The New York Times Company holds a stake in the Boston Red Sox and two paper mills in the US and Canada. It operates web sites through New York Times Digital and About.com, acquired in March 2005 from Primedia for $410 million.
The descendants of Adolph Ochs, principally the Sulzberger family, control the New York Times Company through the Ochs-Sulzberger family trust. The trust owns a majority of the Class B shares and elects nine of 13 directors to the New York Times board. The family also owns about 19 percent of the Class A shares. Effectively, other owns of the Class A shares have no say in the management of the company.
In 2009, The New York Times Company had revenues of $2.4 billion, down sharply from $3.4 billion in 2005.
(note – Michael Golden AP is a cousin of Sulzberger)
In Alabama:
Florence Times Daily
Gadsden Times
Tuscaloosa News
In California:
North Bay Business Journal
Petaluma Argus-Courier
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
In Florida:
Gainesville Sun
Lakeland Ledger
Ocala Star Banner
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Winter Haven News Chief
In Louisiana:
Houma Courier
Thibodaux Daily Comet
In Massachusetts:
Boston Globe
Clinton Item
West Boylston Banner
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
In New York:
New York Times
In North Carolina:
Hendersonville Times News
Lexington Dispatch
Wilmington Star News
In South Carolina:
Spartanburg Herald-Journal
In France:
International Herald Tribune
NBC stations will use content from nonprofit news outlets (not only NBC)
December 5th, 2011
Ten NBC-owned television stations across the nation will team with nonprofit news outlets in an attempt to beef up their enterprise and analytical reporting, the network announced Monday.
NBC affiliates in Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia will work with work with non-commercial outfits in those cities — KPCC public radio, the Chicago Reporter and WHYY public radio and television, respectively — while all of the network’s owned-and-operated stations will get early access to investigative reports from the independent, nonprofit newsroom Pro Publica.
ProPublica, a New York-based Web operation that already shares content with many news organizations, will give NBC stations an early look at databases it develops on a range of complicated subjects. Its previous projects have, among other things, showed which doctors took payments from drug companies, rated the quality of care at dialysis centers and the performance of secondary schools.
Other Partnerships: 60 Minutes, CNN, ABC World News, USA Today, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Politico, Salon.com, Slate, MSN Money, MSNBC.com, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, Business Week, This American Life, and US taxpayer supported NPR.
ProPublica was founded by billionaires Herbet and Marion Sandler. They once gave $11 million dollars to ACORN, after receiving the money, ACORN went to war with Wachovia bank, who at the time was a direct competitor with the Sandler’s. The Sandlers are members of the Democracy Alliance with George Soros. They are financing lift-wing movements all over North America, Europe, and Eurasia. One can now see why so many of them have the same story with the same wording in unison. Would we have known anything about 9-11 Libyan attack except for Fox News and the newmedia? The people on the Board of many leftists nonprofit organizations are millionaires and billionaires. One sees the same names crop up again and again. One could label them according to their …UN, News Media, Human Rights,
NBC has reached an agreement to broadcast news content provided by a media organisation run by a team that has ploughed millions of dollars into campaigning for Barack Obama and donated large cash amounts to organisations such as the George Soros affiliated MoveOn.org and the now defunct ACORN.
What is this doing to the community based for-profit sites and newspapers providing local community news? Is this an attempt to grab advertising disguised as community service or being Nationalized, such as Pravda of the past, a Global Goebbels conglomerate?
What is this doing to the community based for-profit sites and newspapers providing local community news? Is this an attempt to grab advertising disguised as community service or being Nationalized, such as Pravda of the past, a Global Goebbels conglomerate?
PROPUBLICA:
FUNDING: Soros..Sandlers…
http://www.infowars.com/nbc-news-content-to-be-provided-by-billionaire-obama-moveon-donors/
ProPublica is a non-profit corporation based in New York City. It describes itself as an independent non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.[2] In 2010 it became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize, for a piece[3] written by one of its journalists[4][5]
EDITOR IN CHIEF: PAUL STEIGER
Paul Steiger (born 1942) was managing editor of The Wall Street Journal from 1991 until May 15, 2007.[1] He is currently editor at large for The Wall Street Journal and a vice president of DOW JONES & Company. He chairs the COMMITTE to PROTECT JOURNALISTS and has won numerous journalism awards. He is editor-in-chief of ProPublica, an “independent, non-profit newsroom”,[3] which commenced operations in 2008. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. (iow – a traitor) [4]
GENERAL MANAGER – RICHARD TOFEL
Richard Tofel is the general manager of ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism organization in New York. Previously, he was the president and chief operating officer of the INTERNATIONAL FREEDOM CENTER. Mr. Tofel took over that position in October 2004.
He is a member of the board of trustees of Wildcat Service Corp., the advisory board of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program in Economics and Business Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Tofel …On December 12, 2010, he married JANICE NITTOLI. (she worked for the Rockefeller Foundation as director of the Campaign for American Workers, program dedicated to public policy reform and providing workers with greater access to health care and retirement savings and income. She became President of the Century Foundation one year later. MORTON ABRAMOWITZ is a Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation. He’s also a director of the National Endowment for Democracy, and past president of Carnegie Endowment for Internation Peace. Abramowitz and MARK MALLOCH BROWN started the International Crisis Group. Brown (UN, oil for food/millenneum, friend of Soros, butted heads with Rush, Fox, Bolton), Abramowitz, and Fred Cuny (disappeared) started ICG. Janice Nittoli, associate vice president and managing director of the Rockefeller Foundation, is currently President of the Foundation.Abramowitz along with Mark Mollach Brown who is a close friend of George Soros – worked at the UN – defended Oil for Food and the missing $350 mil…
CPJ’s board of directors has included prominent US journalists including Christiane Amanpour, Tom Brokaw, Anne Garrels, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Gwen Ifill, Jane Kramer, Anthony Lewis, Dave Marsh, Kati Marton, Michael Massing, Victor Navasky, Andres Oppenheimer, Clarence Page, Norman Pearlstine, Dan Rather, John Seigenthaler, and Mark Whitaker.
NB: Propublica – won a Pulitzer Prize within a year of going online with their medium – no surprise as these Soros-type start-ups always get an award in order to give them prestige and “credibility”.
Freedom House
by Barbara Alto
[T]he Council [on Foreign Relations] plays a special part in helping to bridge the gap between the two parties, affording unofficially a measure of continuity when the guard changes in Washington. In theory at least, the Council comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite — a group of men, similar in interest and outlook, shaping events from INVULNERABLE positions behind the scenes…It has been called a government in exile. 1.
This dichotomy is also mentioned by Michael Howard in The Occult Conspiracy:
Initially the CFR was regarded by its critics as an elitist, right-wing power group and it was even accused of helping finance Hitler’s rise to power… Following the Second World war however, the CFR has been labeled a promoter of international socialism through the United Nations. Conspiracy theorists claim it was the CFR who supported Henry Wallace’s plan to have the Illuminist symbol of the eye in the triangle on the one dollar note [1945]. The CFR’s apparent contradictory political ideals are said to be typical of modern Illuminati front groups which allegedly use both right and left ideologies to further their cause which transcends conventional politics.
In the eyes of their opponents, the CFR is currently dedicated to destroying the sovereignty of the United States, reversing the democratic process which instigated the 1776 American Revolution, promoting internationalism and the foundation of a world super state embracing both capitalism and communism in a new political order. The evidence for this seems to be largely based on the neutral stance adopted by the CFR in American politics. It has recruited its membership from both the Democratic and Republican parties, and leading members of the CFR have included Adlai Stevenson, Robert and Edward Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, John Foster Dulles, Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger and Nelson Rockefeller. Several men who later became Presidents of the United States were CFR members earlier in their political careers such as Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter. 2.
Dr. Carroll Quigley, CFR member, college mentor of President Clinton and author of Tragedy and Hope, identified the Council on Foreign Relations as a joint venture of the private sector with the objective of controlling government:
… the powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.
In “The Shadow Government of the United States and The Decline of America,” (11/94) Richard D. Eastman stated that CFR domination of the last three Administrations reveals 347 under Reagan, 382 under Bush, and 387 under Clinton (over 1 in 8 of their total membership).
The Occult Conspiracy also described the Internationalist Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission:
Both the Bilderbergs and the Trilateralists act as shadow governments promoting internationalist policies of European unity and world government. They act as a form of political Freemasonry offering world leaders and national insiders the chance to meet in secret to exchange information and discuss undisclosed social changes which can be put into practice in their respective countries. 3.
The Trilateral Commission was created by David Rockefeller and CFR member Zbigniew Brezinski with the goal of economic linkage between Japan, Europe, and the United States, and: “…managing the world economy…a smooth and peaceful evolution of the global system.” Brezenski, National Security Advisor to President Carter, CFR member and first Director of the Trilateral Commission wrote of a society controlled by a Power Elite in his 1970 book, Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era:
***The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.***
Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites…[whose] ties cut across national boundaries… It is likely that before long the social elites of most advanced countries will be highly internationalist or globalist in spirit and outlook….
Within a few years the rebels in the more advanced countries who today have the most visibility will be joined by a new generation making its claim to power in government and business… accepting as routine managerial processes current innovations such as planning-programming-budgeting systems (PPBS) … A national information grid that will integrate existing electronic data banks is already being developed…. The projected world information grid, for which Japan, Western Europe, and the United States are most suited, could create the basis for a common educational program, for the adoption of common academic standards….
The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty. … In the economic-technological field, some international cooperation has already been achieved, but further progress will require greater American sacrifices. More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken, with some consequent risk to the present relatively favorable American position.
The previous report on Hudson Institute documented that the crafters of the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act (HR2431), are the very Power Elites who gave us GOALS 2000, the federal government’s plan to radically restructure American education and society.
Knowing this and having Mr. Brezinski’s assurance that said elites would be unrestrained by traditional values, we are not surprised that Hudson Institute is directed by members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group:
Freedom House
According to We Hold These Truths, in 1996 Hudson Scholar, Michael Horowitz, teamed up with Nina Shea, head of the Freedom House Puebla Institute for Religious Freedom, to launch a high-priced campaign for promotion of the federal religious monitoring bill:
At least $2 million dollars was spent entertaining leaders of the Christian right in order to condition them to accept, and even demand, the… WOLF-SPECTER BILL, HR2431. This figure is the author’s estimate of the Warmaker’s investment, based upon a conservative guess of cost of the promotion detailed by Nina Shea in her book [IN THE LION’S DEN], more money than Trotsky carried in his brief case when he was shipped to Russia in 1917 to buy a government!
Freedom House, which aspires to monitor democracy and human rights worldwide, presents itself as apolitical and humanitarian:
Non-partisan and broad-based, Freedom House is led by a Board of Trustees composed of leading Democrats, Republicans, and independents; business and labor leaders; former senior government officials; scholars; writers; and journalists. Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom, which was established in 1986 as the Puebla Institute, reports on the persecution of religious believers around the world and undertakes advocacy on their behalf. It is now at the forefront of the widely-publicized national campaign to defend those suffering severe oppression for their faith. The Center documents and publicizes the repression, torture, imprisonment, and exile of groups and individuals for religious reasons.
Omitted is the fact (revealed by WHTT) that the founders of Freedom House also established the United Nations and that the Freedom House board is dominated by a majority of CFR members:
FREEDOM HOUSE was founded in 1943 by Wendell Wilkey (sic) and Eleanor Roosevelt to promote world government, and specifically for the creation of the United Nations, which was accomplished three years later. Nineteen members of the inter-nationalist COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS dominate its Board.
Our own research identified twenty-five (25) CFR members on the board of Freedom House. Most are heavyweights in the international scene.
Freedom House Board of Trustees Freedom House Free Cuba Center National Forum Foundation
[NFF merged with Freedom House in 1997]
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Bette Bao Lord, Chairman of the Board (CFR, Bilderberg)
(Husband Winston Lord was Chairman of CFR, Trilateral, Bilderberg, Skull & Bones, he’s also an old China Hand )
Max M. Kampelman, Chair Emeritus (CFR; Vice Pres., United States Institute of Peace
Leo Cherne, Chair Emeritus (CFR, Founding member Hudson Institute, Founder International Rescue Committee [CIA conduit for neo-Bukharinite {fascist} operations]; B’nai B’rith)
Mark Palmer, Vice Chairman (CFR; President and CEO Television Development Partners, Inc.; U.S.Ambassador to Hungary from 1986-90; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in 1982-86
Kenneth L. Adelman, Secretary (CFR; Former Dir. U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Nat. Editor, The Washingtonian)
Adrian Karatnycky, President (CFR, Publisher Freedom Review Publisher; Conservative author, American Spectator)
TRUSTEES
Morton Abramowitz (CFR; President of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research – also a friend of Soros and one of the founders of the infamous International Crisis Group)
Zbigniew Brzezinski (CFR; First Director of Trilateral Commission/former National Security Adviser)
William C. Doherty, Jr. (CFR; President, American Institute for Free Labor Development)
Richard Gardner (CFR, TC, Former Ambassador to Spain, Italy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson – also belongs to the International Crisis Group)
Theodore J. Forstmann (CFR, Director, International Rescue Committee, Director, Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund)
Samuel P. Huntington (CFR, Formerly on National Security Council, Professor of Government, Harvard, Chairman, Olin Center for Strategic Studies. Author, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, Clash Of Civilizations)
John T. Joyce (CFR, Pres. Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, Vice Chair, Center for National Policy)
Lane Kirkland (Former President of CFR, TC, Former Pres. AFL-CIO)
Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick (Former Director of CFR; Ambassador to UN; TC; Co-Director, Empower America; Board Member, American Spectator)
Morton Kondracke (CFR; Executive Editor, Roll Call; PBS TV McLaughlin Group Panelist)
Anthony Lake (CFR; Director, CIA/IPS – a Clintonite… more on him later…)
Jay Mazur (CFR, TC; UNITE President-Elect; President, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union; Vice President, Executive Council AFL-CIO.
John Norton Moore (CFR; Chairman, U.S. Institute for Peace)
Susan Kaufmann Purcell (CFR)
Richard Ravitch (CFR; Treasurer and Trustee, Twentieth Century Fund)
Peter Rodman (CFR; Senior Editor, National Review)
Wendell L. Wilkie II (Chairman of Board, Twentieth Century Fox) [Wendell Wilkie I was CFR and founder of Freedom House]
Jacques D. Wimpfheimer (CFR; Trustee Emeritus, Thoroughbred Breeders & Owners Assoc.)
Paul Wolfowitz (CFR, Bilderberg; Dean, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; Former Ambassador to Republic of Indonesia; Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense; Visiting Distinguished Fellow, National Defense University; Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Director of Policy, U.S. Department of State)
Andrew Young (CFR, TC, Mason; Former civil rights leader; UN ambassador; President, National Council of Churches)
The House of Lord
The chairman of the board of Freedom House is Bette Bao Lord, whose husband Winston Lord served as Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1977 to 1985, when he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to China – he’s an old China Hand. Winston Lord is currently the Assistant Secretary for East Asian/Pacific Affairs (State Dept.) and special envoy to Red China. Red China has recently received an unconditional MFN trade status with the U.S. in spite of the fact that over 10,000 Chinese dissidents have been murdered since Tianemen Square. Winston Lord wrote in the August 4-ll, 1978 issue of “W” magazine: “The Tri Lateral Commission doesn’t secretly run the world, the Council of Foreign Relations does that.”
Bette Bao Lord has written books about China including Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic, Spring Moon, Eighth Moon, and In The Year of the Boar & Jackie Robinson. An Interview with Brian Lamb portrayed Mrs. Lord as an advocate of the oppressed.
In December 1997, Bette Bao Lord attended the state dinner honoring Chinese President Jiang Zemin immediately after addressing a Washington gathering of Chinese dissidents in exile and other protesters of the human rights violations in China. To explain her duplicity, Mrs. Lord, a native Chinese, stated that she chose to appear at the different forums to show Jiang that “people who disagree in America” are not threats to stability.
The following excerpt from Unholy Alliances reveals Freedom House officers to be seated with the Rockefellers and Clintons at the fulcrum of Illuminist power, i.e., the Order of Skull & Bones, Council on Foreign Relations, Institute for Policy Studies, the United Nations and National Council of Churches:
. . . Other privileged notables associated with The Order of Skull & Bones include the Lord family. Oswald Bates Lord (initiated 1926) married Mary Pillsbury of the Pillsbury flour family and Charles Edwin Lord II (initiated 1949) became acting Comptroller of the Currency 1981. The son of Oswald Bates Lord and Mary Pillsbury is Winston Lord (initiated 1959) who was chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1983 and today cavorts with David Rockefeller in creating friendly business with the ‘world community,’ especially Communist China. The Lord family legacy goes back much farther than 1926. Since 1854, at least six members of the Lord family have been initiated into The Order of Skull & Bones. In 1854 George Deforest Lord was initiated into The Order. He became a New York lawyer. Together with his father, Daniel Lord, the law firm of Lord, Day and Lord was established.
Today, one of Lord’s clients is the Samuel Rubin Foundation. Samuel Rubin was a registered member of the Communist Party. The Office of the Samuel Rubin Foundation in which Samuel Rubin’s daughter Cora Weiss was president, is located at 777 United Nations Plaza, which is known as the ‘Church Center to the United Nations.’…The Rubin Foundation is one of the Communist financiers for the radical Institute for Policy Studies which has infiltrated itself thoroughly into the American government.
The history of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) goes like this:
In 1960, James Jeremiah Wadsworth, a member of The Order of Skull & Bones (initiated 1927), and Arthur Waskow set up the Peace Research Institute. In 1963 this organization was incorporated by Marcus Raskin, a staff member of the National Security Council and an aide to Skull & Bones’ McGeorge Bundy (initiated 1940). Co-Contributors were:
Arthur Waskow, David Reisman, Michael Maccoby and Council on Foreign Relations member James Warburg. Grants came from the Samuel Rubin Foundation and the Stern Family Fund. Samuel Rubin was himself a member of the elite Comintern of the Communist Party, founded by none other than Lenin himself.
Billionaire Armand Hammer assisted Rubin in making the fortunes which helped launch IPS. Philip Stern, an IPS trustee, was the president of Stern Fund. The executive director of the Stern Fund, David R. Hunter, was previously an official of The National Council and the World Council Of Churches.
Here lies The Order’s tie-in with the Clintons. Hilary Clinton funded the IPS and other Communist organizations when she was Director and Chair of the Board of Directors of the New World Foundation in 1987-1988. Hillary had funded and praised The Order’s pro-Marxist IPS which the FBI had investigated for murders, espionage, terror bombings and kidnapping. Bill Clinton has now appointed many known IPS members to high government posts and one of his closest friends and advisors is IPS-Marxist DEREK SHEARER, a top economic advisor. Another top IPS-Marxist appointee is ANTHONY LAKE, now Clinton’s National Security Advisor. 4.
The Lord family is connected with Freedom House trustee and present National Security Advisor, Anthony Lake, through the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).
In Covert Cadre: Inside The Institute For Policy Studies, Dr. S. Powell stated:
***The Institute for Policy Studies is the preeminent intellectual center for Marxism today in this country… their agenda parallels the objectives of the Soviets – active measures and propaganda… 5.
***The IPS “five principal programs are: global economic justice, sustainable communities, economic and social rights, real security, and culture”:
The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is dedicated to ushering in a new progressive era in American history. From its inception in 1963, IPS has sought to strengthen the country’s most important social movements: the civil-rights and anti-war movements in the 1960s, the women’s and environmental movements in the 1970s, and the peace and anti-apartheid movements of the 1980s. Today, IPS continues to work with social movements, such as those promoting fair trade and sustainable communities.
For obvious reasons, syndicated column “Behind The Headlines” strongly protested Anthony Lake’s appointment as National Security Advisor and the President’s designee to head the Central Intelligence Agency:
Anthony Lake Is Wrong Man for Job The problem with Tony Lake, says Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, is that he ‘has shown a certain insouciance, to put it mildly, about the Kremlin’s efforts to infiltrate and suborn American intelligence agencies.’ Anthony Lake is the cabinet nominee who, in an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press last fall, expressed uncertainty as to the guilt or innocence of the Soviet Union’s most notorious American agent, convicted perjurer Alger Hiss.
Gaffney argues that such dainty diffidence ‘about the abiding counterintelligence threat from Moscow is clearly not what is needed in the next director of Central Intelligence. Moreover, as national security adviser, Tony Lake has evinced little appreciation of the necessity for an aggressive, proactive U.S. counterintelligence program.’
Gaffney charges that ‘the job of thwarting KGB penetrations before they occur has been made significantly more difficult by an initiative promoted by Mr. Lake in his capacity as the president’s top political appointee responsible for formulating and executing security policy.’ The Clinton administration has given Moscow ‘unprecedented access to America’s most sensitive agencies and fostered a climate that is antithetical to rigorous counterintelligence practices.’
“Gaffney is also troubled by Lake’s association ‘with radical Left organizations such as the Institute for Policy Studies and Center for National Security Studies during the 1970s and early 1980s.’ That association ‘put him in league with people who sought assiduously to curb the tools available to the FBI for domestic counterintelligence and to stymie or disrupt the CIA’s clandestine operations. The insidious long-term effects of those efforts,’ Gaffney contends, ‘are still being felt in today’s intelligence community.’
Gaffney considers the recent revelations about Russian spies ‘a helpful reminder that, whatever else may have changed following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Kremlin’s acute interest in collecting intelligence against the United States has not.’ Knowing that Russian spies have infiltrated our intelligence agencies, can we not assume that Chinese spies have done the same? (Mediachecker – > and one could also assume that Obama has given unpresedented access to the Muslim Brotherhood ) We can, and must, says Gaffney, for it is simply not plausible that the Chinese would ignore ‘the same opportunities that Moscow has so skillfully exploited over the past decade or so.’
Anthony Lake’s record with regard to China is even less reassuring. Gaffney reminds us that Lake ‘has overseen the Clinton administration’s relentless campaign to improve relations with Beijing. He has presided over presidential decisions that have had the effect of making American military installations, laboratories, technology, universities, and government entities more accessible to China. In particular, he had to have been aware of the ‘strategic access’ to the Clinton White House enjoyed by China.’ Under the circumstances, Gaffney concludes,
‘Tony Lake is clearly the wrong man for the CIA job.
Andrew Young & the NCC another Freedom House Trustee is the recently-elected President of the National Council of Churches, Andrew Young formerly a civil rights leader, UN ambassador , and currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Young once said that reputed communist Nelson Mandela, Marxist President of the Republic of South Africa, is “as close to being a saint as can be.” 6.
The NCC withheld endorsement of the Religious Persecution bill until certain qualifications were met which broaden the powers of the commission to penalize all human rights violations according to the U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The NCC recently began nationwide implementation of a “Church and Government” Program, an effort to establish better cooperation between church and state. This program is part of a “Partnership for Trust in Government” initiative supported by the Ford Foundation, which funds and whose members serve as trustees on the CFR. Ford Foundation’s Trust in Government project — a program to develop citizen support of the federal government — does its work through a network of public policy institutes based at leading universities across the United States.
James Wardner recorded: “Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch of the Fabian Society wrote in 1893: The only power that can make socialism succeed, if it is established, is religion. It cannot work in an irreligious country. Speaking of Rauschenbusch, Major Edgar Bundy, in his book, Collectivism in the Churches, said, ‘Socialism, thus was his first concern. Religion was only a means toward achieving socialism.’” 7.
Unholy Alliances documents that the National Council of Churches (originally the Federal Council of Churches) was vital to Rockefellers’ plan for a One World Religion:
The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America was used routinely by the Rockefellers to further their personal interests in church circles. Rockefeller donated to the Federal Council’s Department of Church and Economic Life and promoted the concept of an international church. This is how ‘ecumenism’ got its beginning as Rockefeller became the most important financier of liberal and ecumenical Protestantism. Whenever Rockefeller influence prevails, there are consistently found interlocking relationships with the Council on Foreign Relations. Three members of the Council on Foreign Relations involved with the Federal Council of Churches were:
1. Rev. Walter van Kirk – Federal Council Secretary and consultant to the American Delegation of the United Nations Conference…
2. Rev. Henry P. Van Dusen – Professor of Systematic Theology and President of Union Theological Seminary [a Rockefeller subsidiary]…
3. Rev. Reinhold Niebhur – Professor of Applied Christianity and Dean of the Union Theological Seminary… “John Foster Dulles, a Rockefeller kinsman and agent, for many years dominated the Federal Council of Churches… For many years no conference or meeting of the Council was complete without an address by Dulles or one of the Rockefellers… The Federal Council of Churches changed its name to the National Council of Churches (NCC) on November 28, 1950.
“John Foster Dulles was a founder of the infamous Council on Foreign Relations and was Eisenhower’s Secretary of State. Eisenhower, in typical Masonic style, laid the cornerstone for the new building of the National Council of Churches, which just happened to stand across the street from the Rockefeller Riverside Church. The National Council of Churches’ building and the Riverside Church are even connected by an underground tunnel! 8.
Freedom House War On Sudan – Freedom House, obviously a front for the Council on Foreign Relations, is also committed to destroying national sovereignties and establishing world government. According to President Adrian Karatnycky, Freedom House, which has a staff of 40 and offices in New York, Washington, DC, Budapest, Bucharest, and KIEV, has influenced events for the better (or worse) in former Yugoslavia:
“China is the one great counter-example and an important one. But in Haiti, Bosnia, Burma and now in Serbia, there’s a decent and credible record. This is an activist Administration that looks for opportunities to press things in the right direction, when we can exert influence and lend our voice to ongoing events, like Serbia.”
According to WHTT, Freedom House (a.k.a. CFR) is also seeking to destroy the Sudanese government:
Sudan has been victimized by a massive propaganda blitz organized primarily through certain non-government organizations (NGOs), notably Freedom House, Christian Solidarity International and the defense establishment related Hudson Institute. Michael Horowitz, Director, Projects for Civil Justice at Hudson Institute, the author of the so-called FREEDOM FROM RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION ACT (HR2431), circulated a memo dated October 16th that goes hand in glove with Mr. Clinton’s action and does much to explain the administration’s move to sanction Sudan. In his memo, Michael Horowitz, has boasted a predetermined purpose of his bill was to overthrow the elected Government of Sudan. He has also implicated Congressman Frank Wolf in the scheme. Horowitz also stated that U.S. covert military aid is already being used to that end, in spite of diplomatic relations with The Republic of Sudan at the time.
In the ‘Memorandum’ dated October 16, 1997, written by Michael Horowitz to Frank Wolf (R-VA), Horowitz states, ‘–
WOLF-SPECTER’S SUDAN PROVISIONS — OPERATING IN CONCERT WITH COVERT U.S. MILITARY AID ALREADY PROVIDED TO OVERTHROW THE SUDANESE REGIME– SHOULD AND WILL RAPIDLY HELP BRING DOWN THE SUDANESE REGIME PRECISELY AS ANTI-APARTHEID LAWS CAUSED [IT] TO HAPPEN TO SOUTH AFRICA’S FORMER REGIME.’ (1) (emphasis is ours) Frank Wolf is the Congressional Sponsor of HR2431. The Memorandum further states that Wolf is the only Congressman to have visited Sudan. But the Sudanese Embassy has no record of issuing a visa to Wolf, although it has offered visas to any Congressman who will go to Sudan. It is believed Congressman Wolf entered the country illegally.
Freedom House Sudan Symposium – On November 6, 2007 at Georgetown University, the Center for Religious Freedom of Freedom House sponsored a conference for Christian college students from both secular and religious campuses. The purpose is to consider a “National Campaign of Conscience led by College Christians in Support of Persecuted Christians in Sudan.”
Speakers include: Freedom House author and promoter of HR2431/S772 Nina Shea, Most Rev. Edwin F. O’Brien (Catholic Military Archdiocese), Bill Bennett, Baroness Caroline Cox, Michael Horowitz, Steve McFarland and Charles Colson. Steve McFarland of the Christian Legal Society takes much credit for the passage of HR 2431. Of the keynote speaker, Baroness Cox, founder of Christian Solidarity International, more will be said in a forthcoming report.
Discussion Points
Although the agenda appears to begin with discussion of whether or not there are Biblical grounds for Christians to be activists, the progression of discussion points seems to assume that there is such a mandate. This is clearly a Process situation in which the opinions of group members are initially solicited, but the agenda has already been planned to follow a predetermined course.
Remember that in The Process, a facilitator frames the topic of discussion in a biased context and then skillfully carries the discussion along to its desired end — consensus. Peer pressure is used by the facilitator to keep independent thinkers in line until the discussion reaches the final phase, which is already included in The Agenda:
Discussion of such efforts as the American Civil Rights movement, the anti-Vietnam War protests, environmental awareness campaigns and the campaign against South African Apartheid. Common threads? Role of colleges, college students? Can Christian college students generate a campaign that will ignite the consciences of their colleagues and local communities? The country? Discuss special character — strengths and limitations — of Christian colleges, Christian students, and Christian student chapters at secular colleges.
Ramifications of a decisive commitment by American Christian college students to denounce the murder and persecution of Christians in Sudan. How will this commitment effect the world’s view of America? How will it effect other American groups’ view of Christians?
Drafting a Statement of Principles?
Objectives of a Campaign and Modes of Protest.
College Symposium on Sudan Endorsements include:
Cardinal Newman Society Christian Legal Society *Coalition for Christian Colleges & Universities Ethics & Religion Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention Institute on Religion and Democracy InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
*The Coalition for Christian Colleges & Universities
Parents of students in Christian colleges would hardly suspect that the Coalition for Christian Colleges & Universities interacts with the following Globalist Organizations and Programs:
- AuSable Institute of Environmental Studies
- Global Stewardship Study Program
- Los Angeles Film Studies Center – The LAFSC provides students with the opportunity to explore the film industry and film’s impact on culture from a liberal arts perspective and to serve in an internship in the industry. [Christian students serve as interns in Hollywood film industry!]
- Middle East Studies Program – Based in Cairo, Egypt, the MESP examines the history, language, cultures, religious life and the political and economic dimensions of the region. [Egyptology is studied and promoted by Freemasons]
- Russian Studies Program – RSP students experience life in three Russian cities while studying the country’s language, history, culture and politics. [cf., Heritage Foundation U.S.-Soviet education exchange agreements]
- China Studies Program – Students interested in China will have the opportunity to engage this intriguing country from the inside. The semester will include study of standard Chinese language, geography and history, religion and culture, and China’s modern development.
- Oxford Honors Program Junior and senior honors students will have the opportunity to study in England by participating in an interdisciplinary semester in Oxford through a partnership program with the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, affiliated with Keble College of the University of Oxford.
Summer Programs:
- Oxford University Summer School Program An annual summer school on “The Renaissance and Reformation in Europe,” a multi-disciplinary study of the history and development of the Renaissance and Reformation through examination of the philosophy, art, literature, science, music, politics and religion of this era. Students have the opportunity to study with faculty of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, affiliated with Oxford’s (Keble College). Students apply directly through the Coalition and receive 6-9 credits at Oxford University.”
Ford Foundation ‘Trust in Government Project – For over a century (Fabians), Oxford University has been a planning center for a world government and religion. Ford Foundation grants are given to Oxford University for globalist projects, i.e.,
- $40,000 to Oxford for an international symposium on Chinese women and feminist thought
- $22,650 supplement to Oxford University, for a U.N. project that maintains the memoirs of British nationals who served in the United Nations or the League of Nations
Ford Foundation also funds the Council on Foreign Relations.
Rowan Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation in 1954, stated to Congressional Reese Commission investigator Norman Dodd:
***“We operate here under directives which emulate from the White House…The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States so that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.” 9.
President Clinton is an Oxford educated Rhodes Scholar who also attended Georgetown University, the venue of the Sudan Symposium.
“It is Clinton’s solid Rhodes background that should say the most about where his trend of executive orders is headed. Bill Clinton was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and since becoming president, he has surrounded himself with Rhodes scholars in his administration. “Much has been written about British diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes, founder of the Rhodes Scholarship. Briefly, he was dedicated to establishing a socialist one-world government controlled by a small group of elite — a world view he received from John Ruskin, his socialist professor at Oxford. After making his fortune in diamonds, Rhodes established a secret society in the form of a scholarship to promote this ideal should it fail to materialize before his death. Rhodes biographer Sarah Millin wrote: ‘The government of the world was Rhodes’ simple desire.’”
[For more information see: The Cecil Rhodes-Milner Roundtable]
Interestingly, the National Council of Churches’ “Church and Government Program” to establish better cooperation between church and state is part of the Ford Foundation’s “Partnership for Trust in Government.”
“The Trust in Government Project at the Graduate School of Public Affairs focuses on the growing public attitude of cynicism and widespread distrust for government in the United States. In 1985, GSPA embarked on a three-year project aimed at exploring the issues leading to, and revolving around, public trust in government. The project intends to reach beyond the boundaries of campus by involving the public, local and state governments, non-profit organizations, the news media and businesses in exploration of this critical issue.”
Researcher Dana Hoard, who attended a Trust in Government meeting at the University of Washington in February 1998. reported an intensive campaign by the Ford Foundation and organizations, such as Young Americans for Freedom, to mobilize high school and college students:
“The key thing I gleaned from the [UW ‘Trust in Government’] meeting is that ALL University Public Policy centers will be focusing on this ‘government trust.’
“Ford is also sponsoring Youth Summits. This is where the students get to input communities to influence their direction as far as mobilization goes. [Of course there is a pre-determined agenda for these.] I visited the Ford Foundation Grant web site. Many grants are given out for Community Assets and Development [something like that.]
“The Technotrust web site is connected to the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington.
“Notes of the forum which I attended are on the web site… They are generally accurate. My greatest discovery RE: TechnoTrust was the Ford Foundation’s involvement and the network of public policy institutes at the universities; also the F.F.’s funding of the youth summits where students are ‘empowered’ and directed towards advocating on legislative issues.
“Paul Hill is listed as a member of the GSPA faculty [Paul Hill of RAND Corporation working with the WA business Roundtable on GOALS 2000 and promoting charter schools; Research Professor of Public Affairs; Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1972 (Political Science); Politics and Reform of K-12 Education, Role of Business in Public Policy, Urban Politics]
“Tina Podlodowski is on the staff of Technotrust/GSPA. [Retired early from Microsoft as a millionaire & is a politically active lesbian.]
“Walt Williams, U. of WA GSPA. International Affairs, Faculty Advisor, Professor of Public Affairs, University of Washington [Walter Williams may be the same person who sits in for Rush Limbaugh occasionally.]
“Another faculty advisor, Marc. M. Lindenberg, Dean and Professor of Public Affairs – area of expertise: International Development Policy and Globalization of the Non-Profit Sector…
“[In November 1998] Young Americans for Freedom [YAF]/Ron Robinson held a conference in Seattle for college and high school students. Overnight lodging at an airport hotel was free for registering students. I believe YAF is the organization William Buckley [CIA] founded. The keynote speaker was Oliver North. (YAF recently bought the Ronald Reagan ranch for future youth seminars.)”
The Hegelian Dialectic
How have Christians come to the point of trusting a Power Elite — the rich men of this world who are committed to the destruction of nations and the establishment of oligarchy? Looking to the Word of God, we search in vain for counsel to turn to the world system to relieve the suffering of the Church. Quite the contrary, Christians have been warned not to become entangled in this evil system. History reveals that when the Church becomes involved in the world system, the system always controls the Church, rather than the reverse. Moreover, it defies all reason that Christian leaders would demand legislation that provides statutory authority for the present morally and ethically-compromised President [Bill Clinton] to appoint a commission to monitor religion — a commission chaired by a presidentially-appointed ambassador-at-large!
The reason for the present irrational position of the Church has been explained by Power Elites. Freedom House Trustee Richard Gardner (CFR/TC, Rhodes Scholar, former Ambassador to Spain, Italy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson) wrote an article entitled “The Hard Road to World Order” which was printed in the CFR’s Foreign Affairs (4/74). Gardner understood that practical implementation of Hegel’s Dialectic required dismantling existing systems, not by decree, but by mobilizing public opinion and transforming it into an instrument of revolution:
***“The ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down…, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault…” 10.
Zbigniew Brezinski, a member of all three “shadow governments” (CFR/TC/B) and first director of the Trilateral Commission, envisioned a controlled society:
***“In the technetronic society the trend seems to be toward…effectively exploiting the latest communication techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason…. Human beings become increasingly manipulable and malleable … the increasing availability of biochemical means of human control … the possibility of extensive chemical mind control…. “
The Church has been processed by the Power Elite, who have trained professional facilitators to use the latest communication techniques to manipulate the emotions and control the reasoning processes of entire church communities. As a result, a significant number of Christians have seemingly lost their capacity to THINK through issues and are clamoring for legislation that is diametrically opposed to what they actually stand for! MIT Professor, apologist of socialism and author of Keeping the Rabble in Line, Noam Chomsky’s revelation of the Power Elites’ strategy for controlling the masses has a practical application to the Church:
“The bewildered herd are a problem. (mediachecker – > think he’s talkin’ about moi and the rest of us working stiffs. he’s about ninety and still babbling from his tower in academia – actually thought he’d died thereagain this is an older article). We’ve got to prevent their rage and trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Super Bowl or sitcoms or violent movies or something. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like ‘Support Our Troops’, and you’ve got to keep them pretty scared because unless they’re scared properly and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous because they’re not competent to think, and therefore it’s important to distract and to marginalize them.”
Power Elites alone understand the Hegelian principle by which they have achieved their stunning success. Knowing that Christians are averse to sitcoms and violent movies, they have cleverly substituted mass rallies, conferences and televangelism to fearmonger the religious masses into advocacy of pseudo-spiritual and patriotic causes. Don McAlvany, a member of the elite Council for National Policy, perceptively defined the Hegelian Dialectic in his book, The New World Order: The Countdown to Armageddon:
“A 3-step process authored by Hegel and perfected by the Marxist/Leninists: Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis.
The first step (thesis) is to create (or fabricate) a problem.
The second step (antithesis) is to generate opposition to the problem (fear, panic, hysteria).
The third step (synthesis) is to offer the solution to the problem in step 1 – change which would have been impossible to impose on the people without the proper psychological conditioning achieved in stages 1 and 2.” 11.
***Forthcoming reports will focus on those Christian organizations that have promoted the Religious Persecution legislation and the secret alliance of Christian ministries and elite globalists where plans are laid to mobilize the Christian Right, elect candidates and advance legislation which will establish a New World Order.
http://watch.pair.com/FreedomHouse.html
Freedom House (FH), The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the International Republican Institute (IRI), Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) and unfortunately many more…
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its subsidiaries, the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI), despite the lofty mission statement articulated on its website, is nothing more than a tool for executing American foreign policy. Just as the military is used under the cover of lies regarding WMD’s and “terrorism,” NED is employed under the cover of bringing “democracy” to “oppressed” people. However, a thorough look at NED’s board of directors, as well as the board of trustees of its subsidiary, Freedom House, definitively lays to rest any doubts that may be lingering over the true nature of these organizations and the causes they support.
Upon NED’s board of directors we first find John Bohn who traded petrochemicals, was an international banker for 13 years with Wells Fargo, and is currently serving as a principal for a global advisory and consulting firm, GlobalNet Partners, which assists foreign businesses by making their “entry into the complex China market easy.” Surely Bohn’s ability to manipulate China’s political landscape through NED’s various activities both inside of China and along its peripheries constitutes an alarming conflict of interest. However, it appears “conflict of interest” is a reoccurring theme throughout both NED and Freedom House. Bohn is joined by Rita DiMartino who worked for Council on Foreign Relations corporate member AT&T as “Vice President of Congressional Relations” as well as a member of the CFR herself. Also representing the Fortune 500 is Kenneth Duberstein, a board member of the war profiteering Boeing Company, big oil’s ConocoPhillips, and the Mack-Cali Realty Corporation. Duberstein also served as a director of Fannie Mae until 2007. He too is a CFR member as are two of the companies he chairs, Boeing and ConocoPhillips.
Image: A visual representation of the National Endowment for Democracy’s corporate-financier ties found across their Board of Directors. Far from “human rights advocates,” they are instead simply leveraging such issues to disguise what is in reality corporate-financier hegemonic expansion.
We then consider several of the certified warmongers serving upon NED’s board of directors including Francis Fukuyama, Zalmay Khalilzad, Will Marshall, and Vin Weber, all signatories of the pro-war, pro-corporate Project for a New American Century. Within the pages of documents produced by this “think tank” are pleas to various US presidents to pursue war against sovereign nations, the increase of troops in nations already occupied by US forces, and what equates to a call for American global hegemony in a Hitlerian 90 page document titled “Rebuilding Americas Defenses.” As we will see, this warmongering think tank serves as a nexus around which fellow disingenuous rights advocate Freedom House also gravitates. The “Statement of Principles,” signed off by NED chairmen Francis Fukuyama, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Vin Weber, states, “we need to accept responsibility for America’s unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.” Of course by “international order” they mean meddling beyond the sovereign borders of the United States and is merely used as a euphemism for global imperialism. Other Neo-Con that signed their name to this statement include Freedom House’s Paula Dobriansky, Dan Quayle (formerly), and Donald Rumsfeld (formerly), along with Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Eliot Cohen, and Elliot Abrams. A PNAC “Statment on Post-War Iraq” regarding a wholehearted endorsement of nation-building features the signatures of NED chairman Will Marshall, Freedom House’s Frank Carlucci (2002), and James Woolsey (formerly), along with Martin Indyk (Lowy Institute board member, co-author of the conspiring “Which Path to Persia?” report), and William Kristol and Robert Kagan both of the warmongering Foreign Policy Initiative. It should be noted that the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) is, for all intents and purposes, PNAC’s latest incarnation and just recently featured an open letter to House Republicans calling on them to disregard the will of the American people and continue pursuing the war in Libya. The FPI letter even suggests that the UN resolution authorizing the war in the first place, was holding America “hostage” and that it should be exceeded in order to do more to “help the Libyan opposition.” An untitled PNAC letter addressed to then US President George Bush regarding a general call for global warmongering received the seal of approval from Freedom Houses’ Ellen Bork (2007), Ken Adelman (also former lobbyist for Thailand’s Thaksin Shinawatra via Edelman), and James Woolsey (formerly), along with Neo-Con degenerates Richard Perle, William Kristol, Robert Kagan, and the always disingenuous demagogue Daniel Pipes. Other notable corporate-fascists populating NED’s board of directors include: William Galston: Brookings Institution (board of trustees can be found on page 35 here). Moises Naim: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (corporate funding here). Robert Miller: corporate lawyer. Larry Liebenow: US Chamber of Commerce (a chief proponent of SOPA), Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Anne-Marie Slaughter: US State Department, Council on Foreign Relations (corporate members here), director of Citigroup, McDonald’s Corporation, and Political Strategies Advisory Group. Richard Gephardt: US Representative, Boeing lobbyist, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Ameren Corp, and Waste Management Inc lobbyist, corporate consultant, consultant & now director of Ford Motor Company, supporter of the military invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. Marilyn Carlson Nelson: CEO of Carlson, director of Exxon Mobil. Stephen Sestanovich: US State Department, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, CFR. Judy Shelton: director of Hilton Hotels Corporation & Atlantic Coast Airlines. NED’s subsidiary, NDI, is likewise chaired by an unsavory collection of corporate-financier interests. Some select members include:
- Robin Carnahan: Formally of the Export-Import Bank of the United States where she “explored innovative ways to help American companies increase their sale of goods and services abroad.” The NDI’s meddling in foreign nations, particularly in elections on behalf of pro-West candidates favoring free-trade, and Carnahan’s previous ties to a bank that sought to expand corporate interests overseas constitutes an alarming conflict of interests.
- Richard Blum: An investment banker with Blum Capital, CB Richard Ellis. Engaged in war profiteering along side the Neo-Con infested Carlyle Group, when both acquired shares in EG&G which was then awarded a $600 million military contract during the opening phases of the Iraq invasion.
- Bernard W. Aronson: Founder of ACON Investments. Prior to that, he was an adviser to Goldman Sachs, and serves on the boards of directors of Fifth & Pacific Companies, Royal Caribbean International, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, and Chroma Oil & Gas, Northern Tier Energy. Aronson is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which in turn represents the collective interests of some of the largest corporations on Earth.
- Sam Gejdenson: NDI’s profile claims Gejdenson is “in charge of” Sam Gejdenson International, which proclaims on its website “Commerce Without Borders,” or in other words, big-business monopolies via free-trade. In his autobiographical profile, he claims to have promoted US exports as a Democrat on the House International Relations Committee. Here is yet another case of conflicting interests between NDI’s meddling in foreign politics and board members previously involved in “promoting US exports.”
- Nancy H. Rubin: CFR member.
- Vali Nasr: CFR member and a senior fellow at the big-oil, big-banker Belfer Center at Harvard.
- Rich Verma: A partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP – an international corporate and governmental legal firm representing for Verma, a multitude of conflicting interests and potential improprieties. Setptoe & Johnson is active in many of the nations the NDI is operating in, opening the door for manipulation on both sides to favor the other.
- Lynda Thomas: A private investor, formally a senior manager/CPA at Deloitte Haskins & Sells in New York, and Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte in London. Among her clients were international banks.
- Maurice Tempelsman: Chairman of the board of directors of Lazare Kaplan International Inc., the largest cutter and polisher of “ideal cut” diamonds in the United States. Also senior partner at Leon Tempelsman & Son, involved in mining, investments and business development and minerals trading in Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, Canada and Asia. Yet another immense potential for conflicting interests, where Tempelsman stands to directly gain financially and politically by manipulating foreign governments via the NDI.
- Elaine K. Shocas: President of Madeleine Albright, Inc., a private investment firm. She was chief of staff to the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations during Madeleine Albright’s tenure as Secretary of State and Ambassador to the United Nation, illustrating a particularly dizzying “revolving door” between big-government and big-business.
- Madeleine K. Albright: Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group and Chair of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm – directly affiliated with fellow NDI board member Elaine Shocas, representing an incestuous business/government relationship with overt conflicts of interest. Albright infamously stated that sanctions against Iraq which directly led to the starvation and death of half a million children “was worth it.”
It is safe to say that neither NED, Freedom House, nor any of their subsidiaries (IRI/NDI) garner within their ranks characters appropriate for their alleged cause of “supporting freedom around the world.” It is also safe to say that the principles of “democracy,” “freedom,” and “human rights” they allegedly champion for, are merely being leveraged to co-opt well meaning people across the world to carry out their own self-serving agenda.
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/11/ned-freedom-house-are-run-by.html
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers – Carroll Quigley
When the business interests…pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both parties equally – Carroll Quigley
3. AMERICAN DITCHLEY FOUNDATION
The American Ditchley Foundation advances Anglo-American links by sponsoring fifteen conferences a year conducted by small groups drawn from small groups drawn from senior levels in the worlds of – politics, business, industry, academic life, civil service, armed forces, media.
“Since its incorporation in the United Kingdom in 1958, and subsequent establishment of American and Canadian affiliates, Ditchley’s original objective . . . has broadened to include the concerns and participation of nations from all over the globe.”[1]
American Ditchley Board of Directors:
David L. Aaron – American Ditchley Foundation director; American Atlantic Council of the United States
Nigel Broomfield – American Ditchley Foundation; director; Lenard Cheshire Foundation chairman
R. Nicholas Burns – American Ditchley Foundation – director; Aspen Strategy Group director; Atlantic Council of the United States – director; Center for a New American Security – director; Center for the Study of the Presidency – trustee; Entegris, Inc. – director; John F. Kennedy School of Government – professor
R. Nicholas Burns past relationships: Rockefeller Brothers Fund – trustee; U.S. Department of State – under secretary; R. Nicholas Burns has multiple indirect connections to the following people: THOMAS PICKERING
Most influential people: Barbara H. Franklin; Harold Brown; Henry A. Kissinger
Joseph A. Califano Jr.– director; American Ditchley Foundation – director; CBS – director; Century Foundation – trustee emeritus; Columbia Medical School – adjunct professor; Institute of Medicine – member; Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation – board member; National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse – chairman & president; New York-Presbyterian Hospital – life trustee; Urban Institute – life trustee; Willis Group Holdings Limited – director
Joseph A. Califano Jr. past relationships: Dewey Ballantine LLP – senior partner; Jimmy Carter administration – HEW secretary; Kennedy Center – trustee emeritus; Midway Games Inc. – director; U.S. Department of Health Education & Welfare – secretary; Vernon E. Jordan Jr.; Indirect links: Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Califano – most influential people: Shari E. Redstone – movie mogul – multi-billionaire; William S. Cohen; Linda M. Griego; Robert M. Conway – director; Edward F. Cox – director; Francis Finlay – director; Ellen V. Futter – director; Richard N. Gardner – director; John G. Heimann – director; James F. Hoge Jr. – director; John Holmes (deceased) – director; A.E. Dick Howard – director; Robert G. Kaiser – director; Cary A. Koplin – director; Philip Lader – director; Theodore R. Marmor – director; Jay Mazur – director; Donald F. McHenry – director; Jami Miscik – director’ George M. Newcombe – director; Joseph S. Nye Jr. – director; John J. O’Connor – executive director’ THOMAS R. PICKERING – director; John E. Rielly – director; Robert B. Silvers – director; Frank Sullivan Jr. – director; Paul Tagliabue – director; Strobe Talbott – director; Stephen Joel Trachtenberg – director; Riprand von Arco – director; Catherine Wills – director
Robert M. Conway: Ditchley Foundation director; Goldman Sachs senior advisor; Uni Chicago Booth Business School council;
Edward F. Cox– American Ditchley Foundation director; Committee for Economic Development; Economic Club of New Your; Levin Institute; New York State Republican Party – chairman; Noble Energy Inc. – director; Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler – partner
Francis Finlay – Ditchley Foundation director; Clay Finley Inc. CEO; EastWest Institute co-Chairman
Ellen V. Futter: American Academy of Arts and Sciences – fellow; American Ditchley Foundation – director; American Museum of Natural History – president; Brookings Institution – trustee; Consolidated Edison – director; Council on Foreign Relations – member; Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History – advisory board member; JPMorgan Chase & Co. – director; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center – overseer; NYC & Company, Inc. – director; Viacom director
Richard N. Gardner– Ditchley Foundation director; Columbia Law; Center on Global terrorism, ex-US Ambassador to Spain and Italy…
John G. Heimann – Ditchley Foundation director; French-American Foundation; Merrill Lynch – senior advisor
James F. Hoge Jr.– director chicago Sunday Times; Human Rights Watch (Soros) ; NY Daily News
A.E. Dick Howard – Ditchley Foundation director; Cosmos Club…
Robert G. Kaiser – Ditchley Foundation director; WaPo Associate Editor…
Cary A. Koplin – Ditchley Foundation director; Neuberger Berman Group LLC…
Philip Lader– Ditchley Foundation director; Atlantic Council; Rand; Morgan Stanley; AES Corp; Lloyds of London; Marathon…
Theodore R. Marmor – Ditchley Foundation director; Yale School of Management
Jay Mazur – Ditchley Foundation director; Freedom House…
Donald F. McHenry – Ditchley Foundation director; Brookings; Coca Cola; Cosmos Institute
Jami Miscik– Ditchley Foundation director; UN; Kissenger; CFR; Intelligence; National Security, International Rescue…
George M. Newcombe – Ditchley Foundation director; Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLC
Joseph S. Nye Jr. – Ditchley Foundation director; CFR; Trilateral Commission chairman;
John J. O’Connor – Ditchley Foundation executive director; past NY Uni…
THOMAS R. PICKERING – American Ditchley Foundation director; see above…
John E. Rielly – Ditchley Foundation director; Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Robert B. Silvers – Ditchley Foundation director; American Academy in Rome
Frank Sullivan Jr. – Ditchley Foundation director; Indiana Supreme Court Justice
Paul Tagliabue– Ditchley Foundation director; CFR; NFL Commissioner; Rockerfeller…
Strobe Talbott– Ditchley Foundation director; executive member of Trilateral Commission; Rhodes Clintons roomy; Aspen Institute; Brookings; Eric Edelman chief of staff…
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg – Ditchley Foundation director; Committee for Economic Development
Riprand von Arco – Ditchley Foundation director; American Asset Corporation
Catherine Wills – Ditchley Foundation director…
Ditchley Past Relations:
Frederick D. Barton – director; John Brademas – director; Jeremy Greenstock – director; David A. Hamburg – director; Rita E. Hauser – chair; Michael Quinlan – director; Charles A. Sanders – director; Stephen Stamas – director; Rita Hauser, Chair; President, The Hauser Foundation; Richard Newton Gardner, Vice President; Robert Conway, Treasurer; George M. Newcombe, Secretary; Sir Jeremy Greenstock, Director, The Ditchley Foundation; Hon. Frank Sullivan Jr.; The Hon. Joseph A. Califano, Jr.; Jay Mazur; Francis Finlay; The Hon. Donald F. McHenry; Ellen V. Futter; Sir Nigel Broomfield; Sir Michael Quinlan, GCB; Dr. David A. Hamburg; John E. Rielly; John Brademas; Edward F. Cox; Stephen Joel Trachtenberg; Joseph Nye; Jami Miscik; John G. Heimann; Robert Silvers; James F. Hoge, Jr., Editor, Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations; Dr. Catherine Wills; Professor A.E. Dick Howard; Mrs. Drue Heinz, DBE; John J. O’Connor, Executive Director
The Advisory Council
James F. Hoge, Jr., Chairman; The Hon. David Aaron; Sarwar Kashmeri; H. Brandt Ayers; Dr. Henry Kaufman; Dr. William B. Bader; Arthur Lloyd Kelly; David A. Berenson; James V. Kimsey; Dr. Lewis M. Branscomb; Cary A. Koplin; Wendy W. Luers; Mrs. Eugene M. McDermott; The Hon. Charles B. DeWitt; William J. McDonough; The Hon. Jeffrey E. Garten; Margaret Osmer McQuade; Robert D. Hormats; Professor Theodore R. Marmor; Don Howarth; Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews; Dr. Alice Ilchman; Henry W. Meers; Robert G. Kaiser; Charles W. Muller, OBE; The Hon. Max M. Kampelman; Nancy Pelz-Paget; Mark Shepherd, Jr.; Dr. Gary G. Sick; Philip H. Power; Suzelle M. Smith; George A. Ranney, Jr.; The Hon. Helmut Sonnenfeldt; Donald B. Rice; David R. Riemer; Professor Seymour Topping; Charles R. Ritcheson; ProfessorRichard H. Ullman; Daniel Rose; The Hon. John Warner; Dr. Michael J. Sandel; Brent Scowcroft, General, KBE; Stanley A. Weiss; Dr. Eleanor B. Sheldon;
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British Ditchley Foundation
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Ditchley_Foundation
Amazing Headquarters: http://www.ditchley.co.uk/
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Canadian Ditchley Foundation – http://www.ditchley.co.uk/the-foundations/the-canadian-ditchley-foundation
U.S. Middle East Project, Inc.
President: Henry Siegman
Chairman Emeritus: Brent Scowcroft
Co-Chair: Thomas R. Pickering
Fouad M.T. Alghanim; Hanan Ashrawi; Shlomo Ben-Ami; Lakhdar Brahimi; Zbigniew Brzezinski; Lester Crown; Richard A. Debs; Chuck Hagel; Lee H. Hamilton; Carla Anderson Hills; Joseph Hotung; James L. Jones; Nancy Kassebaum-Baker; Hamza Al-Kholi; Said T. Khoury; Samer Khoury; Nemir A. Kirdar; Yosef A. Maiman; Fouad M. Makhzoumi; Musallam Ali Musallam; John C. Novogrod; Sam Nunn; Hutham Olayan; Stephen Robert; Mohammed Al-Sager; George R. Salem; Paolo Scaroni; Ramez F. Sousou; Peter Sutherland; Enzo Viscusi
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