It's funny really what the general public really do not know what is going on around them but at the same time they seem to want to accept what society says is acceptable. "Big Brother" is extending his hands far beyond the reach that our forefathers even could imagine.
How out of control has our government gotten? What are they doing
WITHOUT our knowledge? Is there anything we can do? How far back do the
issues go and what are they? I hope to explain all of this in this
report! It would appear that we have to go back pretty far in our
country's history and be able to figure out how it all fits together. As
it turns out, there are things beyond our control that just seem to
lead into one another and that is not good considering that the American
people do not seem to have any sort of an idea just how extensive this
goes and I will make the best possible connections I can to show you
where our country has been and where it is going.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American nonprofit,
nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank
specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. Founded
in 1921 and headquartered at 58 East 68th Street in New York City, with
an additional office in Washington, D.C., the CFR is considered to be
the nation's "most influential foreign-policy think tank"
The CFR aims to maintain a diverse membership, including special
programs to promote interest and develop expertise in the next
generation of foreign policy leaders. It convenes meetings at which
government officials, global leaders and prominent members of the
foreign policy community discuss major international issues. Its think
tank, the David Rockefeller Studies Program, is composed of about fifty
adjunct and full-time scholars, as well as ten in-resident recipients of
year-long fellowships, who cover the major regions and significant
issues shaping today's international agenda. These scholars contribute
to the foreign policy debate by making recommendations to the
presidential administration, testifying before Congress, serving as a
resource to the diplomatic community, interacting with the media,
authoring books, reports, articles, and op-eds on foreign policy issues.
Sounds to me like they help to influence things like laws and policies
regarding our involvement in this country and how we deal with other
countries. Without being a REAL part of our government and a branch of
any actual government entity, just how much power could they have?
The earliest origin of the Council stemmed from a working fellowship of
about 150 scholars called "The Inquiry" tasked to brief President
Woodrow Wilson about options for the postwar world when Germany was
defeated. Through 1917–1918, this academic band, including Wilson's
closest adviser and long-time friend "Colonel" Edward M. House, as well
as Walter Lippmann, gathered at 155th Street and Broadway at the Harold
Pratt House in New York City, to assemble the strategy for the postwar
world. The team produced more than 2,000 documents detailing and
analyzing the political, economic, and social facts globally that would
be helpful for Wilson in the peace talks. Their reports formed the basis
for the Fourteen Points, which outlined Wilson's strategy for peace
after war's end.
These scholars then traveled to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 that
would end the war; it was at one of the meetings of a small group of
British and American diplomats and scholars, on May 30, 1919, at the
Hotel Majestic, that both the Council and its British counterpart, the
Chatham House in London, were born. Some of the participants at that
meeting, apart from Edward House, were:
Paul Warburg, Herbert Hoover, Harold Temperley, Lionel Curtis, Lord
Eustace Percy, Christian Herter, and American academic historians James
Thomson Shotwell of Columbia University, Archibald Cary Coolidge of
Harvard, and Charles Seymour of Yale.
In 1938 they created various Committees on Foreign Relations throughout
the country. These later became governed by the American Committees on
Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. From its inception the Council
was bipartisan, welcoming members of both Democratic and Republican
parties. It also welcomed Jews and African Americans, although women were initially
barred from membership. Its proceedings were almost universally private
and confidential. A critical study found that of 502 government
officials surveyed from 1945 to 1972, more than half were members of the
Council.
The Council has been the subject of debates over sovereignty as well as
the subject of numerous conspiracy theories. This is primarily due to
the number of high-ranking government officials (along with world
business leaders and prominent media figures) in its membership and the
large number of aspects of American foreign policy that its members have
been involved with. Echoing the most common accusation, the
paleoconservative John Birch Society claims that the CFR is "Guilty of
conspiring with others to build a one world government...". Other
figures like Cleon Skousen opposed the CFR vociferously. In response to
the allegations and insinuations, the CFR's website (www.cfr.org) contains an FAQ section about its affairs.
I would say then that they would then have the ability to influence
lawmakers to make laws that fit into assisting other countries, right?
How would we do that? What about the idea of reallocating assets for
companies while providing cheaper labor to compete with other countries
all while allowing companies to expand to other countries to assist with
foreign policy by seeming like we are trying to help by providing jobs
over seas? In order to do that, we needed to come up with laws that
assisted companies in keeping as much of their assets as possible so
that they would have the money to open factories in other countries. How
would THAT work?
