I doubt there is a daily newspaper anywhere in America that didn’t recently publish a photo showing President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama welcoming three living former presidents (Bush I, Clinton and Carter) to the White House. The January 7th gathering hosted by the current president indicated “feel good” bipartisanship while conveying the notion that there indeed is plenty of hope for the future.

Missing from all the commentaries accompanying the photo was any mention of the fact that those three former presidents (Carter, Bush I, Clinton) are members of the privately-run Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Why is this connection significant?

In 1922, in only the second issue of the CFR's flagship publication Foreign Affairs, the elite organization lamented mankind being "divided into fifty or sixty independent states" and openly called for "world government." The CFR has worked for that goal ever since. If achieved, they would do away with the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence. 

Are there any connections to the CFR held by George W. Bush and Barack Obama? Unlike his father, President Bush has never been a member of this group. But his Vice President, Dick Cheney, is a veteran member, an occasional board member, and a stout CFR defender. Many Americans, certainly including this observer of our nation’s affairs, believe that Cheney, rather than the president he has served, was always the more important policy setter during the past eight years. The Bush administration, in keeping with the practice of its predecessors for decades, also placed hundreds of other CFR members in strategically important posts. 

As for the two men who will lead the incoming administration, neither President-elect Barack Obama nor Vice President-elect Biden holds CFR membership. But each saw fit (click here for Obama's article) to author an essay for the group’s Foreign Affairs journal during the 2008 campaign, thereby indicating awareness of the CFR’s importance. Numerous appointments already made by Mr. Obama include CFR members Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers, the president’s top economic advisers. 

Domination of both the outgoing and the incoming administrations by CFR members is nothing new. The CFR actually succeeded in placing the following members as U.S. presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Nominated but defeated opponents for the nation’s highest office include Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, and John McCain.

It didn’t matter whether these men were Democrats or Republicans as long as the CFR had its grip on them. In the few instances when the sitting president was not a CFR member (Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush) his administration was filled with those who were.

After the January 7th White House meeting, the mass media lost the opportunity to focus on the CFR’s strong influence over our nation’s affairs. No one should be surprised, however, because the mass media itself is dominated by CFR members who prefer to keep their revealing credential unknown.

Just imagine if all the influence alluded to here was possessed by members of the NRA, or a prominent Right To Life group, or The John Birch Society.  The nation would be alerted by the media at once and the people would be urged to demand an investigation.

But the media gives the CFR a pass. Which means that our nation’s self-defeating domestic and foreign policies will continue – at least until more Americans become informed about our nation’s seat of the internationalist establishment: the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Charles_Byrd said:

	Animal Farm Seeing that picture reminds me of the scene from the last chapter of Orwell's Animal Farm.
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MarkGlen said:

	Quality over Quantity “…it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds..” Samuel Adams I've seen this work.
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Lal Wynstrom said:

A very correct 2nd-to-last-paragraph observation Mr. McManus is absolutely correct. If 80-90% of the top rankers in business, finance, academia, government, and media nearly all possessed membership in conservative institutions and organizations there would be a call for investigation by someone. And rightly so. If a conservative, such as Ron Paul, ran for the White House and was an active member of the John Birch Society, the media would have a field day questioning his allegiance to and affiliation with such organization. Heck, they in fact did go after Congressman Paul for his alleged association to a secessionist/hate group decades ago. This turned out to be false but it did not stop this Degenerate Propaganda Media from airing the false allegations anyway. However, get on the TV, in the Financial Times, the Economist, etc, make a speech, write a column, call for world government, or a new world financial institutional order, and your opinion's affiliations are never identified. Such was recently the case when that blowhard of the Insider Elite, Henry Kissinger once again called for a new world order under President-elect Obama on the floor of the NYSE and not one of the interviewers standing next to him even questioned him on it or where his considerably learned opinion came from. This, of course, is not new to those of us who've been engaging this issue for many years, but the connections must be made obvious to those new and awakening to the fight we are in for the very soul of our Republic.

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Peter Steele said:

RE: My father was never a CFR Member, Trilateralist, Bilderburger, Skull and Bonesman, or a Rhodes Scholar One reason why Dad died so young at 71 was that he always told the truth about communism and socialism as I hope my book which Jack McManus read the manuscript will present. Peter Steele always did things for principle and for the Americanist cause even if he fought in WWII under a President who lied to us about Pearl Harbor and broke his promise to keep America neutral. LBJ was no better and I seriously doubt that Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Truman and LBJ went to Heaven because these Presidents did not talk about God even though FDR facetiously did. FDR was a socialist during the Red Decade of the 30s and 40s and he did nothing about the Communist Party, USA which had been in place since 1918 or 1919 according to Dad's research. I don't read the New York Times because I feel that it is the American version of Lenin's newspaper Pravda which he founded in 1902 - my research on top of Dad's. I don't want to be a fellow traveler to the socialists and communists and I am going to be buried with my parents on Nantucket Island with my parents when my time comes as God wants me home with them and Kitty and Bill Richter formerly of my church, The Greenwich Baptist Church.

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