Understanding the CFR

[Jace]

The CFR was founded in 1921 in response to the backlash against international bankers after WWI. The banksters made huge gains during the Woodrow Wilson administration, getting the Federal Reserve, the income tax, the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and the League of Nations.

But in America, we saw freedom of the press locked down, war dissenters jailed, conscription, and over 100,000 men killed off in a war in which Americans had no vital interests at stake.

After WWI, this backlash against the banksters caught fire. The Democrats were chased from Washington, Americans rejected participating in the League of Nations, and populist politicians were railing against international bankers and their schemes. So, to deal with this, the banksters put together the Council on Foreign Relations to turn the direction of American media, government and business leadership to their favor.

The brightest American students were selected for Rhodes Scholarships so their minds could be shaped while they were young. The most promising Rhodes Scholars were then groomed by the CFR for leadership positions in American society. (Rhodes Scholarships are funded by the fortune of Cecil Rhodes -- a plutocrat and fervent Imperialist who made his fortune from African diamond mines, starting destructive wars to capture lucrative mines. Rhodes was financed by the Rothschild fortune. It was Leopold de Rothschild who set up the Rhodes Scholarships after Cecil Rhodes died.)

Woodrow Wilson's advisor Edward Mandell House articulated the banksters' goal: It shouldn't matter if Democrats or Republicans are elected, because, while they may disagree on various contentious issues, they should march in lockstep when in comes to the interests of the banksters.

So what are those interests? To find them you have to look past all the arguing, namecalling and political manuevering and search for the issues where media, government and business leaders agree.

Where do they agree?

Mass immigration: America should take in people from all corners of the globe and be a "nation of immigrants." A constant flood of immigrants serves the interests of the international banksters in several ways. It lowers wages. It drives up rents and prices. It Balkanizes communities into competing ethnic groups with strong ties overseas, which makes it difficult for a leader to arise who can unite the people against the banksters by articulating common national interests. Anyone who points out that there are negative effects in taking in millions of newcomers each year is to be demonized as a xenophope, racist, bigot, etc. Only the benefits of immigration are allowed to be discussed rationally.

Trade policy: America must not be allowed to become economically independent. It must be dependent on foreign nations for energy and manufacturing. America can uniquely provide a high standard of living for its people through a free enterprise system within its borders. But this must be resisted at all costs because a prosperous, economically independent America would see no benefit in giving up sovereignty to international institutions. America's prosperous middle class has always been where the greatest resistance to giving up sovereignty has come from. By offshoring economic production, the middle class can be impoverished and made dependent on central authority. Anyone who points out that America's current trade policy is leading to economic ruin must be demonized as a protectionist and isolationist.

Interventionism: America is unique in the world in being a continental power rich with resources, while being easily defended against attack. This has resulted in a strong isolationist -- or non-interventionist -- bent in American thinking. This way of thinking must never again be allowed to gain prominence in the American mind. Pearl Harbor was a boon for the internationalists at a time when Americans were solidly against entering WWII, and 9-11 was the catalyzing event needed during a period when Americans were keen to turn away from nation building and interventionism as the Cold War began to fade into history. Americans must always be reminded that there are Hitlers and bin Ladens behind every corner out to destroy them, lest they once again figure out how much easier and affordable it would be to just concentrate on defending the borders, rather than constantly seeking foreign dragons to slay. Anyone who is antiwar and anti-interventionist must be demonized as being an isolationist, a Nazi-sympathizer and pro-terrorist.

Zionism: Both Democrats and Republicans must agree that Israel is the centerpiece of American foreign policy. Israel is the true special relationship and the only permanent ally. No criticism is allowed. Anyone in a position of leadership who points out that America and Israel do not share common interests must be destroyed at all costs.

Anyone who disagrees with mass immigration, the current trade policy structure, interventionism and Zionism must be ridiculed and driven from public life. Free speech applies to all other topics, especially divisive topics that cause emotional reactions and disputes. The CFR is the dominant producer of leaders in American media, government and business. From its ranks come the leaders who ensure the banksters' interests are protected. Anyone outside this clique in not to be considered mainstream, and should be portrayed as kooky, or dangerous.

[Marenco]

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[sevin]

Hey, where's FrankRep with that pic of the Shadows of Power book?

[FrankRep]

Hey, where's FrankRep with that pic of the Shadows of Power book?

:)

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The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0882791346/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=libert0f-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=0882791346)
by James Perloff



Does America have a hidden oligarchy? Is U.S. foreign policy run by a closed shop? What is the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)? It began in 1921 as a front organization for J.P. Morgan and Company. By World War II it had acquired unrivaled influence on American foreign policy. Hundreds of U.S. government administrators and diplomats have been drawn from its ranks - regardless of which party has occupied the White House. But what does the Council on Foreign Relations stand for? Why do the major media avoid discussing it? What has been its impact on America's past - and what is it planning for the future? (2008, 272pp, pb)

[Travlyr]

The creation of the CFR advanced the power elite's agenda to the point where in 1992 Agenda 21 became acceptable to the indoctrinated public. Agenda 21 tramples on rights's of the people, while enriching the elite, and the public educated people "accept" that as "it's for the greater good."

The key to power elite dominance was secrecy. The Internet has changed that. The day's of the elite oligarchies dominance are numbered!

Great article. Thanks for posting it. :cool:

[Cowlesy]

Hey, where's FrankRep with that pic of the Shadows of Power book?

laughed out loud at that one

[Working Poor]

did you write that aticle jace? I would like to post it in some other places with your permission.

[Jace]

did you write that aticle jace? I would like to post it in some other places with your permission.

Yes. Sure.

[Working Poor]

Will you write a statment on the article saying you give permission for it to be reposted or do you have a link to it from your personal blog or website?

[Zippyjuan]

The history of the Council on Foreign Releations: http://www.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/inquiry.html

[specsaregood]

Hey, where's FrankRep with that pic of the Shadows of Power book?

It really is a darn good book. My copy is highlighted all over, might be my most highlighted book in my posession. Also the author regularly does presentations around the country, if he comes your way, it is well worth checking it out, he is VERY entertaining, certainly not a boring guy. Probably my favorite of all the JBS author presentations I have seen.

[Travlyr]

The history of the Council on Foreign Releations: http://www.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/inquiry.html

Thank you Zippy! By their own admission the CFR confirms the notion that a ruling elite class should gain control over the nations of the world and maintain power over the masses.

From cfr.org:

IT ALL STARTED as an inquiry, indeed, “The Inquiry.” To the select few who knew, this was the name of a working fellowship of distinguished scholars, tasked to brief Woodrow Wilson about options for the postwar world once the kaiser and imperial Germany fell to defeat.


Through the winter of 1917-18, this academic band gathered discreetly in a hideaway at 155th Street and Broadway in New York City, to assemble the data they thought necessary to make the world safe for democracy.

Ahem... secretly they established a democracy... and destroyed the republic... and if they were a little more honest in their revelations they would say, "make the world safe for the oligarchy" because if they gave a damn for the people then they would not have killed millions of people by funding both sides of WWI & WWII.


Historians still differ about how seriously President Wilson, though a former university president, took this exercise.

Wilson didn't get it. They conned him. "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson


More cfr.org:

The notion had been pressed upon him by Edward M. House, his trusted aide; in the modern style, House would be called Wilson’s national security adviser. But there is no question about how seriously the intellectuals took their unprecedented mission. Modesty was neither a prerequisite nor even a virtue. “We are skimming the cream of the younger and more imaginative scholars,” declared Walter Lippmann, the 28-year-old Harvard graduate who recruited the scholars and managed the Inquiry in its formative phase. “What we are on the lookout for is genius—sheer, startling genius, and nothing else will do.”

Yes. Colonel Edward Mandell House (http://www.citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com/Edward_Mandell_House.html), his trusted aide, and author of Phillip Dru (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6711/pg6711.txt) and advisor to President Wilson. Eustace Mullins, in "The Secret of the Federal Reserve" says "Phillip Dru" is a blueprint that Wilson and Roosevelt used to, "establish socialism as dreamed by Karl Marx, and predicted the enactment of the graduated income tax, excess profits tax, unemployment insurance, social security, and a flexible currency system (The Federal Reserve)." Phillip Dru also included the concepts of the North American Union and international empire.

Harvard geniuses, suck.


cfr.org:

The vision that stirred the Inquiry became the work of the Council on Foreign Relations over the better part of a century: a program of systematic study by groups of knowledgeable specialists of differing ideological inclinations would stimulate a variety of papers and reports to guide the statecraft of policymakers. What began as an intellectual response to a juncture of history grew into an institution that would thrive through all the diplomacy of America’s twentieth century. Perpetually renewing its membership and its mission, reaching out beyond an elite circle to help educate the entire public, the Council grew into a model that is now emulated by a host of newer research centers, in the United States and abroad. Their common challenge is to stimulate concerned citizens in their thinking about power and politics among nations.

Really? "to educate the entire public" When did you, dear reader, first learn that the CFR sought the world for geniuses to guide the statecraft of policymakers?" Did they teach you that in your public school system? Did they mention the role that the Warburg family has played in your life? I consider myself part of the entire public, and I have been on a life long mission for truth and understanding, but somehow, until recently, I escaped the reach of these angels trying to educate me on their mission. :(

cfr.org:

“It all started as an inquiry…” Colonel Edward M. House (left), proto-national security adviser, seen here with President Wilson, circa 1919.

Colonel House set off for Europe shortly before the November 1918 armistice. The Atlantic crossing proceeded with all the speed then available for this first exercise in high-level shuttle diplomacy (and under destroyer escort to guard against lurking German submarines). His mission was to arrange the U.S. presence at the peace conference and, he decided, to establish reliable sources of information about conditions in Europe. The scholars of the Inquiry had relied upon the books, maps, and documents they could locate, principally in the Library of Congress and the Columbia University library; House determined that the president needed, at the least, something more current.

Like accurate maps for example.

cfr.org:

The scholars of the Inquiry helped draw the borders of post World War I central Europe over tea at the Quai d’Orsay, a more congenial venue than the plenary sessions held in Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors, shown above.

And they helped draw Agenda 21 (http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=52) for you! God bless their hearts!

[sevin]

It really is a darn good book. My copy is highlighted all over, might be my most highlighted book in my posession. Also the author regularly does presentations around the country, if he comes your way, it is well worth checking it out, he is VERY entertaining, certainly not a boring guy. Probably my favorite of all the JBS author presentations I have seen.

Yeah, I can't believe I haven't read it yet. I think it's time I ordered it.

[specsaregood]

Yeah, I can't believe I haven't read it yet. I think it's time I ordered it.

You won't be sorry. Here is one gem I highlighted:


Nixon's political odyssey began with a race for the House seat of California's 12th district. In the election he faced Democrat Jerry Voorhis, a ten-year veteran of Congress. Voorhis was an enemy of the banking establishment; he had introduced a bill calling for the dissolution of the Federal Reserve system, and had denounced deficit spending and the international bankers who profit from it in his book "Out of Debt, Out of Danger".

...Voorhis said that the representative of a large New York financial house made a trip to california in October 1945, about the time the committee of One Hundred was picking Nixon, and called a number of influential people in southern california. The emissary "bawled them out" for permitting Voorhis, whom he described as "one of the most dangerous men in Washington", to continue to represent a part of California in the House.

Note: Nixon won the seat.



Edit, just on a whim I googled "Jerry Voorhis, Out of Debt, Out of Danger" and up came an Time magazine article form 1943 about the book.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,766786,00.html
excerpt


Jerry Voorhis pours into its 238 pages the same Messianic energy with which he once served on Yale debating teams, and now server in Congress. He indicts "sound money" financiers all the way from Alexander Hamilton to J. P. Morgan, and incidentally does some hard thinking on one of the biggest and most difficult subjects of all.

The Thesis. Jerry Voorhis starts with the incontrovertible fact that the national debt is rising at an appalling rate. He guesses it may reach $300 billions before war and reconstruction are done.

Some of the Government's borrowing is from private individuals via war bonds, which Jerry Voorhis considers all to the good. But easily 50% of the borrowing is done by selling Government bonds to the banking system, which in turn creates deposit money to the Government's favor.

This, according to Jerry Voorhis, is all wrong, not because it is highly inflationary—the conventional reason—but because the issue of new money should not be a private banking function at all. Nor should the issue of new money involve the creation of debt. If the Government has to have more money over & above what it raises in taxes, it should be able to create it free of charge. This might be done, Reformer Voorhis suggests, by the Government's taking over the Federal Reserve System, creating out of it a super-monetary authority, and giving this authority exclusive powers of note issue.

[live liberty]

Wilson didn't get it. They conned him. "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson

Travlyr - It looks like Wilson wasn't as innocent as you portray.
Quote from your link: Colonel Edward Mandell House (http://www.citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com/Edward_Mandell_House.html)


Edward Mandell House had this to say in a private meeting with President Woodrow Wilson:

“[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a national system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will effect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer being unable to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions.

Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two should figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor to this fraud which we will call “Social Insurance.” Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner, every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America.”

[Travlyr]

Travlyr - It looks like Wilson wasn't as innocent as you portray.
Quote from your link: Colonel Edward Mandell House (http://www.citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com/Edward_Mandell_House.html)

I always thought President Wilson was a dufus, but maybe he was evil... I dono.

Looks like House's plan is indeed playing out.


"every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption..."

[AuH20]

Travlyr - It looks like Wilson wasn't as innocent as you portray.
Quote from your link: Colonel Edward Mandell House (http://www.citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com/Edward_Mandell_House.html)

I'm almost 100 percent sure that the Wilson quote of regret is a complete fabrication. He knew exactly what he was doing, when he was following House's lead.

[Travlyr]

I'm almost 100 percent sure that the Wilson quote of regret is a complete fabrication. He knew exactly what he was doing, when he was following House's lead.

That makes sense. Wilson was a university president, governor and president he had to know what he was doing.
If he did indeed say that, it wasn't unwittingly. Yet, it was likely true regret. He probably understood that when the real history books get written, he will be portrayed as the worst president; a destroyer of the republic.