Game Changer in Syria?

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  • petejm043petejm043 Posts: 156
    Being the heathen that i am...obama is the drummer[/quote]

    I think the oil companies gave him the drumsticks![/quote]

    No way...obama and oil? Could never happen...[/quote]

    Yeah man and I heard a rumor that he is in bed with Wall Street also. But I think that rumor is a lie.
  • Drowned OutDrowned Out Posts: 6,056
    Cosmo wrote:
    Anyone got a line on who is actually ENDORSING U.S. military intervention in Syria... other than John McCain, Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham?
    I mean.. WHO is 'pressuring' President Obama to intervene?
    It's not coming from within America... is it? Our allies don't want any part of it. The Russinas don't want us there... which most Americans agree with President Putin. Neither does Middle Eastern countries.
    So.. WHO THE FUCK is beating the war drum? We need to find him and beat the shit out of him with his own goddamn drum.
    Careful cosmo, you're bordering on conspiracy here....can we mention names like Bilderberg without being discredited by Alex Jones?
    I mean....if its not coming from another country, or any one party, and doesn't seem to have a real face in the media....where do we look? Follow the money trail, right?
    Maybe there are slightly less mysterious organizations than Bilderberg that serve similar purpose - (corporate collusion on international trade and policy)?

    http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2011/0 ... nment.html

    Naming Names: Your Real Government
    When dark deeds unfold, point the finger in this direction.
    by Tony Cartalucci

    This is your real government; they transcend elected administrations, they permeate every political party, and they are responsible for nearly every aspect of the average American and European's way of life. When the "left" is carrying the torch for two "Neo-Con" wars, starting yet another based on the same lies, peddled by the same media outlets that told of Iraqi WMD's, the world has no choice, beyond profound cognitive dissonance, but to realize something is wrong.

    What's wrong is a system completely controlled by a corporate-financier oligarchy with financial, media, and industrial empires that span the globe. If we do not change the fact that we are helplessly dependent on these corporations that regulate every aspect of our nation politically, and every aspect of our lives personally, nothing else will ever change.

    The following list, however extensive, is by far not all-inclusive. However after these examples, a pattern should become self-evident with the same names and corporations being listed again and again. It should be self-evident to readers of how dangerously pervasive these corporations have become in our daily lives. Finally, it should be self-evident as to how necessary it is to excise these corporations from our lives, our communities, and ultimately our nations, with the utmost expediency.




    International Crisis Group
    http://www.crisisgroup.org

    Background: While the International Crisis Group (ICG) claims to be "committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict," the reality is that they are committed to offering solutions crafted well in advance to problems they themselves have created in order to perpetuate their own corporate agenda.

    Nowhere can this be better illustrated than in Thailand and more recently in Egypt. ICG member Kenneth Adelman had been backing Thailand's Prime Minster Thaksin Shinwatra, a former Carlyle Group adviser who was was literally standing in front of the CFR in NYC on the eve of his ousting from power in a 2006 military coup. Since 2006, Thaksin's meddling in Thailand has been propped up by fellow Carlyle man James Baker and his Baker Botts law firm, Belfer Center adviser Robert Blackwill of Barbour Griffith & Rogers, and now Robert Amsterdam's Amsterdam & Peroff, a major corporate member of the globalist Chatham House.

    With Thailand now mired in political turmoil led by Thaksin Shinwatra and his "red shirt" color revolution, the ICG is ready with "solutions" in hand. These solutions generally involve tying the Thai government's hands with arguments that stopping Thaksin's subversive activities amounts to human rights abuses, in hopes of allowing the globalist-backed revolution to swell beyond control.

    The unrest in Egypt, of course, was led entirely by ICG member Mohamed ElBaradei and his US State Department recruited, funded, and supported April 6 Youth Movement coordinated by Google's Wael Ghonim. While the unrest was portrayed as being spontaneous, fueled by the earlier Tunisian uprising, ICG's ElBaradei, Ghonim, and their youth movement had been in Egypt since 2010 assembling their "National Front for Change" and laying the groundwork for the January 25th 2011 uprising.

    ICG's George Soros would then go on to fund Egyptian NGOs working to rewrite the Egyptian constitution after front-man ElBaradei succeeded in removing Hosni Mubarak. This Soros-funded constitution and the resulting servile stooge government it would create represents the ICG "resolving" the crisis their own ElBaradei helped create.

    Notable ICG Board Members:

    George Soros
    Kenneth Adelman
    Samuel Berger
    Wesley Clark
    Mohamed ElBaradei
    Carla Hills

    Notable ICG Advisers:

    Richard Armitage
    Zbigniew Brzezinski
    Stanley Fischer
    Shimon Peres
    Surin Pitsuwan
    Fidel V. Ramos

    Notable ICG Foundation & Corporate Supporters:

    Carnegie Corporation of New York
    Hunt Alternatives Fund
    Open Society Institute
    Rockefeller Brothers Fund
    Morgan Stanley
    Deutsche Bank Group
    Soros Fund Management LLC
    McKinsey & Company
    Chevron
    Shell




    Brookings Institute
    http://www.brookings.edu

    Background: Within the library of the Brookings Institute you will find the blueprints for nearly every conflict the West has been involved with in recent memory. What's more is that while the public seems to think these crises spring up like wildfires, those following the Brookings' corporate funded studies and publications see these crises coming years in advance. These are premeditated, meticulously planned conflicts that are triggered to usher in premeditated, meticulously planned solutions to advance Brookings' corporate supporters, who are numerous.

    The ongoing operations against Iran, including US-backed color revolutions, US-trained and backed terrorists inside Iran, and crippling sanctions were all spelled out in excruciating detail in the Brookings Institute report, "Which Path to Persia?" The more recent UN Security Council resolution 1973 regarding Libya uncannily resembles Kenneth Pollack's March 9, 2011 Brookings report titled "The Real Military Options in Libya."

    Notable Brookings Board Members:

    Dominic Barton: McKinsey & Company, Inc.
    Alan R. Batkin: Eton Park Capital Management
    Richard C. Blum: Blum Capital Partners, LP
    Abby Joseph Cohen: Goldman, Sachs & Co.
    Suzanne Nora Johnson: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
    Richard A. Kimball Jr.: Goldman, Sachs & Co.
    Tracy R. Wolstencroft: Goldman, Sachs & Co.
    Paul Desmarais Jr.: Power Corporation of Canada
    Kenneth M. Duberstein: The Duberstein Group, Inc.
    Benjamin R. Jacobs: The JBG Companies
    Nemir Kirdar: Investcorp
    Klaus Kleinfeld: Alcoa, Inc.
    Philip H. Knight: Nike, Inc.
    David M. Rubenstein: Co-Founder of The Carlyle Group
    Sheryl K. Sandberg: Facebook
    Larry D. Thompson: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Michael L. Tipsord: State Farm Insurance Companies
    Andrew H. Tisch: Loews Corporation

    Some Brookings Experts:
    (click on names to see a list of recent writings.)

    Kenneth Pollack
    Daniel L. Byman
    Martin Indyk
    Suzanne Maloney
    Michael E. O'Hanlon
    Bruce Riedel
    Shadi Hamid

    Notable Brookings Foundation and Corporate Support:

    Foundations & Governments

    Ford Foundation
    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    The Rockefeller Foundation
    Government of the United Arab Emirates
    Carnegie Corporation of New York
    Rockefeller Brothers Fund

    Banking & Finance

    Bank of America
    Citi
    Goldman Sachs
    H&R Block
    Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
    Jacob Rothschild
    Nathaniel Rothschild
    Standard Chartered Bank
    Temasek Holdings Limited
    Visa Inc.

    Big Oil

    Exxon Mobil Corporation
    Chevron
    Shell Oil Company

    Military Industrial Complex & Industry

    Daimler
    General Dynamics Corporation
    Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Siemens Corporation
    The Boeing Company
    General Electric Company
    Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Raytheon Co.
    Hitachi, Ltd.
    Toyota

    Telecommunications & Technology

    AT&T
    Google Corporation
    Hewlett-Packard
    Microsoft Corporation
    Panasonic Corporation
    Verizon Communications
    Xerox Corporation
    Skype

    Media & Perception Management

    McKinsey & Company, Inc.
    News Corporation (Fox News)

    Consumer Goods & Pharmaceutical

    GlaxoSmithKline
    Target
    PepsiCo, Inc.
    The Coca-Cola Company



    Council on Foreign Relations
    http://www.cfr.org

    Background & Notable Membership: A better question would be, who isn't in the Council on Foreign Relations? Nearly every self-serving career politician, their advisers, and those populating the boards of the Fortune 500 are CFR members. Many of the books, magazine articles, and newspaper columns we read are written by CFR members, along with reports, similar to Brookings Institute that dictate, verbatim, the legislation that ends up before the West's lawmakers.

    A good sampling of the most active wings of the CFR can be illustrated best in last year's "Ground Zero Mosque" hoax, where CFR members from both America's political right and left feigned a heated debate over New York City's so-called Cordoba House near the 3 felled World Trade Center buildings. In reality, the Cordoba House was established by fellow CFR member Feisal Abdul Rauf, who in turn was funded by CFR financing arms including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, chaired by 9/11 Commission head Thomas Kean, and various Rockefeller foundations.

    Notable CFR Corporate Support:

    Banking & Finance

    Bank of America Merrill Lynch
    Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
    JPMorgan Chase & Co
    American Express
    Barclays Capital
    Citi
    Morgan Stanley
    Blackstone Group L.P.
    Deutsche Bank AG
    New York Life International, Inc.
    Prudential Financial
    Standard & Poor's
    Rothschild North America, Inc.
    Visa Inc.
    Soros Fund Management
    Standard Chartered Bank
    Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
    Veritas Capital LLC
    Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
    Moody's Investors Service

    Big Oil

    Chevron Corporation
    Exxon Mobil Corporation
    BP p.l.c.
    Shell Oil Company
    Hess Corporation
    ConocoPhillips Company
    TOTAL S.A.
    Marathon Oil Company
    Aramco Services Company

    Military Industrial Complex & Industry

    Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Airbus Americas, Inc.
    Boeing Company,
    DynCorp International
    General Electric Company
    Northrop Grumman
    Raytheon Company
    Hitachi, Ltd.
    Caterpillar
    BASF Corporation
    Alcoa, Inc.

    Public Relations, Lobbyists & Legal Firms

    McKinsey & Company, Inc.
    Omnicom Group Inc.
    BGR Group

    Corporate Media & Publishing

    Bloomberg
    Economist Intelligence Unit
    News Corporation (Fox News)
    Thomson Reuters
    Time Warner Inc.
    McGraw-Hill Companies

    Consumer Goods

    Walmart
    Nike, Inc.
    Coca-Cola Company
    PepsiCo, Inc.
    HP
    Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.
    De Beers

    Telecommunications & Technology

    AT&T
    Google, Inc.
    IBM Corporation
    Microsoft Corporation
    Sony Corporation of America
    Xerox Corporation
    Verizon Communications

    Pharmaceutical Industry

    GlaxoSmithKline
    Merck & Co., Inc.
    Pfizer Inc.



    The Chatham House
    http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk

    Background & Membership: The UK's Chatham House, like the CFR and the Brookings Institute in America, has an extensive membership and is involved in coordinated planning, perception management, and the execution of its corporate membership's collective agenda.

    Individual members populating its "senior panel of advisers" consist of the founders, CEOs, and chairmen of the Chatham House's corporate membership. Chatham's "experts" are generally plucked from the world of academia and their "recent publications" are generally used internally as well as published throughout Chatham's extensive list of member media corporations, as well as industry journals and medical journals. That Chatham House "experts" are submitting entries to medical journals is particularly alarming considering GlaxoSmithKline and Merck are both Chatham House corporate members.

    No better example of this incredible conflict of interest can be given than the current Thai "red" color revolution being led by Chatham House's Amsterdam & Peroff with consistent support lent by other corporate members including the Economist, the Telegraph and the BBC.

    In one case, the Telegraph printed, "Thai protests - analysis by Dr Gareth Price and Rosheen Kabraji," within which Price and Kabraji make a shameless attempt at defending the Western-backed, Maoist themed, violent protests. While the Telegraph mentioned that Price and Kabraji were both analysts for the Chatham House, they failed to tell readers that the Telegraph itself retains a corporate membership within the Chatham House as does the Thai protest leader's lobbyist, Robert Amsterdam and his Amsterdam & Peroff lobbying firm.

    Notable Chatham House Major Corporate Members:
    Amsterdam & Peroff
    BBC
    Bloomberg
    Coca-Cola Great Britain
    Economist
    GlaxoSmithKline
    Goldman Sachs International
    HSBC Holdings plc
    Lockheed Martin UK
    Merck & Co Inc
    Mitsubishi Corporation
    Morgan Stanley
    Royal Bank of Scotland
    Saudi Petroleum Overseas Ltd
    Standard Bank London Limited
    Standard Chartered Bank
    Tesco
    Thomson Reuter
    United States of America Embassy
    Vodafone Group

    Notable Chatham House Standard Corporate Members:

    Amnesty International
    BASF
    Boeing UK
    CBS News
    Daily Mail and General Trust plc
    De Beers Group Services UK Ltd
    G3 Good Governance Group
    Google
    Guardian
    Hess Ltd
    Lloyd's of London
    McGraw-Hill Companies
    Prudential plc
    Telegraph Media Group
    Times Newspapers Ltd
    World Bank Group

    Notable Chatham House Corporate Partners:

    British Petroleum
    Chevron Ltd
    Deutsche Bank
    Exxon Mobil Corporation
    Royal Dutch Shell
    Statoil
    Toshiba Corporation
    Total Holdings UK Ltd
    Unilever plc

    Conclusion

    These organizations represent the collective interests of the largest corporations on earth. They not only retain armies of policy wonks and researchers to articulate their agenda and form a consensus internally, but also use their massive accumulation of unwarranted influence in media, industry, and finance to manufacture a self-serving consensus internationally.

    To believe that this corporate-financier oligarchy would subject their agenda and fate to the whims of the voting masses is naive at best. They have painstakingly ensured that no matter who gets into office, in whatever country, the guns, the oil, the wealth and the power keep flowing perpetually into their own hands. Nothing vindicates this poorly hidden reality better than a "liberal" Nobel Peace Prize wearing president, dutifully towing forward a myriad of "Neo-Con" wars, while starting yet another war in Libya.

    Likewise, no matter how bloody your revolution is, if the above equation remains unchanged, and the corporate bottom lines left unscathed, nothing but the most superficial changes will have been made, and as is the case in Egypt with International Crisis Group stooge Mohamed ElBaradei worming his way into power, things may become substantially worse.

    The real revolution will commence when we identify the above equation as the true brokers of power and when we begin systematically removing our dependence on them, and their influence on us from our daily lives. The global corporate-financier oligarchy needs us, we do not need them, independence from them is the key to our freedom.
  • peacefrompaulpeacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    With Assad down and a different leader in place, it may give Israel more security in the Golan Heights region. Of course, there are many factors to it. Who knows what kind of leader would take over.

    Just something I ponder on occasion.

    I felt insulted by John Kerry telling me what is morally right and wrong. Is supporting a rebel resistance with a member that actually tore a guy's heart out and ate it on video morally right?

    Lots of unknowns in this and supporting rebels this way reminds me a lot of the Reagan years.

    non-intervention, please. Legality of the strike aside (definitely not legal according to the constitution. launching missiles is an act of war, is it not?) I fucking despise war. This is not our war to fight
  • peacefrompaulpeacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    ajedigecko wrote:
    satansbed wrote:
    everyone calm down, the U.S. isn't sending boots to the ground, they don't actaully want to get rid of Assad, the best outcome from us is a peace treaty between both sides and for a moterate leader to come out from between them. all the west will do is fire cruise missiles.


    for now


    there have been boots on the ground there for many months....gathering information.

    I'd guess the CIA has probably been pulling clandestine operations in the area for the past couple years.
  • Hell even Steve is sitting this one out. What is the world coming too? ;) Cdn's will get that one.

    The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08

  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    President Obama, with Great Britain having rejected military action in Syria, finds himself on the verge of pursuing the very kind of go-it-alone approach that he accused his predecessor of using in Iraq.



    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08 ... z2dS6kFZFq


    Godfather.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Hell even Steve is sitting this one out. What is the world coming too? ;) Cdn's will get that one.

    steve is NOT sitting this one out

    i wonder if the obama supporters have finally clued in that he has little power to change the direction the country has been going ...

    foreign policy is based on economics and profiteering ... if he bypasses congress - it's because he knows congress won't send them to war ... once again - the US is looking for arms sales and "reconstruction" contracts ... and once again ... the country will spend money it doesn't have so that companies can profit ...
  • polaris_x wrote:
    Hell even Steve is sitting this one out. What is the world coming too? ;) Cdn's will get that one.

    steve is NOT sitting this one out

    i wonder if the obama supporters have finally clued in that he has little power to change the direction the country has been going ...

    foreign policy is based on economics and profiteering ... if he bypasses congress - it's because he knows congress won't send them to war ... once again - the US is looking for arms sales and "reconstruction" contracts ... and once again ... the country will spend money it doesn't have so that companies can profit ...


    Just basing what I posted on the voice clip from today's news on the drive in.

    The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08

  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Just basing what I posted on the voice clip from today's news on the drive in.

    ya ... it is what he says but we the official response is that we are "backing" any military action so that means we will contribute one way or another ...
  • ajedigeckoajedigecko Posts: 2,430
    Cosmo wrote:
    Anyone got a line on who is actually ENDORSING U.S. military intervention in Syria... other than John McCain, Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham?
    I mean.. WHO is 'pressuring' President Obama to intervene?
    It's not coming from within America... is it? Our allies don't want any part of it. The Russinas don't want us there... which most Americans agree with President Putin. Neither does Middle Eastern countries.
    So.. WHO THE FUCK is beating the war drum? We need to find him and beat the shit out of him with his own goddamn drum.
    Careful cosmo, you're bordering on conspiracy here....can we mention names like Bilderberg without being discredited by Alex Jones?
    I mean....if its not coming from another country, or any one party, and doesn't seem to have a real face in the media....where do we look? Follow the money trail, right?
    Maybe there are slightly less mysterious organizations than Bilderberg that serve similar purpose - (corporate collusion on international trade and policy)?

    http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2011/0 ... nment.html

    Naming Names: Your Real Government
    When dark deeds unfold, point the finger in this direction.
    by Tony Cartalucci

    This is your real government; they transcend elected administrations, they permeate every political party, and they are responsible for nearly every aspect of the average American and European's way of life. When the "left" is carrying the torch for two "Neo-Con" wars, starting yet another based on the same lies, peddled by the same media outlets that told of Iraqi WMD's, the world has no choice, beyond profound cognitive dissonance, but to realize something is wrong.

    What's wrong is a system completely controlled by a corporate-financier oligarchy with financial, media, and industrial empires that span the globe. If we do not change the fact that we are helplessly dependent on these corporations that regulate every aspect of our nation politically, and every aspect of our lives personally, nothing else will ever change.

    The following list, however extensive, is by far not all-inclusive. However after these examples, a pattern should become self-evident with the same names and corporations being listed again and again. It should be self-evident to readers of how dangerously pervasive these corporations have become in our daily lives. Finally, it should be self-evident as to how necessary it is to excise these corporations from our lives, our communities, and ultimately our nations, with the utmost expediency.




    International Crisis Group
    http://www.crisisgroup.org

    Background: While the International Crisis Group (ICG) claims to be "committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict," the reality is that they are committed to offering solutions crafted well in advance to problems they themselves have created in order to perpetuate their own corporate agenda.

    Nowhere can this be better illustrated than in Thailand and more recently in Egypt. ICG member Kenneth Adelman had been backing Thailand's Prime Minster Thaksin Shinwatra, a former Carlyle Group adviser who was was literally standing in front of the CFR in NYC on the eve of his ousting from power in a 2006 military coup. Since 2006, Thaksin's meddling in Thailand has been propped up by fellow Carlyle man James Baker and his Baker Botts law firm, Belfer Center adviser Robert Blackwill of Barbour Griffith & Rogers, and now Robert Amsterdam's Amsterdam & Peroff, a major corporate member of the globalist Chatham House.

    With Thailand now mired in political turmoil led by Thaksin Shinwatra and his "red shirt" color revolution, the ICG is ready with "solutions" in hand. These solutions generally involve tying the Thai government's hands with arguments that stopping Thaksin's subversive activities amounts to human rights abuses, in hopes of allowing the globalist-backed revolution to swell beyond control.

    The unrest in Egypt, of course, was led entirely by ICG member Mohamed ElBaradei and his US State Department recruited, funded, and supported April 6 Youth Movement coordinated by Google's Wael Ghonim. While the unrest was portrayed as being spontaneous, fueled by the earlier Tunisian uprising, ICG's ElBaradei, Ghonim, and their youth movement had been in Egypt since 2010 assembling their "National Front for Change" and laying the groundwork for the January 25th 2011 uprising.

    ICG's George Soros would then go on to fund Egyptian NGOs working to rewrite the Egyptian constitution after front-man ElBaradei succeeded in removing Hosni Mubarak. This Soros-funded constitution and the resulting servile stooge government it would create represents the ICG "resolving" the crisis their own ElBaradei helped create.

    Notable ICG Board Members:

    George Soros
    Kenneth Adelman
    Samuel Berger
    Wesley Clark
    Mohamed ElBaradei
    Carla Hills

    Notable ICG Advisers:

    Richard Armitage
    Zbigniew Brzezinski
    Stanley Fischer
    Shimon Peres
    Surin Pitsuwan
    Fidel V. Ramos

    Notable ICG Foundation & Corporate Supporters:

    Carnegie Corporation of New York
    Hunt Alternatives Fund
    Open Society Institute
    Rockefeller Brothers Fund
    Morgan Stanley
    Deutsche Bank Group
    Soros Fund Management LLC
    McKinsey & Company
    Chevron
    Shell




    Brookings Institute
    http://www.brookings.edu

    Background: Within the library of the Brookings Institute you will find the blueprints for nearly every conflict the West has been involved with in recent memory. What's more is that while the public seems to think these crises spring up like wildfires, those following the Brookings' corporate funded studies and publications see these crises coming years in advance. These are premeditated, meticulously planned conflicts that are triggered to usher in premeditated, meticulously planned solutions to advance Brookings' corporate supporters, who are numerous.

    The ongoing operations against Iran, including US-backed color revolutions, US-trained and backed terrorists inside Iran, and crippling sanctions were all spelled out in excruciating detail in the Brookings Institute report, "Which Path to Persia?" The more recent UN Security Council resolution 1973 regarding Libya uncannily resembles Kenneth Pollack's March 9, 2011 Brookings report titled "The Real Military Options in Libya."

    Notable Brookings Board Members:

    Dominic Barton: McKinsey & Company, Inc.
    Alan R. Batkin: Eton Park Capital Management
    Richard C. Blum: Blum Capital Partners, LP
    Abby Joseph Cohen: Goldman, Sachs & Co.
    Suzanne Nora Johnson: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
    Richard A. Kimball Jr.: Goldman, Sachs & Co.
    Tracy R. Wolstencroft: Goldman, Sachs & Co.
    Paul Desmarais Jr.: Power Corporation of Canada
    Kenneth M. Duberstein: The Duberstein Group, Inc.
    Benjamin R. Jacobs: The JBG Companies
    Nemir Kirdar: Investcorp
    Klaus Kleinfeld: Alcoa, Inc.
    Philip H. Knight: Nike, Inc.
    David M. Rubenstein: Co-Founder of The Carlyle Group
    Sheryl K. Sandberg: Facebook
    Larry D. Thompson: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Michael L. Tipsord: State Farm Insurance Companies
    Andrew H. Tisch: Loews Corporation

    Some Brookings Experts:
    (click on names to see a list of recent writings.)

    Kenneth Pollack
    Daniel L. Byman
    Martin Indyk
    Suzanne Maloney
    Michael E. O'Hanlon
    Bruce Riedel
    Shadi Hamid

    Notable Brookings Foundation and Corporate Support:

    Foundations & Governments

    Ford Foundation
    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    The Rockefeller Foundation
    Government of the United Arab Emirates
    Carnegie Corporation of New York
    Rockefeller Brothers Fund

    Banking & Finance

    Bank of America
    Citi
    Goldman Sachs
    H&R Block
    Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
    Jacob Rothschild
    Nathaniel Rothschild
    Standard Chartered Bank
    Temasek Holdings Limited
    Visa Inc.

    Big Oil

    Exxon Mobil Corporation
    Chevron
    Shell Oil Company

    Military Industrial Complex & Industry

    Daimler
    General Dynamics Corporation
    Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Siemens Corporation
    The Boeing Company
    General Electric Company
    Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Raytheon Co.
    Hitachi, Ltd.
    Toyota

    Telecommunications & Technology

    AT&T
    Google Corporation
    Hewlett-Packard
    Microsoft Corporation
    Panasonic Corporation
    Verizon Communications
    Xerox Corporation
    Skype

    Media & Perception Management

    McKinsey & Company, Inc.
    News Corporation (Fox News)

    Consumer Goods & Pharmaceutical

    GlaxoSmithKline
    Target
    PepsiCo, Inc.
    The Coca-Cola Company



    Council on Foreign Relations
    http://www.cfr.org

    Background & Notable Membership: A better question would be, who isn't in the Council on Foreign Relations? Nearly every self-serving career politician, their advisers, and those populating the boards of the Fortune 500 are CFR members. Many of the books, magazine articles, and newspaper columns we read are written by CFR members, along with reports, similar to Brookings Institute that dictate, verbatim, the legislation that ends up before the West's lawmakers.

    A good sampling of the most active wings of the CFR can be illustrated best in last year's "Ground Zero Mosque" hoax, where CFR members from both America's political right and left feigned a heated debate over New York City's so-called Cordoba House near the 3 felled World Trade Center buildings. In reality, the Cordoba House was established by fellow CFR member Feisal Abdul Rauf, who in turn was funded by CFR financing arms including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, chaired by 9/11 Commission head Thomas Kean, and various Rockefeller foundations.

    Notable CFR Corporate Support:

    Banking & Finance

    Bank of America Merrill Lynch
    Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
    JPMorgan Chase & Co
    American Express
    Barclays Capital
    Citi
    Morgan Stanley
    Blackstone Group L.P.
    Deutsche Bank AG
    New York Life International, Inc.
    Prudential Financial
    Standard & Poor's
    Rothschild North America, Inc.
    Visa Inc.
    Soros Fund Management
    Standard Chartered Bank
    Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
    Veritas Capital LLC
    Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
    Moody's Investors Service

    Big Oil

    Chevron Corporation
    Exxon Mobil Corporation
    BP p.l.c.
    Shell Oil Company
    Hess Corporation
    ConocoPhillips Company
    TOTAL S.A.
    Marathon Oil Company
    Aramco Services Company

    Military Industrial Complex & Industry

    Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Airbus Americas, Inc.
    Boeing Company,
    DynCorp International
    General Electric Company
    Northrop Grumman
    Raytheon Company
    Hitachi, Ltd.
    Caterpillar
    BASF Corporation
    Alcoa, Inc.

    Public Relations, Lobbyists & Legal Firms

    McKinsey & Company, Inc.
    Omnicom Group Inc.
    BGR Group

    Corporate Media & Publishing

    Bloomberg
    Economist Intelligence Unit
    News Corporation (Fox News)
    Thomson Reuters
    Time Warner Inc.
    McGraw-Hill Companies

    Consumer Goods

    Walmart
    Nike, Inc.
    Coca-Cola Company
    PepsiCo, Inc.
    HP
    Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.
    De Beers

    Telecommunications & Technology

    AT&T
    Google, Inc.
    IBM Corporation
    Microsoft Corporation
    Sony Corporation of America
    Xerox Corporation
    Verizon Communications

    Pharmaceutical Industry

    GlaxoSmithKline
    Merck & Co., Inc.
    Pfizer Inc.



    The Chatham House
    http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk

    Background & Membership: The UK's Chatham House, like the CFR and the Brookings Institute in America, has an extensive membership and is involved in coordinated planning, perception management, and the execution of its corporate membership's collective agenda.

    Individual members populating its "senior panel of advisers" consist of the founders, CEOs, and chairmen of the Chatham House's corporate membership. Chatham's "experts" are generally plucked from the world of academia and their "recent publications" are generally used internally as well as published throughout Chatham's extensive list of member media corporations, as well as industry journals and medical journals. That Chatham House "experts" are submitting entries to medical journals is particularly alarming considering GlaxoSmithKline and Merck are both Chatham House corporate members.

    No better example of this incredible conflict of interest can be given than the current Thai "red" color revolution being led by Chatham House's Amsterdam & Peroff with consistent support lent by other corporate members including the Economist, the Telegraph and the BBC.

    In one case, the Telegraph printed, "Thai protests - analysis by Dr Gareth Price and Rosheen Kabraji," within which Price and Kabraji make a shameless attempt at defending the Western-backed, Maoist themed, violent protests. While the Telegraph mentioned that Price and Kabraji were both analysts for the Chatham House, they failed to tell readers that the Telegraph itself retains a corporate membership within the Chatham House as does the Thai protest leader's lobbyist, Robert Amsterdam and his Amsterdam & Peroff lobbying firm.

    Notable Chatham House Major Corporate Members:
    Amsterdam & Peroff
    BBC
    Bloomberg
    Coca-Cola Great Britain
    Economist
    GlaxoSmithKline
    Goldman Sachs International
    HSBC Holdings plc
    Lockheed Martin UK
    Merck & Co Inc
    Mitsubishi Corporation
    Morgan Stanley
    Royal Bank of Scotland
    Saudi Petroleum Overseas Ltd
    Standard Bank London Limited
    Standard Chartered Bank
    Tesco
    Thomson Reuter
    United States of America Embassy
    Vodafone Group

    Notable Chatham House Standard Corporate Members:

    Amnesty International
    BASF
    Boeing UK
    CBS News
    Daily Mail and General Trust plc
    De Beers Group Services UK Ltd
    G3 Good Governance Group
    Google
    Guardian
    Hess Ltd
    Lloyd's of London
    McGraw-Hill Companies
    Prudential plc
    Telegraph Media Group
    Times Newspapers Ltd
    World Bank Group

    Notable Chatham House Corporate Partners:

    British Petroleum
    Chevron Ltd
    Deutsche Bank
    Exxon Mobil Corporation
    Royal Dutch Shell
    Statoil
    Toshiba Corporation
    Total Holdings UK Ltd
    Unilever plc

    Conclusion

    These organizations represent the collective interests of the largest corporations on earth. They not only retain armies of policy wonks and researchers to articulate their agenda and form a consensus internally, but also use their massive accumulation of unwarranted influence in media, industry, and finance to manufacture a self-serving consensus internationally.

    To believe that this corporate-financier oligarchy would subject their agenda and fate to the whims of the voting masses is naive at best. They have painstakingly ensured that no matter who gets into office, in whatever country, the guns, the oil, the wealth and the power keep flowing perpetually into their own hands. Nothing vindicates this poorly hidden reality better than a "liberal" Nobel Peace Prize wearing president, dutifully towing forward a myriad of "Neo-Con" wars, while starting yet another war in Libya.

    Likewise, no matter how bloody your revolution is, if the above equation remains unchanged, and the corporate bottom lines left unscathed, nothing but the most superficial changes will have been made, and as is the case in Egypt with International Crisis Group stooge Mohamed ElBaradei worming his way into power, things may become substantially worse.

    The real revolution will commence when we identify the above equation as the true brokers of power and when we begin systematically removing our dependence on them, and their influence on us from our daily lives. The global corporate-financier oligarchy needs us, we do not need them, independence from them is the key to our freedom.

    Impressive list.
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    The real revolution will commence when we identify the above equation as the true brokers of power and when we begin systematically removing our dependence on them, and their influence on us from our daily lives. The global corporate-financier oligarchy needs us, we do not need them, independence from them is the key to our freedom.

    been saying this for years ... :(
  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Hell even Steve is sitting this one out. What is the world coming too? ;) Cdn's will get that one.

    :lol::lol::lol:
    I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin

    "Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    polaris_x wrote:
    Hell even Steve is sitting this one out. What is the world coming too? ;) Cdn's will get that one.

    steve is NOT sitting this one out

    Actually Steve is sitting this one out ... all politicians sit out the wars, they send others to do their bidding ... just being sarcastic, just feel it has to be said that its others that do the dirty work of the decision makers.
    I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin

    "Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,138
    The true root of the American Syria intervention ... behold!!!

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRoynSuvANcUJ9TLdG9SdORqHfOSMOm0r9OHseZ3SXG8zRafT6U
  • ajedigeckoajedigecko Posts: 2,430
    "for us to take military action unilaterally, as some have suggested, or to think that somehow that there is some simple solution, I think is a mistake"


    nobel peace prize winner
    -bho
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • JimmyVJimmyV Posts: 19,172
    ajedigecko wrote:
    "for us to take military action unilaterally, as some have suggested, or to think that somehow that there is some simple solution, I think is a mistake"


    nobel peace prize winner
    -bho

    I am more disappointed in Obama over this than I have been over any other misstep along the way. Particularly because his quote here is so very true.
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  • ajedigeckoajedigecko Posts: 2,430
    JimmyV wrote:
    ajedigecko wrote:
    "for us to take military action unilaterally, as some have suggested, or to think that somehow that there is some simple solution, I think is a mistake"


    nobel peace prize winner
    -bho

    I am more disappointed in Obama over this than I have been over any other misstep along the way. Particularly because his quote here is so very true.

    Mychal Massie, summarized the obamas - perfectly.

    I will try to find his words.

    I would like to be able to say....I never voted for him, but I did. once.
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,573
    Yeah not happy about another intervention i wish we could just say fuck the whole middle east let them just fight it out , but even if it wasn't Obama as president who ever else they would still most likely have to intervene , i don't believe there is such a president out there who would just say let them fight it out and to think that there is to me that is being naive , it doesn't matter REPUBLICAN DEMOCRAT ...
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • ajedigeckoajedigecko Posts: 2,430
    ajedigecko wrote:
    JimmyV wrote:
    ajedigecko wrote:
    "for us to take military action unilaterally, as some have suggested, or to think that somehow that there is some simple solution, I think is a mistake"


    nobel peace prize winner
    -bho

    I am more disappointed in Obama over this than I have been over any other misstep along the way. Particularly because his quote here is so very true.

    Mychal Massie, summarized the obamas - perfectly.

    I will try to find his words.


    http://mychal-massie.com/premium/dear-barack/

    I would like to be able to say....I never voted for him, but I did. once.
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • Better DanBetter Dan Posts: 5,684
    President Obama to speak shortly.
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  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Better Dan wrote:
    President Obama to speak shortly.


    No offense but I think we have all heard enough of his bullshit.

    Godfather.
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    President Obama signaled Friday that the U.S. could act alone to punish Syria for a chemical weapons attack last week, saying the nation has an "obligation as a leader in the world" to hold rogue regimes to account for breaching the rules of war.

    and he has the power to declare was on his own ?....we're **cked !



    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08 ... z2dUIZXCox
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    Godfather. wrote:
    Better Dan wrote:
    President Obama to speak shortly.


    No offense but I think we have all heard enough of his bullshit.

    Godfather.
    calm down, godfather.
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    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,573
    Godfather. wrote:
    Better Dan wrote:
    President Obama to speak shortly.


    No offense but I think we have all heard enough of his bullshit.

    Godfather.

    I think you should of stated " I " instead of " We " ...
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    chadwick wrote:
    Godfather. wrote:
    Better Dan wrote:
    President Obama to speak shortly.


    No offense but I think we have all heard enough of his bullshit.

    Godfather.
    calm down, godfather.

    my apologizes to all. :mrgreen:

    Godfather.
  • aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
    Yeah not happy about another intervention i wish we could just say fuck the whole middle east let them just fight it out , but even if it wasn't Obama as president who ever else they would still most likely have to intervene , i don't believe there is such a president out there who would just say let them fight it out and to think that there is to me that is being naive , it doesn't matter REPUBLICAN DEMOCRAT ...


    I agree with what you say but the fact is this IS Obama intervening so no more excuse for this President.....He sucks as a President and he has been proving it the whole time he has been in office....Can't wait to see who's going to blame Bush for this one....Is he going to make a case to congress?
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
  • aerial wrote:
    Yeah not happy about another intervention i wish we could just say fuck the whole middle east let them just fight it out , but even if it wasn't Obama as president who ever else they would still most likely have to intervene , i don't believe there is such a president out there who would just say let them fight it out and to think that there is to me that is being naive , it doesn't matter REPUBLICAN DEMOCRAT ...


    I agree with what you say but the fact is this IS Obama intervening so no more excuse for this President.....He sucks as a President and he has been proving it the whole time he has been in office....Can't wait to see who's going to blame Bush for this one....Is he going to make a case to congress?

    Well, that is so your opinion he sucks as a president and has "proved" it his whole time in office. I don't think him, or Bush, had a bad Presidency. It's all just opinion.

    You can't blame both of them for wanting to help people in other countries. I don't want to hear "they went there for the oil!" because yeah, that could be true, but we are doing this to help those who can't defend themselves. If we as Americans don't want to help because we want to save money and we "are not the world police," then I hope they film all those who die so that we can see what we may have prevented. I personally don't want to go to war, but I think we should help. I am not justifying Obama and Bush, but better measures need to take place so that we can help them without us actually getting involved.
    ~Carter~

    You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets, oh
    or you can come to terms and realize
    you're the only one who can't forgive yourself, oh
    makes much more sense to live in the present tense
    - Present Tense
  • peacefrompaulpeacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Obama is ready to strike, but seeking congressional approval.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    So we’re gonna bomb Syria and kill innocent Syrians because Syria killed innocent Syrians.
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