George W. Bush Is GOP's Bill Clinton

George W. Bush Is GOP's Bill Clinton
By Chuck Baldwin
May 25, 2007


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Those of you who heard my radio program back in 2001 know that I predicted
then that George W. Bush would do to the Republican Party much the same
thing that Bill Clinton did to the Democratic Party. However, I must
confess, I could not then realize the magnitude of that prediction.

Most of us remember that it was the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 that
was the impetus for the Republican revolution of 1994. If you recall, a
congressional election sweep of the magnitude of 1994 had not been seen in
the previous seventy years. It is a truism that Bill Clinton helped to elect
more Republicans than the Republican National Committee could ever dream
about. Now, the same thing is happening with George W. Bush. In spades!

Amazingly, the two issues that I predicated my prediction on have
materialized exactly as I said they would. I warned my audience in 2001 that
George W. Bush had every intention of invading Iraq, and once there, did not
plan to leave, but would probably seek to expand the war's theatre. I also
predicted that Bush would seek to facilitate illegal immigration and create
the working group to create a hemispheric government.

I then said that if Bush did as I suspected he would, it would be the end of
the Republican Party as a major force in American politics. Looking back, I
cannot believe how right I was. And, make no mistake about it: I would love
to have been proven wrong.

George W. Bush is driving the GOP off the cliff. His mad infatuation with
Mexican immigration, and his unbelievably naïve and dangerous policies in
the Middle East are causing people to leave the Republican Party like rats
off a sinking ship.

In a recent CNN poll, fewer than 25% of the American people now identify
themselves as Republicans. If there is any saving grace for the GOP, it is
only found in the fact that a majority of people are also fed up with the
Democratic Party. Only 33% of the American people now identify themselves as
Democrats. Instead, a much larger percentage, some 42% of the American
people now identify themselves as Independents. However, it is the
Republican Party that will take the brunt of the voters' wrath come next
year.

Even those who were willing to forgive Bush for taking us to war with Iraq
have no patience or mercy for his dogged determination to grant amnesty to
millions of illegal aliens, and to merge America into a regional commercial
entity with Mexico and Canada.

Add to the frustration of the GOP faithful the fact that the popular
frontrunners for next year's elections are all conservative misfits. Rudy
Giuliani is a blatant liberal on most of the fundamental issues that
conservatives care about. Mitt Romney has flipped and flopped so many times,
he looks like a dying trout. And John McCain can kiss whatever campaign
hopes he had goodbye, as conservatives now realize that he is one of the
movers and shakers of the amnesty bill currently being shoved down our
throats. Some believe Fred Thompson can save the sinking ship, but he can't.
He is too closely connected to Big Government interests to become 2008's
version of Ronald Reagan. Ditto for Newt Gingrich.

Of course, Ron Paul is the man that could save the GOP in next year's
general election, but the Republican machine would rather die than let him
win the nomination. Therefore, the GOP is in a self-destruct mode, and I
don't believe anyone can do anything to prevent it.

Then again, perhaps George Bush knows something we don't know. Writing for
World Net Daily, Dr. Jerry Corsi reports that President Bush has just signed
a Presidential Directive that would give the President dictatorial powers
should he decide to declare a "national emergency."

Corsi writes, "President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement,
on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the
office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the
president.

"The 'National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive,' with
the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential
Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive,
establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity
Coordinator."

Corsi continued by saying, "Translated into layman's terms, when the
president determines a national emergency has occurred, the president can
declare to the office of the presidency powers usually assumed by dictators
to direct any and all government and business activities until the emergency
is declared over."

In much the same way that President Bush has committed the United States to
a new hemispheric governmental entity with Mexico and Canada under the
Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) agreement, he has created a new
position of "National Continuity Coordinator," complete with dictatorial
powers, without the knowledge or consent of Congress.

So, the sixty-four million dollar question seems to be, Is George W. Bush an
egomaniac, without conscience or regard for his own party, or is he a
bumbling, stumbling, simpleton-cowboy who is really as dumb as he talks, or
is he deliberately and meticulously (with much help, of course)
orchestrating America's entrance into Daddy Bush's "New World Order"? I
personally believe the correct answer is found behind curtain number three.

In any case, President Bush has almost single-handedly superintended the
destruction of the Republican Party, which by itself, is not necessarily a
bad thing. America desperately needs a strong Independent party that
respects America's working men and women and submits to constitutional
government. Perhaps the demise of the GOP will create a void that such a
party can fill in 2008--providing that Bush has not become der Führer by
then.

(c) Chuck Baldwin

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I wouldn't go that far!

Welcome Back CPN!  Hope you had a great time on your vacation!  Glad to see you got back safely!

Thank you HFTD. It was a nice vacation, but too short as always. We all caught a bug, though, and I’m still under the weather. Went to Sea World thinking the kids would enjoy, but I think my wife and I were more impressed then they were - it was truly awesome. I saw a killer whale push a young lady up out of the water and some 30 plus feet into the air on the tip of its nose! THAT was WAY COOOL!!! (seeing it on TV doesn’t do it justice) What power those animals have - it’s amazing they can be trained to do that. The Dolphin show was awesome too.

What’s going too far? That the Republican Party is doomed? I think it is, and I believe this amnesty bill is going to seal its fate, and even more so if it passes.

I was a Republican for 24 years. I stopped supporting the RNC in 2003 when Bush told me that I needed to get more education to maintain my standard of living…all because we MUST do business and allow outsourcing to China - a Communist country. WHY? Haven’t we learned a single thing from relying on the Middle East for oil? We continuously make our enemies wealthy and capable to strike at us by buying it from them. Now what’s going to happen with China? The same thing, that’s what. They’re feverishly building their military to kick our asses. They‘ve been dreaming of that for a long time, and now, with our help, it’s becoming feasible. They could care less about their own citizens, let alone ours. And I have to get more education just to thrive for THAT? After tiptoeing around Masques (in the war), and giving honor to a god that is no God in whose name they’ve hated and come against us? This was the straw that broke the camels back for me. Now the agenda is made even more clear with the SPP and amnesty. The goal is globalism - the “New World Order” that Mr. “read my lips“ wanted 20 years ago. I had to defect, and I believe as these things come more, and more to light others will follow. The Republican Party has been infiltrated with one worlders who don’t care about The United States or its citizens. They want the world and people are finally recognizing it.

I was considering becoming a Libertarian when I found the Constitution Party. The CP fit my person convictions the best. And it is the third largest and fasting growing political party - because of people exiting the Republican Party, I’d assume, since everybody I know in the CP used to be a Republican. The CP leadership has stated that its present goal is to drive the two established parties to be more conservative. And the more people that vacate them, the more likely that is to happen.

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I think I'll give it one more chance.  Although I'm registered as an independant, I may reregister as a Republican so that I can vote for Tancredo in the primary.  It seems to me that if we all got involved in the primaries, we would have more to say about who the candidates are.

We all realize that all the front runners of both parties suck.  I admit to knowing nothing of the candidates of the minor parties. 

It is also obvious, as stated in the article above, that George Bush fully intends to sell out every American to mexico before he leaves office.  In much the same way, I guess, that Clinton did for China when he sold them out rocket technology for campaign contributions.

What is Bush's angle here?  What's his motivation?  What possible reason could he have to give away our country to third world invaders?  I am stumped & betrayed!

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The independent, self reliant, determined, can-do attitude along with the great wealth of the American people are a huge obstacle to obtaining a global government. So they have to empower the third world countries while at the same time weakening us so we‘ll be scared of each other (get us on a "level playing feild" as he's said). Without threats they can’t sell us on relinquishing our sovereignty.  The globalists empower themselves with the third world people at our expense.  It's all about uniting the world under one government as daddy Bush wanted 20 years ago.

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Ok, CPN, but why?

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Ever try to put yourself in the shoes of a self made man? That is someone who’s made himself into a billionaire? You and I would probably stop after making 10 million dollars and say to ourselves, it’s time take it easy and enjoy the fortune. Okay, so we might get board or antsy, or a friend might have 20 million, and not to be outdone we go for more, and then maybe settle down and take it easy. Then maybe we’d get antsy again and go for 30 mill then maybe 100 or even 500 million. At what point should we stop? Why wouldn’t anybody stop? What makes a person keep going and going until he’s worth billions - more money than a guy could spend in a dozen lifetimes? Such a person is going to come to a point where money isn’t enough anymore, and political power is the challenge - and with enough of that, you don’t need money anymore.

No one really knows exactly who’s behind it all, but the international bankers are surly among them. And there are still people in the British aristocracy that believe this country should belong to them. They couldn’t take it militarily so they began trying to take it financially or financial control over it i.e. the Federal Reserve. They’ve always believed the whole world belongs to the Crown. There wasn’t a more successful, imperialistic nation in the 18^th and 19^th centuries than Great Brittan and those ambitions are still there, but they don’t manifest themselves militarily anymore. They do, however, manifest themselves in the world of finance. There have been a lot of books written about this but one thing they all seem to have in common are the international bankers and the Federal Reserve. And any president that has ever tried to get rid of it (going to a silver or gold standard) has been shot.

The Bush connection:

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The Rockefeller family, founded by John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) ("Senior") and his brother William Rockefeller (1841-1922), is an American industrial, banking, and philanthropic family of German-American origin that made the world's largest private fortune in the oil business during the late 19th and early 20th century, primarily through the Standard Oil Company.[1] The family is also known for its long association with and financial interest in the Chase Manhattan Bank, now JP Morgan Chase.

The same people instrumental in giving us the Federal Reserve were also instrumental in starting the Council on Foreign Relations one among them being John D. Rockefeller whose grandson David is now chairman. George H. Bush is a member of the CFR, and while “W” is not himself a member has surrounded himself with CFR members.

Council on Foreign Relations

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Council on Foreign Relations
Formation	1921
Headquarters	New York City Washington D.C.
Website	http://www.cfr.org

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. Through its membership, meetings, and studies, it has been called the most powerful agent of United States foreign policy outside the State Department. It publishes the respected bi-monthly journal Foreign Affairs. It has an extensive website, featuring links to its "think tank", The David Rockefeller Studies Program, other programs and projects, publications, history, biographies of notable directors and other board members, corporate members, and press releases.[1]

 

[edit] Early History

The earliest origin of the Council stemmed from a working fellowship of about 150 distinguished scholars, called "The Inquiry", tasked to brief President Woodrow Wilson about options for the postwar world when Germany was defeated. Through 1917-18, this academic band, a prominent member of whom was Wilson's closest adviser and longtime friend Col. Edward M. House, as well as Walter Lippmann, gathered discreetly[citation needed] at 155th Street and Broadway in New York City, to assemble the strategy for the postwar world. The team produced more than 2,000 documents detailing the 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.[4]

These scholars then travelled 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 Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), formerly known as Chatham House in London, were born.[1] Although the original intent was for the two organizations to be affiliated, they became independent bodies, yet retained close informal ties.[5]

Some of the participants at that meeting were, apart from Edward House, Paul Warburg, Herbert Hoover, Harold Temperley, Lionel Curtis, Lord Eustace Percy, Christian Herter, and American academic historians James Thomson Shotwell of Columbia University, Archibald Coolidge of Harvard and Charles Seymour of Yale.

[edit] Morgan and Rockefeller involvement

The Americans who subsequently returned from the conference became drawn to a discreet club of New York financiers and international lawyers who had organized previously in June 1918 and was headed by Elihu Root, JP Morgan's lawyer;[6] this select group called itself the Council on Foreign Relations.[7] They joined this group and the Council was formally established in New York on July 29, 1921, with 108 founding members, including Elihu Root as a leading member and John W. Davis, the chief counsel for J. P. Morgan & Co. and former Solicitor General for President Wilson,[8] as its founding president. Davis was to become Democratic presidential canddidate in 1924 .

Other members included John Foster Dulles, Herbert Lehman, Henry Stimson, Averell Harriman, the Rockefeller family's public relations expert, Ivy Lee,[9] and Paul M. Warburg and Otto H. Kahn of the law firm Kuhn, Loeb.[10]

The Council initially had strong connections to the Morgan interests, such as the lawyer, Paul Cravath, whose pre-eminent New York law firm (later named Cravath, Swaine & Moore) represented Morgan businesses; a Morgan partner, Russell Leffingwell, later became its first chairman. The head of the group's finance committee was Alexander Hemphill, chairman of Morgan's Guaranty Trust Company. Harvard economist Edwin F. Gay, editor of the New York Evening Post, owned by Morgan partner Thomas W. Lamont, served as Secretary-Treasurer of the organization. Other members related to Morgan included Frank L. Polk, former Under-Secretary of State and attorney for J.P. Morgan & Co. Former Wilson Under-Secretary of State Norman H. Davis was a banking associate of the Morgans.[11] Over time, however, the locus of power shifted inexorably to the Rockefeller family. Paul Cravath's law firm also represented the Rockefeller family.[12]

Edwin Gay suggested the creation of a quarterly journal, Foreign Affairs. He recommended Harvard colleague Archibald Coolidge be installed as the first editor, along with his New York Evening Post reporter, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, as assistant editor and executive director of the Council.[13]

Even from its inception, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was a regular benefactor, making annual contributions, as well as a large gift of money towards its first headquarters on East 65th Street, along with corporate donors (Perloff 156). In 1944, the widow of the Standard Oil executive Harold I. Pratt donated the family's four-story mansion on the corner of 68th Street and Park Avenue for council use and this became the CFR's new headquarters, known as The Harold Pratt House, where it remains today.

Several of Rockefeller's sons joined the council when they came of age; David Rockefeller joined the council as its youngest-ever director in 1949 and subsequently became chairman of the board from 1970 to 1985; today he serves as honorary chairman.[14] The major philanthropic organization he founded with his brothers in 1940, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, has also funded the Council, from 1953 to at least 1980.[15]

Another major support base from the outset was the corporate sector; around 26 corporations provided financial assistance in the 1920s, seizing the opportunity to inject their business concerns into the weighty deliberations of the academics and scholars in the Council's ruling elite. In addition, the Carnegie Corporation contributed funds in 1937 to expand the Council's reach by replicating its structure in a diminished form in eight American cities.[16]

John J. McCloy became an influential figure in the organization after the Second World War, and he held connections to both the Morgans and Rockefellers. As assistant to Secretary of War (and JP Morgan attorney) Henry Stimson during World War II, he had presided over important American war policies; his brother-in-law John Zinsser was on the board of directors of JP Morgan & Co. during that time, and after the war McCloy joined New York law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hope, Hadley & McCloy as a partner. The company had long served as legal counsel to the Rockefeller family and the Chase Manhattan bank. McCloy became Chairman of the Board of Chase Manhattan, a director of the Rockefeller Foundation and Chairman of the Board of the CFR from 1953 to 1970. President Harry Truman appointed him President of the World Bank and U.S. High Commissioner to Germany. He served as a special adviser on disarmament to President John F. Kennedy and chaired a special committee on the Cuban crisis. He was said to have had the largest influence on American foreign policy of anyone after World War II. McCloy's brother-in-law, Lewis W. Douglas, also served on the board of the CFR and as a trustee for the Rockefeller Foundation; Truman appointed him as American ambassador to Great Britain.[17]

[edit] Influence on Foreign Policy

Beginning in 1939 and lasting for five years, the Council achieved much greater prominence with government and the State Department when it established the strictly confidential War and Peace, funded entirely by the Rockefeller Foundation.[18] The secrecy surrounding this group was such that the Council members (total at the time: 663) who were not involved in its deliberations were completely unaware of the study group's existence.[18]

It was divided into four functional topic groups: economic and financial, security and armaments, territorial, and political. The security and armaments group was headed by Allen Dulles who later became a pivotal figure in the CIA's predecessor, the OSS. It ultimately produced 682 memoranda for the State Department, marked classified and circulated among the appropriate government departments. As an historical judgment, its overall influence on actual government planning at the time is still said to remain unclear.[18]

In an anonymous piece called "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" that appeared in Foreign Affairs in 1947, CFR study group member George Kennan coined the term "containment". The essay would prove to be highly influential in US foreign policy for seven upcoming presidential administrations. 40 years later, Kennan explained that he had never meant to contain the Soviet Union because it might be able to physically attack the United States; he thought that was obvious enough that he didn't need to explain it in his essay. William Bundy credited the CFR's study groups with helping to lay the framework of thinking that led to the Marshall Plan and NATO. Due to new interest in the group, membership grew towards 1,000.[19]

Dwight D. Eisenhower chaired a CFR study group while he served as President of Columbia University in New York City. One member later said, "Whatever General Eisenhower knows about economics, he has learned at the study group meetings."[19] The CFR study group devised an expanded study group called "Americans for Eisenhower" to increase his chances for the presidency. Eisenhower would later draw many Cabinet members from CFR ranks and become a CFR member himself. His primary CFR appointment was Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. As an attorney for Standard Oil and a longtime board member of the Rockefeller Foundation, Dulles maintained strong ties to the Council and to the Rockefellers.[20] Dulles gave a public address at the Henry Pratt House in which he announced a new direction for Eisenhower's foreign policy: "There is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the communist world. Local defenses must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power." After this speech, the council convened a session on "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy" and chose a Harvard scholar, Henry Kissinger, to head it. Kissinger spent the following academic year working on the project at Council headquarters. The book of the same name that he published from his research in 1957 gave him national recognition, topping the national bestseller lists.[19]

On November 24, 1953, a study group heard a report from political scientist William Henderson that American forces could try to influence Ho Chi Minh's South Vietnam away from their nationalist ideas, where the French troops currently fighting in Vietnam had failed. The Council served as a "breeding ground" for important American policies such as mutual deterrence, arms control, and nuclear non-proliferation.[19]

A four-year long study of relations between America and China was conducted by the Council between 1964 and 1968. One study published in 1966 concluded that American citizens were more open to talks with China than their elected leaders. Kissinger had continued to publish in Foreign Affairs and was appointed by President Nixon to serve as National Security Adviser in 1969. In 1971, he embarked on a secret trip to Beijing to broach talks with Chinese leaders. Nixon went to China in 1972, and diplomatic relations were completely normalized by President Carter's Secretary of State, another Council member, Cyrus Vance.[19]

It has been alleged that CFR members have used their positions on the Council and in government to influence foreign policy in other ways. The regime change of Jacob Arbenz of Guatemala occurred after he nationalized large tracts of land belonging to the United Fruit Company. Brothers John (Secretary of State) and Allen Dulles (head of the CIA) held financial interests in the company.[21][22] However, it has been argued that Eisenhower would have intervened whether UFC was involved or not.[23] The Dulles brothers had previously planned Operation Ajax, which encouraged a coup in Iran. After Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized British Petroleum, the CIA under the Eisenhower administration decided to encourage opposition to his regime. In his book Killing Hope, former State Department employee and author William Blum alleges that the Dulles brothers held ulterior motives in the coup; they had both previously been partners of prominent law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, which represented Standard Oil. After the change, 40% of Iranian oil was owned by US oil companies, including Standard Oil, when they had had none before.[24]

In November 1979, while chairman of the CFR, David Rockefeller became embroiled in an international incident when he and Henry Kissinger, along with John J. McCloy and Rockefeller aides, persuaded President Jimmy Carter through the State Department to admit the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, into the US for hospital treatment for lymphoma. This action directly precipitated what is known as the Iran hostage crisis and placed Rockefeller under intense media scrutiny (particularly from The New York Times) for the first time in his public life.[25]

Trilateral Commission

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The Trilateral Commission is a private organization, founded in July 1973, at the initiative of David Rockefeller; he was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations at that time and the Commission is widely seen as a counterpart to the Council on Foreign Relations.[1] He pushed the idea of including Japan at the Bilderberg meetings he was attending but was rebuffed. Along with Zbigniew Brzezinski and a few others, including individuals from the Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations and the Ford Foundation, he convened initial meetings out of which grew the Trilateral organization.

Other founding members included Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker, both eventually heads of the Federal Reserve system.

Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Membership 3 See also 4 Further reading 5 External links

 

[edit] History

Its first executive committee meeting was held in Tokyo in October 1973. In May 1975, the first plenary meeting of all of the Commission's regional groups took place in Kyoto, attended by Jimmy Carter.[2] Today it consists of approximatively 300–350 private citizens from Europe, Pacific Asia (Asia & Oceania), and North America, and exists to promote closer political and economic cooperation between these areas, which are the primary industrial regions in the world.[3] Its official journal from its founding is a magazine called Trialogue.

Membership is divided into numbers proportionate to each of its three regional areas. These members include corporate CEOs, politicians of all major parties, distinguished academics, university presidents, labor union leaders and not-for-profits involved in overseas philanthropy. Members who gain a position in their respective country's government must resign from the Commission.

The organization has come under much scrutiny and criticism by political activists and academics working in the social and political sciences. The Commission has found its way into a number of conspiracy theories, especially when it became known that President Carter appointed 26 former Commission members to senior positions in his Administration; later it also came out that Carter himself was a former Trilateral member. In the 1980 election, it was revealed that Carter and his two primary opponents, John Anderson and George H.W. Bush, were also members, and the Commission became a campaign issue. Ronald Reagan supporters noted that he was not a Trilateral member, but after he was chosen as Republican nominee he chose Bush as his running mate; as president, he appointed a few Trilateral members to Cabinet positions and held a reception for the Commission in the White House in 1984. The John Birch Society, which takes a conspiracy-oriented view, believes that the Trilateral Commission is dedicated to a one-world government.[4] In 1980, Holly Sklar released a book entitled, Trilateralism the Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management.

Since many of the members were businesspeople or bankers, actions that they took or encouraged that helped the banking industry have been noted. Jeremiah Novak wrote in the July 1977 issue of Atlantic, after international oil prices rose when Nixon set price controls on American domestic oil, requiring many developing countries to borrow from banks to buy oil: "The Trilaterists' emphasis on international economics is not entirely disinterested, for the oil crisis forced many developing nations, with doubtful repayment abilities, to borrow excessively. All told, private multinational banks, particularly Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan, have loaned nearly $52 billion to developing countries. An overhauled IMF would provide another source of credit for these nations, and would take the big private banks off the hook.This proposal is the cornerstone of the Trilateral plan."[5]

The North American continent is represented by 107 members (15 Canadian, seven Mexican and 85 U.S. citizens). The European group has reached its limit of 150 members, including citizens from Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and United Kingdom.

At first, Asia and Oceania were represented only by Japan. However, in 2000, the Japanese group of 85 members expanded itself, becoming the Pacific Asia group, composed of 117 members: 75 Japanese, 11 South Koreans, seven Australian and New Zealand citizens, and 15 members from the ASEAN nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand). The Pacific Asia group also includes nine members from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

[edit] Membership

The three current chairmen are:

Tom Foley: North America (Democratic Congressman, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and ambassador to Japan);

Peter Sutherland: Europe (Irish businessman and former politician associated with the Fine Gael party; former Attorney General of Ireland and European Commissioner in the first Delors Commission; former director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the precursor to the World Trade Organization; Chairman of BP and Goldman Sachs International);

Yotaro Kobayashi: Pacific Asia (chairman of the Fuji Xerox company).

Some others who are or have been members:

George H.W. Bush: Former President of the U.S.

Jimmy Carter: Former President of the U.S.

Bill Clinton: Former President of the U.S.

Walter Mondale, former vice-president of the U.S. (under Carter)[6]

Dick Cheney: Current vice-president of the U.S.

Robert Taft Jr., US Senator

Ted Sorenson, special adviser to President Kennedy[7]

Lloyd Bentsen, former Senator and Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton[8]

Warren Christopher, former Secretary of State (under Clinton) and deputy Secretary of State (under Carter)[9]

Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense under Reagan[10]

John Glenn, former astronaut, senator and presidential candidate[11]

Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services under Clinton[12]

Robert Rubin, Treasury Secretary under Clinton[13]

Bruce Babbitt, Interior Secretary under Clinton[14]

Henry Cisneros, HUD Secretary under Clinton[15]

Hank Greenberg: Former chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG), the world's largest insurance and financial services corporation.

Lee Raymond: Former CEO and Chairman, ExxonMobil, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, director of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., director and member of the Executive Committee and Policy Committee of the American Petroleum Institute.

David Rockefeller: Founder of the Commission; Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank board from 1969 to 1981; Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1970 to 1985, now honorary Chairman; a life member of the Bilderberg Group.

Henry Kissinger: U.S. diplomat, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations; former Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of JP Morgan Chase.

Zbigniew Brzezinski: U.S. National Security Advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.

Paul Volcker: Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty.

Paul Wolfowitz: Former President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and a prominent member of the neo-conservatives in Washington.

Gerald M. Levin: Former CEO of Time Warner, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Robert Zoellick: Nominated President of the World Bank, Former Deputy Secretary of State, former U.S. Trade Representative.

Frank Carlucci: President of Carlyle Group, U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989.

William Cohen: Republican Congressman and Senator, U.S. secretary of Defense under President Clinton.

Mary Robinson: President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 as a candidate for the Labour Party; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.

Sergei Karaganov: Presidential Advisor to Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin; member of the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995 to 2005.

Jim Balsillie: Chairman and Co-CEO of Research In Motion.

Georges Berthoin: International Chairman of the European Movement from 1978–1981.

Ritt Bjerregaard: Danish Social Democrat MP, member of various cabinets; European Commissioner for Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection in the Santer Commission from 1995 to 1999.

John H. Bryan: former CEO of Sara Lee bakeries, affiliated with the World Economic Forum and a director on the Boards of Sara Lee, Goldman Sachs, General Motors, British Petroleum and Bank One.

James E. Burke: CEO of Johnson & Johnson from 1976 to 1989.

Catherine Ann Bertini: Former United Nations Under Secretary General in Management, former Director of World Food Program.

Gerhard Casper: Constitutional scholar, faculty member at Stanford University; successor trustee of Yale University and part of the Board of Trustees of the Central European University in Hungary.

Tim Collins: CEO of Ripplewood Holdings LLC investment company; also part of the Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Management board of advisors and U.S.-Japan non-profit organizations.

Bill Emmott: Former editor of The Economist magazine.

Dianne Feinstein: Democratic U.S. Senator, former mayor of San Francisco, member of the Council on Foreign Relations; ranking member of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security.

Martin Feldstein: Professor of economics at Harvard University; president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984; former director of the Council on Foreign Relations; member of the Bilderberg Group and of the World Economic Forum.

Hugh Fletcher: Chancellor of Auckland University and CEO of Fletcher Challenge.

David Gergen: Political consultant and presidential advisor during the Republican administrations of Nixon, Ford and Reagan; also served as advisor to Bill Clinton.

Allan Gotlieb: Canadian ambassador to Washington from 1981 to 1989, chairman of the Canada Council from 1989 to 1994.

Bill Graham: former Canadian Minister of National Defence and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Paul Martin; since 2006, interim parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party.

Mugur Isarescu: Governor of the National Bank of Romania since 1990 and prime minister from December 1999 to November 2000; he worked for the Minister of Foreign Affairs then for the Romanian Embassy in the U.S. after the 1989 Romanian revolution.

Otto Graf Lambsdorff: Chairman of the German Free Democratic Party from 1993 to 1998; Economic Minister for West Germany from 1977 to 1984.

Liam Lawlor: Irish politician who resigned from the Fianna Fáil party; died in a car-crash in Moscow in 2005.

Pierre Lellouche: French MP of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement party led by Nicolas Sarkozy.

Jorge Braga de Macedo

Kiichi Miyazawa: Japanese Prime minister in 1991–1993; Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1974 to 1976, Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1984 to 1986, Minister of Finance in 1987 and again from 1999 to 2002.

Akio Morita: Co-founder of Sony Corporation; vice-chairman of the Keindanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations) and member of the Japan-U.S. Economic Relations Group.

Andrzej Olechowski: Polish director of Euronet, USA; on the supervisory boards of Citibank Handlowy and Europejski Fundusz Hipoteczny; president of the Central European Forum; deputy governor of the National Bank of Poland from 1989 to 1991; minister of Foreign Economic Relations from 1991 to 1992; minister of Finance in 1992 and of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995; economic advisor to president Lech Wa³êsa from 1992 to 1993 and in 1995, etc.)

Carl Palme

Lucas Papademos: European Central Bank Vice-president.

Gerard C. Smith: First U.S. Chairman of the Commission; chief U.S. delegate to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of 1969.

Jessica Stern: Former NSC staff member, author, and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

George Vasiliou: President of the Republic of Cyprus from 1988 to 1993, founder and leader of the Cypriot United Democrats party.

Francisco Pinto Balsemão

Maldonado Gonelha

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: Leader of the Social Democratic Party (Portugal) from 1996 to 1999.

Miguel Sousa Soares: Management Consultant, EMPORDEF, MDN (Portugal) from 2005.

Isamu Yamashita

Lorenzo Zambrano: Mexican chairman and CEO of CEMEX since 1985, the third largest cement company of the world; member of the board of IBM and Citigroup.

Hedley Donovan, former editor-in-chief of Time magazine, founding member, and White House Advisor on Domestic and Foreign Policy under Carter[16]

Joseph Kraft, syndicated columnist[17]

Carl Rowan, syndicated columnist[18]

[edit] See also

Bilderberg Group

Council on Foreign Relations

Carlyle group <

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www.constitutionparty.com 2 Chronicles 7:14: "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways..."

Wow, that's alot to digest.  Ok, I get it.  I guess I just figured it simply as, "For some reason, George Bush believes that America would be a better place without borders".  So I was right in my own simpleton way.

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You’re welcome J

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