The News Definers: The Truth about the Council on Foreign Relations (video)

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By VC | April 19th, 2011 | Category: Latest News | 67 comments

The Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) is often mentioned on this site as it is one of the major elite organizations pushing for a New World Order. Here’s a great video about the CFR’s origins, sent by regular VC poster, LVB (thanks!).

Corporate Membership (as of January 09, 2010)

Founders

Bank of America / Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Hess Corporation
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
The Nasdaq OMX Group
President’s Circle
American Express Company
Barclays Capital
Bennett Jones LLP
BP p.l.c.
CA
Chevron Corporation
Citi
Credit Suisse
Eni S.p.A.
Fortress Investment Group LLC
Guardsmark LLC
Kingdon Capital Management
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Korn/Ferry International
Lazard
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Mars, Inc.
McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Moody’s Investors Service
Morgan Stanley
New Media Investments
Nike, Inc.
Reliance Industries Limited
Rio Tinto
Rockefeller Group International, Inc.
Rohatyn Group, The
Soros Fund Management
Standard Chartered Bank
Strategic Real Estate Advisors
Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
UBS AG
Veritas Capital LLC
Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisors, LLC

Premium

Access Industries, Inc.
ACE Limited
AEA Investors Inc.
Airbus North America
Alcoa, Inc.
Allied World Assurance Company, Ltd.
Apollo Management, LP
ARAMARK Corporation
Aramco Services Company
Archer Daniels Midland Company
AREVA Inc.
Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc.
Arnold & Porter LLP
Baker Capital Corp.
Baker, Nye Advisers, Inc.
Baldwin-Gottschalk Group, The
Banco Mercantil
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, The
BASF Corporation
BGR International
Blackstone Group L.P., The
Bloomberg
BNP Paribas
Boeing Company, The
Booz & Co.
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
Bunge Limited
CALYON Corporate and Investment Bank
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Canon, Inc.
Caxton Associates
Chartis International
Chrysler LLC
Cisneros Group of Companies
CIT Group Inc.
Clarium Capital Management, LLC
CNA Corporation, The
Coca-Cola Company, The
ConocoPhillips Company
Continental Properties
Corsair Capital
Covington & Burling
Craig Drill Capital Corporation
De Beers
Deere & Company
Deloitte
Deutsche Bank AG
Duke Energy Corporation
DynCorp International
Enel North America
Energy Intelligence Group, Inc.
Equinox Partners, L.P.
Estee Lauder Companies Inc.
Federal Express Corporation
Ford Motor Company
Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.
Future Pipe Industries, Inc.
General Atlantic LLC
General Electric Company
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
GlaxoSmithKline
Google, Inc.
Granite Associates LP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Hitachi, Ltd.
IBM Corporation
Indus Capital Partners, LLC
Invus Group, LLC
ITOCHU International
Jacobs Asset Management, LLC
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Kailix Investment Advisors
KBR
Kometal GMBH Austria
MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc.
Mannheim LLC
Marathon Oil Company
Mark Partners
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
Marubeni America Corporation
MBIA Insurance Corporation
MeadWestvaco Corporation
Medley Capital
Medley Global Advisors
Merck & Co., Inc.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc.
Mitsubishi International Corporation
Mitsui USA Foundation
Moore Capital Management LLC
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
National Interest Security Company
New York Life International, Inc.
News Corporation, The
NYSE Euronext
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Olayan Group, The
PepsiCo, Inc.
Pfizer Inc.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Principal Financial Group
Prudential Life Insurance Co.
Raytheon Company
Rho Capital Partners
Rothschild North America, Inc.
Sandalwood Securities, Inc.
Shell Oil Company
Siguler Guff & Company
Silver Lake Partners
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Sony Corporation of America
Standard & Poor’s
Starwood Capital Group
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Tata Group, The
Thomson Reuters
Time Warner Inc.
Tishman Speyer Properties, Inc.
TOTAL S.A.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
United Technologies Corporation
Verizon Communications
Visa Inc.
Volkswagen of America, Inc.
Vornado Realty Trust
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Warburg Pincus LLC
Wyoming Investment Corporation
Xerox Corporation
Zephyr Management, L.P.
Ziff Brothers Investments LLC

Associates

AARP
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Banca d’Italia
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Control Risks Group
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Hemispheric Partners
Idemitsu Apollo Corporation
Intellispace, Inc.
Intesa Sanpaolo
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Joukowsky Family Foundation
Oxford Analytica Inc.
Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association
Weber Shandwick Worldwide

A quote from CFR’s web site:

“The goal should be to redefine sovereignty for the era of globalisation, to find a balance between a world of fully sovereign states and an international system of either world government or anarchy.”