Re: mef

Pardon my ignorance...

CFR? Campaign finance reform?


On Apr 8, 2004, at 10:39 PM, Barry Chamish wrote:

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> http://www.barrychamish.com
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>                                 REVENGE OF THE CFR by Barry Chamish
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>        Here is a short list of CFR members who have shoved the 
> Oslo/Roadmap processes down Israel's throat, resulting in thousands of 
> dead Israelis and Arabs in barely ten years, not to mention the total 
> demoralization of Israel and the mass insanity of its Islamic 
> neighbors:
>
>  Clinton, Christopher, Baker, Albright, Zinni, Powell, Rice, Kurtzer, 
> Seigman, Bronfman, Tenet, Haass, Friedman, Stephen Cohen, Carter, 
> Armitage, Burns, Wolfowitz, Berger, etc. etc.
>   
>         Oh yes, and Pipes, but he's pretending otherwise for the time 
> being. That is why he spends much of his waking hours plotting to 
> eliminate my voice. Imagine the nerve of me pointing out that he is a 
> proud member of the little think tank that could wreck Israel and is 
> leaving a trail of blood throughout the Middle East. 
>          Now let us look at just how tied up he is to the CFR 
> establishment:
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>  **      
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> http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/mef.php
>  The Middle East Forum has existed since 1990, but in 1994 it became a 
> nonprofit organization with Daniel Pipes as its director.
>  MEF is closely linked to the Washington Institute for Near East 
> Policy, where Pipes is an adjunct scholar. Patrick Clawson of the 
> Washington Institute for Near East Policy is senior editor of MEF's 
> Middle East Quarterly, and the institute's Robert Satloff and Samuel 
> Lewis sit on the Quarterly's editorial board, along with Fouad Ajami 
> of Johns Hopkins, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and 
> International Studies, James Phillips of the Heritage Foundation, and 
> Steven Plaut of the University of Haifa.
>
>  ** I have thoughtfully provided a list of CFR members. Visit the site 
> and confirm the facts. Now we all know that the Washington Institute 
> For Near East Policy is the Martin Indyk - run monstrosity that became 
> the locomotive for Oslo, so considering his public stance on Israel, 
> Pipes' chair there is suspicious enough, but let's look at his own 
> board:
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>  From the 2001, Membership Roster Of The Council On Foreign Relations 
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> http://www.stanley2002.org/pfiles/a_f.htm
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>  Robert B. Satloff - CFR
>  Samuel W. Lewis - CFR
>  Anthony H. Cordesman - CFR
>
>  ** Continuing... **
>
>  "Virtually all 31 signatories of the MEF report, which was used to 
> persuade Congress to introduce and pass the Syria Accountability and 
> Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act in 2003, were USCFL members, and 
> several became high officials or advisers in the Bush foreign policy 
> team, including Elliott Abrams, Paula Dobriansky, Richard Perle, 
> Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser."
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>  Elliot Abrams - CFR
>  Paula J. Dobriansky - CFR
>  Richard Perle - CFR
>  Douglas J. Feith - CFR
>
>  ** Now look at the final name on Pipe's MEF board: why it's that 
> pesky economics teacher from Haifa! Could that mean that the big fish 
> and little minnow are coordinating their attacks against me? And what 
> does the little minnow get for his effort?
>      You can be sure, there is a reward but it's not membership in the 
> CFR. Searching his name
>  I came across one other namesake: 
>   
> Peter Plaut, Managing Director and Head of European Credit Research, 
> BANK OF AMERICA SECURITIES LTD.
>
>         He is not merely on the CFR members' list, he is also one of 
> its biggest donors.
>
> http://www.cfr.org/about/pdf/ar_2003/termmember.pdf.
>
>           I tried but couldn't prove a family tie to the minnow, But 
> I'll bet you there is and it's close. But even if not, the story of 
> Peter Plaut bears telling. Here's who he is: **
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> http://www.euromoney.com/?Page=792&P=/creditresearchpoll2004/hyOVERALL
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>  In addition, he was responsible for helping the Korean and Malaysian 
> governments re-establish capital markets access through their highly 
> successful global debt offerings during this difficult time. He was 
> also credited with anticipating the debt and currency crisis in Brazil 
> and other Latin American sovereigns in late 1998.
>
>  Mr. Plaut worked at UBS Securities Inc. from 1992 to 1994, as a U.S. 
> and international corporate and bank credit analyst and prior to that 
> was an associate at JP Morgan Securities, Inc.
>
>  Mr. Plaut has been in Institutional Investor ranked analyst. In June 
> 1998, he was elected as a term member to The Council on Foreign 
> Relations and currently serves as an active participant in issues 
> concerning U.S. and international economic and foreign policy.
>
>  ** Lucky old Pete, he gets to bail out countries after the IMF has 
> bankrupted them. And since JP Morgan was a founder of the CFR, 
> naturally he gets to manipulate currencies for his bank while he's at 
> it. But that's not all, look who was in Singapore, Malaysia's 
> financial headquarters, when Pete was sorting out their World Bank 
> debts. Why it was old Tom Plaut. And need we say that he also works 
> for a JP Morgan affiliate?**
>
> http://www.4-paragon.com/forex/key_executives.htm
>
> Thomas F. Plaut
> Mr. Plaut brings sixteen years of foreign exchange trading experience 
> to F.X. Solutions. He is a former Member of Senior Management at 
> Credit Suisse A.G. and Global Head of Proprietary Trading at Dresdner 
> Bank A.G. While at Credit Suisse and stationed in Singapore, Mr. Plaut 
> was in charge of all foreign exchange trading activities in the Asian 
> region.
>
> http://www.4-paragon.com/forex/company_profile.htm
>
>  FX Solutions currently holds client funds at JP Morgan Chase bank.
>
>  ** How the Plauts diddle with the tills of nations while their 
> peoples starve. Yes, Peter must be a very important component of the 
> CFR's global economics plan. But then, so is Pipes, diplomatically. 
> Look how the CFR funnels him the money he needs to carry on. **
>
> Funding
> Between 1996 and 1998, the Middle East Forum received $130,000 from 
> the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, one of the top right wing 
> foundations. (9)
>
> http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/bradley_foundation.htm
>
>
>  Mark O'Keefe
>  Newhouse News Service
>  VALUES AND PHILANTHROPY
>  September 18, 2003
> Foundation Excels at Fueling Conservative Agenda
> Name a conservative idea -- whether it's school vouchers, faith-based 
> initiatives or the premise that there's a worldwide clash of 
> civilizations -- and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is apt to 
> have its fingerprints on it.
>
> Milwukee Journal Sentinel
> April 3, 2003
> Bradley Fighting Vehicle
> A comprehensive new report makes clear the foundation's import in the 
> feeding and nurturing of the Neoconservative Movement that has led the 
> US to war in the Middle East.
>  It directly ascribes the war on Iraq to the "playbook" of the 
> neocons, a group of "mostly Republicans," "many of whom have gotten 
> funding from Milwaukee's Bradley Foundation."
> A Newly Enriched Foundation Hires Chairman
> Things changed dramatically in 1985, when the Allen-Bradley Company 
> was sold to Rockwell International, a leading defense and aerospace 
> conglomerate, for a whopping $1.651 billion. The Foundation benefited 
> heavily from the sale, seeing its assets shoot up overnight from less 
> than $14 million to more than $290 million, catapulting it into the 
> ranks of the country's largest foundations. At that point its name was 
> changed to the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, to publicly 
> separate it from the company. Flush with new money and an 
> understanding that they were now poised to play a more national role, 
> foundation trustees decided it was time to hire a professional to run 
> the organization. They found their man in New York at the John M. Olin 
> Foundation.
>
>  ** Now I flip to page 106 of my 2000 CFR Annual Report which lists 
> foundations that offered generous grants to the CFR and right after 
> The Norwegian Ministry Of Foreign Affairs comes, surprise, surprise 
> The John M. Olin Foundation. I said previously that I'd prove Pipes 
> gets his money directly or indirectly from the CFR and I just did.
>      Now would you trust him with YOUR country? **
>
>  end
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