CFR membership list: http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/roundtable/CFRF-Klist.html

2001 - http://www.apfn.net/CFR.htm

gingrich

http://www.clubofrome.org/
 

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Think tank founded in 1953.

http://www.nndb.com/org/142/000056971/
Name Occupation Birth Death Known for
Queen Beatrix I Royalty 31-Jan-1938 Queen of the Netherlands
Harlan Cleveland Government 19-Jan-1918 Futurist, diplomat
Mikhail Gorbachev Head of State 2-Mar-1931 Final leader of the Soviet Union
Katharine Graham Journalist 16-Jun-1917 17-Jul-2001 Washington Post publisher
Patrick W. Gross Business 15-May-1944 Co-Founder, American Management Systems
W. Averell Harriman Diplomat 15-Nov-1891 26-Jul-1986 Ambassador to USSR, Governor of NY
Vaclav Havel Head of State 5-Oct-1936 Playwright President of Czechia
King Juan Carlos Head of State 5-Jan-1938 King of Spain
F. W. de Klerk Head of State 18-Mar-1936 President of South Africa lifted Apartheid
Claiborne Pell Politician 22-Nov-1918 US Senator from Rhode Island, 1961-97
Russell W. Peterson Politician 3-Oct-1916 Governor of Delaware, 1969-73
David Rockefeller Business 12-Jun-1915 Founder of theTrilateral Commission
Eduard Shevardnadze Head of State 25-Jan-1928 Former President of Georgia

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http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/bilderberg.html

The Club of Rome maintains (or rather, forgets to maintain) a web site at http://www.clubofrome.org, which seems a bit buggy and is littered with grammatical and lexical errors. The Club's Executive Committee has a mailbox, executive.committee@clubofrome.org. I have compiled the critical portions of their site into an omnibus page, which is 90K in length. Here are some key excerpts:

A novelist would probably reject the contacts and encounters that led up to the creation of the Club of Rome as too improbable for a good story. An Italian industrialist who has spent much of his working life in China and Latin America meets, via a Russian (although this is at the height of the Cold War), a top international scientific civil servant, Scots by birth and now living in Paris. They find they share similar concerns, become friends, decide to draw others (American, Austrian, British, Danish, French) into their discussions. Unfortunately, the first proper meeting of this group, in Rome in Spring 1968, is a total flop but a handful of die-hards carry on, and within a few years millions of people all round the world are talking about their ideas.

The Club of Rome is a center of research and a think tank, it is also a center of action, of innovation and initiative. The Club of Rome, founded in 1968 in Rome, is a group of scientists, economics, businessmen, international high civil servants, Heads of State and former Heads of State from the five continents, who are convinced that the future of humankind is not determined once and for all and that each human being can contribute to the improvement of our societies.

We, the members of the Club of Rome, are one hundred individuals, at present drawn from 52 countries and five continents.

Currently there are 30 National Associations spread across all five continents.

1986:
The Club decided on a deliberate change of emphasis in tackling "the predicament of mankind". While maintaining the distinctively global approach, it chose to focus on particular aspects, sometimes even concentrating on a single major one. Possible topics were then defined by Alexander King in his statement The Club of Rome, Reaffirmation of a Mission. These topics are: governability, peace and disarmament, population growth, human resources, and assessment of the consequences of advances in science and technology.

As the 21st century approaches, there is a growing sense of uncertainty and anxiety. Faced by increasing complexity, dizzying globalisation

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The initial membership list of the Club of Rome, as it turns out, contains some interesting names:

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/mcgowanpeakoilandclubofrome14mar05.shtml

 

DAVID ROCKEFELLER: Bilderberger, cofounder of the Trilateral Commission, former chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, scion of the world's most prominent oil dynasty, and all-around bad guy.

JOHN J. McCLOY: Former advisor to the Mussolini regime who had the honor of sitting in Adolf Hitler's private box at the Berlin Olympic games; later served as High Commissioner of Germany, during which time he signed an order freeing the majority of the Nazi war criminals that had been convicted at Nuremberg; still later, served on the infamous Warren Committee.

AVERELL HARRIMAN: Skull and Bonesman and high-level political operative through several presidential administrations; together with members of the Dulles family and the Bush/Walker family, established various business entities engaged in providing funding to Nazi Germany, even after the United States had entered the war.

Katherine Graham: Longtime publisher of the Washington Post and longtime CIA asset who once famously said, while speaking at the CIA's Langley, Virginia headquarters: "We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."