Quit-Smoking Drug Chantix Comes Under FDA Scrutiny

Quit-Smoking Drug Chantix Comes Under FDA Scrutiny

Saturday, 26 Apr 2014 09:54 AM

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The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it will hold a public meeting in October to review the risks of psychiatric and behavioral side effects with Pfizer's anti-smoking drug Chantix.

The agency said in a federal notice it will convene its panel of psychiatric drug experts to discuss the pill's risks and how to best manage them.

Since 2009 Chantix has carried the government's strongest safety warning - a "black box" label - because of links to hostility, agitation, depression and suicidal thoughts. The warning was added after the FDA received dozens of reports of suicide and hundreds of reports of suicidal behavior among patients taking the smoking-cessation drug.

At that time, the FDA also required Pfizer to conduct additional studies to determine the extent of the side effects.

A spokeswoman for Pfizer said Friday that the company recently submitted new data to the FDA designed to establish the drug's safety compared with placebo and other anti-smoking therapies.

"Pfizer has proposed an update to the Chantix labeling based on these new data, which, we believe, would better reflect the product's safety profile as it pertains to neuropsychiatric symptoms," said Victoria Davis, in a statement.

The New York drugmaker's FDA submission includes data pooled from multiple Pfizer studies along with studies conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The two federally-funded studies, released in 2011, did not show an increased rate of psychiatric hospitalizations among more than 26,000 Chantix patients when compared with patients using nicotine patches and other smoking cessation treatments. The studies only recorded psychiatric problems that resulted in hospitalization, meaning many issues likely went unreported, according to the authors.

Chantix works by binding to the same spots in the brain that are activated by nicotine when people smoke. The drug, known chemically as varenicline, blocks nicotine from binding to those spots and causes the release of a "feel-good" brain chemical called dopamine.

The FDA first began investigating potential side effects with Chantix in 2007, the year after the twice-a-day pill hit the market.

The drug's labeling tells patients to stop taking Chantix immediately if they experience agitation, depressed mood, suicidal thinking and other behavioral changes. Doctors are advised to weigh the drug's risks against its potential benefits in helping patients quit smoking.

Chantix had global sales of $648 million last year. That was down about 26 percent from the drug's peak sales of $883 million in 2007, its first full year on the market.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Mark B. McClellan was a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an administrator of Medicare and Medicaid for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Note: Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the Committee for Economic Development.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is a lobby firm for Pfizer Inc.

Constance J. Horner is a director at Pfizer Inc., and was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Suzanne Nora Johnson is a director at Pfizer Inc., and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Amy W. Schulman is the EVP & general counsel for Pfizer Inc., and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Duberstein Group, Inc. is a lobby firm for Pfizer Inc.

Kenneth M. Duberstein is the chairman & CEO for the Duberstein Group, Inc., a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was a VP for the Committee for Economic Development.

Donna S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.

CGI Group Inc. was the Obamacare contractor that developed Healthcare.gov web site.

Obamacare is Barack Obama’s signature policy initiative.

Barack Obama’s signature policy initiative is Obamacare, and was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Valerie B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP

Sidley Austin LLP was a lobby firm for Pfizer Inc.

Frederick W. Telling was a VP at Pfizer Inc., and is a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.

Stephen W. Sanger is a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and a director at Pfizer Inc.

Anthony J. Principi was the SVP for Pfizer Inc., and the secretary for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Eric K. Shinseki is the secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the Barack Obama administration, and was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Togo D. West Jr. was the secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, a general counsel for the U.S. Department of Defense, and is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Chuck Hagel was the chairman for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), the deputy administrator for the U.S. Veterans Administration, and is the secretary for the U.S. Department of Defense for the Barack Obama administration.

Mark B. McClellan was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), an administrator of Medicare and Medicaid for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Constance J. Horner was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is a director at Pfizer Inc.

Suzanne Nora Johnson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a director at Pfizer Inc.

Amy W. Schulman is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the EVP & general counsel for Pfizer Inc.

Robert A. Helman was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a partner at Mayer Brown.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

William M. Daley is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, and a partner at Mayer Brown.

William M. Daley 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Daley

Professional career 

Daley returned to the practice of law, as a partner with the firm Mayer Brown (then Mayer, Brown & Platt) from 1993 to 1997.

Mayer Brown was a lobby firm for Pfizer Inc.

Sidley Austin LLP was a lobby firm for Pfizer Inc.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Obamacare Website Fix to Cost $121 Million

Obamacare Website Fix to Cost $121 Million

Wednesday, 30 Apr 2014 09:03 AM

By Drew MacKenzie

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obamacare-website-fix-millions/2014/04/30/id/568592

House Republican leaders have denounced the escalating expenses of Obamacare websites as the new contractor hired to fix the federal exchange revealed that it will cost the government $121 million for repairs and renovation — $27 million more than to build it.

Accenture Federal Service was brought in on an emergency basis to remedy HealthCare.gov after the system’s original builder, CGI Federal, was fired in February following a series of glitches that delayed or prevented millions of Americans from getting insurance coverage, according to The Washington Times.

The business management and technology company revealed the contract on its website Tuesday, and said that it includes the repair work and the creation of new features such as “enhancing the back-end capabilities to improve issuer payments.”

The original cost to the government of building HealthCare.gov was $93.7 million while the $121 million fix fee for one year’s work is $30 million more than the government estimated a few months ago, according to the Times.

“There doesn’t seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel for Obamacare website expenses,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican, told the Times.

“Developers are still being brought in to finish building HealthCare.gov, some states are abandoning their own failed sites, and federal taxpayers are still being handed the bills for it all.”

Rep. Michael Burgess, who wants to repeal and replace Obamacare, also slammed the Accenture contract, declaring, “This thing just stinks from top to bottom.”

The Texas Republican noted the extra expenditures prove the GOP was correct in stating that the Obamacare system was doomed to failure from the very beginning.

Burgees added that Americans will take into account the glitches, expenses and canceled health policies when they vote in November, according to the Times.

But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees HealthCare.gov, defended the contract, saying that the renovated federal website will be easier for consumers to access and negotiate.

“As CMS moves forward in our efforts to help consumers access quality, affordable health coverage, we have finalized a one-year agreement begun in January with Accenture to continue their work on Healthcare.gov,” spokesman Aaron Albright said in a statement.

“We are pleased that more than 8 million consumers have enrolled in a private plan through the federal marketplace and look forward to continuing to work with Accenture to prepare for the next open enrollment period.”

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Donald M. Berwick was an administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Note: John D. Podesta is the founder of the Center for American Progress, and the counselor for the Barack Obama administration.

George Soros was a supporter for the Center for American Progress, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Committee for Economic Development, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Kenneth M. Duberstein  was a VP for the Committee for Economic Development, is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the chairman & CEO for the Duberstein Group, Inc.

Duberstein Group, Inc. is the lobby firm for the Accenture Ltd.

Donna S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.

CGI Group Inc. was the Obamacare contractor that developed Healthcare.gov web site.

Obamacare is Barack Obama’s signature policy initiative.

Barack Obama’s signature policy initiative is Obamacare, and was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Valerie B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Donald M. Berwick is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was an administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Tom Daschle is the chairman for the Center for American Progress, was a nominee for health and human services secretary for the Barack Obama administration, a special policy adviser at Alston & Bird, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Thomas A. Scully is a senior counsel at Alston & Bird, and was an administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Timothy P. Trysla is a partner at Alston & Bird, and was a senior policy adviser to the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

'One Nation Under Allah': The Islamization of American Public Schools

'One Nation Under Allah': The Islamization of American Public Schools

by Pamela Geller 29 Apr 2014

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Endless concessions and accommodations to Islamic demands only give way to more demands for even more Islam, as shown in the recent blockbuster revelations of an Islamic takeover of UK public schools. What is less well known is the same kinds of things are happening here in the United States.

So outrageous were the allegations that the usually subdued and sharia-compliant British authorities initiated an investigation into the charges that devout Muslims covertly sought to “Islamize” the public schools in the UK. The bombshell was dropped last month in a leaked letter, describing an operation purportedly named “Trojan Horse.” According to Andrew Gilligan in The Telegraph, the jihad ringleader of the Trojan Horse plot constructed and implemented a “detailed blueprint for the radical ‘Islamisation’ of secular state schools.” The plot was so severe that a number of UK schools now face “special measures,” which is the British term for (at worst) closings and (at best) a takeover of the school administration.

The plot called for “girls [to] be covered except for their hands and faces,” gender segregation/apartheid for some school activities, and an Islamic curriculum. Mirroring the Muslim Brotherhood strategic goal for the U.S., which according to a captured internal document was to work toward “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers,” this plot also sought to use the system to destroy the system.

The plot was indeed undertaken. Non-Muslim headmasters and headmistresses were targeted for termination. Muslim parents were the foot soldiers. Muslim education officials were used to force schools that didn’t want to comply to fall into line with the “views and aspirations of Muslim parents and the local community.”

They succeeded. In one school, Christian students had to teach themselves religious education because the teacher was devoting all his time to Muslim students. One school, Park View, instituted forced and discriminatory gender apartheid, with “boys sitting towards the front of the class and girls at the back or around the sides.” Students recounted in biology class, the teacher “briefly delivered the theory of evolution to comply with the syllabus.” According to a non-Muslim teacher, Park View’s principal, Mozz Hussain, spewed “mind-blowing” anti-American “propaganda” at assemblies. And Asif Khan, a Muslim teacher of Arabic, admitted that he made students sing chants attacking Christmas and Christian beliefs.

The same kinds of things are happening here in America, but when my colleagues and I warn about them, we are called conspiracy theorists. Well, there is conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact. And we do see attempts to further the Islamization of the classroom here, in innumerable large and small ways, pushed by both Muslims and non-Muslims. A Muslim group is pushing for taxpayer-funded halal food in New York City public schools.

Just last year, a Colorado high school principal defended his decision to allow high school students at Rocky Mountain High School to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic — “one nation under Allah.” Do students even begin to understand the implications of a nation under Allah and the sharia?

Non-Muslim Michigan high school girls wore hijabs in school for a class lesson to “explore religion and identity.” In Michigan, a Christian College established a prayer room for Muslims. In Minnesota, a Catholic university installed mini-mosques and Islamic footbaths for Muslims.

School curricula bash Judaism and Christianity and present Islam in an uncritically positive light, without a single word about Islam’s 1,400-year history of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilation, and enslavement. Islamic supremacist groups have for quite some time consulted with public school textbook publishers and made sure that material presented on Islam was heavily slanted, even to the point of proselytizing. Combine that with the anti-Western multiculturalist bias of the publishers themselves, and the result is a large number of public school textbooks that denigrate Judeo-Christian Western civilization and portray Islam in a glowingly positive light.

The American Textbook Council, an independent national textbook monitoring organization, issued a report in 2008 that showed that many commonly used public school textbooks “present an incomplete and confected view of Islam that misrepresents its foundations and challenges to international security.” For example, the popular middle school text Across the Centuries defines jihad as a struggle “to do one’s best to resist temptation and overcome evil.” Another middle school text in common use, History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond, is just as distorted: “Muslims should fulfill jihad with the heart, tongue, and hand. Muslims use the heart in their struggle to resist evil. The tongue may convince others to take up worthy causes, such as funding medical research. Hands may perform good works and correct wrongs.” Not a word about war, conquest, or subjugation.

Islam’s history of conquering and Islamizing non-Muslim cultures is whitewashed as well. A high school textbook, Medieval and Early Modern Times, calls medieval al-Andalus, Islam-ruled Spain, a “multicultural society.” Likewise, History Alive! says that in medieval Spain “a unique culture flourished in cities like Cordoba and Toledo, where Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in peace.” But in reality, Jews and Christians in medieval Spain were subjugated as dhimmis and never had equal rights with Muslims. Even historian Maria Rosa Menocal, who has done a great deal to spread the myth of a tolerant medieval Muslim Spain, admits that in al-Andalus, Jews and Christians “were required to pay a special tax — no Muslims paid taxes — and to observe a number of restrictive regulations: Christians and Jews were prohibited from attempting to proselytize Muslims, from building new places of worship, from displaying crosses or ringing bells. In sum, they were forbidden most public displays of their religious rituals.”

Why are the textbooks this bad? The American Textbook Council report reveals that “Islamic organizations, willing to sow misinformation, are active in curriculum politics. These activists are eager to expunge any critical thought about Islam from textbooks and all public discourse. They are succeeding, assisted by partisan scholars and associations.”

In late May 2010, Wellesley, Massachusetts, public middle school students took a field trip to the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center — the controversial Saudi-funded mega-mosque run by the Muslim American Society of Boston, where the Boston Marathon jihad murderers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went to mosque. There, the students were separated by gender and the boys were asked to join the Muslim adults in their prayer. Several of the public school boys took part.

The implications of this cannot be understated. This is an outrage. Your taxpayer dollars were going to brainwash our children to Islam.

In May 2010, the Islamic Web site Sound Vision published a six-step plan by the founding director of the Council on Islamic Education, Shabbir Mansuri, on how to pressure public school authorities into allowing special accommodation for Muslims.

These included “knowing what laws and regulations govern the issue of religious accommodation”: Islamic groups make skillful use of government directives requiring reasonable accommodation of religious practices. Mansuri also directed Muslims to make friends with a teacher and enlist him or her as an ally, even inviting the teacher over for dinner; to “leave a paper trail, but first, be really nice” (at first!); and to repeat these steps as necessary with the school principal and even the district superintendent. The Muslim complainant is never to give up until the concessions are granted.

Look at the cynical and manipulative way in which Mansuri directs Muslim parents to push for prayer in the school:

“[The first thing I would do is] arm myself with that piece of information and then set up a meeting with the principal of the school along with one of my favorite teachers at the school who will be very supportive, requesting that my son or daughter should be either permitted to [for example] go out to perform Juma prayer at a local Masjid and/or be allowed to perform Juma prayer along with other Muslim students on the school campus.” [emphasis added]

This Islamic supremacist was directing Muslims to make friends with teachers and education officials in order to use them, and to take advantage of procedures and practices instituted by short-sighted American multiculturalists to gain yet another advantage for Islam.

This is open source. Imagine what we don’t see. If this guide shows us anything, it’s what idiots they take us for. This is, of course, an outrage. None of this should be introduced into the public school. If this is what Muslim parents want, they should send their children to madrassa.

Instead, they’re turning our public schools into madrassas.

Audio: Kerry Warns of Israeli 'Apartheid' at Trilateral Commission

Audio: Kerry Warns of Israeli 'Apartheid' at Trilateral Commission

on Breitbart TV 28 Apr 2014

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As originally reported by The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin: Secretary of State John Kerry told the Trilateral Commission last week that if Israel doesn’t re-initiate peace talks, it could become “an apartheid state.”

“A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state,” Kerry told the group of senior officials and experts from the U.S., Western Europe, Russia, and Japan. “Once you put that frame in your mind, that reality, which is the bottom line, you understand how imperative it is to get to the two-state solution, which both leaders, even yesterday, said they remain deeply committed to.”

Israel

Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.

Note: Bernadine Dohrn was a litigator for Sidley Austin LLP, a member of the Weather Underground, and is married to William C. Ayers.

William C. Ayers is married to Bernadine Dohrn, was a member of the Weather Underground, a chairman for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and a director at the Woods Fund of Chicago.

Barack Obama was a chairman for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a director at the Woods Fund of Chicago, and an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Valerie B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Cameron F. Kerry is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and John F. Kerry’s brother.

Teresa Heinz Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and married to John F. Kerry.

John F. Kerry is Cameron F. Kerry’s brother, married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, and the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration.

Martin S. Indyk is a Middle East peace envoy for the U.S. Department of State, a founding director at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, was the assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of State, a VP & director of the Foreign Policy Program for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a U.S. ambassador for Israel.

Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Haim Saban is a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a friend of Shimon Peres, and was a contributor for the Priorities USA Action.

Shimon Peres is a friend of Haim Saban, and the president of Israel.

Priorities USA Action was a super PAC supporting the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign, and is supporting the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.

Kenneth M. Pollack is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and a senior fellow, Middle East policy for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Dominic Barton is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Alan R. Batkin is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

William T. Coleman Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Kenneth M. Duberstein is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and an executive committee member for the Trilateral Commission.

Richard N. Haass was a VP for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Thomas R. Pickering is distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Trilateral Commission, and was a U.S. ambassador for Israel. 

David M. Rubenstein is a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Trilateral Commission, and the president of the Economic Club of Washington.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was the president of the Economic Club of Washington, is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James B. Steinberg was a director, foreign policy studies for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the deputy secretary of state for the Barack Obama administration, and is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Lawrence H. Summers was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the National Economic Council chairman for the Barack Obama administration, is a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Strobe Talbott is the president of the Brookings Institution (think tank), and an executive committee member for the Trilateral Commission.

Daniel H. Yergin is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Lael Brainard was a VP & director at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Trilateral Commission, and is the treasury under secretary for the Barack Obama administration.

Thomas E. Donilon was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the White House deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, a member of the Trilateral Commission, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James A. Johnson is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) was a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Klaus Kleinfeld is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), was a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Susan E. Rice was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Trilateral Commission, the former U.S. ambassador to UN for the Barack Obama administration, and is the White House national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Trilateral Commission, a board member for the International Crisis Group, is a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is a board member for the International Crisis Group.

Jamie S. Gorelick was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Richard N. Haass was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Carla A. Hills was a board member for the International Crisis Group, and is an executive committee member for the Trilateral Commission.

Thomas R. Pickering is a co-chair for the International Crisis Group, a member of the Trilateral Commission, and was a U.S. ambassador for Israel.

Zbigniew Brzezinski was a board member for the International Crisis Group, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

James V. Kimsey was a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a board member for the International Crisis Group.

George Soros is a board member for the International Crisis Group, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a member of the Trilateral Commission, a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Christopher Buckley is a member of the Bohemian Club, and was a blogger for the Daily Beast.

Belizean_Grove is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.

Henrietta Holsman Fore is a member of the Belizean Grove, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Merit E. Janow is a member of the Belizean Grove, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Madeleine K. Albright is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Condoleezza Rice is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), was a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

David Gergen is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and an executive committee member for the Trilateral Commission.

Jane Lakes Harman is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

William T. Coleman Jr. was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Jane Lakes Harman is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Walter Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Yotaro Kobayashi is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Pacific Asia chairman for the Trilateral Commission.

Thomas R. Pickering was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a U.S. ambassador for Israel, and is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

David M. Rubenstein was a benefactor for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Paul A. Volcker was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is an executive committee member for the Trilateral Commission.

Mortimer B. Zuckerman is a member of the Trilateral Commission, and was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Committee for Economic Development.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Donna S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.

CGI Group Inc. was the Obamacare contractor that developed Healthcare.gov web site.

Obamacare is Barack Obama’s signature policy initiative.

Barack Obama’s signature policy initiative is Obamacare, and was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.

Dominic Barton is a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Stephen W. Bosworth is a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Kenneth M. Duberstein was a VP for the Committee for Economic Development, and is an executive committee member for the Trilateral Commission.

Yotaro Kobayashi was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and is the Pacific Asia chairman for the Trilateral Commission.

James A. Johnson is a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

G. Richard Thoman is a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Committee for Economic Development, and the International Rescue Committee.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Condoleezza Rice is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, was a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Henry A. Kissinger is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a member of the Trilateral Commission, the founder of Kissinger Associates, Inc., a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Timothy F. Geithner was an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a member of the Trilateral Commission, a researcher at Kissinger Associates, Inc., and the treasury secretary for the Barack Obama administration.

Indra K. Nooyi is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, and was an executive committee member for the Trilateral Commission.

Madeleine K. Albright is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Winston Bao Lord is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

David Miliband was the president-elect for the International Rescue Committee, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Alan R. Batkin is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a member of the Trilateral Commission, a director at the Millennium Promise, and was the vice chairman for Kissinger Associates, Inc.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Millennium Promise, and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Quincy Jones was a director at the Millennium Promise, his daughter is Rashida Jones, and is a director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

Rashida Jones is Quincy Jones’s daughter, and dated Jonathan E. Favreau.

Jonathan E. Favreau dated Rashida Jones, the director of speechwriting for the Barack Obama administration, and is a columnist for the Daily Beast.

Jimmy Carter was an honorary co-chairman for the Millennium Promise, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

William T. Coleman Jr. is a member of the Trilateral Commission, a co-chair emeritus for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the Urban Institute (think tank), and the New America Foundation.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Carla A. Hills is a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and an executive committee member for the Trilateral Commission.

Jamie S. Gorelick is trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Daniel H. Yergin is a director at the New America Foundation, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Kenneth M. Duberstein is an executive committee member for the Trilateral Commission, and trustee emeritus at the Hudson Institute (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Hudson Institute (think tank), and the Center for American Progress.

George Soros was a supporter for the Center for American Progress, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

John D. Podesta is the founder of the Center for American Progress, a counselor for the Barack Obama administration, and was a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Lawrence H. Summers is a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a member of the Trilateral Commission, was the National Economic Council chairman for the Barack Obama administration, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

David Miliband is a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Austan D. Goolsbee is a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a member of the Trilateral Commission, and was the director, Economic Recovery Board, council of economic advisers chairman for the Barack Obama administration.

Madeleine K. Albright is a director at the Center for American Progress, a member of the Trilateral Commission, and honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Harold Brown is a member of the Trilateral Commission, and an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

R. Nicholas Burns is a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Paula J. Dobriansky is a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Robert M. Kimmitt is a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Henry A. Kissinger is a member of the Trilateral Commission, a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James V. Kimsey was a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

James B. Steinberg is a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Anne-Marie Slaughter is a member of the Trilateral Commission, and was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Ellen O. Tauscher is a member of the Trilateral Commission, a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and was the State Department special envoy for the Barack Obama administration.

Brent Scowcroft was a member of the Trilateral Commission, and is the interim chairman for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Condoleezza Rice was a member of the Trilateral Commission, is an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Joseph E. Robert Jr. was a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Susan E. Rice was a member of the Trilateral Commission, a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), the former U.S. ambassador to UN for the Barack Obama administration, and is the White House national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration.

Thomas R. Pickering is a member of the Trilateral Commission, a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and was a U.S. ambassador for Israel.

Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.

Bernadine Dohrn was a litigator for Sidley Austin LLP, a member of the Weather Underground, and is married to William C. Ayers.

William C. Ayers is married to Bernadine Dohrn, was a member of the Weather Underground, a chairman for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and a director at the Woods Fund of Chicago.

Barack Obama was a chairman for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a director at the Woods Fund of Chicago, and an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Valerie B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Cameron F. Kerry is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and John F. Kerry’s brother.

Teresa Heinz Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and married to John F. Kerry.

John F. Kerry is Cameron F. Kerry’s brother, married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, and the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration.