The election circus is finally over. Anyone familiar with the Bush and Clinton dynasties should be glad that the Trump campaign managed to block them from recapturing the White House. However, it is clear that the Donald is not going to be allowed to "drain the swamp" as promised. His selection of cabinet officers will ensure that elitist organizations such as the Rockefeller's Council on Foreign Relations, its various affiliates, and its corporate sponsors including Goldman Sachs will continue to dictate policy.

George H.W. Bush was a CFR director, and his successor Bill Clinton is a CFR member. Since WW2, almost every chairman of the Federal Reserve Board has been a CFR member, along with most Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense and CIA. Also their key deputies, assistants and advisors.

After rejecting several candidates for Secretary of State, Trump settled on oilman Rex Tillerson, chairman of Exxon-Mobil -- the modern incarnation of Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust and a "founding sponsor" of the CFR. Tillerson is not listed as a CFR member. However, he is a trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a CFR affiliate dominated by CFR members. The choice was made on the recommendation of CFR members Robert Gates, Condoleeza Rice, Stephen Hadley, and James Baker. It was seconded by CFR members Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger -- also a CSIS trustee.

The deputy Secretary of State is likely to be neocon CFR member John Bolton, former UN ambassador and advisor at the pro-Zionist "United Against Nuclear Iran" (UANI) organization along with Jeb Bush and CFR members Joe Lieberman, Dennis Ross, and James Woolsey. [Update Feb 2017: Tillerson picked neocon CFR member Elliot Abrams as deputy, but was blocked by Trump. Bolton was then considered for National Security Advisor, but Trump selected CFR member Gen. Herbert McMaster instead.]

Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, Gen. James Mattis, is not a CFR member. However, he works closely with former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus, a CFR member and a trustee at the McCain Institute along with fellow CFR members John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Frances Townsend and Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

The deputy Secretary of Defense is likely to be CFR member David McCormick, president of Bridgewater Associates, another CFR corporate sponsor. McCormick is a trustee at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, along with several other CFR members, including Aspen chairman Madeline Albright and president Walter Isaacson. Isaacson, former chairman of CFR sponsor Time-Warner/CNN, is also a member of the Rhodes Scholars along with Bill Clinton, Brookings president Strobe Talbott and CFR president Richard Haass.

Trump has appointed an "economic advisory panel", led by billionaires Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone, Laurence Fink of BlackRock, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan, and Daniel Yergin of IHS Markit. All of them are CFR members. Blackstone, BlackRock, and JPMorgan are CFR corporate sponsors. Fink and Yergin are CFR directors along with hedge fund manager John Paulson, another Trump "advisor". Schwarzman is also a Rhodes Scholar.

This incestuous club of billionaires, foundations, corporations, politicians, and propagandists constitute the "invisible government". Membership is by invitation, and those who do not conform are excluded. See our CFR database entry and follow the links for member lists and related background articles. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one perhaps of the Right, and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."

-- Carroll Quigley (CFR historian), "Tragedy and Hope", 1966, p. 1247

Some bloggers were shocked by a Hillary Clinton email, published by WikiLeaks, which includes some "advice" from Jewish billionaire and former CFR director George Soros regarding State Dept policy in Europe. Why the surprise? Soros has donated millions of dollars to the Clintons, and Hillary is on record stating that the CFR oligarchs tell her "what to do and how to think":

"It's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of 'advice' from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future."

-- Hillary Clinton speech at CFR, 2009-07-15, video and transcript

Several other recipients of that message are also CFR members, including Richard Verma, Philip Gordon, and William Burns. Someone should cross-check every name in these message dumps to see how many CFR operatives are involved. Former CIA director, Michael Morell, who just endorsed Clinton is a CFR member. He was recently interviewed by Charlie Rose of PBS, also a CFR member, calling for war on Iran.

Besides Soros and son, other high-profile CFR members include Hillary's husband Bill Clinton, advisor Sidney Blumenthal, Robert Kagan (husband of Victoria Nuland), Dick Cheney, John McCain, Henry Kissinger, Strobe Talbott, Robert Rubin, David Rubenstein, Michael Bloomberg, Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, Laurence Fink, Steve Schwarzman, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and CFR godfather David Rockefeller.

The banks that paid millions in "speaking fees" to the Clintons (Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, BlackRock et al) are CFR sponsors. Media organizations including Time-Warner/CNN, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Google and Facebook are CFR sponsors. Many of the network execs and propagandists covering for the Clintons are CFR members:

• Time-Warner: Jeffrey Bewkes (TW chairman), Gary Ginsberg (VP), Carol Melton (VP), Richard Plepler (HBO president, CFR director)
• Time-Warner/CNN: David Gergen, Christiane Amanpour, Paula Zahn, Jake Tapper, Fareed Zakaria, James Sciutto, Rana Foroohar
• Viacom/CBS: Stephen Capus (CBS News), Christopher Isham, Katie Couric, Leslie Stahl, Bob Schieffer, Margaret Brennan, Dan Rather
• Comcast/NBC: Cesar Conde (NBC Intl), Andrea Mitchell, Mika Brzezinski, Charles "Joe" Scarborough, Maria Bartiromo, Brian Williams, Marvin Kalb, Tom Brokaw
• Disney/ABC: Benjamin Sherwood (ABC president), Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopolus, Barbara Walters, Juju Chang
• PBS: Margaret Warner (CFR director), Jim Lehrer, Judy Woodruff, Charlie Rose
• Google: Eric Schmidt (CEO), Jared Cohen (Jigsaw, CFR fellow), Ruth Porat (CFO)
• Facebook: Sheryl Sandberg (COO)

In 2009, the CFR held a "media control" roundtable, sponsored by Time-Warner. Several network executives and talking heads were present, including CFR members Christiane Amanpour, Margaret Warner, Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Charles Gibson, Jonathan Klein (CNN president), Stephen Capus (NBC president), and David Westin (ABC president):

"The fact that we will not reestablish [another] Walter Cronkite, because of technology... does not mean we can't have people who are trusted. Brian Williams is sitting here, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric..."

-- CFR media control roundtable, sponsored by Time-Warner and moderated by Christiane Amanpour, 2009-09-09, video and transcript

In 2012, Christiane Amanpour's husband James Rubin, a CFR member and former State Dept officer, sent an email to Hillary inviting her to a dinner meeting with Amanpour and several other CFR media assets in order to polish her "image" for the future campaign.

The CFR is closely interlocked with other anti-democratic, globalist policy organizations including the Brookings Institution, Peterson Institute, Club of Rome, and the World Economic Forum to name a few. This is the "outer circle" where political operatives -- like Bill and Hillary Clinton -- are screened and selected, while the strings are pulled by the oligarchs and their banking corporations.

For example, take Jewish billionaire and CFR member Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who just hosted a cozy $100,000 per person fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. She is a director at the Peterson Institute, founded by former CFR chairman Pete Peterson. She is also a trustee at the McCain Institute, along with fellow CFR members John McCain and former CIA director David Petraeus.

Political hacks like Clinton and McCain are overpaid house servants, nothing more. It is useless to criticize "Wall Street" or to rant about "the media" without exposing these connections.

A Malaysian airliner en route from Netherlands to Malaysia crashed in the Donetsk province of eastern Ukraine on 17-July killing almost 300 people. The Boeing 777 was cruising at 33,000 ft altitude, and it has been alleged that the cause of the disaster was a surface-to-air missile. Political demagogues, led by Zionist warmongers John McCain and Hillary Clinton, were quick to point the finger at both the Russians and the separatists in eastern Ukraine.

However, it is just as likely that the well-equipped but poorly-trained Ukrainian military forces, now under command of the NATO backed junta in Kiev, were actually responsible. They control most of the territory in Donetsk, and it would not be the first time they have "accidently" shot down a civilian airliner.

"The Ukrainian military has several batteries of Buk-M1 (SA-11) surface-to-air missile systems with at least 27 launchers (see photo), capable of bringing down high-flying jets, in the Donetsk region where the Malaysian passenger plane crashed, the Russian Defense Ministry said... There were unconfirmed reports the Malaysian plane was travelling at an altitude of over 10,000 meters when it was allegedly hit by a missile... Only the S-300 and Buk surface-to-air missile systems are capable of hitting targets at such altitude..."We simply don’t have such air defense systems. Our man-portable air defense (shoulder-launched) systems have a firing range 3,000 - 4,000 meters. The Boeing was flying at a much higher altitude," Sergey Kavtaradze, special representative for the prime minister of the [breakaway] Donetsk People’s Republic, explained."

-- Russia Today

Not only were the Ukrainian missile batteries stationed in the Donetsk region, it also appears that someone in the Ukrainian air traffic control system directed the flight to deviate from the usual route, placing it within range:

"What’s peculiar about MH17 is that the ill-fated flight [on the 17th] was different from its usual path over Ukraine. According to data at flightaware.com, a website tracking civil aviation traffic, the flight on Thursday diverted about 200 km north from the paths the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 had used in previous days. And it led the plane right over the war-torn Donetsk Region. So far no official explanation has been given as to the unusual flight path. "

-- Russia Today

Igor Kolomoisky, the billionaire Jewish oligarch recently appointed governor of the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk province and founder of the European Jewish Parliament (EJP), has stated that he intends to use his private mercenaries to "wipe out" the separatists in neighboring Donetsk. Was the errant missile fired from a launcher located within Kolomoisky's domain, including areas in Donetsk under control of his forces?

"During the working visit of President of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko to Donbass [in June], oligarch Igor Kolomoisky has openly declared, that he would not obey the President's decree on 'peaceful settlement', and that his army would "finish off" the militiamen in the South-East of the country in any case. This was confided by a source in the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on condition of anonymity, RIA Novosti reports... Earlier, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation made a statement that almost 1,500 people were recognized as victims in the case of using prohibited means and methods of war in Ukraine. The list of defendants in this case includes Governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region, Igor Kolomoisky..."

-- Voice of Russia

Another strong possibility, not mentioned in the western propaganda campaign, is that the airliner was shot down by a Ukranian fighter jet rather than a surface-to-air missile. There will be some sort of "investigation", but the truth may never be revealed. As usual, the most important question remains: who benefits?

UPDATE: It is likely that NATO knows exactly what happened to MH17, but are unwilling to release the information for some reason:

"The 10-day NATO exercise code named 'Breeze 2014' has ended in the Black Sea... NATO ships and aircraft had the Donetsk and Luhansk regions under total radar and electronic surveillance..."

-- Wayne Madsen article

UPDATE: A private investigation firm in Germany is now offering a $30 million reward for infomation which correctly identifies the perpetrators of the shootdown.

There's been a big flap over the executive bonuses recently paid out by bankrupt insurance giant AIG at taxpayer expense. Less has been said about the "bonuses" they paid out to their political friends back in 2008 according to OpenSecrets.org, including:

Obama, Barack (D-IL) $104,332
Dodd, Chris (D-CT) $103,900
McCain, John (R-AZ) $59,499
Clinton, Hillary (D-NY) $37,965

Note that several of the players now on center stage were directly responsible for the deregulation (during the Clinton administration) that allowed the enormous AIG insurance scam to proceed unchecked in the first place.

"Credit Default Swaps purported, in theory, to let banks remove loan risk from their balance sheet onto others such as AIG, an insurer. It was based on a colossal fraud using flawed mathematical risk models... AIG then issued of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of CDS instruments to allow banks to make their balance sheets look safer than they really were... How could that be allowed? The level of venal corruption in the Clinton and then Bush Administration rivals that of the last days of Rome before its fall..." -- William Engdahl

"AIG was essentially collecting huge and steadily climbing premiums by selling [bogus] insurance for the disaster it thought would never come... The bonuses are a nice comic touch highlighting one of the more outrageous tangents of the bailout age... " -- Matt Taibbi

"There's no question that the bonuses are sickening, a moral outrage. While some of the benefactors may have done little or nothing wrong, many are known to have worked in the specialised London unit whose creative trading gimmickry effectively ruined the company. Those people are more worthy of jail cells alongside Bernie Madoff, the loathsome Ponzi king, than new vacation homes." -- Michael Crowley

"Here's the problem with all the hoopla over the $135 million in AIG bonuses: This sum is only less than 0.1% -- one thousandth -- of the $183 BILLION that the U.S. Treasury gave to AIG as a "pass-through" to its counterparties. This sum, over a thousand times the magnitude of the bonuses on which public attention is conveniently being focused by Wall Street promoters, did not stay with AIG. For over six months, the public media and Congressmen have been trying to find out just where this money DID go. Bloomberg brought a lawsuit to find out. Only to be met with a wall of silence." -- Michael Hudson

All of the articles above are worth reading in their entirety.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, has repeated his warnings about the dangerous pro-Zionist, pro-war foreign policy of both Bush and presidential candidate John McCain:

"Brzezinski described McCain's presidency as an 'appalling concept' as it would lead to World War IV... "Well, if McCain is president and if his Secretary of State is Joe Lieberman and his Secretary of Defense is (Rudolph) Giuliani, we will be moving towards the World War IV that they have been both favoring and predicting."

-- PressTV

"Lately we [in Israel] are flooded with friends. The 'Great of the Earth', past and present, come here to flatter us, to fawn on us, to grovel at our feet... They disgust me. Let's take for example the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Her pandering was free of any criticism and she reached new heights of obsequiousness in her speech to the Knesset....

Before that we were visited by John McCain's mentor, the evangelical pastor John Hagee... Oozing sanctimonious flattery from every pore, he forbade us, in the name of (his) God, to give up even one inch of the Holy Land and commanded us to fight to the last drop of (our) blood.

However, not one of them has come close to George Bush. Approaching the end of the most disastrous presidency in the annals of the Republic, he really forced a lighted match into the hand of our government, encouraging it to ignite the barrel of gunpowder between our feet." -- Uri Avnery

The desperate Clinton campaign is trying to scare her base of liberal Jewish voters away from Obama:

"Daphna Ziman, a longtime friend of Hillary Clinton's who has co-chaired several events for her, forwarded an e-mail from the Republican Jewish Coalition, a grass-roots [sic] GOP group, criticizing Obama for proposing a Muslim summit. In a Jan. 31 interview with Paris Match, Obama said he wanted "an honest discussion about ways to bridge the gap that grows between Muslims and the West."

"Senators Clinton, Obama, McCain and Governor Huckabee have demonstrated their support for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship," AIPAC president Howard Friedman wrote to Newsweek... The few mainstream Jewish and Israeli figures who criticize Obama focus on his apparent willingness as president to talk to the Iranian regime." -- Newsweek

Like the Newsweek headline says, whatever is "good for the Jews" is all that matters, and the Senators are falling over each other to prove it. See our previous comments on McCain-Lieberman and the RJC.

Zionist agitator Norman Podhoretz is still on the warpath against Iran. He wants to make sure that America attacks Iran before Bush leaves office, in order to eliminate any opposition to the Jewish State and its drive for regional hegemony -- regardless of the consequences for Americans or innocent Iranians.

"The upshot is that if Iran is to be prevented from becoming a nuclear power, it is the United States that will have to do the preventing, to do it by means of a bombing campaign, and...to do it soon." -- Norman Podhoretz, Commentary

If Bush fails to carry through, then the mentally unstable John McCain and his Zionist partner Joe Lieberman are more than willing to pick up the slack. At a VFW meeting in South Carolina last year when McCain was asked about the Iran situation, he began by singing 'Bomb, bomb, bomb -- bomb, bomb Iran!' *. Is this the kind of man that should have his finger on the launch button? He went on to say:

"Iran is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That alone should concern us but now they are trying for nuclear capabilities. I totally support the President when he says we will not allow Iran to destroy Israel.' -- Georgetown Times

What "should concern us" are the agents of foreign powers and secret societies who are "dedicated to the destruction" of America so that their utopian New World Order can arise from the ashes. What are "we" going to do about that?

* In 1980, during the Iran Embassy hostage standoff that brought Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. into the White House, the group 'Vince Vance and the Valiants' produced the offensive musical parody "Bomb Iran" that McCain remembered.

"Lieberman has been one of McCain's most prominent promoters, lending help by soliciting donations from Connecticut contacts and actively stumping on the campaign trail. Now, after a stretch that has seen wins in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida, McCain seems to have bounded to the top of the Republican field and, in the process, catapulted one of America's most famous Jewish politicians back onto the national stage." -- Jewish Daily Forward

The bounder John McCain seems to owe his recent success to both Joe Lieberman and his promoters at the Republican Jewish Coalition*, along with the Zionist-dominated media which began promoting him heavily and favoring him in the so-called "debates" once it became apparent that New York's favorite son Rudy Giuliani was going to flop.

The likely McCain - Lieberman ticket would ensure the continuity of the Zionist program of racist segregation, ethnic cleansing, and perpetual war in the middle east, paid for by American taxpayers and American soldiers. Lieberman is also a major supporter of the NCSY, a Jewish supremacist organization "inspiring the Jewish future" and boldly "at the forefront in the battle against assimilation" with the goyim.

At the same time, both Senators McCain and Lieberman have voted to effectively eliminate the southern border and allow the Latino hordes to overrun America, with all the social chaos that results. How come "assimilation" is bad for Jews but good for Americans?

* Note that Lewis Eisenberg, a board member of the RJC, was the Chairman of the Port Authority of New York who arranged to lease the World Trade Center to Jewish real estate moguls Larry Silverstein and Frank Lowy in April 2001. Only five months later, the attack of 9/11/2001 destroyed the complex, resulting in a multi-billion dollar insurance payout -- and an expanded war for the strategic benefit of Eretz Yisrael at U.S. taxpayer expense.