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Comment by Jeff on January 15, 2010 at 11:47am

Actually I was curious about the Trilateral Commission. Here's the scoop. There were 11 as of January, 2009.

Secretary of Treasury, Tim Geithner

Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice

National Security Advisor, Gen. James L. Jones

Deputy National Security Advisor, Thomas Donilon

Chairman, Economic Recovery Committee, Paul Volker

Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis C. Blair

Assistant Sec of State, Asia & Pacific, Kurt M. Campbell

Deputy Secretary of State, James Steinberg

State Department, Special Envoy, Richard Haass

State Department, Special Envoy, Dennis Ross

State Department, Special Envoy, Richard Holbrooke

There are many other incidental links to the Trilateral Commission, for instance,

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is married to Commission member William Jefferson
Clinton.

Geithner's informal group of advisors include E. Gerald Corrigan, Paul Volker, Alan
Greenspan and Peter G. Peterson, among others. His first job after college was
with Henry Kissinger at Kissinger Associates.

Brent Scowcroft has been an unofficial advisor to Obama and was mentor to Defense
Secretary Robert Gates.

Robert Zoelick is currently president of the World Bank

Laurence Summers, White House Economic Advisor, was mentored by former Treasury
Secretary Robert Rubin during the Clinton administration.

There are many other such links, but these are enough for you
to get the idea of what's going on here.

Pretty frightening actually, isn't it?

Comment by Jeff on January 15, 2010 at 11:41am

I agree with almost everything with the exception of 60 million homeless and 14 million foreclosures. Time will tell of course but those numbers are unlikely and unrealistic.

Approximately 2.6 million jobs were lost in 2008. Very approximately since supposedly accurate figures vary from web site to web site. Let's suppose the same number of jobs were lost in 2009 and then again in 2010. That's 7.8 million jobs vanished as, really, a worst case scenario. Even if we add 3 million more for 2011 we're not even close to 60 million jobless people and everyone that's jobless doesn't become homeless. People have spouse still employed, live with family or friends and find a way to survive although certainly some who've lost jobs will become homeless.

While 3.6 million people experience temporary homelessness in a given year there are less than 250,000 (a very high estimate) chronically homeless people currently in the US so we're just not approaching the 60 million figure in any way at all.

There were 1.5 million foreclosure actions in 2009. All of those don't lead to foreclosure but lets just say they do. In 2008 there were 3 million. Let's continue the trend for 2010 and assume there will be 750,000 or even 1.5 million if you'd like. As you can see we're not getting very close to the 14 million figure for total foreclosures. Although we are halfway there, the figures of 60 million homeless and 14 million foreclosures aren't realistic.

That doesn't mean we aren't facing serious problems, perhaps civil unrest, perhaps not, but I'm much more comfortable using realistic figures when I'm predicting future events.

Lastly, there are over 20 Trilateral Commission members in the Obama Administration if I remember correctly. I may be wrong but I seem to remember 23 and I've a pretty good memory and aptitude for numbers and follow politics both nationally and globally very closely.

Peace

Comment by Swtnlovabl on January 13, 2010 at 5:43am

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