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see, i DO like a good joke!

don't be surprised by anything in this campaign, scandal, dirty tricks, strange bedfellows....

siriusbliss:
Obama said he'd bomb terrorist targets in Pakistan if the government failed to act against reliable intelligence. He did not say he'd bomb Pakistan in the sense of waging war against the Pakistani people. I tend to agree with that since having the opportunity to attack those targets again may not ever surface.

scope4live:
"Too bad, as McCain is the only politician who has tried to get rid of lobbyists"

A google search for mccain lobbyists returns some contrary results. However, I don't believe everything I read on the internet. (see http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/pho ... ttruth.jpg )

Where did you read this? I've read the opposite. Obama is the only canidate to not take money from lobbyists, or, is McCain also apart of this elite philosophy?

Obama IS an elitist. he is of royal bloodline. he is a member of the CFR. he is approved by Bilderberg.

McCain has the identical policies as Hillary. Hillary and McCain have expressed their love for eachother. Bill has said that a race between McCain and Hillary would be "freindly". both have attended Bilderberg meetings and both are connected to the CFR.

garyb wrote:Obama IS an elitist. he is of royal bloodline. he is a member of the CFR. he is approved by Bilderberg.

McCain has the identical policies as Hillary. Hillary and McCain have expressed their love for eachother. Bill has said that a race between McCain and Hillary would be "freindly". both have attended Bilderberg meetings and both are connected to the CFR.

It's called a cabal. The Bush/Clinton cabal. In whatever permutation it is presented, it is all the same. Therefore 'change' is just moving chairs around on the Titanic.

Wholesale TRANSFORMATION (entirely distinct from 'change') would look more like Ron Paul helping Americans take their country back, and stop screwing around with the rest of the planet.

Obama is a Clinton/CFR surregate - global 'poverty tax', UN troops on US soil, amnesty for illegal immigrants (including criminals and drug dealers), and is owned by insurance companies, and voted in favor of oil company tax breaks.

Therefore, NOTHING will change.

G

when you have a membership list like this:
[edit] Some corporate members
Some of the corporate members follow, most of whom are Fortune 500 companies.

ABC News
Alcoa
American Express
AIG
Bank of America
Bloomberg L.P.
Boeing
BP
Chevron
Citigroup
Coca-Cola
De Beers
Deutsche Bank
ExxonMobil
FedEx
Ford Motor
General Electric
GlaxoSmithKline
Google
Goldman Sachs
Halliburton
Heinz
Hess
IBM
JPMorgan Chase
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Lehman Brothers
Lockheed Martin
MasterCard
McGraw-Hill
McKinsey
Merck
Merrill Lynch
Motorola
NASDAQ
News Corp
Nike
PepsiCo
Pfizer
Shell Oil
Sony Corporation of America
Tata Group
Time Warner
Total S.A.
Toyota Motor North America
UBS
United Technologies
United States Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Trust Corporation
Verizon
Visa [31]



[edit] Notable current council members
John Abizaid
Robert F. Agostinelli (Founder and Chairman of Rhône Group.)
Fouad Ajami
Graham Allison
Roger Altman
James A. Baker
Evan Bayh
Warren Beatty
Sandy Berger (United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton)
Michael Bloomberg (current Mayor of New York City)
Cory Booker
David Boren
L. Paul Bremer
Bill Brock (former Republican United States Senator from Tennessee)
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (a member of the Bronfman dynasty, president of the World Jewish Congress)
Ethan Bronner (deputy foreign editor of The New York Times)
Zbigniew Brzezinski (United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter)
Jonathan S. Bush (healthcare CEO, son of Jonathan Bush, brother of NBC entertainment reporter Billy Bush)
Jimmy Carter (Past President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize Winner)
Dick Cheney (Vice President of the United States under George W. Bush, Past CEO of Halliburton)
Warren Christopher (former United States Secretary of State)
Henry Cisneros
Wesley Clark (Retired US General, Past Contender for the Democratic Presidencial Nomination)
Bill Clinton (Past President of the United States)
Hillary Clinton
William Cohen
Jon Corzine
Katie Couric
Michael Crow (president of Arizona State University)
Al D'Amato
Thomas Daschle
John Deutch
David Dinkins
Christopher Dodd
Michael Douglas
Richard Dreyfuss
Peggy Dulany (fourth child of David Rockefeller)
Lawrence Eagleburger ( former United States Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush)
Dianne Feinstein
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Noah Feldman (academic and author)
Mikhail Fridman (Russian oligarch, International Advisory Board member)
Thomas Friedman (journalist, The New York Times)
Evan Galbraith
Robert Gates (Secretary of Defense, former Director of Central Intelligence)
Leslie Gelb
Richard Gephardt
James S. Gilmore
Newt Gingrich (Former Speaker of the US House of Representativees)
Alan Greenspan (former Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
Donald Gregg
Chuck Hagel
Lee Hamilton
Jane Harman
Gary Hart (former Democratic U.S. Senator representing Colorado, Council for a Livable World chairman, advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America)
Christopher Heinz (Heir to the Heinz fortune)
Teresa Heinz
Warren Hoge (American journalist)
Richard Holbrooke
Jesse Jackson
Angelina Jolie (UN Goodwill Ambassador)[32]
Vernon Jordan, Jr. (close advisor to President William J. Clinton)
Robert Kagan (cofounded Project for the New American Century)
Thomas Kean
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
John Kerry
Zalmay Khalilzad
Henry Kissinger
Irving Kristol (founder of American neoconservatism, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute)
Paul R. Krugman
Richard D. Land
Jim Lehrer
Lewis Libby
Joseph Lieberman
Consuelo Mack (Anchor and Managing Editor of Wealthtrack and former CNBC television personality)
John McCain
George Mitchell
Walter Mondale (Former US Vice President under Jimmy Carter and 1984 Democratic Presidential Candidate)
Barack Obama
Paula Zahn (news media, formerly an anchor on CNN)
Janet Napolitano
John Negroponte (Deputy Secretary of State, former Director of National Intelligence, former U.S. ambassador to Honduras)
Sam Nunn
Joseph Nye
William Odom
Stanley O'Neal (Former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch)
Henry Paulson (Treasury Secretary)
David Petraeus
Kitty Pilgrim
Richard Pipes (founder of Middle East Forum)
Norman Podhoretz (former editor-in-chief of "Commentary", senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, Project for the New American Century signatory)
Steve Poizner (California businessman and Republican politician)
Colin Powell (Retired US General, Former US Secretary of State under George W Bush)
Charles Prince (former chief executive officer of Citigroup)
Charles Rangel
Dan Rather
William R. Rhodes
Condoleezza Rice (US Secretary of State under George W Bush, Former National Security Advisor under George W Bush)
Bill Richardson
Alice Rivlin (economist, former U.S. cabinet member)
David Rockefeller, Jr.
Jay Rockefeller
Charles Robb
Charlie Rose
Diane Sawyer
Karenna Gore Schiff (daughter of Al Gore)
Brent Scowcroft (United States National Security Advisor under Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush)
George P. Shultz (former United States Secretary of State, former United States Secretary of the Treasury, former Secretary of Labor)
Ron Silver (actor, director, producer, cofounded the organization One Jerusalem)
Walter B. Slocombe (former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy)
Olympia Snowe
George Soros
Jonathan Soros
Lesley Stahl
Diana Taylor
Fred Thompson (Actor, former Senator from Tennessee, Presidential candidate)
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Laura Tyson
Paul Volcker (former Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
Barbara Walters
John Warner
Margaret Warner
Mark Warner
Rick Warren
Steven Weinberg (American physicist)
William Weld
John C. Whitehead (chairman of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, former United States Deputy Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, former Goldman Sachs chairman)
Christine Todd Whitman
Brian Williams
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (International Advisory Board member)
Adam Wolfensohn
James Wolfensohn (former president of the World Bank Group)
Paul Wolfowitz (former president of the World Bank Group, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense)
R. James Woolsey, Jr. (former Director of Central Intelligence and former head of the CIA)
Robert Zoellick (President of the World Bank Group)
Mortimer Zuckerman



[edit] Notable historical members
John B. Anderson
Robert O. Anderson
Birch Bayh
Lloyd Bentsen
Conrad Black (International Advisory Board member)
Shirley Temple Black
Bill Bradley
William F. Buckley, Jr.
McGeorge Bundy
William Bundy
Arthur Burns
George H. W. Bush
Joseph Califano, Jr.
Hugh Carey
E. Gerald Corrigan
Monica Crowley
Mario Cuomo
Thomas Dewey
C. Douglas Dillon
Michael Dukakis
John Foster Dulles
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Geraldine Ferraro
Tom Foley
Gerald Ford
J. William Fulbright
Katherine Graham
Alexander Haig
Averell Harriman
Pamela Harriman
Christian Herter
Herbert Hoover
Hubert H. Humphrey
Bobby Ray Inman
Jacob Javits
Sergei Karaganov (International Advisory Board member)
George Kennan
Robert F. Kennedy
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Melvin Laird
John Lindsay
Robert A. Lovett
George C. Marshall
Charles Peter McColough
George S. McGovern
Robert McNamara
Susan Molinari
Paul Nitze
Richard Nixon
Charles Percy
Ann Richards
Nelson Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller III
Felix Rohatyn
Eugene V. Rostow
Walt Whitman Rostow
Dean Rusk
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
James Schlesinger
Charles Schumer
R. Sargent Shriver, Jr.
Jean Kennedy Smith
Robert Schwarz Strauss
Strobe Talbott
Maurice Tempelsman
Stansfield Turner
Cyrus Vance
George F. Will
Albert Wohlstetter
Roberta Wohlstetter
Paul Warburg
Caspar Weinberger
Wendell Willkie
Andrew Young



[edit] List of chairmen and chairwomen

Russell Cornell Leffingwell 1946-1953
John J. McCloy 1953-1970
David Rockefeller 1970-1985
Peter George Peterson 1985-2007
Carla A. Hills (co-chairman) 2007-
Robert E. Rubin (co-chairman) 2007-



[edit] List of presidents

John W. Davis 1921-1933
George W. Wickersham 1933-1936
Norman Davis 1936-1944
Russell Cornell Leffingwell 1944-1946
Allen Welsh Dulles 1946-1950
Henry Merritt Wriston 1951-1964
Grayson L. Kirk 1964-1971
Bayless Manning 1971-1977
Winston Lord 1977-1985
John Temple Swing 1985-1986 (Pro tempore)
Peter Tarnoff 1986-1993
Alton Frye 1993
Leslie Gelb 1993-2003
Richard N. Haass 2003-

and their purpose is setting policy as admitted by the founder in this quote(who do you think will lead this new order?):

"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents ... to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
- David Rockefeller, "Memoirs" autobiography (2002, Random House publishers), page 405

then any alive, awake and alert man would be on guard....

as you can see, the connections are EXACTLY as i have stated them.

more on the CFR and their duplicty....

Change is what I'll be left with if a democrat gets in the office.

WTF don't you understand about the fact that McCain, Hillary and Obama both belong to the same club with the SAME agenda?

the ONLY non-CFR candidate is Ron Paul. period.

change will come with ANY of those clowns, it's just that change will be a further dismantling of the US constitution, and a world scientific dictatorship. i'd think that europeans would have SOME clue about fascists by now.....



http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/ja ... ymbols.htm

Again, we need wholesale TRANSFORMATION. NOT change.
change is a lie (and a bad marketing spiel).

Ron Paul is the only way to go, but since he's being shut down, then there is NO ONE left.

Europeans will NOT like where the US is headed - but will recognize the signs of fascism as it rears it's head once again.

Dismantling the US economy is the last step in their agenda, and when IT goes down, it's going to drag a lot of other economies down with it. Signs are that Germany, France, and soon even Japan will default.

I think Stardust gets it, and maybe he's just buggin' with us?

too much TV.....

the hypnotized are powerless.....

what's so hard to believe about a cabal that is real, that the founder has even admitted to? i'll post it again, a direct quote from the CFR founder and guide, rothschild fundee, and bilderberg principal:
"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents ... to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
- David Rockefeller, "Memoirs" autobiography (2002, Random House publishers), page 405

the things i point out are open secrets that anyone with eyes to see can see. if you can't see, then you know why americans can't either. part of the problem is that they always admit to and announce their true intentions, but when they do, they couch it in terms that make it seem like it's all for our own good, when in reality, it's for our own enslavement. when confusion arises, ordo ab chao....

here are the words of THE terrorist, by his own admission seriously working against humanity and liberty(he also said that china, a country that sells the organs of their political prisoners, you know the ones who criticize the government, is the model government), openly speaking treason in a commercial publication and the US government is wiretapping regular citizens and borrowing currency from this man's bank(rockefellor banks are at the core of the federal reserve system) AT INTEREST when they could just print debt free money. you tell ME who's in charge.....

as to the vote being a charade, IT IS A CHARADE! http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

voting is not just a charade in the USA. in europe, how many REALLY approved of the EU constitution? i noticed that the constitution that was voted down is being implemented anyway....

stardust wrote:Some say that these are weasel words

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on ... _Relations

pop goes the weasel cause the weasel goes pop

stardust wrote:Not really bugging sirius.

I am surprised about the statements that this CFR has a Janus like appearance.
It reads like a US chauvinistic club that should be no problem to a US citizen.

Some other and gary included put it in a shape of a elite conspiracy that makes the votes a charade.

This is hard to believe.
Not the fact that there are hidden agendas, but the fact that US citizens tolerate the charade.

The majority of Americans DON'T tolerate it, but with all voting and media systems owned by the same corrupt elements, then what can we do? People won't wake up until it's too late anyways, since everything is being done incrementally.

When/if the rest of the world wakes up, they'll just blame us Americans for not just voting them out, or impeaching them, or worse starting another freakin' civil war (or whatever).

Time to turn off the TV and write some music!

Greg

stardust wrote: This is hard to believe.
Not the fact that there are hidden agendas, but the fact that US citizens tolerate the charade.

A climate of fear makes anything possible to accept by the fearful majority.

However I think after the Katrina fiasco in New Orleans, more and more people in the US are starting to ask serious questions that were too difficult to contemplate before. When I went to NY i spoke to several people who said things I didn't expect to hear in that city - with so many people affected by respiratory problems due to asbestos-contaminated dust I'm not surprised (it was well known that authorities wanted to rip down that building for years but couldn't because of the asbestos).

Also Gary is right - these people want to destroy diversity and culture in the world, replacing it with homogenized and corporate approved bullshit. This is happening already, and will continue to happen until people wake up.

darkrezin wrote:A climate of fear makes anything possible to accept by the fearful majority.

Agreed. Fearful people can be corralled like cattle into accepting things they might not otherwise agree to.

Too many examples to even begin to list here...

Greg

how did the german, austrian, czech and polish people put up with their evil rulers when they put people into camps? i KNOW that most german, austrian, czech and polish people are beautiful, kind and loving. these kinds of things are done WITHOUT permission, yet somehow they are done and cooperated with...

How unfortunate that I hardly find a sentence in this thread speaking of true solutions rather than regurgitating the mashed up (nonetheless probably true) info about destructive human nonsense. Excuse my crude realism but this discussion somehow illustrates -in some ways- why so few problems seem to get solved...

• return individual sovereignty to US Citizens.
  Reboot the US government.
  Eradicate all corrupt officials.
  Shut down the Fed.
  Kill the IRS
  Shut down the borders

etc. etc.

...and here are some suggestions from an economist (first draft):


1. Stop all foreclosures immediately for at least five years and for the duration of the depression by means of a compulsory federal law carrying criminal penalties. No foreclosures on homes, family farms, factories, public utilities, hospitals, transportation and other infrastructure. Outlaw adjustable rate mortgages.

2. Raise the federal minimum wage immediately to a living wage of at least $15 per hour, with the short-term goal of attaining a federal minimum wage of at least $20 per hour.

3. Immediate enactment of a securities transfer tax (STT) or Tobin tax of 1% to be imposed on all financial turnover in all financial markets to include the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ, the Amex, the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the market in federal securities, the foreign exchange market, the New York Mercantile Exchange, and all other financial markets. This tax will be paid by the seller. This tax will be extended to the notional value of all derivatives, including over-the-counter derivatives, exchange traded derivatives, structured notes, designer derivatives and all other financial paper. Derivatives will become reportable under penalty of law. It is conservatively estimated that the securities transfer tax will yield approximately $5 trillion of new revenue in its first year of application. This new revenue will permit a stabilization and consolidation of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and will permit the expansion of Head Start, the Food Stamps program, WIC, the Veterans Administration hospitals, while extending unemployment insurance up to an initial total of at least 52 weeks, to be prolonged as needed. Provide revenue sharing to deal with the looming deficits of states, counties, and municipalities.

4. Using the new revenue obtained from the securities transfer tax on Wall Street financiers, provide comprehensive tax relief for all small businesses, thus permitting them to pay the new living wage. Small business will also be aided by the provision of national single-payer health care, as described below.

5. Implement Medicare for all in the form of a single payer, universal coverage, publicly administered system to provide healthcare for all. No rationing of care will be permitted under any circumstances. Cost-cutting will be achieved through eliminating exorbitant corporate profits, through administrative reform, and above all through a federally-funded crash program, on the scale of the Manhattan Project, of biomedical research designed to discover new and more effective treatments and cures for the principal diseases currently afflicting humanity.

6. Simultaneously, enact comprehensive income tax relief for working families, raising the standard deduction for married filing jointly and the personal exemption to at least $25,000 each. This would mean that a family of four would pay no federal income tax on their first $125,000 of income. Expand the earned income tax credit (EITC) to approximately 4 times its current level, with at least $150 billion paid out. Increase EITC payments to persons living alone as well as to families with children. Make all college tuition and fees expenses deductible, and remove the limits on the Hope and Lifetime Learning tax credits. Return to the FDR-Ike-JFK 90% top marginal rate for unearned income ­ capital gains, interest, dividends, royalties, etc., not wages or self-employment -- of taxpayers with federal adjusted gross income over $25 million. Roll back the scandalous Bush tax cuts for the rich. Favor progressive taxation over proportional and regressive taxation at every level. Phase out the most regressive taxes, like the poll tax and the sales tax.

7. Nationalize the Federal Reserve System and establish it as a bureau of the United States Treasury. The current privatized status of the Federal Reserve System constitutes a violation of the United States Constitution. The size of the money supply and interest rates will henceforward be decided not by cliques of private bankers meeting in secret, but rather by public laws passed by the House and Senate, and signed by the president. Use this authority to immediately issue an initial tranche of $1 trillion of new federal credits at 1% yearly interest rates and maturities up to 30 years, to be repeated as needed. Consider credit as a public utility. Make this initial credit issue available on a priority basis to states, counties and local governments for the purpose of infrastructure modernization. Distribute credit to the private sector for high-technology re-industrialization in plant, equipment and jobs, manufacturing, mining, farming, construction, and other production of tangible physical wealth and commodities only. Aim at the creation of 5 to 7 million new productive jobs at union pay scales per year to achieve full employment for the first time in decades.

8. Federally-sponsored infrastructure projects will include a new nationwide network of magnetic levitation railways, as well as light rail systems to facilitate commuting in all urban centers. These economical and attractive light rail systems will allow a large portion of the vehicle miles by private automobile using internal combustion engines to be phased out of use in daily commuting. Launch a public works program of highway and bridge reconstruction, water management systems, electrical grids, hospitals, schools, cultural facilities, and public libraries.

9. Comprehensive re-regulation of the entire financial and banking system. Regulate the current non-bank banks. Bring all the hedge funds under the oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission, thus effectively ending their special outlaw status as hedge funds. Begin aggressive enforcement of all applicable antitrust and securities fraud laws, as well as all existing labor legislation, including child labor, wages and hours, etc. Repeal the Taft-Hartley law with its anti-union "right to work" provisions, re-affirm the inalienable right to collective bargaining, and revive the National Labor Relations Board as an effective ally of working people. Full Davis-Bacon Act enforcement for all federal contracts, without exception. Tax leveraged buyouts and private capital deals, including all profits deriving from them, in whatever form. End corporate welfare, and establish consumer protection. Revive Glass-Steagall to prevent nationwide banking oligopolies combining commercial banking with investment banking.

10. Free college for all qualified students. Any student earning a high school diploma will be entitled to free tuition and fees at a community college or state university. High quality remedial courses to give high-school dropouts a second chance, no matter what their age. Without investment in the human capital of a highly trained work force, there can be no economic survival in the 21st century. Federal aid to raise teacher salaries through revenue sharing.

11. Announce the intention of the United States to abrogate NAFTA, WTO, and all other international free trade agreements which have destroyed employment in this country, while increasing the poverty levels of the third world. Introduce a low protective tariff, starting at 10% ad valorem on manufactured commodities to prevent reckless dumping.

12. Investment tax credit for purchase modern technology in the form of new physical tangible capital goods. Tax breaks for the creation of new jobs in physical commodity production. Severe tax penalties for the export of jobs to third world sweatshops.

13. Immediately impeach and remove from office both Bush and Cheney, since otherwise all effective measures to deal with the Bush economic depression will be crippled by presidential vetoes. Prepare the impeachment of the RATS (Roberts-Alito-Thomas-Scalia) cabal of the Supreme Court, if they should attempt to sabotage this emergency economic recovery program under the color of judicial review.

14. Protect the family farm by a program of debt moratorium for farmers, no foreclosures, 1% long-term federal credit for spring planting needs and capital improvements, Restore parity prices at 125% of parity. Rebuild farm surpluses and food stockpiles. Food for Peace for famine relief abroad.

15. Keep open the options of capital controls and exchange controls if required by further deterioration of the crisis. Prepare to freeze most categories of financial debt (debt moratorium) for the duration of the crisis. Revive Defense Production Act powers to mandate production of needed commodities by private sector, as needed.

16. Call an international economic conference of sovereign states to deal with this unprecedented world economic depression. The United States should take the lead in proposing a new world monetary system based on the alienable right of all nations and peoples to modern economic development and to the enjoyment of the fullest fruits of science, technology, industry, progress, and rising standards of living. The new monetary system should be based on fixed parities with narrow bands of fluctuation among the euro, the dollar, the yen, the ruble, and other world currencies, including emerging Latin American and Middle East regional currencies, with periodic settlement of balance of payments discrepancies in gold among national authorities. The goal of the new system is to promote world economic recovery through large-scale export of the most modern high-technology capital goods from the US, EU, and Japan to the developing countries. Create a Multilateral Development Bank with an initial capital of 1 trillion euros from US, UK, Japan, and other exporters to finance investment in the poorest countries with 1%, revolving loans with maturities up to thirty years. Immediate, permanent, and unconditional cancellation of all international financial debts of the poorest countries.

17. Revive international humanitarian, scientific and technological cooperation for the benefit of all nations. Roll back epidemic, tropical, and endemic diseases with an international program of biomedical research. Join with all interested nations in a joint international effort to develop new energy resources in the field of high-energy physics. Fund and expand an international cooperative commitment to the exploration, permanent colonization, and economic development of the moon and nearby planets. The spin-offs from these three science drivers will provide the new technologies for the next wave of economic modernization.

18. Revive the Franklin D. Roosevelt "freedom from want" provision of the Atlantic Charter as elaborated in the Economic Bill of Rights from the State of the Union Address of January 1944 and incorporate these economic rights of all persons as amendments to the US Constitution: "The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation; the right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; the right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living; the right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad; the right of every family to a decent home; the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health; the right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment; the right to a good education."