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I do.I do not regret moving away from home and experiencing a new life.But I do regret choosing Canada over Europe (I did have the choice).These are my reasons for ‘regretting moving to Canada’. If I wrote a piece about reasons for moving to Canada I would choose different aspects of life that can be helpful in shedding light on what is good in Canada compared to other countries. This is not that text.Here are a few things I am sure the responses, especially the ones from those who have ‘just’ moved here and likely wrote the comments in their ‘high’ of traveling, do not cover. This is not for people who were born in Canada as I can imagine no Canadian can live in my hometown entirely happily either. Only because Canada is an immigration destination, it seems to me the imagery that lawfirms create to encourage people to move (so they can get humongous amounts of money) is unreal. I moved to Canada as a graduate student and gained my residency and everything while I did a master's and a PhD. I did my PhD on an immigration related topic and things I know and state about immigration here are not just anecdotes, most of them are researched material.Bear in mind, none of the negative points I have mentioned here means Canada is “bad” - I am only attempting to clarify that Canada is nowhere near unearthly-IDEAL as many immigration law firms and advertisement on cheap satelite TVs try to depict for travelers. You get certain benefits you lose some. The same is with anywhere you chose as a destination. In any place, some issues might be tolerable to you, some might tear you apart in the long run. Knowledge is power.FOR THE RECORD:A) Canadians are very nice, polite and socially reserved. They are welcoming and genuinely do [want] not discriminate (often, as I have seen and I know they genuinely mean not to) against race or culture. There are very decent, respectable people I have met here. There are friendships I do cherish. But I do not think that I would have moved here for the sake of meeting these people. Especially for a person without their 1st degree family, life can feel very machine-like, disconnected here. It will if you are on your own.B) Things I have listed here have affected me personally. You can have an utter disagreement with them ALL. For example, I don’t like the cold etc. You might be an ice-lover and feel the best in cold climates. So then, move on. The cold won’t make you feel any regrets. Good! It certainly don’t matter a bit. Just as my opinions don’t matter. If someone finds this text useful, he or she knows how to use this info. It is always easier to see things from a critical perspective once one has lived in different places. Nonetheless, these are my viewpoints; most of the time people who have lived all of their lives in their country of birth (whether it’s Canada or elsewhere) think their country is either the worst of the best. There are also [especially] first generation immigrants who seem to be obsessed with the nationalist ideals of Canada, I am not one of them. I came to this country as a researcher and I well deserve and hold my right to be critical seriously. Yet, everything is relative.1 - The cold is deadly - and no one wants to admit it.2 - It is cold not only outside, Canadians like to burn extra fuel on airconditioning and to freeze their indoor areas too, both in summer and winter (and yes there are only two seasons in Canada). It really bothered me that there was not one day all year around when I could do my errands without having to carry a jacket or, ever thinking of wearing a skirt like I like to do - because the moment I step inside buildings it’s FREEZING (unless you are exercising). Although, I must say people do not dress to the weather, which is weird because in Sweden they do, for example.Winters are 8 months long here (Edit: when I say winter, I mean so long I need to wear knits, jackets, tooks and boots, if you go out with shorts in 10 degrees good for you, anything below 12 is winter to me and most people from mild climates). For at least 3 months, it’s below -15 (Edit: if anyone doubts this, they can track the weather and average temperature in various provinces, make sure you look at the ‘real feel’ value too. Unless you are in Windsor Ontario or BC, this is what it is, if not worse). You need a car. You need a really good home with proper heating, and still your social life is brought to a minimum during those months. Now, let’s see what happens when you are a broke student who lives in the burbs and cannot even dream of having a car. I live downtown and it’s a 15 min walk to my school (nice eh?) when it’s -40, I do mind having to walk 15 mins.3 - It is super expensive. And not all top brands of tech and retail ship there. Rent goes up significantly every year. You could look it up if you wished, but I am half-certain that Canadians pay the highest price for phone and internet services in the developed world. Other expenses are high too, compared to many countries - and it’s not like you get a top-quality life for the expensive things you spend money on. I am talking about a single person who cooks their own meals, does not even drink and, does not spare money on anything other than necessities. Again, many don’t mind this at all.4 - Public transportation SUCKS BALLS. Before I lived here I had heard on several occasions about how punctual buses are in Canada because if they do not pick people up in a timely manner people could freeze. That was, to my dismay, an utter lie. Lol. And on top of that, the reach of each city’s transportation system is very weak. Unless you live in the downtown area (which makes it easier just to walk or bike rather than having to wait for irregular buses for unknown periods of time) chances are you will have to spend 2+ hours on transportation every day just to get to where you work or you go to school. Most of the cities do not have metro (subway) and again when they do, the beauty of it is only when you are in close distances to the core downtown. Otherwise, the metro will never get you to the inner cities, and you will have to switch to subsidiary buses that… again will get you to wait… and wait… and wait.Intercity transport is also really outdated, I believe because it is monopolized and, expensive. I do not know if there are any countries left around the world with such a disconnected ground transport system - especially given how vast Canada is and how far apart everything is in North America.Never mind internal flight prices. I don’t want to even get started on writing about prices on air traveling inside the country. Just know that it’s often cheaper to visit Europe instead of visiting a province across the country.5 - Being in a relationship is overrated (I am married now so this is not being bitchy it’s the reality I’ve experienced). There are many people with lousy relationships to which they hang on to, just because being single is not normal (and I’m not talking about marriage). For some people, especially minnelials, concern about the physiological need for sex and the act itself as a much needed activity, is the centerpiece of reasoning for inquiring partners. Not that this can be a good base for a long lasting couple-dom in the philosophy of Canadians, but youth act on it for “getting one” a lot.The dating scene can look like an absolute bogus mess, which comes down to ‘ghosting’, ‘cat and mouse games’ and unmature troubles. Women chase men too much and for too long, and sometimes people really hope to share the rent so that they move in for that. People move in in a matter of days of knowing each other and move out in a matter of a couple of months. By the late 20s, anyone you meet has been through divorce(s) or separation(s), likely has kids, usually still ‘hangs out’ with their exes (you are likely to learn about the grisly truth only after you have invested yourself emotionally in an unworthy narcissist too hard). It is very common to be pointed at as ‘not getting enough sex’ and ‘not having a man’! Sometimes I wonder if it is the 1800s and the age of getting wedded is 16. Very often people you meet are bitter and cunning, only looking for another partner to suit their economic imbalances. People put up with cheating partners very often, and internalizing these standards, at least when you are super lonely, comes next. You’ll be surprised.Disclaimer: There are many many loving people and families in Canada. There are many many decent Canadians with loving partners, with selfless care for their parents, and absolutely beautiful bonds that has brought them together beyond material stuff. There are also inter-racial relationships as such. In plenty. But what you need to know is as a newcomer you do not always get lucky to be in the inner circles and to be taken seriously by people who you happen to meet. It does feel constantly as if all the relationships were formed way before you set foot on the land. And that is a very awkward feeling to have - to feel left out.I generally would not suggest a single person who is interested in dating to come here. If I ever do recommend Canada it’s to couples. If you have kids you will get to raise them in safe, all-look-alike neighborhoods where they never play on the streets - I don’t know why? It’s safe, it’s super flat and begs for two gates and a soccer ball or hockey puck- and you will have toput thousands of dollars on their daycare. I will not get into the cost of primary education. Not here.6 - As a foreigner with gradschool degree, unless you are an engineer or have an MBA or, if you are a real estate or car sales agent (or wish to become) forget about doing anything ambitious. See because going your own thing needs capital and needs connections. It is hard to have any of them as a recent resident with no previous history in anywhere.You could have all the qualifications in the world and work in Walmart and enjoy your 4 K salary with benefits (many people are happy with that and do put aside their goals and settle with having enough pay to get by as an ultimate). And if you refuse to work for years on years in a job for which you are overqualified, you are pointed at as a sloth who doesn’t want to work. Now, yes there are unemployment benefits and unlike some countries, you can still live with the bare minimum and go to job search workshops for free until you are hired. Also Yes, with a good education, and if you chose the right co-op (this means you should have been here during your bachelor and it gets harder and harder to get into prestigious organization the more you delve into grad school as a non-Canadian a job that suits your skills you get into a very comfortable safety net (good salary, ability to get a mortgage and a home and car all that). Some like it, some think with that they are trapped in a loophole and are wasting their talents.Your success is measured by salary (this is not exclusive to Canada of course, just that it’s a very prominent fact), pension, and mortgage, not if you are happy with your job (it's actually the norm to hate your work and I think that’s because there are many many service jobs and not many creative ones). Ironically no one wants to talk about numbers when it comes to money. There is a presumption everyone's well-being and financial condition is safeguarded by some godly ransom that they dug up from the graves of their ancestors.7 - Making friends and meeting people your type is a hidden gem. You might not mind the prices if you are rich, and would likely be able to skip atrocious housing conditions. It doesn’t negate the fact that the industrial nature of everything resonates everywhere no matter what you do. You chose your lifestyle.BUTPeople will not at least until a couple of decades get actually close to you (save if you have a family here) and at some point, you give up trying to break the ice. Or it’s not the ice, just an invisible shield surrounding some of us. And you will learn to do the same as them, and limit your relationships to thinking of them mainly as professional networks which you will have to employ for career purposes. You will create your own bubble around yourself and you will either learn to enjoy it, or you will keep regretting your life choices.There is also a case to be opened about dishonesty. It’s not that Canadians are two-faced. They are a good peoples. OK? BUT the way [most] people do not tell you what they mean and confuse you with their actions and words is astonishing here. Barely anyone is straightforward, and humor is a lost word in Canadian English. Everyone seems to have a stick up their arse (and you will become like that too). People only open up after getting absurdly drunk - mainly for a few seconds before they lose the ability to collect their conscious.(Edit: there is a general assumption that people in countries with Arctic climate and low-density populations have bigger bubbles around their selves, are more difficult to connect and are easily out of touch with their emotions. I cannot speak for Scandinavia for example, but, have heard foreigners from dense societies feel the same about them. Take this tho; emotional has negative connotations in Canadian English. So you know who you are).8 - It’s boring and I’ve seen no Canadians being ashamed of this so I’m not hating - it’s kind of funny! Save for the hardcore advocates of outdoors sports - even though the temperatures are usually below standard for those too, I would say! I have heard skiiers from Scandinavia come here and are shocked how locals go out on days they would absolutely refuse to exercise outdoors. Other than the few main cities I’m sure you know which ones are and, their downtown areas only, the rest of the towns and the burbs and the cities are a copy and paste version of one another - ugly 70s style cement buildings, from an era where architects stopped being creative and erecting venues was likely left to road builders! City structure is inaccessible without a car and, is alienating.Having fun comes down to - for a very extended time in people’s lives - bar hopping with teens (or grown-ups who like to act like they are still teens; super excited about being able to drink), in un-fashionable clothing, lol, hearing some country music and watching girls throw up and drop like flies - because alcohol is the holy grail no one wants to be left behind in consuming it as much as possible (and guess what? it is also more expensive than anywhere I have been, U.S. Europe, South America). You barely can enjoy your drink, or socialize all without it if you wished - it always seems to me that there is a race in ‘how much’ you can drink, so to say, you have a place in the society!!!I am an artist, and I have studied human sciences. This type of environment often does not cultivate creativity [in general]. Yes there are outstanding artists who come from Canada; Jim Carrey, Boards of Canada, Blond:ish, Ryan Gosling and so on. But which one lives in Canada still?I have known creative people and they are mainly of higher socio-economic classes. If not, it is that they get funding easier than others - especially foreigners - for that they are of established minorities. I do not know a first generation who has become a super star in Canada. The level of artwork, presentation and access to creative means is bare minimum because people care too much about having a routine and a salary - because back to the point, prices are no joke here, nor are your bills, your credit card or the mortgage etc. And the best way to secure those is being as predictable and average as possible. Art is regulated by the government, which is great in the sense that artists can have access to massive fundings; so long that they follow the government’s agenda which changes at every turn of the parliament.9 - The food including fresh produce, snacks, prepared meals and pub/restaurant dishes is bland and tasteless (I do not really know what it is, the way the American groceries that are exported to Canada are grown? GMOs? The amount of sugar and salt that is used in food versus all the other spices that should be but are NEVER used?)Edit: I accidentally came upon a source about proteins that indicated in North America some animal proteins (that are not naturally found in the structure of plants) are used for the growth of fruits and vegetables. I have also heard that many standards in agriculture and farming are way different from elsewhere in the world, whether these contribute to the tastelessness of food is for debate but surely modifications that are done to our food remain largely a mystery.‘Affordable ethnic’ cuisines are limited to Thai and Chinese food. For the rest you will often have to pay 3 times as much.10 - See - this point is nothing unnatural. But people think Canada is somewhere beyond earth and everything is super whatever. Including super hygenic. Well no it’s not. There are good and bad places. If you are not wealthy enough and have just moved you will face those very developing world problems. Get ready for wrecking accommodation, roaches, bedbugs, and mice. There are many many old residential buildings made of wood. Naturally, susceptible to all kinds of vermin. The hygiene level is also below my standards (and I am not fussy whatsoever). People very often do not seem to clean enough. Not all, of course. But it does not surprise me anymore that 50% of the times when I walk into a new place and I notice the clump of dust in the corners and uncleaned kitchen and bathrooms.Also, bad landlords, awful landlords and absolutely psychopathic ones who own houses and rent it out for extra income and make the life of the tenant hell, are plenty. Unless you are living in a condo building, which is at least 1.5 times rentals and twice as expensive as shared houses, situations can rise easily.Nature is great though. Again if you have the luxury of accessing natural sites by car. Freezing your ass camping, or, if you would like to go hiking and skiing - mainly in inhuman temperatures. This is all given the fact that you do find the time off to ever do something extracurricular.11 -Universal Health Care: it’s there, it’s good, better than the U.S., even than the E.U. because you do not need to necessarily be working to have it, so long that you are not actually sick or require an emergency. I cannot count the number of times I have heard people they were kept in the ER for hours with no primary care, no drugs nor testing because there were no specialized doctors available to look at them (this goes from food poisoning to having a broken bone to anything else). I am not talking about medical mistakes. I am talking about a severe shortage of doctors.Doctors, I mean specialists, literally flock to this country in the hopes of practicing their medicine away from their home country where they have to compete with several others. It is almost impossible for them to get back on the track with new qualifications they require to work in Canada as it takes a decade to get through the tests and everything… and guess what? Life costs money and they end up being taxi drivers - or whatever, not doctors anymore!!! (The taxi driver doctor is such a stereotype you cannot even keep a blind eye). Now, those doctors CAN, in fact, make a good living driving taxis or working in Walmart or wherever, but what do you think happens to people in need of special care?Well if they are rich they go to the States, Europe or the Middle East, in emergency situations sometimes the correct diagnosis does not take place on time and they end up being slaves to the pharmaceutical industry for their lifetime.Plus note that the Universal Health Care does not cover the costs of most of the highly specialized medical treatments - unless you have extra coverage with your work.So, despite being a relatively healthy person you can enjoy regular checks with your family doctor, anything beyond that if you are not employed at the right place and do not have a ton of money to pay for treatment in the U.S. can be scary.Hmmm…what’s the cancer rate in Canada again?12 - Unemployment Benefits; I am not going to say it is awful to have help when you become unemployed (but I guess most governments in the world have something along those lines). It is relatively easy to get the few hundred dollar checks and it can cover some basic costs. But middle-class worker who does pay some rent for a decent place and happens to become unemployed cannot really manage monthly expenses with the unemployment benefit check that the government sends. It is just a little help. It does not hold one’s life together unless one decides to move in a basement with 4+ roommates during the time he or she is unemployed - which can mean months. I do not propose the provincial governments should raise this pay, I am just saying those who move to Canada to get these benefits are very much like those buggers who soak up the money sitting on the streets acting like they need help while the real trouble of unemployment (however small in percentage) is draining students and real workers.The other thing is, many of those who actually rely on government help money are unfortunately native people whose life and tradition has been torn apart by the colonial system for many many decades. (again I am not going to elaborate on what has happened to the indigenous peoples of Canada, you do your research). But just so you know their unemployment in a system that has destroyed their traditions, languages and families, is not something that can be fixed with a few hundreds of dollars per month, but needs a historical healing. The other benefactors are lazy entitled [often local white] people who do not look for work, do not accept low wage work, and do choose to beg on the streets (because they can collect some more from kind people who help them) while they reside in social housing or dirty cheap team houses. Often drunken bad-mouthed homeless people who are plenty in the richest cities of the country - you only need to take a 5 minute walk in downtown Ottawa or Toronto, for example, to realize poverty is not something specific to ‘the developing countries’. But interestingly, there are no videos or pictures showing this type of thing to the enthusiastic immigrants as ‘Canada’. No, Canada is not only its homeless people. Neither it is its national hockey team. But there are these issues here, like anywhere else in the world and the spotless imagery many people have of this country is simply laughable.And last but not least International Higher Education: There is a humongous number of people who come to Canada as international students every year (I wrote my Ph.D. thesis about this, so this is only a glimpse of the facts I have come upon while writing. Rest assured, I have presented my research to the department of immigration and citizenship and they approved I had my facts right, so there). All around the world, studying abroad is encouraged and celebrated, especially is one gets into a highly accredited institution in the top universities that are mainly located in anglophone countries. Many of those who come to Canada are essentially pursuing this as a pathway for accessing immigration to Canada. Little they know the number of foreign students is so overwhelmingly high, and the information regarding their success in getting permanent residency is very scattered; the reality is the government of Canada recognizes international education as one of its most important economic assets[1] (immediate expenditure of incoming international students earned about 12 billion dollars for Canada in 2016[2] ) but despite the available programs for immigration of students, the ultimate goal has never been to settle all of them[3] .Each international student pays up to 3 times the tuition fee[4] the domestic student does (depending on the province) and funding (especially for foreign students) is becoming more scarce every year. Now while you might be experiencing all of the social aspects of life including the above-mentioned, before deciding to study in Canada you might want to check the job market from within - meaning people who have been through your field of study. Do not rely on the advertising university partners provide or the pretty pictures on university websites. Studying here is no joke and one is better to consider everything and more (including finding a good adviser who is not planning on being a dick to you for the entire course of your graduate degree) before committing to a program that requires great attention.Also please note that an international student can not enjoy any of the government programs such as immigration services, health care, unemployment benefits etc. These only come to immigrants and citizens. Especially after an international student graduates, he or she is literally relying on a single paper called Post Graduate Work Permit. There is barely any budget dedicated to guiding this young and sophisticated bunch through the Canadian system.EDIT: Now, don’t get me wrong. I do not absolutely hate my life, so please, be kind and save the philanthropic positivist advice, I’d prefer a proper mural or DJ gig lol - you see no matter how great I feel about myself, I have my opinions. This is not my diary or resume. I have had my successes, which come through years of effort and not giving up and also having met the right people, of course, after many many wrong ones. Here, I have not included anything close to my day to day dire experience with matters such as underemployment, higher education fees, the monopoly in the art scene etc. These are the reasons that convince me, as per speaking to the general public, why I would have possibly chosen another destination - somewhere warmer with better urban architecture and a dense population (who knows maybe in a place like that I would have experienced for example racism or whatever and I would be writing something critical about that imaginary place) - if I went back and decided to go abroad and explore the world at 24. Again, if you are here to represent Canadian patriarchy by hateful comments, you are simply on a wrong post, go read something that fulfills your agenda. Also, this is in the 2010s, Canada screens in almost only highly skilled technical work force and, I am in the arts and humanities. My experience would be incomparable to numerous people who moved here 30 years ago as general labor.This is not by any means a thorough socio-cultural nor is an economic analysis of everything that there is to know about Canada. For that, there are more comprehensive resources on Academia.edu - Share research and researchgate.Footnotes[1] Canada’s International Education Strategy[2] Economic impact of international education in Canada - 2017 update[3] Douglas Todd: Immigration disappointment looms for Canada's young foreign students[4] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/international-students-universities-ontario-tuition-1.4199489

They promote conspiracy theories to support their positions, such as putting forth the idea that Democrats, pushing for gun control, are really behind mass shootings,[1] or that the Democratic Party is trying to implement some sort of Gestapo-like network of children ratting out their parents.[2]They purposely misquote or cherrypick information to support their side. For example:they freely quote Thomas Jefferson as saying (in the first draft of the Virginia Constitution), “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms”,[3] but don’t quote subsequent drafts where he limits it to within their own homes,[4] nor do they mention that he then completely changed his mind and disregarded it.[5]The NRA and its members quote George Mason as saying, “The militia is the whole of the people” when discussing the “militia” part of the 2nd amendment, but when viewed in context, it’s clear that the discussion wasn’t about guns at all, it was a warning about the upper-class sending the middle and lower-classes into war to fight for them.[6]They trumpet Switzerland as proof that more guns does not equal more shootings due to the number of firearms owned in the nation versus the rate of gun crime,[7] but they don’t also tell you about the strict gun control laws that have caused the low crime rate, such as the blanket restrictions on ammunition sales or even access to your own firearm.[8]They make up facts to support their positions, like this quote[9] from George Washington…which he never said.[10]They disregard any research on guns, no matter how thoroughly done and how universally accepted it is…unless it supports their positions.Gary Kleck’s research, almost entirely debunked across the board,[11][12][13] is still quoted as supporting “2.5 million defensive gun uses per year”, but the Harvard study,[14] following sound research principles showing the actual number to be a minuscule fraction of that is mocked.All research done by the CDC that was carefully conducted[15] is derided,[16]unless of course we’re talking about a study that seemingly supports the NRA’s position, then they universally praise it,[17] [18] even though the findings, just like Kleck’s, are found to be erroneous.[19]A report done on the effectiveness of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, written in 2003, which repeatedly says it’s too early to tell if the ban is effective and calls repeatedly for Congress to give the ban more time…is haled as being proof that gun bans don’t work.[20] They also refuse to revisit the data on this ban in any objective way as it may show that it did work.[21]When they didn’t like the results of a study about mass shootings showing the US to be far-and-away the world leader, the NRA-funded CPRC first insisted (repeatedly) that the original researcher refused to release his data (which he had), then conducted their own study, comparing war-torn nations like Afghanistan and Angola to the United States, proclaiming that the US is actually very low on the list.[22]They use fear tactics to achieve their objectives.[23] “…the semiauto-auto ban gives jack-booted government thugs more power to take away our constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our property, and even injure or kill us.”[24] They insist Democrats will confiscate any and all firearms.[25]They are entirely hypocritical.In the early 1990s, when deliberations on what would become the Brady Bill (resulting in the NICS background check system and waiting periods), the NRA fought every proposal, attempting to either reject or weaken it. Today, not only do they claim to have always supported background checks, but they're actually taking credit for the creation of NICS.[26]In 1999, when legislation was being put forward to expand background checks to, of all things, pawn shops, the NRA opposed it so much that the voting was almost entirely along party lines, with only 6 Republican Senators voting for it. All were voted out in the next election in favor of NRA-funded candidates.[27] Whenever talk arises to require background checks on private transfers of ownership, the NRA announces their opposition, frequently by claiming such background checks already exist or are unnecessary. However, the NRA will openly declare that they’ve always been in full support of background checks.After the 2013 Washington Yard shooting, Wayne LaPierre insisted that mass shootings are the result of a lack of mental health care,[28] and we should focus our energies there instead of any new gun legislation; however, the NRA had objected to mental health being taken into account for background checks just a few years prior,[29] and supported the removal of using mental disabilities as a factor in background checks in 2016.[30]When Florida passed a law raising the minimum age to own a gun from 18 to 21, the NRA filed suit. [31] The NRA first attempted to sue “in general”, but then attempted to add an anonymous 19-year-old to the lawsuit when they realized they’d have to show somebody was affected by the new law.[32] Why anonymous? “The organization asked that the teen be added to the suit using a pseudonym, to avoid potential harassment….” At the same time, NRA spokespeople were engaged in what can only be termed “harassment” of the teen survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.[33] [34] [35]After the Las Vegas shooting, the NRA supported legislation to ban bump stocks…that is, until legislation was proposed. Their position then shifted to saying they would only support an executive order banning them; the sole reason for this is to allow for easily reversing this in the future. After the recent ban was signed, the NRA announced that they don’t support it because it didn’t allow for “grandfathering” in those currently owned…showing this was entirely lip service.They fight every measure designed to make guns safer, despite claiming that gun safety is a major reason for their existence. In 2000, the Clinton administration and Smith & Wesson reached an agreement to make S & W firearms safer; S & W agreed to install safety devices, better screen who purchases their weapons for sale, agreed to limit bulk handgun orders, and to make “smart gun” technology available in 3 years.[36] The NRA called for a boycott of S & W[37] that almost bankrupted the company (they were only saved by being sold to a new parent company who refused to abide by the agreement).[38]They repeatedly insist that there is never a right time to discuss laws that may make guns safer, or harder to have access to, or easier to take from those who are dangerous. In fact, they insist it’s never the right time for legislators to discuss firearms…unless it’s to remove laws.[39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46]They blame gun-free zones for all mass shootings, even when it’s absolute nonsense.[47][48][49] When Gabby Giffords was shot in Tucson, Arizona, Wayne LaPierre himself insisted that she was the victim of a gun-free zone, when she had been shot in a grocery store parking lot where a number of people were actually carrying concealed firearms.[50] The NRA insists that the Aurora, CO movie theater was caused by it being a gun-free zone, which was disproved in court.[51] In fact, this idea of gun-free zones being targeted is a well-debunked myth.[52] [53]They are now, essentially, a money-laundering operation for Russian political donations to US Republican candidates. The NRA themselves admit to taking in political donations from Russian addresses. [54] [55][56](EDIT 9/27/2019: A Senate investigation has just completed, showing that the NRA and Russian nationals had an even more cozy relationship than initially thought. It is now established that Russia was pumping a considerable amount of money into the NRA’s political action fund, and the NRA was brokering meetings between US and Russian government officials and businessmen in exchange for money. There were also considerably more illegal/unethical activities happening that were leading to NRA officials investing in Russian businesses.[57] [58] [59] [60])They say horrible, despicable things, oftentimes completely contradicting with reality. Their current, official spokesperson recently said, “Many in legacy media love mass shootings. You guys love it.”[61] She also recently insisted that a man illegally shot by a cop in his own home could have protected himself by owning a gun.[62]I think that’s a pretty decent list.NOTE: comments on my answers are not the place for pet diatribes. I will delete comments that aren’t pertinent to the question and answer, as well as any comments that promote misinformation or bigotry.*** EDIT 11/19/2018 ***So, a guy claiming to be the son of Neal Knox, as well as another NRA-fan, have made multiple disjointed remarks that:Neal Knox wasn’t speaking for the NRA when he wrote that (my first point and footnote)Knox wasn’t employed by the NRA at the time he wrote thatThe line highlighted in my link is out of context.Well, let’s start with #2. Knox was employed by the NRA from 1977 to 1982 as a lobbyist, then from 1991 to 1997 as a board member.[63] Knox wrote the cited article in the fall of 1994.[64] So, yes, he was employed by, or at least affiliated with, the NRA when he wrote it.(oddly, the guy claiming to be Knox’s son doesn’t even seem aware of his father’s role[65] )Was he speaking for the NRA when he wrote it? Well, he was on the Board. He was the “First Vice President” of the NRA in 1997.[66] He was officially “skipped” in succession for President when Charlton Heston was given the title,[67] which means he was a pretty big deal in the NRA. He has been referred to as “the real power at the NRA”,[68] the “torchbearer of the NRA”[69] and its “most powerful leader”.[70] In 1995, an NRA board member was quoted as saying, “[the NRA Board members] owe their total allegiance to Neal Knox …”.[71] He did frequent interviews on behalf of the NRA. He wrote a steady stream of articles on behalf of the NRA. So, yes, he was a spokesperson, denying that is just silly.As far as context, well…you read the entire page, then decide.I also notice nobody’s disputing numbers 2–11….*** EDIT 11/19/2018 ***I seriously had a guy tell me in a comment that I didn’t provide my sources.We’re currently at 48 footnotes.I just don’t understand….*** EDIT 11/29/2018 ***Added a few more items…and even more footnotes!*** EDIT 12/5/2018 ***Thanks for the cited sources but there is much opinion and little fact here.[72]I just don’t understand. As of this writing, 18 of my citations go directly to statements from NRA leaders and spokespeople. Another bunch, 17, are to actual research studies, legal documents, and historical records. The links to news sites are almost entirely discussing specific incidents. I see no opinion pieces whatsoever, aside from those written by NRA leadership and spokespeople.I truly don’t understand some of these people….Footnotes[1] Neal Knox[2] NRA Leader Warns That Democrats Want to Build a Socialist Cloud Database of Parents’ Spanking Habits[3] Founders Online: I. First Draft by Jefferson, [before June 1776][4] Founders Online: III. Third Draft by Jefferson, [before June 1776][5] Founders Online: VII. The Constitution as Adopted by the Convention, [29 June 1 …[6] What America is getting wrong about three important words in the Second Amendment[7] NRA-ILA | Gun Control Advocates Target Peaceful Switzerland[8] Gun laws in Switzerland - Wikipedia[9] Image on quoracdn.net[10] Spurious Quotations[11] Contradictions of Kleck[12] National Criminal Justice Reference Service[13] More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows[14] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730664/pdf/v006p00263.pdf[15] Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home | NEJM[16] NRA-ILA | 22 Times Less Safe?Anti-Gun Lobby's FavoriteSpin Re-Attacks Guns In The Home[17] NRA-ILA | Newly Discovered Data Proves Why We Can’t Trust the CDC on Guns[18] NRA-ILA | CDC Kept Quiet on Data Showing Americans Regularly Use Firearms for Self-Defense[19] That Time The CDC Asked About Defensive Gun Uses[20] https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/204431.pdf[21] Garrett Murphy's answer to Was the 1994 assault weapons ban effective?[22] Garrett Murphy's answer to Do statisticians get it wrong? Is the United States not even near the top of the list of world mass shootings?[23] NRA chief accuses Democrats of pushing 'socialist' agenda [24] NRA Defends Vitriol Toward Federal Agents / Letter calls them `jack-booted thugs'[25] Gun paranoia in the age of Trump[26] The NRA Is Taking Credit for the Background Check System It Tried to Sink[27] Roll Call on Gun Background Checks[28] NRA's LaPierre calls for more armed personnel after Navy Yard shooting[29] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/09/AR2007060901080.html[30] NRA: The mentally ill have gun rights, too[31] NRA v Bondi - Complaint[32] A Judge Said The NRA Has To Actually Name A Teen Who Wants To Sue Florida Over New Gun Control Laws[33] 'We’re Not Terrorists. I’m a Mother!': Dana Loesch Says Parkland Teens Are 'Projecting Bigoted Notions' on '2nd Amendment Advocates'[34] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/22/dana-loesch-the-nras-brash-spokeswoman-dials-back-the-rage-at-cnn-town-hall/?utm_term=.968fa9d1cb77[35] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/24/nra-host-taunts-parkland-teens-no-one-would-know-your-names-if-classmates-were-still-alive/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6134b92203fc[36] http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/New/html/20000317_2.html[37] Boycotts: They Work! | US Concealed Carry Association[38] After taking bullets, Smith & Wesson lives[39] NRA-ILA ::[40] The History of the NRA, Gun Control, and the Whole Shebang[41] How the NRA Defeats National Tragedies[42] How the NRA Defeats National Tragedies[43] Gun Control Buzz Follows Shootings[44] Rieder: No, not 'too soon' to talk gun control[45] No, Mr. President, the NRA is not to blame: Chris Cox[46] Gun laws don’t deter terrorists: Opposing view[47] 7 People Who Tried To Blame ‘Gun Free Zones’ For The UCC Shooting, Even Though The School Wasn’t One[48] San Bernardino shooting: 'The biggest problem was that it was a gun-free zone'[49] FACT CHECK: Umpqua Community College Is a Gun-Free Zone?[50] How the NRA Defeats National Tragedies[51] The History of the NRA, Gun Control, and the Whole Shebang[52] Opinion flashback: NRA's gun-free zone myth[53] Commentary: Gun-Free Zones Don't Attract Mass Shootings[54] Depth Of Russian Politician's Cultivation Of NRA Ties Revealed[55] Russian National Charged in Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of the Russian Federation Within the United States[56] NRA got more money from Russia-linked sources than earlier reported[57] NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals[58] https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6432520-The-NRA-Russia-How-a-Tax-Exempt-Organization[59] Top Trump Ally Met With Putin’s Deputy in Moscow[60] New York Attorney General Launches Investigation Into NRA Financial Dealings[61] NRA spox: 'Many in legacy media love mass shootings'[62] NRA's Dana Loesch says man killed by cop in his home could've survived if he "was a law abiding gun owner"[63] Neal Knox[64] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1995/07/09/gunning-for-his-enemies/ec63ddc7-a44f-4356-a713-7e0c35b7ca9e/?utm_term=.8e6b675fb391[65] https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-specifically-about-the-NRA-that-angers-so-many-people-on-the-left-no-trolling-please/answer/Garrett-Murphy-6/comment/78569416[66] Are We Revising NRA History?[67] Are We Revising NRA History?[68] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/04/29/recoil-from-the-nras-two-top-guns/34853e23-838d-4200-b79d-c76a3b007267/?utm_term=.90a96875da98[69] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1995/07/09/gunning-for-his-enemies/ec63ddc7-a44f-4356-a713-7e0c35b7ca9e/?utm_term=.8e6b675fb391[70] Aggressive Strategy By N.R.A. Has Left Its Finances Reeling[71] Aggressive Strategy By N.R.A. Has Left Its Finances Reeling[72] https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-specifically-about-the-NRA-that-angers-so-many-people-on-the-left-no-trolling-please/answer/Garrett-Murphy-6/comment/79774764

The biggest puppeteers of American politics follows the Neoliberalism agenda. This agenda wish to change Nation states for Market states. As they believe Nation states were responsible for the last 2 world wars…Its why they have setup many organisms in the likes of Council of Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Skulls and Bones, Bildenbergs and so forth… They work to establish their influences within the US government for decades, amounting to a parallel power structure within the US government. To give an example, here’s a resume of the influence of the CFR within the US power structure… Remember this is ONLY for the CFR! But before, Kennedy speech about the hidden government and power brokers…CFR Influence in the U.S. GovernmentFrom 1928-72, nine out of twelve Republican Presidential nominees were CFR members. From 1952-72, CFR members were elected four out of six times. During three separate campaigns, both the Republican and Democratic nominee were, or had been a member. Since World War II, practically every Presidential candidate, with the exception of Johnson, Goldwater, and Reagan, have been members.In Sen. Barry Goldwater's 1979 memoir, With No Apologies, he wrote: "When a new President comes on board, there is a great turnover in personnel but no change in policy." That's because CFR members have held almost every key position in every Administration, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill Clinton.During that period, every Secretary of State (with the exception of Cordell Hull, James F. Byrnes, and William Rogers) has been a member. Every Secretary of Defense from the Truman Administration up to the Clinton Administration (with the exception of Melvin Laird) has been a member. Since 1920, most of the Treasury Secretaries have been members; and since the Eisenhower Administration, nearly all of the National Security Advisors have been members.Curtis Dall wrote in his book, FDR: My Exploited Father-in-Law:"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the USA. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political 'ammunition' as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the CFR / One World money group."NATO CommandersThe position of Supreme Allied Commander of NATO has usually been held by CFR members, including:Gen. Dwight D. EisenhowerGen. Matthew B. RidgewayGen. Alfred M. GroentherGen. Lauris NorstadGen. Lyman L. LemnitzerGen. Andrew J. GoodpasterGen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.Most of the superintendents at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point have been CFR members.Harry S. Truman AdministrationDean Acheson (Secretary of State)Robert Lovett (Secretary of State and later Secretary of Defense)W. Averell Harriman (Marshall Plan Administrator)John J. McCloy (High Commissioner to Germany)George Kennan (State Department advisor)Charles Bohlen (State Department advisor).Dwight Eisenhower AdministrationWhen CFR member Dwight Eisenhower became President, he appointed six CFR members to his Cabinet, and twelve to positions of 'Under Secretary':John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State, an in-law to the Rockefellers who was a founding member of the CFR, past Chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)Allen Dulles (head of the OSS operation in Switzerland during World War II, who became Director of the CIA and President of the CFR)Robert B. Anderson (Secretary of the Treasury)Lewis Strauss (Secretary of Commerce)John F. Kennedy AdministrationWhen CFR member John F. Kennedy became President, 63 of the 82 names on his list of prospective State Department officials were CFR members. John Kenneth Galbraith said: "Those of us who had worked for the Kennedy election were tolerated in the government for that reason and had a say, but foreign policy was still with the Council on Foreign Relations people." Among the more notable members in his Administration:Dean Rusk (Secretary of State)C. Douglas Dillon (Secretary of the Treasury)Adlai Stevenson (U.N. Ambassador)John McCone (CIA Director)W. Averell Harriman (Ambassador-at-Large)John J. McCloy (Disarmament Administrator)Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)John Kenneth Galbraith (Ambassador to India)Edward R. Murrow (head of the U.S. Information Agency)Arthur H. Dean (head of the U.S. Delegation to the Geneva Disarmament Conference)Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (Special White House Assistant and noted historian)Thomas K. Finletter (Ambassador to NATO and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)George Ball (Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs)McGeorge Bundy (Special Assistant for National Security who went on to head the Ford Foundation)Robert McNamara (Secretary of Defense)Robert F. Kennedy (Attorney General)Paul H. Nitze (Assistant Secretary of Defense)Charles E. Bohlen (Assistant Secretary of State)Walt W. Rostow (Deputy National Security Advisor)Roswell Gilpatrick (Deputy Secretary of Defense)Henry Fowler (Under Secretary of State)Jerome Wiesner (Special Assistant to the President)Angier Duke (Chief of Protocol).Lyndon B. Johnson AdministrationRoswell Gilpatrick (Deputy Secretary of Defense)Walt W. Rostow (Special Assistant to the President)Hubert H. Humphrey (Vice-President)Dean Rusk (Secretary of State)Henry Fowler (Secretary of the Treasury)George Ball (Under Secretary of State)Robert McNamara(Secretary of Defense)Paul H. Nitze (Deputy Secretary of Defense)Alexander B. Trowbridge (Secretary of Commerce)William McChesney Martin (Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board)Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Board)Richard M. Nixon AdministrationNixon appointed over 100 CFR members to serve in his Administration, including:George Ball (Foreign Policy Consultant to the State Department)Dr. Harold Brown (General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the senior member of the U.S. delegation for SALT talks with Russia)Dr. Arthur Burns (Chairman of the Federal Reserve)C. Fred Bergsten (Operations Staff of the National Security Council)C. Douglas Dillon (General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency)Richard N. Cooper (Operations Staff of the National Security Council)Gen. Andrew I. Goodpaster (Supreme Allied Commander in Europe)John W. Gardner (Board of Directors, National Center for Volunteer Action)Elliot L. Richardson (Under Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General; and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare)David Rockefeller (Task Force on International Development)Nelson A. Rockefeller (head of the Presidential Mission to Ascertain the Views of Leaders in the Latin America Countries)Rodman Rockefeller (Member of the Advisory Council for Minority Enterprise)Dean Rusk (General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency)Gerald Smith (Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency)Cyrus Vance (General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency)Richard Gardner (member of the Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy)Sen. Jacob K. Javits (Representative to the 24th Session of the General Assembly of the U.N.)Henry A. Kissinger (Secretary of State and Harvard professor who was Rockefeller's personal advisor on foreign affairs openly advocating a "New World Order")Henry Cabot Lodge (Chief Negotiator of the Paris Peace Talks [Vietnam war])Douglas MacArthur II (Ambassador to Iran)John J. McCloy (Chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency)Paul H. Nitze (senior member of the U.S. delegation for the talks with Russia on SALT)John Hay Whitney (member of the Board of Directors for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting)George P. Shultz (Secretary of the Treasury)William Simon (Secretary of Treasury)Stanley R. Resor (Secretary of the Army)William E. Colby (Director of the CIA)Peter G. Peterson (Secretary of Commerce)James Lynn (Housing Secretary)Paul McCracken (chief economic aide)Charles Yost (U.N. Ambassador)Harlan Cleveland (NATO Ambassador)Jacob Beam (USSR Ambassador)David Kennedy (Secretary of Treasury).Gerald R. Ford AdministrationWhen CFR member Gerald Ford became President, among some of the other CFR members:William Simon (Secretary of Treasury)Nelson Rockefeller (Vice-President)Jimmy Carter AdministrationPresident Carter (who became a CFR member in 1983) appointed over 60 CFR members to serve in his Administration:Walter Mondale (Vice-President)Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Advisor)Cyrus R. Vance (Secretary of State)W. Michael Blumenthal (Secretary of Treasury)Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)Stansfield Turner (Director of the CIA)Gen. David Jones (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)Ronald Reagan AdministrationThere were 75 CFR and Trilateral Commission members under President Reagan:Alexander Haig (Secretary of State)George Shultz (Secretary of State)Donald Regan (Secretary of Treasury)William Casey (CIA Director)Malcolm Baldridge (Secretary of Commerce)Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick (U.N. Ambassador)Frank C. Carlucci (Deputy Secretary of Defense)William E. Brock (Special Trade Representative)George H. W. Bush AdministrationDuring his 1964 campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas, George Bush said: "If Red China should be admitted to the U.N., then the U.N. is hopeless and we should withdraw." In 1970, as Ambassador to the U.N., he pushed for Red China to be seated in the General Assembly. When Bush was elected, the CFR member became the first President to publicly mention the "New World Order" and had in his Administration nearly 350 CFR and Trilateral Commission members:Brent Scowcroft (National Security Advisor)Richard B. Cheney (Secretary of Defense)Colin L. Powell (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)William Webster (Director of the CIA)Richard Thornburgh (Attorney General)Nicholas F. Brady (Secretary of Treasury)Lawrence S. Eagleburger (Deputy Secretary of State)Horace G. Dawson, Jr. (U.S. Information Agency and Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights)Alan Greenspan (Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board)Bill Clinton AdministrationWhen CFR member Bill Clinton was elected, Newsweek magazine would later refer to him as the "New Age President." In October, 1993, Richard Harwood, a Washington Post writer, in describing the Clinton Administration, said its CFR membership was "the nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States".Albert Gore, Jr. (Vice-President)Donna E. Shalala (Secretary of Health and Human Services)Laura D. Tyson (Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors)Alice M. Rivlin (Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget)Madeline K. Albright (U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.)Warren Christopher (Secretary of State)Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. (Deputy Secretary of State and former Chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation)Les Aspin (Secretary of Defense)Colin Powell (Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff)W. Anthony Lake (National Security Advisor)George Stephanopoulos (Senior Advisor)Samuel R. 'Sandy' Berger (Deputy National Security Advisor)R. James Woolsey (CIA Director)William J. Crowe, Jr. (Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board)Lloyd Bentsen (former member, Secretary of Treasury)Roger C. Altman (Deputy Secretary of Treasury)Henry G. Cisneros (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development)Bruce Babbit (Secretary of the Interior)Peter Tarnoff (Under Secretary of State for International Security of Affairs)Winston Lord (Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs)Strobe Talbott (Aid Coordinator to the Commonwealth of Independent States)Alan Greenspan (Chairman of the Federal Reserve System)Walter Mondale (U.S. Ambassador to Japan)Ronald H. Brown (Secretary of Commerce)Franklin D. Raines (Economics and International Trade).George W. Bush AdministrationRichard Cheney (Vice President, former Secretary of Defense under President G.H.W. Bush)Colin Powell (Secretary of State, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Bush and Clinton)Condoleeza Rice (National Security Advisor, former member of President Bush's National Security Council)Robert B. Zoellick (U.S. Trade Representative, former Under Secretary of State in the Bush administration)Elaine Chao (Secretary of Labor)Brent Scowcroft (Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, former National Security Advisor to President Bush)Richard Haass (Director of Policy Planning at the State Department and Ambassador at Large)Henry Kissinger (Pentagon Defense Policy Board, former Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford)Robert Blackwill (U.S. Ambassador to India, former member of President Bush's National Security Council)Stephen Friedman (Sr. White House Economic Advisor)Stephen Hadley (Deputy National Security Advisor, former Assistant Secretary of Defense under Cheney)Richard Perle (Chairman of Pentagon Defense Policy Board, former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration)Paul Wolfowitz (Assistant Secretary of Defense, former Assistant Secretary of State in the Reagan administration and former Under Secretary of Defense in the Bush administration)Dov S. Zakheim (Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller, former Under Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration)I. Lewis Libby (Chief of Staff for the Vice President, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense).The Christian Science Monitor said that "almost half of the Council members have been invited to assume official government positions or to act as consultants at one time or another."(page top)CFR Influence in Education and the MediaThe Council accepts only American citizens, and has a membership of about 3,600, including influential bankers, corporate officers, and leading government officials who have been significantly affecting domestic and foreign policy for the past 30 years. Every [recent] member had been handpicked by David Rockefeller, who heads the inner circle of the CFR.[snip]Some of the CFR directors have been:Walter Lippman (1932-37)Adlai Stevenson (1958-62)Cyrus Vance (1968-76, 1981-87)Zbigniew Brzezinski (1972-77)Robert O. Anderson (1974-80)Paul Volcker (1975-79)Theodore M. Hesburgh (1926-85)Lane Kirkland (1976-86)George H.W. Bush (1977-79)Henry Kissinger (1977-81)David Rockefeller (1949-85)George Shultz (1980-88)Alan Greenspan (1982-88)Brent Scowcroft (1983-89)Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick (1985- )Warren M. Christopher (1982-91)Richard Cheney (1987-89)Some of the College Presidents that have been CFR members:Michael I. Sovern (Columbia University)Frank H. T. Rhodes (Cornell University)John Brademus (New York University)Alice S. Ilchman (Sarah Lawrence College)Theodore M. Hesburgh (Notre Dame University)Donald Kennedy (Stanford University)Benno J. Schmidt, Jr. (Yale University)Hanna Holborn Gray (University of Chicago)Stephen Muller (Johns Hopkins University)Howard R. Swearer (Brown University)Donna E. Shalala (University of Wisconsin)John P. Wilson (Washington and Lee University).Among the members of the media who have been in the CFR:William Paley (CBS)Dan Rather (CBS)Harry Reasoner (CBS)Roone Arledge (ABC)Bill Moyers (NBC)Tom Brokaw (NBC)John Chancellor (NBC)Marvin Kalb (CBS)Irving LevineDavid Brinkley (ABC)John ScaliBarbara Walters (ABC)William Buckley (PBS, National Review)George StephanopoulosDaniel Schorr (CBS)Robert McNeil (PBS)Jim Lehrer (PBS)Diane SawyerHodding Carter IIISome of the major newspapers, news services and media groups that have been controlled or influenced by the CFR:New York Times (Sulzbergers, James Reston, Max Frankel, Harrison Salisbury)Washington Post (Frederick S. Beebe, Katherine Graham, Osborne Elliott)Wall Street JournalBoston GlobeBaltimore SunChicago Sun-TimesL.A. Times SyndicateHouston PostMinneapolis Star-TribuneArkansas GazetteDes Moines Register and TribuneLouisville CourierAssociated PressUnited Press InternationalReuters News ServiceGannett Co. (publisher of USA Today and 90 other daily papers plus 40 weeklies; and also owns 15 radio stations, 8 TV stations, and 40,000 billboards).In 1896, Aldolph Ochs bought the New York Times, with the financial backing of J.P. Morgan (CFR), August Belmont (Rothschild agent), and Jacob Schiff (of Kuhn, Loeb and Co.). It later passed to the control of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who was also a CFR member. Eugene Meyer, a CFR member, bought the Washington Post in 1933. [It was later] run by his daughter, Katherine Graham, also a member of the CFR.Some of the magazines that have been controlled or influenced by the CFR:Time, Inc. founded by CFR member Henry Luce and Hedley Donovan, which publishes Time, Fortune, Life, Money, People, Entertainment Weekly, and Sports IllustratedNewsweek (owned by the Washington Post, W. Averell Harriman, Roland Harriman, and Lewis W. Douglas)Business WeekU.S. News and World ReportSaturday ReviewNational ReviewReader's DigestAtlantic MonthlyMcCall'sForbesLookHarper's MagazineSome of the publishers that have been controlled or influenced by the CFR:MacmillanRandom HouseSimon & SchusterMcGraw-HillHarper BrothersHarper & RowYale University PressLittle Brown & Co.Viking PressCowles Publishing.(page top)CFR Affiliated Organizations and CorporationsG. Gordon Liddy, former Nixon staffer, who later became a talk show pundit, laughed off the idea of a "New World Order", saying that there are so many different organizations working toward their own goals of a one-world government, that they cancel each other out. Not the case. You have seen that their tentacles are very far reaching, as far as the government and the media. However, as outlined below, you will see that the CFR has a heavy cross membership with many groups; as well as a cross membership among the directorship of many corporate boards, and this is a good indication that their efforts are concerted.Some of the organizations and think-tanks that have been controlled or influenced by the CFR:Brookings InstituteRAND CorporationAmerican AssemblyForeign Policy Association (co-founded by CFR member Raymond Fosdick)World Affairs CouncilBusiness Advisory CouncilCommittee for Economic DevelopmentNational Foreign Trade CouncilNational Bureau of Economic ResearchNational Association of ManufacturersNational Industrial Conference BoardAmericans for Democratic ActionHudson InstituteCarnegie Endowment for International PeaceInstitute for Defense AnalysisWorld Peace FoundationUnited Nations AssociationNational Planning AssociationCenter for Inter-American RelationsFree Europe CommitteeAtlantic Council of the U.S. (founded in 1961 by CFR member Christian Herter)Council for Latin AmericaNational Committee on U.S.-China RelationsAfrican-American InstituteMiddle East InstituteSome of the many companies that have been controlled or influenced by the CFR:Morgan, StanleyKuhn, LoebLehman BrothersBank of AmericaChase Manhattan BankJ. P. Morgan and Co.First National City BankBrown Brothers, Harriman and Co.Bank of New YorkCitiBank/CiticorpChemical BankBankers Trust of New YorkManufacturers HanoverMorgan GuarantyMerrill LynchEquitable LifeNew York LifeMetropolitan LifeMutual of New YorkPrudential InsurancePhillips PetroleumChevronExxonMobilAtlantic-Richfield (Arco)TexacoIBMXerox CorporationAT&TGeneral ElectricITT CorporationDow ChemicalE. I. du PontBMW of North AmericaMitsubishiToyota Motor CorporationGeneral MotorsFord Motor CompanyChryslerU.S. SteelProctor and GambleJohnson and JohnsonEstee LauderAvon ProductsR. J. R. NabiscoR. H. MacyFederated Department StoresGimbel BrothersJ. C. Penney CompanySears, Roebuck and CompanyMay Department StoresAllied StoresAmerican ExpressPepsiCoCoca ColaPfizerBristol-Myers SquibbHilton HotelsAmerican AirlinesIn September, 1922, when the CFR began publishing its quarterly magazine, Foreign Affairs, the editorial stated that its purpose was "to guide American opinion." By 1924, it had "established itself as the most authoritative American review dealing with international relations." This highly influential magazine has been the leading publication of its kind, and has a circulation of over 75,000. Reading this publication can be highly informative as to the views of its members. For instance, the Spring, 1991 issue, called for a U.N. standing army, consisting of military personnel from all the member nations, directly under the control of the U.N. Security Council.A major source of their funding (since 1953), stems from providing a "corporate service" to over 100 companies for a minimum fee of $1,000, that furnishes subscribers with inside information on what is going on politically and financially, both internationally and domestically; by providing free consultation, use of their extensive library, a subscription to Foreign Affairs, and by holding seminars on reports and research done for the Executive branch. They also publish books and pamphlets, and have regular dinner meetings to allow speakers and members to present positions, award study fellowships to scholars, promote regional meetings and stage round-table discussion meetings.Since the Council on Foreign Relations has been able to infiltrate our government, it is no wonder that our country has been traveling on the course that it has. The moral, educational and financial decline of this nation has been no accident. It has been due to a carefully contrived plot on behalf of these conspirators, who will be satisfied with nothing less than a one-world government. And it is coming to that. As each year goes by, the momentum is picking up, and it is becoming increasingly clear, what road our government is taking. The proponents of one-world government are becoming less secretive, as evidenced by George Bush's talk of a "New World Order." The reason for that is that they feel it is too late for their plans to be stopped. They have become so entrenched in our government, our financial structure, and our commerce, that they probably do control this country, if not the world. In light of this, it seems that it will be only a matter of time before their plans are fully implemented.P.S: if you read all of this, you’ll be happy to know that Trump is not part of that establishment… Its why he’s working way faster…