Makes little difference to us what we call it, yes.

The law however...is very particular in these matters.

Yes and no. It is open in the way that you can check their membership, read minutes of selected meetings and check out various information and policies on their website and affiliated publication, 'Foreign Affairs'.

Most of their members are open about it, and their names will appear on their members list. They do however, by their own admittance, offer to conceal membership in times of need. This has become a more used tactic the last decades, following their 'exposure' in the late 70s. There is also an unspoken rule that 'what is said here stays here'. Notable in the fact that a range of directors of all the major news publications in the country have been members, yet didn't produce more than a grenade wounded handful of articles about them all the way up to the 70s. The fact that you, a reasonably up to date human being knows so little about them further attest to that fact. This is, after all, the playground of some of the most powerful and influental men in the United States.

So I guess you can say they are an officially open organization, but in reality carries a more clandestine nature.

Carter and Bush Sr. lost their elections partly because they were so heavily associated with this organization.
Reagan won the election partly because of his opposition to it. Ironic of course since he ended up with H.W. as VP and CFR members in the hundreds in his subsequent administration.

Obama is not an official member. His wife however is on the Board of Directors on the CFR Chicago branch, and when asked about it, he says they've had meetings and that he likes them, but that he does not know if he's a member. In any case the connection is obviously there, and will be further affirmed when he nominates at least 500 members to his coming administration (my personal prediction).

Further goes to show that these guys are ultimately loyal to the CFR and other elitist organizations, not the party.

Hopefully future historians will acknowledge that the Bush administration was a CFR administration, carrying out their policies. Watch, Obama will have at least 600 CFR/Trilateral members in his coming administration. And if McCain bradlies himself in there, my bet still stands.

These guys are Fabian (fascist) socialists internationalists. Now why would a so called 'conservative' be a member of that? Funny you should put Hitler and Stalin in that very same post, subconscious association perhaps.

Personally I believe the Bradly effect is real, and that Obama may need some voting machine errors to come through. But they're getting good at that these days, so hopefully we'll be spared hearing about it.

As I've said before; calling it a free market, believing it's a free market..does not make it a free market.

The market has been heavily regulated since the pre-war period. Fact.

You don't loan out money to flunkers in a free market because you know that equals you never seeing that money again. A government backing however...there's just no incentive to hold back is it? Either way it goes someone always has your back. This creates dependence, dishonesty, recklesness and a whole bunch of other negative traits and effects.

A state operation will always mispend your money. The founding fathers understood that, which is why they opted for a small a government as possible. If you can't prevent bad spending at least try and limit it.

This shit we have today, the bills passed and those planned to will give 'your' government unlimited powers to spend taxpayer money. You know what that is? That is USSR, it's communism. Which shouldn't come as a big surprise considering what Marxist shit they teach in schools today. Calling it something else of course, but that doesn't change what it is.

Regulations are power, power over others. That's why they're there in the first place, to protect the upper echelon and the status quo. The game is so old I'm amazed people keep on forgetting it.

Your nation, the whole world almost, has become fearfull of freedom. We've come to believe we're not fit to run our own show. That if the government goes away we will descend into anarchy and chaos. That may be true in the current situation, but it wasn't always that way and we should all be focused on getting it back. Not this moneychanging-socialts vision of peace and prosperity that the upper classes so heartily believe in.

What do they know of the world, these school boys?