James Henry
Jedi
While reading some news on the web, I came across this article/interview of Carl Rove and his new book. _http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124597241
Besides his usual pathological denial and straw-man arguments, I was looking for the ‘dots’ of connection to the bigger picture. Along with the College Republicans (CR’s) two people in particular, Tom Korologos and Morton Blackwell caught my attention.
*Bold emphasis mine.
These two seem to be the early recruiters of Rove, so let’s take a look.
According to Wikipedia:
So these two like to recruit Rove type psychopaths and are in power positions of political recruitment.
According to Will Groves. http://www.sott.net/articles/show/174235-Why-Does-the-World-Feel-Wrong-
As you can see from above there are a lot of political power organizations these guys run or are major players, but for now let’s look at one example:
Tom Korologos – Board Member The Aspen Institute/Rockefeller Foundation Commission on Reform of the Appointment Process – The Aspen Institute:
Again according to Will Groves. http://www.sott.net/articles/show/174235-Why-Does-the-World-Feel-Wrong-
A mass recruitment of psychopaths to invade all leadership positions on a global scale.
“Conspiracy theory…there’s no conspiring going on here.”
Thank you for your time.
JH
Besides his usual pathological denial and straw-man arguments, I was looking for the ‘dots’ of connection to the bigger picture. Along with the College Republicans (CR’s) two people in particular, Tom Korologos and Morton Blackwell caught my attention.
*Bold emphasis mine.
My association with the CR's started in the fall of 1969, when as a freshman at the University of Utah I joined the organization. By then I was already enthralled with politics and unbeknownst to me was quietly making a name for myself. The previous year I had taken my first real role in politics — as a volunteer in the reelection campaign of Senator Wallace F. Bennett. And I had loved it. Tom Korologos, Bennett's chief of staff, took me on as part of a broader strategy to draw young people to the GOP Senator's campaign at a time when college students across the country were flocking to anti-Vietnam War Democrats. I threw myself into the job, I had a blast, and got noticed.
The spring after joining the CR's, I got a call from Morton Blackwell, the executive director of the College Republican national Committee (CRNC). He was looking for competent students to help organize campuses in critical U.S. senate races in 1970, and he had heard about my work on the Bennett campaign.
These two seem to be the early recruiters of Rove, so let’s take a look.
According to Wikipedia:
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_KorologosTom Chris Korologos, (born April 6, 1933 in Salt Lake City, Utah), is a Republican lobbyist who donated $107,800 to the Republican Party in 2004, and a past United States Ambassador to Belgium.
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From 1962 to 1971 he worked for Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Utah. He served in the Nixon and Ford presidential administrations from 1971 to 1975, and has worked closely with Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. He was co-founder of Timmons & Company, a Washington, DC consulting firm. He has been involved in numerous senate confirmations including assisting Vice President Rockefeller, Vice President Ford, Supreme Court Justices: William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and nominee Robert Bork, as well as several cabinet secretaries, including: Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, and Donald Rumsfeld.
Korologos has had a wide and varied Washington, DC experience. He has served as a senior staff member in the U.S. Congress, as an assistant to two Presidents in the White House, was a prominent businessman, and most recently was a senior counselor with the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Baghdad. In addition, he was a long-time member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and a charter member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors that has jurisdiction over all non-military U.S. Government radio and TV broadcasting overseas. He currently is strategic advisor to [[DLA Piper] in Washington, DC. He serves on several non-profit boards, including: The Choral Arts Society of Washington; Meridian International Center; The National Security Agency advisory board; The Aspen Institute/Rockefeller Foundation Commission on Reform of the Appointment Process; among others.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_BlackwellMorton C. Blackwell (born November 16, 1939 in La Jara, Colorado) is an American Republican Party activist. He is president and founder of the Leadership Institute
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In youth politics, he was a College Republican state chairman and a Young Republican state chairman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Blackwell served on the Young Republican National Committee for more than a dozen years. He rose to the position of Young Republican National Federation national vice chairman at large. He worked for seven years under direct mail conservative guru Richard Viguerie. Off and on for five and half years, 1965-1970, he worked as executive director of the College Republican National Committee under four consecutive College Republican national chairmen. He served on the Louisiana Republican state central committee for eight years.
Blackwell was first elected to the Arlington County Republican Committee in 1972. He is a member of the Republican Party of Virginia's state central committee and was first elected in 1988 as Virginia’s Republican National Committeeman , a post he still holds. In 2004 he was elected to the Executive Committee of the RNC.
Longtime political activist
Having worked actively in politics since 1960, he has probably trained more political activists than any other conservative. Starting in the 1960s, he has trained thousands of people who have served on staff for conservative and Republican candidates in every state.
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Blackwell has been a member since 1984 of the Council for National Policy, a group of politically active conservatives. Founders included Richard Viguerie, the Virginia direct-mail specialist, Paul Weyrich, Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party, and Phyllis Schlafly, a St. Louis activist who led the opposition to the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. Another founder was Tim LaHaye, author of the Left Behind novels. The council does not make its proceedings public. When he first ran for president, George W. Bush addressed the Council for National Policy. His remarks from 2000 have never been unveiled.
So these two like to recruit Rove type psychopaths and are in power positions of political recruitment.
According to Will Groves. http://www.sott.net/articles/show/174235-Why-Does-the-World-Feel-Wrong-
After considering the possibility that psychopaths have taken control of society, we find volumes of evidence to support the hypothesis. Did Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot sympathize with their victims or have any sense of guilt? More recently, among Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, or Clinton , can we point to one who even exhibits a façade resembling normality? Obviously not - these lists name one person after another who has zero accountability to a rational morality. If people like this could make their way to the highest levels of power, what does that say about lower offices?
It suggests people like this have control over the levers of power everywhere.
As you can see from above there are a lot of political power organizations these guys run or are major players, but for now let’s look at one example:
Tom Korologos – Board Member The Aspen Institute/Rockefeller Foundation Commission on Reform of the Appointment Process – The Aspen Institute:
The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1950 as the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies. Today, the organization is dedicated to "fostering enlightened leadership, the appreciation of timeless ideas and values, and open-minded dialogue on contemporary issues." The institute and its international partners seek to promote the pursuit of common ground and deeper understanding in a nonpartisan and nonideological setting through regular seminars, policy programs, conferences, and leadership development initiatives. The institute is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and has campuses in Aspen, Colorado (its original home) and near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay at the Wye River in Maryland. It has partner Aspen Institutes in Berlin, Rome, Lyon, Tokyo, New Delhi, and Bucharest, as well as leadership initiatives in the United States and in Africa, India, and Central America.
The Aspen Institute is largely funded by foundations such as the Carnegie Corporation, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation, by seminar fees, and by individual donations. Its board of trustees includes leaders from politics, government, business and academia who also contribute to its support. Walter Isaacson is currently President and CEO.
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The Aspen Institute has more than 20 policy programs that work to advance public and private sector knowledge on significant policy issues confronting contemporary society. They attempt to frame critical topics and convene leaders and experts from relevant fields to reach constructive solutions. The programs explore topics such as prospects for peace in the Middle East; communications, media, and information policy; economic opportunity in rural America; social innovation through business; the nonprofit sector; creating smart solutions to help Americans save, invest and own; and community initiatives for children and families.
Aspen Institute policy programs share a common mission and methodology. Each serves as an forum for leaders in a field who bring a diversity of perspectives in pursuit of informed dialogue and action.
* The Aspen Strategy Group convenes prominent foreign policy and national security experts to consider the important challenges facing the United States in the world today.
* The Business and Society Program is dedicated to developing leaders for a sustainable global society. Through dialogues and path-breaking research, it creates opportunities for executives and educators to explore new pathways to sustainability and values-based leadership. Its websites, CasePlace.org and BeyondGreyPinstripes.org, are the leading sources of innovative curriculum in top business schools around the world.
* The Program on World Economy promotes dialogue among leaders in business, finance, government, academia and the media from industrial and developing nations in order to generate new approaches to major global economic challenges.
* The Commission on No Child Left Behind is a bipartisan, independent commission to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the No Child Left Behind Act and make concrete and realistic recommendations to Congress, the Administration, State and local stakeholders, parents, and the general public to ensure the law is an effective tool in spurring academic achievement and closing the achievement gap.
* The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program promotes dialogue and innovative decision-making in the fields of communications and information policy. It convenes leaders to assess the impact of modern communications and information systems and develops new models for communications policy.
* The Community Strategies Group designs and manages peer learning exchange and critical examination opportunities among community leaders, practitioners, and policymakers engaged in improving regional and community economic development, civic capacity, family livelihoods, and the development of local philanthropic resources.
* The Congressional Program offers nonpartisan educational programs designed to foster leadership on public policy issues among members of the US Congress.
* The Council of World Women Leaders and Ministerial Initiative is a partnership with the Institute that promotes good governance and gender equality and aims to increase the number, effectiveness and visibility of women in top leadership roles.
* The Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies that connect the poor and underemployed to the mainstream economy. EOP facilitates participatory learning using applied research to stimulate dialogue and action among funders, policymakers and nonprofit and community leaders about various approaches to poverty alleviation, including self-employment and microenterprise, industry-based employment strategies, and access to capital and credit for low-wealth consumers and communities.
* The Education and Society Program identifies emerging policy issues and encourages new initiatives in education among diverse groups of policymakers, practitioners, analysts, and other leaders.
* Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative is a partnership of the Aspen Institute, Columbia University, and the Council of International Human Rights Policy whose aim is to put human rights values and principles, such as equity and participation, at the heart of global governance and policy to ensure that the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable are addressed on the global stage. Working in Africa, Realizing Rights: EGI has programs in the areas of health, trade and development, and migration.
* The Global Interdependence Initiative commissions research and provides technical assistance to help global issues advocates, experts and communicators engage the American public in dialogue about the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly interdependent world.
* The Health, Biomedical Science, and Society Initiative examines societal issues related to health policy, medicine, nutrition and biotechnology through a combination of roundtable discussions, speaker series and public convenings.
* The Homeland Security Initiative examines the issues relating to US homeland security, assessing progress made by the US Department of Homeland Security and developing recommendations for making America safer.
* The Initiative on Financial Security brings together business executives, elected officials, policy experts, and leaders from the nonprofit community to explore and develop proposals on how low and moderate income Americans can save, invest, and own assets over their lifetime.
* The Justice and Society Program convenes leaders from several disciplines and professions to affect national and international policy regarding human rights, international law, transitional justice, and post-conflict multilateral peacekeeping operations.
* The Middle East Strategy Group includes prominent American, Palestinian and Israeli business and political leaders committed to developing pragmatic economic and policy initiatives that advance prospects for peace in the Middle East.
* The Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program supports research, dialogue, and leadership initiatives on critical issues affecting the nonprofit sector and philanthropy.
* The Program on Energy and the Environment brings together leaders in business and government as well as educational, research, and environmental organizations to seek creative solutions to domestic and international policy issues involving energy and environmental sustainability.
* The Roundtable on Community Change is a forum in which leaders working to revitalize distressed urban and rural communities can address common problems and share strategies for promoting positive change.
* The Socrates Society seminars are designed as a forum for emerging leaders to explore leadership challenges. Participants arrive from industries including finance, government, academia, law, sciences, and nonprofit.
Aspen Global Leadership Network
The Aspen Institute leadership initiatives include a variety of programs for accomplished young entrepreneurial, government, and civic leaders spanning a number of different countries. Through these programs, the Institute is identifying young men and women between the ages of 30 and 45 who have already achieved a certain level of success and encouraging them to reach yet further — for significance by benefitting society at large.
* The Henry Crown Fellowship Program seeks to develop our next generation of community-spirited leaders, providing them with the tools necessary to meet the challenges of corporate and civic leadership in the 21st century. The program is a unique mix of intellectual and personal development seminars designed to broaden the perspectives of the participants and hone their skills in values-based leadership.
* The Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI) brings together as Fellows successful young leaders from Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. The program encourages the Fellows to take more responsibility for the society in which they live and work.
* The Central America Leadership Initiative (CALI) seeks to develop a new generation of community-spirited leaders in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. The region is home to a growing number of capable young leaders in all sectors of society. CALI is designed to capture the energy, the talent, and the resolve of these leaders who have already realized a certain level of success and inspire them to assume a more proactive stance in addressing the foremost challenges of their region and their times.
* The India Leadership Initiative (ILI) is a collaborative venture between the Aspen Institute, the Aspen Institute India, and the Global Markets Institute of Goldman Sachs. Like the Henry Crown Program, ILI focuses on young (ages 30–45) entrepreneurial, government, and civil society leaders from across India. It provides them with an opportunity to better understand their own leadership values and those of their peers; to engage more vigorously in the foremost challenges of their communities and country; and to explore new ways to work in concert to improve Indian society and the world at large.
* The Liberty Fellowship Program, inspired by Aspen Institute seminars and modeled after the Henry Crown Fellowship Program, is for motivated leaders in South Carolina.
* The Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI) is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that aims to provide a platform for highly successful Nigerian leaders who are uniquely qualified to influence the future development of Nigeria, to enhance or develop their values-based leadership skills, and to assume a transformative role in the future development of Nigeria. The mission of the NLI is to create a growing global network of credible and very accomplished community-spirited Nigerian leaders who are committed to taking responsibility for driving positive change in Nigeria and Nigerian communities.
Again according to Will Groves. http://www.sott.net/articles/show/174235-Why-Does-the-World-Feel-Wrong-
Inhibiting critical thinking in the masses obviously benefits the state and psychopaths. When overtly self-serving, irresponsible, illegal, immoral, irrational behavior gets treated as normal, we can conclude that the educational system works quite well for our masters. I have given but one example, yet the multitude of state functions exists to provide every variety of psychopathic interest with a job. Moreover, we should consider that the state not only acts like a recruitment center for psychopaths, but that psychopaths probably invented the state to take advantage of the rest of us. I can give you no better explanation for the existence of an organization that fails in every ethical dimension and invokes psychopathic thinking at every turn than this.
A mass recruitment of psychopaths to invade all leadership positions on a global scale.
“Conspiracy theory…there’s no conspiring going on here.”
Thank you for your time.
JH
