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Was hoping for a little more balance, although I guess that would be asking too much from an editor from Harper's. Once again religion is evil! Big deal. Remember, members of both parties have been involved. I also think he overstates things in saying how much influence this "Family" has on US foreign policy. "Implied" maybe, but that's about it. Totally ginning things up to sell his book. And Gerald Ford a milquetoast? C'mon. He may have had a minimal impact as a prez (and most of what people know about him owes more to Chevy Chase/SNL than anything) but hardly a milquetoast. This book is much ado about nothing.

could be reaction against Marx, whose writings were so influential in the '30's when this "Family" began. Marx took a dim view of both religion and the nuclear family, I believe I recall. This fundamentalist elitist "Family" does seem diametrically opposed to Marx's view (if I have it right) that real power is or should be with ordinary people.

the Trilateral Commission is a private organization, established to foster closer cooperation between America, Europe and Japan. It was founded in July 1973

Carolyn
he talked about that

Isn't this the old Tri Latteral Commission? They were a secret orgnaization heard about in the sixties that went underground.

Please ask Mr. Sharlet about Hillary Clinton's involvement with The Family.

John McCain?

Isn't Indonesia very Muslim right now?

Leaving aside The Families tendency to leave aside minor quibbles like mass murder and military aggression, the Third Reich was a model of inefficiency. The German economy was managed very chaotically during the entire war. It had neither the flexibility of a free market nor the focus of an intelligently planned command economy. Hitler was a terribly inefficient and meddlesome manager and leader.

I guess I'll be sleeping with the lights on from now on...

reminds me of skull and bones, illuminati and their ilk

Wikipedia also talks about nazi connects in the 1940's

what of the end of days?

and yes, i do know that some of Deming's 14 Points language sounds somewhat similar, but Demings' could actually do the math/statistics to back up his own Quality Control work/priorities, and if you need to see that proof, go to the website http://www.asq.org/ to learn the background history of how this work developed [I can think of some buildings and cranes in NYC that could use a little QC, come to think of it..].
if you want to see which companies are using what is now called Six Sigma check out the career center.

And last, probability is the math used in science and the stock market, so Intelligent Design and fundamentalist theories of thought not based on actual evidence/facts, such as the Theory of Evolution is, should not have any real standing when it comes to fiscal conservatism.

this is why i love REAL math and science.
Anyone who has an MBA ought to have heard of Edwards Deming, the former head of MIT's Sloan school of business and Quality Control, which eventually became Six Sigma. http://deming.ces.clemson.edu/pub/den/
deming_info.htm
He started out helping to develop statistical accountability methods for the Marshall Plan after WWII so that Europe wouldn't fall prey to dictators/authoritarianism again, and eventually his 14 principles of management -including #8. Drive out fear, so that everyone may work effectively for the company- also became realized as a way to economically account for the contribution of everyone who works for any organization, not just the bigwigs. READ THIS MAN'S WORK. And yes, on the back of the biography of him written by his secretary, there's a picture of Bush 41 shaking his hand after presenting him with an honorary degree from Yale, so yes, Bush senior met the man, and still raised Bush 43...

Please ask Mr. Sharlet about "The Family"'s tax status. Are they really a religious organization or a political organization? And what sort of financial auditing and reporting are they subject to?