These folks are members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Michael Crow
Rick Davis
Lynn Forester de Rothschild
John Lehman
Elisa C. Massimino
David H. Petraeus
Josette Sheeran
Frances Fragos Townsend
Interesting…
Been digging through McCain Institute's $100K and up donors. The Libra Group sponsors BHO's initiatives including My Brother's Keeper Alliance, The Partnership for Refugees, and the Equal Pay Pledge.
BHO and McCain way more connected than what you would think.
Probably digging a hole to nowhere, but the intersections are getting interesting.
Another $100K McCain Institute Donor - the Baltic American Freedom Foundation. Created in 2010, the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation (BAFF) mission is to enrich the ties between the United States and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania through programs of education and exchange centering on economic growth and democratic processes.
On the BOD of this foundation is Peter A. Ragauss, who is on on the BOD of Apache Corporation. Apache Corporation is an oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, Egypt and the United Kingdom.
Hess Corporation is another $100K donor. Hess Corporation is a leading global independent energy company engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas.
What is the connection between the person who will not be named and all of these oil corps?
This probably doesn't have anything to do with the BRIDGE reference, but I found this journal called the Bridge, which is also a non-profit organization focused on the development of people in strategy, national security, & military affairs. Interesting articles and edited by Nathan K. Finney, Army officer and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Those CFR folks are all over the crumbs.
For the water reference. I saw this in an article on zerohedge. A quote from Sprott Global Resource Investments' Rick Rule on water "Water is the most mispriced commodity in the world. Because water is allocated politically. It is believed to be a right, as opposed to a commodity. The consequence of that – as an example, here in the US Southwest, we have taken sources of water, like the Colorado River, and we have allocated approximately 130% of the flow of the river to various claimants. This is sort of hard on the river. You have a circumstance where water flows uphill to votes rather than downhill for money. And you can’t allocate something that doesn’t exist.
And also because of the structure of the American water business. Because of the fact that most of it is delivered politically rather than via markets. The rents that go to water, while they are insufficient to maintain supply, go to municipalities. And they go to fund current political goals as opposed to maintaining the infrastructure for the production and distribution of water.
It is believed, on a country-wide basis, that we have deferred as much as 3 trillion dollars in sustaining capital investments in the water business. I can’t tell you when this theme comes home to roost. But when it does come home to roost, this might be one of the great resource themes of all time."
Water being delivered politically is a concern.