The 25 Most Cited Think Tanks

 

Here is a resource for you to bookmark.  The links will take you to the pages of each organization on the little sis database where you can find out who their leadership are, their directors, board members, members, donors, who their benefactors are, who their members donate to, which publications they are behind and much more.  You can also see which members each has in common with the other and where their networks interlock with powerful banks, media and intelligence agencies.   A good working understanding of how relationships are connected in this way will give you a sense of the interests and agendas behind all political, geopolitical, economic, strategic and public policy events that appear in the news stories in the world today.  It is the secret weapon of any investigative journalist or informed citizen looking to get a step ahead of the game in current affairs and also serves as a means for any private person to be informed about the potential threats posed to the safeguarding of their personal liberties and constitutionally protected rights.  Most importantly I would propose that any activist looking to resist the undue concentration of power in the hands of the few first map out these relationships to best target their points of focus.

From Most cited (at the top) to position 25. Each organization on this list has considerable power and influence. This power is wielded principally in an "under the radar" fashion.

1	Brookings Institution   Major Washington think tank
2	Council on Foreign Relations   US foreign policy think tank
3	American Enterprise Institute   Largest neoconservative think tank
4	The Heritage Foundation   Conservative think tank
5	Center for Strategic and International Studies   Foreign policy think tank founded 1962.
6	RAND Corporation   Nonprofit global policy think tank
7	KFF   Non-profit focuses on major national health care issues, as well as U.S. role in global health policy
8	Center for American Progress   Democratic insider think tank started by former Clinton administration official John Podesta
9	Cato Institute   Libertarian think tank based in Washington, DC
10	Urban Institute   Public policy think tank; economic and social policy research
11	Hoover Institution   Conservative think tank at Stanford
12	Manhattan Institute   conservative think tank
13	New America   Centrist Think Tank
14	Economic Policy Institute   The Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit Washington D.C. think tank.
15	Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
16	The Carter Center   human rights organization based in Atlanta founded by former President Jimmy Carter
17	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace   Elite foreign policy research and discussion organization
18	Lexington Institute   Conservative / libertarian think tank
19	Public Policy Institute of California   The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is dedicated to informing and improving public policy in California.
20	University of Virginia Center for Politics   The Center for Politics was founded in 1998 by Larry J. Sabato at the University of Virginia.
21	The Washington Institute for Near East Policy   American pro-Israel think tank based in Washington, DC
22	Center on Budget and Policy Priorities   Liberal policy organization specializing in federal budget issues from a low-income perspective.
23	Inter-American Dialogue   U.S. center for policy analysis, exchange, and communication on issues in Western Hemisphere affairs.
24	The Aspen Institute   Elite policy discussion group
25	Center for Economic and Policy Research   The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established in 1999 to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives.

Polar Ice: Stable, not melting catastrophically.

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index

Informal Science Rant

 

Apologies for the lighting. This was as load shedding hit and I forgot it was due. I had to vent after my Wi Fi cut out and my battery seemed destined soon to follow.

Myths, assumptions & false premise surrounding the tension in Gaza

 

This is just a quick post absent of my usual geopolitical angles. To be honest it's about everything surrounding the topic, the sticking points that seem to sabotage a discussion capable of advancing the issue in civil discourse.  

In all honesty I personally almost consider much of what I choose to bring up irrelevant in understanding the geopolitics, but since (despite there being content out there parading as geopolitical analysis) I keep running into the same tired and totally ossified myths and mishevious (or misunderstood) synopses.  It's all weak, lacking in self consistent reasoning and based on a false premise, or two.. or ten. 

The case being made out there by the MSM doesn't impress me much.

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Always keep in mind that Hamas was Israel's creation to effectively end Yasser Arafat's PLO.

Always keep in mind that Israel has nuclear weapons, and honestly I have zero doubt that they would sooner use them than ever allow their enemies inbthe region to defeat them. Broader all out war is a no win situation, Its vital this gets de-escalated.

Media lies about the Russia/NATO/Ukraine conflict

Compilation of media lies about Russia's SMO in Ukraine. 

Courtesy Matt Orfalea.

Vaccine Safety & History: Did only the vaccinated die from the "Spanish Flu" of 1918?

Please see my first Vaccine Safety post for some background on today's situation.

Here is a timeline to frame your thoughts if you are conducting your own investigation (never simply accept anything anyone writes as fact.)

Here is evidence BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA was in fact the main killer from 1918, as opposed to influenza.

The evidence of the military bacterial vaccine (experimental) that is a candidate for culprit.

The following is taken from The 1918 "Spanish Flu": Only The Vaccinated Died By Dr. Sal Martingano, FICPA

What History Tells Us About The 1918 “Spanish Flu”

History tells us that the 1918 Spanish Flu killed between 50 – 100 million people. At the time, medical and pharmaceutical sources described it as THE MOST horrific disease process since the Black Plague of 1347, which killed an estimated 25-30 million people.

Vaccination: “The Elephant in the Room”

In the book, Vaccination Condemned, by Eleanor McBean, PhD, N.D., the author describes, in detail, personal and family experiences during the 1918 “Spanish Flu” pandemic. 

McBean’s coverage of the 1918 “Spanish Flu”, as a reporter and an unvaccinated survivor, requires that the historical basis of the event needs to be revisited, not as a “conspiracy theory” but with evidence that will “set your hair on fire”.  

A few years ago, I came across another book by Eleanor McBean: “Vaccination…The Silent Killer”. McBean provides evidence that not only were the historical events of the 1918 “Spanish Flu” compromised, but also those of the Polio and Swine Flu epidemics.

Let’s Talk “Spanish Flu” Facts:

The Spanish Scapegoat

Spain was neutral during WW1 and did NOT censor its press, unlike the combatting countries. As a result, Spain was the first to report the 1918 Flu epidemic and the world “scapegoated” Spain as the source. Thus, the “Spanish Flu” is born.

The First Case: Military Vaccination Experiments in Fort Riley, Kansas

In preparation for WW1, a massive military vaccination experiment involving numerous prior developed vaccines took place in Fort Riley, Kansas- where the first “Spanish Flu” case was reported.

WW1 Draft = Human Test Subjects

The fledgling pharmaceutical industry, sponsored by the ‘Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research’, had something they never had before – a large supply of human test subjects. Supplied by the U.S. military’s first draft, the test pool of subjects ballooned to over 6 million men.
CLICK HERE for more details.

Bacterial Meningitis Vaccine: The Killing Field

Autopsies after the war proved that the 1918 flu was NOT a “FLU” at all. It was caused by random dosages of an experimental ‘bacterial meningitis vaccine’, which to this day, mimics flu-like symptoms. The massive, multiple assaults with additional vaccines on the unprepared immune systems of soldiers and civilians created a “killing field”.  Those that were not vaccinated were not affected.  

So… How did Civilians Die?

1. WW1 ended sooner than expected, leaving HUGE quantities of unused experimental vaccines.
2. Fearing that soldiers coming home would spread diseases to their families, The U.S. government pushed the largest vaccine ‘fear’ campaign in history. They used the human population as a research and development lab to field test experimental vaccines.
3. Tens of millions of civilians died in the same manner as did the soldiers.  
4. Instead of stopping the vaccines, doctors intensified them, calling it the great “Spanish Flu of 1918”. As a result, ONLY THE VACCINATED DIED.

“Seven men dropped dead in a doctor’s office after being vaccinated. Letters were sent to their families that they had been killed in action.”

Eleanor McBean
Minnesota Wellness Directory
http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/vaccines/vaccinations_condemned_McBean.htm

WW1 U.S. soldiers were given 14 – 25 untested, experimental vaccines within days of each other, which triggered intensified cases of ALL the diseases at once.  The doctors called it a new disease and proceeded to suppress the symptoms with additional drugs or vaccines.   

Deception and Secrecy Have a Long History

In the examples given in my previous blog “COVID 19: Another Chapter in the History of Deception and Secrecy”, history is replete with intentional lies told to the public to either “save face” or to deceive for nefarious purposes. The 1918 “Spanish Flu” was no exception.

Back to COVID-19: The Ferguson Models are False and Misleading

British scientist and Professor Neil Ferguson of The Imperial College, London (the same Imperial College of London funded by the Bill Gates Foundation) was responsible for developing the mathematical pandemic computer models for the COVID-19 pandemic.

For example, Ferguson modeled that Sweden would experience 100,000 deaths by June, 2020. To date, Sweden peaked at 2,854 deaths total.  

*These mathematical computer models are the basis for vaccine production…..hmmmm!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178755/

The Media Silences Non-Conformist Viewpoints

The media, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and other “privately” owned communications outlets have become the self-proclaimed “guardians” (censors) of information.

On April 26, 2020, Twitter suspended the account of a publicly traded biotech company for sharing information about a non-medicinal UV light therapy for COVID-19. YouTube also removed a video demonstrating how the technology works.

“(YouTube) will ban videos that contradict W.H.O. guidance on the pandemic or share fake or unproven Coronavirus remedies.”

Susan Wojcicki
CEO – YouTube
https://www.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/g6n74n/youtube_ceo_susan_wojcicki_announced_that_the/

NewsGuard recently classified Mercola.com as fake news for reporting that the COVID virus potentially leaked from the biosafety level 4 laboratory in Wuhan City, China.

The Pharmaceutical Industry Owns and Controls the Medical Profession

“Fact Checking” is often provided by paid writers from the pharmaceutical companies and not from verified, independent sources.

“The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful.”

Arnold Relman
Former Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1126053/

Infectious Disease Levels were Dropping BEFORE Vaccines Entered the Picture

       Vaccine promoters claim that vaccines wiped out most infectious diseases. History tells us a different story. The beginning of the 20Th century introduced improved sanitation (sewers), water treatment plants, and vastly improved nutrition. 

The sample graphs above show that infectious diseases like Measles, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Typhoid Fever and Polio, were all at their lowest levels and dropping, BEFORE the vaccines were introduced.

Find out more about Sal Martingano or visit his site

New York Times invents fake climate history to match its fake geopolitical history.

Some vintage New York Times propaganda

The New York TImes.  One of Americas trusted names in media.  I certainly trust them, but let me clarify that statement. All their sports scores are accurate, and their telephone number and website address are correct usually,  They have a good spellcheck software option.  Sometimes their page numbers are correct, and their address perhaps. Anything else?"Perhaps their economic indicators are technically accurate, even if they are reported in a completely disingenuous context. Anything else?

Nope, nothing else is correct because they insist on filling their content with "News" and "Politics" and "Climate Change".....

....and let's face it....

They will never get any of that right, so my praise is limited to my opening paragraph which is a testament to nothing more than the staggering misplacement of trust I was referring to in my second sentence.

In the clip below from his YouTube channel, Tony Heller goes back in time and shows us how much hotter summer used to be in the States, but he uses a method that the NYT may not fully understand,  He goes by facts.  He then takes those facts and makes conclusions BASED ON THOSE SAME FACTS!

He could be onto something.  All I know is that if the fact-based reporting on politics, war or climate change ever catches on in the good old USA, all of their MSM is finished.

But let's be serious for a moment here. I am joking around of course, I don't really believe US media will really start reporting facts, not even a flat-earther would believe a wild conspiracy theory like that!

The truth about World War One is finally emerging

The Internet functions as the largest open source private investigation tool in history.  At least it does so for the not so gullible.  The gullible will believe anything and the internet is a dangerous place for them.  The challenge of working out the reliable sources from less reliable takes a lot of time and many mistakes.  I was so glad to discover James Corbetts series on World War One which contains so much information that is not only well hidden but hard to believe.  I happen to have been covering alot of similar turf lately and I can tell you that James knows what he is talking about.  I don't agree with his conclusions on everything but I must say  with his WW1 assessment I do, it confirmed everything I suspected in a well evidenced way and ties in perfectly to two of my recent posts:

https://dwahts.blogspot.com/2018/11/who-are-globalists-straight-answer.html
https://dwahts.blogspot.com/2018/11/russian-revolution-or-bolshevik-coup.html

First, because its not always easy for people to believe the lies of War, perhaps have a look at James overview on false flags, most of which were also hard to believe... before they were admitted to.

Here is the link if you prefer to watch on YouTube: 

https://www.youtube.com/user/corbettreport

The Corbett Report Website:

https://www.corbettreport.com/

The World War One Documentary:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Afterthought: History is written by the victors.

The Final Clip below is worth a watch because it deconstructs how it can be that we are taught history that is so fundamentally flawed.

At the end of the day it would be more surprising if that was not the case.  If your university course is mathematics you have little to worry about.  If its History or economics that's another story.

Insane in the Ukraine: What is Poroshenko's game?

Porky has upcoming presidential elections and its not looking good for him. Russia is of course the bogiman again. I find this beyond ironic. Ukraine in its current incarnation is simply a vassal of empire, although its gotten off lightly compared to such nations as Syria and Libya.
Ukraine is nowhere near as fortunate as Crimea, rescued from the empire by Russia just as they rescued Syria but with the added protection of now being incorporated into Russia, thanks to Putin's swift action and the now famous referendum that broke all records in attendance and outcomes with almost all votes opting to join Russia.

So far the circumstantial case is not looking good for Porky.

Most regime change states either end up destroyed or run by a dictatorship that accomodates Western interests. Is Ukraine going to be an exception? Unlikely...

Meanwhile, something is up. And there is clear collusion and foresight here. A US contractor accidentally revealed a US military specialist deployment in the combat zones in Ukraine via an Job Advertisement on LinkedIn.
https://southfront.org/us-military-contractor-is-hiring-personnel-to-support-classified-contingency-operations-in-ukraine/?fbclid=IwAR2JLBEfMwaZdk5QTI54-n41_ClVY1aEGsQhpJVhB4nsQo6M3hjBbMnP1yI

So it seems regarding the Kerch Straight, that circumstantial case is not looking good for Porky either.

It's almost as if he has some sort of agenda or something?

Read 21st Century Wire to find out:
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/11/26/evidence-kerch-strait-was-planned-provocation-pretext-for-us-aid-martial-law-war-in-donbass-et-all/

The desperate attempt to link forrest fires to Climate Change is not even supported by the facts.

The Climate Change fear-mongering of years and decades past has all but been exposed, since most of all the times "we have ten years left" have passed, I think its safe to say the science was not quite as settled as they would have us believe. This major loss of credibility in the scientific community I don't blame on scientists, the vast majority of those involved were usually grant funded and depended on political agendas if they wanted to keep their jobs and eat or secure funding. Politics fails and drags everything down with it. Science left without agenda's will always send man to the moon or internet to the palm of your hand.

The tenuous link between temperature posed at 1° of warming, which appears itself to be dubious, and a rampant alleged increase in forrest fires and "OMG we are all going to die" conclusions are so childishly clear to be infested with agendas that you would need to not be able to see the wood for the burned down trees to miss it.
The data simply does not support this claim.

Let's start with insurance claims and assessments.

https://www.verisk.com/insurance/visualize/key-findings-from-the-2017-verisk-wildfire-risk-analysis/?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=VeriskSM&utm_content=842017

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-wildfires

What about the recent past?Turns out not, apparently they were even worse during cool periods, notably the little ice age.

http://landscapesandcycles.net/forest-fires-were-worse-during-the-little-ice-age.html

And far greater fires on a scale we could scarcely comprehend have burned their way into recent history.
https://www.fireengineering.com/articles/2007/10/remembering-the-great-peshtigo-fire-of-1871.html?fbclid=IwAR20LcmhWQH1kiGPHH0GsnE5Y9aVNyIe1OuRFMH-CAsTqtd5KWBT7jjHV5Q

A thorough analysis of number of fires, acres burned, frequency, over various timeframe and timescales reveals no causal relationship between warming on any level and fires. In fact some correlation actually suggests the reverse, but I chalk i up to coincidence. There is even suggestion fires are decreasing but again, I prefer to chalk small changes down to cycles. It is disengenuous to pass off small trend variations as scientific findings. Doing so makes us no better that the Climate Change fraternity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4874420/

The Media certainly does their fair share of fear-mongering, not only because the six multinational behemoth conglomerates left are ideologically aligned with globalist agendas, but because fear SELLS.

Lets not forget that the vast majority of fires are started in one way or the other by humans, so already the variables are far from the parameters required to satisfy the scientific method.

https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm

The United States uses chemical weapons.

The US usage and supply of chemical weapons seems to go back as far as you are prepared to investigate. For the current situation in the Middle East there is a good case to be made that based on OPCW findings it was either Turkish backed or US backed rebels that used chlorine gas and Sarin gas to frame Assad, who has since been cleared despite that important part receiving practically no coverage in Western media.

That gas can be traced back to Donald Rumsveld when he worked as an economic hitman in the Chemical Industry, and supplied it to Sadam Hussein, himself a CIA man at the time, for use against Iran in the Iran/Iraq war they were plotting.

I love this above clip from CNN most of all because its CNN of all people, and because of Rumsvelds surprise that a CIA embedded news agency would rumble him on his earlier closed door meetings. He thinks fast on his feet though. They subsequently brought their man down but are still trying to nail Iran any way they can. Iran was toppled once when they brought down Mosedesch but has since appeared to have developed an iron resolve never to fall to foreign invaders again.

Post 9/11 during the "War on Terror" the US showed in all sorts of ways that it is in fact the real terror. Despite that, I was still slightly surprised when in 2003 they were caught using Depleted Uranium, considering the WMDs fiasco.

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-uranium-weapons-civilian-areas-iraq

White phosphorus is the modern banned weapon of choice for the US military, its even more horrible but doesn't require large scale "boots on the ground" deployment (or if they wish to conceal such deployment).
Also there are loophole's in its procurement meaning it's not illegal to own if not used in open battle against civilians in populated areas.
It is being used in most of the US involved battles, including against civilians, region wide, so unless some shadowy force is following the US military undetected, and burning the civilians to frame the US in over a hundred seperate cases going back years, then the US is guilty.

Here is Amnesty Internationals findings:
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/syria-us-led-coalitions-use-white-phosphorus-raqqa-may-be-war-crime-new-analysis

And from Human Rights Watch:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/14/iraq/syria-danger-us-white-phosphorus

The world's press are picking up on it too. Here is an assortment of articles, including MSM articles surpringly, but those outlets won't be permitted to run such reports in the future so read them while you still can.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/world/middleeast/raqqa-syria-white-phosphorus.html

https://globalnews.ca/news/4436862/syria-white-phosphorus-us-russia/amp/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/moscow-accuses-us-using-banned-white-phosphorous-syria-1249368703

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/09/u-s-led-forces-appear-to-be-using-white-phosphorous-in-populated-areas-in-iraq-and-syria/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4996c30ecfd4

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/10/13/576883/USled-warplanes-drop-white-phosphorus-bombs-in-eastern-Syria-Report

https://sputniknews.com/amp/world/201810141068878088-syria-un-investigation-use-white-phosphorus-coalition-forces/