Think Tank...?  Sometimes to me that sounds like a contradiction in terms..! To hear that term, associates the mind with highly intelligent people, who are the smartest of our society that are "thinking of ways to improve things".. We assume that it is in our best interests, however we never hear usually what they have been thinking about. What the general public does hear, is the after affect version that has been watered down so that the dumb sheep/cattle will be able to comprehend it, and it will be presented to them in such a way as to give the impression that its an honorable goal or initiative that will better them, the world, and all mankind..It is really our best interest that they have at heart...!?  What I have found however, is that whatever originates from a think tank, has the very distinct odor of behavioural modification, with objectives to socially engineer our society. The long term goal is to advance and implement the New World Order in its final form.  The Club Of Rome  is one such think tank with the very obvious objective of implementing the Global order of the Illuminati plan. It really doesn't matter how you want to slice up the pie, the end result is intended to be a one world order under the control of the eliteists, who have a very real plan to install a King over the world. This king it is intended to rule from Jerusalem. Below, I have posted some links that will project you to some think tanks. I hope that you will never see them in the same light ever again. The people who comprise the members and are active participants of these think tanks are surely convinced that they are engaged in a noble, and honorable goal. They are doing what they believe is "the right thing", have convinced themselves that since they are smarter than everyone else, and hold certain knowledge that the majority of mankind does not posses, that it naturally places them in the unique, and responsible position of deciding for the rest of us, what is best for us..? Once again readers, you have an absentee, usually anonymous entity deciding for you what is right and wrong, and what you really need and dont need. I encourage the reader to chase the links and read the sites to aquaint themselves with the real focus and agenda's of these organizations. Now that I have your attention:  Go to this site for a very detailed list of the most prominent , active, and in over 77 countries around the world.    http://www.nira.go.jp/ice/nwdtt Here are some comments from Source Watch web-site  http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Think_tanks From SourceWatch A Think Tank is an organization that claims to serve as a center for research and/or analysis of important public issues. In reality, many think tanks are little more than public relations fronts, usually headquartered in state or national seats of government and generating self-serving scholarship that serves the advocacy goals of their industry sponsors; in the words of Yellow Times.org (http://www.yellowtimes.org/) columnist John Chuckman, "phony institutes where ideologue~propagandists pose as academics ... [into which] money gushes like blood from opened arteries to support meaningless advertising's suffocation of genuine debate". [1] (http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1442&mode=thread&order=0) Of course, some think tanks are more legitimate than that. Private funding does not necessarily make a researcher a shill, and some think-tanks produce worthwhile public policy research. In general, however, research from think tanks is ideologically driven in accordance with the interests of its funders. "We've got think tanks the way other towns have firehouses," Washington Post columnist Joel Achenbach says. "This is a thoughtful town. A friend of mine worked at a think tank temporarily and the director told him when he entered, 'We are white men between the ages of 50 and 55, and we have no place else to go.'" "In 1970, Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a fateful memo to the National Chamber of Commerce saying that all of our best students are becoming anti-business because of the Vietnam War, and that we needed to do something about it. Powell's agenda included getting wealthy conservatives to set up professorships, setting up institutes on and off campus where intellectuals would write books from a conservative business perspective, and setting up think tanks. He outlined the whole thing in 1970. They set up the Heritage Foundation in 1973, and the Manhattan Institute after that. There are many others, including the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institute at Stanford, which date from the 1940s." --George Lakoff [2] (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml) Think tanks are funded primarily by large businesses and major foundations. They devise and promote policies that shape the lives of everyday Americans: Social Security privatization, tax and investment laws, regulation of everything from oil to the Internet. They supply experts to testify on Capitol Hill, write articles for the op-ed pages of newspapers, and appear as TV commentators. They advise presidential aspirants and lead orientation seminars to train incoming members of Congress. Think tanks have a decided political leaning. There are twice as many conservative think tanks as liberal ones, and the conservative ones generally have more money. This is no accident, as one of the important functions of think tanks is to provide a backdoor way for wealthy business interests to promote their ideas or to support economic and sociological research not taking place elsewhere that they feel may turn out in their favor. Conservative think tanks also offer donors an opportunity to support conservative policies outside academia, which during the 1960s and 1970s was accused of having a strong "collectivist" bias. "Modern think tanks are nonprofit, tax-exempt, political idea factories where donations can be as big as the donor's checkbook and are seldom publicized," notes Tom Brazaitis, writing for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Technology companies give to think tanks that promote open access to the internet. Wall Street firms donate to think tanks that espouse private investment of retirement funds." So much money now flows in, that the top 20 conservative think tanks now spend more money than all of the "soft money" contributions to the Republican party. A think tank's resident experts carry titles such as "senior fellow" or "adjunct scholar," but this does not necessarily mean that they even possess an academic degree in their area of claimed expertise. Outside funding can corrupt the integrity of academic institutions. The same corrupting influences affect think tanks, only more so. Think tanks are like universities minus the students and minus the systems of peer review and other mechanisms that academia uses to promote diversity of thought. Real academics are expected to conduct their research first and draw their conclusions second, but this process is often reversed at most policy-driven think tanks. As writer Jonathan Rowe has observed, the term "think" tanks is a misnomer. His comment was directed at the conservative Heritage Foundation, but it applies equally well to many other think tanks, regardless of ideology: "They don't think; they justify." More Links http://www.hillwatch.com/PPRC/Links_Directory/Think_Tanks.aspx http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/politics/thnktank.htm Here below is an interesting web-site which is actually a think tank called the ANSER INSTITUTE which was established in April of 2001. This is a very ominous time frame as the site is actually the forerunner of  What the public later knew as the sweeping reform of Homeland Security..   I suppose it was all just a coincidence though.  http://www.homelandsecurity.org/ Last one http://people.virginia.edu/~rjb3v/T-tanks.html