The spawn of William Levingston (Rockefeller)
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Category: News & Opinion (General) Topic: Crime & Corruption
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Source: rense.com
Published: May 9, 2008 Author: Eustice Mullins
For Education and Discussion Only. Not for Commercial Use.
Many American conservatives believe as a matter of faith that the
Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations exercise absolute control
over the government and the people of United States . This thesis can be
accepted as a working formula if one remains conscious of the larger
issues . Two writers for whom the present writer has great respect, Dr.
Emanuel Josephson and Morris Bealle, insisted on focusing on the
Rockefellers and excluding all other aspects of the World Order . This
severely limited the effect of their otherwise ground breaking work on the
Medical Monopoly.
This writer advanced a contrary view in "The World Order," fixing upon the
Rothschild monetary power, which reached a point of world control by 1885,
and its London policy group, the Royal Institute of International Affairs,
a the policy makers for what has essentially been since 1900,
re-established colonial government in the United States The colonial, or
occupation, government, functions primarily through the Council on Foreign
Relations, but only as the subsidiary of RIIA and through the Rockefeller
Foundation which controls government functions, the educational
establishments, the media, the religions and the state legislatures.
It is true that the American colonials have "free elections", in which they
have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of
whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate . This
touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most Americana that we
are indeed a free people . We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in
Philadelphia to prove it . American youth have been free since 1900 to be
marched off to die in Hegelian wars in which both combatants received their
instructions from the World Order . We are free to invest in a stock market
which the daily quantity, price and value of the monetary unit is
manipulated and controlled by a Federal Reserve System which is answerable
only to the Bank of England . It has maintained its vaunted "independence"
from our government's control, but this is the only independence it has
ever had .
The realization that we do indeed live under the dictate of
the ";Rockefeller Syndicate" can well be the starting point of the long
road back of a genuine struggle for American independence . In
exposing "the Rockefellers" as agents of a foreign power, which is not
merely a foreign power, but a genuine world government, we must realize
that this is not merely a group dedicated to making money, but a group
which committed to maintaining the power of a colonial form of government
over the American people . Thus the ancient calumny of John D. Rockefeller
as a man obsessed by greed (a category in which he has plenty of company)
obscures the act that from the day the Rothschilds began to finance his
march towards a total oil monopoly in the United States from their coffers
at the National City Bank of Cleveland, Rockefeller was never an
independent power, nor does any department of the Rockefeller Syndicate
operate as an independent power . We know that the Cosa Nostra, or Mafia,
with which the Syndicate is closely allied has somewhat autonomous power in
the regions which have been assigned to that particular ";family" by the
national directors, but this always implies that that family remains under
total control and answerable for everything which occurs in its territory .
Similarly, the Rockefeller Syndicate operates under clearly defined spheres
of influence . The "charitable" organizations, the business companies, and
the policy groups always meld into a working operation, nor can any
department of the Syndicate strike out on its own or formulate an
independent policy, no matter what may be its justification.
The Rockefeller Syndicate operates under the control of the world financial
structure, which means that on any given day, all of its assets could be
rendered close to worthless by adroit financial manipulation .&nubs; This
is the final control, which insures that no one can quit the organization .
Not only would he be stripped of all assets, but he would be under contract
for immediate assassination . Our Department of Justice is well aware that
the only "terrorists" operating in the United States are the agents of the
World Order, but they prudently avoid any mention of this fact .
The world financial structure, far from being an unknown or hidden
organization, is actually well known and well defined . It consists of the
major Swiss Banks; the survivors of the old Venetian-Genoese banking axis;
the Big Five of the world grain trade; the British combine, centered in the
Bank of England and its chartered merchant banks, functioning trough the
Rothschilds and the Oppenheimers and having absolute control over their
Canadian colony through the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Montreal,
their Canadian lieutenants being the Bronfmans, Belzbergs, and other
financial operators ; and the colonial banking structure in the United
States, controlled by the Bank of England through the Federal Reserve
System ; the Boston Brahmin families who made their fortunes in the opium
trade, including the Delanos and others and the Rockefeller Syndicate,
consisting of the Kissinger network headquartered in the Rockefeller Bank,
Chase Manhattan Bank, American Express, the present form of the old
Rothschild representatives in the United States, which includes Kuhn, Loeb
Company and Lehman Brothers .
It is notable that the Rockefeller Syndicate is far down on the list of the
world's financial structure . Why then is it of such importance ? Although
it is not the crucial factor in financial decision in the Western
Hemisphere, it is the actual working control mechanism of the American
colony . The Rockefeller family themselves, like the Morgans, Schiffs and
Warburgs, have faded into insignificance, but the mechanism created in
their name roars along at full power, still maintaining all of he functions
for which it was organized . Since he setup the Trilateral Commission,
David Rockefeller has functioned as a sort of international courier for the
World Order, principally concerned with delivering working instructions to
the Communist bloc, either directly, in New York or by traveling to the
area . Lawrence Rockefeller is active in the operation of the Medical
Monopoly, but his principal interests are in operating various vacation
spas in tropical areas . They are the two survivors of the "Fortunate
Five," the five sons of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich . John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. . died in an institution in Tucson, Arizona and was
hastily cremated . John D. Rockefeller III died in a mysterious accident on
a New York Parkway near his home . Nelson Rockefeller, named after his
grandfather, died in the arms of a TV journalist ; it was later revealed
that he had also been in the arms of another TV journalist at the same
time ; the death was hushed up for many hours . It is generally believed
that he ran afoul of his Colombian drug connection, the disagreement hardly
being trivial; it involved several billion dollars in drug profits which
had not been properly apportioned . Winthrop Rockefeller died an alcoholic
in the arms of his black boy friend. He had been interviewed on television
by Harry Reasoner to explain his hasty move from New York to Arkansas .
Winthrop leered that his black boy friend, an Army sergeant who apparently
taught him the mysteries of drill, refused to live in New York . To
celebrate this alliance, Winthrop Rockefeller gave magnificently to Negro
causes, including the Urban League building on East 48th Street in New
York. A plaque on the second floor notes that it was his gift; it might
well have stated "From Hadrian to his Antinous".
We do not wish to imply that the Rockefellers no longer have influence, but
that the major policy dictates of the Rockefeller Syndicate are handed down
by other capos, of whom they continue to be a visible force. Through the
person of David Rockefeller, the family is sometimes called "the first
family of the Soviet Union." Only he and Dr. Armand Hammer, the moving
force behind USTEC, have permanent permission to land their private planes
at the Moscow Airport . Others would suffer the fate of KAL 007 .
Both the Rockefeller family fortune and the considerable portion set aside
in the foundations of the Rockefeller Syndicate are effectively insulated
against any type of government control . Fortune magazine noted August 4,
1986, that John D. Rockefeller, Jr. had created trusts in 1934 which now
amounted to some $2.3 billion ; another $200 million had been set aside for
the Abby Rockefeller branch . The five sons had trusts which in 1986 amount
to $2.1 billion . These trusts had originally amounted to only $50 million
each, showing the increase in their assets as well as inflation during the
ensuing half century. Fortune estimated the 1986 total Rockefeller wealth
as $3.5 billion, of which $900 million was in securities and real estate .
They owned 45% of the Time Life Building ; Nelson Rockefeller's
International Basic Economy Corporation had been sold to a British company
in 1980 . For years, the Rockefeller family had deliberately kept the rents
low in its major holding, the Rockefeller Center, a $1.6 billion investment
yielding an annual return of 1% . This was a convenient maneuver, for tax
purposes . Rockefeller Center recently went public issuing stock which was
sold to public buyers . The Rockefellers are rumored to be liquidating
their investments in the New York area, and reinvesting in the West,
particularly in the area around Phoenix, Arizo! na . It is possible that
they know something we don't .
However much of the Rockefeller wealth may be attributed to old John D.'s
rapacity and ruthlessness, its origins are indubitably based in his initial
financing from the National City Bank of Cleveland, which was identified in
Congressional reports as one of the three Rothschild banks in the United
States and by his later acceptance of the guidance of Jacob Schiff of Kuhn,
Loeb & Company, who had been born in the Rothschild house in Frankfort and
was now the principal Rothschild representative (but unknown as such to the
public) in the United States .
With the seed money from the National City Bank of Cleveland, old John D.
Rockefeller soon laid claim to the title of "the most ruthless American".
It is more than likely that it was this quality which persuaded the
Rothschilds to back him . Rockefeller realized early in the game that the
oil refinery business, which could offer great profits in a short time,
also was at the mercy of uncontrolled competition. His solution was a
simple one-crush all competition . The famous Rockefeller dedication to
total monopoly was simply a business decision . Rockefeller embarked on a
campaign of coercing all competing oil refineries out of business . He
attacked on a number of fronts, which is also a lesson to all would be
entrepreneurs . First, he would send a minion, not known to be working for
Rockefeller, with an offer to buy the competing refinery for a low price,
but offering cash. If the offer was refused, the competitor would then come
under attack from a competing refinery which greatly undercut his price .
He might also suffer a sudden strike at his refinery, which would force him
to shut down . Control of labor through unions has always been a basic
Rockefeller technique . Like the Soviet Union, they seldom have labor
trouble . If these techniques failed, Rockefeller would then be saddened by
a reluctant decision to use violence; beating the rival workers as they
went to and from their jobs, or burning or blowing up the competing
refinery .
These techniques convinced the Rothschilds that they had found their man .
They sent their personal representative, Jacob Schiff, to Cleveland to help
Rockefeller plan further expansion . At this time, the Rothschilds
controlled 95% of all railroad mileage in the United States, through the
J.P. Morgan Company and Kuhn Loeb & Company according to official
Department of Commerce figures for the year 1895 . J.P.Morgan mentions in
his Who's Who listing that he controlled 50,000 miles of U.S. railways .
Schiff worked out an elaborate rebate deal for Rockefeller, through a dummy
corporation, South Improvement Company . These rebates ensured that no
other oil company could survive in competition with the Rockefeller firm .
The scheme was later exposed, but by that time Rockefeller had achieved a
virtual monopoly of the oil business in the United States . The daughter of
one of his victims, Ida Tarbell, whose father was ruined by Rockefeller's
criminal operations, wrote the first major expose of the Standard Oil Trust
She was promptly denounced as a "muckraker" by the poseur, Theodore
Roosevelt, who claimed to be a "trust buster". In fact, he ensured the
dominance of the Standard Oil Trust and other giant trusts .
During the next half century, John D. Rockefeller was routinely caricatured
by socialist propagandists as the epitome of the ruthless capitalist . At
the same time, he was the principal financier of the world Communist
movement, through a firm called American International Company Despite the
fact that the House of Rothschild had already achieved world control, the
sound and fury was directed exclusively against its two principal,
representatives, John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan. One of the few
revelations of the actual state of affairs appeared in Truth magazine,
December 16, 1912, which pointed out that "Mr. Schiff is head of the great
private banking house of Kuhn, Loeb &Company, which represents the
Rothschild interests on this side of the Atlantic . He is described as a
financial strategist and has been for years the financial minister of the
great impersonal power known as Standard Oil." Note that this editor did
not even mention the name of Rockefeller .
Because of these concealed factors, it was a relatively simple matter for
the American public to accept the "fact" that the Rockefellers were the
preeminent power in this country . This myth was actually clothed in the
apparel of power, the Rockefeller Oil Trust becoming
the "military-industrial complex" which assumed political control of the
nation ; the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly attained control of the health
care of the nation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, a web of affiliated tax
exempt creations, effectively controlled the religious and educational life
of the nation . The myth succeeded in its goal of camouflaging the hidden
rulers, the Rothschilds .
After the present writer had been exposing this charade for some twenty-five
years, a new myth began to be noised about in American conservative
circles, effectively propagated by active double agents . This myth found a
host of eager believers, because it heralded a growing crack in the
monolithic power which had been oppressing all the peoples of the world .
This new "revelation" was that a struggle to the death for world power had
developed between the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds . According to this
startling development, one faction or the other, depending on which agent
you were listening to, had gained control of the Soviet Union and would use
its power as the basis for achieving the overthrow of the other faction .
The sudden death of several members of the Rockefeller family was cited
as "proof" that such a struggle was taking place, although no Rothschild is
known to have succumbed during this "war". This ignored the general
understanding that Nelson Rockefeller had been "eliminated" as the result
of losing deposit slips for several billion dollars of drugs from the
Colombian cartel, or that the other Rockefeller deaths showed no trace of
a "Rothschild connection".
Having maintained extensive files on this situation for several decades, the
present writer could not believe anyone could be so misinformed as to think
that "the Rockefellers" were now trying to seize power from the
Rothschilds, at a time when the influence of members of the Rockefeller
family was already in great decline, their family finances being handled by
J. Richardson Dilworth, their legal affairs being handled by John J.
McCloy, and other faithful retainers; none of these retainers would have
been willing to engage in a genuine power struggle, as they were faceless
managers who lived only for their weekly paycheck . They had no ambitions
of their own . Nevertheless, many hopeful Americans grasped the
will-o-the-wisp notion that the Rockefellers were now "good Americans" who
were willing to risk all to overthrow the Rothschilds . Amazingly enough,
this pernicious story persisted for almost a decade before being relegated
to the curiosities of history .
Like J.P. Morgan, who had begun his commercial career by selling the U.S.
Army some defective guns, the famous fall carbine affair, John D.
Rockefeller also was a war profiteer during the Civil War ; he sold
unstamped Harkness liquor to Federal troops at a high profit, gaining the
initial capital to embark on his drive for monopoly . His interest in the
oil business was a natural one; his father, William Rockefeller had
been "in oil" for years . William Rockefeller had become an oil
entrepreneur after salt wells at Tarentum, near Pittsburgh, were discovered
in 1842 to be flowing with oil . The owners of the wells, Samuel L. Kier,
began to bottle the oil and sell it for medicinal purposes . One of his
earliest wholesalers was William Rockefeller. The "medicine" was originally
labeled "Kier's Magic Oil". Rockefeller printed his own labels, using "Rock
Oil" or "Seneca Oil," Seneca being the name of a well known Indian tribe .
Rockefeller achieved his greatest notoriety and his greatest profits by
advertising himself as "William Rockefeller, the Celebrated Cancer
Specialist". It is understandable that his grandsons would become the
controlling power behind the scenes of the world's most famous cancer
treatment center and would direct government funds and charitable
contributions to those areas which only benefit the Medical Monopoly .
William Rockefeller spared no claim in his flamboyant career . He
guaranteed "All Cases of Cancer Cured Unless They Are Too Far Gone." Such
were the healing powers that he attributed to his magic cancer cure that he
vas able to retail it for $25 a bottle, a sum then equivalent to two
months' wages . The "cure" consisted of a few well known diuretics, which
had been diluted by water . This carnival medicine show barker could hardly
have envisioned that his descendants would control the greatest and the
most profitable Medical Monopoly in recorded history .
As an itinerant "carnie," a traveling carnival peddler, William Rockefeller
had chosen a career which interfered with developing a stable family life .
His son John rarely saw him, a circumstance which has inspired some
psychological analysts a conjecture that the absence of a father figure or
parental love may have contributed to John D. Rockefeller's subsequent
development as a money mad tyrant who plotted to maim, poison and kill
millions of his fellow American during almost century of his monopolistic
operations and whose influence, reaching up from the grave, remains the
most dire and malignant presence in American life. This may have been a
contributing factor-however, it is also possible that he was totally evil .
It is hardly arguable that he is probably the most Satanic figure in
American history .
It has long been a truism that you can find a horse thief or two in any
prominent American family . In the Rockefeller family it was more than a
truism . William seems to have faithfully followed the prece! pts of the
Will of Canaan throughout his career, "love robbery, love lechery." He fled
from a number of indictments for horse stealing, finally disappearing
altogether as William Rockefeller and re-emerging as Dr. William Levingston
of Philadelphia, a name which he retained for the rest of his life . An
investigative reporter at Joseph Pulitzer's New York World received a tip
that was followed up . The World then disclosed that William Avery
Rockefeller had died May 11, 1906 in Freeport, Illinois, where he was
interred in an unmarked grave as Dr. William Levingston .
William Rockefeller's vocation as a medicine man greatly facilitated his
preferred profession of horse thief . As one who planned to be in the next
county by morning, it was a simple matter to tie a handsome stallion to the
back of his wagon and head for the open road . It also played a large part
in his vocation as a woman-chaser ; he was described as being "woman-mad".
He not only concluded several bigamous marriages, but he seems to have had
uncontrolled passions . On June 28, 1849, he was indicted for raping a
hired girl in Cayuga, New York ; he later was found to be residing in
Oswego, New York and was forced once again to decamp for parts unknown . He
had no difficulty in financing his woman-chasing interests from the sale of
his miraculous cancer cure and from another product, his "Wonder Working
Liniment," which he offered at only two dollars a bottle. It consisted of
crude petroleum from which the lighter oils had been boiled away, leaving a
heavy solution of paraffin, lube oil and tar, which comprised
the "liniment." William Rockefeller's original miracle oil survived until
quite recently as a concoction called Nujol, consisting principally of
petroleum and peddled as a laxative . It was well known that Nujol was
merely an advertisi! ng sobriquet meaning "new oil," as opposed,
apparently, to "old oil". Sold as an antidote to constipation, it robbed
the body of fat-soluble vitamins, it being a well-established medical fact
that mineral oil coated the intestine and prevented the absorption of many
needed vitamins and other nutritional needs . Its makers added carotene as
a sop to the health-conscious, but it was hardly worth the bother . Nujol
was manufactured by a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, called
Stanco, whose only other product, manufactured on the same premises, was
the famous insecticide, Flit.
Nujol was hawked from the Senate Office Building in Washington for years
during a more liberal interpretation of "conflict of interest." In this
case, it was hardly a conflict of interest, because the august peddler,
Senator Royal S. Copeland, never had any interests other than serving the
Rockefellers . He was a physician whom Rockefeller had appointed as head of
the New York State Department of Health and later financed his campaign for
the Senate . Copeland's frank display of commercialism amazed even the most
blasé Washington reporters. He devoted his Senate career to a daily program
advertising Nujol . A microphone was set up in his Senate office each
morning, the first order of business being the Nujol program, for which he
was paid $75,000 a year, an enormous salary in the 1930s and more than the
salary of the President of the United States . Senator Copeland's exploits
earned him a number of nicknames on Capitol Hill . He was often called the
Senator from the American Medical Association, because of his enthusiastic
backing for any program launched by the AMA and Morris Fishbein . More
realistically, he was usually referred to as "the Senator from Standard
Oil". He could be counted on to promote any legislation devised for the
greater profit of the Rockefeller monopoly . During congressional debate on
the Food and Drug Act in 1938, he came under criticism from Congresswoman
Leonor Sullivan, who charged that Senator Copeland, a physician who handled
the bill on the Senate floor, frankly acknowledged during the debate that
soap was exempted from the law, because the soap manufacturers, who were
the nation's largest advertisers, would otherwise join with other big
industries to fight the bill . Congresswoman Sullivan complained the "Soap
was officially declared in the law not to be a cosmetic . . . The hair dye
manufacturers were given license to market known dangerous products, just
so long as they placed a special warning on the label-but what woman in a
beauty parlor ever sees the label on the bulk container in which hair dye
is shipped ?"
Just as the elder Rockefeller had spent his life in the pursuit of his
personal obsession, omen, so his son John was equally obsessed, being
money-mad instead of women-mad, totally committed to the pursuit of
ever-increasing wealth and power . However, the principal accomplishments
of the Rockefeller drive for power, the rebate scheme for monopoly, the
chartering of the foundations to gain power over American citizens, the
creation of the central bank, the Federal Reserve System, the backing of
the World Communist revolution and the creation of the Medical Monopoly,
all came from the Rothschilds or from their European employees . We cannot
find in the records of John D. Rockefeller that he originated any one of
these programs . The concept of the tax exempt charitable foundation
originated with the Rothschild minion, George Peabody, in 1865 . The
Peabody Educational Foundation later became the Rockefeller Foundation . It
is unlikely that even the diabolical mind of John D. Rockefeller could have
conceived of this devious twist . A social historian has described the
major development of the late nineteenth century, when charitable
foundations and world Communism became important movements, as one of the
more interesting facets of history, perhaps equivalent to the discovery of
the wheel . This new discovery was the concept developed by the rats, who
after all have rather highly developed intelligence's, that they could trap
people by baiting traps with little bits of cheese . The history of mankind
since then has been the rats catching humans in their traps .
Socialism-indeed any government program-is simply the rat baiting the trap
with a smidgen of cheese and catching himself a human .
Congressman Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking and Currency
Committee, noted from the floor of Congress that the establishment of the
Rockefeller Foundation effectively insulated Standard Oil from
competition . The controlling stock had been removed from market
manipulation or possible buy-outs by competitors . It also relieved
Standard Oil from most taxation, which then placed a tremendous added
burden on individual American taxpayers . Although a Rockefeller relative
by marriage, Senator Nelson Aldrich, Republican majority leader in the
Senate, had pushed the General Education Board charter through Congress,
the Rockefeller Foundation charter proved to be more difficult . Widespread
criticism of Rockefeller's monopolistic practices was heard, and his effort
to insulate his profits from taxation or takeover was seen for what it
was . The charter was finally pushed through in 1913 (the significant
Masonic numeral 13-1913 was also the year the progressive income tax and of
the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act) . Senator Robert F. Wagner of New
York, another senator from Standard Oil (there were quite a few), ramrodded
the Congressional approval of the charter The charter was then signed by
John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Henry Pratt Judson,
president of the Rockefeller established University of Chicago, Simon
Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute, Starr Jameson, described in
Who's Who as "personal counsel to John D. Rockefeller in his benevolences,"
and Charles W Eliot, president of Harvard University.
The Rockefeller Oil Monopoly is now 125 years old, yet in 1911, the Supreme
Court, bowing to public outrage, had ruled that it had to be broken up .
The resulting companies proved to be no problem for the Rockefeller
interests . The family retained a two per cent holding in each of the "new"
companies, while the Rockefeller foundations took a three per cent stock
holding in each company . This gave them a five per cent stock interest in
each company ;&n! bsp; a one per cent holding in a corporation is usually
sufficient to maintain working control.
The involvement of the Rockefellers in promoting the world Communist
Revolution also developed from their business interests . There was never
any commitment to the Marxist ideology ; like anything else, it was there
to be used . At the turn of the century Standard Oil was competing fiercely
with Royal Dutch Shell for control of the lucrative European market .
Congressional testimony revealed that Rockefeller had sent large sums to
Lenin and Trotsky to instigate the Communist Revolution of 1905 . His
banker, Jacob Schiff, had previously financed the Japanese in their war
against Russia and had sent a personal emissary, George Kennan to Russia to
spend some twenty years in promoting revolutionary activity against the
Czar . When the Czar abdicated, Trotsky was placed on a ship with three
hundred Communist revolutionaries from the Lower East Side of New York .
Rockefeller obtained a special passport for Trotsky from Woodrow Wilson and
sent Lincoln Steffens with him to make sure he was returned safely to
Russia . For traveling expenses, Rockefeller placed a purse containing
$10,000 in Trotsky's pocket .
On April 13, 1917, when the ship stopped in Halifax, Canadian Secret Service
officers immediately arrested Trotsky and interned him in Nova Scotia . The
case became an international cause celebre, as leading government officials
from several nations frantically demanded Trotsky's release . The Secret
Service had been tipped off that Trotsky was on his way to take Russia out
of the war, freeing more German armies to attack Canadian troops on the
Western Front . Prime Minister Lloyd George hurriedly cabled orders from
London to the Canadian Secret Service to free Trotsky at once--they ignored
him . Trotsky was finally freed by the intervention of one of Rockefeller's
most faithful stooges, Canadian Minister Mackenzie King, who had long been
a "labor specialist" for the Rockefellers . King personally obtained
Trotsky' s release and sent him on his way as the emissary of the
Rockefellers, commissioned to win the Bolshevik Revolution . Thus Dr.
Armand Hammer, who loudly proclaims his influence in Russia as the friend
of Lenin, has an insignificant claim compared to the role of the
Rockefellers in backing world Communism . Although Communism, like other
isms, had originated with Marx's association with the House of Rothschild,
it enlisted the reverent support of John D. Rockefeller because he saw
Communism for what it is, the ultimate monopoly, not only controlling the
government, the monetary system and all property, but also a monopoly
which, like the corporations it emulates, is self-perpetuating and
eternal ! ; It was the logical progression from his Standard Oil monopoly .
An important step on the road to world monopoly was the most far-reaching
corporation invented by the Rothschilds . This was the international drug
and chemical cartel, I.G. Farben . Called "a state within a state," it was
created in 1925 as Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktien
gesellschaft, usually known as I.G. Farben, which simply meant "The
Cartel". It had originated in 1904, when the six major chemical companies
in Germany began negotiations to form the ultimate cartel, merging Badische
Anilin, Bayer, Agfa, Hoechst, Weiler-ter-Meer, and Greisheim-Electron . The
guiding spirit, as well as the financing, came from the Rothschilds, who
were represented by their German banker, Max Warburgs, of M.M. Warburg
Company, Hamburg . He later headed the German Secret Service during World
War I and was personal financial adviser to the Kaiser . When the Kaiser
was overthrown, after losing the war, Max Warburg was not exiled with him
to Holland, instead he became the financial adviser to the new government .
Monarchs may come and go, but the real power remains with the bankers .
While representing Germany at the Paris Peace Conference, Max Warburg spent
pleasant hours renewing family ties with his brother, Paul Warburg, who,
after drafting the Federal Reserve Act at Jekyll Island, had headed the
U.S. banking system during the war . He was in Paris as Woodrow Wilson's
financial advisor .
I.G. Farben soon had a net worth of six billion marks, controlling some five
hundred firms . Its first president was Professor Carl Bosch . During the
period of the Weimar Republic, I.G. officials, seeing the handwriting on
the wall, began a close association with Adolf Hitler, supplying much
needed funds and political influence . The success of the I.G. Farben
cartel had aroused the interest of other industrialists . Henry Ford was
favorably impressed and set up a German branch of Ford Motor Company .
Forty per cent of the stock was purchased by I.G. Farben . I.G. Farben then
established an American subsidiary, called American I.G., in cooperation
with Standard Oil of New Jersey . Its directors included Walter Teagle,
president of Standard Oil, Paul Warburg of Kuhn Loeb & Company and Edsel
Ford, representing the Ford interests. John Foster Dulles, for the law
firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, became the attorney for I.G., frequently
traveling between New York and Berlin on cartel business . His law partner,
Arthur Dean, is now director of the $40 million Teagle Foundation which was
set up before Teagle's death . Like other fortunes it had become part of
the network . Like John Foster Dulles, Arthur Dean has been a director of
American Banknote for many years; this is the firm which supplies the paper
for our dollar bills . Dean also has been an active behind the scenes
government negotiator, serving as arms negotiator at disarmament
conferences . Dean was also a director of Rockefeller's American Ag & Chem
Company . He was a director of American Solvay, American Metal and other
firms . As attorney for the wealthy Hochschild family, who owned Climax
Molybdenum and American Metal, Dean became director of their family
foundation, the Hochschild Foundation . Dean is director emeritus of the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Foundation, International House,
Carnegie Foundation, and the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
In 1930, Standard Oil announced that it had purchased an alcohol monopoly in
Germany, a deal which had been set up by I.G. Farben . After Hitler came to
power, John D. Rockefeller assigned his personal press agent, Ivy ! Lee, to
Hitler to serve as a full-time adviser on the rearmament of Germany, a
necessary step for setting up World War II . Standard Oil then built large
refineries in Germany for the Nazis and continued to supply them with oil
during World War II . In the 1930s Standard Oil was receiving in payment
from Germany large shipments of musical instruments and ships which had
been built in German yards .
The dreaded Gestapo, the Nazi police force, was actually built from the
worldwide intelligence network which I.G. Farben had maintained since its
inception . Herman Schmitz, who had succeeded Carl Bosch as head of I.G.,
has been personal advisor to chancellor Brüning; when Hitler took over,
Schmitz then became his most trusted secret counselor . So well concealed
was the association that the press had orders never to photograph them
together . Schmitz was named an honorary member of the Reichstag, while his
assistant, Carl Krauch, became Göring's principal advisor in carrying out
the Nazis' Four Year Plan A business associate, Richard Krebs, later
testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, "The I.G.
Farbenindustrie, I know from personal experience, was already, in 1934,
completely in the hands of the Gestapo." This was a misstatement ; the I.G.
Farben had merely allied itself with the Gestapo .
In 1924 Krupp Industries was in serious financial difficulty; the firm was
saved by a $10 million cash loan from Hallgarten & Company and Goldman
Sachs, two of Wall Street's best known firms . The planned re-armament of
Germany was able to proceed only after Dillon Read floated $100 million of
German bonds on Wall Street for that purpose .&nubs; It was hardly
surprising that at the conclusion of the Second World War, General William
Draper was appointed Economic Czar of Germany, being named head of the
Economic Division of the Allied Military Government . He was a partner of
Dillon Read .
In 1939 Frank Howard, a vice-president of Standard Oil visited Germany . He
later testified, "We did our best to work out complete plans for a modus
vivendi which would operate throughout the term of the war, whether we came
in or not." At this time American I.G. had on its board of directors
Charles Mitchell, president of the National City Bank, the Rockefeller
bank, Carl Bosch, Paul Warburg, Herman Schmitz and Schmitz' nephew, Max
Ilgner .
Although his name is hardly known, Frank Howard was for many years a key
figure in Standard Oil operations as director of its research and its
international agreements . He also was chairman of the research committee
at Sloan Kettering Institute during the 1930s; his appointee at Sloan
Kettering, Dusty Rhoads, headed the experimentation in the development of
chemotherapy . During the Second World War Rhoads headed the Chemical
Warfare Service in Washington at U.S. Army Headquarters . It was Frank
Howard who had persuaded both Alfred Sloan and Charles Kettering of General
Motors in 1939 to give their fortunes to the Cancer Center, which then took
on their names . A member of the wealthy Atherton family, Frank Howard
(1891-1964) had married a second time, his second wife being a leading
member of the British aristocracy, the Duchess of Leeds . The first Duke of
Leeds was titled in 1694, Sir Thomas Osborne, who was one of the key
conspirators in the overthrow of King James II and the seizure of the
throne of England by William III in 1688 .&nubs; Osborne had made peace
with Holland during the reign of King Charles II, and single-handedly
promoted the marriage of Mary, daughter of the Duke of York, to William of
Orange in 1677 . The Dictionary of National Biography notes that
Osborne "for five years managed the House of Commons by corruption and
enriched himself." He was impeached by King Charles II for treasonous
negotiations with King Louis XIV and imprisoned in the Tower of London from
1678 to 1684 . After his release, he again became active in the conspiracy
to bring in William of Orange as King of England and secured the crucial
province of York for him. William then created him Duke of Leeds . The
placing of William on the throne of England made it possible for the
conspirators to implement the crucial step in their plans, setting up the
Bank of England in 1694 . This enabled the Amsterdam bankers to gain
control of the wealth of the British Empire . Osborne's biography also
notes that he was later accused of Jacobite intrigues and was impeached for
receiving a large bribe to procure the charter for the East India Company
in 1695, but "the proceedings were not concluded". It was further noted
that he "left a large fortune".
The 11th Duke of Leeds was Minister to Washington from 1931 to 1935,
Minister to the Holy See from 1936 to 1947, that is, throughout the Second
World War . One branch of the family married into the Delano family,
becoming relatives of Franklin Delano Roosevelt . A cousin, Viscount
Chandos, was a prominent British official, serving in the War Cabinet under
Churchill from 1942 to 1945, later becoming a director of the Rothschild
firm, Alliance Assurance, and Imperial Chemical Industries .
Frank Howard was the key official in maintaining relations between Standard
Oil and I.G. Farben . He led in the development of synthetic rubber, which
was crucial to Germany in the Second World War; he later wrote a
book, "Buna Rubber". He also was the consultant to the drug firm, Rohm and
Haas, representing the Rockefeller connection with that firm . In his later
years, he resided in Paris, but continued to maintain his office at 30
Rockefeller Center, New York .
Walter Teagle, the president of Standard Oil, owned 500,000 shares of
American I.G., these shares later becoming the basis of the Teagle
Foundation . Herman Metz, who was also a director of American I.G., was
president of H.A. Metz Company, New York, a drug firm wholly owned by I.G
Farben of Germany . Francis Garvan, who had served as Alien Property
Custodian during the First World War, knew many secrets of I.G. Farben's
operations . He was prosecuted in 1929 to force him to remain silent . The
action was brought by the Department of Justice through Attorney General
Merton Lewis, the former counsel for Bosch Company . John Krim, former
counsel for the German Embassy in the United States, testified that Senator
John King had been on the payroll of the Hamburg American Line for three
years at a salary of fifteen thousand dollars a year; he appointed Otto
Kahn as treasurer of his election fund; Homer Cummings, who had been
Attorney General for six years, then became counsel for General Aniline and
Film at a salary of $100,000 a year.
During the Second World War, GAF was supposedly owned by a Swiss firm; it
came under considerable suspicion as an "enemy" concern and was finally
taken over by the United States government . John Foster Dulles had been
director of GAF from 1927 to 1934; he was also a director of International
Nickel, which was part of the network of I.G Farben firms . Dulles was
related to the Rockefeller family through the Avery connection . He was
attorney for the organization of a new investment firm, set up by Avery
Rockefeller, in 1936 which was called Schröder-Rockefeller Company . It
combined operations of the Schröder Bank, Hitler's personal bank and the
Rockefeller interests . Baron Kurt von Schröder was one of Hitler's closest
confidantes, and a leading officer of the SS . He was head of the Keppler
Associates, which funneled money to the SS for leading German
Corporations . Keppler was the official in charge of Industrial Fats during
Göring's Four Year Plan, which was launched in 1936. American I.G. changed
its name to General Aniline and Film during the Second World War, but it
was still wholly owned by I.G. Chemie of Switzerland, a subsidiary of I.G.
Farben of Germany . It was headed by Gadow, brother-in-law of Herman
Schmitz . I.G. Farben's international agreements directly affected the U.S.
war effort, because they set limits on U.S. supplies of magnesium,
synthetic rubber and, crucial medical supplies . The director of I.G.
Farben's dyestuffs division, Baron George von Schnitzler, was related to
the powerful von Rath family, the J.H. Stein Bankhaus which held Hitler's
account and the von Mallinckrodt family, the founders of the drug firm in
the United States .
Like other I.G. officials, he had become an enthusiastic supporter of the
Hitler regime . I.G. Farben gave four and a half million reichsmarks to the
Nazi Party in 1933 ; by 1945, I.G. had given the Party 40 million
reichsmarks, a sum which equaled all contributions by I.G. to all other
recipients during that period . One scholar of the Nazi era, Anthony
Sutton, has focused heavily on German supporters of Hitler, while ignoring
the crucial role played by the Bank of England and its Governor, Sir
Montague Norman, in financing the Nazi regime . ; Sutton's position on this
problem may have been influenced by the fact that he is British . In view
of the outspoken statements from Adolf Hitler about Jewish influence in
Germany, it would be difficult to explain the role of I.G. Farben in the
Nazi era . Peter Hayes' definitive study of I.G. Farben shows that in 1933
it had ten Jews on its governing boards . We have previously pointed out
that I.G., from its inception was a Rothschild concern, formulated by the
House of Rothschild and implemented through its agents, Max Warburg in
Germany and Standard Oil in the United States .
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands joined the SS during the early 1930s . He
then joined the board of an I.G. subsidiary, Farben Bilder, from which he
took the name of his postwar super-secret policy making group, the
Bilderbergers . Farben executives played an important role in organizing
the Circle of Friends for Heinrich Himmler, although it was initially known
as Keppler's Circle of Friends, Keppler being the chairman of an I.G.
subsidiary . His nephew, Fritz J. Kranefuss, was the personal assistant to
Heinrich Himmler . Of the forty members of the Circle of Friends, which
provided ample funds for Himmler, eight were executives of I.G. Farben or
of its subsidiaries .
Despite the incredible devastation of most German cities from World War II
air bombings, the I.G . Farben building in Frankfort, one of the largest
buildings there, miraculously survived intact . A large Rockefeller mansion
in Frankfort also was left untouched by the war, despite the saturation
bombing . Frankfort was the birthplace of the Rothschild family . It was
hardly coincidental that the postwar government of Germany, Allied Military
Government, should set up its offices in the magnificent I.G. Farben
building . This government was headed by General Lucius Clay, who later
became a partner of Lehman Brothers bankers in New York . The Political
Division was headed by Robert Murphy, who would preside at the Nüremberg
Trials, where he was successful in glossing over the implication of I.G.
Farben officials and Baron Kurt von Schröder . Schröder was held a short
time in a detention camp and then set free to return to his banking
business . ; The Economic Division was headed by Lewis Douglas, son of the
founder of Memorial Cancer center in New York, president of Mutual Life and
director of General Motors . Douglas was slated to become U.S. High
Commissioner for Germany, but he agreed to step aside in favor of his
brother-in-law, John J. McCloy . By an interesting circumstance, Douglas,
McCloy and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of Germany had all married sisters,
the daughters of John Zinsser, a partner of J.P. Morgan Company .
As the world's pre-eminent cartel, I.G. Farben and the drug companies which
it controlled in the United States through the Rockefeller interests were
responsible for many inexplicable developments in the production and
distribution of drugs . From 1908 to 1936 I.G. held back its discovery of
sulfanilamide, which would become a potent weapon in the medical arsenal .
In 1920, I.G. had signed working agreements with the important drug firms
of Switzerland, Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy . In 1926, I.G. merged with
Dynamit-Nobel, the German branch of the dynamite firm, while an English
firm took over the English division . I.G. officials then began to
negotiate with Standard Oil officials about the prospective manufacture of
synthetic coal, which would present a serious threat to Standard Oil's
monopoly . A compromise was reached with the establishment of American
I.G., in which both firms would play an active role and share in the
profits .
Charles Higham's book, "Trading with the Enemy," offers ample documentation
of the Rockefeller activities during the Second World War . While Hitler's
bombers were dropping tons of explosives on London, they were paying
royalties on every gallon of gasoline they burned to Standard Oil, under
existing patent agreements . After World War II, when Queen Elizabeth
visited the United States, she stayed in only one private home during her
visit, the Kentucky estate of William Irish, of Standard Oil . Nelson
Rockefeller moved to Washington after our involvement in World War II,
where Roosevelt named him Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs .
Apparently his principal task was to coordinate the refueling of German
ships in South America from Standard Oil tanks . He also used this office
to obtain important South American concessions for his private firm,
International Basic Economy Corporation, including a corner on the
Colombian coffee market . He promptly upped the price, a move which enabled
him to buy seven billion dollars worth of real estate in South America and
also gave rise to the stereotype of the "Yanqui imperialismo". The attack
on Vice President Nixon's automobile when he visited South America was
explained by American officials as a direct result of the depredations of
the Rockefellers, which caused widespread agitation against Americans in
Latin America .
After World War II, twenty-four German executives were prosecuted by the
victors, all of them connected with I.G. Farben, including eleven officers
of I.G . Eight were acquitted, including Max Ilgner, nephew of Herman
Schmitz . Schmitz received the most severe sentence, eighty years . Ilgner
actually received three years, but the time was credited against his time
in jail waiting for trial, and he was immediately released . The Judge was
C.G. Shake and the prosecuting attorney was Al Minskoff .
The survival of I.G. Farben was headlined by the Wall Street Journal on May
3, 1988-GERMANY BEATS WORLD IN CHEMICAL SALES Reporter Thomas F. O'Boyle
listed the world's top five chemical companies in 1987 as 1. BASF $25.8
billion dollars . 2. Bayer $23.6 billion dollars . 3 . Hoechst $23.5
billion dollars . 4. ICI $20 billion dollars . 5. DuPont $17 billion
dollars in chemical sales only .
The first three companies are the firms resulting from the "dismantling" of
I.G. Farben from 1945 to 1952 by the Allied Military Government, in a
process suspiciously similar to the "dismantling" of the Standard Oil
empire by court edict in 1911 . The total sales computed in dollars of the
three spin-offs of I.G. Farben, some $72 billion, dwarfs its nearest
rivals, ICI and DuPont, who together amount to about half of the Farben
empire's dollar sales in 1987 . Hoechst bought Celanese corp . in 1987 for
$2.72 billion .
O'Boyle notes that "The Big Three (Farben spin-offs) still behave like a
cartel . Each dominates specific areas; head to head competition is
limited . Critics suspect collusion . At the least, there's a coziness that
doesn' t exist in the U.S. chemical industry."
After the war, Americans were told they must support an "altruistic" plan to
rebuild devastated Europe, to be called the Marshall Plan, after Chief of
Staff George Marshall, who had been labeled on the floor of the Senate by
Senator Joseph McCarthy as "a living lie". The Marshall Plan proved to be
merely another Rockefeller Plan to loot the American taxpayer . On December
13, 1948, Col. Robert McCormick, editor of the Chicago Tribune, personally
denounced Esso's looting of the Marshall Plan in a signed editorial . The
Marshall Plan had been rushed through Congress by a powerful and vocal
group, headed by Winthrop Aldrich, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank
and Nelson Rockefeller's brother-in-law, ably seconded by Nelson
Rockefeller and William Clayton, the head of Anderson, Clayton Company .
The Marshall Plan proved to be but one of a number of lucrative postwar
swindles, which included the Bretton Woods Agreement, United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation and others .
After World War II, the Rockefellers used their war profits to buy a large
share of Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, an African copper lode owned by
Belgian interest, including the Societe Generale, a Jesuit controlled
bank . Soon after their investment, the Rockefellers launched a bold
attempt to seize total control of the mines through sponsoring a local
revolution, using as their agent the Grangesberg operation . This
enterprise had originally been developed by Sir Ernest Cassel, financial
advisor to King Edward VII-Cassel's daughter later married Lord
Mountbatten, a member of the British royal family, who was also related to
the Rothschilds . Grangesberg was now headed by Bo Hammarskjold, whose
brother, Dag Hammarskjold was then Secretary General of the United
Nations-Bo Hammarskjold became a casualty of the Rockefeller revolution
when his plane was shot down during hostilities in the Congo . ; Various
stories have since circulated about who killed him and why he was killed .
The Rockefeller intervention in the Congo was carried out by their able
lieutenants, Dean Rusk and George Ball of the State Department and by
Fowler Hamilton .
In the United States, the Rockefeller interests continue to play the major
political role . Old John D. Rockefeller's treasurer at Standard Oil,
Charles Pratt, bequeathed his New York mansion to the Council on Foreign
Relations as its world headquarters . His grandson, George Pratt Shultz, is
now Secretary of State . The Rockefellers also wielded a crucial role
through their financing of the Trotskyite Communist group in the United
States, the League for Industrial Democracy, w! hose directors include such
staunch "anti-Communists" as Jeane Kirkpatrick and Sidney Hook . The
Rockefellers were also active on the "right-wing" front through their
sponsorship of the John Birch Society . To enable Robert Welch, a 32nd
degree Mason, to devote all of his time to the John Birch Society, Nelson
Rockefeller purchased his family firm, the Welch Candy Company, from him at
a handsome price .&nubs; Welch chose the principal officers of the John
Birch Society from his acquaintances at the Council On Foreign Relations .
For years afterwards, American patriots were puzzled by the consistent
inability of the John Birch Society to move forward on any of its
well-advertised "anti-Communist" goals . The fact that the society had been
setup at the behest of the backers of the world Communist revolution may
have played some role in this development . Other patriots wondered why
most American conservative writers, including the present writer, were
steadily blacklisted by the John Birch Society for some thirty
years .&nubs; Despite thousands of requests from would be book buyers, the
John Birch Society refused to review or list any of my books . After
several decades of futility, the Society was totally discredited by its own
record . In a desperate effort to restore its image, William Buckley, the
CIA propagandist, launched a "fierce" attack against the John Birch Society
in the pages of his magazine, the National Review
The Rockefeller monopoly influence has had its effect on some of New York's
largest and wealthiest churches . Trinity Church on Wall Street, whose
financial resources had been directed by none other than J.P. Morgan, owns
some forty commercial properties in Manhattan and has a stock portfolio of
$50 million, which, due to informed investment, actually yields a return of
$25 million a year! Only $2.6 million of this income is spent for
charitable work . The rector, why receives a salary of $100,000 a year,
lives on the fashionable Upper East Side . Trinity's mausoleum sells its
spaces at fees starting at $1250 and rising to $20,000 . St. Bartholomew,
on Fifth Avenue, has an annual budget of $3.2 million a year of which only
$100,000 is spent on charity .&nubs; Its rector resides in a thirteen room
apartment on Park Avenue .
In medicine, the Rockefeller influence remains entrenched in its Medical
Monopoly . We have mentioned its control of the cancer industry through the
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center . We have listed the directors of the major
drug firms, each with its director from Chase Manhattan Bank, the Standard
Oil Company or other Rockefeller firms . The American College of Surgeons
maintains a monopolistic control of hospitals through the powerful Hospital
Survey Committee, with members Winthrop Aldrich and David McAlpine Pyle
representing the Rockefeller control .
A medical fraternity known as the "rich man's club," the New York Academy of
Medicine, was offered grants for a new building by the Rockefeller
Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation, its subsidiary group . This "seed
money" was then used to finance a public campaign which brought in funds to
erect a new building . For Director of the new facility, the Rockefellers
chose Dr. Lindsly Williams, son-in-law of the managing partner of Kidder,
Peabody, a firm strongly affiliated with the J.P. Morgan interests (the
J.P. Morgan Company had originally been called the Peabody Company) .
Williams was married to Grace Kidder Ford . Although Dr. Williams was
widely known to be an incompetent physician, his family connections were
impeccable . He became a factor in Franklin D. Roosevelt's election
campaign when he publicly certified that Roosevelt, a cripple in a
wheelchair who suffered from a number of oppressive ailments, was both
physically and mentally fit to be the President of United States . Dr.
Williams' opinion, published in an article in the widely circulated
Collier's Magazine, allayed public doubts about Roosevelt's condition . As
a result, Williams was to be offered a newly created post in Roosevelt's
cabinet, Secretary of Health . However, it was another thirty years before
Health became a cabinet post, due to the politicking of Oscar Ewing .
The Rockefellers had greatly extended their business interests in their
impoverished Southern states by establishing the Rockefeller Sanitary
Commission . It was headed by Dr. Wickliffe Rose, a longtime Rockefeller
henchman whose name appears on the original charter of the Rockefeller
Foundation . Despite its philanthropic goals, the Rockefeller Sanitary
Commission required financial contributions from each of the eleven
Southern states in which it operated, resulting in the creation of State
Departments of Health in those states and opening up important new spheres
of influence for their Drug Trust . In Tennessee, the Rockefeller
representative was a Dr. Olin West, who moved on to Chicago to become the
power behind the scenes at the American Medical Association for forty
years, as secretary and general manager .
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research finally dropped the "Medical
Research" part of its title ; its president, Dr. Detlev Bronk, resided in a
$600,000 mansion furnished by this charitable operation . Rockefeller's
general Education Board has spent more than $100 million to gain control of
the nation's medical schools and turn our physicians to physician! s of the
allopathic school, dedicated to surgery and the heavy use of drugs . The
Board, which had developed from the original Peabody Foundation, also spent
some $66 million for Negro education .
One of the most far-reaching consequences of the General Education Board's
political philosophy was achieved with a mere six million dollar grant to
Columbia University in 1917, to set up the "progressive" Lincoln School .
>From this school descended the national network of progressive educators
and social scientists, whose pernicious influence closely paralleled the
goals of the Communist Party, another favorite recipient of the Rockefeller
millions . From its outset, the Lincoln School was described frankly as a
revolutionary school for the primary and secondary schools of the entire
United States . It immediately discarded all theories of education which
were based on formal and well-established disciplines, that is, the
McGuffey Reader type of education which worked by teaching such subjects as
Latin and algebra, thus teaching children to think logically about
problems . Rockefeller biographer Jules Abel hails the Lincoln School as "a
beacon light in progressive education ".
Rockefeller Institute financial fellowships produced many prominent workers
in our atomic programs, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was later
removed from government laboratories as a suspected Soviet agent .&nubs;
Although most of his friends and associates were known Soviet agents, this
was called "guilt by association." The Rockefeller Foundation created a
number of spin-off groups, which now plague the nation with a host of ills,
one of them being the Social Science Research Council, which
single-handedly spawned the nationwide "poverty industry,"; a business
which expends some $130 billion a year of taxpayer funds while grossing
some $6 billion income for its practitioners . The money, which would amply
feed and house all of the nation's "poor," is dissipated through a vast
administrative network which awards generous concessions to a host of
parasitic "consultants".
Despite years of research, the present writer has been able to merely
scratch the surface of the Rockefeller influences listed here . For
instance, the huge Burroughs Wellcome drug firm is wholly owned by
the "charitable" Wellcome Trust . This trust is directed by Lord Oliver
Franks, a key member of the London Connection which maintains the United
States as a British Colony . Franks was Ambassador to the United States
from 1948 to 1952 . He is now a director of the Rockefeller Foundation, as
its principal representative in England . He also is a director of the
Schröder Bank, which handled Hitler's personal bank account, director of
the Rhodes Trust in charge of approv! ing Rhodes scholarships, visiting
professor at the University of Chicago and chairman of Lloyd's Bank, one of
England's Big Five .
Other Rockefeller Foundation spin-offs include the influential Washington
think-tank, the Brookings Institution, the National Bureau of Economic
Research, whose findings play a critical role in manipulating the stock
market ; the Public Administration Clearing House, which indoctrinates the
nation's municipal employees ; the Council of State Governments, which
controls the nation's state legislatures; and the Institute of Pacific
Relations, the most notorious Communist front in the United States . The
Rockefellers appeared as directors of this group, funneling money to it
through their financial advisor, Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, of Kuhn, Loeb
Company .
The Rockefellers have maintained their controlling interest in the Chase
Manhattan Bank, owning five per cent of the stock. Through this one asset
they control $42.5 billion worth of assets . Chase Manhattan interlocks
closely with the Big Four insurance companies, of which three,
Metropolitan, Equitable and New York Life had $113 billion in assets in
1969.
With the advent of the Reagan Administration in 1980, the Rockefeller
interests sought to obscure their longtime support of world Communism by
bringing to Washington a vocally "anti-Communist" administration . Reagan
was soon wining and dining Soviet premiers as enthusiastically as had his
predecessor Jimmy Carter . The Reagan campaign had been managed by two
officials of Bechtel Corporation, its president, George Pratt Schultz, a
Standard Oil heir, and his counsel, Casper Weinberger . Shultz was named
Secretary of State, Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, Bechtel had been
financed by the Schröder-Rockefeller Company, the 1936 alliance between the
Schröder Bank and the Rockefeller heirs .
The Rockefeller influence also remains preeminent in the monetary field .
Since November, 1910, when Senator Nelson Aldrich chaired the secret
conference at Jekyll Island which gave us the Federal Reserve Act, the
Rockefellers have kept us within the sphere of the London Connection During
the Carter Administration, David Rockefeller generously sent his personal
assistant, Paul Volcker, to Washington to head the Federal Reserve Board .
Reagan finally replaced him in 1987 with Alan Greenspan, a partner of J.P.
Morgan Company . Their influence on our banking system has remained
constant through many financial coups on their part, one of the most
profitable being the confiscation of privately owned gold from American
citizens by Roosevelt's edict . Our citizens had to turn over their gold to
the privately owned Federal Reserve System . The Constitution permits
confiscation for purposes of eminent domain, but prohibits confiscation for
private gain . The gold's new owners then had the gold revalued from $20 an
ounce to $35, giving them an enormous profit .
In reviewing the all-pervasive influence of the Rockefellers and their
foreign controllers, the Rothschilds, in every aspect of American life, the
citizen must ask himself, "What can be done?" Right can prevail only when
the citizen actively seeks justice . Justice can prevail only when each
citizen realizes that it is his God-given duty to mete out justice .
History has documented all of the crimes of the usurpers of our
Constitution . We have learned the painful lesson that the Rockefeller
monopolists exercise their evil power almost solely through federal and
state agents . At this writing, former Congressman Ron Paul is running for
the Presidency of the United States on an eminently sensible and practical
campaign-abolish the Federal Reserve System-abolish the FBI-abolish the
Internal Revenue Service-and abolish the CIA . It has been known for years
that 90% of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ostensibly set up
to "fight crime" has been to harass and isolate political dissidents .
The criminal syndicalists are now looting the American nation of one
trillion dollars each year, of which about one-third, more than three
hundred billion dollars per year, represents the profitable depredations of
the Drug Trust and its medical subsidiaries . Before a sustained effort to
combat these depredations can be mounted, Americans must make every effort
to regain their health . As Ezra Pound demanded in one of his famous radio
broadcasts, "Health, dammit !" America became the greatest and most
productive nation in the world because we had the healthiest citizens in
the world . When the Rockefeller Syndicate began its takeover of our
medical profession in 1910, our citizens went into a sharp decline . Today,
we suffer from a host of debilitating ailments, both mental and physical,
nearly all of which can be traced directly to the operations of the
chemical and drug monopoly and which pose the greatest threat to our
continued existence as a nation . Unite now to restore our national
health-the result will be the restoration of our national pride, the
resumption of our role as the inventors and producers of the modern world,
and the custodian of the world's hopes and dreams of liberty and freedom .
Last Modified November 28, 1999
"I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the
most corrupt government on earth." Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger,
1800. "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is
the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves." William Pitt speech to
the House of Commons. "You shall have one world government, whether or not
you like it, by consent or by conquest." Former FDR aide, James Warburg
CFR/TC, in testimony before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 17
Feb 1950.
--
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses
or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not
change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
Giordano Bruno
Culchie Aspirant
wrote:
Hegelian wars?
I know who Hegel was but in what way were WWI and WWII Hegelian?
Nik
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Attuarii
My interpretation is that Mullins intended that the wars were intentionally
orchestrated in the sense of a false Hegelian dialectic. I haven't read a
lot of Hegel, but from what I gather, his philosophical framework as been
abused by others to imply that he favored the creation of opposing factions
for the sake of conflict. My interpretation is that Hegel merely described
what he believe to be a natural tendency of human populations.
ernie1241
You are the victim of a hoax!
Eustace Mullins FABRICATED many of the assertions made during his
rense.com interview.
For example: The Rockfellers never had anything to do with the Birch
Society nor did the purchase of the James O. Welch Company (not the
"Welch Candy Company") have any benefit for Robert Welch because he
did not own the company nor any stock in it!
Incidentally, Eustace Mullins is the individual who wrote an October
1952 article for the National Renaissance Party Bulletin entitled
"Hitler: An Appreciation"
See Exhibit 4 (page 27) of House Committee on Un-American Activities
Report
http://debs.indstate.edu/u588n4_1954.pdf
Notice the HCUA characterization of the National Renaissance Party's
"Bulletin" as "avowed fascist."
The January-February 1972 issue of the NRP Bulletin contained an
article entitled "First Racial Government" which explained the type of
persons they thought they most appealed to -- and, it explains why
Mullins was associated with them:
"The NRP colloborated with its political allies, the Ku Klux Klan and
White Action Movement, in celebrating the birthday of Adolf Hitler,
founder of National Socialism and creator of the first historically-
recorded government whose policies were based exclusively on RACIAL
considerations."
Also see page 14 of the HCUA Report for the following comment on
Mullins:
"Information in the possession of the Committee reveals a significant
interchangeability of propagandists working for the allegedly
patriotic Common Sense and the avowed fascist National Renaissance
Party.
A good example is provided by Eustace Mullins, who frankly eulogizes
Hitler in the pages of the National Renaissance Party's Bulletin and
who has been observed at an NRP street session in New York City last
year. Articles written by Mullins have been appearing in Common Sense
since at least September 1951 and, last year, he became a writer on
the staff of Common Sense."
HCUA described Conde McGinley's "Common Sense" newspaper as "almost
exclusively a vehicle for the exploitation of ignorance, prejudice and
fear" and "a clearinghouse for hate propaganda throughout the
country." This judgment was also shared by the American Legion!
The
Rockefellers were also active on the "right-wing" front through their
sponsorship of the John Birch Society . To enable Robert Welch, a
32nd
degree Mason, to devote all of his time to the John Birch Society,
Nelson
Rockefeller purchased his family firm, the Welch Candy Company, from
him at
a handsome price
> blas� Washington reporters. He devoted his Senate career to a daily program
> has been personal advisor to chancellor Br�ning; when Hitler took over,
> Schmitz then became his most trusted secret counselor . So well concealed
> was the association that the press had orders never to photograph them
> together . Schmitz was named an honorary member of the Reichstag, while his
> assistant, Carl Krauch, became G�ring's principal advisor in carrying out
> Rockefeller, in 1936 which was called Schr�der-Rockefeller Company . It
> combined operations of the Schr�der Bank, Hitler's personal bank and the
> Rockefeller interests . Baron Kurt von Schr�der was one of Hitler's closest
> confidantes, and a leading officer of the SS . He was head of the Keppler
> Associates, which funneled money to the SS for leading German
> Corporations . Keppler was the official in charge of Industrial Fats during
> G�ring's Four Year Plan, which was launched in 1936. American I.G. changed
> Division was headed by Robert Murphy, who would preside at the N�remberg
> Trials, where he was successful in glossing over the implication of I.G.
> Farben officials and Baron Kurt von Schr�der . Schr�der was held a short
> sponsorship of the JohnBirchSociety. To enable Robert Welch, a 32nd
> degree Mason, to devote all of his time to the JohnBirchSociety, Nelson
> Rockefeller purchased his family firm, the Welch Candy Company, from him at
> a handsome price .&nubs; Welch chose the principal officers of the JohnBirchSocietyfrom his acquaintances at the Council On Foreign Relations .
> For years afterwards, American patriots were puzzled by the consistent
> inability of the JohnBirchSocietyto move forward on any of its
> well-advertised "anti-Communist" goals . The fact that thesocietyhad been
> setup at the behest of the backers of the world Communist revolution may
> have played some role in this development . Other patriots wondered why
> most American conservative writers, including the present writer, were
> steadily blacklisted by the JohnBirchSocietyfor some thirty
> years .&nubs; Despite thousands of requests from would be book buyers, the
> JohnBirchSocietyrefused to review or list any of my books . After
> several decades of futility, theSocietywas totally discredited by its own
> Schr�der Bank, which handled Hitler's personal bank account, director of
> financed by the Schr�der-Rockefeller Company, the 1936 alliance between the
> Schr�der Bank and the Rockefeller heirs .
Attuarii
> ATTUARII:
>
> You are the victim of a hoax!
>
> Eustace Mullins FABRICATED many of the assertions made during his
> rense.com interview.
>
> For example: The Rockfellers never had anything to do with the Birch
> Society nor did the purchase of the James O. Welch Company (not the
> "Welch Candy Company") have any benefit for Robert Welch because he
> did not own the company nor any stock in it!
I do find that curious in view of the fact that the current JBS seems pretty
anti-Rockefeller. That could, of course, be false opposition. I know
nothing about the Welch affair. There is the possibility the Mullins was
mistaken, or misspoke.
> Incidentally, Eustace Mullins is the individual who wrote an October
> 1952 article for the National Renaissance Party Bulletin entitled
> "Hitler: An Appreciation"
>
"After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a
few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one
of the most significant figures who ever lived.
"He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to
the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he
lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He
had in him the stuff of which legends are made." ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
Germany, 1945.
> See Exhibit 4 (page 27) of House Committee on Un-American Activities
> Report
> http://debs.indstate.edu/u588n4_1954.pdf
>
> Notice the HCUA characterization of the National Renaissance Party's
> "Bulletin" as "avowed fascist."
>
> The January-February 1972 issue of the NRP Bulletin contained an
> article entitled "First Racial Government" which explained the type of
> persons they thought they most appealed to -- and, it explains why
> Mullins was associated with them:
>
> "The NRP colloborated with its political allies, the Ku Klux Klan and
> White Action Movement, in celebrating the birthday of Adolf Hitler,
> founder of National Socialism and creator of the first historically-
> recorded government whose policies were based exclusively on RACIAL
> considerations."
Ever read Herzl?
> Also see page 14 of the HCUA Report for the following comment on
> Mullins:
>
> "Information in the possession of the Committee reveals a significant
> interchangeability of propagandists working for the allegedly
> patriotic Common Sense and the avowed fascist National Renaissance
> Party.
>
> A good example is provided by Eustace Mullins, who frankly eulogizes
> Hitler in the pages of the National Renaissance Party's Bulletin and
> who has been observed at an NRP street session in New York City last
> year. Articles written by Mullins have been appearing in Common Sense
> since at least September 1951 and, last year, he became a writer on
> the staff of Common Sense."
>
> HCUA described Conde McGinley's "Common Sense" newspaper as "almost
> exclusively a vehicle for the exploitation of ignorance, prejudice and
> fear" and "a clearinghouse for hate propaganda throughout the
> country." This judgment was also shared by the American Legion!
>
What he did, or may have done more than half a century ago doesn't matter
too terribly much to me regarding his current views. I do accept that he
should be read critically. I did not give his work my unreserved
endorsement. I merely presented it as potentially "entertaining".
>
>
> The
> Rockefellers were also active on the "right-wing" front through their
> sponsorship of the John Birch Society . To enable Robert Welch, a
> 32nd
> degree Mason, to devote all of his time to the John Birch Society,
> Nelson
> Rockefeller purchased his family firm, the Welch Candy Company, from
> him at
> a handsome price
>
> On May 11, 5:00?pm, Attuarii <chatten...@germania.sup> wrote:
>> I haven't gotten too far into this, but it promises to be entertaining
>> reading. ?And damned if Heinz ain't smack dab in the middle of it.
>>
>> ? ? ? ? Category: News & Opinion (General) ?Topic: Crime & Corruption
>> ? ? ? ? Synopsis:
>> ? ? ? ? Source: rense.com
>> ? ? ? ? Published: May 9, 2008 ?Author: Eustice Mullins
>> ? ? ? ? For Education and Discussion Only. ?Not for Commercial Use.
>> amazed even the most blas? Washington reporters. He devoted his Senate
>> has been personal advisor to chancellor Br?ning; when Hitler took over,
>> Schmitz then became his most trusted secret counselor . So well concealed
>> was the association that the press had orders never to photograph them
>> together . Schmitz was named an honorary member of the Reichstag, while
>> his assistant, Carl Krauch, became G?ring's principal advisor in carrying
>> by Avery Rockefeller, in 1936 which was called Schr?der-Rockefeller
>> Company . It combined operations of the Schr?der Bank, Hitler's personal
>> bank and the Rockefeller interests . Baron Kurt von Schr?der was one of
>> Hitler's closest confidantes, and a leading officer of the SS . He was
>> head of the Keppler Associates, which funneled money to the SS for
>> leading German Corporations . Keppler was the official in charge of
>> Industrial Fats during G?ring's Four Year Plan, which was launched in
>> Robert Murphy, who would preside at the N?remberg Trials, where he was
>> successful in glossing over the implication of I.G. Farben officials and
>> Baron Kurt von Schr?der . Schr?der was held a short time in a detention
>> Schr?der Bank, which handled Hitler's personal bank account, director of
>> financed by the Schr?der-Rockefeller Company, the 1936 alliance between
>> the Schr?der Bank and the Rockefeller heirs .
Attuarii
> What he did, or may have done more than half a century ago doesn't matter
> too terribly much to me regarding his current views. I do accept that he
> should be read critically. I did not give his work my unreserved
> endorsement. I merely presented it as potentially "entertaining".
>
>>> I haven't gotten too far into this, but it promises to be entertaining
>>> reading. ?And damned if Heinz ain't smack dab in the middle of it.
Here's another take on the International Bankster Conspiracy. I find Cook's
approach more scholarly than that used by Mullins:
Category: News & Opinion (General) Topic: Business & Economy
Synopsis: A Conspiracy of the International Bankster Cartel
Source: Global Research
Published: April 30, 2008 Author: Richard C. Cook
For Education and Discussion Only. Not for Commercial Use.
Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and Takedown of the U.S.A.
By Richard C. Cook
Global Research, April 30, 2008
Much has been written about whether a worldwide plan exists to control
events and steer them in the direction profitable to an elite of the rich
and powerful. Is this a ?conspiracy theory?? While it is difficult to be
specific about who exactly may be behind such a conspiracy, if it exists,
it is at least clear that the privately-managed system of global financial
capitalism gives ample opportunity for the world?s richest people to
combine for their mutual benefit. Further, global financial capitalism
itself is based on the monopolization of money-creation by a world banking
system that is largely privately owned, even while working through the
central banks of the largest and most prosperous nations. This article
postulates the existence of a coordinated and longstanding matrix set up by
the controllers of money to dominate the movements of history. The article
focuses particularly on what seems to have been an attack that has been
going on for over a century against the independence of the nations of
Russia and the U.S. The article also suggests a series of monetary reforms
whereby the U.S. , or any other nation, can regain its economic identity
and preserve its political freedom. The article was written a short
distance from the reconstructed colonial capitol building in Williamsburg ,
VA. On this site on May 15, 1776, the Fifth Virginia Convention voted
unanimously to instruct its delegation at the Second Continental Congress
in Philadelphia to enter a motion for independence. It may be time to do
that again.
Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky (1878-1947) wrote, ?It is a mistake to
think the times we are living in are like any other. These are
extraordinary times.?
Ouspensky, with his mentor, G.I. Gurdjieff, escaped from Russia after the
Bolshevik Revolution, during the Russian Civil War. Though academia has
failed to acknowledge it, this epochal convulsion was financed in part
through the monetary resources of the international financial elite
operating out of London, Amsterdam, New York, Paris, Hamburg, and
Frankfurt.
It was this elite, acting through Western banks, which appears to have
surreptitiously provided the wherewithal for Lenin and Trotsky to destroy
the Russian nation after the fall of the Tsarist regime at the end of World
War I. Support by the Western financiers is discussed by Dr. Matthew
Raphael Johnson in his revisionist history, The Third Rome: Holy Russia,
Tsarism & Orthodoxy. (The Foundation for Economic Liberty , Washington ,
D.C., 2003)
The present analysis postulates that the takeover of Russia, whose backbone
was the alliance among the House of Romanoff, the Orthodox Church, the
land-owing nobility, and thousands of self-governing peasant communes, was
one of two major projects which the financiers set out to accomplish early
in the 20th century in a longer-range plan to dominate the globe. The other
was the control and eventual destruction of the United States of America.
That project may be reaching fruition through the ongoing and seemingly
purposeful financial meltdown of 2008.
Why Russia and the U.S. ?
Events affecting nations have their roots in history, and people
underestimate how what happens today is conditioned by the past. The
respective fates of Russia and the U.S. have been linked for a long time.
The two countries had a close relationship during the American Civil War,
when the Russian fleet anchored in New York and San Francisco harbors. In
1867, Russia sold the huge expanse of Alaska to the U.S. Later, the U.S.
provided engineering support for Russian industrial development.
The two continental giants were, during the latter part of the 19th century,
becoming the greatest land powers in the world. With Germany , Great
Britain ?s chief rival for economic might, added to the mix, the hegemony
of the financiers? power base in Britain and northern Europe was threatened
in a way not seen since Napoleon.
Both Russia and the U.S. were largely Christian nations, with a sizeable
portion of the American population, especially recent immigrants, being
members of the Roman Catholic faith. For centuries nothing had been a
greater obstacle to the financial control of nations through war and
finance than the Christian religion and its teachings against usury.
Plus neither the U.S. nor Russia had a central privately-owned bank. The
U.S. had long since gotten rid of its own central banks, the First
(1791-1811) and Second (1816-1836) Banks of the United States . The whole
concept of commercial banking having control of a nation?s economy was
alien to the Russian and U.S. mindset.
Instead, wealth came from work. This was expressed by President Abraham
Lincoln in a December 3, 1861, address to Congress when he said, ?Labor is
prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor,
and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the
superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.?
Lincoln could make such a statement because the U.S. economy, as was the
Russian, was deeply rooted in the soil. The backbone of the two cultures
was the Russian peasant and the American yeoman farmer, as Thomas Jefferson
called him. The merchant and artisan economies of the towns and cities in
both nations were founded upon the wealth of the countryside which was
derived from human and animal labor and from working the land. Even when
industrialization began to flourish in the latter part of the 19th century,
it was fueled in both countries largely through savings and retained
earnings, not bank credit created ?out of thin air? through fractional
reserve lending.
Banker Domination
By the early 20th century, the bankers of Europe had a mission before them.
If Russia and the U.S. could be controlled, nothing would stand in the way
of the rule of humanity by the materialistic pseudo-religion of power and
wealth by which the financiers were obsessed. As Max Weber (1864-1920)
wrote in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the acquisition
of wealth was viewed as a sign that a person was one of the ?elect.? The
financiers? sphere of influence was centered in northern Europe , where the
anti-usury doctrines both of the Roman Catholic Church and Martin Luther
(1483-1546) had been undermined through the teachings of John Calvin
(1509-1564).
As is well known, banking in Europe began in the medieval period with
store-front gold merchants who invented fractional reserve banking by
lending certificates against a gold reserve held for their customers on
deposit. By the time of the Renaissance, banking was centered in Italy and
Germany , then spread north and west to the Netherlands , France , and
England .
By this time the Catholic prohibition against usury was well-developed. Pope
Sixtus V (1585-90) said charging of interest was ?detestable to God and
man, damned by the sacred canons and contrary to Christian charity.?
Theological historian John Noonan wrote that ?the doctrine [of usury] was
enunciated by popes, expressed by three ecumenical councils, proclaimed by
bishops, and taught unanimously by theologians.? (?Development of Moral
Doctrine,? 54 Theological Studies, 662, 1993)
Lending of money at interest was often left to the European Jews, where
statements in various scriptures, such as the Talmud, appeared to allow the
practice when dealing with non-Jews. Some argue that the Vatican worked
behind the scenes by using Jews as fronts for their own lending operations.
In England , the Tudor and Stuart monarchs made a stand against the rise of
bankers as issuers of currency. As Susan Boskey writes in her book The
Quality Life Plan: 7 Steps to Uncommon Financial Security, ?the Mixt Moneys
Case of 1604 in England determined money as a public measure to be
regulated by the state.? According to Alexander Del Mar, head of the U.S.
Department of Weights and Measures in the late 19th century and author of
the book, History of Money in America From the Earliest Times to the
Establishment of the Constitution, the Mixt Moneys Case determined
that ?the state alone had the right to issue money.?
Boskey continues: ?For over half a century, this ruling alarmed the
merchants of London who attempted to defeat the Mixt Moneys decision. The
East India Company was the main instigator in the effort, because they were
eager to turn a profit by shipping silver to India in exchange for gold.
Success was achieved with the British Free Coinage Act of 1666, which,
according to Del Mar, ?altered the monetary systems of the world.? He
wrote: ?The specific effects of this law were to destroy the royal
prerogative of coinage, nullify the decision in the Mixt Moneys case, and
inaugurate a future series of commercial panics and disasters which to that
time were totally unknown.? Moneylenders known as ?strong room keepers?
began the practice of making interest-bearing loans that were not backed
one-hundred percent by the gold reserves remaining in their strong room.?
?The British Free Coinage Act of 1666,? continues Boskey, ?marked a turning
point in the role of currency creation as a public measure to one dominated
by moneylenders. No longer was the act of putting money into circulation
directly connected to the actual, existing material riches of a nation.?
About this time, Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was writing his now-famous Diary.
According to Canadian monetary expert Martin Hattersley, Pepys ?was
describing in surprised delight the new institution of banking, by which
the smart investor, instead of paying the goldsmith for warehousing his
valuables, opened an account, and was actually paid interest for having his
money looked after!?
Pepys was captivated by the familiar but pernicious notion that, instead of
working for a living, a person could have his money ?work for him.?
Aristotle had spoken against this concept 2,000 years earlier: ?The most
hated sort of wealth getting and with the greatest reason, is usury, which
makes a gain out of money itself and not from the natural object of it. For
money was intended to be used in exchange but not to increase at interest.
And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money is
applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the
parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth, this is the most
unnatural.? (1258b Politics)
Hattersley continues: ?Who paid for Samuel Pepys' remarkable new service?
Basically, the public did. Pepys, leaving his gold with the banker, enabled
the latter to lend it out to a third party. Pepys had his ?money in the
bank,? and the borrower took the gold. The borrower naturally paid interest
on the loan. Pepys received interest on his deposit. The same money being
(notionally) in the possession both of Pepys and of the borrower meant an
increase in the monetary mass of the nation. All the holders of money in
the nation, therefore, had the value of their holdings very slightly
diluted. There was a profit to the banker on the ?spread? between borrowing
and lending rates. There was a profit to Mr. Pepys, who at one and the same
moment had both money in the bank and an interest bearing investment. Yet
the borrower also profited. His loan would be at a lower interest rate than
that on capital that had had to be saved up. ?Smart? bank financing put him
ahead of conventionally financed competitors. All three parties gained, at
the expense of the general public, the value of whose money was diluted
through inflation of the monetary mass.?
Finally, concludes Hattersley, ?Skipping forward three centuries (past
events such as the South Sea Bubble, tulip mania, the railway boom and the
1929 market crash) we find that the little spot of inflation that Mr. Pepys
indulged in has become a universal way of life. The extensive capital
development of Canada [and the U.S. ] in the post-World War II boom has
been largely financed, not by personal savings and investment, but by the
inflation of the money supply. This has left the thrifty who invested their
little savings from the hard times of the Great Depression in mortgages,
bonds, and life insurance deprived of most of the rewards of their thrift,
and has caused the profits of inflation to benefit all who could borrow,
build, and then repay their capital in deflated dollars later on.?
Hattersley captures the essence of the modern usury-based economy. No longer
is life based on honest human labor and the resources of nature, but on
financial manipulation. This is why religious people have always viewed
usury as a crime. Aristotle placed the usurer in the same category as
others who ?ply sordid trades,? such as pimps.
Returning to the march of history, in 1688, James II, who had become a
Catholic, fled the British throne. Through the ?Glorious Revolution,? he
was replaced by the Protestants William and Mary of the Dutch House of
Orange. The main instrument of power of the financiers who supported them
was the Bank of England, founded in 1694.
The next two centuries saw the financiers? control of world commerce spread
through the instrumentality of the British Empire . The bedrock of British
policy was ?free trade,? which allowed British manufacturers who paid their
workers a pittance to undersell their competitors elsewhere. This was aided
by having the British pound become the world?s trading currency.
With the First Zionist Congress of 1897, one of the financiers? geopolitical
goals became to support the creation of the nation of Israel , at least
partly to dominate the world?s crossroads in the oil-rich Middle East . The
oil was needed to fuel the British navy.
The nature and origins of Zionism have been hotly debated in recent years,
as the role of Israel on the world stage has grown. One thing seems
certain: The Jewish religion is by no means monolithic. But its followers,
many of whom opposed the philosophy of Zionism, would now be drawn into the
financiers? power game. From this point on, anyone who even questioned
Zionism would be labeled ?anti-Semitic.?
As the 20th century advanced, the financier elite became heavily involved in
getting rich off world war and the manufacture of the new weapons of mass
destruction that modern technology made possible. Warfare and weaponry,
combined with control of credit manufactured through the leveraging of
industrial production, were to be the primary means of putting nations and
their populations into debt. A materialistic slave society was being
created, which books like 1984 warned against. Humanity was lured into
compliance through the fantasy world brought about by the mass media by
means of advertising, cinema, and television. Another enticement was the
growing availability of mass-produced consumer goods.
How It Was Done
While World War I and the Russian Revolution still lay a few years in the
future, the international financiers quietly took control of the U.S.
economic system in 1913 through the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th
Amendment to the Constitution which provided for the federal income tax.
The purpose of this tax was to use citizens? earnings to pay the interest
on the ?funded? national debt. As with the debt owed by the British people
to the Bank of England, this would be one so large the principle could
never be paid off.
Russia was allied with Britain and France during World War I (1914-18). But
the war against Germany and Austria-Hungary had reached a stalemate until
the tide was turned by entry of the U.S. on the side of the Allies.
Fighting on the eastern front between Germany and Russia was savage. By the
end of the war the Russian Revolution broke out, and, after a terrible
Civil War, the Soviet Union came into being.
It was the financier-controlled press which goaded President Woodrow Wilson
into taking the nation into World War I on the side of England and France.
But it was also part of the financiers? plan to shift the apparent focal
point of their financial power from London to New York . This was done
through the financing of the war by loans made to the European combatants
by the New York banks.
It seemed to be in accord with a plan spelled out decades earlier by Cecil
Rhodes, whereby the U.S. would not only be ?recovered? for the British
Empire, but would appear to become the senior partner in the enterprise. By
the start of the 1920s, this objective had been accomplished. German,
English, French, and other European taxpayers were all deeply in debt to
the U.S. banks for the costs of the war.
Also during the war years the financiers had secured the issuance of the
Balfour Declaration signaling British support for the establishment of a
Zionist state in Palestine. The 1917 Declaration was made in a letter from
Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, to Walter Rothschild,
Second Baron Rothschild, for transmission to the Zionist Federation.
During and after World War I, world financial power shifted to the New York
banks through which, however, it would be the London-based elite exerting
de facto control. It might also be said that starting with U.S. entry into
World War I, once you look past the patriotic slogans, the U.S., its vast
productivity, and the blood of its population have been used in making this
country the worldwide military enforcer of international financier
domination.
World War II became the means of consolidating financier control. Prior to
that, during the years of the Great Depression, both Russia ?aka the Soviet
Union?and the U.S. were slipping away from the fold. Stalin had shown
his ?Bonapartist? tendencies by favoring ?Socialism in one country,? as
well as by his deadly purges of the financier-controlled Trotskyite faction
and his shocking rapprochement with Hitler in 1939 that seemed to foil the
financiers? intent to play off Nazi Germany and the Soviets against each
other.
In the U.S., President Franklin Roosevelt had taken steps during the Great
Depression to rebuild the U.S. economy by exerting an unaccustomed degree
of control over the Federal Reserve System and providing credit at low
rates of interest to homeowners, farmers, and businessmen. This made
Roosevelt seem to many wealthy Americans ?a traitor to his class.?
Roosevelt saw that a healthy and self-sustaining domestic economy is
essential for the well-being of a sovereign nation. But instead of looking
for ways to create a monetary system based on the productivity of the
economy, as Lincoln had done with the Greenbacks during the Civil War,
Roosevelt left intact the debt-based system overseen by the Federal
Reserve. He added to this system the Keynesian idea of government deficit
spending for public works to create employment. This was essentially a
system whereby government would try to pay its debts by engendering
inflation, a policy that has continued until today.
But World War II thwarted even these stirrings of nationalism in both
countries. In both the Soviet Union and the U.S. , the financiers worked
the levers of debt to build massive war machines. They were also working
through the Western banks, including Brown Brothers Harriman in New York,
to achieve the same ends in Nazi Germany. Eventually Hitler invaded the
Soviet Union, and the U.S. entered the war. Both during and after the war,
operatives from the international financial elite centered in London were
the linchpins of a worldwide matrix of spying, assassination, terrorism,
industrial espionage, psy ops, media manipulation, and monetary control.
This included financing the founding of Israel as the Western bridgehead in
the Middle East in 1948.
Despite the creation of an appearance of conflict between the West and the
Soviet Union through the Cold War, the financiers continued to work both
sides of the fence through their London-based operatives. In the U.S. they
created the modern national security state with both the National Security
Agency and the CIA firmly under their control. Then, after President John
F. Kennedy moved to forestall the neocolonialist Vietnam conflict and
replace the Federal Reserve with a U.S. system of silver-backed Treasury
currency, he was shot dead in Dallas ?s Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.
In charge of convincing the public that the Warren Commission was correct in
concluding that Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, supposedly a lone
deranged gunman, were figures associated with the financier elite from the
New York Times, Washington Post, and Yale Law School . (See The Kennedy
Assassination Cover-Up Revisited by Donald Gibson, 2005.) But in 1979, a
report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations stated that Kennedy
was killed by a ?probable conspiracy.?
It has been thoroughly documented that since World War II the Western
intelligence agencies, all with close ties to the financial world,
particularly the New York and London investment banks, have been
responsible for engendering wars, revolutions, and mayhem in countries
around the world, causing the deaths of millions of people in Asia, Africa,
Latin America, and southeastern Europe.
Meanwhile, the worldwide arms industry, also under financier control, have
produced the greatest arsenal of weapons of mass destruction ever seen.
After Kennedy was killed, the U.S. moved to arm Israel as the leading
military power of the region. Today nuclear weapons have proliferated, with
Israel , Pakistan , and India becoming nuclear powers in addition to the
U.S. , Russia , Britain , China , and France .
But warfare and weapons cost money, and by the late 1960s the Vietnam War
was sinking the U.S. deeper into debt. The U.S. war machine was to be the
main tool for financier enforcement of their worldwide plan of domination,
but the nation was going broke. The problem was made worse by heavy federal
expenditures for the poor and elderly through such programs as Medicare and
Medicaid.
But President Richard Nixon?s Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had a plan.
The government worked out an arrangement whereby Saudi Arabia and the other
OPEC nations would gradually increase the price of oil, with the profits to
be used by the oil-producing nations to buy U.S. Treasury debt securities.
By 1980 the cost of oil would be ratcheted up from about $3.50 a barrel to
$39.50.
The drastic increase of the price of gasoline at the pump acted as a de
facto tax on the U.S. economy. But the plan worked. The ?petrodollar?
and ?dollar hegemony? were born, with the dollar becoming the world?s
reserve currency. Dollars could flood the world only because in 1971 the
Nixon administration had abandoned the dollar?s gold peg as a basis for
international currency exchange. Now currencies floated freely in world
markets with speculation and inflation rampant. The economies of the world
were no longer based on production, but on financial manipulation. It was
also the start of the era of monetarism, where the Federal Reserve thought
it could regulate the economy by the raising and lowering of interest
rates.
The Kissinger plan also made the U.S. dependent on Middle Eastern oil and
turned it into the muscle behind the financiers? ambition for Israel to
dominate the region. So now Americans, who had liberated Europe from the
Nazis, had to fight and die for the financiers in the Middle East . The
final conquest of Iraq , starting in 2003, and the planned war against Iran
are the latest phases.
Meanwhile, through the financiers? control of the U.S. Federal Reserve
System, the producing economy was shattered through the Fed-induced
recession of 1979-83, where interest rates were raised to the highest in
history to combat the inflation the financiers had themselves caused by the
oil price shocks. By this time, as some allege, the controversial concept
of ?peak oil??whether it really existed or not?was being used as a cover
for financier manipulation of oil markets by limiting production in order
to maintain prices.
By 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected president, the U.S. producing economy
had been devastated by the shutdown of factories and the export of jobs.
The work of wrecking the economy was completed by Clinton ?s embrace of
NAFTA, which has largely eliminated family farming in favor of
financier-controlled agribusiness in the U.S. , Canada , and Mexico .
Deregulation of the financial industry began in earnest during the Reagan
years from 1981-89 and accelerated under Clinton .
By this time, the U.S. economy was being kept afloat only through financial
bubbles that allowed the purchase of consumer goods to take place through
more family and household debt. We had the merger-acquisition bubble of the
1980s, followed by the George H.W. Bush recession which led to Clinton ?s
election in 1992. During the 1990s we had the dot.com bubble fueled by
foreign investment. Capital gains taxes on stock price inflation and
counting trust funds like Social Security as budgetary assets allowed
Clinton to balance the federal budget the last three years of his
presidency.
But the dot.com bubble also burst with the loss of $7 trillion of wealth
through the crash of 2000-2001. Next came the Bush bubbles?in housing,
equity funds, commercial real estate, and hedge funds that have been
deflating while threatening to destroy altogether the economic viability of
what was once the world?s greatest industrial democracy.
After this, the only bubble left for an economy that appears to be entering
terminal depression may be the current fuel/food bubble that could result
in the starvation of millions worldwide. Now the longstanding ambition of
the financier elite for the destruction of the American republic may
finally be realized?with a lot of help, of course, from their American
friends.
?End Times?
Can it be that the last stage of the U.S. takedown is ?The Project for the
New American Century?? Is this ambitious plan for ?global leadership?
through military might that was seemingly invented by the ?neocons??many
with dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship?a Trojan Horse?
It certainly appears that with 9/11 as a pretext, the neocons suckered the
U.S. into the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as a means of military
occupation of the Middle East . Certainly 9/11 and the Iraq invasion
benefited Israel, as some Israeli politicians have frankly stated.
Were the neocons also acting on behalf of the financial controllers in
London and elsewhere? And was one reason the neocons were so eager to
engage in a ?clash of civilizations? against the Islamic world the Koranic
prohibition of usury which states, ?Those who charge Usury are in the same
position as those controlled by the devil's influence. This is because they
claim that Usury is the same as commerce. However, God permits commerce,
and prohibits Usury.? (Koran, Al-Baqarah 2:275)
Prior to 9/11, the Bush administration got Congress to cut taxes for the
highest income brackets, reversing Bill Clinton?s budget surpluses. The tax
cut remained in effect, even as the massive expenditures on the Middle
Eastern wars mounted. The consequence has been to bring the federal
government to the brink of bankruptcy.
The last official act of this phase could well be the ultimate insanity of a
U.S. attack on Iran . If successful, this would complete the Western
conquest of the Middle East but may start a larger conflict that could
eventually force the U.S. to withdraw its forces once the money runs out.
Israel would then be at liberty to sweep in to dominate a region that U.S.
military power had devastated.
Whatever may happen overseas, the U.S. economy at home is on the verge of
collapse. It if does, we will have to retreat to our own shores and face
here the edifice of a ruined nation with no manufacturing base, a crumbling
infrastructure, an aging population, insufficient food, poorly developed
resources, and the collapse of the dollar. Of course the prophets of doom
who claim that overpopulation must inevitably lead to Malthusian scarcity
will take all this as justification of their prejudices. The rumored North
American Union, with its currency the amero, could then follow, both under
the control of the financiers.
Meanwhile in Russia, things took a surprising turn when the Russian people
threw out their communist controllers in 1991 and established a Russian
republic. The financiers immediately took over through the government of
Boris Yeltsin and began to divide up the nation?s resources through their
local allies, the ?oligarchs.? But the Russian people refused to comply.
Despite desperate poverty, they elected Vladimir Putin, a nationalist
leader who moved quickly to establish a self-governing Russian state that
the financiers and the Western press clearly intend to take down. Russia is
now back on the world scene, and a revival of the Orthodox Church is taking
place. The drama in that country has not been entirely played out it seems.
As far as the U.S. is concerned, the financiers will have used us for a
century, then thrown us in the trash. The U.S. may well be replaced by
China, which the financiers seem to be grooming as the world?s next
military enforcer. China has the advantage of an absolutist one-party
system which has achieved remarkable success in terrorizing its huge
population into obedience and passivity. The financiers would not hesitate
to sacrifice hordes of Chinese to fight both Russia and what may remain of
the U.S. By this time, the European Union will likely have its own unified
nuclear deterrent to protect the financial centers. The time may come when
there will be Chinese bases in the U.S. as occupiers/military police.
The wisest and safest course for U.S. foreign policy could be a new alliance
with Russia that would rekindle our affinity with that nation from over a
century ago. But how likely is this in a world ruled by the financiers
where the destruction of the two nations is a long-term goal?
One of the tools of financier domination in the meantime will likely be
worldwide famine engineered by artificial shortages. This has already
started and may cause hundreds of millions of people to die and their
resources to be seized. The smokescreens for this will not only be peak oil
but also global warming as a means of dealing with the world?s ?surplus
eaters.? Numerous non-profits and NGOs are greasing the skids with their
insistent lobbying against even responsible economic development.
Now in the U.S. we will likely see riots, panic, martial law, plagues,
epidemics, and prison camps, much of which has already begun with police
crackdowns, anti-terrorist exercises, declining public health, erosion of
civil liberties, and the world?s largest prison population.
It is likely that the ?American Century? is over and that the ?New American
Century? will really be the ?No American Century.? Outside of select
pockets of prosperity around financial centers, resorts, and military
installations, the U.S. is being destroyed. As an example, the residents of
once-prosperous towns in Michigan have turned to the illegal manufacture of
meth-amphetamine now that the jobs are gone.
We have been used and abused, though often suckered into it by our own
stupidity and greed. We have allowed ourselves to serve the will of an
alien force?the world?s financial elite. Our payback now appears to be a
looming national catastrophe.
Economic Restructuring
Economically, what is left of America must be rebuilt from the ground up.
The flaw is not in the productivity of nature, the availability of
resources, our ingenuity, nor our ability to work. The flaw has been in the
capitalist financial system.
We must now rebuild three things: American family farming, since a nation
that cannot feed itself cannot long exist; then infrastructure and
manufacturing, which will require energy conservation and redevelopment of
our energy resources; then income security tied to productivity but not
always to employment?a basic guaranteed income for all. The best available
treatment of the history and benefits of a guaranteed income may be found
in Steven Shafarman?s new book, Peaceful, Positive Revolution, Tendril
Press, 2008.
The concept of a guaranteed income as a benefit of a modern industrial
economy has been around for a long time. But it is often confused with
job-creation. As indicated earlier, during the 1930s, British economist
John Maynard Keynes came up with the idea of using government deficits to
try to out-run unemployment through government-controlled pump priming. But
in the long run his methods were doomed to fail as debt-based economic
growth eventually reached its limits due to inflation. This is where we are
today, with President George W. Bush now the largest deficit spender in
history.
The most successful attempt to define a rationale for an honest and
democratic monetary system, one based on human labor and not financial
chicanery, was the Social Credit movement founded by British engineer C.H.
Douglas (1879-1952). He first set forth his ideas in his book Economic
Democracy in 1918 and continued to teach his system for the next thirty
years, attracting a considerable following in Great Britain , Canada , New
Zealand , and Australia .
Douglas explained the dynamic whereby the incredible productivity of modern
technology can readily be harnessed to provide the material sustenance for
all members of society, but fails to do so because there is a chronic
shortage of purchasing power from the cumulative societal income realized
through wages, salaries, and dividends. The main reasons income cannot keep
pace with prices is that the latter include retained earnings for savings
and reinvestment, along with depreciation of capital?i.e., the tools and
facilities of production.
But the ?gap? between prices and earnings (what Keynes was to
call ?aggregate demand?) was viewed by Douglas as a benefit of a modern
industrial economy rather than the curse which in the Depression was
causing farmers to dump their milk in the fields because consumers lacked
the money to purchase it.
Douglas saw this gap as the natural appreciation of the potential producing
economy to which everyone in society was entitled as monetized shares. He
said this appreciation should manifest in regular payments of a National
Dividend by government from a calculated credit account not dependent on
taxation or government borrowing. The National Dividend could be paid by a
combination of regular stipends to citizens and/or through a system of
price subsidies. And it would be non-inflationary.
Douglas went further by explaining that in real life the price-income gap
was in fact filled?nature abhors a vacuum?but by bank lending at usury.
This was why the banks got richer, while everyone else struggled just to
survive. Banks also use their credit creating ability to acquire
securities, such as Treasury bonds, with the government paying interest
that is compounded because the debt is constantly being re-financed.
Interest on the U.S. national debt is expected to exceed $500 billion in
fiscal year 2009. To pay it, many social programs will be cut.
The technical explanation is provided by Canadian Social Credit expert
Wallace Klinck, ?Expanding interest charges being paid on exponentially
compounding debt accumulates due to an industrial cost accountancy error
related to allocating capital charges in retail prices which do not
distribute equal incomes within the same production cycle. The growing
disparity between prices and incomes is progressively worsened by the
replacement of human labor by capital (technology).?
Under the current system, the banks steal the fruits of economic wealth
which properly belong to the public as a whole, both workers and
non-workers, and while the financiers were well aware of Douglas ?s system,
they hated it. Word went out in the 1920s that his name was never to be
mentioned in the British press. John Maynard Keyes was said to have
developed his own deficit-spending theories as a means to counter
Douglas ?s influence. And when Douglas visited the U.S. in the late 1930s,
he was told to his face that he would never be allowed to introduce his
ideas in this country.
Next Steps
To accomplish a program of real reform will require a strong president but
possibly a political revolution to get one. Congressman Ron Paul has made
history as the first major presidential candidate to call for the
abolishment of the Federal Reserve. He is right. The first thing a
president worthy of the name should do is eliminate the Federal Reserve as
a bank-of-issue, get rid of our debt-based monetary system, and depose the
bankers and Wall Street financiers from the seats of power. Ron Paul is
also right that the U.S. should withdraw its military from overseas and
stop trying to control the world.
What Ron Paul?s candidacy proves is that in the internet age, with financial
crises jumping from the headlines every day, and authorities such as Ben
Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Paulson manifestly having no intention of making real changes, the
public is ready to listen to new ideas. But even progressive analysts are
so locked into outmoded concepts that they fail to realize an entirely new
type of monetary system is needed.
The basic concept that must be understood, as expressed repeatedly by this
author in past articles, is that credit is a power of nature that is part
of the human ?commons.? Credit allows society to materialize value by
drawing from future potential productivity into present actualized reality.
Credit therefore should be treated legally as a public utility, like water
or electricity.
Credit is not a mathematical abstraction that should be manipulated into
building pyramids of debt. Such practices are suicidal for an economy.
Rather credit is organic, deriving ultimately from human labor (including
mental labor, as in the application of technology), along with the sun, the
soil, natural resources, and the rain. Thus we have gone full circle to the
beginning of this article, where Russia and the U.S. were cited as the two
nations that best understood where real wealth comes from.
The management of credit may be licensed to responsible private parties who
are accountable to public authority, but it should never be given away
or ?privatized? to individuals or corporations who manipulate it mainly for
their own profit, as banks do today. It is the privatization of credit
through the banking systems of the world which has loaded humanity with
debt, rendered short-term profits the highest priority of all business
endeavor, and made modern industrialization as much a curse as a blessing.
Note that credit differs in this discussion from the legitimate investment
of capital derived from profits or savings whereby an individual risks a
portion of his wealth through a contract with a producing entity. Capital
markets that facilitate this type of investment fall under the category of
commerce, not usury.
A national monetary system should reflect the treatment of credit as a
public utility and thereby make possible responsible economic activity and
the fair distribution of wealth. Some of the measures which should be
implemented are contained in the American Monetary Institute?s draft
American Monetary Act. (www.monetary.org/) The resulting currency could be
issued, not in the form of debt instruments like Federal Reserve Notes, but
silver-backed Treasury certificates as in President Kennedy?s program of
1963.
Features of a new monetary system could be as follows:
* A guaranteed income, followed by a National Dividend, should be paid
directly to citizens from a Treasury credit account without recourse to
either taxation or government borrowing. (C.H. Douglas?s theory of the
National Dividend as the monetization of the net appreciation of the
productivity of a modern industrial economy is set forth in this author?s
Global Research article entitled, ?An Emergency Program of Monetary Reform
for the United States ,? April 26, 2007.) The National Dividend, currently
estimated at over $12,000 per capita annually, could be distributed in a
variety of ways, in addition to a subsistence stipend. This could include
price subsidies for consumer purchases, taking over existing Social
Security payments, universal health insurance, or payments to women with
young children. Another way to issue a National Dividend would be to
monetize food production, whereby anyone who delivers food products to
wholesalers receives a government payment as a producer?s subsidy, thereby
discounting food at the consumer point-of-sale. This would work in a
similar fashion to farm parity pricing programs of bygone days. As
explained by Wallace Klinck, ?Social Credit policy is to compensate retail
prices at the point-of-sale. It is not, however, to subsidize production
which would be subject to consumer choice and fully supported by consumers
having at all times financial income adequate to fully liquidate the costs
of production. That is, production policy is to be determined essentially
by consumers?this being the Social Credit concept of genuine economic
democracy with maximum decentralization, or dispersion, of power over
production policy. Price controls under the present financial
cost-accountancy system, where continued economic activity is dependent
upon an inflationary expansion of credit to meet rising costs arising
consequent to flawed accountancy, is demonstrably impossible. Price
regulation, however, would appear to be both necessary and realistic under
a self-liquidating Social Credit system of finance. Although not generally
recognized, prices are ?controlled,? (or manipulated) under the present
system of finance in a most deleterious manner.?
* The government should also spend money directly into circulation, as it
did with Greenbacks in the 19th century, both for operating expenses and
for infrastructure projects at the federal, state, and local levels. A
national infrastructure bank could be capitalized by state and local
infrastructure bonds without any impact on the federal budget. Such
spending would again be without recourse to borrowing or taxation.
Infrastructure spending could be either through grants or low-interest
loans. As with Congressman Dennis Kucinich?s current proposed
infrastructure bank legislation, the program could specify that a requisite
proportion of funding be spent on American-made products such as steel.
* We should reform banking by eliminating the catastrophic
privately-controlled fractional reserve system. Instead, the government
should lend money at a low rate of interest to banks, then use the proceeds
to help pay for legitimate government expenditures in the areas of
regulation or services. Use of the proceeds, combined with the new
Greenbacks and savings from no longer having to pay interest on an
unnecessary national debt, would eliminate the need for the federal income
tax, allowing the 16th Amendment to be repealed. In fact, under a monetary
system such as the one described herein, probably three-fourths or more of
the current societal tax burden could be eliminated.
* In order to clear the way for these reforms, bankruptcy reorganization of
the entire $50 trillion of existing debt in the U.S. should be undertaken,
with debt being restructured and paid down over time or simply written off.
Bank lending for speculation, such as for mergers and acquisitions, equity
and hedge fund speculation, and purchase of securities on margin has been
explosively enabled through bankers? ability to move massive amounts of
funds electronically. These leveraging practices should be outlawed, as
they are abuses of the public interest. (According to the London Times, one
John Paulson made $3.7 billion in hedge fund trading last year. ?Mr.
Paulson?s firm, Paulson & Co, made a fortune from shorting America ?s
sub-prime mortgage markets.?) A national fuel conservation program with
real teeth should also be instituted. And at least half of the U.S.
military budget should be eliminated, with half of the remainder devoted to
energy R&D and domestic public works. Employees of the military-industrial
complex will find many new career opportunities as the domestic economy
revives.
As these measures are taken, the United States will no longer be dancing to
the financiers? tune. We would be helping prepare a future where man?s
inhumanity to man as expressed through war and financial exploitation is no
longer glorified. Such a future would be a milestone in the eventual
enlightenment of the human race. But these are measures that must be
implemented now, before it is too late.
While we await these epochal changes, more modest steps may be in order. The
author is often asked for personal financial advice. His advice is to
invest in yourself and in other people. Plant a robust home garden. Learn
new skills. Start community food co-ops that buy local products. Establish
local currencies and barter networks. Join or form a union. Raise bees. Put
kids through school. Get out of debt. Pray and meditate. Become politically
active. Demand change.
Richard C. Cook is a former U.S. federal government analyst, whose career
included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug
Administration, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury
Department. His articles on economics, politics, and space policy have
appeared on numerous websites. His book on monetary reform is entitled We
Hold These Truths: The Promise of Monetary Reform and will be published
this autumn by Tendril Press. He is also the author of Challenger Revealed:
An Insider?s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest
Tragedy of the Space Age, called by one reviewer, ?the most important
spaceflight book of the last twenty years.? His website is at
www.richardccook.com. Questions, comments, or contributions may be directed
to economi...@gmail.com .
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John Birch Society
Robert Welch introduced the idea of the John Birch Society at an
Indianapolis meeting he convened on December 9, 1958 of 12 "patriotic and
public-spirited" men. The first chapter was founded a few months later in
February 1959. The core thesis of the society was contained Welch's initial
Indianapolis presentation, transcribed almost verbatim in The Blue Book of
the John Birch Society, and subsequently given to each new member.
According to Welch, both the US and Soviet governments are controlled by
the same furtive conspiratorial cabal of internationalists, greedy bankers,
and corrupt politicians. If left unexposed, the traitors inside the US
government would betray the country's sovereignty to the United Nations for
a collectivist new world order managed by a "one-world socialist
government." The Birch Society incorporated many themes from pre-WWII
rightist groups opposed to the New Deal, and had its base in the business
nationalist sector discussed earlier.
Welch was born in 1899 and worked "in the candy manufacturing business all
of his adult life," for many years as the vice president for sales and
advertising of the James O. Welch Company, founded by his brother. He was
on the board of directors of the ultraconservative National Association of
Manufacturers for seven years starting in 1950, and chaired NAM's
Educational Advisory Committee for two years. It was at NAM, during the
height of the Red Menace hysteria, that Welch honed his Americanist
philosophy. Welch toured the country chairing meetings on the state of
American education, and producing a 32-page brochure "This We Believe About
Education," that "concluded that in America parents--and not the
State--have the ultimate responsibility for the education of their
children." 200,000 copies of the brochure were distributed by NAM.
Welch served as vice chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party finance
committee in 1948, and unsuccessfully ran for Lt. Governor in the 1950
Republican primary. Welch supported the ultraconservative Taft over the
more moderate Eisenhower by running as a Massachusetts Taft delegate to the
1952 Republican convention. In 1952 Welch wrote May God Forgive Us, a study
alleging "subversive influences" by government officials and their allies
to shape "public opinion and governmental policies to favor the Communist
advance." The book was published by the ultraconservative Henry Regnery
Company, which in 1954 also published Welch's The Life of John Birch, which
told the story of a fundamentalist missionary in China who became an
intelligence agent for General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers. Birch was
killed by Chinese communist soldiers while he was on a mission at the end
of WWII. In February of 1956 Welch started publishing a magazine, One Man's
Opinion, and in January 1957 he left the candy business to devote his
energies to "the anti-Communist cause."
Welch saw collectivism as the main threat to western civilization,
writing "both the Greek and the Roman civilizations did perish of the
cancer of collectivism, and the civilization of Western Europe is doing so
today." This view was shared by many conservatives of the day, and had been
developed by such conservative intellectuals as Hayek. The ingredient that
Welch added was an "uncompromising conspiracy theory of world events, one
that blamed domestic rather than foreign enemies for the spread of
communism," as Diamond summarized. Although critical of Oswald Spengler's
intellectual snobbery, Welch agreed with Spengler's thesis in Decline of
the West, of a "cyclical theory of cultures," but Welch argued that western
European civilization was being prematurely put at risk by a conspiracy to
promote the decay of collectivism.
According to the JBS theory, liberals provide the cover for the gradual
process of collectivism, therefore many liberals and their allies must
actually be secret communist traitors whose ultimate goal is to replace the
nations of western civilization with one-world socialist government. "There
are many stages of` welfarism, socialism, and collectivism in general,"
wrote Welch, "but communism is the ultimate state of them all, and they all
lead inevitably in that direction." A core tenet of the JBS was that the US
is a republic not a democracy, and that collectivism has eroded that
distinction. That this distinction was largely a semantic trick--used to
cover the essential autocratic elitism of Welch and the JBS philosoph--was
examined by Lester DeKoster, a conservative Christian who warned of the JBS
anti-democratic agenda in his monograph titled The Citizen and the John
Birch Society.
The JBS concern that collectivism, statism, and internationalism would be
ushered in through a subversive communist conspiracy naturally evolved into
the JBS "Get US out of UN!" campaign, which alleged in 1959 that the "Real
nature of [the] UN is to build One World Government (New World Order)."
Behind much of this concern was opposition to communism not only on
economic, ideological, and pragmatic geopolitical grounds, but also because
it was seen as a godless conspiracy. The influence of fundamentalist
Christian beliefs on Birch doctrine are often obscured by the group's
ostensible secular orientation. As Welch put it, "This is a world-wide
battle, between light and darkness; between freedom and slavery; between
the spirit of Christianity and the spirit of anti-Christ for the souls and
bodies of men."
Welch's magazine, renamed American Opinion, became the official JBS
publication in 1959, as chapters began to be built. In January 1960 the
Birch Society had 75 chapters and 1,500 members, and by September 1960
there were 324 chapters and some 5,300 members. In March of 1961, according
to Welch, there was "a staff of twenty-eight people in the Home Office;
about thirty Coordinators (or Major Coordinators) in the field, who are
fully-paid as to salary and expenses; and about one hundred Coordinators
(or Section Leaders as they are called in some areas), who work on a
volunteer basis as to all or part of their salary, or expenses, or both."
Estimates of Society membership by the end of 1961 ranged from 60,000 to
100,000. The actual membership figures are shrouded in secrecy and often
disputed. Broyles argues that in 1966 the actual active membership was more
like 25,000 to 30,000, but this seems a low, and active members are
outnumbered by paid members in most groups.
No matter what the actual membership, the JBS pioneered grassroots lobbying,
combining educational meetings, petition drives, and letter writing
campaigns. One early campaign against the second Summit Conference between
the US and the Soviet Union generated over 600,000 postcards and letters,
according to the Society. A June 1964 Birch campaign to oppose Xerox
Corporation sponsorship of TV programs favorable to the UN produced 51,279
letters from 12,785 individuals.
Much of the early Birch conspiracism reflects an ultraconservative business
nationalist critique of business internationalists networked through groups
such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR is viewed through a
conspiracist lens as puppets of the Rockefeller family in a 1952 book by
McCarthy fan, Emanuel M. Josephson, Rockefeller, 'Internationalist': The
Man Who Misrules the World. In 1962 Dan Smoot's The Invisible Government
added several other policy groups to the list of conspirators, including
the Committee for Economic Development, the Advertising Council, the
Atlantic Council (formerly the Atlantic Union Committee), the Business
Advisory Council, and the Trilateral Commission. Smoot had worked at FBI
headquarters in Washington, DC before leaving to establish an anticommunist
newsletter, The Dan Smoot Report. The shift from countersubversion on
behalf of the FBI to countersubversion in the private sector was an easy
one. The basic thesis was the same. In Smoot's concluding chapter, he
wrote, "Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are
a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want
America to become part of a worldwide socialist dictatorship, under the
control of the Kremlin."
In a 1966 speech, Welch coined the name "The Insiders" to describe the
leaders of the conspiracy. The Birch Society seems unable to make up its
mind if the Insiders are direct descendants of the Illuminati Freemason
conspiracy, although the basic concept is clearly related. During the late
1980's and early 1990's the Birch leadership downplayed the connection,
while in the late 1990's, the Birch book list began sprouting titles
seeking to prove the link to the Illuminati Freemason conspiracy. Many
Birch members, and founder Welch himself, expressed support for this
thesis, sometimes in writing, sometimes at Birch public meetings. According
to the theory, there is an unbroken ideologically-driven conspiracy linking
the Illuminati, the French Revolution, the rise of Marxism and Communism,
the Council on Foreign Relations, and the United Nations. Of course, not
all Birch members agreed with everything that Welch or the Society
proposed. Welch's famous book, The Politician, caused a stir even among
many loyal Birch members who were shocked by Welch's assertion that
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was "a dedicated conscious agent of the
communist conspiracy."
Birch Society influence on US politics hit its high point in the years
around the failed 1964 presidential campaign of Republican candidate Barry
Goldwater who lost to incumbent President Lyndon Johnson. Welch had
supported Goldwater over Nixon for the 1960 Republican nomination, but the
membership split with two-thirds supporting Goldwater and one-third
supporting Nixon. A number of Birch members and their allies were Goldwater
supporters in 1964 and some were delegates at the 1964 Republican
convention.
The John Birch Society White Book was a spiral-bound collection of all JBS
Weekly Bulletins issued in the previous year and handed to every new
member. The Bulletins in the 1964 White Book contain chatty and anecdotal
information about the campaigns important to the JBS. A major effort was
conducted under the slogan "Impeach Earl Warren," which was reported to be
generating 500 letters per day to members of Congress. The JBS also sought
to restore prayer in school, repeal the graduated personal income tax,
stop "Communist influences within our communications media," and stop
the "trend of legislation by judicial fiat."
The phrase "legislation by judicial fiat," was widely interpreted within the
JBS as opposition to federal assistance to the goals of the civil rights
movement over the objections of persons insisting that state's rights
should supersede federal laws. During its heyday in the mid-1960s the Birch
response to the civil rights movement and urban unrest was to launch
two "campaigns under the banners of Support Your Local Police, and Expose
The 'Civil Rights' Fraud.
The "Support Your Local Police" campaign opposed the use of federal officers
to enforce civil rights laws. "[T]he Communist press of America has been
screaming for years to have local police forces discredited, shunted aside,
or disbanded and replaced by Federal Marshals or similar agents and
personnel of a national federalized police force," one article complained.
Another reason articulated for opposing the civil rights movement was that
it was a creation of Communists, and Birch members were urged to "Show the
communist hands behind it." According to a 1967 personal letter from Welch
to retired General James A. Van Fleet inviting him to serve on the Birch
National Council:
==="Five years ago, few people who were thoroughly familiar with the main
divisions of Communist strategy saw any chance of keeping the Negro
Revolutionary Movement from reaching decisive proportions. It was to supply
the flaming front to the whole 'proletarian revolution,' as planned by
Walter Reuther and his stooge, Bobby Kennedy"
Despite its opposition to civil rights, throughout this period the JBS had a
handful of black conservative members who supported this position on
philosophical grounds involving states rights, economic libertarianism, and
opposition to alleged communist subversion of the civil rights movement.
The JBS simultaneously discouraged overt displays of racism, while it
promoted policies that had the effect of racist oppression by its
opposition to the Civil Rights movement. The degree of political racism
expressed by the JBS was not "extremist" but similar to that of many
mainstream Republican and Democratic elected officials at the time. This
level of mainstream racism should not be dismissed lightly, as it was often
crude and sometimes violent, treating Black people in particular as
second-class citizens, most of whom had limited intelligence and little
ambition. In Alan Stang's book published by the JBS, It's Very Simple: The
True Story of Civil Rights, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is portrayed as an
agent of a massive communist conspiracy to agitate among otherwise happy
Negroes to foment revolution, or at least promote demands for more
collectivist federal government intrusion.
The same is true with JBS levels of personal and political antisemitism.
When crude antisemitism was detected in JBS members, their membership was
revoked. The most celebrated incident involved Birch leader Revilo P.
Oliver who moved over to work with Willis Carto and the Liberty Lobby after
being forced to resign from the Birch Society for making antisemitic and
White supremacist comments at a 1966 Birch rally.
The Birch Society promoted the book None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary
Allen who included a dubious discussion of the Rothschilds and other Jewish
banking interests as part of a sketch of a much larger conspiracy involving
financial and political elites and the Council on Foreign Relations. Allen
explicitly rejected the idea that by focusing on the early roll of the
Rothschilds in investment banking he was promoting a theory of a Jewish
conspiracy:
==="Anti-Semites have played into the hands of the conspiracy by trying to
portray the entire conspiracy as Jewish. Nothing could be farther from the
truth. The traditionally Anglo-Saxon J. P. Morgan and Rockefeller
international banking institutions have played a key role in the
conspiracy. But there is no denying the importance of the Rothschilds and
their satellites. However it is just as unreasonable and immoral to blame
all Jews for the crimes of the Rothschilds as it is to hold all Baptists
accountable for the crimes of the Rockefellers.
Nicely put, yet Allen used insensitive loaded language concerning
the "cosmopolitan" nature of the "international bankers," and he slipped
when comparing Jews to Anglo-Saxons, mixing issues of race, ethnicity, and
religion. He seemed sincere in rejecting overt and conscious antisemitism
and did not seem to be cloaking a hidden hatred or distrust of Jews, but he
included a hyperbolic and inaccurate assessment of the role of the
Rothschilds, Warburgs, and other Jews compared to the non-Jewish banking
interests that grew along with industrial capitalism. The problem was
unintentional, but still real, and the stereotype of a Jewish establishment
was clearer in Allen's other work, as Mintz explained, "A conspiracist
unimpressed by anti-Semitism could construe the material differently from a
confirmed sociological anti-Semite, who could find a codification of his
fears and anxieties."
In a similar fashion the Society promoted conspiracist theories that
involved mild antisemitism, and Welch once buttressed his claims of the
Illuminati conspiracy by citing notorious British antisemite Nesta Webster.
At its core, however, the Birch view of the conspiracy does not reveal it
to be controlled or significantly influenced by Jews in general, or a
secret group of conniving Jews, nor is their evidence of a hidden agenda
within the Society to promote suspicion of Jews. The Society always
struggled against what it saw as objectionable forms of prejudice against
Jews, but it can still be criticized for having continuously promoted mild
antisemitic stereotyping. Nevertheless, the JBS was closer to mainstream
stereotyping and bigotry than the naked race hate and genocidal
antisemitism of neonazi or KKK groups. When the Society promoted a historic
tract about the conspiracy, it was usually their reprint of Robison's
Proofs of a Conspiracy.
In a sense, the Birch society pioneered the encoding of implicit cultural
forms of ethnocentric White racism and Christian nationalist antisemitism
rather than relying on the White supremacist biological determinism and
open loathing of Jews that had typified the old right prior to WWII.
Throughout its existence, however, the Society has promoted open homophobia
and sexism.
The Society's anti-communism and states rights libertarianism was based on
sincere principles, but it clearly served as a cover for organizing by
segregationists and White supremacists. How much of this was conscious, and
how much unconscious, is difficult to determine. That the Birch Society
clearly attracted members with a more hate-filled (even fascistic) agenda
is undeniable, and these more zealous elements used the JBS as a
recruitment pool from which to draw persons toward a more neonazi stance on
issues of race and culture. As Birch members assisted in building
grassroots support for Goldwater's Republican presidential bid in 1964,
critics of the JBS highlighted the group's more unsavory elements as a way
to discredit Goldwater, who was labeled an extremist. For the JBS, however,
Goldwater was a compromise candidate. JBS records from 1964 reveal Birch
misgivings about the political reliability of Goldwater. Newspaper articles
from the Birch archives show Goldwater quotes that conflict with Birch
dogma heavily underlined and sporting rows of question marks; yet a racist
and antisemitic attack on Goldwater by the White supremacist Thunderbolt,
is labeled "Poison," with a bold pen stroke.
After Goldwater was soundly drubbed in the general election, Welch tried
earnestly to recruit another politician to accept the Birch torch-former
Alabama Governor George Wallace. "It is the ambition and the intention of
Richard Nixon, during the next eight years, to make himself the dictator of
the world," warned Welch in a November 11, 1968 post-election letter to
Wallace. "The people of this country are ready for an anti-Communist
crusade behind some political leader who really means it," wrote Welch
urging Wallace to adopt the Birch platform.
The more pragmatic conservatives and reactionaries who had been fundraising
and organizing specialists during the Goldwater campaign would form the
core of what became known as the New Right. Although many New Right and new
Christian Right activists were groomed through the Birch Society, the
group's core conspiracism, passionate and aggressive politics, and its
labeling by critics as a radical right extremist group tainted by
antisemitism and racism, were seen as impediments to successful electoral
organizing. The Birch Society became a pariah. In the late 1970's the New
Right coalition of secular and Christian conservatives and reactionaries
emerged as a powerful force on the American political landscape, and was
influential in helping elect Ronald Reagan to the presidency in 1980. The
eclipsed Birch Society saw its influence dwindle even further after Reagan
took office, and further still after they attacked Reagan's policies.
When Robert F. Welch died in 1985, the Birch Society had shrunk to less than
50,000 members. There then ensued an internal struggle over who would grab
the reins of the organization. The victors even alienated Welch's widow who
denounced the new leadership from her retirement home in Weston, MA.
Magazine subscriptions, often a close parallel to membership, fell from
50,000 to 30,000 to 15,000.
The collapse of communism in Europe and the end of the Cold War might have
signaled the end of the Birch Society, but the UN role in the Gulf War and
President Bush's call for a New World Order unwittingly echoed Birch claims
about the goals of the internationalist One World Government conspiracy. As
growing right-wing populism sparked new levels of cynicism regarding
politicians, and economic and social fears sparked rightist backlash
movements, the Birch Society positioned itself as the group that for
decades had its fingers on the pulse of the conspiracy behind the country's
decline. Between 1988 and 1995 the Birch Society at least doubled, and
perhaps tripled its membership to over 55,000.
In the Birch Orbit
Conspiracist anti-communism similar to that offered by the JBS was
widespread on the nativist right during the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to
the books by Gary Allen, Robert Welch, Dan Smoot, and Alan Stang are enough
books in the genre to fill several library shelves.
Among the most influential leaders of the countersubversion movement against
the global communist conspiracy following the McCarthy period was Dr. Fred
Schwarz and his California-based Christian Anti-communism Crusade. A
tireless lecturer, Schwarz in 1960 authored You Can Trust the Communists
(to be Communists) which sold over one million copies.Schwarz's newsletter
once suggested that communists promote abortion, pornography,
homosexuality, venereal disease and mass murder as ways to weaken the moral
fiber of America and pave the way for a communist takeover.
The assault on America by forces of godless communism were central themes in
three other widely distributed books which were used to mobilize support
for the 1964 Goldwater campaign. The best known book was Phyllis Schlafly's
A Choice, Not an Echo which suggested a conspiracist theory in which the
Republican Party was secretly controlled by elitist intellectuals dominated
by members of the Bilderberger banking conference, whose policies were
designed to usher in global communist conquest.Schlafly's husband Fred had
been a lecturer at Schwartz's local Christian Anti-communism Crusade
conferences. The title "A Choice, Not an Echo" became one of Goldwater's
campaign slogans.
Schlafly elaborate on the theme of the global communist conspiracy and its
witting and unwitting domestic allies in The Gravediggers, a book on
military preparedness co-authored with retired Rear Admiral Chester Ward.
Ward, a member of the National Strategy Committee of the American Security
Council was also a lecturer at the Foreign Policy Research Institute which
formulated many benchmark Cold War anti-communist strategies.The
Gravediggers, claimed U.S. military strategy and tactics was actually
designed to pave the way for global communist conquest. The Gravediggers
was tailored to support the Goldwater campaign.
Often overlooked because of the publicity surrounding A Choice, Not an Echo
was John Stormer's, None Dare Call it Treason, which outlined how the
equivocation of Washington insiders would pave the way for global communist
conquest. None Dare Call it Treason sold over seven million copies, making
it one of the largest-selling paperback books of the day. The back cover
summarizes the text as detailing "the communist-socialist conspiracy to
enslave America" and documenting "the concurrent decay in America's
schools, churches, and press which has conditioned the American people to
accept 20 years of retreat in the face of the communist enemy." Stormer
updated his text in the late 1980's to expand on his theory, shifting his
focus from anti-communism to claim secular humanism now played a key role
in undermining America.
One of the core ideas of the US right is that modern liberalism is an ally
of collectivism and a handmaiden for godless communism.
Doug Freyburger
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> Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger!
Picturing our resident holocaust denier delusional lunatic
in the role of Joan of Arc is pretty amusing. The voices
in my head tend to be AM radio traffic reports and they
have this way of turning off when I get out of my car, but
that wasn't the case for Joan ...
ernie1241
bigotry and deliberate fabrications.
Incidentally, I wrote to Mullins on 4 occasions to ask him for details
regarding sources he used for his comments about Robert Welch and the
JBS. Not surprisingly, he never replied -- even though I enclosed a
postpaid reply envelope.
All of us make judgments regarding what is truthful and accurate. If
you think Mullins has any credibility whatsoever, you are beyond
rational discussion.
With respect to the entire "international banker" argument, it has
been around for more than 8 decades. It originated within anti-
semitic circles and then was repeated in more mainstream sources.
Below I copy something I wrote a long time ago to illustrate how an
author gets away with the most incredible libels simply because people
never bother to check their sources. I'm sure that many Google readers
are familiar with Gary Allen's book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy and
W. Cleon Skousen's book, The Naked Communist.
-----------------------
Let's now turn our attention to Gary Allen's book, pages 69-70 where
he writes the following:
"One of the best sources of information on the financing of the
Bolshevik Revolution is 'Czarism and the Revolution' by an important
White Russian General named Arsene de Goulevitch who was founder in
France of the Union of Oppressed Peoples."
(1) How does Gary Allen know that DeGoulevitch is "one of the best
sources of information on the financing of the Bolshevik Revolution"?
(2) What is Allen's judgment based upon? Why does he recommend
DeGoulevitch? In fact, WHO IS DeGoulevitch?
(3) All that Gary tells us is that DeGoulevitch was a White Russian
General who lived in Paris and he founded the Union of Oppressed
Peoples.
(4) The original edition of DeGoulevitch's book was published in Paris
in 1931. The only English-language edition was published in 1962 by
Omni Publications which now operates as Omni Christian Book Club.
(5) Why would it take 31 years for a book to be published in English?
(6) What type of books does Omni sell?
Omni is a one-man book-selling operation that sells radical
traditionalist Catholic materials, including numerous rabidly anti-
semitic conspiratorial writings. Omni describes Jews as "the first
civilization to practice the belief in racial supremacy, and the chief
advocate of that practice today."
Omni's catalog has included such books as Richard Harwood's "Did Six
Million Really Die?" (published by neo-nazi Ernst Zundel); Henry
Ford's "The International Jew", Arthur Butz's "The Hoax of the
Twentieth Century" (Butz is another prominent holocaust denier);
several issues of the late Father Leonard Feeney's Jew-bashing monthly
newsletter "The Point" (Feeney was ex-communicated by the Pope); and
"The Judaic Connection", which describes a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy
against the Catholic Church.
(7) So why would Omni think such an arcane book as "Czarism and
Revolution" would be of such interest to their customers that it would
be worth translating and publishing into English-—31 years after its
original publication?
(8) And why did Gary Allen think it was NOT important to mention that
(a) DeGoulevitch was a defender of Czarist Russia and (b) he expressed
anti-Jewish sentiments in his book?
(9) In his book, DeGoulevitch cites, as one his authorities, Boris
Brasol--another White Russian (and a former head of the Czar's secret
police).
Brasol arranged for the translation of "The Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion" into English and then distributed copies - including a
copy that was used by Henry Ford's Michigan newspaper (Dearborn
Independent) in their famous series of anti-semitic articles entitled
"The International Jew". Brasol also arranged for the publication of
several anti-semitic books in 1920 and 1921 including: "The Protocols
and World Revolution" and "The World at the Crossroads."
(10) In his book, written in French and subsequently translated into
English, de Goulevitch observes that....
"The main purveyors of funds for the revolution, however, were neither
the crackpot Russian millionaires nor the armed bandits of Lenin. The
`real' money primarily came from certain British and American circles
which for a long time past had lent their support to the Russian
revolutionary cause..."
De Goulevitch continues:
"The important part played by the wealthy American banker, Jacob
Schiff, in the events in Russia, though as yet only partially
revealed, is no longer a secret."
General Alexander Nechvolodov is quoted as another authoritative
source by de Goulevitch. The General observed that....
"In April 1917, Jacob Schiff publicly declared that it was thanks to
his financial support that the revolution in Russia had succeeded."
OK-here we have an example of how amateur "historians" (like Gary
Allen) use secondary sources without independently verifying the
accuracy of the information they quote---even when those secondary
sources are making highly defamatory accusations.
(11) So who is Gen. Alexander Nechvolodov? (Actually, his name is
Aleksandr Nechvolodov).
He is another pro-Czar White Russian expatriate living in Paris. In
1924, he published a book entitled "L'Empereur Nicholas II et les
Juifs" (The Emperor Nicholas II and the Jews).
Are you beginning to see a pattern here??
In his book, Gen. Nechvolodov included the complete text of "The
Protocols of Zion" and he appended approving commentaries which
affirmed the accuracy of the Protocols.
We already know from Dr. Antony Sutton's research that Jacob Schiff
OPPOSED the Bolshevik regime and, obviously, there is no "public
statement" by Schiff declaring that his financial support enabled the
Bolshevik Revolution to succeed. If such a statement existed, don't
you think somebody would have found the original source and referenced
it before Gary Allen wrote his book in 1972?
An honest historian would search for the ORIGINAL primary source in
order to quote the alleged Schiff comment accurately--especially
because it is so inflammatory and perhaps could be considered
libelous.
The reason why Gary Allen (and like-minded souls) PREFER to use
secondary sources---is because they think such a practice relieves
them of personal responsibility for disseminating falsehoods.
In his 1993 book, Wall Street And The Bolshevik Revolution - Dr.
Antony Sutton writes:
"It is significant that documents in the State Department files
confirm that the investment banker Jacob Schiff, often cited as a
source of funds for the Bolshevik Revolution, was in fact against
support of the Bolshevik regime.5 This position, as we shall see, was
in direct contrast to the Morgan-Rockefeller promotion of the
Bolsheviks."
"The persistence with which the Jewish-conspiracy myth has been pushed
suggests that it may well be a deliberate device to divert attention
from the real issues and the real causes. The evidence provided in
this book suggests that the New York bankers who were also Jewish had
relatively minor roles in supporting the Bolsheviks, while the New
York bankers who were also Gentiles (Morgan, Rockefeller, Thompson)
had major roles. What better way to divert attention from the real
operators than by the medieval bogeyman of anti-Semitism?"
Sutton's footnote #5 refers readers to an Appendix which contains the
text of the following November 1918 correspondence by Jacob Schiff to
the U.S. State Department. Schiff appended a cablegram from a Mr.
Kamenka, a prominent Russian official.
"Dear Mr. Polk:
Will you permit me to send you copy of a cablegram received this
morning and which I think, for regularity's sake, should be brought to
the notice of the Secretary of State or your good self, for such
consideration as it might be thought well to give this.
Mr. Kamenka, the sender of this cablegram, is one of the leading men
in Russia and has, I am informed, been financial advisor both of the
Prince Lvoff government and of the Kerensky government. He is
President of the Banque de Commerce de l'Azov Don of Petrograd, one of
the most important financial institutions of Russia, but had, likely,
to leave Russia with the advent of Lenin and his comrades."
"Let me take this opportunity to send sincere greetings to you and
Mrs. Polk and to express the hope that you are now in perfect shape
again, and that Mrs. Polk and the children are in good health.
Faithfully yours,
[sgd.] Jacob H. Schiff"
Hon. Frank L. Polk
Counsellor of the State Dept.
Washington, D.C.
MM-Encl.
[Dated November 25, 1918]
* * * * *
(d) Translation:
The complete triumph of liberty and right furnishes me a new
opportunity to repeat to you my profound admiration for the noble
American nation. Hope to see now quick progress on the part of the
Allies to help Russia in reestablishing order. Call your attention
also to pressing necessity of replacing in Ukraine enemy troops at the
very moment of their retirement in order to avoid Bolshevist
devastation. Friendly intervention of Allies would be greeted
everywhere with enthusiasm and looked upon as democratic action,
because Bolshevist government does not represent Russian people. Wrote
you September 19th. Cordial greetings.
[sgd.] Kamenka
Dr. Sutton's Comment:
"This is an important series because it refutes the story of a Jewish
bank conspiracy behind the Bolshevik Revolution. Clearly Jacob Schiff
of Kuhn, Loeb was not interested in supporting the Kerensky Liberty
Loan and Schiff went to the trouble of drawing State Department
attention to Kamenka's pleas for Allied intervention against the
Bolsheviks. Obviously Schiff and fellow banker Kamenka, unlike J.P.
Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, were as unhappy about the Bolsheviks
as they had been about the tsars."
(12) But whom was the original source for the accusation regarding
Schiff's financial support of the Bolsheviks?
It was first published in the U.S. circa November 1920 by Henry Ford's
newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. It subsequently was spread by
Father Charles E. Coughlin and William Dudley Pelley during the
1930's. Not surprisingly, Coughlin, Pelley, and Ford's newspaper
endorsed as accurate and then circulated "The Protocols of Zion".
I've gone into this detail to illustrate how researchers and authors
can utilize what they claim to be reliable sources of information
which turn out to be bigoted or very ill-informed.
I would like to suggest a few general principles for making informed
judgments about whether or not conspiracy arguments have some merit.
They are as follows:
· If a conspiracy author uses obscure sources (such as books
published or sold by one-man bookselling businesses) those sources
should invite extreme caution.
· If a conspiracy author attributes highly defamatory observations to
someone whom, it turns out, is quoting someone else --- that also
invites extreme caution --because, one inevitably wonders why the
author didn't just go to the original primary source instead of
"quoting" what a secondary or third source claims was said.
· If a conspiracy author cannot get basic factual material correct
(simple stuff that doesn't even require much research) - that also
invites extreme caution --- because it betokens sloppy or perhaps even
dishonest research habits.
Some final observations regarding conspiracy "scholarship":
Is it reasonable to assume that all historians would miss the "facts"
which Gary Allen and Cleon Skousen present in their books? For
example:
(a) There are numerous biographies of Lord Milner written by trained
historians. How did they all miss the "fact" that Milner was a
"wealthy millionaire" who "financed" the Bolsheviks to the tune of
"over 21 million rubles"?
(b) How did they ALL miss the "fact" that Milner was a "front man for
the Rothschilds"?
(c) How did they ALL miss the "fact" that Jacob Schiff's grandson said
that his grandfather "financed" the Bolsheviks to the tune of $20
million?
** That is sensational news! How come THE ONLY SOURCE for that
statement is anonymous and is limited to a report in a society gossip
column?
WHO BENEFITS from such misinformation?
WHO WANTS such misinformation circulated and believed?
ALSO: As previously mentioned, William Loeb (ultra-conservative
publisher of the Manchester NH Union-Leader) ran an editorial (5/5/72)
describing Gary Allen's book as "anti-semitic nonsense" - whereupon
the paper received numerous hostile replies.
One of those replies was from a local Bircher who denied that the JBS
was anti-semitic but she declared that "to deny that the Conspiracy is
being directed by international bankers--Jews mainly...is being naïve
in the extreme, as well as totally ignorant of the depth and extent of
the REAL conspiracy." [Marguerite M. Woodman letter to editor,
6/29/72].
There are ramifications to embracing the conspiracy theory proposed by
Gary Allen and the Birch Society. Historically, this anti-CFR, anti-
Rockefeller, anti-New World Order, anti-Federal Reserve, anti-
international bankers, anti-Illuminati, anti-elitist theme has been
the creation of devout anti-semites.
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Realpolitical Institute was founded in Chicago circa November 1954 by
an obscure (but interesting) guy named Maynard Orlando Nelsen. In
1947, Nelsen was a leader of something called the Democratic
Nationalist Party.
G-2 (Army Intelligence), 5th Army HQ in Chicago, reported that its
investigation into Nelsen disclosed his “pro-fascist activities in the
past”.
In January 1957, Realpolitical Institute published a flyer in memo
format which contained the following self-description of its purposes:
“To: White American Citizens
Re: Disloyal Jewish Consensus
Subject: Whiteman Survival
“The RI is dedicated to the racial survival of the Whiteman, both here
in our United States of North America and throughout the world.”
Now, what sort of people were attracted to Realpolitical Institute?
Here’s a list of its officers in 1955:
Director = EUSTACE C. MULLINS
Manager = Max Nelsen
Supervisor = Edward Fields
“Leader” = Matt Koehl
Who were Matt Koehl and Edward Fields?
Matt Koehl replaced George Lincoln Rockwell as leader of the National
Socialist White People’s Party (formerly known as American Nazi Party
and later known as The New Order) after Rockwell was assassinated in
1967. .
The New Order describes itself as follows on its website:
“We are the Movement of Adolf Hitler. We are His heirs. He has given
us a commission, which it is our duty to discharge”.
http://www.theneworder.org/what_is.htm
EDWARD R. FIELDS:
Fields was associated with the late J.B Stoner in the National States
Rights Party (NSRP) and his previous Christian Anti-Jewish Party. The
latter’s party slogan was “Free America From the Jews!” Fields was
also Grand Dragon of The New Order, Knights of the KKK.
In July 1980 Fields travelled to England to meet with neo-nazi groups
and in October of that year, four leaders of the Belgian paramilitary
fascist movement, “Vlaamse Militanten Order” conferred in Atlanta with
Fields and J.B. Stoner.
J.B. STONER
During a July 5, 1946 interview, J.B. Stoner told an Atlanta GA
Constitution reporter that Hitler had been too moderate and the goal
of the Christian Anti-Jewish Party was “to make being a Jew a crime
punishable by death.”
After J.B. Stoner’s unsuccessful 1972 campaign for the U.S. Senate,
Fields wrote in a “Personal News Letter” to the NSRP membership
stating that while “everyone knew we could not win…our main goal was
to reach the public with our message” and Fields boasted that the NSRP
had “held to our open and clear-cut message of White Racism and Anti-
Jewism.”
EUSTACE MULLINS:
The October 1967 issue of NSRP’s newspaper, The Thunderbolt, contains
a letter-to-the-editor from EUSTACE MULLINS recommending membership in
NSRP.
In the July 1972 issue of the NSRP Thunderbolt, an article entitled
“The Enemy Within” blamed Jews for virtually every problem besetting
American society. It then offered a solution to the “Jewish problem”
-- as follows:
“What is required? Every Jew who holds a position of power or
authority must be removed from that position. If this does not work,
then we must establish the Final Solution!!!”
Mullins also wrote articles for Lyrl Clark Van Hyning’s Chicago-based
newsletter, Women’s Voice. See for example: "Jews Mass Poison
American Children”, June 1955, p. 11.
See April 1961 John Birch Society Bulletin, page 16 for the following
Robert Welch comment: “…the most vicious and most extensive charges
ever leveled against me have been by such notorious anti-Semites as
Lyrl Clark Van Hyning (Women’s Voice) and Elizabeth Dilling (The
Dilling Bulletin)…”
Is it ENTIRELY COINCIDENTAL that Mullins has spent his entire life
associating himself with a crowd of people and organizations whose
views clearly were anti-semitic, racist, and pro-Hitler?
ernie1241
It appears that Mullins' first written comments about the supposed JBS-
Rockefeller connection were published in 1988 in chapter 10 of his
book entitled "Murder By Injection: The Story Of The Medical
Conspiracy Against America" [self-published, National Council for
Medical Research, Staunton, VA.]. The chapter title was "The
Rockefeller Syndicate."
Here is the relevant excerpt from chapter 10
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/emullins.htm
"The Rockefellers were also active on the `right-wing' front through
their sponsorship of the John Birch Society. To enable Robert Welch, a
32nd degree Mason, to devote all of his time to the John Birch
Society, Nelson Rockefeller purchased his family firm, the Welch Candy
Company, from him at a handsome price. Welch chose the principal
officers of the John Birch Society from his acquaintances at the
Council On Foreign Relations. For years afterwards, American patriots
were puzzled by the consistent inability of the John Birch Society to
move forward on any of its well-advertised `anti-Communist' goals. The
fact that the society had been setup at the behest of the backers of
the world Communist revolution may have played some role in this
development. Other patriots wondered why most American conservative
writers, including the present writer, were steadily blacklisted by
the John Birch Society for some thirty years. Despite thousands of
requests from would be book buyers, the John Birch Society refused to
review or list any of my books. After several decades of futility, the
Society was totally discredited by its own record. In a desperate
effort to restore its image, William Buckley, the CIA propagandist,
launched a "fierce" attack against the John Birch Society in the pages
of his magazine, the National Review. This free publicity campaign
also did little to revive the moribund organization.”
However, most people probably are more familiar with Mullins'
rense.com interview, excerpted below:
http://www.rense.com/general39/EUSTACE.htm
"JBS was setup by Nelson Rockefeller. I knew two people at the
original meeting. They needed a right-wing, anti-communist
organization. NR decided that Robert Welch was the man to run JBS, so
he arranged for the sale of Welch's Candy Co. (where Robert Welch had
been working for his brother John) to Nabisco (which was a Rockefeller
controlled company) at a highly inflated price and Welch was given an
income to run the John Birch Society."
JBS was setup by Nelson Rockefeller. I knew two people at the original
meeting. They needed a right-wing, anti-communist organization. NR
decided that Robert Welch was the man to run JBS, so he arranged for
the sale of Welch's Candy Co. (where Robert Welch had been working for
his brother John) to Nabisco (which was a Rockefeller controlled
company) at a highly inflated price and Welch was given an income to
run the John Birch Society.
Revilo Oliver was a good friend of mine and he was one of the founders
of the JBS. He and I were sitting in his living room once and he told
me that he knew Nelson Rockefeller ran the Birch Society because he
had a revolving fund at Chase Manhattan Bank, and whenever Welch
needed a quarter million dollars to meet the payroll, he'd go to CMB
and withdraw the money.
[Then Mullins was asked]: Oliver told you that? [And Mullins
replied…]
"Himself. One of the founders, can't ask for better authority than
that."
There are four immediate problems with Mullins' claims about an
alleged JBS-Rockefeller connection and about Oliver being his source:
1. His time-line doesn't make any sense (see details below)
2. There are no documents, memos, reports, transcripts,
correspondence, etc. to support his assertions.
Oliver lived in Urbana, IL. He sometimes participated in JBS National
Council meetings held at various locations around the country but
there is no evidence that he had access to the type of factual data
about JBS financial matters that Mullins claims Oliver was privy to.
I have copies of JBS National Council minutes held during 1960 and
1961. Financial matters were not discussed. I also have copies of
lots of correspondence between and among JBS National Council
members---including correspondence written by Oliver. Nowhere is
there even a HINT that Oliver discussed (or other JBS National Council
members ever discussed) such a Rockefeller-JBS connection.
3. Mullins gets so many basic details wrong, it really calls into
question his veracity.
4. JBS President John McManus presents some information (copied below)
which helps explain what may have motivated Mullins.
FACTS:
1. Robert Welch worked 22 years for the "James O. Welch Company" not
the "Welch Candy Company" as Mullins writes.
2. Robert's brother's name was JAMES – not (as Mullins claims)
"John"
3. Robert Welch did NOT own the candy company. In fact, he did not
even own any stock in it.
4. In 1957, James and Robert had a conversation about Robert's
political activities. James did not want his candy company associated
with Robert's political views and activities. Robert agreed to retire
from the company. James also gave interviews in which he explicitly
stated that he disagreed with his brother's beliefs and did not want
his company associated with those beliefs.
5. The Birch Society was founded (on paper) in December 1958. Its
first chapters were formed circa February 1959. However, the sale of
the "James O. Welch Company" to the Nabisco Biscuit Company was
announced in June 1963 and completed in October 1963 so why does
Mullins claim that the sale of the candy company financed the creation
of the JBS??
For details concerning the sale, see New York Times article, "Nabisco
Enters The Candy Business" in the 10/1/63 issue of the Times. The
article mentions that the company was acquired in exchange for 200,000
shares of Nabisco's common stock, then valued at $10,800,000. Annual
sales of the James O. Welch company were $20 million. Consider the
relevance of this with respect to Mullins' assertion that the company
was sold "at a highly inflated price." Mullins does not explain the
basis for his accusation and he certainly had no personal knowledge or
expertise within the candy industry upon which he could base an
informed judgment.
WHY WOULD WELCH NEED FUNDS FROM ROCKEFELLER?
6. Significantly, JBS financial statements prior to the sale of the
James O. Welch Company in October 1963 reveal that the JBS had very
substantial income and major increases in its income (50%-100%
increases per year!) from member dues, contributions, and sale of
publications, speech fees, National Council dinners, etc). So why
would Rockefeller money be necessary?
In addition, the JBS received significant sums from bequests of
deceased persons such as D.B. Lewis (Dr. Ross Pet Foods) who
bequeathed a million dollars.
Some specifics:
1959 income (first year of operation) = $129,844
1960 income = $198,719
1961 income = $595,000
1962 income = $826,100
1963 income = $1.6 million
1964 income = $3.2 million
1965 income = $4.0 million
1967 income = $4.2 million
The doubling of income between 1963 and 1964 is attributable to the
1964 election campaign and the concurrent dramatic growth of JBS
membership.
In February 1964, Welch wrote to Westbrook Pegler that the JBS had:
• 150 employees
• a $22,000 weekly payroll
• a $12,000 weekly printing bill
In December 1965, the JBS had:
• approx 240 employees
• $35,000 weekly payroll
• $60,000 weekly printing bill
7. In addition, many JBS members and supporters (including JBS
National Council members) were persons of very substantial means---
millionaires in fact.
Furthermore, Welch had numerous connections all over the country in
business circles (such as NAM folks) so he surely had ready access to
whatever funds he required without relying upon any alleged
Rockefeller ploys.
8. Current JBS President (and former JBS Director of Public
Relations), John McManus has responded to numerous inquiries over the
years concerning various statements made by Mullins. Here are some
noteworthy excerpts. "RW" refers to Robert Welch:
"The only correct item in the Mullins interview is his mention of
Revilo Oliver as one of the JBS Founders…Oliver was heavily involved
in JBS (writing regularly for American Opinion magazine) until July
1966 when a speech he gave at the New England Rally for God, Family
and Country disturbed RW to the degree that he traveled to Illinois to
sit down with Oliver and discuss it. Oliver refused to let him in his
home, told RW he wanted nothing more to do with JBS, and started a
campaign to besmirch the Society."
"I never saw any evidence that Oliver was responsible for the Mullins'
charges about Rockefeller although it's possible that he started that
nonsense. The truth is completely opposite. Nelson Rockefeller had
no part in the JBS - ever!"
"RW separated himself from the Welch Candy Company before he started
JBS because he expected retaliation and didn't want what he was about
to do reflect negatively on the company. The sale of the company to
Nabisco in 1963 was engineered by James O. Welch, RW's younger
brother. ... There was no JBS bank account at Chase Manhattan -
ever."
In answer to inquiries concerning (a) whom might be the "second"
person who attended the December 1958 founding meeting of the JBS that
Mullins mentions as a source, and another unrelated claim made by
Mullins that his writings had been cited as a reliable source by Gary
Allen in the first editions of None Dare Call It Conspiracy, BUT later
editions expunged those comments at the direction of the JBS, McManus
replied:
"I have no idea who the second Council member might be. What I
suspect is that Mullins made this up just as he created a lot of other
supposed facts."
"After I sent the most recent message to you, I recalled being
approached by Mullins who hoped that we might help to market his
books. This was long after he had published the claims about
Rockefeller being the JBS patron. The response to him was simple:
`Why would you want an organization that you believe is part of the
Conspiracy's subversion to market your books? `
"I also recall meeting the man who financed the Mullins book on the
Federal Reserve. He told me that he was very angry about having spent
money for such a poor piece of work."
"Regarding None Dare Call It Conspiracy, I read the manuscript before
it was published. Then, I read the book after it was published.
There was never any mention of Eustace Mullins in either… It is simply
amazing to have to refute such nonsense as has reached you. But I
appreciate your wilingness to ask us for clarification. - John F.
McManus."
And McManus also wrote in another communication:
"I'm pleased that you checked with us before responding to the inquiry
you received. We wish others would do likewise when questions arise
about our policies, statements, etc."
"There have always been several reasons why our American Opinion
Bookstores were asked not to stock the works of some persons and
organizations. One was their anti-Semitic content. Others included
faulty research, unproven claims, nastiness toward JBS, racism, etc.
[Mullins] works were placed in the `not recommended' category because
they were deemed unreliable. After that decision was made, and
probably in retaliation, Mullins issued a book entitled Murder By
Injection in which he devoted several pages to making the most
outrageous and ridiculous charges about our Society and Founder
(Robert Welch) that have ever been made. We have frequently had to
respond to his absurdities."
On May 14, 8:09 am, ernie1241 <ernie1...@gmail.com> wrote:
ernie1241
Since your message mentions Emanuel Josephson and Morris Bealle, you
might be interested in the following data:
MORE ABOUT EMANUEL JOSEPHSON
As is the case with any matter, it is always helpful to know something
about the background of persons who make highly defamatory
accusations---particularly when they claim to be impartial, accurate,
and thoughtful independent researchers.
Here's a brief introduction to Emanuel Josephson (hereafter EJ).
Born = September 23, 1895 (Baltimore MD)
Died = April 1975 (NYC)
1916 = B.S. degree, Johns Hopkins University
1917 = M.D. from Columbia University
1921-22 = Assistant Medical Director, Red Cross, NY
1923-1925 = Associated with Bellevue Hospital, then Vanderbilt Clinic
From 1/11/1928 to 9/28/1940 = EJ was a Medical Examiner with the
Public Health Dept of New York City but he resigned under fire and
commenced private practice.
During his career at the Health Dept he was brought up on charges of
improper conduct 3 times and twice he was recommended for dismissal.
According to the FBI file on EJ....
EJ brought a libel suit against the NYC Health Commissioner, Deputy
Health Commissioner, and President of the County Medical Society.
During the trial, they described EJ as "a chronic troublemaker,
arrogant, quarrelsome, abusive, loud-mouthed, vulgar, at times
indecent, (who) provoked fights and quarrels with physicians…spied on
fellow workers and delighted in annoying them in small mean ways…"
In May 1917 while a senior at Columbia University, EJ was suspended
"and a psychopathic examination was ordered. He was twice examined
and his sanity was not challenged but the examiner advised the College
Board that Josephson was possessed of poor judgment, lacked tact and
modesty, was impressed with his own importance and apparently had
improper home training."
According to an April 29, 1944 FBI field office report from New York
City, in July 1942 EJ was on a tour of Yellowstone National Park
during which time he started ranting at fellow tourists that FDR and
his entire administration were...
"not interested in winning the war but merely in changing the
structure of the Government to a dictatorship; that if we win the war,
we would be no better off and might be worse off than if Hitler was to
win…"
The FBI's San Francisco field office reported another instance in 1942
where EJ
"condemned the President and his wife as sexual perverts (and) claimed
there would be no second front as the Pope controlled the
international situation through a head office at Montreal and that the
Governor of Alaska is a Communist and had blocked all attempts of
engineers to construct proper defenses."
This report also mentions that a NYC Police Dept. Detective who was
acquainted with EJ described him as "psychopathic".
In 1957 an FBI report mentioned that EJ claimed that "Senator (Joseph)
McCarthy was being slowly poisoned by radiated water and that the
Senator's wife Jean was involved the plot."
Senior FBI officials came to the following conclusions about EJ:
"Josephson is well known to us as a troublesome, unstable
individual who has frequently published distorted, unfounded and
controversial material. He was the subject of a security-type
investigation in 1944…Briefly, the investigation disclosed that he was
a practicing physician who was described by acquaintances and
associates as a chronic troublemaker, arrogant, quarrelsome, abusive
and vulgar. He was also considered `psychopathic' and an unbalanced
megalomaniac who had done much to discredit his profession."
11/15/49 = EJ wrote an article on "The Peekskill Incident" that was
published in Conde McGinley's racist newspaper, Common Sense.
EJ owned and operated and published his writings under imprint of
Chedney Press, 127 E. 69th St – NYC.
Among his publications:
April 1940: Your Life Is Their Toy: Rackets, Social Service and
Medicine
1948: Strange Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1952: Red Record of Adlai Stevenson: Stalin's Choice For President
1952: Rockefeller Internationalist: The Man Who Misrules The World
[discusses CFR], 448pp
1952: Eisenhower Gives Us No `Change', America's Betrayal Continues
1955: Roosevelt's Communist Manifesto
1964: Truth About Rockefeller: Public Enemy No. 1
1968: Federal Reserve Conspiracy and Rockefellers
MORRIS BEALE
Bealle bought into the idea that the Birch Society was a phony anti-
communist organization which was designed to sucker well-meaning
patriots into non-productive activities. Emanuel Josephson cited
Bealle as one of his sources for allegations which Josephson made in
his books.
On May 11, 5:00 pm, Attuarii <chatten...@germania.sup> wrote:
> I haven't gotten too far into this, but it promises to be entertaining
> reading. And damned if Heinz ain't smack dab in the middle of it.
>
> Category: News & Opinion (General) Topic: Crime & Corruption
> Synopsis:
> Source: rense.com
> Published: May 9, 2008 Author: Eustice Mullins
> For Education and Discussion Only. Not for Commercial Use.
>
> Many American conservatives believe as a matter of faith that the
> Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations exercise absolute control
> over the government and the people of United States . This thesis can be
> accepted as a working formula if one remains conscious of the larger
> issues . Two writers for whom the present writer has great respect, Dr.
> Emanuel Josephson and MorrisBealle, insisted on focusing on the
> read more »...
Attuarii
This stuff gets asinine after a fashion. Just because I say that the Nazis
didn't run homicidal gas chambers doesn't mean I think they were without
fault. I recently suggested that some of the the barbaric things
the "gallant Allies" did to the Germans make the Nazis seem exceptionally
humane in comparison. That was taken as my claiming the Nazis were good
guys. The whole "in comparison" part seems to elude people.
Or people accuse me of trying to say that "the Nazis weren't all that bad"
because they didn't do the worst of the things they were accused of. Well,
that's pretty much the definition of "not all that bad" isn't it?
So, if the Nazis weren't all that bad, what's the harm in saying it? Why is
it that we cannot have rational discussions with some level of objective
detachment 70 years after the events in question?
I'll tell you why, Holocaustianity is religion, and not history. As a
religious belief, it does not admit of scientific scrutiny. Kind of like
the Scopes Monkey Trial.
http://graphics.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Photo/2005/04/30/1114871142_5029.jpg
Attuarii
> You obviously are not familiar with Eustace Mullin's long record of
> bigotry and deliberate fabrications.
>
> Incidentally, I wrote to Mullins on 4 occasions to ask him for details
> regarding sources he used for his comments about Robert Welch and the
> JBS. Not surprisingly, he never replied -- even though I enclosed a
> postpaid reply envelope.
>
> All of us make judgments regarding what is truthful and accurate. If
> you think Mullins has any credibility whatsoever, you are beyond
> rational discussion.
>
> With respect to the entire "international banker" argument, it has
> been around for more than 8 decades. It originated within anti-
> semitic circles and then was repeated in more mainstream sources.
>
I didn't know Jefferson and Franklin lived that long.
> Below I copy something I wrote a long time ago to illustrate how an
> author gets away with the most incredible libels simply because people
> never bother to check their sources. I'm sure that many Google readers
> are familiar with Gary Allen's book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy and
> W. Cleon Skousen's book, The Naked Communist.
> -----------------------
Do you also contribute to Nizkor? The style is remarkably similar.
> be worth translating and publishing into English-?31 years after its
--
ernie1241
into right-and-left-wing extremism began long before Nizkor and other
groups were even founded.
What "style" do you think is "remarkably similar"?
I always attempt to use sources that my critics have previously
recommended to me as knowledgeable, authoritative, and reliable ---
such as House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee and the FBI under Hoover.
However, even when I use those sources, it has had no effect
whatsoever on my critics -- because, (obviously) there is something
more in operation than just deciding whether or not specific
assertions made are truthful or malicious falsehoods.
YOU are responsible for the information you circulate.
If you make no effort whatsoever to verify its accuracy and
truthfulness, then you are just as guilty of libel or slander, as the
original source.
If you doubt me, I can direct your attention to several precedent-
setting libel lawsuits which confirm that legal principle. It falls
under the general concept of "reckless disregard for the truth".
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Attuarii
> I have no connection to any organization and, in fact, my research
> into right-and-left-wing extremism began long before Nizkor and other
> groups were even founded.
>
> What "style" do you think is "remarkably similar"?
The fact that I can spend an extraordinary amount of time reading what is
supposed to be a refutation, and come no closer to changing my opinion than
I was before I began.
> I always attempt to use sources that my critics have previously
> recommended to me as knowledgeable, authoritative, and reliable ---
> such as House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Senate Internal
> Security Subcommittee and the FBI under Hoover.
>
> However, even when I use those sources, it has had no effect
> whatsoever on my critics -- because, (obviously) there is something
> more in operation than just deciding whether or not specific
> assertions made are truthful or malicious falsehoods.
>
> YOU are responsible for the information you circulate.
>
> If you make no effort whatsoever to verify its accuracy and
> truthfulness, then you are just as guilty of libel or slander, as the
> original source.
>
> If you doubt me, I can direct your attention to several precedent-
> setting libel lawsuits which confirm that legal principle. It falls
> under the general concept of "reckless disregard for the truth".
Regardless of what some lawyer may have swindled out of a court of law,
there is a difference between repeating a person's words, and endorsing
what he says.
>
> On May 14, 11:15?am, Attuarii <chatten...@germania.sup> wrote:
>> ernie1241 wrote:
>> > You obviously are not familiar with Eustace Mullin's long record of
>> > bigotry and deliberate fabrications.
>>
>> > Incidentally, I wrote to Mullins on 4 occasions to ask him for details
>> > regarding sources he used for his comments about Robert Welch and the
>> > JBS. ?Not surprisingly, he never replied -- even though I enclosed a
>> > postpaid reply envelope.
>>
>> > All of us make judgments regarding what is truthful and accurate. ?If
>> > you think Mullins has any credibility whatsoever, you are beyond
>> > rational discussion.
>>
>> > With respect to the entire "international banker" argument, it has
>> > been around for more than 8 decades. ?It originated within anti-
>> > semitic circles and then was repeated in more mainstream sources.
>>
>> I didn't know Jefferson and Franklin lived that long.
>>
>> > Below I copy something I wrote a long time ago to illustrate how an
>> > author gets away with the most incredible libels simply because people
>> > never bother to check their sources. I'm sure that many Google readers
>> > are familiar with Gary Allen's book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy and
>> > W. Cleon Skousen's book, The Naked Communist.
>> > -----------------------
>>
>> Do you also contribute to Nizkor? ?The style is remarkably similar. ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Let's now turn our attention to Gary Allen's book, pages 69-70 where
>> > he writes the following:
>>
>> > "One of the best sources of information on the financing of the
>> > Bolshevik Revolution is 'Czarism and the Revolution' by an important
>> > White Russian General named Arsene de Goulevitch who was founder in
>> > France of the Union of Oppressed Peoples."
>>
>> > (1) How does Gary Allen know that DeGoulevitch is "one of the best
>> > sources of information on the financing of the Bolshevik Revolution"?
>>
>> > (2) What is Allen's judgment based upon? Why does he recommend
>> > DeGoulevitch? In fact, WHO IS ?DeGoulevitch?
>> > the U.S. State Department. ?Schiff appended a cablegram from a Mr.
>> > Kamenka, a prominent Russian official.
>>
>> > "Dear Mr. Polk:
>>
>> > Will you permit me to send you copy of a cablegram received this
>> > morning and which I think, for regularity's sake, should be brought to
>> > the notice of the Secretary of State or your good self, for such
>> > consideration as it might be thought well to give this.
>>
>> > Mr. Kamenka, the sender of this cablegram, is one of the leading men
>> > in Russia and has, I am informed, been financial advisor both of the
>> > Prince Lvoff government and of the Kerensky government. He is
>> > President of the Banque de Commerce de l'Azov Don of Petrograd, one of
>> > the most important financial institutions of Russia, but had, likely,
>> > to leave Russia with the advent of Lenin and his comrades."
>>
>> > "Let me take this opportunity to send sincere greetings to you and
>> > Mrs. Polk and to express the hope that you are now in perfect shape
>> > again, and that Mrs. Polk and the children are in good health.
>>
>> > Faithfully yours,
>> > [sgd.] Jacob H. Schiff"
>>
>> > Hon. Frank L. Polk
>> > Counsellor of the State Dept.
>> > Washington, D.C.
>>
>> > MM-Encl.
>>
>> > [Dated November 25, 1918]
>>
>> > * ? * ? * ? * ? *
>>
>> > (d) Translation:
>>
>> > The complete triumph of liberty and right furnishes me a new
>> > opportunity to repeat to you my profound admiration for the noble
>> > American nation. Hope to see now quick progress on the part of the
>> > Allies to help Russia in reestablishing order. Call your attention
>> > also to pressing necessity of replacing in Ukraine enemy troops at the
>> > very moment of their retirement in order to avoid Bolshevist
>> > devastation. Friendly intervention of Allies would be greeted
>> > everywhere with enthusiasm and looked upon as democratic action,
>> > because Bolshevist government does not represent Russian people. Wrote
>> > you September 19th. Cordial greetings.
>>
>> > [sgd.] Kamenka
>>
>> > Dr. Sutton's Comment:
>>
>> > "This is an important series because it refutes the story of a Jewish
>> > bank conspiracy behind the Bolshevik Revolution. Clearly Jacob Schiff
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Culchie Aspirant
wrote:
I get you now...but the 'created for the sake of it' bit is beyond the
scope of what Hegel was saying though.
Thesis + Anti-Thesis => Synthesis
Attuarii
Well, yes. That's how I too see things. For some reason, people have
perverted that simple formula into the problem-reaction-solution method of
sociopolitical manipulation.
ernie1241
I think you put your finger on the problem (perhaps
unintentionally).
There is a profound difference between one's personal "opinion" versus
an informed judgment.
Highly ideological people (such as yourself) are never willing to
acknowledge error or even the possibility that they need to give
consideration to new data previously unknown to them.
I'm sure, for example, that you had no previous awareness of the data
I presented concerning Eustace Mullins...and even though any
reasonable person would recognize that Mullins is NOT a credible
source---you will, no doubt, continue to circulate his interview and
his absurdly false comments about the JBS, Robert Welch, and the
"Rockefeller connection".
Your closing remarks are particularly significant. Notice the self-
sealing aspect of your argument. If there are court decisions that
demonstrate that your understanding of some matter is false or
defective, then the only possible explanation (in your scheme of
things), is that "some lawyer may have swindled" something "out of a
court of law."
In short, there is no possibility that you could be entirely mistaken
about any matter---even when that matter has been adjudicated
repeatedly under principles of American (and English) jurisprudence
that have been established for centuries!
For anyone desiring more information about Attuarii's style of
"reasoning", I recommend the following write-up by Laird Wilcox:
http://www.lairdwilcox.com/news/hoaxerproject.html
Laird Wilcox on Extremist Traits
In analyzing the rhetoric and propaganda of several hundred militant
"fringe" political and social groups across the political spectrum, I
have identified a number of specific traits or behaviors that tend to
represent the extremist "style"...
1. CHARACTER ASSASSINATION.
Extremists often attack the character of an opponent rather than deal
with the facts or issues raised. They will question motives,
qualifications, past associations, alleged values, personality, looks,
mental health, and so on as a diversion from the issues under
consideration. Some of these matters are not entirely irrelevant , but
they should not serve to avoid the real issues.
Extremists object strenuously when this is done to them, of course!
2. NAME-CALLING AND LABELING.
Extremists are quick to resort to epithets (racist, subversive,
pervert, hate monger, nut, crackpot, degenerate, un-American, anti-
semite, red, commie, nazi, kook, fink, liar, bigot, and so on) to
label and condemn opponents in order to divert attention from their
arguments and to discourage others from hearing them out. These
epithets don't have to be proved to be effective; the mere fact that
they have been said is often enough.
3. IRRESPONSIBLE SWEEPING GENERALIZATIONS.
Extremists tend to make sweeping claims or judgments on little or no
evidence, and they have a tendency to confuse similarity with
sameness. That is, they assume that because two (or more) things,
events, or persons are alike in some respects, they must be alike in
most respects. The sloppy use of analogy is a treacherous form of
logic and has a high potential for false conclusions.
4. INADEQUATE PROOF FOR ASSERTIONS.
Extremists tend to be very fuzzy about what constitutes proof, and
they also tend to get caught up in logical fallacies, such as post hoc
ergo propter hoc (assuming that a prior event explains a subsequent
occurrence simply because of their before and after relationship).
They tend to project wished-for conclusions and to exaggerate the
significance of information that confirms their beliefs while
derogating or ignoring information that contradicts them. They tend to
be motivated by feelings more than facts, by what they want to exist
rather than what actually does exist. Extremists do a lot of wishful
and fearful thinking.
5. ADVOCACY OF DOUBLE STANDARDS.
Extremists generally tend to judge themselves or their interest group
in terms of their intentions, which they tend to view very generously,
and others by their acts, which they tend to view very critically.
They would like you to accept their assertions on faith, but they
demand proof for yours. They tend to engage in special pleading on
behalf of themselves or their interests, usually because of some
alleged special status, past circumstances, or present disadvantage.
6. TENDENCY TO VIEW THEIR OPPONENTS AND CRITICS AS ESSENTIALLY EVIL.
To the extremist, opponents hold opposing positions because they are
bad people, immoral, dishonest, unscrupulous, mean-spirited, hateful,
cruel, or whatever, not merely because they simply disagree, see the
matter differently, have competing interests, or are perhaps even
mistaken.
7. MANICHAEAN WORLDVIEW.
Extremists have a tendency to see the world in terms of absolutes of
good and evil, for them or against them, with no middle ground or
intermediate positions. All issues are ultimately moral issues of
right and wrong, with the "right" position coinciding with their
interests. Their slogan is often "those who are not with me are
against me."
8. ADVOCACY OF SOME DEGREE OF CENSORSHIP OR REPRESSION OF THEIR
OPPONENTS AND/OR CRITICS.
This may include a very active campaign to keep opponents from media
access and a public hearing, as in the case of blacklisting, banning
or "quarantining" dissident spokespersons. They may actually lobby for
legislation against speaking, writing, teaching, or instructing
"subversive" or forbidden information or opinions. They may even
attempt to keep offending books out of stores or off of library
shelves, discourage advertising with threats of reprisals, and keep
spokespersons for "offensive" views off the airwaves or certain
columnists out of newspapers. In each case the goal is some kind of
information control. Extremists would prefer that you listen only to
them. They feel threatened when someone talks back or challenges their
views.
9. TEND TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES IN TERMS OF WHO THEIR ENEMIES ARE:
WHOM THEY HATE AND WHO HATES THEM.
Accordingly, extremists may become emotionally bound to their
opponents, who are often competing extremists themselves. Because they
tend to view their enemies as evil and powerful, they tend, perhaps
subconsciously, to emulate them, adopting the same tactics to a
certain degree. For example, anti-Communist and anti-Nazi groups often
behave surprisingly like their opponents. Anti-Klan rallies often take
on much of the character of the stereotype of Klan rallies themselves,
including the orgy of emotion, bullying, screaming epithets, and even
acts of violence. To behave the opposite of someone is to actually
surrender your will to them, and "opposites" are often more like
mirror images that, although they have "left" and "right" reversed,
look and behave amazingly alike.
10. TENDENCY TOWARD ARGUMENT BY INTIMIDATION.
Extremists tend to frame their arguments in such a way as to
intimidate others into accepting their premises and conclusions. To
disagree with them is to "ally oneself with the devil," or to give aid
and comfort to the enemy. They use a lot of moralizing and
pontificating, and tend to be very judgmental. This shrill, harsh
rhetorical style allows them to keep their opponents and critics on
the defensive, cuts off troublesome lines of argument, and allows them
to define the perimeters of debate.
11. USE OF SLOGANS, BUZZWORDS, AND THOUGHT-STOPPING CLICHES.
For many extremists shortcuts in thinking and in reasoning matters out
seem to be necessary in order to avoid or evade awareness of
troublesome facts and compelling counter-arguments. Extremists
generally behave in ways that reinforce their prejudices and alter
their own consciousness in a manner that bolsters their false
confidence and sense of self-righteousness.
12. ASSUMPTION OF MORAL OR OTHER SUPERIORITY OVER OTHERS.
Most obvious would be claims of general racial or ethnic superiority--
a master race, for example. Less obvious are claims of ennoblement
because of alleged victimhood, a special relationship with God,
membership in a special "elite" or "class," and a kind of aloof
"highminded" snobbishness that accrues because of the weightiness of
their preoccupations, their altruism, and their willingness to
sacrifice themselves (and others) to their cause. After all, who can
bear to deal with common people when one is trying to save the world!
Extremists can show great indignation when one is "insensitive" enough
to challenge these claims.
13. DOOMSDAY THINKING.
Extremists often predict dire or catastrophic consequences from a
situation or from failure to follow a specific course, and they tend
to exhibit a kind of "crisis-mindedness." It can be a Communist
takeover, a Nazi revival, nuclear war, earthquakes, floods, or the
wrath of God. Whatever it is, it's just around the corner unless we
follow their program and listen to the special insight and wisdom, to
which only the truly enlightened have access. For extremists, any
setback or defeat is the "beginning of the end!"
14. BELIEF THAT IT'S OKAY TO DO BAD THINGS IN THE SERVICE OF A "GOOD"
CAUSE.
Extremists may deliberately lie, distort, misquote, slander, defame,
or libel their opponents and/or critics, engage in censorship or
repression , or undertake violence in "special cases." This is done
with little or no remorse as long as it's in the service of defeating
the Communists or Fascists or whomever. Defeating an "enemy" becomes
an all-encompassing goal to which other values are subordinate. With
extremists, the end justifies the means.
15. EMPHASIS ON EMOTIONAL RESPONSES AND, CORRESPONDINGLY, LESS
IMPORTANCE ATTACHED TO REASONING AND LOGICAL ANALYSIS.
Extremists have an unspoken reverence for propaganda, which they may
call "education" or "consciousness-raising." Symbolism plays an
exaggerated role in their thinking, and they tend to think imprecisely
and metamorphically. Harold D. Lasswell, in his book, *Psychopathology
and Politics*, says, "The essential mark of the agitator is the high
value he places on the emotional response of the public." Effective
extremists tend to be effective propagandists. Propaganda differs from
education in that the former teaches one what to think, and the latter
teaches one how to think.
16. HYPERSENSITIVITY AND VIGILANCE.
Extremists perceive hostile innuendo in even casual comments; imagine
rejection and antagonism concealed in honest disagreement and dissent;
see "latent" subversion, anti-semitism, perversion, racism,
disloyalty, and so on in innocent gestures and ambiguous behaviors.
Although few extremists are clinically paranoid, many of them adopt a
paranoid style with its attendant hostility and distrust.
17. USE OF SUPERNATURAL RATIONALE FOR BELIEFS AND ACTIONS.
Some extremists, particularly those involved in "cults" or extreme
religious movements, such as fundamentalist Christians, militant
Zionist extremists, and members of mystical and metaphysical
organizations, claim some kind of supernatural rationale for their
beliefs and actions, and that their movement or cause is ordained by
God. In this case, stark extremism may become reframed in a
"religious" context, which can have a legitimizing effect for some
people. It's surprising how many people are reluctant to challenge
religiously motivated extremism because it represents "religious
belief" or because of the sacred-cow status of some religions in our
culture.
18. PROBLEMS TOLERATING AMBIGUITY AND UNCERTAINTY.
Indeed, the ideologies and belief systems to which extremists tend to
attach themselves often represent grasping for certainty in an
uncertain world, or an attempt to achieve absolute security in an
environment that is naturally unpredictable or perhaps populated by
people with interests opposed to their own. Extremists exhibit a kind
of risk-aversiveness that compels them to engage in controlling and
manipulative behavior, both on a personal level and in a political
context, to protect themselves from the unforeseen and unknown. The
more laws or "rules" there are that regulate the behavior of others--
particular their "enemies"--the more secure extremists feel.
19. I NCLINATION TOWARD "GROUPTHINK."
Extremists, their organizations , and thei