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Who Rules The World?

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From the Hellfire Club to the Illuminati, from the Freemasons to the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon (i.e., Knights Templar) – to that list add the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission, and you develop a persistent delusion (yes, a delusion, or maybe fantasy or wishful thinking) that the super-rich are working shoulder to shoulder, plotting and directing the fate of the world.

Based on extensively researching and working with the exceptionally wealthy, as well as examining this point of view, I find that these grand conspiracies make good bedtime stories, and more profitably, exciting novels and movies. However, they lack substance.

While it’s easy to see the super-rich selectively looking for ways to cooperate and benefit from their wealth and position, it’s very much a function of the strength of weak ties, or more often, leveraging their close professional and business relationships. In amassing their great fortunes, they look to work with other people – some of them also exceptionally wealthy – to become ever more successful and amass greater wealth, and even to be smart about giving their wealth away, not to form an impossible-to-coordinate cabal.

One of the self-made super-rich pointed out that almost all the countries throughout the world are kakistocracies (the rule of the worst). She firmly believes it’s impossible to effectively manage such unwieldy structures, in which governmental bodies are perpetually at war with each other and themselves. In her view, it’s ludicrous to imagine a small group of individuals, no matter how great their genius, cleverness, and determination, actually administering such a morass.

Another member of this cohort explained that while the extremely wealthy he knows – and he knows quite a few – are all at some level egomaniacs, not one of them suffers from theomania. In many cases, the self-made super-rich are interested in increasing their financial and political stature. These agendas don’t leave a lot of opportunities for the type of long-term cooperation required for ongoing world domination.

When considering the possibility of a vast cabal of super-rich manipulating the world’s population, it’s crucial to recognize that they don’t have much consensus among themselves on a wide-ranging array of political and philosophical issues save for the idea that creating great personal fortunes is a good thing – at least for them. Billionaires, for example, readily line up on all sides of the political spectrum, and they put their money behind their beliefs.

Occam’s razor better explains the seeming coordination among the super-rich than an absurdly and farcically complicated conspiracy theory that proposes they are deviously plotting at Davos or the Bohemian Grove, or better yet, at some fortified secret chateau nestled high in the mountains, reachable only by armored gondola or helicopter, or some well-guarded private island accessible only by seaplane or submarine.

Logic notwithstanding, the belief in the world-dominating cabal is not going away. In fact, some see the dearth of evidence as proof of its existence. It proves just how cunning and devious the super-rich can be.

In my dealings with the super-rich and those on their way to the financial pinnacle, I haven’t seen a shred of solid evidence of such a conspiracy. Then again, if the super-rich were to meet at a secret castle to determine the fate of humanity, and I was at the proceeding, would I—and could I—share that information?

Forbes



21 Comments on "Who Rules The World?"

  1. J-Gav on Mon, 22nd Jul 2013 8:44 pm 

    What a pinhead this Monsieur Prince! “… cooperate and benefit from their wealth and position,” “… leveraging their close professional and business relationships …”

    No, we don’t have to call that a cabal … maybe we could just call it what it is – a f-king mafia!

  2. GregT on Mon, 22nd Jul 2013 9:22 pm 

    Mr. Prince would be much better informed by studiing history, than by listening to the opinions of his ‘super-rich’ acquaintances.

  3. Arthur on Mon, 22nd Jul 2013 9:40 pm 

    “From the Hellfire Club to the Illuminati, from the Freemasons to the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon (i.e., Knights Templar) – to that list add the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission”

    There is something missing in the list… the cabal.

    2003 was their zenith, now they are on a slippery slope, so sad.

  4. Wm Scott Anderson on Mon, 22nd Jul 2013 10:54 pm 

    Common sense is not so common. There is no secret group of powerful men who control the world. What people don’t want to face is that nobody is at the controls as the world heads for disaster. The world is out of control, governments have only a limited effect and are unable to fix many of the problems in the world today. I don’t see any easy humane fixes for Egypt for example.

  5. Kenz300 on Tue, 23rd Jul 2013 1:31 am 

    Forbes is a spokesman for the top 1%………

  6. GregT on Tue, 23rd Jul 2013 2:03 am 

    Governments are nothing more than puppets for those behind the scenes. The international bankers control governments through the issuance of currencies. Common sense is no doubt, not common.

    “The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it’s profits or so dependant on it’s favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.” — Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863

      “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws” — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

         “Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States” — Sen. Barry Goldwater (Rep. AR)

        “This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson} signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized….the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill.” — Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. , 1913

    “We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it”. — Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932 (Rep. Pa)

    “The [Federal Reserve Act] as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the
    currency… I do not like to think that any law can be passed that will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable paper currency.” — Henry Cabot Lodge Sr., 1913

    * “We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day”
    JFK

    “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
    Dwight D Eisenhower

     

  7. DC on Tue, 23rd Jul 2013 2:56 am 

    The super wealthy DO in fact talk to one another(quite a bit actually), and co-ordinate there activities in ways which are mutually beneficial to ‘them’. So what if they don’t meet in cliched smoky back rooms. The end result is the same. The idea that the super-rich are merely dragged along with the rest of us is ideology-not fact. The super rich may not be able to exert the level of micro-control this moron thinks they aspire to, but they set the rules and conditions in which everyone else operates now.

    The super-rich have no need to don robes, use secret handshakes and rituals and conduct arcane rituals to run this world. They all know how each other are LoL!

    Of course a rag like forbes would like to portray the super rich as subject to the same rules and conditions and random chaos in the world the rest of us live in, but that is simply not true and this guy clearly knows this.

  8. BillT on Tue, 23rd Jul 2013 3:01 am 

    “Who Rules The World?”

    The Rothschild Family does and has for over two hundred years. They keep out of the radar very well these days, but then, if your family is worth over a trillion dollars, that is easy … you just have anyone who gives you away killed. No? Who do you think Al Capone would admire? They own many things that do not flash their names over the door or the sign out front.

    Have you ever considered that things are going exactly as they want them to … Wm?

    Who is causing the most of today’s problems? The US, Israel, and the City of London.

    Who is benefiting from them? The wealthy 1/100%.

    Who would like about 6 1/3 billion of us to just disappear? The 1/100,000%

    Who controls the ‘news’? The 1/100,000%.

    Who controls the water, food and medicines? The 1/100.000%.

    Who controls the energy supplies? The 1/100,000%.

    And on and on…

    Why do you think that it is just ‘natural’ causes in the world today?

    Do you personally know how much oil is left that can be recovered? I bet they do.

    Do you know how much of anything you need is left? I bet they do.

    They are on the path to a one world government that they control. How do you do that in today’s world? You destroy ALL of the support and interconnections and sovereignty of nations. The One World Government will then happen automatically as they pick up the pieces, which they conveniently own.

    BYW:
    1/100,000% is only ~70,000 people.
    ~1,200 billionaires, and the rest are ‘almost’ billionaires.

    There is an estimated 24,000,000+ people on the earth with a net worth exceeding $1M.

  9. BillT on Tue, 23rd Jul 2013 3:02 am 

    OOps! …Who is benefiting from them? The wealthy 1/100,000%….

  10. Bor on Tue, 23rd Jul 2013 11:08 am 

    A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, or other effects of perception.

    Delusions typically occur in the context of neurological or mental illness, although they are not tied to any particular disease and have been found to occur in the context of many pathological states (both physical and mental). However, they are of particular diagnostic importance in psychotic disorders including schizophrenia, paraphernalia, manic episodes of bipolar disorder, and psychotic depression.

  11. J-Gav on Tue, 23rd Jul 2013 2:12 pm 

    Right on GregT – and I could add quite a few quotes, such as this one : ” … but today the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an international elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” That’s David Rockefeller in a 1991 speech to the Trilateral Commission.

    Some years ago I wrote a 20-something -page thumbnail history of what I call “Monetary Madness,” essentially made up of comments on 101 quotations starting back in the 17th Century. here’s another:”I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” Thomas Jefferson

    For anyone interested, the full text follows:

    A short Chronological history of Money and Power in
    101 QUOTATIONS

    Introduction:

    Before embarking on this brief monetary journey through time, a word about the subject matter. Though little noticed, it appears there has been what amounts to nearly constant financial warfare in the Western world for roughly the last three centuries. The battles have been waged at varying levels of intensity on both the national and international scales depending on historical conditions and the prevailing balance of forces. At stake in this power struggle has been nothing less than the control of nations’ monetary systems and thus the ability to shape their political, social and economic agendas. These quotations point to that history as would a breadcrumb trail of dots in time, lined up so as to make them easier to connect. Although they come from a variety of countries there is particular emphasis on developments in the U.S. (the Federal Reserve, Wall Street) as the world’s ‘financial center.’ At least until that particular lusus naturae crumbles under the weight of its own maggot-infested carcass.

    The 2nd component of the quotations relates primarily to the new world order/shadow government constellation and is bound to them in both obvious and tenuous ways. Obvious because numerous, prominent members of the financial and political elites have explicitly referred to such a world-wide plan or to an “invisible government.” Tenuous because details are lacking and there are still more questions than answers: “Just how powerful are they?”; “How competent are they?”; “What exactly are their deep motivations and long-term goals?”; “How far along are they in their plans today?” … to name a few. Whatever the case may be, the connection between money and power surely has to do with a strong urge on the part of some to control potentially restless populations, coupled with a distinctly aristocratic mindset and empowered by a massive concentration of wealth used to discreetly guide the media, entertainment, legislative, political, military and economic spheres to their own advantage from “behind the scenes.”

    Quotes may not be History with a capital ‘H’ but they can still tell a story and reveal patterns which emerge as events pass by or, conversely, congeal into new social realities. Make of them what you will, these quotations should at least be recognized for demonstrating quite clearly that something strange has been going on with the money system and the power structures attending it … and for a very long time! Unless of course the many historians, elected officials, financial luminaries, government Ministers, Supreme Court Justices and Heads of State quoted here are all to be considered paranoid, conspiracy-mongering misfits.

    On to the quotations then, starting with a word to the wise from Professor Quigley:

    “Look at the real situations which lie beneath the conceptual and verbal symbols.” Carroll Quigley, historian, in his book Tragedy and Hope, 1966. Note: At Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., he was a mentor of American “public servants,” including Bill Clinton.
    “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: when he first appears, it is as a protector.” Plato

    “The disaster of the Dark Ages was caused by decreasing money and falling prices… Without money, civilisation could not have had a beginning, and with a diminishing supply, it must languish and unless relieved, finally perish. At the Christian era the metallic money of the Roman Empire amounted to $1,800 million. By the end of the fifteenth century it had shrunk to less than $200 million. History records no other such disastrous transition as that from the Roman Empire to the Dark Ages…”
    United States Silver Commission report, 1876
    Note: That’s a 90% reduction in the money supply! Ouch! The nearest equivalent in the Western world that this commentator is aware of would be the money contraction in late 19th century America (see page 7), when something comparable occurred, but over the space of only 10 years!

    “None of the Stuarts would grant a charter to the Bank of England. That is why murder, civil war and religious conflicts plagued their reigns.” Secrets of the Bank of England website.

    “The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.” William Paterson (founder of the Bank of England, 1694)
    Note:… and thus began the modern version of what the goldsmiths had been doing for centuries i.e. lending out other people’s money based on questionable reserves available to secure it, and then determining the interest rate ‘we the people’ have to pay on it ; now, that’s what I call a Sweet Deal!

    “In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It is called ‘Colonial Scrip.’ We issue it in proper proportion to make the goods pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power and we have no interest to pay to anyone. You see, a legitimate government can both spend and lend money into circulation, while banks can only lend significant amounts of their promissory bank notes, for they can neither give away nor spend but a tiny fraction of the money the people need. Thus, when your bankers here in England place money in circulation, there is always a debt principal to be returned and usury to be paid. The result is that you have always too little credit in circulation to give the workers full employment. You do not have too many workers, you have too little money in circulation, and that which circulates, all bears the endless burden of unpayable debt and usury.” Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography.

    “The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, was probably the primary cause of the Revolution.”
    Benjamin Franklin

    Note: The English Parliament had passed the Currency Act of 1764, outlawing the aforementioned Colonial Scrip and plunging the colonies into a prolonged period of severe economic distress.

    “Never was a great historical event (ie the American Revolution) followed by a more feeble sequel. A nation arises to claim for itself liberty and sovereignty. It gains both of these ends by an immense sacrifice of blood and treasure. Then when victory is gained and secured, it hands the national credit – that is to say the national treasure – over to private individuals, to do as they please with it! … Americans of the revolution had before them … the historical examples of Greece and Rome. In all these states the main contention from first to last between the aristocratic and popular factions arose out of and centered in the monetary system; that greatest of all dispensers of equity or inequity. …
    They had only to take care that the seed they planted was genuine and
    uncontaminated. Nature was certain to do the rest. Well they planted! and now look at the fruit and see what it is that they planted! They planted financial corporations … they planted private money … they planted financial exemptions from public burdens … In a word they planted another revolution!”
    Alexander Del Mar, monetary historian and head of the US Bureau of Statistics, in his 1899 book The History of Money in America, on what the Revolutionaries and the Founding Fathers of the Constitution failed to see clearly enough, i.e. the monetary issue. This was to be an enduring organizational weakness of the United States as “They saw so much but they did not see all things.” in the words of Benjamin F. Butler (address to Congress, 1869).

    “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1791
    Note: Founder (in Germany) of the financial dynasty of the same name.

    “All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” John Adams, 2nd President (1797-1801)

    “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was, and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809)

    “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” Thomas Jefferson

    “History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” James Madison, 4th President
    (1809-1817) and principal author of the Constitution of the United States.

    “There is

    “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” Thomas Jefferson, The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809). Note: The First (National) Bank of the United States was chartered for 20 years in 1791. This debate was the run-up to the scheduled 1811 renewal but few in the U.S. showed enthusiasm for it, apart from the agents of the Bank of England, of course.

    “Either the charter for renewal is granted or the United States will find itself in a most disastrous war.” Nathan Rothschild of London, 1811.
    Note: … Hmmm… them sounds like fightin’ words …“Big Prize” question: “When did the War of 1812 begin?” Answer: 5 weeks after the above threat was issued as America voted not to renew the charter. But they got their “2nd Bank of the United States” anyway, after the war, in 1816.

    “When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815

    “I am one of those who do not believe that the national debt is a national blessing. It is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.” Andrew Jackson, letter dated April 26, 1824

    “You are a den of vipers and thieves and I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out. If Congress has the right to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by themselves, and not to be delegated to individuals or corporations…” 7th President Andrew Jackson in an address to Congress, 1829
    Note: Jackson refused to renew the charter of the central bank and held his ground over two terms in office (until 1837) despite a failed double-barrelled assassination attempt! He rather optimistically had the following words carved into his gravestone:
    “I killed the Bank!”

    “So you see the world, my dear Coningsby, is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in his novel Coningsby, 1844.

    “Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history”
    Karl Marx/ Friedrich Engels (Communist Manifesto, 1848)

    “I have two great enemies, the southern army in front of me and the financial institutions, in the rear. Of the two, the one in the rear is the greatest enemy….. I see in the future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war.” Abraham Lincoln

    “If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North America, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.” London Times, 1862.

    “The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers….. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government’s greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.” Abraham Lincoln
    Senate document 23, 1865. Note: That is, of course, not exactly what transpired … After announcing his intention to continue issuing the famous “greenbacks” he printed during the war… well, you know what happened… Before that happened though, Lincoln had been driven by an ever-pressing need for war-funding to accept the 1864 National Bank Act.

    “The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots … I fear that the European bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it systematically to corrupt modern civilization. They will not hesitate to plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos in order that the earth should become their inheritance.”
    Otto von Bismarck Chancellor of Germany, 1876

    “Those few who can understand the system (check book money and credit) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on it favours, that there will be little opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear it burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.”
    The Rothschild Brothers of London, letter, June 25, 1863

    Note: Sent to their New York protégé John Sherman and his banker associates Morton and Gould in support of the 1863 National Banking Act. Revised in 1864, among other things, this law set up a charter system of national banks centered on U.S. Treasury securities and created the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (embedded in the Treasury Department and later used by the Bush Administration to pre-empt the States’ anti-predatory lending provisions, thus allowing, in fact encouraging! the 2008-2009 sub-prime mortgage debacle). After Lincoln’s time, the next major bank regulatory onslaught would be the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908, “in response to the Panic of 1907.” This Act “established the National Monetary Commission … which recommended the Federal Reserve System that was to come in 1913.” These last two short quotes from Wikipedia.

    “The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the US, if they remained as one block, and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world.” Otto von Bismarck

    “In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.” John Kenneth Galbraith
    Note: This was Lincoln’s and ensuing presidents’ dilemma. The Money Power endeavoured only to make things worse. Lincoln was forced to relent and allow passage of the 1864 National Bank Act, allowing American money to be placed under the bond (paper IOU) system. With the bankers now at the helm, they soon tested their power by proceeding to contract the U.S. money supply by ⅔ from $1.8 billion dollars in 1866 to $600 million in 1876 and by a full ¾ ten years after that! The largest contraction since the one between Roman and Medieval times (see page 1). Three-quarters of the money supply simply vanished (debts called in, no new money loaned), leading to a 20-year recession, perhaps aimed at pushing public opinion towards acceptance of a Central Bank? As the Yanks were still not warm enough to the idea, it is widely suspected that J.P. Morgan engineered the bank run and ensuing panic of 1907 in the lead-up to eventual ‘acceptance’ of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 (see page 8).

    “I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented – the governors of the Bank of England – to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.” Ernest Seyd Note: He was given a blank check to buy the legislators to get the law passed taking silver out of circulation (Coinage Act of 1873). He wrote the legislation himself. Silver was extremely abundant in the U.S. The gold market was much easier to corner. As J.P. Morgan would later say in a letter to his son: “We fix the price of gold and silver in order to make them valuable or not.”

    “The issue which has swept down the centuries, and which will have to be fought sooner or later, is that of the People versus the Banks.” Lord Acton 1875

    “Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce… And when you realise that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.” President James Garfield, (who, as ex-chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, knew more than most. He was assassinated weeks after making the above statement, in 1881).

    “Our goal is gradually to absorb the wealth of the world.” Cecil Rhodes
    Note: Gee, thanks for not splitting that infinitive, Cecil.

    “300 men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.” Walter Rathenau, 1909 Note: German Foreign Minister assassinated in 1922. Hitler later organized a commemorative celebration… of his demise.

    “The State does not function as we desired. The car does not obey. A man is at the wheel and seems to be driving it, but the car does not go in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.” Note: Possibly Vladimir Lenin’s (veiled) reference to the notion that the Bolshevik Revolution was largely financed through German banker Jacob Schiff (to the tune of $20 million) by the Rothschilds of England. Oh, in case you were wondering, Trotsky got his share too, through the same Schiff operating with the N.Y.Federal Reserve Board of the United States ; after all, a successful financier must know how to hedge his bets as long as there is, as yet, no clear winner in a contest for power… Quote from Susan George’s book :
    A Fate Worse than Debt, 1988.

    “The Federal Reserve is not Federal and it has doubtful reserves. The name is an open deception designed to give this private bank the appearance that it is operating in the public’s interest, when in fact it is run solely to gain private profit for its select stockholders. It came into being as the result of one of the slickest moves in financial history. On 23rd December 1913 the House of Representatives had passed the Federal Reserve Act, but it was still having difficulty getting it out of the Senate. Most members of Congress had gone home for the holidays, but unfortunately the Senate had not adjourned sine die (without a specific day to reconvene) so they were technically still in session. There were only three members still present. On a unanimous consent voice vote the 1913 Federal Reserve Act was passed. No objection was made, possibly because there was no one there to object.”
    from Who owns the FED website
    Note: Fed? Did you say Fed? Interestingly, they passed the 16th amendment to the Constitution imposing a Federal Income Tax at the same time… A small group of very powerful men met for a long week in secret on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia in 1910 to forge the legislation setting up the Federal Reserve System. G. Edward Griffin calls it The Creature from Jekyll Island in his book and video (the latter available free on the net – 47 minutes’ worth).

    “When the President signs this act [Federal Reserve Act of 1913],
    the invisible government by the money power, proven to exist
    by the Monetary Trust Investigation, will be legalized.
    The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation.
    From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.”
    Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. 1912
    Note: In case that name rings a bell, the answer is, yes, he was the father
    of the famous aviator.

    “Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation … Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through the process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by a central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. … Our principal men are now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. … By dividing the people through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance to us, except as teachers of the common herd. … It is thus by discreet action that we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.” The Bankers’ Manifest of 1892
    Note: Excerpted here, the full document, originally meant for circulation only among selected bankers, was presented to Congress by Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. circa 1913 as evidence against the establishment of a Federal Reserve System. … to no avail.

    “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
    President Woodrow Wilson in The New Freedom, 1913

    Note: In 1916 Wilson had this to add, “A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities, are in the hands of a few men … Wilson was later quoted by family members present at his deathbed in 1924: “I have unwittingly betrayed my country.”

    “It is well enough that the people of our nation do not understand the banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford, who also said this: “The youth who can solve the money question will do more for the world than all the professional soldiers of history” and this: “The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.”

    “If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is the bond lets money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, whereas the currency pays nobody but those who contribute directly in some useful way. It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people.” Thomas Edison, 1921 (NYT) The inventor of the incandescent light bulb had more than one ‘bright’ idea!

    “The international bankers are quite different from ordinary bankers in distinctive ways: cosmopolitan and international … close to governments and particularly concerned with questions of government debts … almost equally devoted to secrecy and the secret use of financial influence in political life. These bankers came to be called ‘international bankers’ and, more particularly, were known as merchant bankers in England, private bankers in France and investment bankers in the United States.” Carroll Quigley

    “When people of this class are stricken by feelings of guilt while plotting world wars and economic depressions which will bring misery, suffering and death to millions of the world’s inhabitants, they sometimes have qualms … After a bout with their psychiatrists, they return to their work with renewed gusto and no further digressions of pity for “the little people” who are to be their victims.”
    Carroll Quigley, Tragedy & Hope, p. 326

    “These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful, corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.” Ex- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1919
    Note: this was just before his death; earlier, as President, Teddy had buckled under to Standard Oil’s pressure and obtained, despite a massive public hue and cry, a mere token restructuring of the monopoly; thus the great “Trust-buster” did somewhat less than advertised in this regard.

    “By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens … and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some … The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose.” John Maynard Keynes, Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920.

    “The warning of Theodore Roosevelt has much timeliness today, for the real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation … It seizes in its powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection … To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the ‘international bankers.’ This little coterie of international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They control both parties, write the political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business. These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and magazines in this country.”
    John Hylan, Mayor of New York, 1922.

    “We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”
    Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice 1916-1939

    “Actually, it was the calculated shearing of the public by the World-Money powers triggered by the planned sudden shortage of call money in the New York Money Market … The One World Government leaders and their close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S.” Curtis Dall, son-in-law of FDR on the 1929 panic, in his book, My Exploited Father-in-Law.

    “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the Government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.” FDR in a letter to Colonel Edward Mandell House, 1933

    “The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933.” Milton Friedman

    Note: Those of you familiar with the results of Friedman’s neo-liberal recommendations (see Chili, 1970s) may be surprised by this inclusion. However, in spite of his policy “shock treatment advice,” his historical work has usually been considered favorably, hence his Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976. But the “currency-contractors” were in fact much busier than that! In The Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933, all of America’s gold was confiscated and by 1937 was “safely” stashed at Fort Knox, especially built for that purpose. In any case, contracting by 33% could hardly have been good for economic activity, could it? …
    Some estimates say Fort Knox then represented over ⅔ of the gold in circulation in the world!

    “By monopolizing this [gold] commodity the moneyed classes have got Nature by the throat and the community under their heels. . . Compared with this process, usury is mere child’s play.” Alexander Del Mar, The Science of Money Note: … and therein lies a tale – The U.S. Treasury is bound by law to perform an annual audit of the gold in Fort Knox and to publish the results. The last published audit dates back to 1953! In the 60s and 70s suspicions grew concerning this lack of diligence. In 1974, a newspaper article appeared with a woman claiming to have inside information as to who had been selling this gold abroad, pointing at elite Wall Street families. Her name was Louise Auchincloss Boyer. She was the personal secretary of soon to be Vice-President of the United States Nelson Rockefeller, under President Gerald Ford. She never testified in any courtroom, however, as she, uhh, must’ve slipped while watering the geraniums on the window-sill of her10th floor apartment in New York City. Sorry, not all tales have a happy end.
    “Today, the IMF owns more gold than any central bank, and together the central banks and the IMF control ⅔ of the world’s gold”. William T. Still, “The Money Masters” video, available on the net. Note: Uh-oh … there it goes … my co-incidence meter is red-lining again.

    “Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations’ laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.” 1935 quote from former Canadian Prime Minister : William Lyon Mackenzie King
    “On the evidence placed before it, the Commission finds that the people are being prevented from possessing, consuming and/or utilising and enjoying the increase of wealth … over the last 30 years … and that the cause of this is the shortage of purchasing power in the hands of the community as a whole … and that this can be remedied only by 1) Restoration to the sovereign community of effective control over money in all its forms …” Report by the Select Committee of the Parliament of Tasmania on the “Monetary System,” 1935

    “Mr Dodd, we will never see sound banking in this country again.”

    … “Mr Dodd, all of us who have had a hand in the making of policies here have had experience either with the OSS (note: predecessor to the CIA) during the war, or with European economic administration after the war. We have had experience operating under directives. The directives emanate from the White House
    … Would you like to know what the substance of those directives is?” I said, “Yes, Mr Gaither, I would very much like to know.” He answered, “The substance is, that we shall use our grant-making power to so alter life in the United States, that it may be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.” Note: In an interview that defies reason, a certain Norman Dodd, 84 years old, speaks of his career as a financial expert. Early in his career at the Morgan Bank in the 30s, he was charged with writing a report with a view to re-organizing its activities. When he handed it in, his superior said, “Mr Dodd, it would appear you are suggesting that we adopt sound banking principles.” He said, “Yes, Sir, that is correct ….” and then came the first quote above… Dodd resigned and became an independent financial consultant. In1953, in his expert capacity, he was called in as Director of Research for Congress’s Reece Commission Investigation of tax-exempt foundations in the United States (Ford Foundation, Carnegie Endowment, Guggenheim, etc). Suspicions had arisen as to what their objectives really were. In the initial phase, he met with Horace Rowan Gaither Jr., then President of the Ford Foundation (see second quote). Though the investigation came under very heavy pressure and was cut short, the information already gathered in its report on the Carnegie Endowment truly boggles the mind. This interview is by G. Edward Griffin in 1982 – it’s on the net in full, just Google : Dodd interview Griffin.

    “It is this power which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years, in the belief that they were attacking the Communists.” Carroll Quigley

    “We have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board … This evil institution has impoverished … the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure.” Congressman Louis T. McFadden circa 1933. Note: McFadden, who along with Lindbergh was among the staunchest opponents of The Money System, survived 2 out of 3 assassination attempts …

    “The real rulers of Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court Justice appointed by FDR in 1939
    “Countless people will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it.”
    H.G. Wells, The New World Order, 1940

    “Wars in old times were fought to get slaves. The modern implement for imposing slavery is debt.” Ezra Pound, American poet, March 25, 1943

    “… {Bretton Woods} quite blatantly will reduce the smaller nations to vassal states and make every government the mouthpiece and tool of International Finance … World collaboration of private financial interests can only mean unemployment, slavery, misery, degradation and financial destruction.” Note: It seems fair to say that Eddie Ward, Australian Labour Minister at the time, was less than enthusiastic about the 1945 agreement in question.

    “The Central Banks (which charge interest to governments for the money they produce from nothing, with no labour or wealth involved) have secured these loans against your future taxes. Without even asking you, a substantial part of your future worth has been put up as collateral. What Central Banks do in a big way with countries, your local bank will replicate on organisations and individuals, using the same sleight of hand to produce the funds they lend out of thin air.” Alternative Trading Network article

    “Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders… The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and… manipulates the credit of the United States.” Senator Barry Goldwater,1963

    “There does exist and has existed for over a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.” Carroll Quigley, in Tragedy and Hope,1966

    “Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power … it was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishment of a central world-wide dictatorship.” W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Capitalist, 1970

    “In short, the “house of world order” will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great “booming, buzzing confusion,” to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.” Richard Gardner
    in Foreign Affairs, magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations, 1974.
    Note: Diabolically clever: by manipulating ‘events,’ induce the people to demand their own ‘debt peonage,’ as contemporary economic historian Michael Hudson calls it.

    “Because of the ‘fractional’ reserve system, banks, as a whole, can expand our money supply several times, by making loans and investments.” “Commercial banks create check book money whenever they grant a loan, simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts on their books in exchange for a borrower’s IOU.”
    Federal Reserve Bank, NY, in The Story of Banks, p.5 Note: ‘Fractional reserve’ means they only need to hold 8-10% of what they lend, thus multiplying by 9 or 10 the amount of money in circulation (and also, in the process, their ‘take,’ in the form of interest, by a healthy proportion) through a simple keyboard entry when they lend it out! Nice work if you can get it!

    “The actual process of money creation takes place in commercial banks. As noted earlier, demand liabilities of commercial banks are money. Confidence in these forms of money also seems to be tied in some way to the fact that assets exist on the books of the government and the banks equal to the amount of money outstanding, even though most of the assets themselves are no more than pieces of paper–.”, P.3.”Commercial banks create checkbook money whenever they grant a loan, simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts on their books in exchange for a borrower’s IOU.”, p. 19. The 12 regional reserve banks aren’t government institutions, but corporations nominally ‘owned’ by member commercial banks.”
    Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
    Note: This means that, in a bank fiat money system, which is indeed private, not federal as the name implies, Money = Debt. What an odd system!

    “I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with this Congress for sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to continue.” Wright Patman, Texas Congressman for 35 years … until 1975.

    “While economic textbooks claim that people and corporations are competing for markets and resources, I claim that in reality they are competing for money … Money is created when banks lend it into existence. When a bank provides you with a $100,000 mortgage, it creates only the principal, which you spend and which then circulates in the economy. The bank expects you to pay back $200,000 over the next 20 years, but it doesn’t create the second $100,000 – the interest. Instead, the bank sends you out into the tough world to battle against everybody else to bring back the second $100,000.” Bernard Lietaer
    Former Head of the Belgian Central Bank’s organization & planning dept.

    “Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment (Note: i.e. “money”), out of nothing.” – Ralph M. Hawtrey (Former Assistant of the British Treasury)

    “We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether world government will be achieved by conquest or consent.” James Warburg, 1950 Note: Quote from Congressional testimony. James’ father Paul, stalwart of the famous Warburg banking dynasty in Hamburg had married and settled in America in the early 20th Century and was no doubt the chief architect of the Federal Reserve in the secret meetings on Jekyll Island.

    “… what folly is this toasting an independent press! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks … they pull the strings and we dance. Our talent, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.” John Swinton, former Chief of Editorial Staff at the New York Times, to the New York Press Club, 1880, Note: So I guess happening upon the following quote a century later should hardly come as a surprise …

    “We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” David Rockefeller, (in a June, 1991 speech to the Trilateral Commission).

    “If one understands socialism not as a share-the-wealth program, but in reality, as a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead, it becomes logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.”
    Gary Allen, author of The Rockefeller File, 1976.

    “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.” David Rockefeller

    “… The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.” Dr. Henry Kissinger’s speech at the1992 Bilderberg meeting in Evian, France.

    “The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control. … Do I mean conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning and incredibly evil in intent.” U.S. Congressman Larry P. McDonald (1976), who died when the Soviets shot down KAL flight 007 in 1983.

    “The powers of financial capitalism have a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system is to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the system is to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which are themselves private corporations. Each central bank … seeks to dominate its government by its ability to control treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.” Carroll Quigley Note: You may have noticed this author is cited more than most. It should be explained that he was an ‘insider,’ a fellow-traveller mainly in agreement with the aims of what he calls “The Society of the Elect,” “Milner’s Kindergarten,” “The Network,” etc. depending on the historical context of its evolution since the inception of it all in the 19th Century with Cecil Rhodes, Lionel Curtis and Alfred Milner, founders of the Anglo-American Establishment (another Quigley book title). However, Quigley was chagrined by some of their messy blunders, didn’t understand their Atlanticism and thought they should go public rather than maintain all the secrecy. That may be why he wrote these books. Here are two more quotes, just for good measure …

    “The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice they gave to industrialists was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.”

    Carroll Quigley

    “No group that values its safety should allow what the Milner Group accomplished – that is, that a small number of men would be able to wield such power in administration and politics, should be given almost complete control over the publication of documents relating to their actions, should be able to exercise such influence over the avenues of information that create public opinion and should be able to monopolize so completely the writing and the teaching of the history of their own period.”
    Carroll Quigley

    “If the people were to find out what we’ve done, we’d be chased down the streets and lynched.” President George H.W. Bush, 1991. Note: This quote, relayed by Celerino Castillo in Powderburns, was in connection with the CIA-linked cocaine traffic that he, as an agent of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency), had discovered and shows that once the line’s been crossed in one area, it’s easier to step over elsewhere, too. Nor is drug-running, or at least the profits from it, entirely unrelated to the New York (or London, or Austrian, or Luxemburg etc) banking scenes … Such “monies” have long been very important in propping up or boosting Stock Exchanges. Things haven’t changed much 18 years later according to a recent (IHT – January 29, 2009) report by Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. With lending frozen, “interbank loans were funded by money that originated from the drug trade and other illegal activites. There are signs that some banks were rescued in that way,” he said.

    “I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs. … I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. … We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.”
    Senator John Danforth, 1992

    “In addition to almost unlimited usury, the bankers have another method of drawing vast amounts of wealth. The banks are able to approve or disapprove large loans to large and successful corporations to the extent that refusal of a loan will bring about a reduction in the selling price of the corporation’s stock. After depressing the price, the bankers’ agents buy large blocks of the company’s stock. Then, if the bank suddenly approves a multi-million dollar loan to the company, the stock rises and is then sold for a profit. In this manner, billions of dollars are made with which to buy more stock. This practice is so refined today that the Federal Reserve Board need only announce to the newspapers an increase or decrease in their “discount rate” to send stocks soaring or crashing at their whim. Banks collect billions in interest by loaning to Government and the Corporations!” Pastor Sheldon Emory

    “Diet, injection and injunction will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.”
    Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1952
    “If I wanted to create a surveillance society, I would start with dossiers on kindergarten children so that the next generation could not even comprehend a world without surveillance.” André Bacard, The Computer Privacy Handbook, 1995

    “… and he was laughing about the fact that you have this War on Terror where there’s no real enemy, talking about how … this war on terror, you can never win it, it’s an eternal war so you can always keep taking people’s liberties away. So I said, “How are you gonna convince people that this war is real,” and he said, “The Media can convince everybody that it’s real. You keep talking about it, you keep saying it over and over again and eventually people believe it.” Then I said, “Well, what’s the ultimate goal here? I mean you have all the money in the world, you have all the power you need … What’s the point of all this?” and he said, “The ultimate goal is to get everybody on RFID chips so you can have the bankers and some elite people controlling the world. We have to convince people that ‘socialism’ is really ‘capitalism …” and he said “If you join us, Aaron, you’ll get a special chip with a KMA on it,” and I said “What’s a KMA?” and he said, “Well, if you get stopped by the police or something it tells ‘em “Kiss My Ass” … so they leave you alone. Anyway, you get everybody chipped so if anybody wants to protest what we do or violate what we want, we just turn off their chip!” Interviewer: “Is everybody in the top circles aware of this plan?” Russo: “Oh, no, many people at the top and in the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) have no idea what’s going on … they just like having the privileges.” Note: A stunning Infowars interview with Aaron Russo in 2008, shortly before his death from cancer. Russo was an agent (Bette Midler), producer/film-maker who had befriended Nicholas Rockefeller in the1990s. He recounts some of the things Rockefeller divulged to him during their friendship, which ended in 2001. The full interview, 1 hour 9 minutes, is on the net, as well as excerpted versions. Russo’s documentary video, Freedom to Fascism, is also on the net.

    “Your money’s value is determined by a global casino of unprecedented proportions: over $2 trillion are traded per day in foreign exchange markets, 100 times more than the trading volume of all the stock markets of the world combined. Only 2% of these foreign exchange transactions relate to the “real” economy reflecting movements of real goods and services in the world, and 98% are purely speculative. Future of Money by Bernard Lietaer, 2001

    “It must not be felt that these heads of the world’s chief central banks were themselves substantive powers in world finance. They were not. Rather, they were the technicians and agents of the dominant investment bankers of their own countries, who had raised them up and were perfectly capable of throwing them down. The substantive financial powers of the world were in the hands of these investment bankers (also called ‘international’ or ‘merchant’ bankers) who remained largely behind the scenes in their own unincorporated private banks. These formed a system of cooperation and national dominance which was more private, more powerful and more secret than that of their agents in the central banks.” Carroll Quigley in Tragedy and Hope

    “I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.” George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. May 12, 2008. Also: “The Constitution? It’s just a goddamn piece of paper!”
    Note: Unfortunately, nobody’s called the man out on these words.

    “Fraud is deceit and the essence of fraud is : ‘I create trust and then I betray that trust.’ There is no more effective acid against trust than fraud, especially when it is perpetrated by the top elites. And that is what we have.” William Black, former government regulator, on Bill Moyer’s Journal, April 3, 2009, author of the book: “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One.”

    “The banks are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill … Frankly, they own the place.” Senator Richard Durbin on WJJG radio, April 27, 2009

    “The finance industry has effectively captured our government.” Simon Johnson, former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund, The Atlantic magazine, May, 2009

    “All the ingredients for ending the poverty of a person always come neatly packaged with the person himself. A human being is born in this world fully equipped not only to take care of himself (which all other life-forms can do too), but also to contribute in enlarging the well-being of the world as a whole. Poverty is not created by the poor people. So we shouldn’t give them an accusing look. They are the victims. Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world. It is the institutions that we have built, and feel so proud of, which created poverty. It is the concepts we developed to understand the reality around us, made us see things wrongly! It is the failure at the top – rather than lack of capability at the bottom – which is the root cause of poverty. Concepts, institutions, and analytical frame conditions which created poverty, cannot end poverty. If we can intelligently re-work the frame conditions, poverty will be gone, never to come back again … Try to imagine how the economists would have built their theory if they had started out with an axiom that all men and women are created equal, that each of them is endowed with unlimited creativity, and each of them is a potential entrepreneur. In some important ways our designing of the theoretical framework of economics or the misrepresentation of it is responsible for perpetuating poverty.”

    Commonwealth Lecture 2003 by Professor Muhammad Yunus, Creator of Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2006

    “The ‘Crisis’ …… is always a crisis of conscience.”
    Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895 – 1986

    Acknowledgements:

    Apart from sources (books, interviews, videos, websites) indicated in the notes or on the “Further Exploration” page, the following should also be mentioned:
    Seek2Know.net website, specifically their finance/economy page by Susmita Barua; The Quotations Page, Wikiquotes, Brainy Quotes, Liberty-tree.ca, Newspeakdictionary, the BBC and Wikipedia websites and no doubt a few others … in order to check the authenticity of certain entries or other historical or biographical details.

    NB: Mention of any website, author or document here is not to be construed as an endorsement of their philosophical, political, social or religious orientation.

    Quotations compiled and annotated by J-GAV Early 2009

  12. Arthur on Wed, 24th Jul 2013 2:15 am 

    GregT: * “We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day”
    JFK

    Bor: “A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, or other effects of perception.”

    Bor uses dialectics to suggest that… well what does Bor suggest? That nobody rules the world? Or that is not the youknowwho that rule the world?

    Dialectics, usury, marxism, deception and absolute ruthlessness, those are the core tools in the toolbox of those who we are dealing with. Let’s make sure we collectively do not follow the path of JFK, but like him confront nevertheless. And oh boy, what a game changing tool we have at our disposal. Walkover with a grin.

  13. GregT on Wed, 24th Jul 2013 2:16 am 

    J-Gav,

    Thanks for sharing this. It’s good to know that some people still seek knowledge, in a world that is so full of misguidance and indoctrination. It would appear that the age old plan is still very much alive. These next few years should be very revealing as we watch them unfold. We do live, in interesting times.

  14. GregT on Wed, 24th Jul 2013 2:24 am 

    Arthur,

    How many actually use the ‘tool” that is at our disposal? Will it be enough to change the course, or are we destined to follow prophesy? We shall see, soon I think.

  15. PrestonSturges on Wed, 24th Jul 2013 2:29 am 

    I saw a magazine special on secret societies and conspiracy theories but they did not mention Opus Dei and that several members of the Supreme Court are members.

    And of course the press chooses to ignore ALEC (the Kochs) who are orchestrating a simultaneous wave of abortion and voting restrictions in about 5 GOP controlled states.

  16. Arthur on Wed, 24th Jul 2013 2:42 am 

    Enough world wide. Many have heard of 9/11-truth, of WW2- and holocaust-revisionism, of those behind communism, of media-ownership, of those who own the FED and dominate financial circles in Anglosphere, of those pushing mass-immigration. Or to paraphrase Paul Bremer: “we’ve got them”. They are surrounded, trapped and there is no exit. Our concept of Karma in the end is superior than their ‘getting away with it’.

  17. PrestonSturges on Wed, 24th Jul 2013 2:57 pm 

    >>>Dialectics, usury, marxism, deception and absolute ruthlessness, those are the core tools in the toolbox of those who we are dealing with.

    Dialectics like when someone rants 20 points straight out of Mein Kampf (blaming liberal press, trade unions, immigrants, woman, envy, social justice) then calling their *opponents* Nazls or Fascists.

  18. BillT on Wed, 24th Jul 2013 3:20 pm 

    Consider that when you have more money than you can possibly spend on pleasure, what would you do to make life interesting? Why, gain power of course. As much as possible and eventually try to rule the world. We are disposable like pawns in a chess game. Like the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Or the nuclear attack on the US in the not too distant future.

  19. GregT on Thu, 25th Jul 2013 5:57 am 

    I have often wondered if the game of Monopoly was really a game, or if it was a tool of indoctrination. All of us as children learned the rules of the game, at a very early age.

    After all, in the end, there is only one winner, and everyone else ‘loses’. Maybe they could re-package the game, and make even more millions. It could be called “Capitalism”.

  20. Arthur on Thu, 25th Jul 2013 6:36 am 

    “Lusitania, Pearl Harbor or 9/11”

    These were events that were commented by the MSM only, even 9/11 happened three months before, totally unexpected by most, the global phenomenon of internet forums exploded into being. Now we have a new devoluted global commentariate, like this forum, independent of these MSMs that will recognize a false flag attack when it sees one. The internet is a nouveautee with enormous geopolitical implications.

  21. PrestonSturges on Thu, 25th Jul 2013 2:47 pm 

    >>>I have often wondered if the game of Monopoly was really a game, or if it was a tool of indoctrination.

    Monopoly was invented at a utopian artists colony in Delaware to explain how the Georgeist tax system worked. Someone stole the game and changed the rules to make it about real estate wheeling and dealing but kept the rest exactly the same. Irony, irony.

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