Monday, July 24, 2006

Money: Not the Root of All Evil

There is nothing intrinsically bad about people using money. A unit of money is simply that which everyone in the community accepts as having value. It is something that the vast majority of the community is willing to accept in trade for goods or services that they have produced--knowing that someone else will also accept it for the same. Money is the item which is most widely accepted as a form of exchange in commerce. I'm sure this point is arguable, but I see no way in which using a commonly accepted medium of exchange in commerce is in any way bad, wrong, evil, detrimental, etc.

So where then do we get the expression, "Money is the root of all evil"? The saying originated in the New Testament. "For the love of money is the root of all evil." Timothy, 6:10. It is my view that the current usage of that expression arose to describe the modern money system. But it is not the money at all which is the root of the problem. It is the greed, corruption, and dishonesty which is inherent in the money systems which we have come to accept globally.

Before we get to examining the corruption of our current monetary systems, let's step back for a moment and remember how those systems evolved... This is going to be a rather lengthy history, but without it, we really have no context where we can say "this is corrupt and dishonest." So bear with me. It's actually rather interesting.

The first form of commerce was the barter system. People who wished to do business together would find a suitable trade. The problem with this system is that the pieces don't always fit. Just because you have something I need doesn't mean that I have something that you need. Also, how am I supposed to know that what you are trading me is quality? About ten thousand years ago, people started to use livestock and grain as a common medium of exchange, because these were things that everyone needed, and they were things that required work to produce. Yes, grain and cattle do grow naturally, but to keep a herd of domestic cattle and/or to raise a crop of grain takes human work. Therefore, with livestock and/or grain as money--you can't create money without exerting an equal amount of labor.

As people evolved, their systems of money evolved as well. Throughout the course of history different cultures have used different items as money... And different institutions of banking arose. These were mainly businesses that provided storage and protection of individual's money for a fee. They did not issue loans.

As these different cultures started to interact and trade with each other, a universally accepted medium of exchange was sought. Precious metals--mainly gold and silver--began to be used as money about five thousand years ago. They are generally accepted by everyone to have value, and it requires a good amount of labor to extract and refine them into usable product. Around 2200 BC, Cappadocian rulers began to guarantee the quality of their silver ingots, which led to their wider acceptance as money. Around 600 BC, the Lydian state began producing round coins, and the Chinese and Greeks quickly picked up on this practice. Eventually, round base metal coins became a global standard.

As mentioned, the banks that arose to protect people's money did not loan out money... They simply stored it and protected it from theft--a pretty valuable service in days of yore when there was no such thing as a police force. These ancient banks would issue a paper receipt to a depositor--stating that x amount of gold had been deposited and could be withdrawn on demand. Eventually these paper receipts came to be traded amongst the people--to save them the trouble and danger of having to go to the bank, withdraw their gold, and make a physical exchange. This is a very important development--for it gave birth to our modern form of money, as obviously today we trade paper--not gold or silver.

These receipts given to depositors by the bank were a guarantee that this amount of gold actually existed in the bank and could be redeemed. This is called receipt currency. It is as good as gold. And it is an honest way to make trading large sums of money much easier. However, the bankers had become rich and powerful by charging fees to protect people's money. Eventually they were able to use this power to change the tried and tested rules (Hamurabi's code had laws about banking) of banking that had come to be accepted throughout all of humanity.

Bankers wanted the right to loan out the money that they held in deposit, and also to charge interest on it. The bankers had realized that people would never try to redeem all of their gold receipts at the same time. So they had these huge stores of gold that were just sitting there, doing nothing... Why not loan it out to other people and charge them interest? It seemed perfectly safe, as their records had shown that at any given point in time, only about 10% of the gold they possessed was ever physically out of the bank at one time. Much greater profits could be realized if the other 90% of the gold they held was working for them... So banks began to loan receipts to people for other people's gold--and charge the borrowers interest. In effect, banks began to issue multiple receipts for the same piece of gold, on the faith that people would, for the most part, leave their gold in the bank.

This system is called fractional reserve banking--and THIS, my friends and readers, is the root of all evil. It is inherently corrupt and dishonest. Banks were loaning your gold to someone else, and the banks--not you--were making a profit on it... The institutions that physically controlled the vast majority of wealth were able to create new paper receipts where no actual money existed. This made all of the money that did exist become worth less and less. Well, economies being a conglomerate of human activity, the laws of supply and demand tend to work pretty well... The supply of money had been inflated. Money was being produced without an equal exchange of labor. Prices everywhere were going up and up. People realized that the goods and services themselves had not gotten more valuable--but the money itself had become less valuable. And who now possessed the extra value that their paper money no longer did? The bankers did... This led to the people marching down to the bank in anger and demanding their physical gold, which led to many many banks falling into insolvency or simply refusing to produce the gold--as they realized they could not honor everyone's request.

One would think that once this scam was revealed, it faded into non-existence... But no. That's not the way it happened, as bankers had already amassed unimaginably vast sums of money. Instead of being phased out of existence, fractional reserve banking became endorsed by the state. It became law. By instituting what is known as a Central Bank, bankers were basically able to buy governments... Since the bank could issue loans on gold that it did not posses, the state could then create virtually any sum of money they needed. And since the state had the power to pass Legal Tender Laws which required their people to accept the central bank's paper currency, this dishonest banking system became law. And to make things worse, in 1933, the Roosevelt Administration confiscated everyone's personal stores of gold.

And it gets even more dishonest--when states decide that instead of issuing receipts for a physical amount of gold that people can theoretically redeem their paper money for at the bank--they will issue the receipts but not allow the money to be redeemed for gold. This is what is known as Fiat Currency, and it is the evil that fractional reserve banking created multiplied by many thousands of levels of evil. Not only do banks (and governments--via central banks) have the power to create more currency than they have physical gold to back up--but now they can create any amount of currency they want, and they don't have to posses one ounce of gold to back any of it up. Between 1933 and 1971, Americans were not allowed to own gold, and only foreign investors could trade their dollars for gold. The price of gold was fixed at $35 per ounce. Then in 1971 the Nixon Administration separated the dollar from gold completely. The dollar no longer needed any gold at all to "back" its value. Thus making it a true Fiat currency. And in the early 70s, more new money was introduced into the economy than ever before. Why did the people stand for this? Legal tender laws, remember? Also--by design, the average person is never taught anything about the realities of this system, so really, what do they know? There are "experts" in every newspaper telling them about the growing economy... It is growing--it's growing more diffuse. As more and more new money is introduced into the system, the money that is there becomes worth less and less. Consumers feel this in the form of inflation.

The current inflation rate is somewhere around 3%. This doesn't sound like all that much. But at 3% inflation, it takes about 23 years for the value of your money to be cut in half. Don't believe me? Pull out your trusty calculator. Type in "100", then multiply that by 1.03 (this is the same as adding 3%). Do this 23 times. By adding 3% 23 times, You now have 197. What does this mean in relationship to money? Well, at 3% inflation, the money supply doubles every 23 years. Which means, more or less, that your money is worth half as much. Of course it's not quite that simple, but a quick look at the Consumer Price Index shows this to pretty much be the case.

So to sum things up... First, there was money. And it was good... Then banks came around to protect people's money--and that was good too. People had less to worry about, and a new industry came about to provide jobs and wealth for more and more people. Where things start to go wrong is with the introduction of Fractional Reserve banking. This is where bankers issue more than one paper receipt for each physical piece of gold in their stores. And then, the evil multiplies exponentially with Fiat Currencies, when banks and governments collaborate to separate paper money from gold, to enforce this new money on the people, and to create whatever amount they want--mostly to fund wars.

Fractional Reserve banking and Fiat Currencies are inherently dishonest and corrupt systems, and they--not money itself--are the root of a great deal of the world's evil. As long as these systems are allowed to exist, there will never truly be peace, justice, or freedom. I anxiously await the day when the world proves me wrong...

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Addicted to Oil. And Going to Stay That Way... For A While... Unless...

So let's turn back the page a few months to Mr. Speechgiver... I mean Mr. President... saying "We are addicted to oil and we need to break that addiction." He's calling for Americans to break this addiction, right? But what is his administration doing?

The Bush administration allowed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to have a $28 million budget shortfall and lay off 32 employees... Then gave them an extra $5 million when it was publicized that the administration was maybe sending "mixed signals." We can spend $85 Billion and burn massive amounts of fossil fuels each year on an illegal war, but we can only muster up $5 million for renewable energy research? And this is supposed to help us break our oil addiction how exactly??

The Bush administration's energy plan aims to replace 30% of gasoline use with ethanol by 2030. Archer Daniels Midland, the world's largest producer of Ethanol from corn, has donated over $3 million to politicians since 2000. Ethanol has a lower energy density than gasoline so cars get lower gas mileage running on Ethanol. So we're using more fossil fuel energy to produce this new fuel than we get from burning it, and we're using more of it to power our vehicles... According to a recent Cornell University study, the process of growing and then processing corn into ethanol burns 29% more fossil fuel energy than the amount of energy that is produced. We burn more fossil fuel energy to make this new--less effecient--fuel than the energy that burning this new fuel creates. That is called wasting fuel...

Raising fuel economy standards to 40 mpg over the next decade would save about 4 billion barrels of oil by 2012... But shockingly... Fuel economy standards are 5% lower today than they were in the late 80s... And Archer Daniels Midland continues to receive corporate welfare, subsidies, and line its pockets while we sink even deeper into oil addiction. And this is supposed to be progress?

This is not progress, this is collusion. Plain and simple. Archer Daniels Midland is a multi-billion dollar business. They do favors for the government, the government does favors for them, and the people get screwed. (These favors are accomplished by another little secret called central banking. Through the obfuscation that lives within banking regulations that even very well educated people generally are not taught about in school, lies fiat currency that is not backed by any precious metals, a fractional reserve commercial banking system that can multiply the money supply by issuing credit with assets that they do not technically posess, the central bank, the Federal Reserve, that can create new money at will from thin air, and finally the government, which can issue bonds (which are nothing more than government debt) to borrow whatever sum they want from the Fed. Most of the time, they borrow money for war and corporate bailouts.)

In this case, money is being thrown at a problem, but the solution being funded is known by science to be not the best solution. The public is given little capacity to find or understand this science, and those who do don't have anyone to vote for, really... So no, ethanol from corn is anything but progress. It's closer to corruption dressed up in progress' clothes... What would progress be then? Cellulosic Ethanol from switchgrass would be nice. It can be produced now, and with enough investment, production could be ramped up very quickly. A new industry could be created, good jobs along with it... Also, it's possible to make Biodiesel from algae would be nice. How about Biodiesel produced locally in small-medium quantities and used in the communities that it is created in? That would be nice... Plug-in hybrids or straight electric vehicles would be nice. Some more wind and solar farms would be nice. $300 Billion for renewable energy research instead of for making dead Iraqis would be nice.

There are two simple ways we can make progress in eliminating our dependency on oil ourselves, as people. 1) Buy more fuel efficient vehicles. 40mpg and up only!! 2) Walk more, bike more, take public transportation (those of us who have viable options) more, drive less, buy compact flourescents, or just turn the lights off when you leave the room, recycle... It's really that simple...

But it seems Americans can't win for trying... We're told by the president that we have to get off of oil, but his administration is not enacting policies that give any credence to his words!! And Americans don't have very many palatable choices as far as taking things into our own hands is concerned... Public transportation is a joke in most of the country. Finding a good job close to home is very difficult. Let's face it--"breaking the oil addiction" is nothing but lip service. The power-brokers and money-makers who run the world have no interest in energy independence for Americans or any other people. We're in a tough spot...

Friday, July 07, 2006

The New World Order Minus the Conspiracy Theory BS


It's rare that I post an article that was not written by me... So you'd better believe this one is worth reading, and the links I've provided to spice things up are worth clicking on, as well... This piece by Wiliam Blase may be a bit dated (it's 10 years old) but it chronicles a very very deep and dangerous conspiracy (not a theory, mind you, but an actual conspiracy) that all Americans should really be wary of. Here is a history of the New World Order free from talk about aliens, illuminati, the anti-christ, etc... Just the facts. Cold, hard, documented, facts...





Rowan Gaither, President, Ford Foundation,1954, stated to Congressional Reese Commission investigator Norman Dodd: We operate here under directives which emulate from the White House... The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States so that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union."

For those who may be confused by the controversies surrounding the "New World Order", a One-World-Government, and American concern over giving the UN more power; those unaware of the issues involved; and those wishing more background, I offer the following. Originally presented for an Honors Class, "Dilemmas of War and Peace," at New Mexico State University, the paper was ridiculed and characterized by Dr. Yosef Lapid, (an acknowledged and locally quoted "expert" on Terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs) as "paranoid... possibly a symptom of mental illness." You may judge for yourself. Citing source data is the "scientific method," but does not seem to apply to "Conspiracy Theories." A thousand sources may be quoted, yet will not convince the "skeptics," the "realists." It seems to me the "symptoms of mental illness" are on their side, if they refuse to look at evidence ("There are none so blind as those who WILL not see"); or perhaps something more sinister is at work, such as a knowledge of the truth, that does not want YOU to know.

To be paranoid means to believe in delusions of danger and persecution. If the danger is real, and the evidence credible, then it cannot be delusional. To ignore the evidence, and hope that it CANNOT be true, is more an evidence of mental illness. The issue involves much more than a difference of philosophy, or political viewpoint. Growing up in the midst of the "Cold War," our generation were taught that those who attempted to abolish our national sovereignty and overthrow our Constitutional government were committing acts of treason. Please judge for yourself if the group discussed is guilty of such.

If one group is effectively in control of national governments and multinational corporations; promotes world government through control of media, foundation grants, and education; and controls and guides the issues of the day; then they control most options available. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the financial powers behind it, have done all these things, and promote the "New World Order", as they have for over seventy years.

The CFR is the promotional arm of the Ruling Elite in the United States of America. Most influential politicians, academics and media personalities are members, and it uses its influence to infiltrate the New World Order into American life. Its "experts" write scholarly pieces to be used in decision making, the academics expound on the wisdom of a united world, and the media members disseminate the message.

To understand how the most influential people in America came to be members of an organization working purposefully for the overthrow of the Constitution and American sovereignty, we have to go back at least to the early 1900s, though the story begins much earlier (depending on your viewpoint and beliefs). That a ruling power elite does indeed control the U.S. government behind the scenes has been attested to by many Americans in a position to know. Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the Supreme Court (1939-1962), said: The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." In a letter to an associate dated November 21, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt wrote, "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson." February 23, 1954,

Senator William Jenner warned in a speech: "Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government, a bureaucratic elite which believes our Constitution is outmoded."

Baron M.A. Rothschild wrote, "Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws."

All that is needed to effectively control a government is to have control over the nation's money: a central bank with a monopoly over the supply of money and credit. This had been done in Western Europe, with the creation of privately owned central banks such as the Bank of England. Georgetown professor Dr. Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton's mentor while at Georgetown) wrote about the goals of the investment bankers who control central banks: "... 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... controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences."

The Bank of the United States (1816-36, pictured to the right), an early attempt at an American central bank, was abolished by President Andrew Jackson, who believed that it threatened the nation. He wrote: "The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government, the distress it had wantonly produced...are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it."

Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution...if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Does that not describe the situation in America today?

The U.S. managed to do without a central bank until early in this century, when, according to Congressman Charles Lindbergh, Sr., "The Money Trust caused the 1907 panic, and thereby forced Congress to create a National Monetary Commission." Headed by Senator Nelson Aldrich, father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the Commission recommended creation of a central bank.

Though unconstitutional, as only "The Congress shall have Power...To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof..." (Article I, Section 8, U.S. Constitution) the Federal Reserve Act was passed in December 1913; ostensibly to stabilize the economy and prevent further panics, but as Lindberg warned Congress: "This act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth...the invisible government by the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust investigation, will be legalized." The Great Depression and numerous recessions later, it is obvious the Federal Reserve produces inflation and federal debt whenever it desires, but not stability. Congressman Louis McFadden, House Committee on Banking and Currency Chairman (1920-31), stated: "When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and industrialists...acting together to enslave the world...Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is--the Fed has usurped the government."

Although called "Federal," the Federal Reserve system is privately owned by member banks, makes its own policies, and is not subject to oversight by Congress or the President. As the overseer and supplier of reserves, the Fed gave banks access to public funds, which enhanced their lending capacity. Peter Kershaw, in "Economic Solutions" lists the ten major shareholders of the Federal Reserve Bank System as: Rothschild: London and Berlin; Lazard Bros: Paris; Israel Seiff: Italy; Kuhn- Loeb Company: Germany; Warburg: Hamburg and Amsterdam; Lehman Bros: New York; Goldman and Sachs: New York; Rockefeller: New York. The balance of stock is owned by major commercial member banks. According to Davvy Kidd, "Why A Bankrupt America?" The Federal Reserve pays the Bureau of Engraving & Printing approximately $23 for each 1,000 notes printed. 10,000 $100 notes (one million dollars) would thus cost the Federal Reserve $230. They then secure a pledge of collateral equal to the face value from the U.S government. The collateral is our land, labor, and assets... collected by their agents, the IRS. By authorizing the Fed to regulate and create money (and thus inflation), Congress gave private banks power to create profits at will. As Lindberg put it: "The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation...they can unload the stocks on the people at high prices during the excitement and then bring on a panic and buy them back at low prices...the day of reckoning is only a few years removed." That day came in 1929, with the Stock Market crash and Great Depression.

One of the most important powers given to the Fed was the right to buy and sell government securities, and provide loans to member banks so they might also purchase them. This provided another built-in mechanism for profit to the banks, if government debt was increased. All that was needed was a method to pay off the debt. This was accomplished through the passage of the income tax in 1913. A national income tax was declared unconstitutional in 1895 by the Supreme Court, so a constitutional amendment was proposed in Congress by none other than ...Senator Nelson Aldrich. As presented to the American people it seemed reasonable enough: income tax on only one percent of income under $20,000, with the assurance that it would never increase. Since it was graduated, the tax would "soak the rich", ...but the rich had other plans, already devising a method of protecting wealth. As described by Gary Allen in his 1976 book The Rockefeller File, "By the time the (16th) Amendment had been approved by the states, the Rockefeller Foundation was in full operation...about the same time that Judge Kenesaw Landis was ordering the breakup of the Standard Oil monopoly...John D...not only avoided taxes by creating four great tax-exempt foundations; he used them as repositories for his "divested" interests...made his assets non-taxable so that they might be passed down through generations without...estate and gift taxes...Each year the Rockefellers can dump up to half their incomes into their pet foundations and deduct the "donations" from their income tax."

Exchanging ownership for control of wealth, foundations are also a handy means for promoting interests that benefit the wealthy. Millions of foundation dollars have been "donated" to causes such as promoting the use of drugs, while degrading preventive medicine. Since many drugs are made from coal tar derivatives, both oil companies and drug manufacturing concerns (many Rockefeller owned or controlled) are the main beneficiaries. With the means to loan enormous sums to the government (the Federal Reserve), a method to repay the debt (income tax), and an escape from taxation for the wealthy, (foundations), all that remained was an excuse to borrow money. By some happy "coincidence," in 1914 World War I began, and after American participation national debt rose from $1 billion to $25 billion. Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1913, beating incumbent William Howard Taft, who had vowed to veto legislation establishing a central bank. To divide the Republican vote and elect the relatively unknown Wilson, J.P. Morgan and Co. poured money into the candidacy of Teddy Roosevelt and his Progressive Party. According to an eyewitness, Wilson was brought to Democratic Party headquarters in 1912 by Bernard Baruch, a wealthy banker. He received an "indoctrination course" from those he met, and in return agreed, if elected: to support the projected Federal Reserve and the income tax, and "listen" to advice in case of war in Europe and on the composition of his cabinet. Wilson's top advisor during his two terms was a man named Colonel Edward M. House. House's biographer, Charles Seymour, called him the "unseen guardian angel" of the Federal Reserve Act, helping to guide it through Congress. Another biographer wrote that House believed: "...the Constitution, product of eighteenth-century minds...was thoroughly outdated; that the country would be better off if the Constitution could be scrapped and rewritten..." House wrote a book entitled Philip Dru: Administrator, published anonymously in 1912. The hero, Philip Dru, rules America and introduces radical changes, such as a graduated income tax, a central bank, and a "league of nations." World War I produced both a large national debt, and huge profits for those who had backed Wilson. Baruch was appointed head of the War Industries Board, where he exercised dictatorial power over the national economy. He and the Rockefellers were reported to have earned over $200 million during the war. Wilson backer Cleveland Dodge sold munitions to the allies, while J.P. Morgan loaned them hundreds of millions, with the protection of U.S. entry into the war. While profit was certainly a motive, the war was also useful to justify the notion of world government.

William Hoar reveals in Architechs of Conspiracy that during the 1950s, government investigators examining the records of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a long- time promoter of globalism, found that several years before the outbreak of World War I, the Carnegie trustees were planning to involve the U.S. in a general war, to set the stage for world government. The main obstacle was that Americans did not want any involvement in European wars. Some kind of incident, such as the explosion of the battleship Main, which provoked the Spanish - American war, would have to be provided as provocation. This occurred when the Lusitania, carrying 128 Americans on board, was sunk by a German submarine, and anti-German sentiment was aroused. When war was declared, U.S. propaganda portrayed all Germans as Huns and fanged serpents, and all Americans opposing the war as traitors. What was not revealed at the time, however, was that the Lusitania was transporting war munitions to England, making it a legitimate target for the Germans. Even so, they had taken out large ads in the New York papers, asking that Americans not take passage on the ship.

The LusitaniaThe evidence seems to point to a deliberate plan to have the ship sunk by the Germans. Colin Simpson, author of The Lusitania, wrote that Winston Churchill, head of the British Admiralty during the war, had ordered a report to predict the political impact if a passenger ship carrying Americans was sunk. German naval codes had been broken by the British, who knew approximately where all U-boats near the British Isles were located. According to Simpson, Commander Joseph Kenworthy, of British Naval Intelligence, stated: "The Lusitania was deliberately sent at considerably reduced speed into an area where a U-boat was known to be waiting...escorts withdrawn." Thus, even though Wilson had been reelected in 1916 with the slogan "He kept us out of war", America soon found itself fighting a European war. Actually, Colonel House had already negotiated a secret agreement with England, committing the U.S. to the conflict. It seems the American public had little say in the matter. With the end of the war and the Versailles Treaty, which required severe war reparations from Germany, the way was paved for a leader in Germany such as Hitler. Wilson brought to the Paris Peace Conference his famous "fourteen points," with point fourteen being a proposal for a "general association of nations," which was to be the first step towards the goal of One World Government-the League of Nations. Wilson's official biographer, Ray Stannard Baker, revealed that the League was not Wilson's idea. "...not a single idea--in the Covenant of the League was original with the President." Colonel House was the author of the Covenant, and Wilson had merely rewritten it to conform to his own phraseology. The League of Nations was established, but it, and the plan for world government eventually failed because the U.S. Senate would not ratify the Versailles Treaty. Pat Robertson, in The New World Order, states that Colonel House, along with other internationalists, realized that America would not join any scheme for world government without a change in public opinion. After a series of meetings, it was decided that an "Institute of International Affairs", with two branches, in the United States and England, would be formed. The British branch became known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, with leadership provided by members of the Round Table. Begun in the late 1800s by Cecil Rhodes, the Round Table aimed to federate the English speaking peoples of the world, and bring it under their rule. The Council on Foreign Relations was incorporated as the American branch in New York on July 29, 1921. Founding members included Colonel House, and "...such potentates of international banking as J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Paul Warburg, Otto Kahn, and Jacob Schiff...the same clique which had engineered the establishment of the Federal Reserve System," according to Gary Allen in the October 1972 issue of "AMERICAN OPINION." The founding president of the CFR was John W. Davis, J.P. Morgan's personal attorney, while the vice-president was Paul Cravath, also representing the Morgan interests. Professor Carroll Quigley characterized the CFR as "...a front group for J.P. Morgan and Company in association with the very small American Round Table Group." Over time Morgan influence was lost to the Rockefellers, who found that one world government fit their philosophy of business well. As John D. Rockefeller, Sr. had said: "Competition is a sin"' and global monopoly fit their needs as they grew internationally.

Antony Sutton, a research fellow for the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, wrote of this philosophy: "While monopoly control of industries was once the objective of J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller, by the late nineteenth century the inner sanctums of Wall Street understood the most efficient way to gain an unchallenged monopoly was to "go political" and make society go to work for the monopolists-- under the name of the public good and the public interest."

Frederick C. Howe revealed the strategy of using government in a 1906 book, Confessions of a Monopolist: "These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics..." As corporations went international, national monopolies could no longer protect their interests. What was needed was a one world system of government controlled from behind the scenes. This had been the plan since the time of Colonel House, and to implement it, it was necessary to weaken the U.S. politically and economically. During the 1920s, America enjoyed a decade of prosperity, fueled by the easy availability of credit. Between 1923 and 1929 the Federal Reserve expanded the money supply by sixty-two percent. When the stock market crashed, many small investors were ruined, but not "insiders." In March of 1929 Paul Warburg issued a tip the Crash was coming, and the largest investors got out of the market, according to Allen and Abraham in None Dare Call it Conspiracy.

With their fortunes intact, they were able to buy companies for a fraction of their worth. Shares that had sold for a dollar might now cost a nickel, and the buying power, and wealth, of the rich increased enormously. Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking Committee declared: "It was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence...The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as rulers of us all."

Curtis Dall, son-in-law of FDR and a syndicate manager for Lehman Brothers, an investment firm, was on the N.Y. Stock Exchange floor the day of the crash. In FDR: My Exploited Father-In-Law, he states: "...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 Market." The Crash paved the way for the man Wall Street had groomed for the presidency, FDR. Portrayed as a "man of the little people", the reality was that Roosevelt's family had been involved in New York banking since the eighteenth century. Frederic Delano, FDR's uncle, served on the original Federal Reserve Board. FDR attended Groton and Harvard, and in the 1920's worked on Wall Street, sitting on the board of directors of eleven different corporations. Dall wrote of his father-in-law: "...Most of his thoughts, his political "ammunition,"...were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the CFR-One World Money group. Brilliantly... he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people--and thus paid off and retained his internationalist political support." Taking America off the gold standard in 1934, FDR opened the way to unrestrained money supply expansion, decades of inflation--and credit revenues for banks. Raising gold prices from $20 an ounce to $35, FDR and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (son of a founding CFR member), gave international bankers huge profits. FDR's most remembered program, the New Deal, could only be financed through heavy borrowing. In effect, those who had caused the Depression loaned America the money to recover from it. Then, through the National Recovery Administration, proposed by Bernard Baruch in 1930, they were put in charge of regulating the economy. FDR appointed Baruch disciple Hugh Johnson to run the NRA, assisted by CFR member Gerard Swope. With broad powers to regulate wages, prices, and working conditions, it was, as Herbert Hoover wrote in his memoirs: "...pure fascism;...merely a remaking of Mussolini's "corporate state"..." The Supreme Court eventually ruled the NRA unconstitutional. During the FDR years, the Council on Foreign Relations captured the political life of the U.S. Besides Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, other CFR members included Secretary of State Edward Stettinus, War Secretary Henry Stimson, and Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Since 1934 almost every United States Secretary of State has been a CFR member; and ALL Secretaries of War or Defense, from Henry L. Stimson through Richard Cheney.

The CIA has been under CFR control almost continuously since its creation, starting with Allen Dulles, founding member of the CFR and brother of Secretary of State under President Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles. Allen Dulles had been at the Paris Peace Conference, joined the CFR in 1926, and later became its president. John Foster Dulles had been one of Woodrow Wilson's young protégés at the Paris Peace Conference. A founding member of the CFR...he was an in-law of the Rockefellers, Chairman of the Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Board Chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 1940 FDR defeated internationalist Wendell Willkie, who wrote a book entitled One World, and later became a CFR member. Congressman Usher Burdick protested at the time on the floor of the House that Willkie was being financed by J.P. Morgan and the New York utility bankers. Polls showed few Republicans favored him, yet the media portrayed him as THE Republican candidate. Since that time nearly ALL presidential candidates have been CFR members. President Truman, who was not a member, was advised by a group of "wise men," all six of whom were CFR members, according to Gary Allen. In 1952 and 1956, CFR Adlai Stevenson challenged CFR Eisenhower.

In 1960, CFR Kennedy (who was probably killed because he had the courage NOT to go along with all their plans) CFR Nixon. In 1964 the GOP stunned the Establishment by nominating its candidate over Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller and the CFR wing proceeded to picture Barry Goldwater as a dangerous radical. In 1968 CFR Nixon ran against CFR Humphrey. The 1972 "contest" featured CFR Nixon vs. CFR McGovern. CFR candidates for president include George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Edmund Muskie, John Anderson, and Lloyd Bentsen. In 1976 we had Jimmy Carter, who is a member of the Trilateral Commission, created by David Rockefeller and CFR member Zbigniew Brezinski with the goal of economic linkage between Japan, Europe, and the United States, and: "...managing the world economy...a smooth and peaceful evolution of the global system." We have also had (though his name strangely disappears from the membership list in 1979) CFR director (1977-79) George Bush, and last but not least, CFR member Bill Clinton. They have all promoted the "New World Order," controlled by the United Nations. The problem is that "...the present United Nations organization is actually the creation of the CFR and is housed on land in Manhattan donated to it by the family of current CFR chairman David Rockefeller," as Pat Robertson describes it. The original concept for the UN was the outcome of the Informal Agenda Group, formed in 1943 by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. All except Hull were CFR members, and Isaiah Bowman, a founding member of the CFR, originated the idea. The American delegation to the San Francisco meeting that drafted the charter of the United Nations in 1949 included CFR members Nelson Rockefeller, John Foster Dulles, John McCloy, and CFR members who were communist agents--Harry Dexter White, Owen Lattimore, and the Secretary-General of the conference, Alger Hiss. In all, the Council sent forty-seven of its members in the United States delegation, effectively controlling the outcome. Since that time the CFR and its friends in the mass media (largely controlled by CFR members such as Katherine Graham of the "Washington Post" and Henry Luce of "Time, Life"), foundations, and political groups have lobbied consistently to grant the United Nations more authority and power. Bush and the Gulf War were but one of the latest calls for a "New World Order." Admiral Chester Ward, a member of the CFR for over a decade, became one of its harshest critics, revealing its inner workings in a 1975 book, Kissinger ON THE COUCH. In it he states "The most powerful cliques in these elitist groups have one objective in common: they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and national independence of the United States."

Most members are one-world-government ideologists whose long- term goals were officially summed up in September 1961 State Department Document 7277, adopted by the Nixon Administration: "...elimination of all armed forces and armaments except those needed to maintain internal order within states and to furnish the United Nations with peace forces...by the time it (UN global government) would be so strong no nation could challenge it." Within the CFR there exists a "much smaller group but more powerful...made up of Wall Street international bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in control of the global government ...This CFR faction is headed by the Rockefeller brothers," according to Ward. What must be remembered is that this is not some lunatic- fringe group...these are members of one of the most powerful private organizations in the world: the people who determine and control American economic, social, political, and military policy. Members' influence and control extends to "leaders in academia, public service, business, and the media," according to the CFR 1993 "Annual Report." Their founding they describe as: "American Participants in the Paris Peace Conference decided that it was time for more private Americans to become familiar with the increasing responsibilities and obligations of the United States...there was a need for an organization able to provide for the continuous study of U.S. foreign police for the BENEFIT OF ITS MEMBERS (emphasis mine) and a wider audience of interested Americans." They sponsor hundreds of programs, where members "exchange views with American and foreign officials and policy experts... discuss foreign policy issues...consider international issues of concern to the business community" (Corporate business), and "...affiliated groups of community leaders throughout the United states...meet with decision makers." The CFR states that it is "host to many views, advocate of none," and it "has no affiliation with the U.S. government." No, no affiliation at all, if you don't count: "A Council member was elected president of the United States...Dozens of other Council colleagues were called to serve in cabinet and sub-cabinet positions," as they describe it in "Foreign Affairs," along with many members of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs, the Federal Reserve, and many other Federal bureaucrats. They are not AFFILIATED with government, they ARE the government, in effect.

One re-occurring view was stated in the 50th anniversary issue of "Foreign Affairs," the official publication of the CFR. In an article by Kingman Brewster, Jr. entitled "Reflections on Our National Purpose." Our purpose should be, according to him, to do away with our nationality, to "take some risks in order to invite others to pool their sovereignty with ours..." These "risks" include disarming to the point where we would be helpless against the "peace-keeping" forces of a global UN government. We should happily surrender our sovereignty to the world government in the interests of the "world community." Today we have the spectacle of Spc. 4 Michael New, a U.S. soldier in Germany who refuses to wear the uniform of the UN, facing an "administrative discharge." He states rightly that he swore an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, not the United Nations. Many other Americans have taken that same oath, such as myself, and believe it is our sworn duty still to defend the Constitution. Meanwhile, others who attempt to destroy the Constitution and our sovereignty are given honors and position...At least they are not hypocrites...only supremely arrogant. "In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down...An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old fashioned assault..." in the opinion of Richard N. Gardner, former deputy assistant Secretary of State in "Foreign Affairs," April 1974. James Warburg, son of CFR founder Paul Warburg, and a member of FDR's "brain trust," testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17, 1950, "We shall have world government whether or not you like it--by conquest or consent."

Is this an AMERICAN speaking, or a dangerous lunatic? Who is this "We" who threatens to CONQUER us?

They are a group that actually has the power to do it, and is doing it every day, bit by bit.

CFR Members in the mass media, education, and entertainment push their propaganda of "humanism" and world brotherhood. We should all live in peace under a world government, and forget about such selfish things as nationalities and patriotism. We can solve our own problems. We don't need God, or morals, or values: it"s all relative, anyway, right?...Because if we actually had some moral character and values, we might be able to discern that these people are actually EVIL. They have lost all morality and conscience, and believe such concepts, as well as our Constitution, "outdated". THAT is insanity--to have more wealth than can be spent, and still it is never enough. They have to control governments, start wars, conspire to rule the world; least the "common people" wake up to how they have gained their wealth, take it away from them, and demand that they pay the price for their crimes. That is why they constantly pit us one against the other, with "Diversity," Affirmative Action, and other programs,...black against white, men against women, rural against urban, ranchers against environmentalists, and on and on...least we look in their direction. We The People are held to a much higher standard. If we threaten the President or a public official, we are charged with a crime...yet the One-World-Gang can threaten the Constitution and the liberties of We The People, the sovereign rulers of this nation, and nothing is said or done. Perhaps they do not fear what Man can do to them... they believe they have arranged everything, and their power and wealth will prevail in this world. However, those among them who have sworn an oath before God to uphold and defend the Constitution: the President, members of Congress, and the military; may find one day that they do indeed have something to fear.

Colonel HouseColonel House, the fallen angel, still has relatives controlling the CFR. Karen Elliot House is Chairman of the Membership Committee, and a member of the Nominating Committee, along with Jeane Kirkpatrick. David Rockefeller is now "Honorary Chairman of the Board", after serving as Chairman 1970-1985; and "Director Emeritus," after serving as a Director 1949-1985. Peter G. Peterson is Chairman, Admiral B. R. Inman is Vice Chairman, while Thomas Foley and Jeane Kirkpatrick are Directors serving on the Executive Committee. These "private citizens" have access to government officials and policy makers as often as they wish, yet the results of their meetings can only be given to other government officials, corporate officers, or law partners. Participants are forbidden to transmit an attributed statement to any public medium, such as newspapers or TV, where there is "risk that it will promptly be widely circulated or published," as the "Annual Report" puts it. Should not OUR public officials be forbidden to meet in secret with private groups? Public officials should only be allowed to discuss public business and policy in a public forum. The Public...remember US?

There is much more to say about this group and their plans for America. Gary Allen, in The Rockefeller File, states that they are behind the many regional government plans, which would abolish city, county, and state lines, leaving us at the mercy of federal bureaucrats; and behind the push for "land use" controls. They want "federal control of everything. Since they intend to control the federal government..." There are also the many allegations of involvement in gun running, drug smuggling, prostitution and sex slaves; and the many mysterious assassinations and "suicides" of witnesses and others who get too close to the truth...but that is another story.

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