Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The Origins of Modern Banking


Kieron McFadden


“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from banks, and restored to the people.” Thomas Jefferson

Money was originally invented as a convenient alternative to barter, an alternative without which a highly developed civilisation like ours could not exist.

Imagine trying to pay the taxi driver with a bag of coal or the grocery bill with a box of spanners and a set of golf clubs. Imagine trying to carry all that around with you when you go shopping. As societies grew more complex and social roles became more specialised, the idea of money was conceived as a better and more flexible way to exchange, and thereby distribute among men, goods and services.

Money is quite simply an idea agreed upon among people that some system of tokens or symbols: discs of metal (coins) paper with symbols on it (notes) and so on, will be used by them to represent or stand proxy for goods and services and that those tokens can be exchanged for goods and services. One can then exchange the tokens rather than bags of coal, boxes of spanners or what-have-you and the tokens are easy to carry around. Its workability depends upon the participants' confidence that those tokens are and will continue to be exchangeable for a certain amount of goods or services.

That's all money is. It is no more complicated than that, although men may try to make it seem complex and hard to understand. The truth however, as truths tend to be, is simple; it is alterations of the truth - lies -that are complicated.

Many societies have used gold and silver coins as their tokens, then later pieces of paper to represent gold and silver coins, and later cheques and ledger entries to represent notes and coins and in modern times electronic money, the shifting and balancing of numbers in computer memories, alongside or in place of coins, notes and cheques. Thus when we receive a computer print-out of our bank statement saying we have £500 in our current account we usually visualise a stack of £l0 notes sitting in a vault somewhere, or perhaps a bag of gold coins, although in reality there is no pile of notes or bag of coins, merely the ledger-entry in an electronic memory Saying we have £500. Should we then write a cheque in order to spend £50 of it, the numbers in our ledger change to £450 and the payee's account increases by £50, although no notes, gold or anything else move from one account to another.

Yet it works because we have confidence in it and trust it and we know we can change that £500 for real notes, real coins or real goods or services whenever we want to.

This evolution in the system of tokens we use to represent real goods and services comes about through a succession of bright ideas in the direction of making distribution and exchange more convenient, the movement of wealth between people smoother and faster. However, anything can be used for money, provided people agree to use it and have confidence in it. For instance dried yak dung was once used in Tibet, notched pieces of wood in Medieval England, leather discs in Medieval Europe and even cigarettes and tins of coffee in post-war Germany. The money in use in a country is called currency, from the word current, meaning prevalent, in circulation or in use.

Governments firm up that agreement and confidence by enshrining a particular system of tokens in law and demanding those tokens in payment of taxes. A particular system of creating, denominating, issuing and circulating money - currency - where backed by law and deemed by law the only recognised system, and which cannot be legally refused as payment of a debt, is called legal tender. Where barter is no longer practised, one has to possess those tokens in order to acquire goods and services from others. It is the medium of exchange. Tokens, be they yak dung, metal discs or numbers with the '£' symbol in front of them, are exchanged back and forth between people instead of goods and exchange does now usually occur without the use of tokens or the promise of tokens on the future.

The way one acquires tokens is by producing something and then selling it to someone who has expressed his want for it by offering us some of his tokens. We do the deal and receive the tokens he has offered. Now we can go and exchange those tokens for other products that we desire, which we do not produce ourselves. Thus money enables goods and services to be exchanged among people and distribution of those goods and services to occur naturally, and according to the needs and wants of the participants.

The more of those tokens one possesses or is able to acquire through one's production, the more one can if one wishes acquire goods and services from others. One can also store money in a safe or bank account without having to build a couple of warehouses in which to store container-loads of spare goods. Money therefore confers exchange power or spending power on he who possesses it in direct ratio to the amount of it he is able to offer up for exchange.


GOLDSMITHS
In the old days gold was minted into coins and those coins, along with silver coins, formed the nation's currency. Goldsmiths had strongboxes and vaults in which to securely store the precious metal with which they worked. It was natural enough then that other people took to asking the goldsmith to store their gold and gold coins in his vault and to pay the goldsmith for the service. A merchant (for example) would entrust to the goldsmith £20 worth of his own gold for safekeeping. When he handed over his gold, the goldsmith would provide him with a receipt or note promising to hand back the gold (pay the bearer on demand) whenever the depositor returned and presented the note. The receipt held by the depositor was in fact as good as gold because he could exchange it for his £20 worth of gold any time he chose. But the note was easier to carry around than heavy and bulky amounts of gold and easier to conceal, so the depositor was often content to leave his gold in the goldsmith's safekeeping for long periods. In fact when the time came to pay for some commodity with his £20 of gold, instead of returning to the goldsmith, exchanging the receipt for the gold and then using the gold to pay for his purchase, it was more convenient for him simply to hand over his receipt to the seller. The seller was happy to accept the receipt in lieu of actual gold because it was more convenient to carry around and he knew that should he present it to the goldsmith, £20 of gold would be handed over to him.

Thus those gold receipts began to circulate and became the first paper money. People were happy to exchange them back and forth rather than the cumbersome gold they represented. The receipts had value because people were confident that in the goldsmith's vault lay the gold, which they could redeem at any time.

Eventually the goldsmiths noticed that the gold left by depositors remained in their vaults for longer and longer periods. People turned up wishing to exchange their receipts for gold less and less often, and that the receipts they had issued to depositors circulated in its stead. It seemed a shame to have that gold just sitting there doing nothing. Why not lend some of it out for a while? If it just sat there for year after year the owner, the holder of the receipt, was not going to miss it if it were loaned to someone else for a period.

As long as there was enough gold in the vaults to satisfy anyone who did turn up with a receipt, then no-one would be any the wiser. So depositor Joe would leave £20 of gold with the goldsmith for safekeeping and depart with his receipt which he would then use as money in lieu of the gold and it would circulate. It might be years before anyone turned up with that £20 note asking for £20 of gold. Meanwhile Tom would turn up at the goldsmith's asking to borrow £20 of gold and the goldsmith would lend it to him, demanding that it be paid back after a certain period at a certain amount of interest. But instead of lending Tom actual gold, the goldsmith would draw up a £20 receipt, just like the one depositor Joe had been given. Tom was happy to take the receipt in lieu of the gold because it was more convenient to carry around and people were happy to accept such receipts in payment for things.

So Tom went off with his £20 note, content that through it he was now in temporary possession of £20 of gold. But unbeknownst to Tom, Joe also has a receipt representing that gold. In other words there are now two notes in circulation representing the same £20 of gold! Clearly the goldsmith's issuance of two receipts for the same amount of gold is fraudulent - particularly when Tom repays the gold he believes he has borrowed in real gold. As each receipt promises to hand over the same £20 of gold on demand, the goldsmith is making a promise he knows he cannot keep.

Several things are clear at the moment the second receipt was issued and entered circulation: new money has been created out of thin air; that new money has been loaned into existence; as the loan has interest charged upon it, then a debt has been created out of nothing that is greater than the amount of new money created.

And another thing: Tom will eventually return to the goldsmith and repay his £20 loan, say at 10% interest. He will therefore hand the goldsmith, £22 in real gold. In other words, the goldsmith, in creating that bogus receipt and lending it to Tom, is creating for himself, albeit after a delay, real debt-free gold worth more than the new money he loaned into existence! It gets worse.

After a while the goldsmith, seeing that his fraud is working pretty well, thinks that if he can issue two £20 receipts against the same £20 of gold, then why not two, three or even four?

So Joe deposits £20 of gold and the goldsmith gives him his receipt. In time four other people turn up at his shop wanting to borrow that £20 of gold. The goldsmith obligingly lends it to each of them at interest, giving each a receipt purporting to represent that £20 of gold. There are now five receipts in circulation representing the same deposit of gold, one for the original depositor and one for each of the four borrowers. For that deposit of £20, £80 (4x £20) of new money is created merely by writing on a fancy piece of paper.

If(say) £2 of interest (10%) is charged on each loan, at the same time that £80 of new money is created out of thin air, a debt of £88 is also created out of thin air.

Property is held as security against these loans so if the borrower fails to repay with real gold the fraudulent piece of paper he borrowed, the goldsmith takes his property.

Each time the goldsmith lends £20 of bogus gold he charges 10% interest on the loan. By lending out £20 four times over and charging £2 interest on each loan, the goldsmith makes a whopping 40% (four times £2) in interest on the £20 "reserves" that were not even his to begin with! The goldsmith cannot lose and soon begins to amass a fortune from his fraud. It is the greatest get-rich-quick scheme ever invented. And it is, in essence, the basis of the modern banking system.

The goldsmiths of yesteryear became the bankers of today and although paper money and latterly electronic money took over from gold, essentially the same fraud is being run.


BANKERS
The business of lending pieces of paper pretending to be gold made the goldsmiths very wealthy and very influential men. Their easy wealth enabled them to move to upmarket premises. They became pillars of the community and some even became international financiers, lending money to kings and governments.

In the seventeenth century conflict between the bankers of the day and the Stuarts led the bankers to act in concert with bankers in Europe. They joined forces with those in the Netherlands to finance the invasion of England by William of Orange. William overthrew the Stuart Kings in 1688 and became King William III.

By the end of the 1600s England was in financial ruin, gold and silver supplies were running low and a costly civil war followed by costly wars with France and Holland, all in a fifty year period, had left her heavily in debt.

Government officials met with the financiers to negotiate the loans they needed. King William was £20 million in debt and he could not pay his army. Apparently it did not occur to William or anyone that if William needed to pay his army or get the economy going, all he had to do was have the government print its own money and use that to pay the troops -something that Abraham Lincoln would do successfully during the American Civil war nearly two hundred years later!

King William's "friends", the bankers, were willing to loan him the money he needed but the price they wanted for their "help" was high. They wanted a government-sanctioned but privately owned central bank that could; through fractional reserve lending, create money out of nothing and loan it to the government.

They got their way. In 1694 the world's first privately owned central bank was created. It was to be called the Bank of England. The Bank's charter included the following immortal words: "The bank hath benefit on the interest on all monies which it creates out of nothing."

Instead of exercising its right to create money and spend it into the economy, the government had the bank create it, then lend it to the government so that the government could spend it into the economy, then pay the loans back later at interest. That completely unnecessary complication was to have devastating consequences for the futures of the English people.

As well as delivering extraordinary power over the nation into the hands of a privately owned business corporation, it began the National Debt, a debt that would go on increasing remorselessly over the ensuing years until it had reached around £380 billion in 1996, costs us around £30 billion a year in interest payments and is still climbing.

By the end of the 17th century, the goldsmiths' scam had become respectable banking. The role of the banks in issuing money through lending to individuals and businesses had already become widely accepted. Thus there came to be established two routes by which money was borrowed into the economy: private and commercial borrowing on the one hand and government borrowing on the other. That combined debt in the present day has now soared to well over one trillion pounds.

In 1704, just ten years after the creation of the Bank of England, the banks' promissory notes, on the recommendation of the bankers and financiers who advised the government, were declared legal tender.

Although the new central bank was an entirely privately owned corporation, the name chosen for it led generations of Englishmen to believe that it was part of their government, when it most certainly was not. Like any other privately owned corporation the new central bank sold shares to create its initial capital. Its investors - whose identities were never disclosed - were supposed to put up a total of £1 ¼ million in gold coin to purchase their shares. Only three quarters of a million was ever received.

Nevertheless, despite that minor technicality, the bank was chartered in 1694 and began the business of lending out several times the money it supposedly had in its reserves.

In exchange for this unique and immensely profitable privilege, the bank would very kindly lend the English, and later British, government as much money as it wanted, at interest, provided the debt was secured by direct taxation of the people.


THE MODERN INCARNATION OF FRAUD
What happens when you or I, or for that matter the government, borrow money from the bank? Prepare yourself for a surprise.

Let's say we want to borrow a £100,000 mortgage on a house. The bank or building society does what the goldsmith did and creates £100,000 out of thin air. Instead of handing us a paper certificate, it simply credits our bank account with the £100,000 and registers that £100,000 as a debt, with (say) a further £100,000 interest over 25 years. The money is simply penned into our account without any account anywhere being debited the loaned money. New money is therefore created. Alongside it a debt (in this case £100,000 plus the roughly £100,000 of interest) is created. When we repay the debt, the interest is accounted as income for the bank. The £100,000 we originally borrowed is withdrawn from circulation and is accounted as collateral for further lending, loaned back into circulation when someone else borrows.

Our house is held as security so if we fail to keep up our repayments, the creditor takes possession of it. The repayments themselves can vary through no fault of our own, according to interest rates set by the banking industry.

After 25 years of blood sweat and tears we finally pay back the last installment of the £200,000 capital-plus-interest we owed and the house in finally ours. It is not ours until that point.

The lender, who loaned us money which did not exist until the moment he created it out of nothing, winds up with £100,000 of interest on the loan: that is real, spendable income that comes courtesy of our real work and real wealth creation. The numbers have been simplified to highlight the nature of the fraud and in practise the process is hidden under a great deal of complexity but this in essence is the process of money creation.

Each time the banks create money they create a debt that is greater than the spending power they create. One can see too that each time they are creating a debt for the borrower, they are ultimately creating debt free money for themselves.

Before the goldsmiths' scam began, the money in circulation was hard currency - usually gold or silver minted into coins which then circulated as the tokens used to represent goods and services. That minting and circulation of coinage was usually administered by the government or king.

However as soon as the goldsmiths' certificates became used in lieu of gold, paper money had made an appearance. As soon as the goldsmiths began issuing paper notes for gold they did not actually have, the goldsmiths were themselves creating new money and lending it into circulation.

One can see that this establishes debt as the basis of our currency. Where once, long ago, the British pound represented something -so much gold or silver - it now represents so much debt, which is not only nothing it is less than nothing.

Extracted from: Your Business Under Siege…and the reasons why. Published by the BAMR, email: BAMR@bamr.fsnet.co.uk Tel: 01342410962 (UK)


“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. And when we realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few very powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
U.S. President James Garfield. A few weeks after making this statement, he was assassinated on July 12, 1818.



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AMSCHEL MAYER ROTHSCHILD: Knight of Malta

CGI's Lonestar: AMSCHEL MAYER ROTHSCHILD: Knight of Malta

Posted By: CGI_admin

Date: Wednesday, 26-Aug-2009 14:15:31

We Americans have a huge tree planted in our back yard right up next to our house. We've watered it, fed it and pruned it until it has grown so huge we can't really see it anymore. We water it with the Blood of Our Sons and Daughters sent off to Foreign Wars, we feed it our Tax dollars and we prune it by playing the Game of Politics over and over again, causing the tree to grow larger and stronger with ever more leaves to hide its true identity as its roots have grown under our house and broken up the very foundations of our Government and our Society...instead of politically pruning it, we should have UPROOTED it...and now it's too late...

Knight of Malta ~ Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1744–1812)

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“The Knights of Malta are the militia of the Pope, and are sworn to total obedience by a blood oath which is taken extremely seriously and to the death. The Pope as the head of the Vatican is also the head of a foreign national power.”

-”Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences” by Albert G. Mackey 33rd degree Mason, published by the Masonic History Company, Chicago, New York, & London, 1925: (Volume One, pp. 392-95)



One of the symbols of the military orders of the Vatican, the masonic double-headed eagle emblazoned with the Maltese cross, signifies omnipotent royal dominion over both East and West. The orb signifies temporal dominion over the globe of Earth, and the scepter signifies control over the spiritual and religious impulses of humanity. This eagle symbol is used in the masonic rite of Memphis and Misraim, under which it reads, “Order Out of Chaos”, the Hegelian method of crisis creation. It is found on the seals of many European and Eurasian nation states including that of Russia, indicating direct Vatican control over those countries. It symbolizes the desire of a predatory elite with virtually unlimited resources, to totally dominate the entire world under a New World Order global government system using secrecy, manipulation, coercion and terror with the ends justifying the means...

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The two-headed eagle emblem of the Byzantine Empire (Roman Empire) on a Red Shield was adopted in 1743 by the infamous goldsmith Amschel Moses Bauer. He opened a coin shop in Frankfurt, Germany and hung above his door this Roman eagle on a red shield. The shop became known as the “Red Shield firm”. The German word for ‘red shield’ is Rothschild. After this point, the Rothschilds became the bankers to kings and pontiffs alike, among the richest families in the world. Ever since, they have financed both sides of every major war and revolution using the Hegelian Dialectic to engineer society toward their New World Order...




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Before Rockefeller, There Was Rothschild


Before Rockefeller, There Was Rothschild

By Deanna Spingola
27 March 2008


Greedy resource seizure put England into desperate financial straits. From 1642 to 1649, goldsmiths and successful merchants helped finance the English Revolution as well as Oliver Cromwell’s pursuit and execution of King Charles. The government of King William III (reigned from February 13, 1689 to March 8, 1702) was in desperate need of money. William Patterson, seeing an exploitive opportunity, assembled a cartel of wealthy men who agreed to loan the king £1.2 million on the condition that the king pay 8% interest per year. Additionally, the cartel wanted the king to grant a charter creating The Bank of England (established July 27, 1694) which would give the cartel the “sole and exclusive right” to issue notes unprotected by bank assets. [1]

Low-risk loans, used for war, were secured by taxes which created abject poverty for the majority of Britain’s citizens. Within four short years, the national debt had increased ten times. Britain continued to incur huge war debts during the 1700s. Meanwhile, America, Britain’s prosperous colony, was printing debt-free money. Britain then passed the Currency Act of 1764 which deliberately resulted in depression and severe unemployment in America. [2]

Mayer Amschel Bauer, born 1743 in Frankfort-On-The Main, was the son of Moses Amschel Bauer. After his father’s death, Mayer served a three year apprenticeship at the Bank of Oppenheimer in Hanover. Because of his monetary skills, he became a junior partner. Mayer accrued sufficient money to return to Frankfort and purchase his father’s counting house located on Judenstrasse (Jew Street). The shop displayed a red shield over the door, the emblem of the revolutionary-minded Jews in Eastern Europe. Bauer adopted the name Rothschild, the German word for ‘red shield’ and the infamous House of Rothschild was born. [3]

In 1770, Mayer Amschel Rothschild married Gutele Schnapper. In that same year, he retained Jewish-born, Adam Weishaupt, an apostate Jesuit-trained professor of canon law, to revise and modernize Illuminism, the worship of Satan, with the objective of world domination and the imposition of the Luciferian ideology “upon what would remain of the human race” after a final orchestrated social-cataclysm. [4] In 1773, Mayer summoned twelve wealthy men to Frankfort and asked them to pool their resources, then presented the 25-point plan that would enable them to gain control of the wealth, natural resources and manpower of the entire world. [5]

Those 25 points are:

1. Use violence and terrorism rather than academic discussions.

2. Preach “Liberalism” to usurp political power.

3. Initiate class warfare.

4. Politicians must be cunning and deceptive – any moral code leaves a politician vulnerable.

5. Dismantle “existing forces of order and regulation.” Reconstruct all existing institutions.”

6. Remain invisible until the very moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning or force can undermine it.

7. Use Mob Psychology to control the masses. “Without absolute despotism one cannot rule efficiently.”

8. Advocate the use of alcoholic liquors, drugs, moral corruption and all forms of vice, used systematically by “agenteurs” to corrupt the youth.

9. Seize properties by any means to secure submission and sovereignty.

10. Foment wars and control the peace conferences so that neither of the combatants gains territory placing them further in debt and therefore into our power.

11. Choose candidates for public office who will be “servile and obedient to our commands, so they may be readily used as pawns in our game.”

12. Use the Press for propaganda to control all outlets of public information, while remaining in the shadows, clear of blame.

13. Make the masses believe they had been the prey of criminals. Then restore order to appear as the saviors.

14. Create financial panics. Use hunger to control to subjugate the masses.

15. Infiltrate Freemasonry to take advantage of the Grand Orient Lodges to cloak the true nature of their work in philanthropy. Spread their atheistic-materialistic ideology amongst the "Goyim" (gentiles).

16. When the hour strikes for our sovereign lord of the entire World to be crowned, their influence will banish everything that might stand in his way.

17. Use systematic deception, high-sounding phrases and popular slogans. “The opposite of what has been promised can always be done afterwards... That is of no consequence.”

18. A Reign of Terror is the most economical way to bring about speedy subjection.

19. Masquerade as political, financial and economic advisers to carry out our mandates with Diplomacy and without fear of exposing “the secret power behind national and international affairs.”

20. Ultimate world government is the goal. It will be necessary to establish huge monopolies, so even the largest fortunes of the Goyim will depend on us to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of their governments on the day after the great political smash.”

21. Use economic warfare. Rob the "Goyim" of their landed properties and industries with a combination of high taxes and unfair competition.

22. “Make the 'Goyim' destroy each other so there will only be the proletariat left in the world, with a few millionaires devoted to our cause, and sufficient police and soldiers to protect our interest.”

23. Call it The New Order. Appoint a Dictator.

24. Fool, bemuse and corrupt the younger members of society by teaching them theories and principles we know to be false.

25 Twist national and international laws into a contradiction which first masks the law and afterwards hides it altogether. Substitute arbitration for law.
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Weishaupt, financed by Rothschild, had begun infiltrating the well-established Continental Order of Freemasons with this satanical doctrine. Weishaupt recruited 2,000 agents, “the most intelligent men in the field of arts and letters, education, science, finance, and industry.” Weishaupt instructed these well-paid individuals on the best methods of bribing, manipulating and controlling people and the press. [7]

Weishaupt reorganized the Illuminati by May 1, 1776. The word Illuminati, derived from Lucifer, means “holder of the light.” The plan deceptively uses the phrase “peace on earth” and necessitates the destruction of all existing governments and religions through a process of “dividing the masses into opposing camps in ever increasing numbers on political, social, economic, and other issues.” People would “fight and weaken themselves and gradually destroy national governments and religious institutions.” [8]

Mayer and Gutele had five daughters and five sons. The sons were well-tutored in the ‘family business’ and “were imbued with the same spirit of cunning and conquest.” Ultimately, Mayer’s sons established or were positioned in banks in key European locations: Amschel Mayer (1773-1855) in Frankfort, Salomon Mayer (1774-1855) in Vienna, James Mayer (1792-1868) in Paris, Kalmann Mayer (1788-1855) in Naples and Nathan Mayer (1777-1836), the most gifted, in London, where he founded the Rothschild banking dynasty. Nathan created a system of world-wide debits and credits and a new technique for “floating international loans.” [9] Kalmann (Karl) became head of the occult group, the Alta Vendita. [10]

The sons were “wizards” of finance and “fiendish calculators” who were motivated by a “demonic drive” to succeed in their secret undertakings. Regularly, Mayer recited from the Talmud while his entire family sat raptly attentive. They courted no friendships but used people as temporary steppingstones in furthering political alliances that were profit-motivated. Marriages, if not near incestuous, were arranged with the intent of preserving the Rothschild fortune. Later, as the Rothschilds gained respectability, though some viewed them as uncouth, they intermarried within other banking families. In 1785, Mayer moved his family into a five story house at 148 Judengasse, Frankfurt. The Schiff family, also bankers, shared this home. Jacob Schiff married Soloman’s daughter.[11]

Mayer had ingratiated himself to the ‘right people’ and in 1769, became “a court agent for Prince William IX of Hesse-Kassel, who was the grandson of George II of England, a cousin to George III, a nephew of the King of Denmark, and a brother- in-law to the King of Sweden. Before long, the House of Rothschild became the go between for big Frankfurt bankers like the Bethmann Brothers, and Rueppell & Harnier.” [12] Prince William, an extremely successful human flesh dealer and Rothschild, his agent, rented out troops to Europe’s royal families. A favorite customer, the British government, needed 16,800 Hessian soldiers for which they paid the equivalent of $3 million. But, before the soldiers could be paid for their services, William was forced to “flee to Denmark,” leaving the money in Mayer’s care for “safekeeping.” Mayer viewed this money as a fortuitous “business” opportunity and eventually gave the blood money to Nathan, who by 1809, had set up shop as a London banker. He invested at least 800,000 pounds in “gold from the East India Company.” [13]

Prince William, an early Blackwater-style, rent-a-troop entrepreneur had amassed a huge fortune by the time he died. Apparently, citizens rejected the low slave-soldier wages and resisted recruitment. Hired guns cost more but are not culpable to government, increase enemy body counts (for governments that actually count) and enrich government-friendly corporate cronies, a benefit at election time. Rumsfeld and Franks, early on, reminded Americans that “we don’t do body counts.” [14]

Those Hessian soldiers would be used against the American patriots who were tired of the excessive taxes extracted by the British to pay for their endless wars and decided to expel the British and demand their independence which led to the Revolutionary War. Alexander Hamilton, a Rothschild agent, convinced George Washington to have the Rothschilds finance the war. In 1791, with a big war debt to be paid, Hamilton set up a central bank, owned by the Rothschilds and other foreigners called the First Bank of the United States with a twenty-year charter. Andrew Jackson later referred to them as a den of vipers. [15]

Congress rejected renewal of the charter and the bank was closed on March 4, 1811 which ignited Rothschild’s wrath; he had controlling stock. He declared – “Either the application for renewal of the Charter is granted, or the United States will find itself in a most disastrous war.” He then ordered British troops to “teach these impudent Americans a lesson. Bring them back to Colonial status.” This brought on the War of 1812, our second war with England, which facilitated the re-chartering of the Bank of the United States.

The war raised our national debt from $45 million to $127 million.” [16]

When Nathan Rothschild asked the British Parliament to declare war, the Prime Minister objected. He was assassinated by “a lone gunman” on May 11, 1812. Parliament declared war on June 18, 1812. British troops burned the White House and other government buildings including the one that housed the ratification papers for the U.S. constitution. President Madison, a perceptive politician, proposed the establishment of a second central bank on December 5, 1815 which was created by Congress on January 7, 1817. Nicholas Biddle, a Nathan Rothschild protégé, became the bank’s president in 1822.

Mayer died on September 19, 1812. Through his will, he left one billion franks to his five sons and “business” instructions pertaining to marriage, total family control and absolute secrecy. Rothschild policies include “total ruthlessness in all business dealings.” [17] Everything is shrouded in secrecy; a characteristic they subtly impose on their multitudes of minions who, through careful observation, have discovered that discreetness is much more conducive to their general well-being. Every money-making opportunity is just business – war, terror, genocide, mass public plunder – all disguised with the ‘right rhetoric’ for mass acceptability. The Rothschild family epitomized the phrase ‘international banker.’ There really are evil-doers; they are just not those that have been so publicly targeted!

In January 1814, Nathan had received a lucrative contract with the British government to supply coinage to pay the British troops who were fighting in the European balance-of-power playoff, the Napoleonic War – both sides were financed by the House of Rothschild. From the family’s huge network of cash-carrying couriers, Nathan received ‘prior knowledge’ about the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo. He manipulated “consuls” in the London Stock Exchange to create panic and frenzied selling. He increased his fortune by 6500 times. [18] He seized control the Bank of England and England’s economy. Three years later he orchestrated a cash-coup in France. There would be many staged cash-coups, world-wide, over the years. The Rothschilds withdrew from the limelight and altered their procedures for fleecing individuals and countries. They now “operate through and behind a wide variety of fronts.” [19]

Adherence to the constitution would mean no foreign entanglements – there would be “friendship to all, alliances with none.” There would be no income tax, no inflation or national debt. If properly run, as the constitution dictates, our God-given personal freedoms would allow everyone to retain the fruits of their labor, leading to independence and prosperity. Big European banks viewed America’s constitution which authorized “no debt” money as a “major threat to their plans.” The possibility of individual prosperity and independence would attract the intelligence and wealth “of all countries.” Hence, according to the Illuminati agenda, America had to be destroyed. [20]

With such freedom to prosper, the European bankers decided that the “business connection” was “America’s Achilles’ heel.” The Rothschild House, through their Warburg-Schiff connection, financed Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Empire, Edward Harriman (railroads) and Andrew Carnegie (steel). These American business magnates would buy and control politicians. To facilitate the progress of “their American operations,” and the re-establishment of a central bank the Rothschilds sent one of their top agents, Paul Moritz Warburg, to New York in 1902 to take charge of their assault. Along with Jacob Schiff, the Rothschild-owned head of Kuhn, Loeb and Company, Warburg managed to create the banking crisis which led to the great cash-coup – the privately-owned Federal Reserve System, the ultimate American slave master. [21]

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[1] Fed Debt War - History Of Lies, Thievery, And Deceit by Dr. Ken Matto, Former Congressional Candidate, 6th District N.J.

[2] The Ultimate Yellow Brick is GOLD!

[3] Descent into Slavery? By Des Griffin, Emissary Publications, South Pasadena, California, 1980, 1984, pgs. 18-40

[4] Timeline of the Rothschild Family by Andrew Hitchcock

[5] Fed Debt War - History Of Lies, Thievery, And Deceit by Dr. Ken Matto, Former Congressional Candidate, 6th District N.J.

[6] Pawns In the Game

[7] Timeline of the Rothschild Family by Andrew Hitchcock

[8] The Illuminati and the Council on Foreign Relations, Myron C. Fagen

[9] Descent into Slavery? By Des Griffin, Emissary Publications, South Pasadena, California, 1980, 1984, pgs. 18-40

[10] The World Order, A Study in the Hegemony of Parasitism By Eustace Mullins

[11] Descent into Slavery? By Des Griffin, Emissary Publications, South Pasadena, California, 1980, 1984, pgs. 18-40

[12] The Illuminati and the House of Rothschild By Johnny Silver Bear, August 23, 2005

[13] Descent into Slavery? By Des Griffin, Emissary Publications, South Pasadena, California, 1980, 1984, pgs. 18-40

[14] Iraqi Body Counts

[15] The Ultimate Yellow Brick is GOLD!

[16] Financial Background, the Beginning of Monetary control by David Allen Rivera

[17] Descent into Slavery? By Des Griffin, Emissary Publications, South Pasadena, California, 1980, 1984, pgs. 18-40

[18] The World Order, A Study in the Hegemony of Parasitism By Eustace Mullins

[19] Descent into Slavery? By Des Griffin, Emissary Publications, South Pasadena, California, 1980, 1984, pgs. 18-40

[20] Ibid

[21] Ibid



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Car Bomb Kills Scores in Pakistan


The scene of a powerful bomb blast in Peshawar on Wednesday.


By ISMAIL KHAN
Published: October 28, 2009


PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A huge car bomb tore through a congested market of narrow alleys and crowded stalls in Peshawar’s old town on Wednesday, killing more than 80 people, many of them women, while 160 more were injured, many of them seriously, local authorities said.

The explosion came about three hours after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, a 90 minute drive away, underscoring the challenges facing American policy in a nation that has become skeptical of Washington’s long-term commitment.
Mrs. Clinton was in closed-door meetings with senior government officials in Islamabad at the time of the explosion in Peshawar. “These attacks on innocent people are cowardly; they are not courageous; they are cowardly,” she declared later.

“If the people behind these attacks were so sure of their beliefs, let them join the political process,” she told reporters. “They know they are on the losing side of history. But they are determined to take as many lives with them as their movement is finally exposed for the nihilistic, empty effort it is.”

While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, the bombing was likely to be seen as a response by Pakistani militants to a campaign against them by the Pakistani military in their stronghold of South Waziristan along the Afghan border.

The offensive has already triggered a wave of militant attacks, but Wednesday’s was the deadliest so far.

“The militants want to destabilize the government and intimidate the public,” Mehmood Shah, a retired brigadier and defense analyst based in Peshawar, told GEO news network. As long as the military operation continues, he said, “we can expect such attacks to carry on.”

The blast seemed to represent an escalation in the militant response, because the bombers chose a more congested area than in previous attacks. Many of those killed and wounded were women, a doctor at Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital said.

Mian Iftikhar Hussein, the provincial information minister of North-West Frontier Province, of which Peshawar is the capital, said the death toll, which climbed rapidly as the full extent of the carnage emerged, was in excess of 80. Hospital officials said 87 bodies had been brought in from the scene of the explosion, where, according to witnesses, as many as three clusters of shops on narrow lanes and passageways collapsed and fires raged out of control.

Three hours after the explosion, people were still trying to dig bodies and survivors out of the rubble, witnesses said, and white smoke wreathed the wrecked buildings.

Sahib Zada Anees, an official in the city, who estimated the death toll at 84, said Peshawar was unable to cope with such a large-scale attack because it did not have enough trained firefighters and could not move excavators into the narrow streets to rescue those buried alive.
Government officials also acknowledged that Peshawar, the capital of the North-West Frontier Province, was not equipped to deal with a barrage of terror attacks.

The city has been increasingly a target of the Taliban in the past year, in part because of its proximity to the tribal areas.

Azam Khan, the senior most civil servant in the city, said there were inadequate numbers of police.

“The police strength of Peshawar cannot secure everything,” he said. The militants had penetrated a three-ring police cordon around the city, he said.

Earlier this month, a blast in Peshawar killed at least 48 people in what was described at the time as the biggest attack of its kind in Pakistan in months.

The explosion Wednesday was in the same general area. Filled with small stores selling fabric and general merchandize, the old market is always congested with shoppers and traders and presents an easy target for the militants.

The Bomb Disposal Squad said more than 300 pounds of explosives had been packed into the car used in Wednesday’s attack — three times the amount used earlier this month. According to intelligence officials, speaking in return for customary anonymity, Peshawar had been gripped with rumors on Tuesday that two cars laden with explosives were in the city.

Television images Wednesday showed debris scattered on the site of the attack. Plumes of smoke billowed out of old buildings with destroyed storefronts. Security forces fired in the air to disperse crowds of onlookers who were apparently hampering relief efforts.
In the immediate aftermath, survivors scrambled to look for relatives at the apparent epicenter of the blast in Pipal Mandi — a narrow lane filled with shops selling food, grains and other groceries and adjoining a fabric market frequented mostly by women. Police immediately closed down all markets in the city, and police reinforcements took up positions.

“I rushed out of my shop immediately after the blast. There was a huge explosion. I saw bodies laying around and wounded crying for help. I had never seen a situation like this in my whole life,” Noor Muhammad, a shopkeeper from a nearby market, said.

At the colonial-era Lady Reading Hospital, an official said medics were overwhelmed by the casualties.

“A state of emergency has been declared at the hospital. We don’t even have time to count the bodies. Its absolutely mayhem here. We have called for blood donation to meet with the crisis,” the official said. Many officials spoke in return for anonymity under government rules.

A local government official said some people were still trapped under the rubble. “People have thronged the scene; they have made it difficult for us to remove the rubble and retrieve bodies and those still alive,” he said.

The explosion coincided with renewed unrest just across Pakistan’s border in Afghanistan, where an attack claimed by the Taliban killed nine people — including six United Nations employees — at a villa in the capital, Kabul, early on Wednesday while, separately, a rocket slammed into the city’s main luxury hotel, the Serena.

Mrs. Clinton landed in Pakistan Wednesday for a three-day visit, saying she was determined to broaden America’s relationship with Pakistan beyond the security and antiterrorism concerns that have dominated ties and sowed mutual suspicion.

“It is unfortunate that there are those who question our motives, who perhaps are skeptical that we are going to commit to a long-term relationship,” Mrs. Clinton said to reporters traveling with her to Pakistan. “I want to try to clear the air on that while I’m in the country.”

Salman Masood, Pir Zubair Shah, Jane Perlez and Mark Landler contributed reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan. Alan Cowell contributed from London.
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Castro's Cuba: A Testing Ground for the NWO?


Castro's Cuba: A Testing Ground for the NWO?


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Senior CFR members see Castro's Cuba as a model to follow. Is Cuba a testing ground for the NWO?
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by Servando Gonzalez
(libertarian)
Sunday, April 20, 2008


The following article is part of a chapter of my book The Secret Fidel Castro: Deconstructing the Symbol, which appeared in 2001. Even though currently I have even more information supporting my thesis I am publishing it as it appeared in my book, with just a few minor modifications added for clarity

When the book was published in 2001, some people considered this part a little far-fetched. Today, 2008, reality in the U.S. is rapidly proving that I was not too far off the mark.

I would like to see the faces of Berkeley's pro-castroists when they have to make several hours of line in Shattuck Avenue to get a small loaf of bread or board a modified truck as the only means for transportation. Are they going to blame the American blockade for it?

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Pro-Castroists who visit Cuba refuse to see the unavoidable reality of Castroism.

Hundreds of American gays were visiting Cuba at the very same time Castro was imprisoning effeminate homosexuals and sending them to the infamous UMAPs, but they saw nothing, heard nothing, and ignored what they could not avoid knowing.

Many American intellectuals have been visiting Cuba while Castro is sending Cuban writers, artists and poets to prison, but they prefer to believe the stories concocted by the jailers and torturers. Many politically correct tenured radicals have been visiting the Island under the tenuous cover of academic research, refusing to see that Castro, an old, white rich male, has created in Cuba the most racist, sexist, homophobic, phallocentric and logocentric society in the Western hemisphere,[1] but they keep hiding the fact from their students while proceeding with the deconstruction of Western thought.

Many leftist American Jews know that Castro harasses the Cuban Jews and that the incidents which occurred in Cuba during the Mariel exodus were reminiscent of the early persecutions of the Jews in Nazi Germany, but they prefer to change the subject.

Most American feminists love Castro, but they prefer to ignore Castro's discrimination and crimes against women.

Many black Americans were visiting Cuba to enjoy the marvels of a discrimination-free society, but, after they discovered that the facts were quite different from the myth, they managed to keep the secret to themselves. Today, the new American Uncle Toms keep traveling to Cuba to pay their respects to their beloved white slavemaster.

Many religious organizations claim that they are helping the Cuban people to overcome the American embargo, but the result is that they actually have joined Castro in his efforts to destroy religious freedom in Cuba.

Over the years these people have shown a high capacity for deception and especially for self-deception. As the Spanish saying goes, there are none so blind as those who will not see.[2] But there is the possibility that the real explanation for these people's behavior would be even more worrisome: they see exactly what is happening to Cuba and the Cuban people, and they are delighted,[3] because to them Castro's Cuba is a sign of things to come; a successful example of the New World Order.[4]

Castro has killed a large part of the Cuban people, destroyed morally[5] and materially the ones who have managed to survive his wrath, and has devastated the country.[6] On the other hand, perhaps Castro's ultimate goal has always been the destruction of Cuba and its people.[7]

Cuban society was so close to the American one that, since the early fifties, many American marketing companies were using the Island as a probing ground to test their products before launching them in the U.S. Seemingly, the use of Cuba as a testing ground for American products, services and ideas, did not end when Castro took power in 1959.

There is the possibility that Castro's Cuba is a large scale experiment in social engineering, a test run of the New World Order[8] before its implementation worldwide.[9]

This perhaps explains why some people at the State Department, the CIA, and at the highest levels of the American society, helped Castro to come to power in Cuba. It may also explain why President Kennedy changed the original invasion plans and sent the Cuban patriots to die at the Bay of Pigs and why Castro, unchallenged by the U. S., has been in power in Cuba for more than forty years creating havoc all around the world.

Though the phrase New World Order became popular in the U.S. after President Bush mentioned it twice in his State of the Union Address on January 29, 1991,[10] the idea is not new. In its twelfth thesis, the Humanist Manifesto II, published in 1973, states,

We deplore the division of humankind on nationalistic grounds. We have reached a turning point in human history where the best option is to transcend the limits of national sovereignty and to move toward the building of a world community in which all sectors of the human family can participate. Thus we look to the development of a system of world law and a world order based upon transnational federal government. This would appreciate cultural pluralism and diversity. It would not exclude pride in national origins and accomplishments nor the handling of regional problems on a regional basis. Human progress, however, can no longer be achieved by focusing on one section of the world, Western or Eastern, developed or underdeveloped. For the first time in human history, no part of humankind can be isolated from any other. Each person's future is in some way linked to all. We thus reaffirm a commitment to the building of world community, at the same time recognizing that this commits us to some hard choices.[11]


In 1995 Castro visited the U.S. to address the U.N General Assembly during its 50th anniversary celebration. He was the guest of honor at the Rockefeller family mansion in New York. To avoid confrontation with protesters, the invitation was moved to the Pratt House, headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations, on East 68th Street in Manhattan. There Castro was met by retired Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller and the best and the brightest of the internationalist crowd.[12]

The Council on Foreign Relations, the brainchild of the Rockefellers, is probably the major force behind the creation and implementation of the New World Order.[13] The C F R is currently working frantically to help prepare for a "peaceful, democratic transition after Castro"CFR lingo for "Castroism after Castro."[14]

There are several tell-tale signs characterizing the New Age/New World Order. An important economic feature of the New World Order is sustainable development, a nebulous term used by the New World Order internationalists. Though it is almost impossible to find a definition of sustainable development, at least we have one of what is not sustainable. In a UN Conference on Environment and Development report of August, 1991, Maurice Strong[15] wrote,

It is clear that current life styles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil foods, appliances, home and work place air conditioning,[16] suburban housing are not sustainable. . . . A shift is necessary toward life-styles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.


Strong's idea of sustainable development closely depicts Cuba after 44 years of Castroism. But Maurice Strong is not an isolated case.

Recently, World Bank President James Wolfensohn, a New Ager who has "greened" the Bank, praised Castro for doing "a great job" in providing for the social welfare of the Cuban people. The Bank's 2001 edition of World Development Indicators shows Cuba topping virtually all other poor countries in health and education statistics.[17] Wolfensohm pointed to Cuba as a model to follow.

The World Bank was created in 1944, but in 1968 Robert McNamara became its president and he turned it into a New Age/New World Order tool. Wolfensohn is a former board member of the Rockefeller Foundation and a close friend of Maurice Strong.

Another internationalist who believes that Castro's Cuba is the model to follow is United Nations Secretary general Kofi Annan. During an April 2000 summit in Havana, Mr. Annan insisted that Castro's regime has "set an example we can all learn from."

In 1980 the World Health Organization's (WHO) representative in Cuba stated that "there is no question that Cuba has the best health statistics in Latin America." In 1988 WHO presented Fidel Castro with its "Health for All" award in recognition of Cuba reaching all the WHO health goals set for developing countries to achieve by 2000. In 1990 UNICEF published a report on the "State of the World's Children," which concluded that "Cuba is the only [Latin American] country on a par with developed nations" with regard to infant mortality rates.

More recently, the UN Human Development Report 2003, which ranks countries according to life expectancy, educational attainment and adjusted real income places Cuba in the 52nd position out of 175 countries, in the group ot countries with hight human development. Of its closest neighbors, Haiti ranks 150th, the Dominican Republic 94th, Grenada 93rd and Jamaica 78th.

That the UN idea of development is a peculiar one, to say the least, was made clear some time ago by Juan Valdés,[18] head of the Latin American Department of the Cuban Center of American Studies, most likely acting as a mouthpiece for Castro, explained in some detail the philosophy of the Cuban misery specialist.[19] According to him, the goal of the Cuban system is not to give the same things capitalism gives; more houses, more cars, more suits, more videocassettes, but to place the people on the same egalitarian level. In that sense, Valdés added, the rationing card [in force since 1962] should not be seen as a fault of Cuba's economic system, but as a political and economic success. The reason for this is that rationing "places the population at the same subsistence level, unifying them in that egalitarian base."[20]

In another publication, Valdés explains in detail Cuba's goal, "we are never going to have a consumer society." Then, after making clear that this is "a Cuban position that has found opposition inside the socialist camp," Valds added, "We believe that socialism should not be oriented toward giving [the people] the same things capitalism gives; more houses, more cars, more clothes, more video recorders."[21]

Valdés' statement, made before he was purged from the CAS, is further proof that Castroism has nothing to do with Marxism or communism.

Due to its intrinsic faults, communism was a social and economic failure. Nevertheless, the communists' goal was never the destruction of their countries. Soviet leaders, particularly Nikita Khrushchev, always tried to make the Soviet Union an economically advanced country. Not even Stalin would have uttered such statement as Valdés'. But what we are witnessing in Cuba today is not a failure product of unsound policies, but the success of the deliberately planned destruction of a country and its people.

According to Leonardo Boff, a Brazilian ex-Catholic priest who created a sort of New Age Liberation Theology, the true goal is not a socialism of abundance, but a socialism of poverty. Castro's Cuba is the materialization of Boff's dream. No wonder he and his buddy Frei Betto see in Cuba the signs of the kingdom of God.[22]

Looking ahead to Elián González's (the little boy kidnapped at gun-point by Janet Reno's thugs) life in Castro's Cuba, CBS correspondent Randall Pinkston affirmed that, though Cubans are not free to speak, they appear untroubled by the lack of modern conveniences. In small cities like the once prosperous Crdenas, Elián's home town, thanks to 40 years of Castroism there is no running water indoors, there are open drainages, and taxis have metamorphosed into horse drawn carts.


Conclusion

If people as powerful and influential as Maurice Strong, James Wolfensohn, Kofi Annan, Federico Mayor, and the Rockefellers --just to mention a few of the "Cuba-as-a-model-to-follow" crowd--, the real force behind what they call the New World Order, see Castro's Cuba as a model society which everybody must copy, it should be a motive of concern for the whole world.

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NOTES:

1 . That is, if one is to follow their own politically correct definition of a racist, sexist, homophobic, phallocentric and logocentric society, terms that ultimately are but covert expressions of American cultural imperialism of the Left. It seems, however, that the politically correct tenured radicals apply these hate terms only to the bad guys, and they are convinced that Castro is one of the good guys.

2 . The unifying thread linking together all these Castro-lovers is that they are actually America-haters. Their hatred for the United States of America, which they see as an oppressive, racist, homophobic, sexist, imperialist society, is evidenced in their words and actions. This profound hatred, which peaked in the 1960s, has become an important part of the American leftist and liberal ideology. Their support for Castro is not based on anything that he has achieved in Cuba, which is not much, but only in the apparent fact that he has successfully defied the United States.

However, if growing suspicions among some intelligence analysts and ex-Castro associates concerning the Maximum Leader's true allegiances some day happen to be true, it may be that these America-haters/Castro-lovers have been victims of a false flag recruiting (a technique by which an informant, defector in place or agent is recruited through the disguise of telling him he will be working for the "good guys"another country or service different from the one who is actually making the recruitment), unwittingly working for what they hate most. In the field of intelligence and espionage things are seldom as they seem. At any rate, Fidel Castro has a long record of deceiving everybody, including (or perhaps particularly) his friends.

There is another link, though. Most of the America-haters I have mentioned above loosely belong to what Peter Metzger calls "the coercive utopians," whose ultimate goal is to lower the American standard of living, destroy our democratic institutions, and demolish U.S. national independence. See, "The Coercive Utopians," paper presented at the National Meeting of the American College of Nuclear Medicine, April 28, 1978 (updated June 1979). Public Service Co. of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, p. 14.

Most of the coercive utopians, and Castro is obviously one of them, believe that modern capitalist society is deeply flawed and intrinsically evil. Therefore, the U.S., probably the best example of a developed capitalist society in the world, is seen by them as the main enemy. At the same time they see Cuba as a model of the society they have in mind for America. To the coercive utopians Cuba is the symbol of everything they wanted but they never could have. Cuba is the last holdout, the last hope, the last opportunity. But the Cuba they see is only a figment of their imagination; it has nothing to do with the real Cuba under the Castroist rule. As authors Rael Jean Isaac and Erich Isaac put it:

The glorification of socialized Third World poverty reflects the romanticism of the utopians. Rural communal life, the outward show of worker participation in workplace assemblies, the rhetoric of egalitarianism, the block level of civic control which is seen as an expression of neighborhood solidarity and self-governance, the very absence of consumer goods, make these societies immensely appealing. That their chief distinguishing characteristic is the desire of vast numbers of their citizens to leave at almost any price does not daunt the utopians. The Coercive Utopians (Chicago: Regnery, 1983), p. 3.


3 . See, i.e., Ramón Ferreira, "La miseria cubana est de moda," El Nuevo Herald, March 8, 2001. According to Ferreira, to these people Cuba's misery "is cool."

4 . For example, California New Agers are exhilarated about the possibility of continuous power black-outs all over the state. No wonder they are so happy when they travel to Cuba: during the last 30 years black-outs have been a common occurrence in Castro's Cuba.

5 . Christopher Hunt, an American writer who visited Cuba in 1996, wrote that, during his grass-roots journey from Havana to Santiago to Bayamo to Holgun to Camagey to Sancti Spritus to Santa Clara to Varadero, what he left behind was a trail of bribe-takers, prostitutes, would-be pimps, black marketeers, bootleggers, bolita gamblers, money-changers, sex tourists, snitches and men who asked him for his socks. See Orlando Alom, "In Fidel's Footsteps: A Tourist Views Cuba," The Miami Herald, January 11, 1998.

6 . Some novels and short stories written by Cuban authors describe the destruction of Cuba and its people much better than any scholarly work. See, among others, José Antonio Ponte, In the Cold of the Malecón (San Francisco: City Lights, 2000); Daína Chaviano, El hombre, la hembra y el hambre (Barcelona: Planeta, 1998); Mirta Valdés, ed., Cubana: Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998); and Zoe Valdés, La nada cotidiana (Buenos Aires: Emec, 1997). For a perceptive description of the day-to-day misery of the average Cuban, see Corinne Cumerlato and Denis Rousseau, L'Ille du docteur Castro (Paris: Editions Stock, 2000); also Catherine Moses, Real Life in Castro's Cuba (Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 2000)

A recent visitor to Cuba wrote his impressions,

I was appalled by what I saw in Cuba. When you walk the streets you see faces that are as devastated as the buildings. People look depressed, beaten down. They stare into the distance, as if in trance, as they wait for buses or in endless food lines, or when they sit on the sea wall, staring intently toward the horizon, toward Miami.

Tony Mendoza, "Cuba Today: Instant Antiquity," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 24, 1997, pp. B8-B9. The initial sequences of Win Wender's documentary film Buenavista Social Club shows images similar to the ones described by Mendoza.

7 . A Cuban woman said with tears in her eyes, "I don't know why Fidel hates us so much. Why does he just keep trying to crush us?," Catherine Moses, op. cit., p. 84.

8 . The evidence indicates that the New World Order is but a refurbished version of Nazism. The strong ideological similarity between the Nazi and the New Age movements is because Nazism was an early version of the New Age movement. Hitler himself was a believer in occultism and oriental religions, he was a "vegie," and the Nazis believed that mother earth was a living organism and pioneered the ecological movement. See, i.e., Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier, Ecofascism: Lessons From the German Experience (San Francisco: AK Press, 1995); also Luc Perry, The New Ecological Order (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).

Though fascism is always associated with nationalism, it seems that a new variety of fascism is emerging: international socialism, that is, fascism on a global scale controlled by transnational corporations with the United Nations as its law enforcer. International socialists, however, are not using the traditional coup d'tat tactics traditional fascists have customarily used to grab power, but the more subtle tactics of infiltration developed by the British Fabians and Italian communist Antonio Gramsci.

9 . For example, political correctness, and important component of the New World Order, was field-tested in Castro's Cuba many years before its implementation in American colleges and universities. Like their American counterparts, the politically correct Cubans pioneered the total lack of a sense of humor that characterizes political correctness.

10 . "What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a New World Order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law." . . . "The world can, therefore, seize this opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order, where brutality will go unrewarded and aggression will meet collective resistance."

11 . American Humanist Association, Humanist Manifesto II, 1973 (HMII).

12 . Miguel A. Faría, Jr., "In Bed With Castro," NewsMax.com, June 6, 2000.

13 . The Rockefellers had a key role not only in the creation of the CFR, but also in the creation of the United Nations, the Bilderbergers, and the Trilateral Commission, all strong advocates of the New World Order. For an eye-opening analysis of the CFR see, William Blase, "The Council on Foreign Relations and the New World Order."

The web is a major source of information on this subject. Of course, if you mention this in "serious circles" you will immediately be labelled as a "conspiracy nut."

As an interesting detail I would add that William Wieland, who played an important role in bringing Castro to power, was a protegé of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles, an important member of the CFR. Herbert Matthews, the New York Times journalist who catapulted Castro to the world, was a CFR member. Important media members of the CFR and Castro admirers are Dan rather, Barbara Walters, Tom Brockaw and Mort Zuckerman.

14 . See, i.e., Irving Louis Horowitz, "An Appeasement Policy for Castro's Cuba?," The Miami Herald, December 6, 2000.

In another article, professor Horowitz states that the CFR has become "the fulcrum and spearhead of the Cuba Lobbythose seeking the establishment of normal diplomatic and social relations with Communist Cuba" "Humanitarian Capitulation: U.S.-Cuba Relations According to the Council on Foreign Relations," Center for a Free Cuba, cubacenter.org.

15 . Rockefeller wrote the foreword and Strong wrote the introduction for the Trilateral Commission recently published book Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology.

16 . Of course, this does not apply to them. A journalist who attended the Earth Summit chaired by Strong, noticed that the whole conference site had air conditioning blasting while all the doors were open. See "U.N to Rule Over America?: Geoff Metcalf Interviews Journalist, Author William Jasper on World Tyranny," WorldNetDaily.com, July 15, 2001.

17 . Jim Lobe, "Learn From Cuba: World Bank Says," Inter Press Service Finance, April 30, 2001.

18 . Not related to the Colombian coffee guy :-)

19 . The philosophy of the Cuban misery specialist is very close to the philosophy of his American New Age counterparts. For example, the true purpose of the creation of commuter lanes in California's highways was not to optimize traffic, but to annoy drivers and eventually discourage them from driving.

20 . "1917-1987: Socialismo em Debate," Instituto Cajamar, Sao Paulo, 1988, pp. 133-134. Valdés also quoted in Gonzalo Guimaraens, "Cuba comunista: el miserabilismo como escuela de ateísmo," Diario Las Americas, April 7, 2001.

21 . Ibid., p. 133.
22 . Ibid.
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Japanese Destroyer Slams Into Ship

By MARI YAMAGUCHI,
AP
9 HOURS 37 MINUTES AGO


TOKYO (Oct. 27) - A Japanese navy destroyer and a South Korean container ship collided Tuesday off southern Japan, sparking fires on both ships and injuring three crew members, officials said.

The ships collided under a bridge linking the Japanese main islands of Kyushu and Honshu in the narrow Kanmon Strait, Japan Coast Guard spokesman Seishi Izumi said.

One crew member on the destroyer JS Kurama was slightly injured with scratches and bruises while two others were suffering from smoke inhalation, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on condition of anonymity, citing policy.

None of the South Korean ship's 16 crew members — 12 from South Korea and four from Myanmar — was injured, Izumi said.

The fire on the 7,400-ton container ship Carina Star was extinguished shortly after the collision. The blaze on the destroyer was mostly under control late Tuesday but its temperature was still extremely high, the defense official said.

Officials are investigating the case as possible professional negligence and have begun questioning crew members on both ships, Izumi said.

The defense official said the Japanese ship's bow was badly burned and mangled, but the vessel was still capable of traveling on its own. The container ship's hull was grazed near its bow.

TV footage showed orange flames shooting from the vessels in the dark.

Izumi said the fire apparently broke out as a result of the impact of the collision, with paint inside a storage room on the destroyer catching fire.

The accident occurred under the Kanmon Bridge connecting Kyushu and the western end of Honshu — the narrowest part of the strait — about 530 miles (850 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo, Izumi said.

All sea traffic in the strait was suspended for about four hours after the accident.

The Kurama, carrying 360 sailors, was on its way to its home port of Sasebo on Kyushu after serving as the flagship for the country's triennial fleet review Sunday at the port of Yokosuka. The container ship had left the South Korean port of Busan and was headed to Osaka in western Japan.
Last year, a collision between a destroyer and a tuna trawler off the coast of Chiba, near Tokyo, left two fishermen dead. That accident triggered an uproar in Japan, where many people harbor pacifist sentiments and remain sensitive to anything related to the military.

Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa quickly held a news conference to express regret.

"We deeply apologize to the people for causing concerns," he said. "We will quickly find out what caused the accident."


2009-10-27 12:53:46


Source: http://news.aol.com/article/japanese-warship-collides-with-south/738120?icid=mainhtmlws-main-ndl1link2http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fjapanese-warship-collides-with-south%2F738120

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to be closed


The Associated Press
Posted: 10/27/2009 07:02:20 PM PDT
Updated: 10/27/2009 07:23:38 PM PDT


SAN FRANCISCO—Authorities are closing down both directions of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after a cable snapped on the upper deck of the span.
California Highway Patrol Officer Peter Van Eckhardt says the bridge will be closed for at least 24 hours so crews can try to repair the cable that snapped during the evening commute.

Van Eckhardt says the closure comes after a cable and a large piece of metal fell onto the westbound direction of the roadway about around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Before the closure, traffic was already backed up into Oakland.

One person was shaken up and at last one vehicle damaged in the incident.

The cable snapped near the same section of bridge that was the scene of a big rig crash earlier this month.


Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13655040
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Runaway teen Christian convert returned to Ohio

October 27, 2009 -- Updated 1907 GMT (0307 HKT)


Rifqa Bary, who converted from Islam to Christianity, has been returned to her family in Ohio.




(CNN) -- A runaway teen who said her father threatened to kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity has been returned from Florida to Ohio, but not yet to her family, her mother's lawyer said Tuesday.

Rifqa Bary, 17, is in the custody of Franklin County Children Services while other issues in the case are settled, attorney Roger Weeden said.

"We're very happy that Rifqa is back where she should be, close to her parents," Weeden said. "The allegations of abuse and neglect were unfounded. Now some unification can begin."

A Florida judge ruled earlier this month in favor of her parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, who had requested that their daughter be transferred to Ohio.
The teen's attorney, John Stemberger, who leads a Christian advocacy organization, opposed the move.

The teen left her family in Columbus, Ohio, in July and took refuge in the home of a minister in Orlando, Florida. She was later moved into foster care after she said in an affidavit that her Muslim father had threatened her after finding out about her conversion. Her father has denied the allegation.
Judge Daniel Dawson, in his October 13 decision, said it was in Bary's best interest for her emergency custody case to continue in Ohio.

The transfer was delayed until the teen's immigration status was determined. Attorneys for the parents, who are from Sri Lanka, sent her immigration documents to the court within two weeks.

Her return to Ohio comes after months of legal wrangling, including the affidavit from the teenager claiming that her father was pressured by the family's mosque in Ohio to "deal with the situation," referring to her conversion.

In an earlier court filing, Rifqa Bary alleged that her father said, "If you have this Jesus in your heart, you are dead to me." The teenager claims her father added, "I will kill you."

Mohamed Bary, 47, has denied the accusations.

"We wouldn't do her harm," he said, saying he knew his daughter was involved with Christian organizations.

"I have no problem with her practicing any faith," Bary said, but acknowledged that he prefers that she practice Islam.

A report by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement says, "Our investigation has provided no clear evidence of criminal activity."
During a Florida court hearing, the teen periodically read a Bible, as did many of her supporters who filled the courtroom.

The supporters said they were disappointed by the ruling, but believe Jesus is with Bary no matter where she goes.

CNN's John Couwels contributed to this report.
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Bary, 17, will also have her phone and Internet use supervised by the Franklin County Children Service Agency, under a judge's order issued earlier Tuesday.
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Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech


Isaiah 28

1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

4And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

5In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

6And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

7But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

12To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

13But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

14Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

16Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

17Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

18And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

19From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

21For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

22Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

23Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

24Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

25When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

26For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

28Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

29This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

Monday, October 26, 2009

It's beginning to look a lot like the Carter Administration


Yes, folks; It's beginning to look a lot like the Carter Administration.


Today, I awoke to another news report from "over there": Choppers Crash in Afghanistan, Leaving 14 Dead; A series of helicopter accidents have killed 14 American troops and civilians.

I though to myself: Wait, more helicopter crashes? Weren't there other crashes of choppers recently? Head on collisions, even? Is there a pattern here?

This immediately brought back memories of when I was in the Service (not the military), and President Carter was fumbling his way around the White House; I remember the Carter Era vividly, of course from a Enlisted man's perspective; I was a captive audience in the belly of the Beast when the Turkey was bumbling one issue after another. Well, during Carter's regime there were hostages taken in Iran, and Jimmie Carter - the ex-captain of a nuclear submarine, organized several secret (logistical) operations to rescue the hostages in Tehran; However, they were never able to get one single hostage freed since every attempt was fraught with accidents. There were accidents on the aircraft carrier that was off the coast of Iran in the straits of Hormuz; Accidents in the middle of the desert where the rangers and commandos were dropped; Accidents of airplanes and helicopters, with many lives lost; Yet, no one was rescued. How can one man have been so inept and incompetent, unless he was doing these blunders on purpose? He sure made it look as if he had the reverse-Midas effect; Everything he touched turned to dust!

The rash of Armed Forces aircraft accidents under way are reminiscent of the Carter years. When we had to turn down our thermostats to 72 F in the winter, and up to 80 F in the summer. Yes, the man that would change our English measurement system to metric; No more inches and feet, he promised, it would be Meters and Centimeters in a few years time.

As I watch the Obama crew attempting to re-invent everything from Auto Manufacturing, to Banking, to Blue Cross Blue Shield; it gives me a flash back of that futile and technical period known as the Carter Era. I hope that our world can recuperate from all the "changes" this new Carter (Obama) regime manages to wreck. Though I'm an optimist, I honestly doubt that all the overhauling that has taken place, or will shortly take place will ever be repaired. I can only remember President Obama's statement as he signed the Bail-Out Stimulus Bill Part II, when he said: "This is the beginning of the end". This time around, I hope this isn't another Carter in disguise, messing- up everything for the hell of it.

Meanwhile, let the peace begin! One peace at a time.

I keep hearing the implied words:
It's for your own good.

This is going to hurt me more than you.........

Habitat for humanity my foot! It's all about control! Where's Alfred E. Neuman?

1844 and the Final Onslaught

Walter J. Veith explains the events which took place in 1844 with the rise of the Adventist church/movement to the rise of other faiths and organizations. He exposes false systems, religions and organizations and doctrines while incorporating Gods word into the matter.

This video deals with the culmination of the 2300 day/year prophecy of Daniel 8 & 9. It shows that the same animosity which culminated in the crucifixion of Christ will be manifested at the close of time. In the corridors of secret societies, and in new age thinking, there is a movement to destroy those who believe in salvation in Christ alone, and in the veracity of His word. Evidence is presented for the plans to eradicate those who stand for truth and righteousness.

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