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THE PLUTOCRACY CARTELAN ENTRENCHED GLOBALELITE OF VAST WEALTH HAS SPREAD ITS TENTACLES OVER THE EARTH WIELDINGEXTRAORDINARY POWER OVER WORLD AFFAIRSA wealthy and powerfuloligarchy of banks, corporations, and dynastic families and institutions,runs the world. This elite group exercises control through interlockingboards of directors and stock ownership, acting through privateclubs, societies and institutions, dominating national governments,both democratic and authoritarian.Behind a facade of wealthand privilege, the octopus arms of the Plutocracy Cartel embraceevery region of the globe, generating obscene profits from itsactivities, including weapons trafficking, funding wars and controllingthe global trade in drugs. And, as they accumulate more and morewealth and power, they undermine democracy, exploit the weak andvulnerable, ruin lives, and kill hope for millions.The endgame of this plutocracyis global financial domination and world government.This website seeks toexpose this hegemonic global shadow government that dictates topresidents and prime ministers, directs economic and foreign policies,controls the value of money, oversees drug trafficking, and fundswars.THE PLUTOCRACY CARTEL'SGLOBAL NETWORKDYNASTIC FAMILIESAND INSTITUTIONSEUROPEAN DYNASTIC FAMILIESHOUSE OF WINDSOR (Great Britain)NETHERLANDSBELGIUMLIECHTENSTEINLUXEMBOURGSPAINDENMARKNORWAY SWEDENMONACOINTERNATIONAL BANKINGDYNASTIESROTHSCHILDSROCKEFELLERSKUHN LOEB WARBURG LAZARD GOLDMAN SACHS ISRAEL MOSES SEIFLEHMANINTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTBANKSROTHSCHILD BANK OF LONDONROTHSCHILD BANK OF BERLINWARBURG BANK OF HAMBURGWARBURG BANK OF AMSTERDAMLAZARD BROTHERS OF PARISISRAEL MOSES SEIF BANK OF ITALYKUHN LOEB BANK OF NEW YORKGOLDMAN SACHS OF NEW YORKJ. P. MORGAN CHASE BANK OF NEW YORKLEHMAN BROTHERS OF NEW YORK (filed for bankruptcy in 2008)THE CITY OF LONDON CORPORATIONTHE "CROWN", THE "CITY",THE "SQUARE MILE"THE VATICANTHE VATICAN BANKBANKSCENTRAL BANKSBANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTSFEDERAL RESERVEBANK OF ENGLANDCENTRAL BANKS OF MOST NATIONSGLOBAL BANKING CONGLOMERATESTHE WORLD'S 25 LARGEST BANKS (2012)HSBCBNP PARABISINDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINAMITUBISHICREDIT AGRICOLEBARCLAYS GROUPROYAL BANK OF SCOTLANDJPMORGAN CHASEBANK OF AMERICACHINA CONSTRUCTION BANKMIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUPBANK OF CHINACITIGROUPAGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINAING GROUPBANCO SANTANDERSUMITOMO MITSUI FINANCIAL GROUPSOCIETE GENERALEUBSLLOYDS BANKING GROUPGROUP BCPEWELLS FARGOUNICREDITCREDIT SUISSEDEUTSCHE BANKCORPORATIONS &FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSTOP 50 TRANSNATIONALCORPORATIONS AND BANKS WITH THE GREATEST INFLUENCE OVER THE GLOBAL ECONOMY (2011)1 - BARCLAYS PLC - GREAT BRITIAN2 - CAPITAL GROUP COMPANIES INC. - UNITED STATES3 - FMR CORP (Fidelity Management) - UNITED STATES4 - AXA FR 6712 - SWITZERLAND5 - STATE STREET CORPORATION - UNITED STATES6 - JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. - UNITED STATES7 - LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC - GREAT BRITAIN8 - VANGUARD GROUP, INC. - UNITED STATES9- UBS AG - SWITZERLAND 10 - MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC. - UNITED STATES11 - WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT CO. L.L.P. - UNITED STATES12 - DEUTSCHE BANK AG - GERMANY13 - FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC. - UNITED STATES14 - CREDIT SUISSE GROUP - SWITZERLAND15 - WALTON ENTERPRISES LLC - UNITED STATES16 - BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP. - UNITED STATES17 - NATIXIS - FRANCE18 - GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. - UNITED STATES19 - T. ROWE PRICE GROUP, INC. - UNITED STATES20- LEGG MASON, INC. - UNITED STATES21 - MORGAN STANLEY - UNITED STATES22 - MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. - JAPAN23 - NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION - UNITED STATES24 - SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE - FRANCE25 - BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION - UNITED STATES26 -LLOYDS TSB GROUP PLC - GREAT BRITAIN27 - INVESCO PLC - GREAT BRITAIN28 - ALLIANZ SE - GERMANY29 - TIAA US 6601 - INDIA30 - OLD MUTUAL PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY - GREAT BRITAIN 31 - AVIVA PLC - GREAT BRITAIN 32 - SCHRODERS PLC - GREAT BRITIAN33 - DODGE & COX - UNITED STATES34 - LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS, INC. - UNITED STATES35 - SUN LIFE FINANCIAL, INC. - CANADA36 - STANDARD LIFE PLC - GREAT BRITAIN37 - CNCE - FRANCE38 - NOMURA HOLDINGS, INC. - JAPAN39 - THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY - UNITED STATES40 - MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSUR. - UNITED STATES 41 - ING GROEP N.V. - NETHERLANDS42 - BRANDES INVESTMENT PARTNERS, L.P. - UNITED STATES 43 - UNICREDITO ITALIANO SPA - ITALY44 - DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION OF JP - JAPAN45 - VERENIGING AEGON - NETHERLANDS 46 - BNP PARIBAS - FRANCE47 - AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP, INC. - UNITED STATES48 RESONA HOLDINGS, INC. - JAPAN49 - CAPITAL GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC. - UNITED STATES 50 - CHINA PETROCHEMICAL GROUP CO. - CHINAMONEY LAUNDERING BANKSAND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS(a partial list)HSBCBANK OF AMERICAJP MORGAN CHASECITIGROUPWELLS FARGOWESTERN UNIONAMERICAN EXPRESSBARCLAYSUBSBNP PARABISSOCIETE GENERALEDEUTSCHE BANKROYAL BANK OF SCOTLANDLLOYDS BANKCREDIT SUISSEBANCO SANTANDERING GROUPSTANDARD CHARTEREDAND MANY OTHER INTERNATIONAL BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSOIL CORPORATIONS(a partial list)ROYAL DUTCH SHELLCHEVRONBRITISH PETROLEUM (BP)EXXONMOBILTOTAL SASAUDI ARAMCOPETROBRASPEMEXENIMARATHON PETROLEUMCONOCO PHILLIPSWEAPONS MANUFACTURERS(a partial list)LOCKHEED MARTIN - USABAE SYSTEMS - BRITAINBOEING - USANORTHROP GRUMMAN - USAGENERAL DYNAMICS - USARAYTHEON - USAEADS/AIRBUS - BRITAIN/FRANCEUNITED TECHNOLOGIES - USAFINMECCANIA - ITALYTHALES - FRANCEINSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS& JURISDICTIONS(A PARTIAL LIST)SOCIETIES , CLUBS ANDORGANIZATIONSUNITED NATIONSWORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO) WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF)COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (CFR)TRILATERAL COMMISSION (TC)BILDERBERG GROUPCHATHAM HOUSE / ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (RIIA)CLUB OF THE ISLESPILGRIMS SOCIETYCLUB OF ROMETHINK TANKSCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONALSTUDIES (CSIS)BUSINESS ROUND TABLEEUROPEAN ROUND TABLE OF INDUSTRIALISTS (ERT)INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (ICC)WORLD ECONOMIC FORUMWORLD BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (WBCSD)BROOKINGS INSTITUTIONRAND CORPORATIONHERITAGE FOUNDATIONAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTETAX-EXEMPT FOUNDATIONSROCKEFELLER FOUNDATIONFORD FOUNDATIONCARNEGIE ENDOWMENTGATES FOUNDATIONSOROS OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONTAX HAVENS, SECRECY JURISDICTIONSAND MONEY LAUNDERING CENTERSTRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF GLOBALELITE TREASURE ARE HIDDEN FROM VIEWINDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS AVOID PAYING TAXESDRUG MONEY IS LAUNDERED THROUGH LARGE INTERNATIONAL BANKSFUNDING OF GOVERNMENT COVERT OPERATIONS IS OBSCUREDCITY OF LONDON"City of London" is the secrecy jurisdiction of choicefor the global mega-wealthy both directly and from Britain's overseas territories and crowndependenciesWALL STREET (NEW YORK CITY)DELAWARENEVADAFLORIDAWYOMINGSOUTH DAKOTAHONG KONGMACAOTHE VATICANCOUNTRIESUNITED STATESBRITAINPANAMASINGAPORETAIWANMALAYSIAJAPANCHINABELIZEISRAELLEBANONTURKEYCYPRUSUNITED ARAB EMIRATES (DUBAI)BAHRAINSWITZERLANDGERMANYLUXEMBOURGMONACOANDORRALIECHTENSTEINNETHERLANDSIRELANDKENYAMAURITIUSSEYCHELLESNUESAMOAMARSHALL ISLANDSTERRITORIES AND ISLANDS UNDERBRITISH INFLUENCEBritain's overseas territories andcrown dependencies funneltrillions of dollars of laundered money from around the worldinto London banks and real estateGIBRALTARGUERNSEYJERSEYISLE OF MANCAYMAN ISLANDANGUILLABRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDSBAHAMASMONSERRATBERMUDA ANTIGUA AND BARBUDABARBADOS DOMINICA GRENADA ST. KITTS AND NEVIS ST. LUCIA ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES TURKS AND CAICOSISLANDS UNDER NETHERLANDS INFLUENCEARUBABONAIRECURAÇAOST. MAARTENNETHERLAND ANTILLESMONEY LAUNDERING BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS{a partial list}BANK OF AMERICAJP MORGAN CHASECITIBANKWELLS FARGOWESTERN UNIONAMERICAN EXPRESSCREDIT SUISSEUBSHSBCSTANDARD CHARTEREDBARCLAYSLLOYDS OF LONDONROYAL BANK OF SCOTLANDAND MANY OTHER BANKS AND FINANCIALINSTITUTIONS AROUND THE WORLDTHE PLUTOCRACY CARTELOWNS OUTRIGHT OR CONTROLSCENTRAL BANKSLARGEST PRIVATE BANKSCORPORATE MEDIA (AND MUCH OF THE ALTERNATIVE AND PROGRESSIVE MEDIA)MOST INLFUENTIAL TAX-EXEMPT FOUNDATIONSMOST INFLUENTIAL THINK TANKSMAJOR UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER EDUCATONAL INSTITUTIONSMAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONSPOLITICIANS AND POLITICAL PARTIESNATIONAL ECONOMIESNATIONAL CURRENCIESMAJOR STOCK MARKETSLARGEST TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONSLARGEST INSURANCE CORPORATIONSLARGEST PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATIONSLARGEST ENERGY CORPORATIONSMAJOR ENERGY RESOURCES INCLUDING OIL AND GASGOLD, DIAMOND AND ESSENTIAL MINERAL MINING AND DISTRIBUTION CARTELSAGRICULTURAL LANDWATER AND WATER SYSTEMS LARGEST WEAPONS MANUFACTURERSDRUG-MONEY LAUNDERING NETWORKSINTERNATIONAL DRUG TRAFFICKING NETWORKSTHE PLUTOCRACY CARTEL"There is a shadowy groupof Plutocrats running multinational corporations, controllingthe media narrative, manipulating the money supply, influencinggovernments, generating chaos, and provoking wars in order tofurther their agendas.These people are very real and extremely dangerous. They operatein the shadows, safely out of the light of public scrutiny. Theymanage by proxy, using cut-outs to do their bidding, never allowingthemselves to get their hands dirty? Politicians are used and discarded, giving the illusion that theyare the ones in control. The controllers' identities are hiddenthrough a corporate shell game of holding companies and secretbanking tax havens, in places like the Cayman Islands and Luxemburg.A thirst for publicity and a lust for the spotlight are liabilitiesif you want to excel in this endeavor. Better to rule from theshadows where your identity and intentions are unknown.... The people running the show are mostly driven, professional,sociopaths with no discernible traces of compassion.... Some of our best-known leaders and public figures are actuallypsychopaths, and what makes a psychopath most effective is theiroverall lack of empathy. They simply do not have the ability toimagine or feel someone else's pain, and this frees them up tocross boundaries that the rest of us would never dream of crossing.They can operate without limits, giving them an advantage overeveryone else. They are professional liars and damn proud of it.... You do not make it to the top of the food chain by being nice,honest and fair; you get there by force, deception, and influence.You get there through violence, if necessary. You get there throughblackmail and extortion. It takes planning and funding, patienceand practice, and a mastery of how to use fear to control otherpeople. Those running the world are playing a much different gamethan the rest of us, and the way they see it, there are no rules.Or at least the rules do not apply to them. ... Their plan is to change society in every country in a waythat provides them a reason to impose a world government. Thecreation of a world central bank and an electronic world currency,in conjunction with the elimination of cash, would allow themcomplete control to dictate financial policy around the globe.Their policies would be enforced by their world army, and a micro-chippedpopulation would live in fear of having their electronic currencydeleted if they ever crossed the world government."Charlie Robinson, in his book "TheOctopus of Global Control", 2017"At the center of the internationalfinancial system are the banks, asset management firms, oligarchsand financial dynasties that together control the network - orcartel - of the Global Financial Mafia. A network of roughly 150of the world's largest financial institutions collectively controleach other and a significant percentage of the network of theworld's largest 47,000 transnational corporations. This unprecedentedglobal financial power concentrated in a relatively small listof banks, insurance companies and asset management firms is itselfcontrolled by rich and powerful individuals and families: thecore constituency of the world of Global Financial Governance."Andrew Gavin Marshall"During the past two centurieswhen the peoples of the world were gradually winning their politicalfreedom from the dynastic monarchies, the major banking familiesof Europe and America were actually reversing the trend by settingup new dynasties of political control through the formation ofinternational financial combines. These banking dynasties hadlearned that all governments must have sources of revenue fromwhich to borrow in times of emergency. They had also learned thatby providing such funds from their own private resources, theycould make both kings and democratic leaders tremendously subservientto their will."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""Powerful private familiesdecide who controls the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England,the Bank of Japan and even the European Central Bank. Money isin their hands to destroy or create. Their aim is the ultimatecontrol over future life on this planet, a supremacy earlier dictatorsand despots only ever dreamt of."F. William Engdahl in his book"Seeds of Destuction""It is in the pecuniaryinterests of the international bankers to centralize politicalpower, and this centralization can best be achieved within a collectivistsociety, such as socialist Russia, national socialist Germany,or a Fabian socialist United States."Antony C. Sutton, Wall Street andthe Rise of Hitler, 2002"The war against a foreigncountry only happens when the moneyed classes think they are goingto profit from it."George Orwell"We are ruled, though itmay be difficult to imagine, by a small dynastic power structure,largely consisting of powerful banking families, such as the Rothschilds,Rockefellers, and others. They emerged in controlling the financialsystem, extended their influence over the political system, theeducational system, and, through the major foundations, have becomethe dominant social powers of our world, creating think tanksand other institutions which shape and change the course of societyand modern human history."Andrew Gavin Marshall"Major world powers suchas China, Russia, India, and Brazil tend to shy away from standingup more robustly to the bullying policies of the United States.Wealthy oligarchic circles in these countries have more in commonwith their elite counterparts in the U.S. and other core capitalistcountries than their fellow countrymen at home. A de facto allianceexists between members of this global "nation" of thesuper-rich."Ismael Hossein-Zadeh"The control of the US,and of global politics, by the wealthiest families of the planetis exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine manner. Thiscontrol began in Europe and has a continuity that can be tracedback to the time when the bankers discovered it was more profitableto give loans to governments than to needy individuals.These banking families and their subservient beneficiaries havecome to own most major businesses over the two centuries duringwhich they have secretly and increasingly organised themselvesas controllers of governments worldwide and as arbiters of warand peace."Mujahid Kamran"This world is not runby The Presidents or The Prime Ministers, it is run by the globalcorporations and the banks. For it is these entities that controlthe money supply and it is these entities that decide which countrylives or falls."The Daily Bell"Our global banking systemis a global cartel, a "super-entity" in which the world'smajor banks all own each other and own the controlling sharesin the world's largest multinational corporations.... This is the real "free market," a highly profitableglobal banking cartel, functioning as a worldwide financial Mafia."Andrew Gavin Marshall"The powers of financialcapitalism had a far-reaching aim - nothing less than to createa world system of financial control in private hands able to dominatethe political system of each country and the economy of the worldas a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashionby the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secretagreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements[BIS] in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlledby the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations... Each central bank sought to dominate its government by itsability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges,to influence the level of economic activity in the country, andto influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewardsin the business world."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""There is a special breedof international financiers whose success typically is built uponcertain character traits. Those include cold objectivity, immunityto patriotism, and indifference to the human condition. That profileis the basis for proposing a theoretical strategy, called theRothschild Formula, which motivates such men to propel governmentsinto war for the profits they yield... As long as the mechanismof central banking exists, it will be to such men an irresistibletemptation to convert debt into perpetual war and war into perpetualdebt."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""There is an establishedand well-defined identity and community of interest between afew leaders of finance, created and held together through stockownership, interlocking directorates, partnership and joint accounttransactions, and other forms of domination over banks, trustcompanies, railroads, and public-service and industrial corporations,which has resulted in great and rapidly growing concentrationof the control of money and credit in the hands of these few men."Pujo Committee - House Committeeon Banking and Currency, 1912"States, most especiallythe large hegemonic ones, such as the United States and GreatBritain, are controlled by the international central banking system,working through secret agreements at the Bank for InternationalSettlements (BIS), and operating through national central banks(such as the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve). The stateis thus owned by an international banking cartel, and though thestate acts in such a way that proves its continual relevance inthe global economy, it acts so not in terms of self-interest forthe state itself, but for the powerful interests that controlthat state. The same international banking cartel that controlsthe United States today previously controlled Great Britain andheld it up as the international hegemon. When the British orderfaded, and was replaced by the United States, the US ran the globaleconomy. However, the same interests are served. States will beused and discarded at will by the international banking cartel;they are simply tools."Andrew Gavin Marshall in his book"Global Power and Global Government""People, governments andeconomies of all nations must serve the needs of multinationalbanks and corporations."Zbigniew Brzezinski"The structure of financialcontrols created by the tycoons of 'Big Banking' and 'Big Business'was of extraordinary complexity, one business fief being builton another, both being allied with semi-independent associates,the whole rearing upward into two pinnacles of economic and politicalpower, of which one, centered in New York, was headed by J. P.Morgan and Company and the other, in Ohio, was headed by the Rockefellerfamily. When the two cooperated, as they generally did, they couldinfluence the economic life of the country to a large degree andcould almost control its political life, at least at the Federallevel. They caused the "panic of 1907" and the collapseof two railroads, one in 1914 and the other in 1929."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""The Global Mafiocracy:the banks, corporations, asset management firms, sovereign wealthfunds, insurance companies and holding companies that collectivelyown each other and the wider network of global corporate and financialinstitutions, manifesting as a relatively small cartel of roughly150 large financial institutions that wield unparalleled financialpower in the modern world. Behind the major corporate and financial institutions are individualsand families, smaller units of concentrated power who own thelargest shares and steer the operations of the global cartel.These individual oligarchs and family dynasties - from the Rockefellersin the US, to the Wallenbergs in Sweden, Agnellis in Italy, Desmarais'in Canada, to the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia, Oppenheimer inSouth Africa, among others - control and.or influence large percentagesof wealth within their respective nations and in the world ofglobalized financial and corporate networks."Andrew Gavin Marshall"America is run by 300families and England is run by 100 families and these familiesare intertwined through marriage, companies, banks, not to mentionties to the Black Nobility, Freemasonry, the Order of St. Johnof Jerusalem and so on. These are the people who, through theirsurrogates, find ways to protect huge shipments of heroin fromHong Kong, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan and ensure they reach themarket places in the U.S. and Western Europe with the minimumcost of doing business."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The global banking cartel,centered at the IMF, World Bank and Federal Reserve, have paidoff politicians and dictators the world over [Including Washington].In country after country, they have looted national economiesat the expense of local populations, consolidating wealth in unprecedentedfashion - the top economic one-tenth of one percent is currentlyholding over $40 trillion in investible wealth, not counting anequally significant amount of wealth hidden in offshore accounts."David DeGraw"The bulwark of the Britishfinancial oligarchy lies in its ageless and self-perpetuatingnature, its long-range planning and prescience, its facility tooutwait and break the patience of its opponents. The transientand temporal statesmen of Europe and particularly of Britain itself,who have attempted to curb this monstrosity have all been defeatedby their limited tenure of confidence. Obligated to show actionand results in a too short span of years, they have been outwittedand outwaited, deluged with irritants and difficulties; eventuallyobliged to temporize and retreat. There are few who have opposedthem in Britain and America, without coming to a disgraceful end,but many, who served them well, have also profited well."E.C. Knuth in his book "TheEmpire of The City", 1946"The United States is ownedand dominated today by a hierarchy of its sixty richest families,buttressed by no more than ninety families of lesser wealth. Thesefamilies are the living center of the modern industrial oligarchywhich dominates the United States, functioning discreetly undera de jure democratic form of government behind which is a de factogovernment, absolutist and plutocratic in its lineaments. It isthe government of money in a dollar democracy."Ferdinand Lundberg in his book"America's 60 Families", 1937"The major objective offoreign policy is the acquisition of markets and economic powerfor a small group of giant multi-nationals under the virtual controlof a few banking investment houses and controlling families."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler""The big bankers of theworld, who practice the terrorism of money, are more powerfulthan kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Romehimself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no one: theylimit themselves to applauding the show.Their officials, international technocrats, rule our countries:they are neither presidents nor ministers, they have not beenelected, but they decide the level of salaries and public expenditure,investments and divestments, prices, taxes, interest rates, subsidies,when the sun rises and how frequently it rains."Eduardo Galeano"At issue is who shallrule the world: the emerging 1% as a financial oligarchy, or electedgovernments. The two sets of aims are antithetical: rising livingstandards and national independence, or a renting economy, austerityand international dependency."economist Michael Hudson"There is no such thing,at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independentpress. You know it and I know it.There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions,and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appearin print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out ofthe paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similarsalaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolishas to write honest opinions would be out on the streets lookingfor another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear inone issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupationwould be gone.The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lieoutright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon,and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. Youknow it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independentpress?We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. Weare the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Ourtalents, our possibilities and our lives are all the propertyof other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."John Swinton, preeminent NewYork journalist, at a press banquet,1880WEBSITES TO VISITBARBARIANS IN SUITSBEYOND THE MEDIA MATRIXDISINFORMATION NATIONEMPIRE OF CHAOSGLOBAL KLEPTOCRACYHOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKSINCONVENIENT TRUTHSPATHOCRACY: THE GLOBAL ORDERREAL WORLD ORDERTHE WAR RACKETTHIRD WORLD TRAVELERTRUTH-TELLERSThe Plutocracy Cartelhas had centuries to develop sophisticated and inventive waysto augment its wealth, consolidate its power and expand its influence.Because the PlutocracyCartel controls media all over the world, we know nothing aboutit. In time, the price we will pay for this ignorance will beour freedom.Knowledge is the firststep toward dragging this global financial oligarchy into thelight, and stopping its hegemonic drive to control all of us.The information belowis just the beginning of that education process.INDEX(in alphabetical order)ANGLOPHILE NETWORKTOWARD AN ANGLO-AMERICAN WORLDORDERBANK OF ENGLANDWHERE FINANCIAL CAPITALISMBEGANBANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS(BIS)THE CENTRAL BANKERS' BANKBANKING CONGLOMERATESTHE MOST POWERFUL FINANCIALINSTITUTIONS IN THE WORLDBANKING OLIGARCHYA POWERFUL DYNASTIC BANKINGCARTEL WITH A VERY LONG HISTORYBRITISH OLIGARCHYDYNASTIC FAMILIES, BANKS ANDCORPORATIONSCENTRAL BANKSCONTROL CENTERS OF MONEY CREATIONAND GLOBAL FINANCECITY OF LONDON CORPORATIONTHE "CITY" , THE"SQUARE MILE", THE "CROWN":THE EPICENTER OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CAPITALISMCLUB OF THE ISLESEUROPE'S GLOBAL FOOD, OILAND MINING CARTELCOMMUNISM AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTIONFUNDED BY THE RICHEST CAPITALISTSIN THE WORLDCORPORATOCRACYSUPER-CORPORATIONS GOVERNTHE GLOBAL ECONOMYCOVERT GLOBAL POWER CENTERSINSTITUTIONS OF EXCEPTIONALINFLUENCE"CREATING MONEY OUT OF THINAIR"THE MAGIC OF FIAT MONEYCREDIT, INTEREST, AND DEBTTHE BANKERS' PERPETUAL MONEYMACHINEDIRTY MONEYWORLD DRUG TRADE IS CONTROLLEDBY A GLOBAL ELITEEUROPEAN DYNASTIC FAMILIESOLD MONEY, GLOBAL POWERFEDERAL RESERVEAMERICA'S PRIVATE BANKINGCARTELFINANCIAL CAPITALISMA GLOBAL SUPRA-GOVERNMENTAND A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTIONFOUNDATIONSWEALTHY, TAX-EXEMPT AND VERYINFLUENTIALINCOME TAX"ONLY THE LITTLE PEOPLEPAY TAXES"INVESTMENT BANKERSIMMENSE FINANCIAL POWER ONA GLOBAL SCALEMILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXHUGE PROFITS FROM DEATH ANDDESTRUCTIONMONEYWHERE DOES IT COME FROM ANDWHO CONTROLS IT?MONETARY SYSTEMA DEBT-BASED MONEY MONOPOLYMONEY LAUNDERINGHUGE PROFITS FROM GLOBAL BANKING'SLIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMMONOPOLY CAPITALISM"COMPETITION IS A SIN."OILBIG OIL = BIG PROFITS ANDBIG POWERPANICS, DEPRESSIONS AND FINANCIALCOUPSRUINING THE LITTLE PEOPLEPOPULATION CONTROLPRESERVING THE WORLD FOR THEPLUTOCRATSPROFIT OVER PEOPLERESOURCE EXTRACTION AND STRUCTURALADJUSTMENT:GLOBALIZED IMMISERATION OF THE POOR AND THE VULNERABLETHE ROCKEFELLERSIMMENSELY WEALTHY AND POWERFUL- MADE IN AMERICATHE ROTHSCHILDSTHE EUROPEAN BANKING FAMILYTHAT OWNS THE WORLDTAX HAVENSOFFSHORE SECRECY JURISDICTIONS:NO TAXES, NO REGULATION, BIG PROFITSUNITED NATIONSFUTURE CONTROL CENTER OF THENEW WORLD ORDERVATICANENORMOUSLY WEALTHY MONEY-LAUNDERINGHOUSE OF FAITHWALL STREETAMERICA'S FINANCIAL CENTERRULES THE WORLDWAR KILLING HOPE FOR THE THIRDWORLDWORLD GOVERNMENTPOLITICAL SUPREMACY OF THEPLUTOCRACYPREPARE FOR A PLUTOCRAT-CONTROLLEDNEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC ORDER AND GLOBAL AUTHORITARIANISMANGLOPHILE NETWORKTOWARD AN ANGLO-AMERICAN WORLDORDER"There does exist, andhas existed for a generation, an international Anglophile networkwhich operates, to some extent, in the way the radical right believesthe communists act. In fact, this network which we may identifyas the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating withthe Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""As surely as the sun inthe heavens once shown upon Britain and America united, so surelyis it one morning to rise, shine upon, and greet again the reunitedstate, the British-American union, forever."Andrew Carnegie, 1893"Why should we not join... a secret society with but one object: the furtherance of theBritish Empire, for the bringing of the whole uncivilized worldunder British rule, for the recovery of the United States, forthe making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire."Cecil Rhodes attached to his willa "Confession of Faith""There grew up in the twentiethcentury a power structure between London and New York which penetrateddeeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreignpolicy. In England the center was the Round Table Group, whilein the United States it was J. P. Morgan and Company or its localbranches in Boston, Philadelphia, and Cleveland."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""John Ruskin spoke to theOxford undergraduates [1871] as members of the privileged, rulingclass. He told them that they were the possessors of a magnificenttradition of education, beauty, rule of law, freedom, decency,and self-discipline but that tradition could not be saved, anddid not deserve to be saved, unless it could be extended to thelower classes in England itself and to the non-English massesthroughout the world. If this precious tradition were not extendedto these two great majorities, the minority of upper-class Englishmenwould ultimately be submerged by these majorities and the traditionlost. To prevent this, the tradition must be extended to the massesand to the empire.... John Ruskin's inaugural lecture at Oxford University was copiedout in longhand by one undergraduate, Cecil Rhodes, who kept itwith him for thirty years."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope", 1966"Among John Ruskin's mostdevoted disciples at Oxford were a group of intimate friends includingArnold Toynbee, Alfred Milner... These were so moved by Ruskinthat they devoted the rest of their lives to carrying out hisideas. A similar group of Cambridge men ... were also arousedby Ruskin's message and devoted their lives to extension of theBritish Empire. .... This association was formally established on February 5,1891, when Cecil Rhodes and William Thomas Stead organized a secretsociety of which Rhodes had been dreaming for sixteen years. Inthis secret society Rhodes was to be leader, Stead, Brett (LordEsher), and Alfred Milner were to form an executive committee;Arthur (Lord) Balfour, (Sir) Harry Johnston, Lord Rothschild,Albert (Lord) Grey, and others were listed as potential membersof a 'Circle of Initiates'; while there was to be an outer circleknown as the 'Association of Helpers' (later organized by Milneras the Round Table organization).... The Rhodes Scholarships, established by the terms of CecilRhodes's seventh will, are known to everyone. What is not so widelyknown is that Rhodes in five previous wills left his fortune toform a secret society which was to devote itself to the preservationand expansion of the British Empire.And what does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secretsociety was created by Rhodes and his principal trustee, LordMilner, and continues to exist to this day [as the Round TableGroups: in the United States - Council of Foreign Relations,TrilateralCommission, Bilderberg Group and in the British Commonwealth nations- Milner's Kindergarden, Royal Institute of Internatonal Affairs(RIIA)/ Chatham House]."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope", 1966"Lord Alfred Milner ledthe covert movement (Rhodes' secret society) after Cecil Rhodesdied in 1902. He was the second most powerful man in the Britishgovernment after 1916 (during the last two years of the GreatWar [WWI])."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope", 1966"Lord Alfred Milner, wealthyEnglishman and front man for the Rothschilds, served as paymasterfor the international bankers during the Bolshevik Revolution.Milner later headed secret society known as The Round Table whichwas dedicated to establishing a world government whereby a cliqueof super-rich financiers would control the world under the guiseof Socialism. The American subsidiary of this conspiracy is calledthe Council on Foreign Relations and was started by, and is stillcontrolled by international bankers.... The "secret society" was organized on the conspiratorialpattern of circles ... the central part of the "secret society"was established by March, 1891, using Rhodes' money. The organizationwas run for Rothschild by Lord Alfred Milner... The Round Tableworked behind the scenes at the highest levels of British government,influencing foreign policy and England's involvement and conductof WWI."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""There were groups foundedin many countries representing the same interests of the secretMilner Group [a secret society formed by Cecil Rhodes], and theycame to be known as the Round Table Groups, preeminent among themwere the Royal Institute of international Affairs (Chatham House),the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States, and parallelgroups in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India."Carroll Quigley"The New World Order isa more palatable name for the Anglo-American world empire. It'sthe planetary domination of London, New York, Washington overthe rest of the world. It's hard to get people to join that orthink they have a part in it if you called it the Anglo-Americanworld empire. If you call it the New World Order, then peoplein India or someplace like that or the European Union might think,"Well, there's something there for us too." But that'snot what it is; it's the Anglo-American New World Order."Alex Jones"Cecil Rhodes and [Alfred]Milner sought to unite the world, and above all the English-speakingworld in a federal structure around Britain. Both felt that thisgoal could best be achieved by a secret band of men united toone another by devotion to the common cause and by personal loyaltyto one another. Both felt that this band should pursue its goalby secret political and economic influence behind the scenes andby the control of journalistic, educational, and propaganda agencies."Carroll Quigley in his book "TheAnglo-American Establishment""The so-called BolshevikRevolution was financed entirely with money from Lord Alfred Milnerand Kuhn Loeb acting as a conduit for the Rockefellers throughtheir puppet, President Woodrow Wilson."John Coleman in his book "TheCommittee of 300: The Conspirator's Hierarchy"[Cecil] Rhodes and [Alfred]Milner and an elite circle of Empire strategists founded a secretsociety in 1910 whose purpose was to revitalize a flagging Britishimperial spirit. The society, many of whose members were graduatesof All Souls College at Oxford University, would secretly steerthe strategic policies of the British Empire up until the endof the Second World War. They called their group the Round Table.a reference to King Arthur's medieval table surrounded by hisselect knights."F. William Engdahl in his book"Gods of Money""Alfred Milner (the BritishHigh Commissioner of South Africa) inherited Cecil Rhodes' wealth.He assumed leadership of [Rhodes'] secret society, controlledthe Rhodes Scholarship fund, and brought thousands of young mento Oxford University to learn the importance of world government."Frank Aydelotte, in his book TheVision of Cecil Rhodes,1946"Lord Alfred Milner ledthe covert movement (Cecil Rhodes' secret society) after CecilRhodes died in 1902. He was the second most powerful man in theBritish government after 1916."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope", 1966"No country that valuesits safety should allow what the Milner Group accomplished inBritain ? that is, that a small number of men should be able towield such power in administration and politics, should be givenalmost complete control over the publication of the documentsrelating to their actions, should be able to exercise such influenceover the avenues of information that create public opinion, andshould be able to monopolise so completely the writing and teachingof the history of their own period."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope", 1966"JFK [John Kennedy] , Malcolm[X], Martin [Luther King], and [RFK [Robert Kennedy] were fourproponents of change who were murdered by shadowy intelligenceagencies using intermediaries and scapegoats under the cover of'plausible deniability'."James Douglass in his book book"JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters""Why should we not joina secret society with but one object: the furtherance of the BritishEmpire, for the bringing of the whole uncivilized world underBritish rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the makingof the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire."Cecil Rhodes' "Confessionof Faith" attached to his will"The goals which CecilRhodes and Alfred Milner sought and the methods by which theyhoped to achieve them were so similar by 1902 that the two arealmost indistinguishable. Both sought to unite the world, andabove all the English-speaking world, in a federal structure aroundBritain. Both felt that this goal could best be achieved by asecret band of men united to one another by devotion to the commoncause and by personal loyalty to one another. Both felt that thisband should pursue its goal by secret political and economic influencebehind the scenes and by the control of journalistic, educational,and propaganda agencies."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""In 1888 Cecil Rhodes madehis third will leaving everything to Lord Nathan Mayer Rothschild,with an accompanying letter setting up a 'secret society'. Thecentral part of the 'secret society' was established by March,1891, using Rhodes' money. The organization - The Round Table- worked behind the scenes at the highest levels of British government,influencing foreign policy."Frank Aydelotte in his book "AmericanRhodes Scholarships""The Rhodes Scholarships,established by the terms of Cecil Rhodes' seventh will, are knownto everyone. What is not so widely known is that Rhodes in fiveprevious wills left his fortune to form a secret society, whichwas to devote itself to the preservation and expansion of theBritish Empire... Funding of this organization later came fromgroups associated with J.P. Morgan, and the Rockefeller and Whitneyfamilies."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""Cecil Rhodes exploitedthe diamond and goldfields of South Africa, rose to be prime ministerof the Cape Colony, contributed money to political parties, controlledparliamentary seats in both England and in South Africa, and soughtto win a strip of British territory across Africa from the Capeof Good Hope to Egypt, and to join these two extremes togetherwith a telegraph line and ultimately with a Cape-to-Cairo Railway.Rhodes inspired devoted support for his goals from others in SouthAfrica and in England. With financial support from Lord Rothschildand Alfred Beit, he was able to monopolize the diamond mines ofSouth Africa as De Beers Consolidated Mines and to build up agreat gold mining enterprise as Consolidated Gold Fields.... In the middle 1890's Cecil Rhodes had a personal income ofat least a million pounds sterling a year (then about five milliondollars) which was spent so freely for his mysterious purposesthat he was usually overdrawn on his account. These purposes centeredon his desire to federate the English-speaking people and to bringall the habitable portions of the world under their control. Forthis purpose Rhodes left part of his great fortune to found theRhodes Scholarships at Oxford in order to spread the English rulingclass tradition throughout the English-speaking world as JohnRuskin had wanted."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""Cecil Rhodes secret societyhas been called by various names. During the frst decade or soit was called 'the secret society of Cecil Rhodes,' or 'the dreamof Cecil Rhodes.' In the second and third decades of its existenceit was known as 'Milner's Kindergarten' (1901-1910) and as 'theRound Table Group' (1910-1920). Since 1920 it has been calledby various names, depending on which phase of its activities wasbeing examined. It has been called 'The Times crowd,' 'the Rhodescrowd,' the 'Chatham House crowd,' 'The All Souls group,' and'the Cliveden set.'Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope", 1966"[In 1901, Cecil Rhodeschose Alfred Milner as his successor within a secret society ofwhich the purpose was] the extension of British rule throughoutthe world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the UnitedKingdom and of colonization by British subjects of all lands whereinthe means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labor, and enterprise...[with] the ultimate recovery of the United States of America asan integral part of a British Empire, the consolidation of thewhole Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial Representationin the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together thedisjointed members of the Empire, and finally the foundation ofso great a power as to hereafter render wars impossible and promotethe best interests of humanity."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""Cecil Rhodes' secret societyincited the Boer War and spawned the Milner Group (1902), theMilner Group spawned the Round Table Group (1909), the Round TableGroup incited World War I and spawned the Royal Institute of InternationalAffairs (1919) and the Council on Foreign Relations (1921), andthe CFR and the RIIA spawned the Bilderberg Group in 1954, andthe Trilateral Commission in 1973."Stanley Monteith"An association was formallyestablished on February 5, 1891, when Cecil Rhodes and ThomasStead organized a secret society of which Rhodes had been dreamingfor sixteen years. In this secret society Rhodes was to be leader,Stead, Brett, and Alfred Milner were to form an executive committee;Arthur (Lord) Balfour, (Sir) Harry Johnston, Lord Rothschild,Albert (Lord) Grey, and others were listed as potential membersof a 'Circle of Initiates'; while there was to be an outer circleknown as the 'Association of Helpers' (later organized by Milneras the Round Table organization)."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""The present century owesmuch of its record of horrors to the influential Anglophile Americanfamilies which came to dominate and employ the Skull and BonesSociety [Yale University] as a political recruiting agency, particularlythe Harrimans, Whitneys, Vanderbilts, Rockefellers and their lawyers,the Lords and Tafts and Bundys.The politically aggressive Guaranty Trust Company, run almostentirely by Skull and Bones initiates, was a financial vehicleof these families in the early 1900s. Guaranty Trust's supportfor the Bolshevik and Nazi revolutions overlapped the more intenseendeavors in these fields by the Harrimans, George Walker andPrescott Bush [in New York], and in Berlin.Skull and Bones was dominated from 1913 onward by the circlesof Averell Harriman."Webster Griffin Tarpley and AntonChaitkin in their book "George Bush : The Unauthorized Biography""[Montagu] Norman [theGovernor of the Bank of England] had a devoted colleague in BenjaminStrong, the first governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of NewYork... In the 1920's, they were determined to use the financialpower of Britain and of the United States to force all the majorcountries of the world to go on the gold standard and to operateit through central banks free from all political control, withall questions of international finance to be settled by agreementsby such central banks without interference from governments."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope"BANK OF ENGLANDWHERE FINANCIAL CAPITALISMBEGAN"In 1694, King William IIIof the House of Orange privatized the Bank of England, establishedthe City of London, and turned control of England's money overto an elite group of international bankers. This action pavedthe way for a private cartel of international bankers to embarkon a plan of implementing world governance.""How the City of London ControlsWorld Power" an article from thedailybell.com""The Bank of England isin effect a sovereign world power, for this privately owned institutionis not subject to regulation or control in the slightest degreeby the British Parliament... This privately owned and controlledinstitution functions as the great balance wheel of the creditof the world, able to expand or contract credit at will, and issubject only to the orders of the City, the City dominated bythe fortune of the House of Rothschild and the policies of theHouse of Rothschild."E. C. Knuth in his book "TheEmpire of the "City": The Secret History of BritishFinancial Power"In 1694, the Bank of Englandwas formed as a private central bank, which would issue the currencyof the nation, lending it to the government and industry at interest,which would be paid back to the Bank of England's shareholders,made up of these private banking dynasties. The 16th to the 19thcenturies was the period in which both the nation-state and capitalismemerged, soon followed by central banking in the late 1600s. Thisis when the origins of what was known as a "world economy"took place."Andrew Gavin Marshall in his book"Global Power and Global Government""Eventually internationalbankers owned as private corporations the central banks of thevarious European nations. The Bank of England, Bank of Franceand Bank of Germany were not owned by their respective governments,as almost everyone imagines, but were privately owned monopoliesgranted by the heads of state, usually in return for loans."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""Central banks are integralto the modern fiat monetary system, and the power and influenceinvested in this role is such that central banks, and, more importantly,those who control them, have an immense impact on human affairs.The evolution of the banking system from earliest times has involvednot only empirical, accidental modifications, but, also of a secret,concerted, plan to create a financial system of supremely corruptingand corruptible capacity. It was not until the 18th century thatthe secret plan was brought to its perfect form by the creationof banking dynasties, especially the Rothschilds, and the perfectingof a vehicle of transmission - central banks. The model for thisperfect vehicle is the Bank of England.""Bank of England" fromwww.overlordsofchaos.com/"The Rothschild familyand their agents steer the world's economy through the Bank ofEngland, NM Rothschild & Sons and their web of private banksin all major nations. When an economic crash occurs it has mostdefinitely been ordered from the City or across the pond by theirassociates at the Federal Reserve and Wall Street.""Bank of England, City ofLondon and The Queen" from http://wideshut.co.uk/"In 1991 the Bank of Englanddirectors decided to work out more explicitly what the bank isfor, and they came up with three main aims. Two were the usualcentral bankers' goals: to protect the currency and to keep thefinancial system stable. The third is to ensure the effectivenessof the United Kingdom's financial services and advance a financialsystem which enhances the international competitive position ofthe City of London and other UK financial centres. In other words,to protect and promote the City as an offshore centre."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands""England is a financialoligarchy run by the "Crown" which refers to the "Cityof London" not the Queen. The City of London is run by theBank of England, a private corporation. The square-mile-largeCity is a sovereign state located in the heart of greater London."Henry Makow, 2004"In Great Britain, wherethe Bank of England is owned by the government, 97% of the moneysupply is issued privately by banks as loans."Ellen Brown"Nothing happens on WallStreet that is not known to the Bank of England, whose instructionsare relayed through the Morgan Bank and then put into action throughkey brokerage houses."John Coleman in his book "TheCommittee of 300""Montagu Norman, the archconservative governor of the Bank of England throughout the 1920ssupported the aims of finance capitalism "to create a worldsystem of financial control in private hands, able to dominatethe political system of each country and the economy of the worldas a whole."F. William Engdahl in his book"Gods of Money"BANK OF INTERNATIONALSETTLEMENTS (BIS)CENTRAL BANKERS' BANK"BIS regulations serveonly the single purpose of strengthening the international privatebanking system, even at the peril of national economies. The IMFand the international banks regulated by the BIS are a team: theinternational banks lend recklessly to borrowers in emerging economiesto create a foreign currency debt crisis, the IMF arrives as acarrier of monetary virus in the name of sound monetary policy,then the international banks come as vulture investors in thename of financial rescue to acquire national banks deemed capitalinadequate and insolvent by the BIS."economist Henry CK Lui"Bank for InternationalSettlements (BIS) was part of a plan to create a world systemof financial control in private hands able to dominate the politicalsystem of each country and the economy of the world as a whole...tobe controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks ofthe world acting in concert by secret agreements."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""The BIS [Bank of InternationalSettlements] was established to remedy the decline of London asthe world's financial center by providing a mechanism by whicha world with three chief financial centers in London, New York,and Paris could still operate as one."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""BIS [Bank of International Settlements] is the most powerfulbank in the world... BIS is owned by the Federal Reserve, Bankof England, Bank of Italy, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank,Nederlandsche Bank, Bundesbanke and Bank of France. BIS holdsat least 10% of monetary reserves for at least 80 of the world'scentral banks, the IMF and other multilateral institutions. Itserves as financial agent for international agreements, collectsinformation on the global economy and serves as lender of lastresort to prevent global financial collapse."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf""The Bank of International Settlements [BIS] is whereall of the world's central banks meet to analyze the global economyand determine what course of action they will take next to putmore money in their pockets, since they control the amount ofmoney in circulation and how much interest they are going to chargegovernments and banks for borrowing from them. When you understandthat the BIS pulls the strings of the world's monetary system,you then understand that they have the ability to create a financialboom or bust in a country. If that country is not doing what themoney lenders want, then all they have to do is sell its currency."Joan Veon"The Federal Reserve Bankof New York is eager to enter into close relationship with theBank for International Settlements.The conclusion is impossibleto escape that the State and Treasury Departments are willingto pool the banking system of Europe and America, setting up aworld financial power independent of and above the Governmentof the United States.The United States under present conditionswill be transformed from the most active of manufacturing nationsinto a consuming and importing nation with a balance of tradeagainst it."Louis T. McFadden (1876-1936),US Congressman (R-PA) (1915-1935), Chairman of House Banking andCurrency Committee, quoted in the New York Times (June 1930),June 10, 1932. Poisoned in 1936"The Bank of InternationalSettlements (BIS) and the IMF are nothing more than bully-boyclearing houses for the drug trade. The BIS undermines any countrythat the IMF wants to sink by setting up ways and means for theeasy outflow of flight capital. Nor does BIS recognize nor makeany distinction when it comes down to what is flight capital andwhat is laundered drug money.The BIS operates on gangster lines. If a country will not submitto asset-stripping by the IMF, then it says in effect, "Right,then we will break you by means of the huge cache of narco-dollarswe are holding." It is easy to understand why gold was demonetizedand substituted with the paper "dollar" as the world'sreserve currency. It is not as easy to blackmail a country holdinggold reserves as it is one having its reserves in paper dollars."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The BIS [Bank of International Settlements] was establishedto remedy the decline of London as the world's financial centerby providing a mechanism by which a world with three chief financialcenters in London, New York, and Paris could still operate asone.The BIS [Bank of International Settlements] was founded by thecentral banks of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,Japan, and the United Kingdom along with three leading commercialbanks from the United States, including J.P. Morgan & Company,First National Bank of New York, and First National Bank of Chicago."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope"BANKING CONGLOMERATESMOST POWERFUL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSIN THE WORLD (2012)These are the world's 25 largestbanks as of 2012. They are part of the Plutocracy Cartel.HSBCBNP PARABISINDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINAMITUBISHICREDIT AGRICOLEBARCLAYS GROUPROYAL BANK OF SCOTLANDJPMORGAN CHASEBANK OF AMERICACHINA CONSTRUCTION BANKMIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUPBANK OF CHINACITIGROUPAGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINAING GROUPBANCO SANTANDERSUMITOMO MITSUI FINANCIAL GROUPSOCIETE GENERALEUBSLLOYDS BANKING GROUPGROUP BCPEWELLS FARGOUNICREDITCREDIT SUISSEDEUTSCHE BANK"The debt crisis of theearly 1980s unleashed a wave of corporate mergers, buyouts andbankruptcies. These changes then paved the way for the consolidationof a new generation of financiers clustered around the large merchantbanks, the institutional investors, stock brokerage firms andlarge insurance companies. In this process, commercial bankingfunctions have coalesced with those of the investment banks andstock brokers, leading to the consolidation of a handful of globalfinancial conglomerates."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"By 2000 four giant banksemerged to rule the US financial roost. JP Morgan Chase and Citigroupwere kings of capital on the East Coast. Together they control52.86% of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Bank of America andWells Fargo reigned supreme on the West Coast.During the 2008 banking crisis these firms got even bigger, takingon distressed assets for pennies on the dollar. Barclays tookover Lehman Brothers. JP Morgan Chase got Washington Mutual. Bankof America was handed Merrill Lynch and Countrywide, while WellsFargo got Wachovia."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""In the United States,five banks control half the economy: JP Morgan Chase, Bank ofAmerica, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs Group collectivelyheld $8.5 trillion in assets at the end of 2011, which equalsroughly 56% of the U.S. economy. This data was according to centralbankers at the Federal Reserve. In 2007, the assets of the largestbanks amounted to 43% of the U.S. economy."Andrew Gavin Marshall, 2012"By 2000 four giant banksemerged to rule the US financial roost. JP Morgan Chase and Citigroupwere kings of capital on the East Coast. Bank of America and WellsFargo reigned supreme on the West Coast.During the 2008 banking crisis these firms got even bigger, takingon distressed assets for pennies on the dollar. Barclays tookover Lehman Brothers. JP Morgan Chase got Washington Mutual. Bankof America was handed Merrill Lynch and Countrywide, while WellsFargo got Wachovia."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""Banks have been particularlyadept at going offshore to grow fast: by using tax havens to escapetax, to avoid reserves requirements and other financial regulationand to gear up their borrowings. Banks achieved a staggering 16per cent annual return on equity between 1986 and 2006, accordingto Bank of England data, and this offshore-enhanced growth meansthe banks are now big enough to hold us all to ransom. Unlesstaxpayers give them what they want, financial calamity ensues.This is the too-big-to-fail problem - courtesy of offshore."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The lesson is clear: ifyou are a thief, steal by the billions or trillions, and thenno one can do anything about it. If you are in the drug trade:handle only billions (or hundreds of billions) in drug money,and then you will get away with it. If you don't want to pay taxes,be a member of the top 0.001% of the world's super-rich and hideyour billions in offshore tax-free accounts. If you want more,create a global economic crisis, demand to be saved by the stateto the tune of tens of trillions of dollars, and then, tell thestate to punish their populations into poverty in order to payfor your mistakes.In other words, if you want to indulge your criminal fantasies,lie and steal, profit from death and drugs, dominate and demand,be king and command, become the highly-functioning socially-acceptablesociopath you always knew you could be... think big. Think bank.Serial killers, bank robbers and drug dealers go to jail; bankersget bailouts and get an unlimited insurance policy called "toobig to fail."Jurriaan Maessen, Global Research"This world is not runby the Presidents or the Prime Ministers. It is run by the globalcorporations and the banks. For it is these entities that controlthe money supply and it is these entities that decide which countrylives or falls."the dailybell.com"By 1974 one-third of the$60 billion pool of OPEC windfall petrodollars flowed into thelargest US banks... Out of $14.5 billion in Middle East oil revenuesthat made it to US shores, 78% was deposited into six mega-banks:Chase Manhattan, Morgan Guaranty Trust, Citibank, Bank of America,Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Chemical Bank. After a spate ofmergers those six banks are now three: JP Morgan Chase, Citigroupand Bank of America."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""You can count the numberof banks that own half of all the wealth in the U.S. economy onjust one hand. There are just five of them: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citigroup. Theirtotal assets equal 8.5 trillion, which is 56% of our entire economy."Thom Hartmann"The banking cartel succeedsin creating "false" prices for commodities such as oil,gold and silver through their creation of bogus paper markets(futures, ETFs, etc.), in which sometimes a hundred times or moreof the commodity is bought and sold in paper form than existsin real physical form."F. WIlliam Engdahl"Our global banking systemis a global cartel, a "super-entity" in which the world'smajor banks all own each other and own the controlling sharesin the world's largest multinational corporations.... This is the real "free market," a highly profitableglobal banking cartel, functioning as a worldwide financial Mafia."Andrew Gavin Marshall"The Four Horsemen of Banking[Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup] ownthe Four Horsemen of Oil [Shell, Chevron, British Petroleum, Exxon], in tandem with Deusche Bank, Banque Paribas, Barclays and otherEuropean old money behemoths... These same Four Horsemen of Bankingare also among the top 10 stock holders of virtually every Fortune500 corporation. "Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""The institutional changeswhich the 1999 Financial Services Modernization Act (FSMA) broughtabout, including the concentration and centralization of powerin the hands of a small number of financial giants, largely contributedto Wall Street's unswerving quest for global financial domination.The tendency was towards a worldwide financial supermarket controlledby a handful of global financial institutions which penetrateand permeate the fabric of national economies. The sweeping deregulationof U.S. banking imparted unprecedented powers to Wall Street'sfinancial conglomerates to acquire and take over banking institutionsall over the world."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"The global banking cartel,centered at the IMF, World Bank and Federal Reserve, have paidoff politicians and dictators the world over [Including Washington].In country after country, they have looted national economiesat the expense of local populations, consolidating wealth in unprecedentedfashion - the top economic one-tenth of one percent is currentlyholding over $40 trillion in investible wealth, not counting anequally significant amount of wealth hidden in offshore accounts."David DeGraw"The American banking oligarchyconsists of six megabanks - Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorganChase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo... They haveassets equivalent to 60 percent of our gross national product.And to put this in perspective, in the mid-1990s, these six banksor their predecessors had less than 20 percent.""Six Banks Control 60% of Gross National Product: Is theU.S. at the Mercy of an Unstoppable Oligarchy?"James Kwak interviewed by BillMoyers"A cartel of the most powerfulinternational banks - the current primary dealers of the FederalReserve System - hold a monopoly position in international banking.They have power over the entire economy. They sit at the top ofthe world's monetary system, currently the Fed's debt-dollar pyramid,with a governmental license to what has been the most secure capitalin the world - US Treasury debt - for a monopoly price that nobodyelse can get.US:Bank of America Securities LLC, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., CitigroupGlobal Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., Jefferies &Company, Inc., J. P. Morgan Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley &Co. Inc.Britain: Barclays Capital Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.Switzerland: Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, UBS SecuritiesLLC.Japan: Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc., Mizuho SecuritiesUSA Inc., Nomura Securities International, Inc.Germany: Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.France: BNP Paribas Securities Corp.Canada: RBC Capital Markets Corp.Scotland: RBS Securities Inc."Damon VrabelBANKING OLIGARCHYPOWERFUL DYNASTIC BANKINGCARTEL WITH A VERY LONG HISTORYThese eight private banks own themost shares of the Federal Reserve. Essentially, they own theFED.ROTHSCHILD BANK OF LONDONROTHSCHILD BANK OF BERLINWARBURG BANK OF HAMBURGWARBURG BANK OF AMSTERDAMLAZARD BROTHERS OF PARISISRAEL MOSES SEIF BANK OF ITALYKUHN LOEB BANK OF NEW YORKGOLDMAN SACHS OF NEW YORKJ. P. MORGAN CHASE BANK OF NEW YORKSHEARSON AMERICAN EXPRESS"During the past two centurieswhen the peoples of the world were gradually winning their politicalfreedom from the dynastic monarchies, the major banking familiesof Europe and America were actually reversing the trend by settingup new dynasties of political control through the formation ofinternational financial combines. These banking dynasties hadlearned that all governments must have sources of revenue fromwhich to borrow in times of emergency. They had also learned thatby providing such funds from their own private resources, theycould make both kings and democratic leaders tremendously subservientto their will."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""The powers of financialcapitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than tocreate a world system of financial control in private hands ableto dominate the political system of each country and the economyof the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in afeudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting inconcert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetingsand conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank forInternational Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bankowned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselvesprivate corporations."Carroll Quigley in his book 'Tragedyand Hope"World bankers, by pullinga few simple levers that control the flow of money, can make orbreak entire economies. By controlling press releases of economicstrategies that shape national trends, the power elite are ableto not only tighten their stranglehold on this nation's economicstructure, but can extend that control world wide. Those possessingsuch power would logically want to remain in the background, invisibleto the average citizen."Aldous Huxley"The influence of financialcapitalism and of the international bankers who created it wasexercised both on business and on governments, but could havedone neither if it had not been able to persuade both these toaccept two "axioms" of its own ideology. Both of thesewere based on the assumption that politicians were too weak andtoo subject to temporary popular pressures to be trusted withcontrol of the money, system; accordingly, the sanctity of allvalues and the soundness of money must be protected in two ways:by basing the value of money on gold and by allowing bankers tocontrol the supply of money."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""The shareholders of thebanks which own the stock of the Federal Reserve Bank of New Yorkare the people who have controlled our political and economicdestinies since 1914. They are the Rothschilds, Lazard Freres,Israel Sieff, Kuhn Loeb Company, Warburg Company, Lehman Brothers,Goldman Sachs, the Rockefeller family, and the J.P. Morgan interests."Eustace Mullins in his book "TheSecrets of the Federal Reserve""Powerful private familiesdecide who controls the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England,the Bank of Japan and even the European Central Bank. Money isin their hands to destroy or create. Their aim is the ultimatecontrol over future life on this planet, a supremacy earlier dictatorsand despots only ever dreamt of."F. William Engdahl in his book"Seeds of Destuction""Here are the card-carryingshareholders in the `Federal' Reserve Corporation: RothschildBanks of London and Berlin, Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris, Isreal,Moses Sieff Banks Of Italy, Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam,Lehman Brothers Bank of New York, Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York,Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, Goldman Sachs Bank of New York."Miles Franklin Newsletter"J. W. McCallister, oilindustry insider with House of Saud connections, wrote in TheGrim Reaper that information he acquired from Saudi bankers cited80% ownership of the New York Federal Reserve Bank - by far themost powerful Fed branch - by just eight families, only four ofwhich reside in the US. They are the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers,Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the Rothschild's of Parisand London; the Lazards of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs ofRome."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""The world's money-lendersbecame experts at parasitic high finance and got rich throughthe explosive growth of fractional reserve banking. These peoplehave dominated the economies of nations through such institutionsas the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve System, the Bank ofInternational Settlements (BIS), and other central and commercialbanks, currency and commodity exchanges, and stock and bond markets.... The bankers on the one hand and the political racketeers onthe other merged over a century ago under the oversight of figuresassociated with the creation of the Anglo-American Empire, suchas Cecil Rhodes, Lord Alfred Milner, Colonel Edward Mandell House,Winston Churchill, the House of Windsor, and, as examples of familiesinvolved, the Rothschilds, Schiffs, Morgans, Harrimans, Rockefellers,Myers, and Bushes."Richard C. Cook"We are ruled, though itmay be difficult to imagine, by a small dynastic power structure,largely consisting of powerful banking families, such as the Rothschilds,Rockefellers, and others. They emerged in controlling the financialsystem, extended their influence over the political system, theeducational system, and, through the major foundations, have becomethe dominant social powers of our world, creating think tanksand other institutions which shape and change the course of societyand modern human history."Andrew Gavin Marshall"By the end of the 1890'sJ.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller had become the giants of anincreasingly powerful Money Trust controlling American industryand government policy... Some 60 families - names like Rockefeller,Morgan, Dodge, Mellon, Pratt, Harkness, Whitney, Duke, Harriman,Carnegie, Vanderbilt, DuPont, Guggenheim, Astor, Lehman, Warburg,Taft, Huntington, Baruch and Rosenwald formed a close networkof plutocratic wealth that manipulated, bribed, and bullied itsway to control the destiny of the United States. At the dawn ofthe 20th Century, some sixty ultra-rich families, through dynasticintermarriage and corporate, interconnected shareholdings, hadgained control of American industry and banking institutions."F. William Engdahl in his book"Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the AmericanCentury""The substantive financialpowers of the world were in the hands of investment bankers (alsocalled "international" or "merchant" bankers)who remained largely behind the scenes in their own unincorporatedprivate banks. These formed a system of international cooperationand national dominance which was more private, more powerful,and more secret than that of their agents in the central banks.This dominance of investment bankers was based on their controlover the flows of credit and investment funds in their own countriesand throughout the world. They could dominate the financial andindustrial systems of their own countries by their influence overthe flow of current funds through bank loans, the discount rate,and the re-discounting of commercial debts; they could dominategovernments by their control over current government loans andthe play of the international exchanges. Almost all of this powerwas exercised by the personal influence and prestige of men whohad demonstrated their ability in the past to bring off successfulfinancial coupes to keep their word, to remain cool in a crisis,and to share their winning opportunities with their associates.In this system the Rothschilds had been preeminent during muchof the nineteenth century, but, at the end of that century, theywere being replaced by J. P. Morgan whose central office was inNew York, although it was always operated as if it were in London."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""For centuries there hasbeen big money to be made by international bankers in financinggovernments and kings... Like a business, no government can borrowbig money unless that government is willing to surrender to thecreditors some of its sovereignty. Certainly, international bankerswho have loaned hundreds of billions of dollars to governmentsaround the world command considerable influence in the policiesof such governments, but the ultimate advantage that the creditorhas over a king or a President is that if the ruler gets out ofline, the banker can finance his enemy or his rival. Therefore,if you want to stay in the lucrative financing business of kingsand governments, it is wise to have an enemy or a rival waitingin the wings to unseat every king, or every President, to whomyou lend money. If the king doesn't have an enemy, you have tobe able to create one."Louis Farrakhan, 1995"The merchant bankers ofLondon had already at hand in 1810-1850 the Stock Exchange, theBank of England, and the London money market when the needs ofadvancing industrialism called all of these into the industrialworld which they had hitherto ignored. In time they brought intotheir financial network the provincial banking centers, organizedas commercial banks and savings banks, as well as insurance companies,to form all of these into a single financial system on an internationalscale which manipulated the quantity and flow of money so thatthey were able to influence, if not control, governments on oneside and industries on the other. The men who did this, lookingbackward toward the period of dynastic monarchy in which theyhad their own roots, aspired to establish dynasties of internationalbankers and were at least as successful at this as were many ofthe dynastic political rulers. The greatest of these dynasties,of course, were the descendants of Meyer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812)of Frankfort, whose male descendants, for at least two generations,generally married first cousins or even nieces. Rothschild's fivesons, established at branches in Vienna, London, Naples, and Paris,as well as Frankfort, cooperated together in ways which otherinternational banking dynasties copied but rarely excelled."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""In addition to their powerover government based on government financing and personal influence,bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to goby other pressures. Since most government officials felt ignorantof finance, they sought advice from bankers whom they consideredto be experts in the field. The history of the last century showsthat the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advicethey gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers,but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and thepeople generally. Such advice could be enforced if necessary bymanipulation of exchanges, gold flows, discount rates, and evenlevels of business activity."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""The bankers control theworld's major corporations, media, intelligence agencies, thinktanks, foundations and universities."Henry Makow"International financierPaul Warburg masterminded establishment of the Federal Reserveto put control over nation's economy in hands of internationalbankers. The Federal Reserve controls the money supply, whichallows manipulators to create alternate cycles of boom and bust,ie., a roller coaster economy. This allows those in the know tomake fabulous amounts of money, but even more important, allowsthe insiders to control the economy and further centralize powerin the federal government."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""The structure of financialcontrols created by the tycoons of 'Big Banking' and 'Big Business'...was of extraordinary complexity, one business fief being builton another, both being allied with semi-independent associates,the whole rearing upward into two pinnacles of economic and politicalpower, of which one, centered in New York, was headed by J. P.Morgan and Company and the other, in Ohio, was headed by the Rockefellerfamily. When the two cooperated, as they generally did, they couldinfluence the economic life of the country to a large degree andcould almost control its political life, at least at the Federallevel. They caused the "panic of 1907" and the collapseof two railroads, one in 1914 and the other in 1929."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""In the period up to 1931,bankers, especially the Money Power controlled by the internationalinvestment bankers, were able to dominate both business and government.They could dominate business, especially in activities and inareas where industry could not finance its own needs for capital,because investment bankers had the ability to supply or refuseto supply such capital."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""While wars and revolutionshave been useful to international bankers in gaining or increasingcontrol over governments, the key to such control has always beencontrol of money. You can control a government if you have itin your debt; a creditor is in a position to demand the privilegesof monopoly from the sovereign. Money-seeking governments havegranted monopolies in state banking, natural resources, oil concessionsand transportation. However, the monopoly which the internationalfinanciers most covet is control over a nation's money."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""It is in the pecuniaryinterests of the international bankers to centralize politicalpower - and this centralization can best be achieved within acollectivist society, such as socialist Russia, national socialistGermany, or a Fabian socialist United States.There can be no full understanding and appreciation of twentieth-centuryAmerican politics and foreign policy without the realization thatthis financial elite effectively monopolizes Washington policy."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler""The power of investmentbankers over governments rests on a number of factors, of whichthe most significant, perhaps, is the need of governments to issueshort-term treasury bills as well as long-term government bonds.Just as businessmen go to commercial banks for current capitaladvances to smooth over the discrepancies between their irregularand intermittent incomes and their periodic and persistent outgoes(such as monthly rents, annual mortgage payments, and weekly wages),so a government has to go to merchant bankers (or institutionscontrolled by them) to tide over the shallow places caused byirregular tax receipts."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""International investmentbankers took seats on the boards of directors of industrial firms,as they had already done on commercial banks, savings banks, insurancefirms, and finance companies. From these lesser institutions theyfunneled capital to enterprises which yielded control and awayfrom those who resisted. These firms were controlled through interlockingdirectorships, holding companies, and lesser banks. They engineeredamalgamations and generally reduced competition, until by theearly twentieth century many activities were so monopolized thatthey could raise their noncompetitive prices above costs to obtainsufficient profits to become self-financing.But before that stage was reached a relatively small number ofbankers were in positions of immense influence in European andAmerican economic life."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""The major objective offoreign policy is the acquisition of markets and economic powerfor a small group of giant multi-nationals under the virtual controlof a few banking investment houses and controlling families."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler""There is a special breedof international financiers whose success typically is built uponcertain character traits. Those include cold objectivity, immunityto patriotism, and indifference to the human condition. That profileis the basis for proposing a theoretical strategy, called theRothschild Formula, which motivates such men to propel governmentsinto war for the profits they yield... As long as the mechanismof central banking exists, it will be to such men an irresistibletemptation to convert debt into perpetual war and war into perpetualdebt."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""The Warburgs, Kuhn Loebs,Goldman Sachs, Schiffs and Rothschilds have intermarried intoone big happy banking family. The Warburg family - which controlsDeutsche Bank and BNP- tied up with the Rothschilds in 1814 inHamburg, while Kuhn Loeb powerhouse Jacob Schiff shared quarterswith Rothschilds in 1785. Schiff immigrated to America in 1865.He joined forces with Abraham Kuhn and married Solomon Loeb'sdaughter. Loeb and Kuhn married each others sisters and the KuhnLoeb dynasty was consummated. Felix Warburg married Jacob Schiff'sdaughter. Two Goldman daughters married two sons of the Sachsfamily, creating Goldman Sachs. In 1806 Nathan Rothschild marriedthe oldest daughter of Levi Barent Cohen, a leading financierin London."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""The period, 1884-1933,was the period of financial capitalism in which investment bankersmoving into commercial banking and insurance on one side and intorailroading and heavy industry on the other were able to mobilizeenormous wealth and wield enormous economic, political, and socialpower. Popularly known as "Society," or the "400,"they lived a life of dazzling splendor. ... The influence of these business leaders was so great thatthe Morgan and Rockefeller groups acting together, or even Morganacting alone, could have wrecked the economic system of the countrymerely by throwing securities on the stock market for sale, and,having precipitated a stock-market panic, could then have boughtback the securities they had sold but at a lower price. Naturally,they were not so foolish as to do this, although Morgan came veryclose to it in precipitating the "panic of 1907."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""Our global banking systemis a global cartel, a "super-entity" in which the world'smajor banks all own each other and own the controlling sharesin the world's largest multinational corporations.... This is the real "free market," a highly profitableglobal banking cartel, functioning as a worldwide financial Mafia."Andrew Gavin Marshall, 2012"The global banking cartel,centered at the IMF, World Bank and Federal Reserve, have paidoff politicians and dictators the world over [Including Washington].In country after country, they have looted national economiesat the expense of local populations, consolidating wealth in unprecedentedfashion _ the top economic one-tenth of one percent is currentlyholding over $40 trillion in investible wealth, not counting anequally significant amount of wealth hidden in offshore accounts."David DeGraw, 2011"The real menace of ourrepublic is the invisible government, which, like a giant octopus,sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation. At thehead is a small group of banking houses generally referred toas 'international bankers.' This little coterie of powerful internationalbankers virtually run our government for their own selfish ends."John F. Hylan, mayor of New York,in a 1922 speech"The world's money-lendersbecame experts at parasitic high finance and got rich throughthe explosive growth of fractional reserve banking. These peoplehave dominated the economies of nations through such institutionsas the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve System, the Bank ofInternational Settlements (BIS), and other central and commercialbanks, currency and commodity exchanges, and stock and bond markets.... The bankers on the one hand and the political racketeers onthe other merged over a century ago under the oversight of figuresassociated with the creation of the Anglo-American Empire, suchas Cecil Rhodes, Lord Alfred Milner, Colonel Mandell House, WinstonChurchill, the House of Windsor, and the Rothschilds, Schiffs,Morgans, Harrimans, Rockefellers, Myers, and Bushes."Richard C. Cook, 2008"The big bankers of theworld, who practice the terrorism of money, are more powerfulthan kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Romehimself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no one: theylimit themselves to applauding the show.Their officials, international technocrats, rule our countries:they are neither presidents nor ministers, they have not beenelected, but they decide the level of salaries and public expenditure,investments and divestments, prices, taxes, interest rates, subsidies,when the sun rises and how frequently it rains."Eduardo Galeano"History records that themoney changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit,and violent means possible to maintain their control over governmentsby controlling money and it's issuance."James Madison, 1820"The money powers preyupon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in timesof adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolentthan autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy."Abraham Lincoln"If the American peopleever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks will deprivethe people of all property until their children wake-up homelesson the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power shouldbe taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom itproperly belongs."Thomas Jefferson"I fear that foreign bankerswith their tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberantriches of America and use it systematically to corrupt moderncivilization. They will not hesitate to plunge the whole worldinto wars and chaos in order that the earth should become theirinheritance."Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor ofGermany, after the assassination of President Lincoln, 1863"The Four Horsemen of Banking(Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo)own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell,BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP,Barclays and other European old money behemoths. The Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holdersof virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.... 80% ownership of the New York Federal Reserve Bank - by farthe most powerful Fed branch - [is held] by just eight families- the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of NewYork; the Rothschilds of Paris and London; the Warburgs of Hamburg;the Lazards of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome. [J.W. McCallister, an oil industry insider with House of Saud connections,wrote in "The Grim Reaper" that he acquired this informationfrom Saudi bankers]... Ten banks control all twelve Federal Reserve Bank branches- N.M. Rothschild of London, Rothschild Bank of Berlin, WarburgLehmanBrothersLazard Brothers of Paris, Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York,Israel Moses Seif Bank of Italy, Goldman Sachs of New York andJP Morgan Chase Bank of New York. Schauf lists William Rockefeller,Paul Warburg, Jacob Schiff and James Stillman as individuals whoown large shares of the Fed. The Schiffs are insiders at KuhnLoeb. The Stillmans are Citigroup insiders, who married into theRockefeller clan at the turn of the century. [from CPA ThomasD. Schauf]The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is the most powerfulbank in the world, a global central bank for the Eight Familieswho control the private central banks of almost all Western anddeveloping nations.Dean Henderson in his book "TheFederal Reserve Cartel""By the end of the 1890'sJ.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller had become the giants of anincreasingly powerful Money Trust controlling American industryand government policy... Some 60 families - names like Rockefeller,Morgan, Dodge, Mellon, Pratt, Harkness, Whitney, Duke, Harriman,Carnegie, Vanderbilt, DuPont, Guggenheim, Astor, Lehman, Warburg,Taft, Huntington, Baruch and Rosenwald formed a close networkof plutocratic wealth that manipulated, bribed, and bullied itsway to control the destiny of the United States. At the dawn ofthe 20th Century, some sixty ultra-rich families, through dynasticintermarriage and corporate, interconnected shareholdings, hadgained control of American industry and banking institutions."F. William Engdahl in his book"Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the AmericanCentury"BRITISH OLIGARCHYDYNASTIC FAMILIES, BANKS ANDCORPORATIONS"With very few exceptions,offshore banking as a whole is under the thumb of the Britisholigarchy."DOPE, INC.: the international drugcartel, money-laundering, and state power, 1992"Shell Oil is principallyowned by the British royal family."Webster Griffin Tarpley and AntonChaitkin in their book "George Bush : The Unauthorized Biography""Nothing has changed inthe opium-heroin-cocaine trade. It is still run by the same "upperclass" families in Britain and the United States. It is stilla fabulously profitable trade where what seem to be big lossesthrough seizures by the authorities are written off in paneledboardrooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigarsas merely the cost of doing business."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""Hong Kong was set up bythe British, literally from bare rock, as a center for the drugtrade, and remains to this day purely British, and purely a centerfor the drug trade. "Webster Griffin Tarpley and AntonChaitkin in their book "George Bush : The Unauthorized Biography""The Hong Kong and ShanghaiBank [HSBC] and related companies finance the opium trade. Inthis, they are acting as designated agents of the British monarchy,through the Royal Institute of International Affairs."www.bibliotecapleyades.net - Howthe Drug Empire Works"America is run by 300families and England is run by 100 families and these familiesare intertwined through marriage, companies, banks, not to mentionties to the Black Nobility, Freemasonry, the Order of St. Johnof Jerusalem and so on. These are the people who, through theirsurrogates, find ways to protect huge shipments of heroin fromHong Kong, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan and ensure they reach themarket places in the U.S. and Western Europe with the minimumcost of doing business."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The Black Nobility ismostly Europe's oldest and most powerful families... Most of thesefamilies are wealthy beyond belief and may be more powerful todaythan when they sat upon thrones... Privately, the Black Nobilityrefuses to ever recognize any government other than their owninherited and devine right to rule. They work diligently behindthe scenes to cause conditions whereby they might regain theircrowns."Milton William Cooper in his book"Behold A Pale Horse""The bulwark of the Britishfinancial oligarchy lies in its ageless and self-perpetuatingnature, its long-range planning and prescience, its facility tooutwait and break the patience of its opponents. The transientand temporal statesmen of Europe and particularly of Britain itself,who have attempted to curb this monstrosity have all been defeatedby their limited tenure of confidence. Obligated to show actionand results in a too short span of years, they have been outwittedand outwaited, deluged with irritants and difficulties; eventuallyobliged to temporize and retreat. There are few who have opposedthem in Britain and America, without coming to a disgraceful end,but many, who served them well, have also profited well."E.C. Knuth in his book "TheEmpire of The City", 1946"Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdomand of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner ofabout 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth's nonocean surface. She is the only person on earth who owns wholecountries. The value of her land holding is approximately $28,000,000,000,000.This makes her the richest individual on earth."Kevin Cahill in his book "WhoOwns The World""The Eastern Liberal Establishmentfamilies of the United States were just as deeply involved inthe China opium trade as were the British oligarchy, indeed theystill are."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The British pre-eminencemakes the world picture of offshore banking and dirty money morecomprehensible. If the world offshore banking sector appears torun as a single operation under British monarchy control, thatis because the same group of people who run it also run the opiumtraffic whose proceeds this banking sector was created to handle."www.bibliotecapleyades.net - Howthe Drug Empire Works"The British royal family rules the world, but they donot rule it alone. There are at least three other actors: centralbanks, the legacy of Cecil Rhodes, and the immense financial powerof the biggest international banking family, the Rothschilds."Joan Veon"Club of the Isles is aEuropean cartel - centered within the City of London and headedby the House of Windsor - which controls every aspect of the globaleconomy -- banks, insurance and pharmaceutical companies, rawmaterials, transportation, factories, major retail groups, thestock and commodities markets, politicians and governments, media,intelligence agencies, drugs and organized crime."Executive Intelligence Review,1995"The best-protected institutionsof the British oligarchy prefer to launder their dirty money throughCaribbean, Hong Kong, and similar branch operations, rather thanin London itself."www.bibliotecapleyades.net - Howthe Drug Empire Works"To the oligarchs and plutocratsof the Committee of 300, drugs have a two-fold purpose, firstlyto bring in colossal sums of money and secondly, to eventuallyturn a major part of the population into mindless drug zombieswho will be easier to control than people who don't need drugs.Punishment for rebellion will mean withholding of supplies ofheroin, cocaine, marijuana, etc. For this it is necessary to legalizedrugs so that a monopoly system, which has been readied for introductiononce severe economic conditions cause drug usage to proliferateas hundreds of thousands of permanently jobless workers turn todrugs for solace.In one of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA)top secret papers, the scenario is laid out as follows: 'Havingbeen failed by Christianity, and with unemployment on every hand,those who have been without jobs for five years or more will turnaway from the church and seek solace in drugs. That is when fullcontrol of the drug trade must be completed in order that thegovernments of all countries who are under our jurisdiction willhave a monopoly which we will control through supply.... Drugbars will take care of the unruly and the discontent, would berevolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no willof their own'."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300"CENTRAL BANKSCONTROL CENTERS OF MONEY CREATIONAND GLOBAL FINANCE Most sovereign nationsin the world have publically-owned central banks, but they arecontrolled by a global banking oligarchy made up of the largestprivate banks and a few international banking and dynastic families."The central banking systemhas been the most powerful network of institutions in the world;it reigns supreme over the capitalist world order, almost sinceits inception. Central banks are the perfect merger of privateinterests and public power.... Central banks work behind the scenes; their weapons are thefinancial instruments they create and employ. With the strokeof a pen, they can destroy a nation and bankrupt a people."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"Congress... gave the powerto regulate money to a handful of unelected private bankers. Americahas been paying the price ever since... As the Federal Reserveis a private banking institution, every time Congress requisitionsmoney it creates a debt obligation... a transfer of cash [createdout of thin air] from the Fed in exchange for U.S. bonds, resultingin taxpayers paying untold billions of dollars in interest everyyear with no hope of ever being able to reduce the principal.By controlling our money, private Federal Reserve bankers haveindebted us all, forever."Edward F. Mrkvicka, Jr"Since 2008, bad debt frombanks, corporations, and private investors was transferred fromthe balance sheets of private banks to the balance sheets of thecentral banks as a result of nine years of bailout via QE (quantitativeeasing), zero interest rate free money, and other policies ofthe central banks. The central banks bailed out the capitalistsystem in 2008-09 by shifting the bad debts to themselves. Inthe course of the last 9 years, the private system loaded itselfup on still more debt than it had in 2007. Can the central banks,already bloated with $20 trillion bail out bankers and friendsonce again? That's the question. Attempting to unload the $20trillion to make room for the next bailout-as the central banksnow propose to do-may result, however, in precipitating the nextcrisis.... After eight years of treating symptoms and not the disease,the global financial system has become addicted to super-low ratesand to continued central bank excess liquidity provisioning. Whatstarted in 2008 as a massive, somewhat coordinated central banklender of last resort experiment - i.e. global bank bailout -has over the past eight years evolved into a more or less permanentsubsidisation of the private banking and financial systems bycentral banks. The system has become addicted to free money.... What happened was an unprecedented acceleration in financialasset markets as equity and bond prices surged for eight years,high end real estate prices rose to prior levels, derivativesboomed, gold and crypto-currencies escalated in value, and incomeinequality soared to record levels - all fueled by the massive$10 trillion central bank liquidity injections that drove interestrates to zero or below."Jack Rasmus , 2017"Central banks have utilizedand promoted wars for their own profit, starting with the Rothschildinvolvement with the Napoleonic wars, and continuing up to thepresent day."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""Central Banks were created by the Banks for the simple reasonthat Fractional Reserve Banking is incredibly unstable. Thereis an eternal incentive for the banksters to loan out more thanthey can cover with fractional reserves, leading to all sortsof destabilizing busts. This was hurting the Money Power's controlover the money supplies of the World and Central Banks were createdas 'lenders of the last resort': in case of a panic a CentralBank could keep busted banks afloat, maintaining sufficient confidencein the system.Furthermore, they were useful tools for Sovereign borrowing. Thebasic contract between Sovereigns and the Central Banks was, thatthe Central Bank would always provide the State with all the moneyit would ever need, in return for guaranteed interest paymentsthrough taxation.Also important was the monopoly on national currency that is closelyassociated with Central Banking. In earlier days, both in Europeand the US, free banking and local Sovereign money created a diversemonetary environment, more difficult to control for the MoneyPower. By 'legal tender' laws their units became the sole acceptedway of paying taxes, giving the banking units a massive advantagein the market place. These were the early steps in further andfurther monetary centralization in ever fewer units, with WorldCurrency as its final goal.... Central Banks do the bidding of the Money Power's bankingcartel. They keep competition out of the market. They prop upbusted banks, maintaining some kind of 'stability'. They overseeprivate usurious credit creation and maintain the banks' abilityto rake in trillions per year in interest. They allow the banksto create the boom/bust cycle."Anthony Migchels"Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild'sfive sons were sent to the major capitals of Europe - London,Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Naples - with the mission of establishinga banking system that would be outside government control. Theeconomic and political systems of nations would be controllednot by citizens but by bankers, for the benefit of bankers. Eventually,a privately-owned "central bank" was established Innearly every country. This central banking system has now gainedcontrol over the economies of the world. Central banks have theauthority to print money in their respective countries, and itis from these banks that governments must borrow money to paytheir debts and fund their operations. The result is a globaleconomy in which not only industry but government itself runson "credit" (or debt) created by a banking monopolyheaded by a network of private central banks."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"It must not be felt that these heads of the world's chiefcentral banks were themselves substantive powers in world finance.They were not. Rather, they were the technicians and agents ofthe dominant investment bankers of their own countries, who hadraised them up and were perfectly capable of throwing them down.The substantive financial powers of the world were in the handsof these investment bankers (also called 'international' or 'merchants'bankers) who [remained] largely behind the scenes in their ownunincorporated (private banks.] These formed a system of internationalcooperation and national dominance which was more private, morepowerful, and more secret than that of their agents in the centralbanks."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""States, most especiallythe large hegemonic ones, such as the United States and GreatBritain, are controlled by the international central banking system,working through secret agreements at the Bank for InternationalSettlements (BIS), and operating through national central banks(such as the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve). The stateis thus owned by an international banking cartel, and though thestate acts in such a way that proves its continual relevance inthe global economy, it acts so not in terms of self-interest forthe state itself, but for the powerful interests that controlthat state. The same international banking cartel that controlsthe United States today previously controlled Great Britain andheld it up as the international hegemon. When the British orderfaded, and was replaced by the United States, the US ran the globaleconomy. However, the same interests are served. States will beused and discarded at will by the international banking cartel;they are simply tools."Andrew Gavin Marshall in his book"Global Power and Global Government""The first step in having a Central Bank established ina country is to get them to accept an outrageous loans, whichputs the country in debt of the Central Bank and under the controlof the Rothschilds. If the country does not accept the loan, theleader of this particular country will be assassinated and a Rothschildaligned leader will be put into the position, and if the assassinationdoes not work, the country will be invaded and have a CentralBank established with force all under the name of terrorism."www.godlikeproductions.com, 2011"The private issuance ofa nation's money has given tremendous power to central bankers,a power so great that even democratically elected governmentsare subservient to them. Governments are not in control of theeconomy; it is the all-powerful banksters who create the money,determine interest rates, and decide who gets loans and who doesn't."Gabriel Donohoe"Essential to controllinga government is the establishment of a central bank with a monopolyon the country's supply of money and credit."James Perloff in his book "TheShadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the AmericanDecline""There are few historianswho would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I,World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished... through the Federal Reserve System. An overview of all warssince the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggeststhat most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity,or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money. It is theability of governments to acquire money without direct taxationthat makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has becomethe preferred method of accomplishing that."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""States, most especiallythe large hegemonic ones, such as the United States and GreatBritain, are controlled by the international central banking system,working through secret agreements at the Bank for InternationalSettlements (BIS), and operating through national central banks(such as the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve)... The sameinternational banking cartel that controls the United States todaypreviously controlled Great Britain and held it up as the internationalhegemon. When the British order faded, and was replaced by theUnited States, the US ran the global economy. However, the sameinterests are served. States will be used and discarded at willby the international banking cartel; they are simply tools."Andrew Gavin Marshall"Central banks buying stocksare effectively nationalizing US corporations just to maintainthe illusion that their "recovery" plan is working.At first, their entry into the stock market was only intendedto rescue imperiled corporations during the first plunge intothe Great Recession, but their efforts have shifted to proppingup the entire stock market.... Central banks should not buy stocks because their capacityto rig the markets is infinite, and they have no investment risk.They can buy and hold forever, and they can create new money toreplace any they lose.... Central banks buy stocks to maintain the illusion of recoveryand to have someplace to put the money they keep on their balancesheets. Then they cannot sell those without crashing their ownstock markets. So, the game continues to spiral upward.... Twenty years ago central banks didn't even think of buyingstocks. It may have happened in odd instances, but it was an anomalyif it did as a way to save a specific bank or credit union. Duringour first plunge into the Great Recession, the Federal Reserveand the US Treasury bought up large amounts of stock in orderto save companies that were either vital to US employment or tofinancial markets that were dying from their own mistakes. Thosewere efforts to save specific key corporations.... In subsequent years, the Bank of Japan and the Peoples Bankof China soaked up stocks in massive amounts more or less acrossthe board, not to save specific vital companies but to save theirstock markets. The Chinese seized total central control of theirmarket, even mandating that certain speculators stay out of themarket, mandating that various proxies buy large volumes of stocksand locking the stocks that were falling worst out of trading.... As a result, they created a centrally controlled illusionthat is not a free market at all; it is merely a fatalisticallypredetermined game in which the government has decided "themarket" will do well. To achieve that end, the governmentor its central bank does whatever it needs to in order to keepstocks up. We all know China's market became completely rigged.We are just now seeing in the mainstream media that the US stockmarket is also increasingly rigged by central banks buying stocks.... With central banks having the capacity to create money bydecree anytime they want to, investment risk means nothing. Loseyour money, it ceases to exist. In that case, just create moreof it.... With their ability to create unlimited amounts at zero cost,their capacity to move markets they choose to invest in is almostunlimited.... A free "market" now only exists in textbooks. Soviet-stylecentral planning is the only game in town, pushing market participantsout of the "market", until only central banks are leftbidding on each other's otherwise worthless stock certificates."David Haggith, 2017"We have major centralbanks around the world that continue to print money. These centralbanks buy assets with that freshly printed money. That means,stocks, bonds and commodities go higher."Brian Rich, Forbes magazine"A private central bankissuing the public currency is a greater menace to the libertiesof the people than a standing army...We must not let our rulersload us with perpetual debt."Thomas Jefferson"The Rothschilds have amajority stake in nearly all the central banks in the world."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""Central banks have utilizedand promoted wars for their own profit, starting with the Rothschildinvolvement with the Napoleonic wars, and continuing up to thepresent day."G. Edward Griffin in his book"The Creature from Jekyll Island""The most vital and powerfulforce within the capitalist global political economy is the centralbanking system... the central banking system, is also the sourceof the greatest wealth and power, essentially managing capitalism- controlling the credit and debt of both government and industry."Andrew Gavin Marshall, GlobalResearch"Central banks are integralto the modern fiat monetary system, and the power and influenceinvested in this role is such that central banks, and, more importantly,those who control them, have an immense impact on human affairs.The evolution of the banking system from earliest times has involvednot only empirical, accidental modifications, but, also of a secret,concerted, plan to create a financial system of supremely corruptingand corruptible capacity. It was not until the 18th century thatthe secret plan was brought to its perfect form by the creationof banking dynasties, especially the Rothschilds, and the perfectingof a vehicle of transmission - central banks. The model for thisperfect vehicle is the Bank of England.""Bank of England" fromwww.overlordsofchaos.com/"Powerful private familiesdecide who controls the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England,the Bank of Japan and even the European Central Bank. Money isin their hands to destroy or create. Their aim is the ultimatecontrol over future life on this planet, a supremacy earlier dictatorsand despots only ever dreamt of."F. William Engdahl"The private issuance of a nation's money has given tremendouspower to central bankers, a power so great that even democraticallyelected governments are subservient to them. Governments are notin control of the economy; it is the all-powerful banksters whocreate the money, determine interest rates, and decide who getsloans and who doesn't."Gabriel Donohoe"Eventually international bankers owned as private corporationsthe central banks of the various European nations. The Bank ofEngland, Bank of France and Bank of Germany were not owned bytheir respective governments, as almost everyone imagines, butwere privately owned monopolies granted by the heads of state,usually in return for loans."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bankof New York, and Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England,who worked closely together throughout the 1920s, decided to usethe financial power of Britain and the United States to forceall the major countries of the world to go on the gold standardand to operate it through central banks free from all politicalcontrol, with all questions of international finance to be settledby agreements by such central banks without interference fromgovernments. These men were not working for the governments andnations of whom they purportedly represented, but were the techniciansand agents of the dominant investment bankers of their own countries,who had raised them up and were perfectly capable of throwingthem down."Andrew Gavin Marshall in hisbook "Global Power and Global Government""The Rothschilds have a majority stake in nearly all thecentral banks in the world."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"CITY OF LONDON CORPORATIONTHE "CITY" , THE"SQUARE MILE", THE "CROWN":EPICENTER OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CAPITALISM "With the exception ofa few thousand very powerful people, the entire world's population,all seven billion of us, are trapped into a criminal debt creatingbanking 'system' that has taken hundreds of years to perfect andto come to fruition. This 'system' results in enslavement andservitude. It creates dreadful unhappiness amongst ordinary decentpeople and causes wars, debt, starvation, pollution and environmentaldestruction. It feeds on greed, fear and division. It forces peopleonto the corporate treadmills of mass mindless production andmass mindless consumption. It uses lies, deception, intimidationand entrapment at all times. It is a system that is so cleverand so cunning that most of the world is completely obliviousto its existence. It is a system that allows a few winners atthe expense of a huge number of losers. It is a system that considersitself to be unbeatable and indestructible and is now so arrogantthat it believes it can control everything and everyone on itsterms. It is a system where psychopaths and sociopaths can flourish.And without question the center of this system, the heart of thisglobal corporate beast is the innocent sounding Square Mile knownas the City of London."Justin Walker"London's inner city is a privately owned corporationor city state, located right in the middle of greater London.It became a sovereign state in 1694 when King William III of Orangeprivatised & turned the Bank of England over to the bankers.Today, the City State of London is the world's financial powercentre & the wealthiest square mile on the face of the Earth.It houses the Rothschild controlled Bank of England, Lloyds ofLondon, the London stock exchange, all British banks, the branchoffices of 385 foreign banks & 70 US banks. It has its owncourts, its own laws, its own flag & its own police force.It is not part of greater London, or England, or the British Commonwealth& pays no taxes. The City State of London houses Fleet Street'snewspaper & publishing monopolies. It is also the headquartersfor world wide English Freemasonry & headquarters for theworld wide money cartel known as The Crown.Contrary to popular belief, The Crown is not the Royal Familyor the British Monarch. The Crown is the private corporate CityState of London. It has a council of 12 members who rule the corporationunder a mayor, called the Lord Mayor. The Lord mayor & his12 member council serves as proxies or representatives who sit-infor 13 of the worlds wealthiest, most powerful banking families,including the Rothschild family, the Warburg family, the Oppenheimerfamily & the Schiff family. These families and their descendantsrun the Crown Corporation of London.The Crown Corporation holds the title to world wide Crown landin Crown colonies like Canada, Australia & New Zealand. Britishparliament & the British prime minister serve as a publicfront for the hidden power of these ruling crown families."The Hidden Empire, http://lightworkersxm.wordpress.com/,August 4, 2012"The City of London catersfor those above the law, it operates on the basis of bypassingdemocratic society as a whole. This has come about over time wherean extraordinary ' gentlemen's agreement' has stood the test oftime. Over the centuries, the head of state and his/her governmentshave had the need for large loans for wars and the like. The City,in exchange for such commodity, has extracted certain privilegesthe rest of the population do not enjoy. The end result over thetime is that it now has its own jurisdiction to do pretty muchas it pleases.... The City of London has its own private funding and will 'buy-off'any attempt to erode its powers; any scrutiny of its financialaffairs are put beyond external inspection or audit.truepublica.org.uk, 2016""London has moreforeign banks than any other financial centre: by 2008 it accountedfor half of all international trade in equities, nearly 45 percent of over-the-counter derivatives turnover, 70 per cent ofEurobond turnover, 35 per cent of global currency trading and55 per cent of all international public offerings. New York isbigger in areas like securitisation, insurance, mergers and acquisitions,and asset management, but much of its business is domestic, makingLondon the world's biggest international - and offshore - financialhub."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""When people hear of 'TheCrown' they automatically think of the King or Queen of England;when they hear of 'London' or 'The City' they instantly thinkof the capital of England in which the monarch has his or herofficial residence. ... When we speak of 'The City' we are in fact referring to aprivately owned Corporation - or Sovereign State - occupying anirregular rectangle of 677 acres and located right in the heartof the 610 square mile 'Greater London' area.... The 'Crown' is a committee of twelve to fourteen men who rulethe independent sovereign state known as London or 'The City.''The City' is not part of England. It is not subject to the Sovereign.It is not under the rule of the British parliament. Like the Vaticanin Rome, it is a separate, independent state. It is the Vaticanof the commercial world.The City, which is often called "the wealthiest square mileon earth," is ruled over by a Lord Mayor. Here are groupedtogether Britain's great financial and commercial institutions,wealthy banks, dominated by the privately-owned (Rothschild controlled)Bank of England."Des Griffin in his book "Descent Into Slavery?""The City of London, withits own borders and police force, sits within the Isles of Britainas an international hub, the tax haven of all tax havens. Thebanks use offshore business organisations to escape regulationand the grip these organisations have over an ever weakened andcorrupt political class is utterly astounding. The Conservativeparty is literally bankrolled by bankers and hedge funds. Halfof the wealthiest hedge fund managers in the land pay millionseach year to the Tories."Graham Vanbergen"The head of the [Cityof London] Corporation is the Lord Mayor of London, not to beconfused with the mayor of London, who is head of the much largerGreater London municipality which contains the tiny City [of London]but has no jurisdiction at all over it. The Lord Mayor's principalrole today is ambassador for all UK-based financial and professionalservices.... The [City of London] Corporation is one of the most powerfulplayers, if not the most powerful, in global financial regulation.Through myriad subtle levers and influences, it exerts an invisibleinfluence on Britain's financial regulators and politicians.... As Britain's mainstream political system has evolved overthe centuries, the City [of London] has been a fortress withstandingthe tides of history that have transformed the rest of the Britishnation state. Its special privileges stem ultimately from thepower of financial capital. Britain's rulers have needed the City'smoney and given the City what it wants in exchange.... Britain's entire political system derives, in a sense, fromthe City of London Corporation.Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""Over and over again wehave seen that there is in this country another power than thatwhich has its seat at Westminster. The City of London, a convenientterm for a collection of financial interests, is able to assertitself against the Government of the country. Those who controlmoney can pursue a policy at home and abroad contrary to thatwhich has been decided by the people."British Prime Minister ClementAttlee (1945-1951)"The City of London nowstands as money launderer of the world, the capital of globalcrime. It is the heart and engine of the offshore haven, withJersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man its european collection centres,the caribbean and others hoovering up billions of dollars fromall over the globe... It has a dark and shadowy client list; terrorists,drug barons, arms dealers, politicians, corporations and companies,millionaires, billionaires - most with something to hide."Graham Vanbergen, 2016"British financiers tookthe power of controlling the markets of the world... Loans toforeign countries are organized and arranged by the City of London... solely in order to increase indebtedness upon which the Citythrives and grows rich .... This national and mainly internationaldictatorship of money plays off one country against another."Vincent Cartwright Vickers, 1910"The City of London nowstands as money launderer of the world, described now as the capitalof the global crime scene. It is the heart and engine of the offshorehaven, with Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man its europeancollection centres, the caribbean and others hoovering up billionsof American dollars from all over the globe. Whilst there aregood and legal reasons for offshore accounts, it has a dark andshadowy client list; terrorists, drug barons, arms dealers, despots,dictators, shady politicians, corporations and companies, millionairesand billionaires - most with something to hide."truepublica.org.uk, 2016"The City of London Isthe centre of the most important part of the global offshore system.The City's offshore network has three main layers. Two inner rings- Britain's Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isleof Man; and its Overseas Territories, such as the Cayman Islands- are substantially controlled by Britain. The outer ring is amore diverse array of havens, like Hong Kong, which are outsideBritain's direct control but nevertheless have strong historicaland current links to the country and the City of London. One authoritativeaccount estimates that this British grouping overall accountsfor well over a third of all international bank assets; add theCity of London and the total is almost a half."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""England is a financialoligarchy run by the "Crown" which refers to the "Cityof London" not the Queen. The City of London is run by theBank of England, a private corporation. The square-mile-largeCity is a sovereign state located in the heart of greater London."Henry Makow, 2004"Two separate empires wereoperating under the guise of the British Empire. One was the CrownEmpire and the other was the British Empire.All the colonial possessions that were white were under the Sovereign- i.e. under the authority of the British government. Such nationsas the Union of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canadawere governed under British law. These only represented thirteenpercent of the people who made up the inhabitants of the BritishEmpire.All the other parts of the British Empire - nations like India,Egypt, Bermuda, Malta, Cyprus and colonies in Central Africa,Singapore, Hong Kong and Gibraltar (those areas inhabited by thebrowns, yellows and blacks) were all Crown colonies. These werenot under British rule. The British parliament had no authorityover them. They were privately owned and ruled by a private clubin London, England, known as the Crown.... The City reaped fantastic profits from its operations conductedunder the protection of the British armed forces. This wasn'tBritish commerce and British wealth. It was the Crown's commerceand the Crown's wealth. The international bankers, prosperousmerchants and the British aristocracy who were part of the City'machine' accumulated vast fortunes."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""A new market had emerged,ushering in the rebirth of London as the world's largest financialcentre... The financial establishment in London was piecing togetherthe means by which London would restore its position as the capitalof a world ruled in the interests of an elite of investors...The British empire began rise from the dead."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The City of London catersto those above the law, it operates on the basis of bypassingdemocratic society as a whole. This has come about over time wherean extraordinary 'gentlemens agreement' has stood the test oftime. The head of state and his/her governments have the needof large loans for wars and the like, the City, in exchange forsuch commodity has extracted certain privileges the rest of thepopulation do not enjoy. The end result over the centuries isthat it now has its own financial jurisdiction to do pretty muchas it pleases.... The City of London has its own private funding and will 'buy-off'any attempt to erode its powers; any scrutiny of its financialaffairs are put beyond external inspection or audit."Graham Vanbergen"The Independent newspaper(London) reported in July 2015 that The City of London is themoney-laundering centre of the world's drug trade, according toan internationally acclaimed crime expert. Another expert in Mafiacriminology has come forward and stated the UK is now the mostcorrupt country in the world and firmly pins the blame on TheCity of London. In addition, every notable financial expert nowagrees that due to incredibly lax financial laws facilitated bythe British government, the London property market is heavilyinfluenced by laundered money from all over the world involvinghidden tax havens, most of which are British.In 2016, the Home Affairs Select Committee concluded that theLondon property market was the primary avenue for the launderingof £100bn of illicit money a year. "truepublica.org.uk, 2016"Both E. C. Knuth, in hisbook 'Empire of the City', and Des Griffin, in his book 'Descentinto Slavery', stated their belief that 'The City' is actuallya sovereign state (much like the Vatican), and that since theestablishment of the privately owned Bank of England in 1694,'The City' has actually become the last word in the country'snational affairs, with Prime Minister, Cabinet, and Parliamentbecoming only a front for the real power. According to Knuth,when the Queen enters 'The City,' she is subservient to the LordMayor (under him, is a committee of 12-14 men, known as 'The Crown'),because this privately-owned corporation is not subject to theQueen, nor to Parliament."David Allen Rivera in his book"Final Warning: A History of the New World Order""By the 1980s, the City[of London] was at the centre of a great, secretive financialweb cast across the globe, each of whose sections - the individualhavens - trapped passing money and business from nearby jurisdictionsand fed them up to the City: just as a spider catches insects.So, a complex cross-border merger involving a US multinationalmight, say, route a lot of the transaction through Caribbean havens,whose British firms will then send much of the heavy lifting work,and profits, up to the City.The Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guern_sey and the Isle of Man,which focus heavily on European business, form the web's innerring. In the second quarter of 2009, Jersey alone provided £135bnin bank deposits upstreamed to the City. Jersey Finance, the taxhaven's promotional body, puts the relationship plainly: "Jerseyis an extension of the City of London."The next ring of the web contains the British overseas territories,such as the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. Like the Crown dependencies,they have governors appointed by the Queen and are controlledby Britain in myriad ways, but with enough distance to allow Britainto say "There is nothing we can do" when it suits.The web's outer ring contains an assortment of havens, such asMauritius in the Indian Ocean, Hong Kong and the Bahamas, whichBritain does not control but which still feed billions in businessto the City from around the world."Nicholas Shaxson"For thirty years Londonhas been engaged in a second empire project. We have run hugetrade deficits for over thirty years ... They dealt with thattrade deficit by sucking in money from wholesale markets on thebasis of better returns than could be got elsewhere. This wasinvented by Margaret Thatcher: the idea was that we would becomefinancial dealers for oligarchs and oil people from around theworld."Jim Cousins, a member of the UKTreasury Select Committee"In 1694, King William III of the House of Orange privatizedthe Bank of England, established the City of London, and turnedcontrol of England's money over to an elite group of internationalbankers. Like Vatican City, the City of London (not to be confusedwith Greater London) is a privately owned corporation operatingunder its own flag, with its own constitution and free from thelegal constraints that govern the rest of us. This action pavedthe way for a private cartel of international bankers to embarkon a plan of implementing world governance.""How the City of London ControlsWorld Power" an aricle from thedailybell.com"Margaret Thatcher invented the idea that the City of Londonwould become financial dealers for oligarchs and oil people fromaround the world."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The City of London withits own borders and police force, sits inside London as an internationalhub, the tax haven of all tax havens. Glass towers full of internationalcrime lords. The banks use offshore business organisations toescape regulation and the grip these organisations have over anever corrupt political class is incomprehensibly astounding. The Conservative party is literally bankrolled by bankers andhedge funds. Half of the wealthiest hedge fund managers in theland pay millions each year to the Tories - what do they expectback from their investment? Not just hundreds of millions of stampduty exemptions and taxes the hedge funds no longer have to pay."truepublica.org.uk, 2016"In the heart of London,England, the financial district is known as 'The City,' or the'Square Mile.' All major British banks have their main officeshere, along with branch offices for 385 foreign banks, including70 from the United States... It is virtually the financial hubof the world."David Allen Rivera in his book"Final Warning: A History of the New World Order""England, Scotland, Wales,and, especially, Northern Ireland, are today little more thanslave plantations and social engineering laboratories, servingthe needs of ...the City of London.European dynastic families constitute a financial oligarchy; theyare the power behind the Windsor throne [Britain]. They view themselvesas the heirs to the Venetian oligarchy, which infiltrated andsubverted England from the period 1509-1715, and established anew, more virulent, Anglo-Dutch-Swiss strain of the oligarchicsystem of imperial Babylon, Persia, Rome, and Byzantium.The City of London dominates the world's speculative markets.A tightly interlocking group of corporations, involved in rawmaterials extraction, finance, insurance, transportation, andfood production, controls the lion's share of the world market,and exerts virtual ``choke point'' control over world industry."historian Jeffrey SteinbergCLUB OF THE ISLESEUROPE'S GLOBAL FOOD, OILAND MINING CARTEL"Club of the Isles isa vast network of private financial interests, controlled by theleading aristocratic and royal families of Europe. It is modeledon the 17th-century British and Dutch East India Company models.The Rothschild family has been at the financial heart of the Clubof the Isles.The Club of the Isles is centered in the City of London."William Engdahl , Executive IntelligenceReview, 1997"Club of the Isles is aEuropean cartel - centered within the City of London and headedby the House of Windsor - which controls every aspect of the globaleconomy including banks, insurance and pharmaceutical companies,raw materials, transportation, factories, major retail groups,the stock and commodities markets, politicians and governments,media, intelligence agencies, drugs and organized crime.""The Windsors' Global FoodCartel: Instrument for Starvation" an article by ExecutiveIntelligence Review, 1995"Today the Rothschild'scontrol a far-flung financial empire, which includes majoritystakes in most world central banks. The Edmond de Rothschild clanowns the Banque Privee SA in Lugano, Switzerland and the RothschildBank AG of Zurich. The family of Jacob Lord Rothschild owns thepowerful Rothschild Italia in Milan. They are founding membersof the exclusive $10 trillion Club of the Isles - which controlscorporate giants Royal Dutch Shell, Imperial Chemical Industries,Lloyds of London, Unilever, Barclays, Lonrho, Rio Tinto Zinc,BHP Billiton and Anglo American DeBeers. It dominates the worldsupply of petroleum, gold, diamonds, and many other vital rawmaterials."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""You will not read aboutthe Club of the Isles in any textbook or popular magazine. Itis unincorporated and it has no membership lists. Yet, as an informalassociation of predominantly European-based royal households andprincely families, the Club of the Isles commands an estimated$10 trillion in assets. It lords over such corporate giants asRoyal Dutch Shell, Imperial Chemical Industries, Lloyds of London,Unilever, Lonrho, Rio Tinto Zinc, and Anglo American DeBeers.It dominates the world supply of petroleum, gold, diamonds, andmany other vital raw materials; and deploys these assets not merelyin the pursuit of wealth, but as resources at the disposal ofits geopolitical agenda. Its goal: to reduce the human populationfrom its current level of over 5 billion people to below 1 billionpeople within the next two to three generations in the interestof retaining their own global power and the feudal system uponwhich that power is based.""The Coming Fall of theHouse of Windsor" an article from The New Federalist newspaper,1994"Club of the Isles isan immensely influencial network of institutions and companiescontrolled by the British House of Windsor and the Black NobilityEuropean dynastic families. It is a web of interlocking directorshipswhich hold independent companies in a network of common controland common agenda.European dynastic family members of this web include: House ofGuelph/House of Windsor, Britain; House of Wettin, Belgium; Houseof Bernadotte, Sweden; House of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein;House of Oldenburg, Denmark; House of Hohenzollern, Germany; Houseof Hanover, Germany (the second most important one); House ofBourbon, France; House of Orange, Netherlands; House of Grimaldi,Monaco; House of Wittelsbach, Germany; House of Braganza, Portugal;House of Nassau, Luxembourg; House of Habsburg, Austria; Houseof Savoy, Italy; House of Karadjordjevic, Yugoslavia (former);House of Württemberg, Germany; House of Zogu, Albania.Bank and corporate members include: The Bank of England, Anglo-AmericanCorp of South Africa, Rio Tinto, De Beers Consolidated Mines andDe Beers Centenary AG, N.M. Rothchild Bank, Barclays Bank, LloydsBank, Midland Bank, National Westminster Bank, Barings Bank, SchrodersBank, Standard Chartered Bank, Hambros Bank, S. G. Warburg, TorontoDominion Bank, Lazard Brothers, Lonrho, J. P. Morgan and Co, BritishPetroleum. Shell and Royal Dutch Petroleum, General Electric,HSBS Holdings (Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank), Imperial ChemicalIndustries, ING Group, Jardine Matheson, Peninsular and OrientalSteam Navigation Co, Reuters, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Vickers.Environmental Organizations established and controlled by theClub of the Isles include: World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, Friendsof the Earth, Sierra Club, Earth First, Sea Shepard, RainforestAction Network."David Icke"The Club of the Islesprovides capital for George Soros' Quantum Fund NV - which madesubstantial financial gains in 1998-99 following the collapseof currencies of Thailand, Indonesia and Russia. The Club of Islesis led by the Rothschilds and includes Queen Elizabeth II andother wealthy European aristocrats and Nobility."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""The "Club of the Isles" is an informal associationof predominantly European-based royal households including theQueen of England. The Club of the Isles commands an estimated$10 trillion in assets. It lords over such corporate giants asRoyal Dutch Shell, Imperial Chemical Industries, Lloyds of London,Unilever, Lonrho, Rio Tinto Zinc, and Anglo American DeBeers.It dominates the world supply of petroleum, gold, diamonds, andmany other vital raw materials; and deploys these assets at thedisposal of its geopolitical agenda.Its goal: to reduce the human population from its current levelto below one billion people within the next two to three generations;to literally ``cull the human herd'' in the interest of retainingtheir own global power and the feudal system upon which that poweris based."Henry MakowVladimir Lenin / Jacob SchiffCOMMUNISM AND THE BOLSHEVIKREVOLUTION FUNDED BY THE RICHEST CAPITALISTSIN THE WORLD "In the Bolshevik Revolutionwe have some of the world's richest and most powerful men financinga movement which claims its very existence is based on the conceptof stripping of their wealth, men like the Rothschids, Rockefellers,Schiffs, Warburgs, Morgans, Harrimans, and Milners. But obviouslythese men have no fear of international Communism. It is onlylogical to assume that if they financed it and do not fear it,it must be because they control it."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""Jacob Schiff was the Rothschildagent who had taken over control of Kuhn, Loeb and Company, theinternational banking house, on behalf of his European masters.Schiff had come into his own on the American banking scene someyears earlier when, in his capacity as the Rothschilds' top agentin the United States, he arranged financing for John D. Rockefeller'sStandard Oil, the railroad empire of Edward Harriman and the steelempire of Andrew Carnegie.When Leon Trotsky's private army, whose 'boot camp' was locatedon Standard Oil property in New jersey, was sufficiently trainedfor its campaign of subversion and terror, they sailed from NewYork on the S.S. Kristianiafiord bound for Russia. With them onthe ship was $20,000,000 in gold, supplied by international bankerJacob Schiff.... The Red Army, under the direction of Trotsky, was the deadlytool of the Rothschild dominated international bankers."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""Virtually the entire communistproject in world domination and terror - from the original Bolshevikrevolution and the building up of Stalin, to Chairman Mao's murderoustakeover of China and Fidel Castro's bloody rise to power in Cuba- has been facilitated every step of the way by Western globalists."Alex Newman"The drive of the Rockefellersand their allies is to create a one-world government combiningsuper capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all undertheir control. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convincedthere is such a plot, international in scope, generations oldin planning, and incredibly evil in intent."Congressman Lawrence] P. McDonald,1976"In 1905, while Russiawas engaged in the Russo-Japanese War, the Communists tried toget the farmers to revolt against the Czar, but they refused.After this aborted attempt, the Russian Czar deposited $400,000,000in the Chase Bank, National City Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, theHanover Trust Bank, and Manufacturers Trust Bank, and $80,000,000in the Rothschild Bank in Paris, because he knew who was behindthe growing revolutionary movement, and hoped to end it.The Rothschilds, through Alfred Milner, planned the Russian Revolution,and along with Schiff (who gave $20 million), Sir George Buchanan,the Warburgs, the Rockefellers, the partners of J.P. Morgan (whogave at least $1 million), Olaf Aschberg (of the Nye Bank of Stockholm,Sweden), the Rhine Westphalian Syndicate, a financier named Jovotovsky(whose daughter later married Leon Trotsky), William Boyce Thompson(a director of Chase National Bank who contributed $1 million),and Albert H. Wiggin (President of Chase National Bank), helpedfinance it.The Rockefellers had given their financial support to the RussianRevolution after the Czar refused to give them access to the Russianoil fields, which were already being pumped by the Royal DutchCo. (owned by the Rothschilds and the Nobel brothers) and givingStandard Oil plenty of competition on the international market.Even though John D. Rockefeller possessed $15,000,000 in bondsfrom the Royal Dutch Co. and Shell, rather than purchase stockto get his foot in the door and indirectly profit, he helped tofinance the Revolution so that he would be able to get StandardOil firmly established in the country of Russia. As the Congressof Vienna (1814) had shown, the Illuminati had never been ableto control the affairs of Russia, so they had to get rid of theCzar so he couldn't interfere with their plans."Antony Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Bolshevik Revolution""Communism is the ultimatemonopoly, not only controlling the government, the monetary systemand all property, but also a monopoly which, like the corporationsit emulates, is self-perpetuating and eternal."Eustace C. Mullins in his book"The Rockefeller Syndicate""The Bolsheviks succeededin Russia because they had what other revolutionaries lacked -limitless cash.... Jacob Schiff and Federal Reserve founder Paul Warburg ranKuhn, Loeb - the Rothschilds' New York banking satellite. Schiffsupplied $20 million in gold to Leon Trotsky, who sailed fromNew York with 275 other terrorists on a passport obtained throughpressure the bankers put on the Woodrow Wilson administration.... In Germany, Paul Warburg's brother Max Warburg helped persuadethe government to provide millions to Lenin and allow him to crossGermany with other revolutionaries in a special train. The Germansagreed because the Bolsheviks promised to remove Russia from theFirst World War after taking power.... Bolshevik leader Alexander Kerensky received $1 million fromJacob Schiff. During summer 1917, when it was revealed the Bolshevikswere on Germany's payroll, Kerensky protected them. When the Bolsheviksmoved to seize power that autumn, he declined the option of requestingtroops to preserve the government. Lenin and Trotsky gave Kerenskymoney and safe passage out. He died wealthy in 1970 in New York."James Perloff"Monopoly capitalists arethe bitter enemies of laissez-faire entrepreneurs; and, giventhe weaknesses of socialist central planning, the totalitariansocialist state is a perfect captive market for monopoly capitalists,if an alliance can be made with the socialist powerbrokers."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Bolshevik Revolution", 1974"This new and completeRevolution we contemplate can be defined in a very few words.It is outright world socialism; scientifically planned and directed...The term 'Internationalism' has been popularized in recent yearsto cover an interlocking financial, political, and economic worldforce for the purpose of establishing a World Government."author HG Wells"During the 1920s Russianindustry was effectively rebuilt by US corporations, with severalof Lenin's five-year plans financed by Wall Street banks. Theaim was to prepare Russia for WWII, where it effectively won thewar for the allies but was largely ruined (again) in the processand, like the other European powers, incurred massive debt toWall Street and London bankers."Joe Quinn"Jacob Schiff sank about$20,000,000 for the final triumph of Bolshevism in Russia. OtherNew York banking firms also contributed."Cholly Knickerbocker, New YorkJournal American, 3 February 1949"The Mellons, Carnegies,Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Dukes, Astors, Dorrances, Reynoidses,Stilimans, Bakers, Pynes, Cuilmans, Watsons, Dukes, Kleinwarts,DuPonts, Warburgs, Phippses, Graces, Guggenheims, Milners, Drexels,Winthrops, Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Harkuesses and other super richfamilies generally get along quite well with Communists, who supposedlywant to take away the wealth of these men and give it to the people.However, this is only double talk designed to bolster the superstructureof delusion that Communists are the enemies of all Capitalists.But Communists, like the super rich families, are not the enemiesof monopoly capitalism: they are the foes of free enterprise."David Hill, in his unpublishedmanuscript"The main purveyors offunds for the [Russian] revolution were neither the crackpot Russianmillionaires nor the armed bandits of Lenin. The 'real' moneyprimarily came from certain British and American circles whichfor a long time past had lent their support to the Russian revolutionarycause... I have been told that over 21 million rubles were spentby Lord [Alfred] Milner in financing the Russian Revolution."Russian General Arsene de Goulevitch,who witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution firsthand"Russian democracy hasbecome victorious, and thanks are due to the Jew that the Russian[Bolshevik] Revolution succeeded."Jacob Schiff, to the Jewish Leagueof American Patriots, May 3, 1917"If one understands thesocialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in realitya method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seemingparadox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradoxat all. Instead, it becomes logical, even the perfect tool ofpower-seeking megalomaniacs.Communism, or more accurately socialism, its not a movement ofthe downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite."Gary Allen from the documentary"The Money Masters: How Banks Create the World's Money""We find persistent recurrenceof the same names: Owen Young, Gerard Swope, Hjalmar Schacht,Bernard Baruch, etc.; the same international banks: J. P. Morgan,Guaranty Trust, Chase Bank.This group of international bankers backed the Bolshevik Revolutionand subsequently profited from the establishment of a Soviet Russia.This group backed Roosevelt and profited from New Deal socialism.This group also backed Hitler and certainly profited from Germanarmament in the 1930s."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler", 1976"By imposing the BolshevikRevolution on Russia, Wall Street ensured that it could not competewith the USA. For the next 70 years, the 'managers of the world'in the US and Western Europe expanded their global dominationthrough the use of a bogus "Communist threat" (whichthey created). In the late 1980s, the Western banking elite decidedthat their global power was sufficient to allow them to pull backthe 'iron curtain' and, once again, open Russia up, but this timefor some 'free market', 'open society' neo-liberal plunder. Allwas going to plan for most of the 1990s until Vladimir Putin arrivedon the scene and began to spoil the Western elites' 'we rule theworld' party."Joe Quinn"Through the Roosevelt,Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations its ideology isconstant: That the best way to fight Communism is by a One WorldSocialist state governed by "experts" like themselves.The result has been policies which favor the growth of the superstate,gradual surrender of United States sovereignty to the United Nationsand a steady retreat in the face of Communist aggression."Kermit Roosevelt, 1961"International bankersarranged the Bolshevik coup in Russia in 1917, and then supportedthe regime thereafter, both for the profit involved and, presumably,to build up a "credible enemy.""G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""One barrier to matureunderstanding of recent history is the notion that all capitalistsare the bitter and unswerving enemies of all Marxists and Socialists.This erroneous idea originated with Karl Marx and was undoubtedlyuseful to his purposes. In fact, the idea is nonsense. There hasbeen a continuing, albeit concealed, alliance between internationalpolitical capitalists and international revolutionary socialists- to their mutual benefit."Antony Sutton in his book "WallStreet And The Bolshevik Revolution""The so-called demise ofCommunism is a Great Deception, having been stage managed forthe transition to world government."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island: a second look at the Federal Reserve""Cecil Rhodes understoodclearly that the only way [the Western banking/corporate/politicalelite] were going rule the world was to ensure that Russia neveremerged as a competitor to their center of operations - London,and then the USA. From a practical perspective, to achieve thatgoal they were going to have to perpetually marginalize Russiaon the Eurasian continent and prevent European nations, in particularWestern European nations, from ever forming an alliance with Russia.That task began in earnest in the late 1890s. It continues tothis day."Joe Quinn"The technique, used bythe monopolists to gouge society, was set forth in the early twentiethcentury by Frederick C. Howe 'Confessions of a Monopolist'. First,says Howe, politics is a necessary part of business. To controlindustries it is necessary to control Congress and the regulatorsand thus make society go to work for you, the monopolist. So,according to Howe, the two principles of a successful monopolistare, "First, let Society work for you; and second, make abusiness of politics.'"Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Bolshevik Revolution", 1974"Jacob Schiff of the firmof Kuhn, Loeb and Company in New York [was] the top Rothschildagent in the United States and the main financial backer of theBolshevik Revolution in 1917."Sir Edward Cassel in his book "FromManifest Destiny", 1953"If you wanted a nationalmonopoly, you must control a national socialist government. Ifyou want a worldwide monopoly, you must control a world socialistgovernment. That is what the game is all about. "Communism"is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but is a movementcreated, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires inorder to gain control over the world, first by establishing socialistgovernments in the various nations and then consolidating themall through a "Great Merger," into an all-powerful world,socialist super-state."Gary Allen"During the civil war inRussia between the Reds and the Whites, while Wall Street financierswere aiding the Bolsheviks quietly, they also began to financeAleksandr Kolchak (of the Whites) with millions of dollars, inorder to ensure that whoever emerged victorious in the war, WallStreet would win."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Bolshevik Revolution", 1974"The international bankersmade a huge capital investment in the Bolshevik Revolution andin the totalitarian regime that resulted from it. Since that timethey have used Russia as their 'foil' in the plan to conquer theworld."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""Since coming to powerVladimir Putin has made moves to do to Russia precisely that whichthe Western banking elite spent over 100 years trying to prevent:make it a strong independent country, free (to the greatest extentpossible) of the Western bankers' toxic influence. Even worse,Putin's plan does not seem to be limited merely to freeing Russia,but includes the idea of using Russia's influence to establisha new 'new world order', based not on the hegemony of the few,but on multipolarity, real national sovereignty, mutual respect,and genuinely fair trade among nations. In their 15 short yearsat the helm in Russia, Putin and his friends have gone a longway towards achieving their goals. The response from the Westernelite has been interesting to watch. From NATO's attempts to encircleRussia in Eastern Europe, to economic sanctions imposed on thebasis of trumped-up charges, to sabotaging Russia-EU economicrelations, to staging a coup in Ukraine in 2014, to manipulatingthe price of oil and assassinating 'opposition figures' insideand outside Russia; the anglo-American elite are resorting toincreasingly desperate and hysterical measures to maintain theglobal imbalance they worked so hard to achieve.'Joe Quinn"There is a partnershipbetween international monopoly capitalism and international revolutionarysocialism for their mutual benefit."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Bolshevik Revolution""Communism and socialismare themselves forms of monopoly. The only difference is thatin this case, the monopoly is operated by the government. Butwhat if an international banker, through loans to the state, manipulationof a central bank, campaign contributions, or bribes, is ableto achieve dominion over a government? In that case, he wouldfind socialism welcome, for it would serve him as an instrumentto control society."James Perloff"The major money powersof the west enlarged their monopoly ambitions and broadened horizonson a global scale. The gigantic Russian market was to be convertedinto a captive market and a technical colony to be exploited bya few high-powered American financiers and the corporations undertheir control."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Bolshevik Revolution", 1974CORPORATOCRACYSUPER-CORPORATIONS GOVERNTHE GLOBAL ECONOMYThere are more than more than 40,000transnational corporations in the world.More than fifty of the largest one-hundred economies in the worldare corporations. Transnational corporations hold ninety percent of all technologyand product patents worldwide.Transnational corporations are involved in 70 percent of worldtrade.Hundreds of corporations, a large number being banks and financialinstitutions, own each others stocks and bonds - they collectivelyown themselves. Hence, it becomes nearly impossible to trace theroots of ownership and control. From their relative obscurity,they wield enormous control over national and global economies.These corporations emerged even larger and more powerful afterthe 2008 economic meltdown.A scientific study on the globalfinancial system was undertaken at the Swiss Federal Instituteof Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, October 2011.Using a database which listed 37 million companies and investorsworldwide, the researchers studied all 43,060 transnational corporations(TNCs), including the share ownerships linking them.The top 737 of these super-corporations or "super-entities"control 80% of the world economy.The top 147 super-corporations or "super-entities" control40% of the global economy through direct and indirect ownershipor controlling interest.Below are the 50 corporations whichhave the greatest impact on the global economy.1 - BARCLAYS PLC - GREAT BRITIAN2 - CAPITAL GROUP COMPANIES INC. - UNITED STATES3 - FMR CORP (Fidelity Management) - UNITED STATES4 - AXA FR 6712 - SWITZERLAND5 - STATE STREET CORPORATION - UNITED STATES6 - JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. - UNITED STATES7 - LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC - GREAT BRITAIN8 - VANGUARD GROUP, INC. - UNITED STATES9- UBS AG - SWITZERLAND 10 - MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC. - UNITED STATES11 - WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT CO. L.L.P. - UNITED STATES12 - DEUTSCHE BANK AG - GERMANY13 - FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC. - UNITED STATES14 - CREDIT SUISSE GROUP - SWITZERLAND15 - WALTON ENTERPRISES LLC - UNITED STATES16 - BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP. - UNITED STATES17 - NATIXIS - FRANCE18 - GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. - UNITED STATES19 - T. ROWE PRICE GROUP, INC. - UNITED STATES20- LEGG MASON, INC. - UNITED STATES21 - MORGAN STANLEY - UNITED STATES22 - MITSUBISHI UFJ FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. - JAPAN23 - NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION - UNITED STATES24 - SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE - FRANCE25 - BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION - UNITED STATES26 -LLOYDS TSB GROUP PLC - GREAT BRITAIN27 - INVESCO PLC - GREAT BRITAIN28 - ALLIANZ SE - GERMANY29 - TIAA US 6601 - INDIA30 - OLD MUTUAL PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY - GREAT BRITAIN 31 - AVIVA PLC - GREAT BRITAIN 32 - SCHRODERS PLC - GREAT BRITIAN33 - DODGE & COX - UNITED STATES34 - LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS, INC. - UNITED STATES35 - SUN LIFE FINANCIAL, INC. - CANADA36 - STANDARD LIFE PLC - GREAT BRITAIN37 - CNCE - FRANCE38 - NOMURA HOLDINGS, INC. - JAPAN39 - THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY - UNITED STATES40 - MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSUR. - UNITED STATES 41 - ING GROEP N.V. - NETHERLANDS42 - BRANDES INVESTMENT PARTNERS, L.P. - UNITED STATES 43 - UNICREDITO ITALIANO SPA - ITALY44 - DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION OF JP - JAPAN45 - VERENIGING AEGON - NETHERLANDS 46 - BNP PARIBAS - FRANCE47 - AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP, INC. - UNITED STATES48 RESONA HOLDINGS, INC. - JAPAN49 - CAPITAL GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC. - UNITED STATES 50 - CHINA PETROCHEMICAL GROUP CO. - CHINA"In the absence of a coherentalternative, the transnational corporations carry on inexorably.Increasingly flagless and stateless, they weave global webs ofproduction, commerce, culture and finance virtually unopposed.They expand, invest and grow, concentrating ever more wealth ina limited number of hands. They work in coalition to influencelocal, national and international institutions and laws. And togetherwith the governments of their home countries in Europe, NorthAmerica and Japan, as well as international institutions suchas the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the InternationalMonetary Fund and increasingly, the United Nations, they are moldingan international system in which they can trade and invest evenmore freely - a world where they are less and less accountableto the cultures, communities and nation-states in which they operate.Underpinning this effort is not the historical inevitability ofan evolving, enlightened civilization, but rather the unavoidablereality of the overriding corporate purpose: the maximizationof profits."Sierra Club"In the last quarter ofthe 20th century, the transnational corporations became the principaldesigners and controllers of the economy....Transnational corporations and their offshoots now conducttwo-thirds of the world's trade, and they decide worldwide where,what, how and for whom their products shall be produced. Manyare richer - and more powerful - than nation states."NoNonsense guide to InternationalDevelopment"Global or transnationalcorporations do not recognize any national or local interest orobligation."David Korten"The real motives behindmost of U.S foreign policy as measured by the kinds of countriesU.S. Ieaders support and the kinds of countries or political movementsthey try to destroy is to keep the world safe for the Fortune500. To make sure that the transnational corporations and internationalglobal finance capital continues to control the land, labor, resources,and markets of most of the world, and ultimately, all of the worldon terms that are extremely favorable to them. The goal is todestroy, to obliterate, to thwart any social movement or nationalleader who is trying for an alternative way of using the land,the labor, the natural resources, the markets, the capital ofhis or her country."Michael Parenti"U.S. foreign policy islargely directed towards serving the transnational corporations."James Petras and Henry Veltmeyerin their book "Globalization Unmasked""The corporate-dominatedeconomy and the transnational corporate state had consolidatedits power over almost every aspect of public and private life,and under a formal globalization movement the transnational corporationswere extending their tentacles all over the planet.Footsoldiers like Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, the ever-dutifulBush family, Helmut Kohl, and a list of Japanese leaders had diligentlykept the faith. Working with the timeworn International MonetaryFund (IMF), the World Bank and ultimately with the new engineof globalization, the World Trade Organization, they ensured thatthe interests of capital were nowhere endangered by the needsof the world's three billion poor to eat, have shelter, clothing,sanitation, medical care, and education."William F. Pepper in his book "AnAct of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King""There are more than 60,000transnational corporations in the world. More than fifty of thelargest one-hundred economies in the world are corporations. Transnationalcorporations hold ninety percent of all technology and productpatents worldwide. Transnational corporations are involved in70 percent of world trade.The top 737 of these super-corporations or "super-entities"control 80% of the world economy.The top 147 super-corporations or "super-entities" control40% of the global economy through direct and indirect ownershipor controlling interest.Hundreds of companies that own the stocks and bonds of each other- they collectively own themselves. Hence, it becomes nearly impossibleto trace the roots of ownership and control. From their relativeobscurity, they wield enormous control of national and globaleconomies."based on a 2011 Swiss Federal Instituteof Technology study of 43,000 multinational companies"People, governments andeconomies of all nations must serve the needs of multinationalbanks and corporations."Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book"Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era""This empire that we'vecreated really has an emperor, and it's not the president of thiscountry... it doesn't really matter whether we have a Democrator a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empiregoes on, because it's really run by what I call the corporatocracy,which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. Thisisn't a conspiracy theory. They don't need to conspire. They allknow what serves their best interest. But they really are theequivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wishof the people, they're not democratically elected, they don'tserve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, excepttheir own boards, and most corporate CEOs actually run their boards,rather than the other way around. And they are the power behindthis."John Perkins"There seems to be nothingto prevent the transnational corporations taking possession ofthe planet and subjecting humanity to the dictatorship of capital."Christian la Brie in an artilcein Le Monde Diplomatique"The ultimate goal forthe corporations is to bring the model of for-profit governmentinto the ordinary and day-to-day functioning of the state -- ineffect, to privatize the government."Naomi Klein in her book "TheShock Doctrine""The most effective wayto restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from thepublic arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes,priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or moderncorporations."Noam Chomsky"The governments of theworld are restructuring their economies, and the global economyas a whole, into a corporatist structure. Thus, this new internationaleconomic system being constructed is one representative of economicfascism. The governments now work directly for the banks, democracyis in decline everywhere, and the militarization of domestic societyinto creating "Homeland Security states" is underwayand accelerating."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"The framework for thepost-1945 economy had largely been worked Out by the United Statesand Britain. It called for the creation of three multilateralinstitutions - the World Bank, the IMF, and an international tradeorganization {WTO]... With the demise of the Soviet Union at thebeginning of the 1990s, however, there were no longer any alternativesor restrictions on the planet to the spread of corporate colonialism."William F. Pepper in his book "AnAct of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King""Ronald Reagan .. was mostdefinitely a global empire builder, a servant of the corporatocracy...He would cater to the men who shuttled back and forth from corporateCEO offices to bank boards and into the halls of government. Hewould serve the men who appeared to serve him but who in factran the government - men like Vice President George H. W. Bush,Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense CasparWeinberger, Richard Cheney, Richard Helms, and Robert McNamara.He would advocate what those men wanted: an America that controlledthe world and all its resources, a world that answered to thecommands of that America, a U.S. military that would enforce therules as they were written by America, and an international tradeand banking system that supported America as CEO of the globalempire."John Perkins in his book "Confessionsof Economic Hit Man""U.S. multinationals are ina class of their own. Their top managers, the CEOs, have the highestsalaries in the world. Japan, Germany, France and England alsohave global corporations, but managers there earn about a thirdof what their U.S. counterparts make.... U.S. CEOs earn three times the average of CEOs in the 13 otheradvanced countries for which there are comparable data. Only inone country, Switzerland, are 7 CEOs paid even as much as 50 percentof what the average U.S. CEO makes.... According to the Federal Reserve, while the CEO compensationin Britain was 22 times the pay of an average worker in 2004,in the United States it was 170 times, and in Japan only 11 times."Ravi Batra in his book "TheNew Golden Age", 2007"The WTO [World Trade Organization]obeys the orders of multinational corporations, which, under coverof the globalization of trade, in fact rule the world."Marie-Monique Robin"The web of ownership revealeda core of 1,318 companies with ties to two or more other companies.This 'core' was found to own roughly 80% of global revenues forthe entire set of 43,000 TNCs... Less than 1 per cent of the companies[147 tightly-knit companies which own each other] were able tocontrol 40 per cent of the entire network [of global revenues]."Swiss Federal Institute of Technologyreported that researchers studied all 43,060 trans-national corporations(TNCs) [New Scientist magazine, October, 2011]Council on Foreign Relations / Chatham HouseCOVERT GLOBAL POWER CENTERSINSTITUTIONS OF EXCEPTIONALINFLUENCE"The Round Table Groupwanted to control the people by having the government tax peopleand deposit the peoples money in a central bank. The Group wouldtake control of the bank and therefore have control of the money.The Group would take control of the State Department and formulategovernment policy, which would determine how the money was spent.The Group would control the CIA which would gather informationabout people, and script and produce psycho-political operationsfocused at the people to influence them to act in accord withRound Table Group State Department policy decisions. The Groupwould work to consolidate all the nations of the world into asingle nation, with a single central bank under their control,and a single International Security System. Some of the firstlegislation of the Wilson Administration was the institution ofthe graduated income tax (1913) and the creation of a centralbank called the Federal Reserve. An inheritance tax was also instituted.These tax laws were used to rationalize the need for legislationthat allowed the establishment of tax-exempt foundations. Thetax-exempt foundations became the link between the Group member'sprivate corporations and the university system. The Group wouldcontrol the universities by controlling the sources of their funding.The funding was money sheltered from taxes that was channeledin ways which would help achieve Round Table Group aims."Colonel Edward Mandell HouseNicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The Committee of 300 isthe ultimate secret society made up of an untouchable ruling class,which includes the Queen of the United Kingdom (Elizabeth II),the Queen of the Netherlands, the Queen of Denmark and the royalfamilies of Europe. These aristocrats decided at the death ofQueen Victoria, the matriarch of the Venetian Black Guelphs that,in order to gain world-wide control, it would be necessary forits aristocratic members to "go into business" withthe non-aristocratic but extremely powerful leaders of corporatebusiness."John Coleman - "The Committeeof 300: A Brief History of World Power""In foreign affairs theCouncil on Foreign Relations, superficially an innocent forumfor academics, businessmen, and politicians, contains within itsshell, perhaps unknown to many of its members, a power centerthat unilaterally determines U.S. foreign policy. The major objectiveof this submerged - and obviously subversive - foreign policyis the acquisition of markets and economic power, for a smallgroup of giant multi-nationals under the virtual control of afew banking investment houses and controlling families."Antony C. Sutton, Wall Street andthe Rise of Hitler, 2002"Beginning approximatelyin the early 1890s, a group of British elites, primarily fromthe privileged colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, formed what wasto become the most influential policy network in Britain overthe next half century and more. The group denied its existenceas a formal group, but its footprints can be found around theestablishment of a new journal of empire, the Round Table, foundedin 1910. The group argued that a more subtle and efficient system of globalempire was required to extend the effective hegemony of Anglo-Saxonculture over the next century.... In place of the costly military occupation of the coloniesof the British Empire, they argued for a more repressive tolerance,calling for the creation of a British 'Commonwealth of Nations.'Members nations were to be given the illusion of independence,enabling Britain to reduce the high costs of far-flung armiesof occupation from India to Egypt, and now across Africa and theMiddle East as well. The term 'informal empire' was sometimesused to describe the shift.... The idea of a Jewish-dominated Palestine, beholden to Englandfor its tenuous survival, surrounded by a balkanized of squabblingArab states, formed part of this group's [British Round TableGroup] concept of a new British Empire. ... The Round Table group's grand design was to link England'svast colonial possessions, from the gold and diamond mines ofCecil Rhodes and Rothschild's Consolidated Gold Fields in SouthAfrica, north to Egypt and the vital shipping route through theSuez Canal, and on through Mesopotamia, Kuwait and Persia intoIndia in the East.... The great power able to control this vast reach would controlthe world's most valuable strategic raw materials, from gold,basis of the international gold standard for world trade, to petroleum,in 1919 emerging as the energy source of the modern industrialera."William Engdahl in his book "ACentury of War""Committee of 300 frontorganizations, include the Royal Institute for International Affairs(Chatham House), the Club of Rome, NATO, U.N., the Black Nobility,the Tavistock Institute, CFR and all its affiliated organizations,the think tanks and research institutions controlled by Stanfordand the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and last, but certainlynot least, the military establishment."John Coleman, 2012"The elite owns numerous"think tanks" that work for expanding, consolidatingand perpetuating its hold on the globe. The Royal Institute ofInternational Affairs (RIIA), the Council on Foreign Relations(CFR), the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, and manyother similar organisations are all funded by the elite and workfor it. These think tanks publish journals, such as Foreign Affairs,in which these imperialist and anti-mankind ideas are edifiedas publications, and then, if need be, expanded in the form ofbooks that are given wide publicity."Mujahid Kamran"Lord Alfred Milner, wealthyEnglish man and front man for the Rothschilds, served as paymasterfor the international bankers during the Bolshevik Revolution.Milner later headed secret society known as The Round Table whichwas dedicated to establishing a world government whereby a cliqueof super-rich financiers would control the world under the guiseof Socialism. The American subsidiary of this conspiracy is calledthe Council on Foreign Relations and was started by, and is stillcontrolled by international bankers."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""The Club of Rome reportsto the Committee of 300, at whose head sits the Queen of England.Her Majesty rules over a vast network of closely-linked corporationswho pay no taxes, and are answerable to no one; who fund theirresearch institutions through foundations whose joint activitieshave almost total control over our daily lives.... These linked institutions and their leading personnel forman upper-level parallel government that controls the lives ofevery American, whether they know it or not. Together, the interlockingcorporations, insurance companies, banks, finance corporations,the mega-oil companies, newspapers, magazines, radio and televisionbroadcasting companies they make up a vast apparatus that sitsastride the United States and the world. There is not a politicianin Washington, D.C. who is not somehow beholden to it."John Coleman in his book "TheCommittee of 300""To the oligarchs and plutocrats of the Committee of 300,drugs have a two-fold purpose, firstly to bring in colossal sumsof money and secondly, to eventually turn a major part of thepopulation into mindless drug zombies who will be easier to controlthan people who don't need drugs. Punishment for rebellion willmean withholding of supplies of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, etc.For this it is necessary to legalize drugs so that a monopolysystem, which has been readied for introduction once severe economicconditions cause drug usage to proliferate as hundreds of thousandsof permanently jobless workers turn to drugs for solace.In one of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA)top secret papers, the scenario is laid out as follows: 'Havingbeen failed by Christianity, and with unemployment on every hand,those who have been without jobs for five years or more will turnaway from the church and seek solace in drugs. That is when fullcontrol of the drug trade must be completed in order that thegovernments of all countries who are under our jurisdiction willhave a monopoly which we will control through supply.... Drugbars will take care of the unruly and the discontent, would berevolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no willof their own'."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""By the early 1930's, theBritish Crown had a stranglehold on the biggest supplies of goldand diamonds ever found in the world. Now, the Committee of 300had at its disposal both the vast fortune coming from the drugtrade and the equally vast fortune of the minieral and metal wealthof South Africa. Financial control of the world was complete."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The Tavistock Institutehas 400 subsidiary organisations under its control along with3,000 think tanks, mostly in the USA. The Stanford Research Institute,the Hoover Institute, the Aspen Institute of Colorado, and manyothers, devoted to manipulation of US as well as global publicopinion, are Tavistock offshoots."Mujahid Kamran"The Pilgrims Society isan aristocratic Anglo-American club. The primary purpose of thisclub is to form an unofficial alliance with the United Statesand to vastly increase the powers of the British empire. ... The Pilgrims Society has fused together the business centersof New York and London, together with a large portion of the politicalcenters of both nations. Ninety percent of the American membersare top-level bankers and businessmen from New York city. ... Pilgrims Society presidents of the New York Federal ReserveBank cover the period from 1914 to 1979. Pilgrims Society chairmenof the New York Federal Reserve cover almost the entire periodfrom the 1920s up to 1990.... The Pilgrims Society represents that old dream of Cecil Rhodesto create a worldwide English-speaking free-trade zone, with thedominant position for the Anglo-Saxon race. Rhodes had also beenspeculating about a network of secret societies that had to absorbthe wealth of the world. ... The Pilgrims Society is one of the most important privatelyfunded institutions of the globalist movement."Joel van der Reijden, 2005"In 1897, a group of topBritish and American intellectuals and money monopolists met toplot ways to implement Cecil Rhodes' plan for a merging of Britishand American interests, in preparation for the final thrust towardsthe achievement of their ultimate goal - a One World Government.The result of their deliberations came on July 24, 1907, withthe creation in London of an ultra-secret organization known asthe Pilgrim Society. The basic purpose of the Pilgrim Societywas to promote unity between the United States and Britain, tomaneuver the United States into a position of dependence uponthe Crown.""Descent Into Slavery"a book by Des Griffin"The modern science ofmass manipulation was born at Wellington House London... The Britishmonarchy, Lord Rothschild, and the Rockefellers were responsiblefor funding the venture. The purpose of those at Wellington Housewas to effect a change in the opinions of British people who wereadamantly opposed to war with Germany, a formidable task thatwas accomplished by "opinion making" through polling.The staff consisted of Arnold Toynbee, a future director of studiesat the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), Lord Northcliffe,and the Americans, Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays. Lord Northcliffewas related to the Rothschilds through marriage."Mujahid Kamran"CREATING MONEYOUT OF THIN AIR"MAGIC OF FIAT MONEY "The modern banking systemmanufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps themost astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented.Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin. Bankers ownthe earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power tocreate money, and, with a flick of a pen, they will create enoughmoney to buy it back again. Take this great power away from themand all great fortunes like mine will disappear, for then thiswould be a better and happier world to live inBut, if you wantto continue to be the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of yourown slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and controlcredit."Sir Josiah Stamp, president ofthe Bank of England in the 1920s, the second richest man in Britain,speaking at the Commencement Address of the University of Texasin 1927"In the early 1970's thedollar was taken off the gold standard, meaning that the valueof the dollars in your pocket was, at one time, backed by thegold that was held in reserves... The dollar was de-pegged fromgold so that the people managing the money supply, the FederalReserve, could essentially create as much money out of thin airthat they desire, unconstrained from the limitations of backingthe dollar with something of value."Charlie Robinson, in his book "TheOctopus of Global Control", 2017"When the US governmentneeds money, it either collects it in taxes or it issues bonds.These bonds are sold to the Federal Reserve , and the Fed, inturn, makes book entry deposits. This "debt money" createdout of thin air is then made available to the US government. Butif the US government can issue Treasury bills, notes and bonds,it can also issue currency, as it did prior to the formation ofthe Federal Reserve. If the U.S. issued its own money, that moneycould cover all its expenses, and the income tax wouldn't be needed.So what's the objection to getting rid of the Fed and lettingthe US government issue its own currency? Easy, it cuts out thebankers and it eliminates the income tax."Richard Russell, Dow Theory Letter,April 2005" America is the largestdebtor nation, and at the same time it is the world's creditor."Creating money out of thin air", while at the sametime imposing the U.S. dollar as a global currency constitutesthe ultimate instrument of conquest and imperial domination.The U.S. monetary system is supported by the most powerful militarypower on earth. The dollar is backed by U.S. military might, whichconstitutes a means for displacing national currencies and imposingthe U.S. dollar. In this regard, the Federal Reserve's overwhelmingpowers of money creation constitute an essential lever of an imperialmonetary agenda.... The Western banking system controls a worldwide electronicbanking network. The control of money creation at a world levelconstitutes the ultimate instrument of economic and social domination.The creation of fiat money provides a command over the real economiesof countries worldwide. The ultimate lever of the U.S.-NATO imperialdesign is to override and destroy national currencies."Michel Chossudovsky in the book"The Global Economic Crisis""Every country suspendedthe gold standard at the outbreak of the war [WWI]... This removedthe automatic limitation on the supply of paper money. Then eachcountry proceeded to pay for the war by borrowing from the banks.The banks created the money which they then lent by merely givingthe Government a deposit of any size against which the Governmentcould draw checks. The banks were no longer limited in the amountof credit they could create because they no longer had to payout gold for checks on demand. Thus the creation of money in theform of credit by the banks was limited only by the demands ofits borrowers."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""The Federal Reserve holdsa monopoly on the issuance of currency in the USA. In essence,this is the power to borrow an infinite amount of money at 0%.The dollar bill in your pocket is a 0% loan to the Federal Reserve.The Federal Reserve then uses these 0% loans to purchase income-producingassets."Jeff Chen"The Federal ReserveAct of 1913 was a coup that authorized a private cartel to createmoney out of nothing, lend it to the government with interestand control the national money supply, expanding or contractingit at will."Nikki Alexander, 2009"A cabal of English aristocratsand bankers created the Bank of England in 1694. King William,in need of money to fight a certain war, money which he couldn'traise by taxing or borrowing, granted a charter to a favored groupof intriguers to form a bank which would be given a monopoly onissuing English bank notes, i.e., English paper money, which wouldbe created out of nothing and credited to the government in returnfor a government IOU, the only "backing" that wouldbe required. The government would pay interest on this "loan,"making it look legitimate to the public, but the bank's even largerpayback was that it was empowered to make additional commercialloans, at interest, using the same government IOU's as "backing,"just as though the IOU's were hard, metallic gold. The banks,by receiving interest on money they could create and lend outat will, were thereby going to get rich, the king was going tobe able to raise any amount of "money" he wanted, andthe public, remaining ignorant of what was going on, was goingto pay for it all by having their savings devalued by the expansionof the currency."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""If the American peopleever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks will deprivethe people of all property until their children wake-up homelesson the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power shouldbe taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom itproperly belongs."Thomas Jefferson"The founding of the Bankof England by William Paterson and his friends in 1694 is oneof the great dates in world history. For generations men had soughtto avoid the one drawback of gold, its heaviness, by using piecesof paper to represent specific pieces of gold. Today we call suchpieces of paper gold certificates. Such a certificate entitlesits bearer to exchange it for its piece of gold on demand, butin view of the convenience of paper, only a small fraction ofcertificate holders ever did make such demands. It early becameclear that gold need be held on hand only to the amount neededto cover the fraction of certificates likely to he presented forpayment; accordingly, the rest of the gold could be used for businesspurposes, or, what amounts to the same thing, a volume of certificatescould be issued greater than the volume of gold reserved for paymentof demands against them. Such an excess volume of paper claimsagainst reserves we now call bank notes. In effect, this creationof paper claims greater than the reserves available means thatbankers were creating money out of nothing."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""The Federal Reserve Bankscreate money out of thin air to buy Government bonds from theUnited States Treasury, lending money into circulation at interest,by bookkeeping entries... Where does the Federal Reserve systemget the money with which to create Bank Reserves? Answer. It doesn'tget the money, it creates it. When the Federal Reserve writesa check, it is creating money. The Federal Reserve is a totalmoneymaking machine."Congressman Wright Patman HouseBanking and Currency Committee, 1964"The reason why the Britishabolished the right of the American Colonies to create and issuetheir own money is simple: the bankers did not want the Coloniststo be able to trade among themselves without paying tribute tothem... The objective was clear: by forcing Americans to pay interest,the European money changers wanted to enslave the Colonies ina mountain of debt.... We are paying the International Bankers hundreds of millionsof dollars each year in interest on our National Debt. This money(or credit) was created by the bankers out of nothing - and loanedto us at a high rate of interest."Des Griffin in his book "FourthReich of the Rich"When the federal governmentneeds more money, the Federal Reserve does not merely create andprint it as it would do were it a government agency. No, the FederalReserve creates it as a loan and charges the government intereston it."U.S. State Senator Jack Metcalf(R-WA)"I am afraid the ordinarycitizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do createmoney. And they who control the credit of the nation direct thepolicy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hand thedestiny of the people."Reginald McKenna, as Chairmanof the Midland Bank, addressing stockholders in 1924"The ultimate controlover the world economy is achieved through command over moneycreation: through fiat money, by creating money from nothing.The "long war" is intended to instate the hegemony ofthe U.S.-EU financial system as well as the contours of "worldgovernment"."Michel Chossudovsky"When you or I writea check there must be sufficient funds in our account to coverthe check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check there isno bank deposit on which that check is drawn. When the FederalReserve writes a check, it is creating money.""Putting it simply"Boston Federal Reserve Bank"If all the bank loanswere paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would notbe a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggeringthought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks.Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cashor credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous;if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent moneysystem. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragicabsurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but thereit is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons caninvestigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our presentcivilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understoodand the defects remedied very soon."Robert H. Hemphill, former CreditManager of Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, Ga., 1935"[The] creation of paperclaims greater than the reserves available means that bankerswere creating money out of nothing. The same thing could be donein another way, not by note-issuing banks but by deposit banks.Deposit bankers discovered that orders and checks drawn againstdeposits by depositors and given to third persons were often notcashed by the latter but were deposited to their own accounts.Thus there were no actual movements of funds, and payments weremade simply by bookkeeping transactions on the accounts. Accordingly,it was necessary for the banker to keep on hand in actual money(gold, certificates, and notes) no more than the fraction of depositslikely to be drawn upon and cashed; the rest could be used forloans, and if these loans were made by creating a deposit forthe borrower, who in turn would draw checks upon it rather thanwithdraw it in money, such "created deposits" or loanscould also be covered adequately by retaining reserves to onlya fraction of their value. Such created deposits also were a creationof money out of nothing."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""If one creates moneyout of thin air and then passes on what did not exist before andcharges interest on it and uses physical assets as collateral,then that is in reality a model for expropriation."Franz Hormann, University ofVienna"The founding of theBank of England by William Paterson and his friends in 1694 isone of the great dates in world history. For generations men hadsought to avoid the one drawback of gold, its heaviness, by usingpieces of paper to represent specific pieces of gold. Today wecall such pieces of paper gold certificates. Such a certificateentitles its bearer to exchange it for its piece of gold on demand,but in view of the convenience of paper, only a small fractionof certificate holders ever did make such demands. It early becameclear that gold need be held on hand only to the amount neededto cover the fraction of certificates likely to he presented forpayment; accordingly, the rest of the gold could be used for businesspurposes, or, what amounts to the same thing, a volume of certificatescould be issued greater than the volume of gold reserved for paymentof demands against them. Such an excess volume of paper claimsagainst reserves we now call bank notes. In effect, this creationof paper claims greater than the reserves available means thatbankers were creating money out of nothing."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""In Pennsylvania in thefirst half of the 18th century, the provincial government notonly printed its own money but owned its own bank. Colonial scripwas printed and lent to farmers at 5% interest, and this moneyrecycled back to the government as it was repaid. The money wentout and came back in a circular flow, preventing inflation...The Bank of Pennsylvania issued its fiat currency as loans fordomestic use, loans on which not only the principal but the interestcame back to the government. Since the provincial government hadthe power to issue the local scrip, it could issue some extrato meet its expenses; and this money filtered through the economyto provide the additional sums needed to cover the interest onthe loans. During the time this provincial system was in place,the Pennsylvania colonists paid no taxes, there was no governmentdebt, and price inflation did not result."Ellen Brown"The counterfeit optionis available only if a country happens to be in the unique positionof having its currency accepted as the medium of internationaltrade, as has been the case for the United States. In that eventit is possible to create money out of nothing, and other nationshave no choice but to accept it... The result is that Americahas continued to finance its trade deficit with fiat money - counterfeit,if you will - a feat which no other nation in the world couldhope to accomplish."G. Edward Griffin"During the Civil War,[President] Lincoln issued Greenbacks. That was a form of fiatmoney in an emergency situation, but what it did, partially atleast, was to take the control of the U.S. debt temporarily outof the hands of London and New York banks. That displeased Londonto an extraordinary extent."F. William Engdahl, 2011"It is well enough thatpeople of the nation do not understand our banking and money system,for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution beforetomorrow morning."Henry Ford, founder of the FordMotor Company"The organizational structurefor creating means of payment out of nothing, we call credit."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""The U.S. bailout showsthat countries do not need to borrow credit from foreign banksat all. The government could have created its own money and creditsystem rather than leaving foreign creditors to accrue interestcharges that now represent a permanent and seemingly irreversiblebalance-of-payments drain. The United States has shown that anycountry can monetize its own credit, at least domestic credit."Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers,2008"The Western bankingsystem controls a worldwide electronic banking network. The controlof money creation at a world level constitutes the ultimate instrumentof economic and social domination. The creation of fiat moneyprovides a command over the real economies of countries worldwide.The ultimate lever of the U.S.-NATO imperial design is to overrideand destroy national currencies."Michel ChossudovskyCREDIT, INTEREST, ANDDEBTBANKERS' PERPETUAL MONEY MACHINE"When the federal governmentneeds more money, the Federal Reserve does not merely create andprint it as it would do were it a government agency. No, the FederalReserve creates it as a loan and charges the government intereston it."U.S. State Senator Jack Metcalf(R-WA)"If one creates moneyout of thin air and then passes on what did not exist before andcharges interest on it and uses physical assets as collateral,then that is in reality a model for expropriation."Franz Hormann, University ofVienna"Sovereign nations do nothave to borrow their money into existence., yet the United Stateshas been deceived into doing this since 1913. The compoundinginterest on this debt is now growing exponentially, and cannotbe sustained. Unfortunately, we cannot just pay down the nationaldebt. All our money - except for coins - is created out of debt.Under this debt money system, to reduce the debt is to reducethe national money. The only solution is to restructure our monetarysystem to forbid government borrowing. Fortunately, this is nothingnew. The U.S. and other nations have done it before.The problem with the economy of every nation on earth has thesame root - national debt - debt that is totally unnecessary...All nations can get out of debt and not incur any more debt. Anynation that did this would immediately stabilize their economicsituation - that is, incur neither significant inflation, nordeflation - by design. Human societies run best on stability -a stable economic platform - one that can be predicted in thelong term. Once the money power is taken away from the big banksand returned into the hands of we, the people, then economic commonsense can return, and the nation's legislature can once againbecome responsive to the voting electorate instead of the bankers...Inother words, what we need is a new human rights movement for thenext generation based upon No More National Debt.The economic problems that most people became aware of in thefall of 2008 are not reversing. Unemployment is still rising.Foreclosures are still rising. The world's economic death spiralinto a deflationary depression must continue until the real problemis addressed. Our entire global economic system is at a tippingpoint."Bill Still, No More National Debt"Debt is the source ofall power and wealth for the central banking system - as theydo not actually produce any tradable good, such as industry; nordo they provide any necessary service, such as government. Intereston debt is the source of income and authority for the centralbanking system, and thus, it needs to continually advance creditand expand debt."Andrew Gavin Marshall"When acountry defaultson a loan from the World Bank, the bank gets creative to see ifthere is any other way for this poor country to give them somethingof value instead of money. They already know what they want, andthey have known exactly what they wanted before they even offeredthis country the loan. They want the country to vote in alignmentwith them at the next United Nations meeting, or to authorizetheir support of the U.N.'s decision to invade a country, or theyneed to allow their ports or airfields to be used as staging areasfor the invasion of their neighboring country."Charlie Robinson, in his book "TheOctopus of Global Control", 2017"The reason why the Britishabolished the right of the American Colonies to create and issuetheir own money is simple: the bankers did not want the Coloniststo be able to trade among themselves without paying tribute tothem... The objective was clear: by forcing Americans to pay interest,the European money changers wanted to enslave the Colonies ina mountain of debt.... We are paying the International Bankers hundreds of millionsof dollars each year in interest on our National Debt. This money(or credit) was created by the bankers out of nothing - and loanedto us at a high rate of interest."Des Griffin in his book "FourthReich of the Rich"The one aim of these financiersis world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt."Henry Ford, Founder, Ford Motors"40% of every dollar wespend on goods and services is siphoned off the top as bank interest.The US Government is in the absurd position of paying interestto a private bank for every dollar that is put into circulation.The Federal Reserve system has privatized the power to createmoney, which, according to the Constitution, ought to belong toCongress alone. Presently, interest on the national debt coststhe Federal government $500 billion in 2011, and, it is the fastest-growingportion of the Federal budget."Josh Mitteldorf - first PublicBanking in America conference April 28-29, Philadelphia"The government keeps theeconomy going by massive deficit spending, a large chunk of whichgoes to the military. To make up for these deficits, the governmentborrows from rich financial interests at home and abroad. Theaccumulation of these yearly deficits is what we call the nationaldebt.... Conservatives like a big deficit because it represents anupward transfer of income from those who are eventually held responsibleto pay it (the general public) to those who hold the notes onthe debt (rich creditors). A massive national debt is a way ofprivatizing the public treasury. The bigger the debt, the largerthe portion of the federal budget that finds its way back intothe coffers of private creditors, as the government continuesto borrow from those it should be taxing."Michael Parenti"Once the government reclaimsthe power to create money from the banks, it will no longer needto sell its bonds to investors. It will not even need to levyincome taxes... Government-issued money would actually be lessinflationary than the system we have now; and it is preciselybecause power and money corrupt, that money creation needs tobe done by a public body, exercised in full view and with fullaccountability... What has allowed government to be corruptedtoday is that it is actually run by the money cartel. Big businessholds all the cards, because its affiliated banks have monopolizedthe business of issuing and lending the national money supply,a function the Constitution delegated solely to Congress."Ellen Brown in her book "WebOf Debt"Central banking functionson the expansion and creation of money and debt, which is lentat interest, thus serving as the source of income for the centralbanking system."Andrew Gavin Marshall"Government debt pavesthe way for government control. Consider: Debt leads to taxationto pay interest. Taxation leads to more economic control overthe people by the same government that ran up the debt in thefirst place. It's hardly extreme to conclude that escalating debtis part of a plan, such as a plan to establish a new world order."John F. McManus"The U.S. bailout showsthat countries do not need to borrow credit from foreign banksat all. The government could have created its own money and creditsystem rather than leaving foreign creditors to accrue interestcharges that now represent a permanent and seemingly irreversiblebalance-of-payments drain. The United States has shown that anycountry can monetize its own credit, at least domestic credit."Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers,2008"The Federal Reserve holdsa monopoly on the issuance of currency in the USA. In essence,this is the power to borrow an infinite amount of money at 0%.The dollar bill in your pocket is a 0% loan to the Federal Reserve.The Federal Reserve then uses these 0% loans to purchase income-producingassets. Before 2008, the assets purchased were primarily Treasurydebt, which is backed by the taxation power of the US Government.In other words, we are exchanging the property rights to our valuableassets (land, labor, entrepreneurship) for little slips of greenpaper to buy trinkets with. The government can then tax thesevaluable assets to pay for our excess. The more we spend, themore the Fed owns."Jeff Chen"In 1694, the Bank of Englandwas formed as a private central bank, which would issue the currencyof the nation, lending it to the government and industry at interest,which would be paid back to the Bank of England's shareholders,made up of these private banking dynasties. This is when the originsof what was known as a "world economy" took place."Andrew Gavin Marshall in his book"Global Power and Global Government""On September 1, 1894,we will not renew our loans under any consideration. On September1st we will demand our money. We will foreclose and become mortgageesin possession. We can take two-thirds of the farms west of theMississippi, and thousands of them east of the Mississippi aswell, at our own price."American Bankers Association, 1891"We must keep the peoplebusy with political antagonisms... By dividing the electorate... we'll be able to have them spend their energies at strugglingamongst themselves on questions that, for us, have no importancewhatsoever.... Let us make use of the courts... When through the law's intervention,the common people shall have lost their homes, they will be moreeasy to control and more easy to govern, and they shall not beable to resist the strong hand of the Government acting in accordancewith ... the control of the leaders of finance."United States Bankers magazine,1892"Capital must protect itselfin every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debtsmust be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.When, through the process of law, the common people lose theirhomes, they will become more docile and more easily governed throughthe strong arm of government applied by a central power of wealthunder leading financiers. These truths are well known among ourprincipal men who are now engaged in forming an imperialism togovern the world. By dividing the voter through the politicalparty system, we can get them to expend their energies in fightingfor questions of no importance. It is thus by discreet actionwe can secure for ourselves that which has been so well plannedand so successfully accomplished."American's Banker Association,1924"The countries that donot get onboard with the plans laid out by the IMF and World Bankare bankrupted, at best, or bombed into smithereens, at worst."Charlie Robinson, in his book "TheOctopus of Global Control", 2017"Central banking ... needsto expand its control over industry, nations and people throughthe expansion of debt, continually needing to bring more individuals,nations and industries under debt bondage. Debt is the sourceof all power and wealth for the central banking system - as theydo not actually produce any tradable good, such as industry; nordo they provide any necessary service, such as government. Intereston debt is the source of income and authority for the centralbanking system, and thus, it needs to continually advance creditand expand debt."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"Since 97% of the moneyin the world is created from debt, any loans paid off decreasesthe amount of money in circulation. And when no further loansare given, the circulating money stock falls dramatically, adverselyaffecting businesses and the economy at large. This intentionalreduction of the money supply leads to widespread business failures,high unemployment, foreclosures on property, and severe hardshipwithin the community. On the other hand, great wealth is transferredfrom defaulting borrowers to the banksters."Gabriel Donohoe"When governments fallinto the trap of accepting loans in foreign currencies, they become"debtor nations" subject to IMF and BIS [Bank for InternationalSettlements] regulation. They are forced to divert their productionto exports, just to earn the foreign currency necessary to paythe interest on their loan."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"The US is bankrupt. However,the US dollar remains the world reserve currency. This means thatthe US can print money to pay its bills. As long as the worldaccepts the dollar as world reserve currency, the US will be ableto continue its wars."Paul Craig Roberts" America is the largestdebtor nation, and at the same time it is the world's creditor."Creating money out of thin air", while at the sametime imposing the U.S. dollar as a global currency constitutesthe ultimate instrument of conquest and imperial domination.The U.S. monetary system is supported by the most powerful militarypower on earth. The dollar is backed by U.S. military might, whichconstitutes a means for displacing national currencies and imposingthe U.S. dollar. In this regard, the Federal Reserve's overwhelmingpowers of money creation constitute an essential lever of an imperialmonetary agenda.... The Western banking system controls a worldwide electronicbanking network. The control of money creation at a world levelconstitutes the ultimate instrument of economic and social domination.The creation of fiat money provides a command over the real economiesof countries worldwide. The ultimate lever of the U.S.-NATO imperialdesign is to override and destroy national currencies."Michel Chossudovsky in the book"The Global Economic Crisis""In Pennsylvania in thefirst half of the 18th century, the provincial government notonly printed its own money but owned its own bank. Colonial scripwas printed and lent to farmers at 5% interest, and this moneyrecycled back to the government as it was repaid. The money wentout and came back in a circular flow, preventing inflation...The Bank of Pennsylvania issued its fiat currency as loans fordomestic use, loans on which not only the principal but the interestcame back to the government. Since the provincial government hadthe power to issue the local scrip, it could issue some extrato meet its expenses; and this money filtered through the economyto provide the additional sums needed to cover the interest onthe loans. During the time this provincial system was in place,the Pennsylvania colonists paid no taxes, there was no governmentdebt, and price inflation did not result."Ellen BrownDIRTY MONEYWORLD DRUG TRADE IS CONTROLLED BY A GLOBAL ELITE"Drug profits are securedthrough the ability of the drug cartels to launder and transferbillions of dollars through the US banking system. The scale andscope of the US banking-drug cartel alliance surpasses any othereconomic activity of the US private banking system."James Petras"The narcotics industrygenerates some $500 billion in annual sales worldwide, twice thevalue of Saudi Arabia's oil exports."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The world order doesn'tallow for any frontal attack aimed at destroying narco-traffickingbecause that business, which moves $400 billion annually, is fartoo important for the leading nations of world power to eliminate.The US punishes those countries which don't do enough to fightagainst drugs, whereas their CIA boys have built paradises ofcorruption throughout the world with the drug profits."Ecuadorian Presidential CandidateManuel Salgado"The City of London nowstands as money launderer of the world, described now as the capitalof the global crime scene. It is the heart and engine of the offshorehaven, with Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man its europeancollection centres, the caribbean and others hoovering up billionsof American dollars from all over the globe. Whilst there aregood and legal reasons for offshore accounts, it has a dark andshadowy client list; terrorists, drug barons, arms dealers, despots,dictators, shady politicians, corporations and companies, millionairesand billionaires - most with something to hide.... The Independent newspaper reported in July 2015 that The Cityof London is the money-laundering centre of the world's drug trade,according to an internationally acclaimed crime expert. Anotherexpert in Mafia criminology has come forward and stated the UKis now the most corrupt country in the world and firmly pins theblame on The City of London. In addition, every notable financialexpert now agrees that due to incredibly lax financial laws facilitatedby the British government, the London property market is heavilyinfluenced by laundered money from all over the world involvinghidden tax havens, most of which are British.In 2016, the Home Affairs Select Committee concluded that theLondon property market was the primary avenue for the launderingof £100bn of illicit money a year. ... Banks located in The City of London are connected to terroristscommitting some of the worst atrocities of our time, the samewith the international drug trafficking trade."truepublica.org.uk, 2016"A huge chunk of internationalbanking and related financial operations have been created solelyto manage dirty money. ... The Anglo-Dutch banking operations control illegal drug andrelated trade.... The Anglo-Dutch oligarchy's banking operations have the followingqualifications:They have run the drug trade for a century and a half.They dominate those banking centers closed off to law enforcementagencies.Almost all such "offshore," unregulated banking centersare under the direct political control of the British and Dutchmonarchies and their allies.They dominate all banking at the heart of the narcotics traffic;the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, created in 1864 to finance thedrug trade, is exemplary.They control world trade in gold and diamonds, a necessary aspectof "hard commodity" exchange for drugs.They subsume the full array of connections to organized crime,the pro-drug legislative lobby in the USA, and all other elementsof distribution, protection, and legal support."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""The $500 billion internationalnarcotics trade today is second only to the world oil trade. Totalworld trade volume is $1.7 trillion... The question that emergesis: "How is it possible that $500 billion and up in dirtymoney, crisscrossing international borders, can remain outsidethe control of the law?" Only one possible answer can beadmitted: A huge chunk of international banking and related financialoperations has been created solely to manage dirty money."DOPE, INC.: the international drugcartel, money-laundering, and state power, 1992"Money laundering, accordingto IMF estimates for the 1990s, was between 590 billion and 1.5trillion dollars a year. The proceeds of the drug trade are depositedin the banking system. Drug money is laundered in the numerousoffshore banking havens in Switzerland, Luxembourg, the BritishChannel Islands, the Cayman Islands and some 50 other locationsaround the globe. It is here that criminal syndicates involvedin the drug trade and the representatives of the world's largestcommercial banks interact. Dirty money is deposited in these offshorehavens, which are controlled by major Western banks and financialinstitutions which have a vested interest in maintaining and sustainingthe drug trade."Michel Chossudovsky"Drug networks are importantfactors in the politics of every continent. The United Statesreturns repeatedly to the posture of fighting wars in areas ofpetroleum reserves with the aid of drug-trafficking allies - drugproxies - with which it has a penchant to become involved."Peter Dale Scott in his book "Drugs,Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, andIndochina""The Hong Kong and ShanghaiBank [HSBC] and related companies finance the opium trade. Inthis, they are acting as designated agents of the British monarchy,through the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The world illegal drug traffic is controlled by a single groupof men whose intimate ties of ownership, family, and politicalcollaboration go back 200 years."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""A competent war on drugsmust begin with a war against the banking institutions and bankerswho 'launder' Dope, Inc.'s ill-gotten gains...Shut down the drugmoney-laundering by the major Anglo-American banks, and the dopecartel would choke to death on its own profits... Dope, Inc.'svulnerable flank is the international network of banks and otherfinancial institutions that 'launder' the cartel's $558 billionper year in gross revenue... Action by governments against thedrug bankers could rapidly shut down Dope, Inc.."DOPE, INC., Executive IntelligenceReview, 1992"New York and Londonhave become the world's two biggest laundries of criminal anddrug money, and offshore tax havens. Not the Cayman Islands, notthe Isle of Man or Jersey. The big laundering is right throughthe City of London and Wall Street."Martin Woods, bank money launderinginvestigator, to the Observer newspaper in 2011"The drug "industry"is ... under the control of a single world network.... The drug-related illegal economy is the biggest business inthe world. ... The British monarchy organized most of the Far East to conformto the drug traffic.... The Anglo-Dutch "offshore" banking system and relatedprecious metals and gems trade were designed around illegal money.... The world drug traffic is a top-down operation under the immediatecontrol of the British and allied monarchies."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""A large share of themultibillion dollar revenues of narcotics are deposited in theWestern banking system. Most of the large international bankstogether with their affiliates in the offshore banking havenslaunder large amounts of narco-dollars."Michel Chossudovsky in the book"The Global Economic Crisis""The drug "industry"is run as a single integrated world operation, from the opiumpoppy to the nickel bag of heroin sold on an inner-city streetcorner. Not only is illegal drug traffic under the control ofa single world network, but opiates traffic in particular is withoutdoubt the best-controlled production and distribution system ofany commodity in international trade, illegal or legal."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""Drug money is an inherentpart of the American and world economy. The amount of profit generatedannually by the drug trade is somewhere around $700 billion. Thisfigure includes heroin, opium, morphine, marijuana, cocaine, crackcocaine and hallucinogens.... The International Drug Trade is the most highly organized,top-down political machinery in the world, enjoying the protectionof every political entity Britain and the US have created throughthese vast invisible earnings.Daniel Estulin in his book "ShadowMasters""The global drugs tradecontrolled by British intelligence is worth at least 500 billiona year. This is more than the global oil trade. The economy inBritain and America is totally dependent on this drug money."James Casbolt in his article"MI-6 Are The Lords of the Global Drug Trade""The Eastern LiberalEstablishment families of the United States were just as deeplyinvolved in the China opium trade as were the British, indeedthey still are."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""If the world offshorebanking sector appears to run as a single operation under Britishmonarchy control, that is because the same group of people whorun it also run the opium traffic whose proceeds this bankingsector was created to handle."www.bibliotecapleyades.net -How the Drug Empire Works"Drugs are big business,run, controlled and protected by very powerful people who workalongside leading banking institutions on both sides of the Atlantic,members of various governments and principal corporations whosestock is traded on the world's leading stock exchange."Daniel Estulin in his book "ShadowMasters""In the late 1990s theU.S. Department of Justice estimated that the proceeds of narcoticstrade entering the U.S. banking system were between $500 and $1,000billion annually... If the banking system earns a fee of 1% forhandling, then the profits for the banks from narcotic activityis in the region of $5 to $10 billion."Dr. John Coleman in his book"Beyond The Conspiracy: Unmasking the Invisible World GovernmentThe Committee of 300""Hong Kong was set upby the British as a center for the drug trade, and remains tothis day purely British, and purely a center for the drug trade."from the book "DOPE, INC.:the international drug cartel, money-laundering, and state power",1992"America is run by 300families and England is run by 100 families and these familiesare intertwined through marriage, companies, banks, not to mentionties to the Black Nobility, Freemasonry, the Order of St. Johnof Jerusalem and so on. These are the people who, through theirsurrogates, find ways to protect huge shipments of heroin fromHong Kong, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan and ensure they reach themarket places in the U.S. and Western Europe with the minimumcost of doing business."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The best-protected institutionsof the British oligarchy prefer to launder their dirty money throughCaribbean, Hong Kong, and similar branch operations, rather thanin London itself."www.bibliotecapleyades.net -How the Drug Empire Works"If governments reallywanted to eradicate the vile drug trade, they could make lawsthat would oblige manufacturers of acetic anhydride, the mostessential chemical in the manufacture of heroin, to keep meticulousrecords showing who buys the chemical, for what purpose and whereit is going. But such unilateral action on the part of any maverickgovernment would greatly displease the oligarchic families ofEurope and the United States Establishment because these peopleare earning hundreds of billions of dollars each year from thedrug trade."Daniel Estulin in his book "ShadowMasters""American banks are collectivelythe world's largest financial beneficiary of the drug trade."Jesse Ventura in his book "AmericanConspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the GovernmentTells Us""The Eastern Liberal Establishmentfamilies of the United States were just as deeply involved inthe China opium trade as were the British oligarchy, indeed theystill are."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The British pre-eminencemakes the world picture of offshore banking and dirty money morecomprehensible. If the world offshore banking sector appears torun as a single operation under British monarchy control, thatis because the same group of people who run it also run the opiumtraffic whose proceeds this banking sector was created to handle."www.bibliotecapleyades.net - Howthe Drug Empire Works"To the oligarchs and plutocratsof the Committee of 300, drugs have a two-fold purpose, firstlyto bring in colossal sums of money and secondly, to eventuallyturn a major part of the population into mindless drug zombieswho will be easier to control than people who don't need drugs.Punishment for rebellion will mean withholding of supplies ofheroin, cocaine, marijuana, etc. For this it is necessary to legalizedrugs so that a monopoly system, which has been readied for introductiononce severe economic conditions cause drug usage to proliferateas hundreds of thousands of permanently jobless workers turn todrugs for solace.In one of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA)top secret papers, the scenario is laid out as follows: 'Havingbeen failed by Christianity, and with unemployment on every hand,those who have been without jobs for five years or more will turnaway from the church and seek solace in drugs. That is when fullcontrol of the drug trade must be completed in order that thegovernments of all countries who are under our jurisdiction willhave a monopoly which we will control through supply.... Drugbars will take care of the unruly and the discontent, would berevolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no willof their own'."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The British Crown Colonyof Hong Kong, with the British Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation(HSBC) at the top, is considered the number-one money-launderingcenter for the heroin trade ... Illegal drugs are the biggestbusiness in the Far East -and close to being the biggest businessin the world - but in Hong Kong, drugs do not merely dominatethe economy: They are the economy."DOPE, INC.: the international drugcartel, money-laundering, and state power, 1992"In 2009, the United NationsOffice on Drugs and Crime reported that billions of dollars indrug money saved the major banks during the financial crisis,providing much-needed liquidity."Andrew Gavin Marshall"[Drug money was] the onlyliquid investment capital" available to banks on the brinkof collapse, with roughly $325 billion in drug money absorbedby the financial system. Without identifying specific countriesor banks, Costa stated that, "Inter-bank loans were fundedby money that originated from the drugs trade and other illegalactivities... There were signs that some banks were rescued thatway."Antonio Maria Costa, the head ofthe UN Office on Drugs and Crime, 2009"From Colombia to Miami,from the Golden Triangle to the Golden Gate, from Hong Kong toNew York, from Bogota to Frankfurt, the drug trade, and more especiallythe heroin trade, is big business and it is run from the top downby some of the most "untouchable" families in the world...It is not a street corner business, and it takes a great dealof money and expertise to keep it flowing smoothly.... It is, in fact, the largest single enterprise in the worldtoday, transcending all others. That it is protected from thetop down is borne out by the fact that, like international terrorism,it cannot be stamped out which should indicate to a reasonableperson that some of this biggest names in royal circles, the oligarchy,the plutocracy are running it, even if it is done through intermediaries."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank [HSBC] and related companiesfinance the opium trade. In this, they are acting as designatedagents of the British monarchy, through the Royal Institute ofInternational Affairs. The world illegal drug traffic is controlled by a single groupof men whose intimate ties of ownership, family, and politicalcollaboration go back 200 years."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""The large internationalbanks that finance the drug trade, get it and launder it, usingit to prop up their bankrupt international financial system."DOPE, INC.: the international drugcartel, money-laundering, and state power, 1992"The mafia and the CIAare the same group at the upper levels. In Britain, the MI-6 drugmoney is laundered through the Bank of England, Barclays Bankand other household name companies. The drug money is passed fromaccount to account until its origins are lost in a huge web oftransactions.The drug money comes out 'cleaner' but not totally clean. Diamondsare then bought with this money from the corrupt diamond businessfamilies like the Oppenheimers.These diamonds are then sold and the drug money is clean."James Casbolt"Under U.S. law, banksmust report all cash deposits of $10,000 or more. Traffickershave turned to high cash-turnover businesses - such as hotels,casinos, restaurants, and sports events-to launder their money.Since banks don't have to report deposits made by these businesses,drug profits are simply mixed in with legal cash flows.Cash is also frequently shipped out of the United States. Oftenplanes which fly cocaine into the U.S., fly back loaded with $20,$50, and $100 bills. The bills can then either be deposited directlyin offshore banking centers - where no questions are asked -orin remote bank branches in the drug-producing countries. Thesefunds are then wire-transferred out to the offshore banks, intosecret accounts where there is no government supervision."DOPE, INC.: the international drugcartel, money-laundering, and state power, 1992"Cocaine is indeed clearlythe most profitable article of trade in the world."Economist magazine, August 1989"Some of the world's leadingprivate financial institutions are deeply implicated in the wittinglaundering of hundreds of billions of dollars a year in illegaldope money... [Illegal drugs are] the largest commodity in internationaltrade, with the exception of petroleum, and the annual revenuesof the narcotics traffic exceed[s] the national product of mostof the world's nations, and the revenues of the largest multinationalcompanies."DOPE, INC.: the international drugcartel, money-laundering, and state power, 1992"In the half century sincethe Korean War the United States has been involved in four majorwars in the Third World: in Vietnam (1961-1975), in the PersianGulf (1990-1991), in Colombia (1991-present), and in Afghanistan(2001-2002).' All four wars were fought in or near significantoil-producing areas. All four involved reliance on proxies whowere also major international drug traffickers. The American habitof training, arming, and financing its drug-trafficking alliesin order to help secure oil resources abroad has been a majorfactor in the huge increase in global illicit drug traffickingsince World War II."Peter Dale Scott, 2003"The drug activities ofthe US - and the US-led NATO - are tightly linked with the NATOexpansion and the creation of US military bases in the protectoratesestablished along the drug-trafficking and pipeline routes. Thebest example is the supervised state of Kosovo used by drug lordsto relay narcotics from Afghanistan to Europe via the Balkan route.The Albanian drug mafia's throughput is estimated at four to sixtons of heroin of the Afghan origin monthly, the annual revenuesbeing as high as $2 billion. According to the UN, Europe whichis the key market for Afghan opiates absorbs up to 150 tons ofheroin annually, with 35-50 tons going to Russia. The Albanianmafia is responsible for 75% of heroin supplies to West Europeand 50% - to the US."Elena Ponomareva"All empires since theRenaissance have been driven by the search for foreign resources,and nearly all-including the British, the French, and the Dutch-useddrugs as a cheap way to pay for overseas expansion. When the UnitedStates decided to preserve Western influence in Southeast Asia,it inherited a social structure of former colonial regimes thathad coexisted in one way or other with powerful Chinese Triadsengaged in the drug traffic."Peter Dale Scott, 2003"Shipments of cocaine aresometimes interdicted and seized. That is mere window dressing.Often times the shipments seized belong to a new organizationtrying to break into the trade. Such competition is put out ofbusiness by informing the authorities exactly where it is goingto enter the U.S. and who the owners are. The big stuff is nevertouched; heroin is too expensive."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The United States hasbecome more and more committed to exclusive domination of theworld oil economy, both to secure its increasing oil needs andto preclude this power from passing into the hands of anyone else.The consistent U.S. recourse to actions that have built up theglobal drug traffic raises an analogous question: Did the UnitedStates seek to maintain control over the global drug economy toensure that its riches would strengthen the U.S. economy and todeny them to communist enemies?"Peter Dale Scott, 2003"The U.S. military interventionin Afghanistan in 2001 was accompanied by restoration of opiumfor the world market, a recreation of what happened with the earlierU.S. intervention of 1979-1980, and before that with the U.S.intervention in Indochina after 1959, and in Southeast Asia in1950."Peter Dale Scott, 2003"Nothing has changed inthe opium-heroin-cocaine trade. It is still run by the same "upperclass" families in Britain and the United States. It is stilla fabulously profitable trade where what seem to be big lossesthrough seizures by the authorities are written off in paneledboardrooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigarsas merely the cost of doing business."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The strengthening of theglobal narcotics traffic has fueled other smuggling and relatedcriminal activities, leading to the consolidation of an internationalcriminal milieu. Chinese Triads, Japanese Yakuza, Russian gangs,and the Mafias of Italy, America, and Colombia have now combinedinto a "worldwide criminal consortium."Peter Dale Scott, 2003"The drug "industry"is run as a single integrated world operation, from the opiumpoppy to the nickel bag of heroin sold on an inner-city streetcorner. Not only is illegal drug traffic under the control ofa single world network, but opiates traffic in particular is withoutdoubt the best-controlled production and distribution system ofany commodity in international trade, illegal or legal.... The drug-related illegal economy is the biggest business inthe world. ... The British monarchy organized most of the Far East to conformto the drug traffic.... The Anglo-Dutch "offshore" banking system and relatedprecious metals and gems trade were designed around illegal money.... The world drug traffic is a top-down operation under the immediatecontrol of the British and allied monarchies."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "How the Drug Empire Works""The heroin epidemic that ravaged our cities during the fiftiesand sixties originated with the CIA out of Southeast Asia. Almostfrom the moment of their founding in 1947, the CIA was givingcovert support to organized drug traffickers in Europe and theFar East, and eventually the Middle East and Latin America. Duringthe Vietnam War, heroin was being smuggled into this country inthe bodies of soldiers being flown home."Jesse Ventura in the book "AmericanConspiracies""In my 30-year historyin the Drug Enforcement Administration and related agencies, themajor targets of my investigations almost invariably turned outto be working for the CIA."Dennis Dayle, a forms DEA agentin the Middle East"A huge chunk of internationalbanking and related financial operations have been created solelyto manage dirty money. ... The Anglo-Dutch banking operations control illegal drug andrelated trade.... The Anglo-Dutch oligarchy's banking operations have the followingqualifications:They have run the drug trade for a century and a half.They dominate those banking centers closed off to law enforcementagencies.Almost all such "offshore," unregulated banking centersare under the direct political control of the British and Dutchmonarchies and their allies.They dominate all banking at the heart of the narcotics traffic;the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, created in 1864 to finance thedrug trade, is exemplary.They control world trade in gold and diamonds, a necessary aspectof "hard commodity" exchange for drugs.They subsume the full array of connections to organized crime,the pro-drug legislative lobby in the USA, and all other elementsof distribution, protection, and legal support.www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""Drug trafficking constitutesthe third biggest global commodity in cash terms after oil andthe arms trade. Supported by powerful interests, heroin is a multibillion-dollarbusiness, which requires a steady and secure commodity flow. Oneof the hidden objectives of the war In Afghanistan was effectivelyto restore the CIA sponsored drug trade to its historical levelsand exert direct control over the drug routes."Michel Chossudovsky in his book" America's War on Terrorism""Britain has been involvedin the China opium trade for over two centuries. No one is goingto be so foolish as to rock the boat when millions upon millionsof dollars flow into the bank accounts of the British oligarchists,and more gold is traded on the Hong Kong gold market than thecombined total traded in London and New York."John Coleman in his book "TheCommittee of 300""The global narcotics marketis estimated by the UN to be of the order of $400-500 billiona year."Michel Chossudovsky in his book" America's War on Terrorism""The main heroin supplyroutes from the NATO-dominated Afghanistan [are a] land heroinroute through Turkey, Bulgaria, Kosovo or Bosnia, [and a] maritimeheroin route via Mediterranean trade lines to the island of Corsica.... How many tons of heroin were intercepted on merchant vesselsin Mediterranean during more than ten years of the operation ActiveEndeavour? ... Not a single gram... In 2003-2009 155 merchantvessels were boarded and checked by NATO inspection teams. Theydid not find anything.... Why is NATO is wasting stupendous resources on a purposelessoperation [Operation Active Endeavor]? The answer is evident:both NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) andActive Endeavour are perfectly complying with their real mission:to ensure total control over production, transportation and distributionof illegal drugs."www.voltairenet.org, 2012"Intelligence agenciesand powerful business syndicates, which are allied with organizedcrime, are competing for the strategic control over the heroinroutes. The multi-billion dollar revenues of narcotics are depositedin the Western banking system. Most of the large internationalbanks, together with their affiliates in the offshore bankinghavens, launder large amounts of narco-dollars.This trade can only prosper if the main actors involved in narcoticshave "political friends in high places". Legal and illegalundertakings are increasingly intertwined; the dividing line between"business people" and criminals is blurred."Michel Chossudovsky in his book" America's War on Terrorism""The real reason that thedrug problem is not eradicated is because it is being run by thehighest families in the entire world as part of a coordinatedgigantic money-making machine.... The plutocracy controlling British banks held the purse stringsand then, as now, put up a most respectable facade to cover theirtrue business. No one ever caught them with dirtied hands. Theyalways had front men, even as they do today, willing to take theblame if things went awry. Then as now the connections with thedrug trade were tenuous at best. No one was ever able to lay afinger on the respectable and "noble" banking familiesof Britain."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300"Queen Elizabeth-BritainEUROPEAN DYNASTIC FAMILIESOLD MONEY, GLOBAL POWERThere are ten monarchies remainingin Europe today. They have enormous wealth and power dating backto the Middle Ages, and are part of the Plutocracy Cartel.HOUSE OF WINDSOR (Great Britain) NETHERLANDSBELGIUMLIECHTENSTEINLUXEMBOURGSPAINDENMARKNORWAY SWEDENMONACO"At the center of oligarchyis the idea that certain families are born to rule as an arbitraryelite, while the vast majority of any given population is condemnedto oppression, serfdom, or slavery. Oligarchs identify wealthpurely in money terms, and practice usury, monetarism, and looting.The oligarchy has believed for millennia that the Earth is overpopulated.The essence of oligarchism is summed up in the idea of the empire,in which an elite identifying itself as a master race rules overa degraded mass of slaves or other oppressed victims. If oligarchicalmethods are allowed to dominate human affairs, they always createa breakdown crisis of civilization, with economic depression,war, famine, plague, and pestilence. A pillar of the oligarchicalsystem is the family fortune. The continuity of the family fortunewhich earns money through usury and looting is often more importantthan the biological continuity across generations of the familythat owns the fortune.""The Venetian Black Nobilityand the Concept of Oligarchy" an article by Dr. Webster GriffinTarpley & James Higham"By the early 1930's, theBritish Crown had a stranglehold on the biggest supplies of goldand diamonds ever found in the world. Now, the Committee of 300had at its disposal both the vast fortune coming from the drugtrade and the equally vast fortune of the minieral and metal wealthof South Africa. Financial control of the world was complete."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""European dynastic familiesconstitute a financial oligarchy; they are the power behind theWindsor throne [Britain]. They view themselves as the heirs tothe Venetian oligarchy, which infiltrated and subverted Englandfrom the period 1509-1715, and established a new, more virulent,Anglo-Dutch-Swiss strain of the oligarchic system of imperialBabylon, Persia, Rome, and Byzantium."Jeffrey Steinberg, 2004"The British East IndiaCompany/British government held the monopoly in opium trading- the only people allowed to make instant fortunes were the nobility,the aristocracy, the plutocrats and oligarchical families of England."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The Swedish Nobel and FrenchRothschild families discovered oil in Russia through their FarEast Trading Company, which later combined with Oppenheimer familyinterests to become Shell Oil. The Dutch House of Orange joinedforces with the British House of Windsor in the Dutch East Indiesto launch Royal Dutch Petroleum."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""Queen Elizabeth II,head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states andterritories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres ofland, one sixth of the earth's non-ocean surface. She is the onlyperson on earth who owns whole countries. The value of her landholding is approximately $28,000,000,000,000. This makes her therichest individual on earth."Kevin Cahill"The European Black Nobilityis responsible for the insidious entanglements of numerous secretsocieties, lodges, and organizations, which are backed with highfinance and powerful political connections.Such organizations include: Trilateral Commission, BilderbergGroup (German version of CFR), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR),United Nations (founded by CFR), Illuminati order Skull &Bones (inner circle of the CFR), International Monetary Fund (IMF),World Bank, Bank of International Settlement, Club of Rome, ChathamHouse (formally the Royal Institute of International Affairs _RIIA), Round Table, Tavistock Institute for Human Studies (England'spsychological warfare think tank), Associated Press, Reuters (Rothschildowned news monopoly used for brainwashing the masses), and manyothers, all of which, whether they are dupes or adapts, work infavor of Great Britain's aristocracy and their one world governmentagenda. Although there is a wide cross-section, all roads leadto the Queen of England."John Colman, 2012"The British royal familyrules the world, but they do not rule it alone. There are at leastthree other actors: central banks, the legacy of Cecil Rhodes,and the immense financial power of the biggest international bankingfamily, the Rothschilds."Joan Veon"The British Crown, i.e.,the Royal Family, joined the British East India Company's trade,and used it as a vehicle to produce opium in Bengal, and elsewherein India, controlling exports through what was called "transitduties," that is, the Crown levied a tax on all producersof opium duly registered with the state authority, who were sendingtheir opium to China.Prior to 1896, when the opium trade was still "illegal"-there never having been the slightest attempt to stop the trade- colossal amounts of opium were shipped out of India on board"China Tea Clippers" which supposedly carried chestsof tea from India and China to the London exchanges."John Coleman in his book "TheCommittee of 300: A Brief History of World Power""Royal Dutch/Shell is controlledby the Rothschild, Oppenheimer, Nobel and Samuel families alongwith the British House of Windsor and the Dutch House of Orange."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""The Black Nobility arethe oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th centuryheld privileged trading rights (monopolies). The first of threecrusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the VenetianBlack Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy rulingclass. In 1204 the oligarchic families parceled out feudal enclavesto their members, and from this date, they built up power untilgovernment became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobilityfamilies.The European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglementsof numerous secret societies and organizations, which are backedwith high finance and powerful political connections. Such organizationsinclude: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, Council on ForeignRelations (CFR), United Nations, International Monetary Fund (IMF),World Bank, Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Club of Rome,Chatham House, and many others. Present day European Black Nobilityfamilies are connected with the House of Guelph, one of the originalBlack Nobility families of Venice from which the House of Windsorand thus the present Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II descends."John Coleman in his book "TheCommittee of 300: A Brief History of World Power""During the Middle Ages,European power centers coalesced into two camps: the Ghibellinesand the Guelphs. The Pope then allied himself with the Guelphsagainst the Ghibellines resulting in their victory. All of modernhistory stems directly from the struggle between these two powers.The Guelphs were also called the Black Guelphs and Black Nobility.Every subsequent coup d'état, revolution and war has centeredin the battle of the Guelphs to hold and enhance their power,which is now the World Order. The power of the Guelphs grew throughtheir control of banking and international trade."Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley &James Higham in their book "The Venetian Black Nobility andthe Concept of Oligarchy""Every British monarch since1729 has benefited immensely from the drug trade."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""There is a vast networkof private financial interests, controlled by the leading aristocraticand royal families of Europe.A secret cross-linked vast holding of private financial interests,tied to the told aristocratic oligarchy of Western Europe, wasdeveloped (Club of the Isles). It was in many ways modeled onthe 17th-century British or Dutch East India Company models.The center of this Club of the Isles is the financial center ofthe old British Empire, the "City of London"."William Engdahl , Executive IntelligenceReview, April 1997"Dope = Big Business andBig Business is done by the oligarchical families of Europe andthe United States Eastern Liberal Establishment. The drug businessis not a Mafia operation, nor one run by the Colombian cocainecartels. The noble families of Britain and America's top peopleare not going to advertise their role in the shop windows; theyalways have a layer of front men to do the dirty work."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""George Soros is merelythe visible face of a vast network of private financial interests,controlled by the leading aristocratic and royal families of Europe."William Engdahl , Executive IntelligenceReview, 1997FEDERAL RESERVEAMERICA'S PRIVATE BANKINGCARTEL These private banks own the mostshares of the Federal Reserve and therefore control it.ROTHSCHILD BANK OF LONDONROTHSCHILD BANK OF BERLINWARBURG BANK OF HAMBURGWARBURG BANK OF AMSTERDAMLAZARD BROTHERS OF PARISISRAEL MOSES SEIF BANK OF ITALYKUHN LOEB BANK OF NEW YORKGOLDMAN SACHS OF NEW YORKJ. P. MORGAN CHASE BANK OF NEW YORKLEHMAN BROTHERS OF NEW YORK"The establishment ofthe Federal Reserve (1913) ensured that the United States wouldbecome indebted to and owned by international banking interests,and thus, act in their interest. The Fed financed the US rolein World War I, provided the credit for speculation, which ledto the Great Depression and massive consolidation for the intereststhat own the Federal Reserve System. It then financed US entryinto World War II."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""Eight families - onlyfour of which reside in the US. - have 80% ownership of the NewYork Federal Reserve Bank, by far the most powerful Fed branch.They are the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebsof New York; the Rothschild's of Paris and London; the Lazardsof Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome."J. W. McCallister - an oil industryinsider - about information he acquired from Saudi bankers"The Federal Reserveis commonly called the "Fed," confusing it with theU.S. government; but it is actually a private corporation. Itis owned by a consortium of private banks, the biggest of whichare Citibank and J. P. Morgan Chase Company."Ellen Hodgson Brown in her book"Web of Debt""Some people think theFederal Reserve banks are United States Government institutions.They are not government institutions. They are private creditmonopolies which prey upon the people of the United States forthe benefit of themselves and their foreign customers. The FederalReserve banks are the agents of the foreign central banks."Louis McFadden. chairman of theHouse Banking and Currency Committee, addressed the House of Representativeson June 10, 1932"The Federal ReserveBanks create money out of thin air to buy Government bonds fromthe United States Treasury, lending money into circulation atinterest, by bookkeeping entries... Where does the Federal Reservesystem get the money with which to create Bank Reserves? Answer.It doesn't get the money, it creates it. When the Federal Reservewrites a check, it is creating money. The Federal Reserve is atotal moneymaking machine."Congressman Wright Patman HouseBanking and Currency Committee, 1964"The shareholders of the banks which own the stock ofthe Federal Reserve Bank of New York are the people who have controlledour political and economic destinies since 1914. They are theRothschilds, of Europe, Lazard Freres, Israel Sieff, Kuhn LoebCompany, Warburg Company, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, theRockefeller family, and the J.P. Morgan interests."Eustace Mullins in his book "TheSecrets of the Federal Reserve""Here are the card-carryingshareholders in the `Federal' Reserve Corporation: RothschildBanks of London and Berlin, Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris, Isreal,Moses Sieff Banks Of Italy, Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam,Lehman Brothers Bank of New York, Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York,Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, Goldman Sachs Bank of New York."Miles Franklin Newsletter"When the federal governmentneeds more money, the Federal Reserve does not merely create andprint it as it would do were it a government agency. No, the FederalReserve creates it as a loan and charges the government intereston it."U.S. State Senator Jack Metcalf(R-WA)"The Federal Reservecontrols our money supply and interest rates, and thereby manipulatesthe entire economy - creating inflation or deflation, recessionor boom, and sending the stock market up or down at whim... Between1923 and 1929, the Federal Reserve expanded (inflated) the moneysupply by sixty-two percent. Much of this new money was used tobid the stock market up to dizzying heights. In 1929, the FederalReserve Board reversed its easy money policy and began raisingthe discount rate. The balloon which had been inflated constantlyfor nearly seven years was about to be exploded."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""The American centralbank (the Fed or the Federal Reserve System) is an institutionthat is entrusted to regulate banks and other financial institutions,but it is partly owned by the large money center banks. It isin a perpetual conflict of interests. In fact, it can be saidthat the Fed is the banks' own private government. In good times,large Wall Street banks, bank holding companies and other largeintegrated financial groups are pretty much left alone and allowedto build profitable but risky and shaky financial pyramids, withscant supervision. When things go bad, however, the Fed standsready to bail them out with automatic discounting, zero-interestloans and other goodies, the overall cost being transferred tothe general public through an inflation tax and a debased currency."Professor Rodrigue Tremblay"The establishment ofthe Federal Reserve (1913) ensured that the United States wouldbecome indebted to and owned by international banking interests,and thus, act in their interest."Andrew Gavin Marshall, GlobalResearch"The Federal ReserveSystem is a privately owned central bank. While the Federal ReserveBoard is a government body, the process of money creation is controlledby the twelve Federal Reserve banks, which are privately owned.The shareholders of the Federal Reserve banks (with the New YorkFederal Reserve Bank playing a dominant role) are among America'smost powerful financial institutions."Michel Chossudovsky"The Chairman of theFederal Reserve has one essential mandate: to preserve the powerof the big banks."F. William Engdahl"To cover the fact thata central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, itsproponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargonfocusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, thepublic, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmerthat underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed fromtop to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of thepublic... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade...The Federal Reserve is a scam, and we are its victims."G. Edward Griffin"There is no reason why the banks should be in controlof the Federal Reserve system."Senator Robert Owen, 1913"In the early 20th century,European and American banking interests achieved what they haddesired for over a century within America, the creation of a privatelyowned central bank [Federal Reserve - 1913]. It was created throughcollaboration of American and European bankers, primarily theMorgans, Rockefellers, Kuhn, Loebs and Warburgs."Andrew Gavin Marshall, GlobalResearch"All public debt operationsgo through the Federal Reserve, which is in charge of monetarypolicy, acting on behalf of private financial interests. The governmentas such has no authority over money creation. This means thatpublic debt operations essentially serve the interests of thebanks."Michel Chossudovsky"The financial systemhas been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Boardadministers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteeringgroup. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose ofobtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of otherpeople's money."Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh,Sr., 1923"The regional FederalReserve banks are not government agencies. ... but are independent,privately owned and locally controlled corporations."US Supreme Court ruling - Lewisvs. United States, 1982"When you or I writea check there must be sufficient funds in our account to coverthe check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check there isno bank deposit on which that check is drawn. When the FederalReserve writes a check, it is creating money.""Putting it simply"Boston Federal Reserve Bank"We have, in this country,one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known.I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution hasimpoverished the people of the United States and has practicallybankrupted our government. It has done this through the corruptpractices of the moneyed vultures who control it."Congressman Louis T. McFaddenin 1932"When the President signsthis act [Federal Reserve Act of 1913], the invisible governmentby the money power - proven to exist by the Monetary Trust Investigation- will be legalized. The new law will create inflation wheneverthe trusts want inflation. From now on, depressions will be scientificallycreated."Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh,Sr., 1912"For most of the twentieth century the Federal ReserveSystem, particularly the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (whichis outside the control of Congress, unaudited and uncontrolled,with the power to print money and create credit at will), hasexercised a virtual monopoly over the direction of the Americaneconomy."Antony C. Sutton in his book"Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler""When the Federal ReserveAct was passed, the people of these United States did not perceivethat a world banking system was being set up here. A super statecontrolled by international bankers and international industrialistsacting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Everyeffort has been made to conceal its power but the truth is theFed has usurped the government."Congressman Louis Mcfadden"What the people of theUnited States do not understand and never have understood is thatwhile the Federal Reserve Act was governmental, the whole FederalReserve System is private. It is an officially created privatebanking system.... The Federal Reserve System is a system of private banks, thecreation of a banking aristocracy within an already existing autocracy,whereby a great proportion of banking independence was lost, andwhereby it was made possible for speculative financiers to centralizegreat sums of money for their own purposes, beneficial or not."Dearborn Independent, July 2,1921"When the President signsthis act [Federal Reserve Act of 1913], the invisible governmentby the money power - proven to exist by the Monetary Trust Investigationwill be legalized. The new law will create inflation wheneverthe trusts want inflation. From now on, depressions will be scientificallycreated."Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh,Sr., 1912"The Federal Reserve... controls our monetary policy. By changing the supply of dollarsin circulation, they have influence over interest rates, mortgagepayments, whether the financial markets boom or collapse, andbasically whether our economy expands or stumbles. But the Fedis only partly an institution of government. The stockholdersin a dozen different Federal Reserve banks in different regionsof the country are the big private banks.The Federal Reserve was created by Congress in 1913, after a financialpanic that led to a secret meeting at banker J.P. Morgan's privateresort, off the coast of Georgia at a place called Jekyll Island.... What emerged was a cartel agreement with five objectives:stop the growing competition from the nation's newer banks; obtaina franchise to create money out of nothing for the purpose oflending; get control of the reserves of all banks so that themore reckless ones would not be exposed to currency drains andbank runs; get the taxpayer to pick up the cartel's inevitablelosses; and convince Congress that the purpose was to protectthe public. It was realized that the bankers would have to becomepartners with the politicians and that the structure of the cartelwould have to be a central bank."Jesse Ventura in the book "AmericanConspiracies""For most of the twentiethcentury the Federal Reserve System, particularly the Federal ReserveBank of New York - which is outside the control of Congress, unauditedand uncontrolled, with the power to print money and create creditat will - has exercised a virtual monopoly over the directionof the American economy."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler""There are six major banksin the U.S. at the present time, and they control most of thestock of the Federal Reserve System. The Rockefeller family haslarge blocks of stock in two of the major banks: J.P. Morgan Chaseand Citigroup. The Rothschild family has a controlling interestin two major banks and significant holdings in the other majorbanks through the Barclay Bank and the State Street Bank. Whyis that important? Two families control the major banks, the majorbanks control the FED, and the FED controls the U.S. economy."Stanley Monteith"40% of every dollar we spend on goods and services is siphonedoff the top as bank interest. The US Government is in the absurdposition of paying interest to a private bank for every dollarthat is put into circulation. The Federal Reserve system has privatizedthe power to create money, which, according to the Constitution,ought to belong to Congress alone. Presently, interest on thenational debt costs the Federal government $500 billion in 2011,and, it is the fastest-growing portion of the Federal budget."Josh Mitteldorf - first PublicBanking in America conference April 28-29, Philadelphia"Through their front manE. Mandell House ... Jacob Schiff, the top Rothschild front inthe United States, and Bernard Baruch, the Wall Street manipulator,the Money Monopolists selected Woodrow Wilson and financed hiscampaign for the presidency of the United States in 1912.... On December 23, 1913, when most of our nation's lawmakershad left Washington for their Christmas vacations, the Money Monopolistsrammed through the Federal Reserve Act which left our nation'smoney and credit supply firmly in the hands of the Rothschild-controlledinternational bankers.... The same "money power" also financed the campaignfor the introduction of the income tax. This Act was not designedto make the wealthy pay for the running of the country. Its specificpurpose was to become "a siphon ... inserted in the pocketbooksof the general public"."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""When the federal governmentneeds more money, the Federal Reserve does not merely create andprint it as it would do were it a government agency. No, the FederalReserve creates it as a loan and charges the government intereston it."State Senator Jack Metcalf (R-WA)"We have in this countryone of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever knownI refer to the Federal Reserve.They are not government institutions. They are private monopolieswhich prey upon the people of these United States for the benefitof themselves and their foreign customers.... The truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controlseverything here [Congress] and it controls all foreign relations.It makes and breaks governments at will."Congressman Louis T. McFadden,Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee"There is evidence thatstrongly suggests that President John F. Kennedy was on the vergeof attacking the debt/usury problem head on with a repudiationof Federal Reserve Notes - and that he paid for it with his life.Immediately after Kennedy's assassination, the issuance of non-interestbearing United States Notes [greenbacks] was banned. Within weeks,undisputed control of our nation's financial affairs was handedover to the privately owned Federal Reserve Corporation by thenew Johnson administration ."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""The Congress handed overall monetary powers to the Federal Reserve in 1913. The Fed isa private bank, owned by banks, and pays dividends on its sharesowned only by banks. The Fed is a private Bankers Bank.... The Fed has a legal monopoly of money granted by Congressin 1913 proceedings that were unconstitutional and fraudulent.... The Congress has never investigated the Federal Reserve andis highly unlikely to do so. No one sees Fed accounts; they arenot audited. No balance sheets are issued. No one, but no one,ever criticizes the Fed and survives."Antony Sutton in his book "TheFederal Reserve Conspiracy", 1995World Economic Forum (Davos)FINANCIAL CAPITALISMGLOBAL SUPRA-GOVERNMENT ANDWEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION"The powers of financialcapitalism [international bankers] had a far-reaching aim, nothingless than to create a world system of financial control in privatehands able to dominate the political system of each country andthe economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlledin a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world actingin concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent privatemeetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be theBank for International Settlements [BIS] in Basel, Switzerland,a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central bankswhich were themselves private corporations."Carroll Quigley "Tragedy andHope""There is a transnationalpower elite which has centralized the control of global capitalaround the world. This Global Power Elite - less than 400 individuals- are at the core of the policy planning nongovernmental networksthat manage, facilitate, and protect the continued concentrationof global capital. They are the activist core of the TransnationalCapitalist Class (TCC) - 1 percent of the world's wealthy people....The TCC cannot find outlets to profitably reinvest the trillionsof dollars that it has accumulated. In recent years it has turnedto wild financial speculation in the global casino, raiding andsacking of public budgets, war making, and the extension of systemsof social control and repression to sustain accumulation and containthe real or potential rebellion of the poor and the marginalized.... The Global Power Elites of the TCC (Transnational CapitalistClass) make every effort to protect their interests through globalorganizations like the World Bank, World Trade Organization, InternationalMonetary Fund, the G20, G7, World Economic Forum, Trilateral Commission,Bilderberg Group, Bank for International Settlements, and othertransnational associations... Within this system, nation-statesbecome little more than population containment zones, and thereal power lies with the decision makers who control global capital."Peter Phillips in his book "Giants""Financial markets actinglike a global supra-government oust entrenched regimes where normalpolitical processes could not do so. They force austerity, bankingbail-outs and other major policy changes. Their influence dwarfsmultilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund.Indeed, leaving aside unusable nuclear weapons, they have becomethe most powerful force on earth. They oust entrenched regimeswhere normal political processes could not do so. They force austerity,banking bail-outs and other major policy changes. Their influencedwarfs multilateral institutions such as the International MonetaryFund. Indeed, leaving aside unusable nuclear weapons, they havebecome the most powerful force on earth."Roger Altman, former Deputy Secretaryof the Treasury under the Clinton administration, 2011"American history overthe 19th century had been driven an increasingly powerful cartelof financial elites and the large industrial trusts they controlled[The Money Trust]. Their interests, rather than the interestsof the nation and the population as a whole, defined the strategicpriorities of that powerful cartel. Their overwhelming controlof the national media allowed their propaganda experts to portraytheir interests as 'America's interests.' Most Americans, wantingto think the best of their country, bought the propaganda.... Their economic model was that of the British East India Companyor, more accurately, of the Barbary pirates, looting and plunderingto exhaustion one region after the next to prop up their empire,leaving behind as little of value as possible. For the Rockefellers... the entire world was considered their 'frontier.' By portrayingtheir mission after 1948 as a Cold War fought by 'American democracy'against 'Godless Communism' they gave the cause of advancing Americaninterests a messianic religious cover that was astonishingly effectivefor decades."F. William Engdahl in his book"Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the AmericanCentury""People, governments andeconomies of all nations must serve the needs of multinationalbanks and corporations."Zbigniew Brzezinski"A global financial cabalengineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegallyshifted vast amounts of capital out of the US; and used 'privatization'as a form of piracy a pretext to move government assets to privateinvestors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilitiesback to government at no cost to the private liability holder.Clearly, there was a global financial coup d'état underway."Catherine Austin Fitts, formerAssistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner"Today it is widely recognizedthat, faced with an asset bubble, the capitalist state has littlechoice but to do what it can to maintain the bubble for as longas possible, and to keep asset prices rising. In a stagnatingeconomy, financialization is the name of the game, and a financialmeltdown is conceived as the worst eventuality. Pricking the bubbleis seldom considered by the financial authorities, and then neverseriously. The job of the Fed in this respect is thus restrictedto preventing a bursting bubble from becoming a major meltdown,by speeding to the rescue of speculative capital whenever thereis a risk of system-wide instability."John Bellamy Foster and HannahHolleman"The power elite of free-marketglobal capitalism is remarkably easy to describe. Although itlooks like a hierarchy, it is in fact a network. At the network'scentre are the people who run banks, insurance companies, investmentbanks and hedge funds, including those who sit on the boards andthose who have passed through them at the highest level ... Closelyoverlapping with this network is the military-diplomatic establishment.Another tight circle comprises those companies in the energy andcivil engineering business."Paul Mason, economics editor ofBBC Newsnight, 2009"Since 2008, bad debt frombanks, corporations, and private investors was transferred fromthe balance sheets of private banks to the balance sheets of thecentral banks as a result of nine years of bailout via QE (quantitativeeasing), zero interest rate free money, and other policies ofthe central banks. The central banks bailed out the capitalistsystem in 2008-09 by shifting the bad debts to themselves. Inthe course of the last 9 years, the private system loaded itselfup on still more debt than it had in 2007. Can the central banks,already bloated with $20 trillion bail out bankers and friendsonce again? That's the question. Attempting to unload the $20trillion to make room for the next bailout-as the central banksnow propose to do-may result, however, in precipitating the nextcrisis.... After eight years of treating symptoms and not the disease,the global financial system has become addicted to super-low ratesand to continued central bank excess liquidity provisioning. Whatstarted in 2008 as a massive, somewhat coordinated central banklender of last resort experiment - i.e. global bank bailout -has over the past eight years evolved into a more or less permanentsubsidisation of the private banking and financial systems bycentral banks. The system has become addicted to free money.... What happened was an unprecedented acceleration in financialasset markets as equity and bond prices surged for eight years,high end real estate prices rose to prior levels, derivativesboomed, gold and crypto-currencies escalated in value, and incomeinequality soared to record levels - all fueled by the massive$10 trillion central bank liquidity injections that drove interestrates to zero or below."Jack Rasmus , 2017"The history of the Groupof Thirty goes back to the Rockefeller Foundation, which providedthe organization's initial funding. The Rockefeller Foundationrepresents the interests of highly centralized corporate and financialpower.The Group of Thirty, originally named the "Consultative Groupon International Economic and Monetary Affairs," was to functionas a think tank, lobby, and a consensus-building institution forthe global elites.... What makes the G30 and its recommendations so important isnot only the fact that they are taken seriously by policymakersand market participants - but that the very individuals makingthe recommendations are in positions of power to directly implementor support those same recommendations.... The G30 can be thought above all as an exclusive club of financialcrisis kingpins. And it is a club that will continue to play asignificant and not altogether helpful role in global financialmanagement for years to come."Andrew Gavin Marshall, 2013"Countries that do notfollow the dictates of the "financial market" are punishedwith lower credit ratings, higher interest, speculative attacks,and in the cases of Greece and Italy in November of 2011, theirdemocratically-elected governments are simply removed and replacedwith technocratic administrations made up of bankers and economistswho then push through austerity and adjustment policies that impoverishand exploit their populations... and if your elected governmentsdo not succumb to "market discipline," they will beremoved and replaced in what _ under any other circumstances _is referred to as a 'coup.'"Roger Altman, former Deputy Secretaryof the Treasury, Financial Times, 2011"The U.S. monetary systemis supported by the most powerful military power on earth. Thedollar is backed by U.S. military might, which constitutes a meansfor displacing national currencies and imposing the U.S. dollar.In this regard, the Federal Reserve's overwhelming powers of moneycreation constitute an essential lever of an imperial monetaryagenda.... The Western banking system controls a worldwide electronicbanking network. The control of money creation at a world levelconstitutes the ultimate instrument of economic and social domination.The creation of fiat money provides a command over the real economiesof countries worldwide. The ultimate lever of the U.S.-NATO imperialdesign is to override and destroy national currencies."Michel Chossudovsky in his book"The Global Economic Crisis""The small, but politicallypowerful, minority of financiers and industrialists is interestedin various forms of economic imperialism. By a judicious use oftheir resources, the capitalists of highly industrialized countriesstake out claims for themselves within nominally independent countries.Those claims are then represented as being the claims of the respectivenations, and the quarrels between the various financial interestsconcerned become quarrels between states. The peace of the worldhas frequently been endangered, in order that oil magnates mightgrow a little richer."Aldous Huxley, 1937"After 1971, a White Housepolicy was initiated, under the effective control of Henry Kissinger,to control the economies of the nations and to reduce their populations,rather than to facilitate technology transfer and industrial growth.The strategy was to force the price of the cartelized world oilup by about a factor of four, recover the Arab oil receipts backinto the British and American central banks, and lend them tothe Third World to acquire control over those countries. To thisend, the Bilderberg group, containing the world's top financialand political insiders, met privately in Saltsjoebaden, Swedenin May 1973 to discuss how the coming flood of oil dollars wasto be handled. ... The great bulk of the petro-dollars were repatriated in purchasingU.S. government debt and in deposit accounts in Chase Manhattan,Citibank, et al. From there they were loaned to the Third World,which could not otherwise buy the fuel they needed to survive,whence many of those countries became enslaved to the bankers,and forced to follow their edicts on how to run their countries.F William Engdahl in his book "ACentury of War""Globalization can be seenas the triumph of capitalism: the ascendancy of economics overpolitics, of corporate demands over public policy, of the privateover the public interest, of the transnational corporation andits global framework over the national state."Gary Teeple in his book "Globalizationand the Decline of Social Reform""The shadow banking systemis a black hole of unregulated (and unregulatable) financial innovations,including bank conduits (such as structured investment vehicles),repos, credit default swaps, etc. The system is so opaque andrisk-permeated that any restraints imposed threaten to destabilizethe whole financial house of cards. At most, the attempt is toprop up the big banks and hope that they will serve as the lynchpinsto stabilize the system. Nevertheless, this is made almost impossible,due to the sheer size of the shadow banking system to which themajor banks are connected: the off-balance-sheet commitments ofthe major U.S. commercial banks in 2007 were in the trillionsof dollars."John Bellamy Foster and HannahHolleman"Financial manipulationis an integral part of the New World Order. It constitutes a powerfulmeans to accumulate wealth. It has contributed to destabilizingthe U.S. fiscal structure. Under the present political arrangement,those responsible for monetary policy are quite deliberately servingthe interests of the financiers, to the detriment of working people,leading to economic dislocation, unemployment and mass poverty.What we are dealing with is the fraudulent confiscation of lifelongsavings and pension funds and the appropriation of tax revenuesto finance the bank bailouts... What is at stake is then outrightcriminalization of the financial system, financial theft on anunprecedented scale."Michel Chossudovsky"Globalization, as ithas been advocated, often seems to replace the old dictatorshipsof national elites with new dictatorships of international finance.Countries are effectively told that if they don't follow certainconditions, the capital markets or the IMF will refuse to lendthem money. They are basically forced to give up part of theirsovereignty, to let capricious capital markets, including thespeculators whose only concerns are short-term rather than thelong-term growth of the country and the improvement of livingstandards, "discipline" them, telling them what theyshould and should not do."Joseph Stiglitz in his book "Globalizationand Discontents""Seventeen asset managementfirms, each with an excess of one trillion dollars of investmentcapital under management, have a total capital under managementin excess of $ 41 trillion. These firms are the giants of internationalcapitalism. The wealth they manage comes from many thousands ofmillionaires, billionaires, and corporations, who allow assetmanagement firms to invest their money in the market with theexpectation of above-average returns on their capital. They arethe central institutions of the financial capital that powersthe global economic system. Western governments and internationalpolicy bodies tend to work in the interests of these financialgiants to protect the free flow of capital investment and insuredebt collection everywhere in the world.... The top asset management companies are the most superconnectedfirms in the world."Peter Phillips in his book "Giants""Modern democracies havebeen around for long enough for neo-liberal capitalists to learnhow to subvert them. They have mastered the technique of infiltratingthe instruments of democracy - the "independent" judiciary,the "free" press, the parliament - and molding themto their purpose. The project of corporate globalization has crackedthe code. Free elections, a free press, and an independent judiciarymean little when the free market has reduced them to commoditieson sale to the highest bidder."Arundhati Roy in her book "AnOrdinary Person's Guide to Empire""Our global system is oneof state-capitalism, where the state and corporate interests areinterdependent and mutually beneficial, at least for those inpower."Roger Altman, former Deputy Secretaryof the Treasury, Financial Times, 2011"By allowing capital toflow unchecked from one end of the world to the other, globalizationand abandon of sovereignty have together fostered the explosivegrowth of an outlaw financial market. It is a coherent systemclosely linked to the expansion of modern capitalism and basedon an association of three partners: governments, transnationalcorporations and Mafias. Business is business: financial crimeis first and foremost a market, thriving and structured, ruledby supply and demand. Big business complicity and political laissefaire is the only way that largescale organized crime can launderand recycle the fabulous proceeds of its activities. And the transnationalcorporations need the support of governments and the neutralityof regulatory authorities in order to consolidate their positions,increase their profits, withstand and crush the competition, pulloff the 'deal of the century' and finance their illicit operations.Politicians are directly involved and their ability to intervene,depends on the backing and the funding that keep them in power."Christian de Brie and Jean deMaillard, Le Monde Diplomatique, 2000"Capital must protectitself in every way. Debts must be collected and loans and mortgagesforeclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of lawthe common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractableand more easily governed by the strong arm of the law appliedby the central power of leading financiers. People without homeswill not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known amongour principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalismto govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them toexpend their energies in fighting over questions of no importanceto us except as teachers of the common herd."Civil Servants' Year Book: "TheOrganizer", 1934"By early 2000, the processof global financial deregulation was in many regards a fait accompli.Wall Street routinely invaded country after country. The domesticbanking system was put on the auction block and reorganized underthe surveillance of external creditors. National financial institutionswere systematically destabilized and driven out of business; massunemployment and poverty are the invariable results."Michel Chossudovsky"Unfettered and unregulatedcapitalism is a brutal and revolutionary force that exploits humanbeings and the natural world until exhaustion or collapse."Chris Hedges"CapitaIism, becauseit seeks profits as its primary goal, is never primarily seekingto achieve prosperity, high production, high consumption, politicalpower, patriotic improvement, or moral uplift. Any of these maybe achieved under capitalism, and any (or all) of them may hesacrificed and lost under capitalism, depending on this relationshipto the primary goal of capitalist activity - the pursuit of profit."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""The advanced capitalisteconomies of North America and Europe are desperately trying tomaintain their hegemony and economic survival by means of austerityprograms which shift the burden of the depression from the wealthyfinanciers and speculators who created it to the poor and workingclass who must pay for it... The Western imperial powers seekto destroy the social safety net and drive their populations intofurther destitution and desperation. This is the crisis of advanced,post-industrial capitalism - an economic system which must expandthe divide between rich and poor, create extremes of wealth andpoverty and generally perpetuate itself on the misery and povertyof the lower classes."Eric Draitser, Global Research,2013"The engine of capitalistexpansion is now oiled by the profits of serious crime. ... It is a coherent system closely linked to the expansion ofmodern capitalism and based on an association of three partners:governments, transnational corporations, and mafias. ... Big business complicity and political laissez faire is theonly way that large-scale organized crime can launder and recyclethe fabulous proceeds of its activities. And the transnationalsneed the support of governments and the neutrality 0f the regulatoryauthorities in order to consolidate their positions, increasetheir profits, withstand or crush the competition, pull off the"deal of the century" and finance their illicit operations.Politicians are directly involved, and their ability to intervenedepends on the backing and the funding that keep them in power.... The only objective of the anti-corruption campaigns takenup by international organizations (World Bank, IMF, and OECD)is the "good governance" of a financial crime that isnow an integral part of market globalizations under the leadershipof the American democracy, the most corrupt on the planet."Le Monde Diplomatique, 2000"Capitalism providesvery powerful motivations for economic activity because it associateseconomic motivations so closely with self-interest. But this samefeature, which is a source of strength in providing economic motivationthrough the pursuit of profits, is also a source of weakness owingto the fact that so self-centered a motivation contributes veryreadily to a loss of economic coordination. Each individual, justbecause he is so powerfully motivated by self-interest, easilyloses sight of the role which his own activities play in the economicsystem as a whole, and tends to act as if his activities werethe whole, with inevitable injury to that whole."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""The economy is designedto self-destruct... Many people hit a proverbial wall on thisissue because they simply cannot fathom that certain groups ofmen (globalists and central bankers) view money and economy incompletely different terms than they do. The average Americanlives within a tiny box when it comes to the mechanics and motivationsof finance. They think that their monetary desires and drivesare exactly the same as a globalist's. But, what they don't realizeis that the box they think in was built by globalists. This iswhy the actions of big banks and the decisions of our mostly corporateestablishment run government seem so insane in the face of commonsense. We try to rationalize their behavior as "idiocy",but the reality is that their goals are highly deliberate andso far outside what we have been taught to expect that some ofus lack a point of reference. If you cannot see the endgame, youwill not understand the steps taken to reach it until it is toolate."Giordano Bruno, Neithercorp Press,2010"The two aims of theParty are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguishonce and for all the possibility of independent thought.The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone elsewas their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, allthe factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them theycould throw him into prison, or they could take his job away andstarve him to death."George Orwell in his book "1984""Britain and the US, thetwo leaders of modern global finance, are now among the most unequalsocieties in the developed world. In Britain 0.3 per cent of thepopulation owns two-thirds of the land... In a UNICEF league oftwenty-one industrialised nations measuring child well-being,the UK came last, marginally behind the USA."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""Capital must protect itselfin every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debtsmust be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.When, through the process of law, the common people lose theirhomes, they will become more docile and more easily governed throughthe strong arm of government applied by a central power of wealthunder leading financiers. These truths are well known among ourprincipal men who are now engaged in forming an imperialism togovern the world. By dividing the voter through the politicalparty system, we can get them to expend their energies in fightingfor questions of no importance. It is thus by discreet actionwe can secure for ourselves that which has been so well plannedand so successfully accomplished."American's Banker Association,1924"There is a transnationalruling class, a "Superclass", that agrees on establishinga world government. The middle class is targeted for elimination,because most of the world has no middle class, and to fully integrateand internationalize a middle class, would require industrializationand development in Africa, and certain places in Asia and LatinAmerica. The goal of the Superclass is not to lose their wealthand power to a transnational middle class, but rather to extinguishthe notion of a middle class, and transnationalize a lower, uneducated,labor oriented class, through which they will secure ultimatewealth and power.The global economic crisis serves these ends, as whatever remainingwealth the middle class holds is in the process of being eliminated,and as the crisis progresses, the middle classes of the worldwill suffer, while a great percentage of lower classes of theworld, poverty-stricken even prior to the crisis, will sufferthe greatest, most probably leading to a massive reduction inpopulation levels, particularly in the "underdeveloped"or "Third World" states."Andrew Gavin Marshall, 'The GlobalEconomic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century'"The total result of themanipulation of society by the Establishment elite has been fourmajor wars in sixty years, a crippling national debt, abandonmentof the Constitution, suppression of freedom and opportunity, andcreation of a vast credibility gulf between the man in the streetand Washington, D.C. While the transparent device of two majorparties trumpeting artificial differences, circus-like conventions,and the cliché of "bipartisan foreign policy"no longer carries credibility, and the financial elite itselfrecognizes that its policies lack public acceptance, it is obviouslyprepared to go it alone without even nominal public support."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler""Ruling elites are deadlyserious about seeing that any renovation of the internationalsystem is in their interest. They use a variety of carrot andstick tactics to maintain political and economic control - domesticallyand internationally. Control techniques will be more vicious orless, depending on a combination of factors involving the stateof the economy and, more importantly, the state of popular opposition.The more threatening and persistent the moves to counter theirplans and build alternative models, the more violent will be theirtactics of repression."Holly Sklar, TrilateralismFOUNDATIONSWEALTHY, TAX-EXEMPT AND VERYINFLUENTIAL"The global financial eliteof the Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations are making theplans [for a one world government]. The real name of the gameis 1984. We will have systematic population reduction, forcedsterilization or anything else which the planners deem necessaryto establish absolute control in their humanitarian utopia. Butto enforce these plans, you must have an all-powerful world government.You can't do this if individual nations have sovereignty. Andbefore you can facilitate the Great Merger, you must first centralizecontrol within each nation, destroy the local police and removethe guns from the hands of the citizenry. You must replace ouronce free Constitutional Republic with an all-powerful centralgovernment."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""The organization oftax-exempt fortunes of international financiers into foundationswas to be used for educational, scientific, and other public purposes...The inheritance tax drove the great private fortunes dominatedby Wall Street into tax-exempt foundations, which became a majorlink in the Establishment network between Wall Street, the IvyLeague, and the federal government... The foundations managedto acquire control over the primary Ivy League colleges, includingHarvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""One of the leading devicesby which the wealthy dodge taxes is the channeling of their fortunesinto tax-free foundations. The major foundations, though commonlyregarded as charitable institutions, often use their grant-makingpowers to advance the interests of their founders."James Perloff in his book "TheShadows of Power""Can anyone honestly believe that the tax-exempt Foundations,which are based on the great American fortunes and administeredby the present-day captains of American industry and finance,will systematically underwrite research which tends to underminethe pillars of the status quo, in particular the illusion thatthe corporate rich who benefit most from the system do not runit?"Ramparts magazine"The Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Corporationof New York, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,are using their enormous public funds to finance a one-sided approachto foreign policy and to promote it actively by propaganda, andin the Government through infiltration. The power to do this comesout of the power of the vast funds employed."Congressman Carroll Reece, chairmanof the Reece Committee - investigating tax-exempt foundations,1953-1955"The Reece Committeewent out of existence on January 3, 1955, having proven that themammoth tax-exempt foundations have such power in the White House,in Congress, and in the press, that they are quite beyond thereach of a mere committee of the Congress of the United States."Dan Smoot in his book "TheInvisible Government" , 1962"The Round Table Groupwanted to control the people by having the government tax peopleand deposit the peoples money in a central bank. The Group wouldtake control of the bank and therefore have control of the money.The Group would take control of the State Department and formulategovernment policy, which would determine how the money was spent.The Group would control the CIA which would gather informationabout people, and script and produce psycho-political operationsfocused at the people to influence them to act in accord withRound Table Group State Department policy decisions. The Groupwould work to consolidate all the nations of the world into asingle nation, with a single central bank under their control,and a single International Security System. Some of the firstlegislation of the Wilson Administration was the institution ofthe graduated income tax (1913) and the creation of a centralbank called the Federal Reserve. An inheritance tax was also instituted.These tax laws were used to rationalize the need for legislationthat allowed the establishment of tax-exempt foundations. Thetax-exempt foundations became the link between the Group member'sprivate corporations and the university system. The Group wouldcontrol the universities by controlling the sources of their funding.The funding was money sheltered from taxes that was channeledin ways which would help achieve Round Table Group aims."Colonel Edward Mandell House"A very powerful complexof foundations and affiliated organizations has developed overthe years to exercise a high degree of control over education.Part of this complex, and ultimately responsible for it, are theRockefeller and Carnegie groups of foundations."Rene Wormser in his book "Foundations:Their Power and Influence""The Carnegie Endowmentsupported U.S. entry into the war {WW I], not for any patrioticpurpose, but so that the war would provide an excuse for, if notnecessitate, Andrew Carnegie's goal of British-American regionalgovernment."William H Mcllhany II, from anarticle "Tax Exempt Foundations", 1980"The folks at the RockefellerFoundation were deadly serious about wanting to solve the worldhunger problem through the worldwide proliferation of GMO seedsand crops... They were out to limit population by going afterthe human reproductive process itself."F. William Engdahl in his book"Seeds of Destuction""Foundations such asFord, Rockefeller and Carnegie were considered the best and mostplausible kind of CIA funding cover. A CIA study of 1966 arguedthat this technique was `particularly effective for democraticallyrun membership organizations, which need to assure their own unwittingmembers and collaborators, as well as their hostile critics, thatthey have genuine, respectable, private sources of income.' Certainly,it allowed the CIA to fund`a seemingly limitless range of covertaction programs affecting youth groups, labor unions, universities,publishing houses, and other private institutions from the early1950s."Frances Stoner Saunders fromher book "The Cultural Cold War""The very rich avoidedmost taxation by protecting their wealth in new tax-exempt 'charitable'foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, created the sameyear as the income tax. The passage of a broad-based tax on incomewould allow Wall Street to finance the war [WWI] through issuanceof US Treasury bonds, so-called 'Liberty Bonds' whose debt servicewould be assured by the taxpayer."Ferdinand Lundberg in his book"The Rich And The Super-Rich""By the time the incometax Amendment had been approved by the states, the Rockefellersand Carnegie foundations were in full operation... These monopolistscould now compound their wealth tax-free while competitors hadto face a graduated income tax which made it difficult to amasscapital.... The conspirators now had created the mechanisms to run upthe debt, to collect the debt, and to avoid the taxes requiredto pay the yearly interest on the debt."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""By 1956 the Ford Foundationhad spent more than one billion dollars in contributions to 'education'and had thereby become a well-nigh all-encompassing influenceover hundreds of colleges and universities."Rene Wormser in the book "Foundations:Their Power and Influence""Powerful elite circlesof the United States ... backed the introduction of geneticallymodified seeds into the world food chain as a strategic priority.That elite included not only the Rockefeller and Ford foundationsand most other foundations tied to the large private family fortunesof the wealthiest American families. It also included the US StateDepartment, the National Security Council, the US Department ofAgriculture, as well as the leading policy circles of the InternationalMonetary Fund, the World Bank, along with agencies of the UnitedNations including WHO and FAO."F. William Engdahl"The World Health Organization,the World Bank, the UN environmental department, the UN PopulationFund, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are closing inon all of humanity with mass-scale vaccination programmes andgenetically engineered food."Jurriaan Maessen, 2012"Foundations use theirfunds to subvert and control American education."Rene Wormser in the book "Foundations:Their Power and Influence"INCOME TAX"ONLY THE LITTLE PEOPLEPAY TAXES""The federal income tax was instituted specifically tocoerce taxpayers to pay the interest due to the banks on the federaldebt."Ellen Hodgson Brown in her book"Web of Debt""Through their front manE. Mandell House ... Jacob Schiff, the top Rothschild front inthe United States, and Bernard Baruch, the Jewish Wall Streetmanipulator, the Money Monopolists selected Woodrow Wilson andfinanced his campaign for the presidency of the United Statesin 1912.... On December 23, 1913, when most of our nation's lawmakershad left Washington for their Christmas vacations, the Money Monopolistsrammed through the nationally destructive and totally unconstitutionalFederal Reserve Act which left our nation's money and credit supplyfirmly in the hands of the Rothschild-controlled internationalbankers.... The same "money power" also financed the campaignfor the introduction of the income tax. This Act was not designedto make the wealthy pay for the running of the country. Its specificpurpose ... was to become "a siphon ... inserted in the pocketbooksof the general public"."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""World War I forced thedevelopment of the income-tax principle. Aiming, as it did, atthe one great untaxed source of revenue, the income-tax law hadbeen enacted in the nick of time to meet the demands of war. Andthe conflict also assisted the putting into effect of the FederalReserve System."Eustace Mullins in his book "TheSecrets of the Federal Reserve""The Federal Reserve Actof 1913 authorized the Federal Reserve to lend money to the UnitedStates government at interest, and the Revenue Act of 1913 createdthe IRS and authorized the United States government to establishan income tax on the people to pay for it all."Charlie Robinson, in his book "TheOctopus of Global Control", 2017"What the income tax became,finally, was a siphon gradually inserted into the pocketbooksof the general public. Imposed to popular huzzas as a class tax,the income tax was gradually turned into a mass tax in a jiujitsuturnaround.... The escape hatch for the insiders to avoid paying tax wasready. By the time the income tax Amendment had been approvedby the states, the Rockefellers and Carnegie foundations werein full operation... These monopolists could now compound theirwealth tax-free while competitors had to face a graduated incometax which made it difficult to amass capital.... The conspirators now had created the mechanisms to run upthe debt, to collect the debt, and to avoid the taxes requiredto pay the yearly interest on the debt. Then all that was neededwas a reason to escalate the debt. Nothing runs up a nationaldebt like a war. And World War I was being brewed in Europe."Ferdinand Lundberg in his book"The Rich And The Super-Rich""The United States didjust fine for well over a hundred years without a national incometax. But about the same time the Federal Reserve was created [1913]a national income tax was instituted as well. The whole idea wasthat the wealth of the American people would be transferred tothe U.S. government by force and then transferred into the handsof the ultra-wealthy in the form of interest payments."http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com"The very rich avoidedmost taxation by protecting their wealth in new tax-exempt 'charitable'foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, created the sameyear as the income tax. The passage of a broad-based tax on incomewould allow Wall Street to finance the war [WWI] through issuanceof US Treasury bonds, so-called 'Liberty Bonds' whose debt servicewould be assured by the taxpayer."Ferdinand Lundberg in his book"The Rich And The Super-Rich""One quite naturally assumesthat the graduated income tax would be opposed by the wealthy.The fact is that many of the wealthiest Americans supported it.Some, no doubt, out of altruism and because, at first, the taxeswere very small. But others backed the scheme because they alreadyhad a plan for permanently avoiding both the income tax and thesubsequent inheritance tax."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""When the US governmentneeds money, it either collects it in taxes or it issues bonds.These bonds are sold to the Federal Reserve , and the Fed, inturn, makes book entry deposits. This "debt money" createdout of thin air is then made available to the US government. Butif the US government can issue Treasury bills, notes and bonds,it can also issue currency, as it did prior to the formation ofthe Federal Reserve. If the U.S. issued its own money, that moneycould cover all its expenses, and the income tax wouldn't be needed.So what's the objection to getting rid of the Fed and lettingthe US government issue its own currency? Easy, it cuts out thebankers and it eliminates the income tax."Richard Russell, Dow Theory Letter,April 2005"The 16th Amendment letCongress levy an income tax so bankers could be paid intereston federal debt. If America controlled its own money, it wouldbe interest-free, and taxing people to pay it wouldn't be necessary."Stephen Lendman"With two-thirds of everyone'spersonal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent ofwhat is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federaldebt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments.In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone beforeone nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect fromtheir Government."Ellen Hodgson Brown in her book"Web of Debt""The best way for the globalfinancial elite insiders to eliminate growing competition wasto impose a progressive income tax on their competitors whilewriting the laws so as to include built-in escape hatches forthemselves.... The escape hatch for the Insiders to avoid paying taxes wasready. By the time the income tax Amendment had been approvedby the states, the Rockefellers and Carnegie foundations werein full operation. The monopolists could now compound their wealthtax-free while competitors had to face a graduated income taxwhich made it difficult to amass capital."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy"Lloyd Blankfein / J. P. MorganINVESTMENT BANKERSIMMENSE FINANCIAL POWER ONA GLOBAL SCALE"Hundreds of years ago,bankers began to specialize, with the richer and more influentialones associated increasingly with foreign trade and foreign-exchangetransactions. Since these were richer and more cosmopolitan andincreasingly concerned with questions of political significance,such as stability and debasement of currencies, war and peace,dynastic marriages, and worldwide trading monopolies, they becamethe financiers and financial advisers of governments.Moreover, since their relationships with governments were alwaysin monetary terms and not real terms, and since they were alwaysobsessed with the stability of monetary exchanges between onecountry's money and another, they used their power and influenceto do two things: (1) to get all money and debts expressed interms of a strictly limited commodity-ultimately gold; and (2)to get all monetary matters out of the control of governmentsand political authority, on the ground that they would be handledbetter by private banking interests."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""The one aim of these financiersis world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt."Henry Ford, Founder, Ford Motors"There is a special breedof international financiers whose success typically is built uponcertain character traits. Those include cold objectivity, immunityto patriotism, and indifference to the human condition. That profileis the basis for proposing a theoretical strategy, called theRothschild Formula, which motivates such men to propel governmentsinto war for the profits they yield... As long as the mechanismof central banking exists, it will be to such men an irresistibletemptation to convert debt into perpetual war and war into perpetualdebt."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""The dominant element inour financial oligarchy is the investment banker. Associated banks,trust companies and life insurance companies are his tools.Thedevelopment of our financial oligarchy followedlines with whichthe history of political despotism has familiarized us: usurpation,proceeding by gradual encroachment rather than violent acts, subtleand often long-concealed concentration of distinct functions.Itwas by processes such as these that Caesar Augustus became masterof Rome."Pujo Committee - House Committeeon Banking and Currency, 1912"The power of investmentbankers over governments rests on a number of factors, of whichthe most significant, perhaps, is the need of governments to issueshort-term treasury bills as well as long-term government bonds.Just as businessmen go to commercial banks for current capitaladvances to smooth over the discrepancies between their irregularand intermittent incomes and their periodic and persistent outgoes(such as monthly rents, annual mortgage payments, and weekly wages),so a government has to go to merchant bankers (or institutionscontrolled by them) to tide over the shallow places caused byirregular tax receipts."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy& Hope""We must keep the peoplebusy with political antagonisms... By dividing the electorate... we'll be able to have them spend their energies at strugglingamongst themselves on questions that, for us, have no importancewhatsoever.... Let us make use of the courts... When through the law's intervention,the common people shall have lost their homes, they will be moreeasy to control and more easy to govern, and they shall not beable to resist the strong hand of the Government acting in accordancewith ... the control of the leaders of finance."United States Bankers magazine,1892"World bankers, by pullinga few simple levers that control the flow of money, can make orbreak entire economies. By controlling press releases of economicstrategies that shape national trends, the power elite are ableto not only tighten their stranglehold on this nation's economicstructure, but can extend that control world wide. Those possessingsuch power would logically want to remain in the background, invisibleto the average citizen."Aldous Huxley"Threeof Wall Street's major financial consortiums, those controlledby the J.P. Morgan, Rothschild, and Rockefeller interests, agreedto split the 1912 Republican vote by backing former PresidentTeddy Roosevelt against the isolationist incumbent, William HowardTaft. The plan was to help Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson.The understanding was Wilson would help create a Federal Reservebank system and an income tax after his election, listen to hisbackers in creating his cabinet, and be mindful of the importanceof intervention on behalf of the United Kingdom in case of worldwar with Germany. ... Once in office, Wilson implemented each of the four Wall Streetgoals in ways that resonate through history to the present. Inessence, a Democratic presidential candidate did Wall Street'sbidding through his top aide, Colonel Edward Mandel House.Andrew Kreig"The substantive financialpowers of the world were in the hands of investment bankers (alsocalled "international" or "merchant" bankers)who remained largely behind the scenes in their own unincorporatedprivate banks. These formed a system of international cooperationand national dominance which was more private, more powerful,and more secret than that of their agents in the central banks.This dominance of investment bankers was based on their controlover the flows of credit and investment funds in their own countriesand throughout the world. They could dominate the financial andindustrial systems of their own countries by their influence overthe flow of current funds through bank loans, the discount rate,and the re-discounting of commercial debts; they could dominategovernments by their control over current government loans andthe play of the international exchanges. Almost all of this powerwas exercised by the personal influence and prestige of men whohad demonstrated their ability in the past to bring off successfulfinancial coupes to keep their word, to remain cool in a crisis,and to share their winning opportunities with their associates.In this system the Rothschilds had been preeminent during muchof the nineteenth century, but, at the end of that century, theywere being replaced by J. P. Morgan whose central office was inNew Yok, although it was always operated as if it were in London."Carroll Quigley, in his book "Tragedyand Hope""The world's money-lendersbecame experts at parasitic high finance and got rich throughthe explosive growth of fractional reserve banking. These peoplehave dominated the economies of nations through such institutionsas the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve System, the Bank ofInternational Settlements (BIS), and other central and commercialbanks, currency and commodity exchanges, and stock and bond markets."Richard C. Cook, 2008"In 1899, J. Pierpont Morganand Anthony Drexel went to England to attend the InternationalBankers Convention. When they returned, J.P. Morgan had been appointedhead representative of the Rothschild interests in the UnitedStates.As the result of the London Conference, J.P. Morgan and Companyof New York, Drexel and Company of Philadelphia, Grenfell andCompany of London, Morgan Harjes Cie of Paris, M.M. Warburg Companyof Germany and America, and the House of Rothschild, were allaffiliated."William Guy Carr in his book "PawnsIn The Game""The merchant bankers ofLondon had already at hand in 1810-1850 the Stock Exchange, theBank of England, and the London money market... In time they broughtinto their financial network the provincial banking centers, organizedas commercial banks and savings banks, as well as insurance companies,to form all of these into a single financial system on an internationalscale which manipulated the quantity and flow of money so thatthey were able to influence, if not control, governments on oneside and industries on the other."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""Banks aren't interestedin lending money to businesses that they think are going to paythem back immediately and not borrow any more. They prefer tolend to businesses that they know are going to grow and need moreand more money, and become bigger and better customers, and paymore and more interest. They are interested in keeping their moneyout and earning interest. Their motive is profit."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""The real menace of ourrepublic is the invisible government, which, like a giant octopus,sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation. At thehead is a small group of banking houses generally referred toas 'international bankers.' This little coterie of powerful internationalbankers virtually run our government for their own selfish ends."John F. Hylan, 1922, Mayor of NewYork, in a speech"The history of the lastcentury shows that the advice given to governments by bankers[who control the governments) like the advice they gave to industrialists,was consistently good for the bankers, but often disastrous forgovernments, businessmen, and the people generally. Such advicecould be enforced if necessary by manipulation of exchanges, goldflows, discount rates, and even levels of business activity."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""International bankersmake money by extending credit to governments. The greater thedebt of the political state, the larger the interest returnedto lenders. The national banks of Europe are also owned and controlledby private interests. We recognize in a hazy sort of way thatthe Rothschilds and the Warburgs of Europe and the houses of JPMorgan, Kuhn Loeb & Co., Schff, Lehman and Rockefeller possessand control vast wealth. How they acquire this vast financialpower and employ it is a mystery to most of us."Senator Barry M. Goldwater in hismemoirs "With No Apologies""A handful of investmentbanks exerts an enormous amount of control over the global economy.Their activities include advising Third World debt negotiations,handling mergers and breakups, creating companies to fill a perceivedeconomic void through the launching of initial public stock offerings,underwriting all stocks, underwriting all corporate and governmentbond issuance, and pushing the bandwagon down the road of privatizationand globalization of the world economy."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf""{The goal of a cabal ofglobal financiers linked to J.P. Morgan and Company was] nothingless than to create a world system of financial control in privatehands able to dominate the political system of each country andthe economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlledin a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world actingin concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent privatemeetings and conferences. Each central bank sought to dominateits government by its ability to control treasury loans, to manipulateforeign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activityin the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequenteconomic rewards in the business world."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""J. P. Morgan, with theassistance and cooperation of a few of the interlocking corporationswhich reach all over the United States in their influence, controlsevery railroad in the United States. They control practicallyevery public utility, they control literally thousands of corporations,they control all of the large insurance companies. Mr. President,we are gradually reaching a time, if we have not already reachedthat point, when the business of the country is controlled bymen who can be named on the fingers of one hand, because thosemen control the money of the Nation, and that control is growingat a rapid rate."US Senator Norris, in a speech,Congressional Record of November 30, 1941"Because of its dominantposition in Wall Street, the [J. P.] Morgan firm came also todominate other Wall Street powers, such as Carnegie, Whitney,Vanderbilt, Brown-Harriman, or Dillon-Reed. Close alliances weremade with Rockefeller, Mellon, and Duke interests but not nearlyso intimate ones with the great industrial powers like du Pontand Ford. [Because] ... of the great influence of this "WallStreet" alignment, an influence great enough to merit thename of the "American Establishment," this group could... control the Federal government and, in consequence, had toadjust to a good many government actions ... [which they had secretlysupported ]. The chief of these were in taxation law, beginningwith the graduated income tax in 1913, but culminating, aboveall else, in the inheritance tax. These tax laws drove the greatprivate fortunes dominated by Wall Street into tax-exempt foundations,which became a major link in the Establishment network betweenWall Street, the Ivy League, and the Federal government."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""More than fifty yearsago the [J. P.] Morgan firm decided to infiltrate the Left-wingpolitical movements in the United States. This was relativelyeasy to do, since these groups were starved for funds and eagerfor a voice to reach the people. Wall Street supplied both. Thepurpose was not to destroy, dominate, or take over but was reallythreefold: (1) to keep informed about the thinking of Left-wingor liberal groups; (2) to provide them with a mouthpiece so thatthey could 'blow off steam,' and (3) to have a final veto on theirpublicity and possibly on their actions, if they ever went 'radical.'There was nothing really new about this decision, since otherfinanciers had talked about and even attempted it earlier."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""President Theodore Rooseveltwas a political steward of the J.P. Morgan interests which dominatedWall Street."Webster Griffin Tarpley and AntonChaitkin in theri book "George Bush : The Unauthorized Biography""Sixty or more years ago,public life in the West was dominated by the influence of "WallStreet."... This group, which in the United States, was completelydominated by J. P. Morgan and Company from the 1880's to the 1930'swas cosmopolitan, Anglophile, internationalist, Ivy League, easternseaboard, high Episcopalian, and European-culture conscious. Theirconnection with the Ivy League colleges rested on the fact thatthe large endowments of these institutions required constant consultationwith the financiers of Wall Street and was reflected in the factthat these endowments, even in 1930, were largely in bonds ratherthan in real estate or common stocks. As a consequence of theseinfluences, as late as the 1930's, J. P. Morgan and his associateswere the most significant figures in policy making at Harvard,Columbia, and to a lesser extent Yale, while the Whitneys weresignificant at Yale, and the Prudential Insurance Company dominatedPrinceton."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope"MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXHUGE PROFITS FROM DEATH ANDDESTRUCTION"I spent thirty-three yearsin the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle manfor Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, Iwas a racketeer for capitalism.I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking houseof Brown Brothers in 1910-1912. I helped make Mexico and especiallyTampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I brought lightto the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916.I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City[Bank] boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of halfa dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.In China in 1927 l helped to see to it that Standard Oil wentits way unmolested.I had a swell racket. l was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions.l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could dowas to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operatedon three continents."General Smedley Butler, formerUS Marine Corps Commandant, 1935"There are factions inmany governments that crave a state of endless war because thatis when power is least constrained and profit most abundant."www.washingtonsblog.com"The global elite haveconsistently used a strategy of arming and funding both sidesof armed conflicts. While opposing populations kill each otheroff, they make off with their natural resources. When they confronta government that cannot be bribed or provoked into civil or regionalwar, they fund brutal death squads, attempt military coups andintimidate them by giving weapons to undemocratic neighboringregimes. If all that doesn't work, they are declared a threatto national security and the US military, private contractorsand NATO forces invade and occupy the country."David Degraw in his book "Revolutionor World War III""The war against a foreigncountry only happens when the moneyed classes think they are goingto profit from it."George Orwell"WaIl Street financed theGerman cartels in the mid-1920s which in turn proceeded to bringHitler to power. The financing for Hitler and his S.S. street thugs came in partfrom affiliates or subsidiaries of U.S. firms, including HenryFord in 1922, payments by I. G. Farben and General Electric in1933, followed by the Standard Oil of New Jersey and I.T.T. subsidiarypayments to Heinrich Himmler up to 1944. U.S. multi-nationals under the control of Wall Street profitedhandsomely from Hitler's military construction program in the1930s and at least until 1942.International bankers used political influence in the U. S. tocover up their wartime collaboration."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler", 1976"[The trustees of theCarnegie Endowment for International Peace, at a 1911 meeting]... discussed the question ... 'Is there any means known to manmore effective than war, assuming you wish to alter the life ofan entire people?' And they discussed this and at the end of ayear they came to the conclusion that there was no more effectivemeans to that end known to man. So, they raised question numbertwo, and the question was, 'How do we involve the United Statesin a war?"Norman Dodd, the Research Directorof the 1954 House of Representatives' Special Committee to InvestigateTax Exempt Foundations (the Reece Committee)"Since the keystone ofthe international banking empires has been government bonds ithas been in the interest of these international bankers to encouragegovernment debt. The higher the debt the more the interest. Nothingdrives government deeply into debt like a war; and it has notbeen an uncommon practice among international bankers to financeboth sides of the bloodiest military conflicts."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""During a war you willnever see the Vatican, City of London or Switzerland get attacked.On the grand chessboard these are considered neutral ground becauseit is where all the money flows. Without money to fund war, thereis no war."from an article "Bank ofEngland, City of London and The Queen" http://wideshut.co.uk"Central banks have utilizedand promoted wars for their own profit, starting with the Rothschildinvolvement with the Napoleonic wars, and continuing up to thepresent day."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""Wars should be directedso that the nations on both sides should be further in our debt."Amschel Mayer Rothschild, 1774"Endless war has ruinedour economy. It benefits a handful of elites, while levying atax on the vast majority of Americans.Congress members - part of the super-elite which has made moneyhand over fist during this economic downturn - are heavily investedin the war industry, and routinely trade on inside informationperhaps even including planned military actions.No wonder the American government is making the state of war permanent,and planning to unleash new, widespread wars in the near future."www.washingtonsblog.com, 2014"The division of the UnitedStates into federations of equal force [The North & The South]was decided long before the Civil War. These bankers were afraidthat the United States would upset their financial dominationover the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed."German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck"The Carnegie Endowment supported U.S. entry into thewar {WW I], not for any patriotic purpose, but so that the warwould provide an excuse for, if not necessitate, Andrew Carnegie'sgoal of British-American regional government."William H Mcllhany II, from anarticle "Tax Exempt Foundations", 1980"There are few historianswho would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I,World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished... through the Federal Reserve System. An overview of all warssince the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggeststhat most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity,or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money. It is theability of governments to acquire money without direct taxationthat makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has becomethe preferred method of accomplishing that."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""For over 150 years ithas been standard operating procedure of the Rothschilds and theirallies to control both sides of every conflict. You must havean "enemy" if you are going to collect from the King."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""World War I created astronomicaldebts in the nations that participated. These debts were heldby the international bankers who organized and stage-managed thewhole show from start to finish.... Although the American people were clearly the losers in WorldWar I, as were the people of the other participating nations,there was one group for which World War I was an unqualified success:The Big Bankers."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""International bankersmake money by extending credit to governments. The greater thedebt of the political state, the larger the interest returnedto lenders."Senator Barry M. Goldwater in hismemoirs "With No Apologies""Without war, no governmenthas ever been able to obtain acquiescence in its 'legitimacy,'or right to rule its society... Obviously, if the war system wereto be discarded, new political machinery would be needed at onceto serve this vital subfunction. Until it is developed, the continuanceof the war system must be assured, if for no other reason, amongothers, than to preserve whatever quality and degree of povertya society requires as an incentive, as well as to maintain thestability of its internal organization of power."Report from Iron Mountain, 1967"The primary aim of modernwarfare is to use up the products of the machine without raisingthe general standard of living... the essential act of war isdestruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the productsof human labor. The two aims ... are to conquer the whole surfaceof the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibilityof independent thought."George Orwell in his book "1984""Every country suspendedthe gold standard at the outbreak of the war [WWI]... This removedthe automatic limitation on the supply of paper money. Then eachcountry proceeded to pay for the war by borrowing from the banks.The banks created the money which they then lent by merely givingthe Government a deposit of any size against which the Governmentcould draw checks. The banks were no longer limited in the amountof credit they could create because they no longer had to payout gold for checks on demand. Thus the creation of money in theform of credit by the banks was limited only by the demands ofits borrowers.... The middle classes of European society, with their bank savings,checking deposits, mortgages, insurance and bond holdings ...were injured or even ruined by the wartime inflation."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""The contribution madeby American capitalism to German war preparations before 1940,can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucialto German military preparations. Evidence suggests that not onlywas an influential sector of American business aware of the natureof Nazism, but for its own purposes aided Nazism whenever possible- with full knowledge that the probable outcome would be war involvingEurope and the United States."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler""The thoroughly documentedevidence regarding the heavy involvement of leading American bankingand industrial interests in the rise of Hitler's Third Reich isa matter of public record. It is to be found in the records andreports from government hearings."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""The House of Morganfinanced half the US World War II war effort. Morgan had alsofinanced the British Boer War in South Africa and the Franco-PrussianWar."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf""There is a special breedof international financiers whose success typically is built uponcertain character traits. Those include cold objectivity, immunityto patriotism, and indifference to the human condition. That profileis the basis for proposing a theoretical strategy, called theRothschild Formula, which motivates such men to propel governmentsinto war for the profits they yield... As long as the mechanismof central banking exists, it will be to such men an irresistibletemptation to convert debt into perpetual war and war into perpetualdebt."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""The essential act of waris destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the productsof human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouringinto the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materialswhich might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable,and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weaponsof war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is stilla convenient way of expending labour power without producing anythingthat can be consumed.... War accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishesit in a psychologically acceptable way. In principle it wouldbe quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by buildingtemples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again,or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then settingfire to them. But this would provide only the economic and notthe emotional basis for a hierarchical society."George Orwell in his book "1984""The first step in havinga Central Bank established in a country is to get them to acceptan outrageous loans, which puts the country in debt of the CentralBank and under the control of the Rothschilds. If the countrydoes not accept the loan, the leader of this particular countrywill be assassinated and a Rothschild aligned leader will be putinto the position, and if the assassination does not work, thecountry will be invaded and have a Central Bank established withforce all under the name of terrorism."www.godlikeproductions.com, 10/23/11"Western textbooks havegigantic gaps. For example, after World War II the Tribunals setup to investigate Nazi war criminals were careful to censor anymaterials recording Western assistance to Hitler. By the sametoken, Western textbooks on Soviet economic development omit anydescription of the economic and financial aid given to the 1917Revolution and subsequent economic development by Western firmsand banks."Antony Sutton in his book "America'sSecret Establishment", 1983"The principal link betweenHitler and the Wall Street money barons was Hjalmar Horace GreelySchacht, the president of the Reichsbank whose family for manyyears were closely aligned to the international financial elite.Schacht was the man who masterminded the plan to rebuild Germanyand create the Bank of International Settlements."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""The House of Rothschildfinanced the Prussian War, the Crimean War and the British attemptto seize the Suez Canal from the French. Nathan Rothschild madea huge financial bet on Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, whilealso funding the Duke of Wellington's peninsular campaign againstNapoleon. Both the Mexican War and the Civil War were goldminesfor the family."Dean Henderson"I spent 33 years inthe Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle man forbig business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I wasa racketeer for Capitalism... The general public shoulders thebill. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones,Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economicinstability. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations."General Smedley D. Butler, 1935"Both fascist and communistsystems are based on naked, unfettered political power and individualcoercion. Both systems require monopoly control of society. Whilemonopoly control of industries was once the objective of J.P.Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller, by the late nineteenth century theinner sanctums of Wall Street understood that the most efficientway to gain an unchallenged monopoly was to 'go political' andmake society go to work for the monopolists," and that, "thetotalitarian socialist state is a perfect captive market for monopolycapitalists, if an alliance can be made with the socialist powerbrokers."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler", 1976"Central banks have utilizedand promoted wars for their own profit, starting with the Rothschildinvolvement with the Napoleonic wars, and continuing up to thepresent day."G. Edward Griffin in his book"The Creature from Jekyll Island""I. G. Farben and StandardOil of New Jersey suppressed development of the synthetic rubberindustry in the United States, to the advantage of the GermanWehrmacht and to the disadvantage of the United States in WorldWar II."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler", 1976"The Western Powers continuedtheir unrelenting assault on German cities during World War II...Day after day, week after week they criss-crossed these urbanareas laying down a thick blanket of bombs which blasted Germany'scities into oblivion. Civilian casualties were enormous, numberingin the hundreds of thousands. Strategically, such 'blanket bombing'served no useful purpose; it contributed little to the war effort.If concentrated elsewhere, on targets of vital significance, thiscolossal fire-power could have appreciably shortened the durationof the war.The official 'reason given for this wanton destruction of civilianlives and property was that the raids would undermine the moraleof the German population. The real reason was that the internationalbankers and their cohorts were using the Allies' awesome air poweras their unofficial wrecking crew - their bulldozers and demolitioncrews - to prepare Germany for their planned urban renewal projectat the conclusion of hostilities. The airborne 'bulldozers' didthe preparation work free. The 'Big Boys' were relieved of thehuge expense of having it demolished. With most German cities90% demolished in the war, this cost was kept to a minimum! Afterthe war much of this vacant ground was picked up for a few centson the dollar by the international urban renewers."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""Henry Ford and Edsel Fordrespectively contributed money to Hitler and profited from Germanwartime production. Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric,General Motors, and I.T.T ... made financial or technical contributionswhich comprise prima facie evidence of "participating inplanning or carrying out Nazi enterprises."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler", 1976"In the latter half ofthe 1800s European financiers were in favor of an American CivilWar that would return the United States to its colonial status.The Civil War, lasted from 1861 until 1865, during which, Congressalso set up a national bank, putting the government into partnershipwith the banking interests, guaranteeing their profits."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"The so-called establishmentin the U.S. uses "managed conflict." The practice of"managing" crises to bring about a favorable outcome- favorable to the elite."Antony Sutton in his book "America'sSecret Establishment", 1983"The Rothschild familyaccumulated its vast wealth issuing war bonds to Black Nobilityfor centuries, including the British Windsors, the French Bourbons,the German von Thurn und Taxis, the Italian Savoys and the Austrianand Spanish Hapsburgs."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""College textbooks presentwar and revolution as more or less accidental results of conflictingforces. The decay of political negotiation into physical conflictcomes about, according to these books, after valiant efforts toavoid war. Unfortunately, this is nonsense. War is always a deliberatecreative act by individuals."Antony Sutton in his book "America'sSecret Establishment", 1983"If you look back at everywar in Europe... you will see that they always ended up with theestablishment of a balance of power. With every reshuffling therewas a balance of power in a new grouping around the House of Rothschildin England, France or Austria. They grouped nations so that ifany King got out of line, a war would break out and the war wouldbe decided by which way the financing went. Researching the debtpositions of warring nations will usually indicate who was beingpunished."Professor Stuart Crane from DeanHenderson's book "Big Oil & Their Bankers in the PersianGulf""The preparation forwar is useful to the holders of centralized political power. Whenthings go badly at home, when popular discontent becomes inconvenientlyarticulate, it is always possible, in a world where war-makingremains an almost sacred habit, to shift the people's attentionaway from domestic to foreign and military affairs. A flood ofxenophobic or imperialistic propaganda is released by the government-controlledinstruments of persuasion, a "strong policy" is adoptedtoward some foreign power, an appeal for "national unity"(in other words, unquestioning obedience to the ruling oligarchy)is launched, and at once it becomes unpatriotic for anybody tovoice even the most justifiable complaints against mismanagementor oppression. It is difficult to see how any highly centralizedgovernment could afford to dispense with militarism and the threatof foreign war."Aldous Huxley in his book "Science, Liberty and Peace", 1946MONEY WHERE DOES IT COME FROM ANDWHO CONTROLS IT?"The Federal Reserve Bankscreate money out of thin air to buy Government bonds from theUnited States Treasury, lending money into circulation at interest,by bookkeeping entries... Where does the Federal Reserve systemget the money with which to create Bank Reserves? Answer. It doesn'tget the money, it creates it. When the Federal Reserve writesa check, it is creating money. The Federal Reserve is a totalmoneymaking machine."Congressman Wright Patman HouseBanking and Currency Committee, 1964"The modern banking systemmanufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps themost astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented.... Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them but leave themthe power to create money, and, with a flick of a pen, they willcreate enough money to buy it back again. Take this great poweraway from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear,for then this would be a better and happier world to live in.But, if you want to continue to be the slaves of bankers and paythe cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to createmoney and control credit."Sir Josiah Stamp, president ofthe Bank of England in the 1920s, the second richest man in Britain,speaking at the Commencement Address of the University of Texasin 1927"The United States canprint its own money for nothing, but it doesn't. Instead, it paysinterest to the Federal Reserve."Charlie Robinson, in his book "TheOctopus of Global Control", 2017"When the US governmentneeds money, it either collects it in taxes or it issues bonds.These bonds are sold to the Federal Reserve , and the Fed, inturn, makes book entry deposits. This "debt money" createdout of thin air is then made available to the US government. Butif the US government can issue Treasury bills, notes and bonds,it can also issue currency, as it did prior to the formation ofthe Federal Reserve. If the U.S. issued its own money, that moneycould cover all its expenses, and the income tax wouldn't be needed.So what's the objection to getting rid of the Fed and lettingthe US government issue its own currency? Easy, it cuts out thebankers and it eliminates the income tax."Richard Russell, Dow Theory Letter,April 2005"The United States canpay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that.So there is zero probability of default."Alan Greenspan, former Director,Federal Reserve"The Federal Reserve Actof 1913 was a coup that authorized a private cartel to createmoney out of nothing, lend it to the government with interestand control the national money supply, expanding or contractingit at will."Nikki Alexander, 2009"I am afraid the ordinarycitizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do createmoney. And they who control the credit of the nation direct thepolicy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hand thedestiny of the people."Reginald McKenna, as Chairmanof the Midland Bank, addressing stockholders in 1924"The ultimate controlover the world economy is achieved through command over moneycreation: through fiat money, by creating money from nothing."Michel Chossudovsky"When you or I writea check there must be sufficient funds in our account to coverthe check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check there isno bank deposit on which that check is drawn. When the FederalReserve writes a check, it is creating money.""Putting it simply"Boston Federal Reserve Bank"If all the bank loanswere paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would notbe a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggeringthought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks.Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cashor credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous;if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent moneysystem. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragicabsurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but thereit is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons caninvestigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our presentcivilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understoodand the defects remedied very soon."Robert H. Hemphill, former CreditManager of Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, Ga., 1935"The creation of paperclaims greater than the reserves available means that bankerswere creating money out of nothing. The same thing could be donein another way, not by note-issuing banks but by deposit banks.Deposit bankers discovered that orders and checks drawn againstdeposits by depositors and given to third persons were often notcashed by the latter but were deposited to their own accounts.Thus there were no actual movements of funds, and payments weremade simply by bookkeeping transactions on the accounts. Accordingly,it was necessary for the banker to keep on hand in actual money(gold, certificates, and notes) no more than the fraction of depositslikely to be drawn upon and cashed; the rest could be used forloans, and if these loans were made by creating a deposit forthe borrower, who in turn would draw checks upon it rather thanwithdraw it in money, such "created deposits" or loanscould also be covered adequately by retaining reserves to onlya fraction of their value. Such created deposits also were a creationof money out of nothing."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""A private bank, the FederalReserve, charges the United States government interest to createthe money."Charlie Robinson, in his book "TheOctopus of Global Control", 2017"The counterfeit optionis available only if a country happens to be in the unique positionof having its currency accepted as the medium of internationaltrade, as has been the case for the United States. In that eventit is possible to create money out of nothing, and other nationshave no choice but to accept it... The result is that Americahas continued to finance its trade deficit with fiat money - counterfeit,if you will - a feat which no other nation in the world couldhope to accomplish."G. Edward Griffin"It is well enough thatpeople of the nation do not understand our banking and money system,for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution beforetomorrow morning."Henry Ford, founder of the FordMotor Company"The organizational structurefor creating means of payment out of nothing, we call credit."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""The U.S. bailout showsthat countries do not need to borrow credit from foreign banksat all. The government could have created its own money and creditsystem rather than leaving foreign creditors to accrue interestcharges that now represent a permanent and seemingly irreversiblebalance-of-payments drain. The United States has shown that anycountry can monetize its own credit, at least domestic credit."Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers,2008"The Western bankingsystem controls a worldwide electronic banking network. The controlof money creation at a world level constitutes the ultimate instrumentof economic and social domination. The creation of fiat moneyprovides a command over the real economies of countries worldwide.The ultimate lever of the U.S.-NATO imperial design is to overrideand destroy national currencies."Michel Chossudovsky"I care not what puppet is placed on the throne ofEngland to rule the Empire. The man who controls Britain's moneysupply controls the British Empire and I control the British moneysupply."Nathan Mayer Rothschild"In 1861 the Civil Warbegan, resulting in a monetary as well as a political crisis.Congress imposed the first U.S. income tax and sharply increasedexcise taxes. New York bankers, also acting as agents for Britishand European financiers, demanded extortionist rates of interestfrom President Abraham Lincoln to purchase government bonds, buthe refused these terms.Congress, in emergency legislation, authorized $450 million inGreenbacks, not immediately redeemable in specie, which were spentinto circulation in payment of government war obligations. Greenbacksconstituted eleven percent of the circulating currency at thistime and were no more inflationary than would be expected fromthe usual wartime price increases.Again, Congress had decided to treat credit as a public utility,not the property of private bankers. Ordinary citizens recognizedat the time that it was the Greenbacks, a true democratic currency,which saved the Union. Also at this time the federal governmentbegan to market war bonds directly to citizens, again bypassingthe banks."Richard C. Cook"Once the government reclaimsthe power to create money from the banks, it will no longer needto sell its bonds to investors. It will not even need to levyincome taxes... government-issued money would actually be lessinflationary than the system we have now; and it is preciselybecause power and money corrupt that money creation needs to bedone by a public body, exercised in full view and with full accountability...what has allowed government to be corrupted today is that it isactually run by the money cartel. Big business holds all the cards,because its affiliated banks have monopolized the business ofissuing and lending the national money supply, a function theConstitution delegated solely to Congress."Ellen Brown in her book "WebOf Debt"fractional reservebanking"Beginning in 16th century,savers looking to keep their valuables in safekeeping depositoriesdeposited gold and silver at goldsmiths, receiving in exchangea note for their deposit. These notes gained acceptance as a mediumof exchange for commercial transactions and thus became as anearly form of circulating paper money.As the notes were used directly in trade, the goldsmiths observedthat people would not usually redeem all their notes at the sametime, and they saw the opportunity to invest their coin reservesin interest-bearing loans and bills. This generated income forthe goldsmiths but left them with more notes on issue than reserveswith which to pay them. A process was started that altered therole of the goldsmiths from passive guardians of bullion, chargingfees for safe storage, to interest-paying and interest-earningbanks. Thus fractional-reserve banking was born."WikipediaMONETARY SYSTEMDEBT-BASED MONEY MONOPOLY"All money is createdin the form of debt to the privately owned banking cartel. Imagineif you could create money out of thin air. Imagine you have thecredit cards of all the nations in your pocket. Your first impulseis to lend money to your nominees so they can buy most of theworld's real wealth for you. Your second impulse is to establisha totalitarian system ("world government" globalization)to prevent any nation from challenging this system or defaultingon their "debt" to you. To make them accept "worldgovernment," you need to weaken them by having them fightamong themselves, run up huge debts for armaments (which you willsell them), kill off the cream of their manhood, and become demoralizedand decadent. You accomplish this through your ownership of politiciansand the press and your control of MI-6, CIA who will carry outassassinations and acts of terror. This is the real history ofthe last 300 years."Henry Makow" America is the largestdebtor nation, and at the same time it is the world's creditor."Creating money out of thin air", while at the sametime imposing the U.S. dollar as a global currency constitutesthe ultimate instrument of conquest and imperial domination.The U.S. monetary system is supported by the most powerful militarypower on earth. The dollar is backed by U.S. military might, whichconstitutes a means for displacing national currencies and imposingthe U.S. dollar. In this regard, the Federal Reserve's overwhelmingpowers of money creation constitute an essential lever of an imperialmonetary agenda.... The Western banking system controls a worldwide electronicbanking network. The control of money creation at a world levelconstitutes the ultimate instrument of economic and social domination.The creation of fiat money provides a command over the real economiesof countries worldwide. The ultimate lever of the U.S.-NATO imperialdesign is to override and destroy national currencies."Michel Chossudovsky in the book"The Global Economic Crisis""It is well enough thatpeople of the nation do not understand our banking and monetarysystem, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolutionbefore tomorrow morning."Henry Ford"All the banks are brokebecause we have a system called "Fractional Reserve Banking",which means that banks can loan money that they don't actuallyhave. It's a criminal scandal and it has been going on for toolong".. Most of the problems start in politics and centralbanks, which are part of the same political system. We have counterfeiting,sometimes called "quantitative easing", but counterfeitingby any other name. The artificial printing of money, which ifany ordinary person did they'd go to prison for a very long time,and yet governments and central banks do it all the time. Centralbanks repress interest rates so we don't know the real cost ofmoney... It's central banks that manipulate interest rates...When banks go broke through their own incompetence and chicanery,the taxpayer picks up the tab! It's theft from the taxpayer, anduntil we start sending bankers, including central bankers andpoliticians to prison for this outrage, it will continue!"Godfrey Bloom, MEP, speaking atthe European Parliament, 2013"With fractional reservebanking, the law says that banks only need to keep 10% of valueof their loans on hand, so if the bank loans someone $100,000,all they need to do is put $10,000 aside and then create the $100,000as an entry in their ledger, borrow money from the Federal Reserve,and give it to the borrower. Where the bank makes their moneyis that they borrow the $100,000 from the Federal Reserve at arate of 3% ($3,000) interest per year, as an example, then loanit to their banking customers at 6% ($6,000) interest per year."Charlie Robinson, in his book "TheOctopus of Global Control", 2017"Fractional Reserve Bankingis inherent fraud. Our monetary system is a 'Ponzi scheme' becauseit can only survive when you continually infuse it with newlyconjured money. It is an entirely fraudulent system... We willnever see things get better entirely until this system blows upcompletely."Jeff Nielson, Bullion Bulls Canada"When you deposit yourmoney into an American bank, that money becomes the property ofthe bank. You became an unsecured creditor of the bank, meaningthat you have given up your first position of ownership of thatmoney. "Charlie Robinson, in his book "TheOctopus of Global Control", 2017"The few who can understandthe [money] system will be either so interested in its profits,or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no oppositionfrom that class, while, on the other hand, that great body ofpeople, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantagethat Capital derives from the system, will bear its burden withoutcomplaint and, perhaps, without even suspecting that the systemis inimical to their interests."letter written from London bythe Rothschilds to their New York agents introducing their bankingmethod into America"Throughout the Third World,currency devaluations ordered by the IMF have triggered hyperinflationand the collapse of national monetary systems."Michel Chossudovsky in the book"The Global Economic Crisis""The real business [of theBank of International Settlements (BIS)] gets done in "asort of inner club made up of the half dozen or so powerful centralbankers who find themselves more or less in the same monetaryboat" - those from Germany, the United States, Switzerland,Italy, Japan and England... The prime value, which also seemsto demarcate the inner club from the rest of the BIS members,is the firm belief that central banks should act independentlyof their home governments... A second and closely related beliefof the inner club is that politicians should not be trusted todecide the fate of the international monetary system."Edward Jay Epstein, 1983"Terrorism, War & Bankruptcyare caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt andcompounded by interest"Napoleon Bonaparte[Napoleon cancelled debt and interest in France - hence the Battleof Waterloo with Britain.]"In the United States, the"independent" banking system is known as the FederalReserve System, a privately owned bank system interlocked withthe Bilderbergers. In Europe, the independent banking system isrun through the European Central Bank, whose monetary policiesare put together by the leading members of the Bilderberg elite."Daniel Estulin in his book "TheBilderberg Group""The lifeblood of our economy,indeed the whole world's economy, is based on money. Without acurrency that can be trusted, the entire structure of economics,the division of labor itself, falls apart. Our wealth, our wellbeing and our very lives are dependent on the continuation ofthis highly complex structure called the economy and it in turnis dependent on sound money. We have placed our trust for themanagement of this money on a gang of thieves called the FederalReserve. They have now clearly demonstrated their inability torestrain themselves from the excesses that can be perpetratedwithin a paper money system. If we want to survive as a nation,we need to eliminate both the Federal Reserve and paper money."Lou Poumakis, "Economic Disaster,its Cause and Cure", 2009"To allow the bankers toerect a monetary system on gold [gold standard] is to subjectthe producer to the money-broker and measure deferred paymentsby a yardstick that lengthens or shortens from year to year. Theonly safe and rational currency is a national currency based onthe national credit, sponsored by the state, flexible, and controlledin the interests of the people as a whole."Vernon Parrington summarizedGreenbackers' position in the 1920s"Sovereign nations do nothave to borrow their money into existence., yet the United Stateshas been deceived into doing this since 1913. The compoundinginterest on this debt is now growing exponentially, and cannotbe sustained. Unfortunately, we cannot just pay down the nationaldebt. All our money - except for coins - is created out of debt.Under this debt money system, to reduce the debt is to reducethe national money. The only solution is to restructure our monetarysystem to forbid government borrowing. Fortunately, this is nothingnew. The U.S. and other nations have done it before.The problem with the economy of every nation on earth has thesame root - national debt - debt that is totally unnecessary...All nations can get out of debt and not incur any more debt. Anynation that did this would immediately stabilize their economicsituation - that is, incur neither significant inflation, nordeflation - by design. Human societies run best on stability -a stable economic platform - one that can be predicted in thelong term. Once the money power is taken away from the big banksand returned into the hands of we, the people, then economic commonsense can return, and the nation's legislature can once againbecome responsive to the voting electorate instead of the bankers...Inother words, what we need is a new human rights movement for thenext generation based upon No More National Debt.The economic problems that most people became aware of in thefall of 2008 are not reversing. Unemployment is still rising.Foreclosures are still rising. The world's economic death spiralinto a deflationary depression must continue until the real problemis addressed. Our entire global economic system is at a tippingpoint."Bill Still, No More NationalDebt"The IMF, acting on behalfof Wall Street, calls the shots on the reform of national monetarysystems. National currencies in Latin America, Africa, the MiddleEast and South East Asia are in large part controlled by Westernfinancial institutions."Michel Chossudovsky in the book"The Global Economic Crisis""The Federal Reserve wasa privately-owned and controlled central banking system like theBank of England. In creating it, Congress had ceded its constitutionalauthority over the nation's monetary system to the private financiers."Richard C. Cook, 2007"The U.S.-NATO militaryalliance supports the hegemony of both the U.S. dollar and theEuro. These two dominant global currency systems are intricatelyrelated. They are controlled and regulated by overlapping financialinterests. The U.S.-Euro monetary arrangement and its impositionas a global currency system are protected by the Atlantic Alliance,which constitutes the military arm of the Western corporate establishment."Michel Chossudovsky in the book"The Global Economic Crisis""Right after the Civil Warthere was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experimentwith the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the Europeanmoney-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an establishedinstitution."W. Cleon Skousen from the documentary"The Money Masters""The First World War changedthe status of the United States ... from that of a debtor nationto the world's greatest creditor nation, a role filled formerlyby England.... One major aim of the backers of the Federal Reserve - displacingLondon as world money market - had been achieved.The gold standard was still the basis of foreign exchange. Thesmall group of international bankers - now led by New York banks- who owned the gold, controlled the monetary system of Westernnations."F. William Engdahl in his book"Gods of Money""The Bank of InternationalSettlements (BIS) is where all of the world's central banks meetto analyze the global economy and determine what course of actionthey will take next to put more money in their pockets, sincethey control the amount of money in circulation and how much interestthey are going to charge governments and banks for borrowing fromthem.... When you understand that the BIS pulls the strings of theworld's monetary system, you then understand that they have theability to create a financial boom or bust in a country. If thatcountry is not doing what the money lenders want, then all theyhave to do is sell its currency."Joan Veon, 2003"If the key to controlling a nation is to run its centralbank, one can imagine the potential of a global central bank,able to dictate the world's credit and money supply. The rootsfor such a system were planted when the International MonetaryFund (IMF) and World Bank were formed at the Bretton Woods Conferenceof 1944. These UN agencies were both CFR [Council on Foreign Relations]creations."James Perloff"There should be no suchthing as "sovereign debt." Currency (credit) is justa medium of exchange like a coupon. Governments can create asmuch as they need debt-free to make the economy hum. Markets willdetermine their value relative to other currencies. But the Illuminatibankers have created all currency in the form of a debt to them.Our society is wholly complicit in this fraud."Henry Makow"Following the AmericanCivil War, right up to the end of the 19th Century, the UnitedStates Treasury recognized silver as well as gold as monetarymetal. The monetary system was, in effect, a bi-metallic system.Silver existed in abundance in the Western United States. However, the influential New York bank syndicate, headed in the1890s by the House of Morgan, took the opposite position. Theysaw gold, especially in light of their close ties to leading Londonbanks, as their best road to dominant power over the money supplyof the United States. Supplies of monetary gold were controlledby a handful of New York banks and by the financial powers ofthe City of London - above all, by the banking group of Lord Rothschild.The New York bankers wanted no competition from silver. Theirbanking allies in the City of London, the heart of the world goldstandard at the time, wanted America exclusively on a gold standardwhere their influence would be vastly greater. London's New Yorkbanking allies - J.P. Morgan, along with Rothschild's US bankingagent, August Belmont, and others in New York finance - shrewdlyused their London banking associates to control American creditmarkets to their own exclusive advantage and to the distinct disadvantageof the general American public."F. William Engdahl in his book"Gods of Money""Economic policy quite deliberatelyserves the interests of the financial elites, who in turn controlthe political process. Meaningful policies cannot be achievedwithout radically reforming the workings of the internationalbanking system. What is required is an overhaul of the monetarysystem."Michel Chossudovsky in the book"The Global Economic Crisis""Bank of International Settlements(BIS) regulations serve only the single purpose of strengtheningthe international private banking system, even at the peril ofnational economies. The IMF and the international banks regulatedby the BIS are a team: the international banks lend recklesslyto borrowers in emerging economies to create a foreign currencydebt crisis, the IMF arrives as a carrier of monetary virus inthe name of sound monetary policy, then the international bankscome as vulture investors in the name of financial rescue to acquirenational banks deemed capital inadequate and insolvent by theBIS."economist Henry CK Lui"The global monetary systemis tightly controlled and coordinated at the top by the leadersof the central banks who work for the world's richest people.... Instrumental in control of economics by the rich has beenthe debt-based monetary system, where credit is treated as themonopoly of private financial interests who in turn control governments,intelligence services and military establishments. Politiciansare bought and sold, elected or removed, or aven assassinatedfor this purpose. The global monetary system is tightly controlledand coordinated at the top by the leaders of the central bankswho work for the world's richest people.... Within the U.S., [monetary reform] proposals have ranged fromcomplete takeover of the Federal Reserve System by the federalgovernment to the replacement of fractional reserve banking andthe debt-based monetary system by one where the government spendsmoney directly into existence as was done through the 19th centuryU.S. Greenbacks.The Greenback system, which provided up to a third of the U.S.money supply through 1900, was highly successful. The bankersopposed it because it meant fewer loans and less profits."Andrew Gavin Marshall in hisbook "The Global Economic Crisis""Today the U.S. presidesover a more or less fully closed global monetary system basedon the dollar. In practice this means that those countries withinthe system must exchange real value in the form of natural resourceslike oil and gas, manufactured items and commodities with theU.S. cartel in exchange for dollars, which are no more than anaccounting entry created out of thin air.... The Federal Reserve is a privately held business owned bythe very interests that it nominally regulates. Thus the controlof federal credit and the U.S. monetary system and the rich flowof insider information that results from that control are veiledfrom public view and are privately controlled in secret."John Coleman in his book "BeyondThe Conspiracy: Unmasking the Invisible World Government - TheCommittee of 300", 2007"If Exxon pays Saudi Arabia$50 million, all that happens is that we debit Exxon and creditSaudi Arabia. The balance sheet of Citibank remains the same.And if they say they don't like American banks, they'll put itin Credit Suisse. All we do is charge Saudi Arabia and creditCredit Suisse. Our balance sheet remains the same. So when peoplerun around waiting for the sky to fall there isn't any way thatmoney can leave the system. It's a closed circuit."Citibank Chairman Walter Wriston"Every country suspendedthe gold standard at the outbreak of the war [World War I]...This removed the automatic limitation on the supply of paper money.Then each country proceeded to pay for the war by borrowing fromthe banks. The banks created the money which they then lent bymerely giving the Government a deposit of any size against whichthe Government could draw checks. The banks were no longer limitedin the amount of credit they could create because they no longerhad to pay out gold for checks on demand. Thus the creation ofmoney in the form of credit by the banks was limited only by thedemands of its borrowers."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""Instrumental in controlof economics by the rich has been the debt-based monetary system,where credit is treated as the monopoly of private financial interestswho in turn control governments, intelligence services and militaryestablishments. Politicians are bought and sold, elected or removed,or even assassinated for this purpose. The global monetary systemis tightly controlled and coordinated at the top by the leadersof the central banks who work for the world's richest people."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"World War I created astronomicaldebts in the nations that participated. These debts were heldby the international bankers who organized and stage-managed thewhole show from start to finish.... In the fall of 1929 it was time for the international bankersto push the button that set in motion the machinery that resultedin World War II. After they, their agents and friends had soldout at the crest of an artificially inflated stock market boom,the international bankers pulled the rug out from under the wholesystem and sent the United States plunging into what became knownas the Great Depression."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?"British financiers tookthe power of controlling the markets of the world... Loans toforeign countries are organized and arranged by the City of London... solely in order to increase indebtedness upon which the Citythrives and grows rich .... This national and mainly internationaldictatorship of money plays off one country against another."Vincent Cartwright Vickers, 1910"The Western banking systemcontrols a worldwide electronic banking network. The control ofmoney creation at a world level constitutes the ultimate instrumentof economic and social domination. The creation of fiat moneyprovides a command over the real economies of countries worldwide.The ultimate lever of the U.S.-NATO imperial design is to overrideand destroy national currencies."Michel Chossudovsky"The U.S. bailout ... showsthat countries do not need to borrow credit from foreign banksat all. The government could have created its own money and creditsystem rather than leaving foreign creditors to accrue interestcharges that now represent a permanent and seemingly irreversiblebalance-of-payments drain. The United States has shown that anycountry can monetize its own credit, at least domestic credit."Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers,2008"When governments fallinto the trap of accepting loans in foreign currencies, they become"debtor nations" subject to IMF and BIS [Bank for InternationalSettlements] regulation. They are forced to divert their productionto exports, just to earn the foreign currency necessary to paythe interest on their loan."Andrew Gavin Marshall" America is the largestdebtor nation, and at the same time it is the world's creditor."Creating money out of thin air", while at the sametime imposing the U.S. dollar as a global currency constitutesthe ultimate instrument of conquest and imperial domination.The U.S. monetary system is supported by the most powerful militarypower on earth. The dollar is backed by U.S. military might, whichconstitutes a means for displacing national currencies and imposingthe U.S. dollar. In this regard, the Federal Reserve's overwhelmingpowers of money creation constitute an essential lever of an imperialmonetary agenda.... The Western banking system controls a worldwide electronicbanking network. The control of money creation at a world levelconstitutes the ultimate instrument of economic and social domination.The creation of fiat money provides a command over the real economiesof countries worldwide. The ultimate lever of the U.S.-NATO imperialdesign is to override and destroy national currencies."Michel Chossudovsky in his book"The Global Economic Crisis""The US is bankrupt. However,the US dollar remains the world reserve currency. This means thatthe US can print money to pay its bills. As long as the worldaccepts the dollar as world reserve currency, the US will be ableto continue its wars."Paul Craig Roberts"In 1694, the Bank of Englandwas formed as a private central bank, which would issue the currencyof the nation, lending it to the government and industry at interest,which would be paid back to the Bank of England's shareholders,made up of these private banking dynasties. The 16th to the 19thcenturies was the period in which both the nation-state and capitalismemerged, soon followed by central banking in the late 1600s. Thisis when the origins of what was known as a "world economy"took place."Andrew Gavin Marshall in his book"Global Power and Global Government""The few who can understandthe monetary system will be either so interested in its profits,or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no oppositionfrom that class, while, on the other hand, that great body ofpeople, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantagethat Capital derives from the system, will bear its burden withoutcomplaint and, perhaps, without even suspecting that the systemis inimical to their interests."letter written from London bythe Rothschilds to their New York agents introducing their bankingmethod into America"A cartel of the most powerfulinternational banks - the current primary dealers of the FederalReserve System - hold a monopoly position in international banking.They have power over the entire economy. They sit at the top ofthe world's monetary system, currently the Fed's debt-dollar pyramid,with a governmental license to what has been the most secure capitalin the world - US Treasury debt - for a monopoly price that nobodyelse can get."Damon VrabelMONEY LAUNDERINGHUGE PROFITS FROM GLOBAL BANKING'SLIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM "Drugs smugglers, terroristsand other criminals use exactly the same offshore mechanisms andsubterfuges - shell banks, trusts, dummy corporations - that corporationsuse."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The City of London isthe money-laundering centre of the world's drug trade. In addition,due to incredibly lax financial laws by the British government,the London property market is built largely on the laundered moneyof crime from all over the world involving hidden tax havens,most of which are British."Graham Vanbergen"The Hong Kong and ShanghaiBank (HSBC), remains the largest and least controlled clearinghousebank for the opium trade."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""The City of London andWall Street are the two largest centers for money laundering inthe world, where drug cartels are able to transform their criminallyacquired cash into legal money."Martin Berger, 2016"Laundered proceeds ofdrug trafficking, racketeering, corruption, and terrorism tagalong with other forms of dirty money to which the United Statesand Europe lend a welcoming hand."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""New York and London...have become the world's two biggest laundries of criminal anddrug money, and offshore tax havens. Not the Cayman Islands, notthe Isle of Man or Jersey. The big laundering is right throughthe City of London and Wall Street."Martin Woods, bank money launderinginvestigator, Observer newspaper, 2011"In Britain, the MI-6 drugmoney is laundered through the Bank of England, Barclays Bankand other household name companies. The drug money is passed fromaccount to account until its origins are lost in a huge web oftransactions.The drug money comes out 'cleaner' but not totally clean. Diamondsare then bought with this money from the diamond business familieslike the Oppenheimers. These diamonds are then sold and the drugmoney is clean."James Casbolt, former MI-6 Agent"The Vatican played a keyrole in the emergence of the cocaine trade in the 1970s by offeringthe drug cartels its money-laundering service in exchange forstiff fees. To initiate this process, the Holy See establisheda chain of shell companies in Panama and the Bahamas that transferreddeposits from the cartels to Banco Ambrosiano and other Italianbanks. From these private and parochial banks, the money flowedto the IOR (the Vatican Bank) and from the IOR to financial firmsin Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein."Paul L. William in his book "OperationGladio", 2015"British Overseas Territoriesand Crown Dependencies make up around 25 per cent of the world'stax havens.Tax havens include Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands,the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islandsto name just a few and each is inextricably linked to the Cityof London's crime offices.The consequence of its operations is that money laundering isnow at such levels and so widespread that the authorities haverecently admitted defeat in its battle of attrition by statingopenly it has been completely overwhelmed and lost control."Graham Vanbergen"The next time you seethose lovely advertisements of Swiss ski slopes, beautiful watches,pristine mountains and cuckoo clocks - that is not what Switzerlandis about. It is about multi-billion dollar money laundering whichis carried out by major Swiss banking houses."John Coleman in his book "TheCommittee of 300"\"Gold is so important tothe entire drug trafficking business that the metal's price ispegged to the price of raw opium in the Golden Triangle highlands.The escalation of the gold price has been so steady that all thenumbers regarding the size of the opium trade may be gross underestimates."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""A large share of the multibilliondollar revenues of narcotics are deposited in the Western bankingsystem. Most of the large international banks together with theiraffiliates in the offshore banking havens launder large amountsof narco-dollars."Michel Chossudovsky in the book"The Global Economic Crisis""Vast quantities of goldare absorbed into the Asian drug trade - an inestimable percentageof the 400 to 600 tons of the metal that pass through the orientin a year, mainly through Hong Kong, and mainly through subsidiariesof the HongShang [HSBC]. The trade could not run without it andother precious, portable, untraceable substances-like diamonds."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""London is an internationalfinancial center that services millions of transactions with atotal worth of hundreds of billions of pounds every year, whileoffering the most sophisticated financial services on Earth. But,at the same time, the British capital is the center of the globaloffshore system.In 2015, the National Crime Agency published an influential reportthat stated that criminals launder hundreds of billions of dollarsusing UK banks and their branches.Transparency UK which released a report in March 2015 that statedthat London's real estate market is being used to conceal illegalincome and launder money obtained through bribes. It noted that36,342 properties covering 2.2 square miles of London - an areatwice the size of London's financial district - are owned by shellcompanies, while 75 per cent of UK properties, currently beinginvestigated because of corruption, are registered in secret safehavens."Martin Berger, 2016"The City of London, withits own borders and police force, sits within the Isles of Britainas an international hub, the tax haven of all tax havens. Thebanks use offshore business organisations to escape regulationand the grip these organisations have over an ever weakened andcorrupt political class is utterly astounding. The Conservativeparty is literally bankrolled by bankers and hedge funds. Halfof the wealthiest hedge fund managers in the land pay millionseach year to the Tories. This is neoliberalism out of control."Graham Vanbergen"The retail proceeds ofthe total drug traffic in the United States are partly recycledinto the drug operation in the United States itself, with large"off-take" by each level of the crime machine. The netprofits, in cash, are laundered through hotels, restaurants, gamblingcasinos, and sports events.... After the cash is laundered through these nominally legitimatechannels, it is transferred to offshore banking operations ortheir equivalent. Then, the funds take several trips around theworld over the telex machines of offshore banks, passing throughat least a half dozen, and usually more, different bank accountsand corporate fronts, from the Caymans to Liechtenstein, fromLiechtenstein to the Bahamas, from the Bahamas to a "nonresidentcorporation" in Canada, from Canada to Panama, and so forth.At various points in the process, the funds will purchase diamonds,gold, paintings, or similar portable valuables. At a further point,the valuables will be translated back into cash, eliminating eventhe trace of a bank transfer. "www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""[It has been estimatedthat] 80 percent of the profits from drug trafficking ends upin the banks of the wealthy countries or their branches in theunderdeveloped countries."Peter Dale Scott, 2003"No government has ever touchedthe system which allowed [the drug trade to develop]. At best,a few accounts here and there have been seized. To this day, money-launderingis not even a criminal offense in 8 out of the 15 industrial nations.In the United States, the center of the problem, government action,is a joke: No top management has ever been charged or prosecutedfor criminal money-laundering activity."DOPE, INC.: the international drugcartel, money-laundering, and state power, 1992"Corruption and financialcrimes have deep roots in the UK, and all sorts of criminals acrossthe world are perfectly aware of the fact that they can find afinancial safe heaven in London.While UK authorities, like their colleagues across the Atlantic,are declaring their determination to fight corruption, in realitythey keep providing criminals of all kinds the ideal safe havenfor laundering their money in London and New York."Martin Berger, 2016"Swiss banks are notoriousdepots for dirty money."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""The large internationalbanks that finance the drug trade, get it and launder it, usingit to prop up their bankrupt international financial system."DOPE, INC.: the international drugcartel, money-laundering, and state power, 1992"Switzerland remains onethe world's biggest repositories for dirty money. In 2009 it hostedabout $2.1 trillion in offshore accounts owned by non-residents,about half from Europe. This had been $3.1 trillion in 2007 beforethe global financial crisis."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""Most of the dirty moneyarising from the U.S. drug trade and related illegal activitiesends up in the Bahamas."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""Money laundering, accordingto IMF estimates for the 1990s, was between 590 billion and 1.5trillion dollars a year. The proceeds of the drug trade are depositedin the banking system. Drug money is laundered in the numerousoffshore banking havens in Switzerland, Luxembourg, the BritishChannel Islands, the Cayman Islands and some 50 other locationsaround the globe. It is here that criminal syndicates involvedin the drug trade and the representatives of the world's largestcommercial banks interact. Dirty money is deposited in these offshorehavens, which are controlled by major Western banks and financialinstitutions which have a vested interest in maintaining and sustainingthe drug trade."Michel Chossudovsky in his book"America's War on Terrorism""Over the past couple ofdecades, London's accountants and lawyers have helped launderbillions of dollars of stolen money through the British VirginIslands, among other British overseas territories. The Britishproperty market, like the New York property market, has long functionedlike an old-fashioned Swiss bank, providing safe real estate investmentsfor owners who wish their identities and their sources of incometo be hidden.In rich Western states, like the UK and US, governments oftenlend a helping hand to various criminal organizations that seekways to launder money stolen from budgets and aid programs ofvarious countries. In order to prevent the officials of thoserobbed states from accessing those funds, Western authoritiesoften create large commercial entities that serve the sole purposeof hiding this money. In a number of US states like Delaware,New Mexico, Nevada and Wyoming, along with the British VirginIslands, anonymous investors can register a countless number ofcompanies, without being subjected to any form of screening bylocal authorities."Martin Berger, 2016"Hong Kong was set up bythe British, literally from bare rock, as a center for the drugtrade, and remains to this day purely British, and purely a centerfor the drug trade... Britain (and its China allies) run everyphase of international drug traffic... Hong Kong and related FarEast operations are the chokepoint in the entire traffic, wheredirty money is a way of life."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""A competent war on drugs must begin with a war against thebanking institutions and bankers who 'launder' Dope, Inc.'s ill-gottengains...Shut down the drug money-laundering by the major Anglo-Americanbanks, and the dope cartel would choke to death on its own profits...Dope, Inc.'s vulnerable flank is the international network ofbanks and other financial institutions that 'launder' the cartel's$558 billion per year in gross revenue... Action by governmentsagainst the drug bankers could rapidly shut down Dope, Inc."DOPE, INC.: the international drugcartel, money-laundering, and state power, 1992"Money laundering is simplyeverywhere. On the grand scale, it's endemic to banking... Moneylaundering is not some distant fantasy. It's actually how youhandle the profits of extortion, tax evasion, criminal conspiracyand huge quantities of drug money, how you get that into the whitesector... We pay vast sums of money to agencies that are supposedto stop money laundering. It doesn't happen."author John le Carre"The large internationalbanks that finance the drug trade, get it and launder it, usingit to prop up their bankrupt international financial system."from the book "DOPE, INC.:the international drug cartel, money-laundering, and state power",1992"Drug profits are securedthrough the ability of the drug cartels to launder and transferbillions of dollars through the US banking system. The scale andscope of the US banking-drug cartel alliance surpasses any othereconomic activity of the US private banking system."James Petras"Narco-dollars are channeledinto "private banking" accounts in numerous offshorebanking havens controlled by the large Western banks and financialinstitutions. The major Wall Street and European banks and stockbrokerage firms launder billions of dollars resulting from thetrade in narcotics.""The Destabilization of Haiti"an article by Michel Chossudovsky"The United States is theworld leader in global money laundering. According to the Departmentof Justice, the US launders between $500 billion - $1 trillionannually.""Narco-Dollars For Beginners"an article by Catherine Austin Fitts"Vast quantities of gold areabsorbed into the Asian drug trade - an inestimable percentageof the 400 to 600 tons of the metal that pass through the orientin a year, mainly through Hong Kong, and mainly through subsidiariesof the HongShang [HSBC]. The drug trade could not run withoutit and other precious, portable, untraceable substances-like diamonds."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""Only low echelon drugdealers get caught with drug money in their hands. The elite -Drexel Burnham, Credite Suisse, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC)- escape detection... American Express was and still is a conduitfor laundering drug money."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""A competent war on drugsmust begin with a war against the banking institutions and bankerswho 'launder' Dope, Inc.'s ill-gotten gains...Shut down the drugmoney-laundering by the major Anglo-American banks, and the dopecartel would choke to death on its own profits... Dope, Inc.'svulnerable flank is the international network of banks and otherfinancial institutions that 'launder' the cartel's $558 billionper year in gross revenue... Action by governments against thedrug bankers could rapidly shut down Dope, Inc."from the book "Dope. Inc.",Executive Intelligence Review,1978"If 700 billion dollarsa year in illegal drug money is moved and laundered through theAmerican and world economy, that money benefits financial marketsand especially Wall Street. That's the reason for maintainingthe illegal drug trade."Daniel Estulin in hius book "ShadowMasters""No government has evertouched the system which allowed the drug trade to develop. Money-launderingis not even a criminal offense in 8 out of the 15 industrial nations.In the United States, the center of the problem, government action,is a joke: No top management has ever been charged or prosecutedfor criminal money-laundering activity."from the book "DOPE, INC.:the international drug cartel, money-laundering, and state power",1992"A large share of the multibilliondollar revenues of narcotics are deposited in the Western bankingsystem. Most of the large international banks together with theiraffiliates in the offshore banking havens launder large amountsof narco-dollars."Michel Chossudovsky in the book"The Global Economic Crisis""Washington's "waron drugs" is directed towards increasing U.S. power in LatinAmerica. The use of drug money laundered through U.S. banks financesWashington's trade imbalances, while the drug war increases Washington'sgeneral influence over economic policy, allowing U.S.-based transnationalcorporations (TNCs) to buy Latin American public enterprises atscandalously low prices and to penetrate markets.""Globalization Unmasked"an araticle by James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer"The British Crown Colonyof Hong Kong, with the British Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation(HSBC) at the top, is considered the number-one money-launderingcenter for the heroin trade. Illegal drugs are the biggest businessin the Far East -- and close to being the biggest business inthe world -- but in Hong Kong, drugs do not merely dominate theeconomy: They are the economy."from the book "DOPE, INC.:the international drug cartel, money-laundering, and state power",1992"Drug money was the onlyliquid investment capital available to banks on the brink of collapse,with roughly $325 billion in drug money absorbed by the financialsystem... In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the bankingsystem's main problem and hence liquid capital became an importantfactor. Interbank loans were funded by money that originated fromdrug trade and other illegal activities."Antonio Maria Costa, the head ofUnited Nation's Office on Drugs and Crime"The Bank of InternationalSettlements (BIS) and the IMF are nothing more than bully-boyclearing houses for the drug trade. The BIS undermines any countrythat the IMF wants to sink by setting up ways and means for theeasy outflow of flight capital. Nor does BIS recognize nor makeany distinction when it comes down to what is flight capital andwhat is laundered drug money.The BIS operates on gangster lines. If a country will not submitto asset-stripping by the IMF, then it says in effect, "Right,then we will break you by means of the huge cache of narco-dollarswe are holding." It is easy to understand why gold was demonetizedand substituted with the paper "dollar" as the world'sreserve currency. It is not as easy to blackmail a country holdinggold reserves as it is one having its reserves in paper dollars."John Coleman in his book "Conspirators'Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300""Some of the world's leadingprivate financial institutions are deeply implicated in the launderingof hundreds of billions of dollars a year in illegal dope money...Illegal drugs are the largest commodity in international trade,with the exception of petroleum, and the annual revenues of thenarcotics traffic exceeds the national product of most of theworld's nations, and the revenues of the largest multinationalcompanies."from the book "DOPE, INC.:the international drug cartel, money-laundering, and state power",1992"Banks act as clearinghouses and money launderers of billions of dollars derived fromdrug money. The main "big name banks" are:· The Bank of England· The Federal Reserve Banks· Bank of International Settlements· The World Bank· The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank· American ExpressAmerican Express Bank Travelerschecks are a convenient method of recycling drug dollars. Eachof these banks is affiliated with and/or controls hundreds ofthousands of large and small banks throughout the world."John Coleman in his book "TheCommittee of 300""The best-protected institutionsof the British oligarchy prefer to launder their dirty money throughCaribbean, Hong Kong, and similar branch operations, rather thanin London itself."www.bibliotecapleyades.net - Howthe Drug Empire WorksMONOPOLY CAPITALISM"COMPETITION IS A SIN.""John D. RockefellerJ. P. Morgan, and other kingpins of the Money Trust were powerfulmonopolists. A monopolist seeks to eliminate competition. In fact,Rockefeller once said: "Competition is a sin." Thesemen were not free enterprise advocates."James Perloff in his book "TheShadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the AmericanDecline""The philosophy of WallStreet financiers was anything but laissez-faire competition,which was the last system they envisaged. Socialism, communism,fascism or their variants were acceptable. The ideal for thesefinanciers was "cooperation," forced if necessary. Individualismwas out, and competition was immoral... compulsory cooperationwas their golden road to a legal monopoly."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and FDR", 1976"If you wanted to controlthe nation's manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportationand natural resources, you would need only to control the apex,the power pinnacle, of an all-powerful socialist government. Thenyou would have a monopoly and could squeeze out all your competitors.If you wanted a national monopoly, you must control a nationalsocialist government. If you want a worldwide monopoly, you mustcontrol a world socialist government. That is what the game is all about. "Communism" is nota movement of the downtrodden masses but is a movement created,manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order togain control over the world ... first by establishing socialistgovernments in the various nations and then consolidating themall through a "Great Merger," into an all-powerful world,socialist super-state."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""The rules of big business:Get a monopoly; let Society work for you. So long as we see allinternational revolutionaries and all international capitalistsas implacable enemies of one another, then we miss a crucial point- a partnership between international monopoly capitalism andinternational revolutionary socialism is for their mutual benefit."Frederick C. Howe, in his book"Confessions of a Monopolist", 1906"Capitalist competitionnaturally evolved into monopoly capitalism, as the winners ofthe free-market took over their competitors' businesses and machinery.The free market soon became the private property of the mega-corporations."Shamus Cooke"Monopoly capitalism isimpossible unless you have a government with the power to stranglewould-be competitors.The easiest way to control or eliminate competitors is not tolet them in the marketplace, but to use the power of governmentto exclude them from the marketplace. If you wish to control commerce,banking, transportation, and natural resources on a national level,you must control! the federal government. If you and your cliquewish to establish worldwide monopolies, you must control WorldGovernment."Gary Allen in his book "TheRockefeller File""The objective of the financialelite is monopoly acquisition of wealth - corporate socialism.It thrives on the political process, and it would fade away ifit were exposed to the activity of a free market."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and FDR", 1976"It is through the Councilon Foreign Relations (CFR) that the international bankers andthe global intelligence community mingle. The bankers and thespooks share a common goal of keeping the world safe for globalmonopoly capitalism and often intelligence operatives are recruitedfrom the banking houses where their loyalties to the banking elitehave been thoroughly tested."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""The Nazi state is a dictatorshipof monopoly capitalism. Its 'fascism' is that of business enterpriseorganized on a monopoly basis, and in full command of all themilitary, police, legal and propaganda power of the state."economist Robert Brady"John D. Rockefeller andhis 19th century fellow-capitalists were convinced of one absolutetruth: that no great monetary wealth could be accumulated underthe impartial rules of a competitive laissez faire society. Theonly sure road to the acquisition of massive wealth was monopoly:drive out your competitors, reduce competition, eliminate laissez-faire,and above all get state protection for your industry through compliantpoliticians and government regulation. This last avenue yieldsa legal monopoly, and a legal monopoly always leads to wealth."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and FDR", 1976"The Round Table Groupwanted to control the people by having the government tax peopleand deposit the peoples money in a central bank. The Group wouldtake control of the bank and therefore have control of the money.The Group would take control of the State Department and formulategovernment policy, which would determine how the money was spent.The Group would control the CIA which would gather informationabout people, and script and produce psycho-political operationsfocused at the people to influence them to act in accord withRound Table Group State Department policy decisions. The Groupwould work to consolidate all the nations of the world into asingle nation, with a single central bank under their control,and a single International Security System. Some of the firstlegislation of the Wilson Administration was the institution ofthe graduated income tax (1913) and the creation of a centralbank called the Federal Reserve. An inheritance tax was also instituted.These tax laws were used to rationalize the need for legislationthat allowed the establishment of tax-exempt foundations. Thetax-exempt foundations became the link between the Group member'sprivate corporations and the university system. The Group wouldcontrol the universities by controlling the sources of their funding.The funding was money sheltered from taxes that was channeledin ways which would help achieve Round Table Group aims."Colonel Edward Mandell House -www.gemworld.com/"Corporate socialism isa system where those few who hold the legal monopolies of financialand industrial control profit at the expense of all others insociety."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and FDR", 1976"Get a monopoly; let societywork for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics,for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption isworth more than a Kimberly or Comstock lode, since it does notrequire any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation."Frederick C Howe, in his book Confessionsof a Monopolist, 1906"John D. Rockefeller wasa Machiavellian who boasted that he hated competition. Wheneverhe could, Rockefeller used the government to promote his own interestsand to hinder his competitors. Monopoly capitalism is impossibleunless you have a government with the power to strangle would-becompetitors.The easiest way to control or eliminate competitors is not tobest them in the marketplace, but to use the power of governmentto exclude them from the marketplace. If you wish to control commerce,banking, transportation, and natural resources on a national level,you must control! the federal government. If you and your cliquewish to establish worldwide monopolies, you must control WorldGovernment."Gary Allen in his book "TheRockefeller File""Without the monopoly concentration of mass media, therecan be no modern propaganda. For propaganda to thrive, the mediamust remain concentrated, news agencies and services must be limited,the press must be under central command, and radio, film, andtelevision monopolies must pervade."Nancy Snow"There is only one wayto make all wealth-producing activity dependent on corrupt privilegeand beholden to corrupt power. That is to turn all wealth-producingactivity into monopoly enterprise. And that is the reason we havea monopoly system today. It is the economy deliberately createdby the party oligarchs in the interests of oligarchic power.... It is just because monopoly is absolutely dependent on specialprivilege that the party oligarchs first created and today sustainmonopoly, for all the wealth in the country that derives frommonopoly wealth is privileged wealth, wealth allied to those whocan dispense and protect special privilege."Walter Karp in his book "IndispensableEnemies"OILBIG OIL = BIG PROFITS ANDBIG POWER"The oil market is nowcornered by five major companies - Exxon-Mobil, Chevron-Texaco,British Petroleum-Amoco-Arco, Royal Dutch Shell and Conoco-Phillips- which control over 60 percent of refinery output.... The operating strategy ... is to force independent refinersout of business, tighten gasoline supplies, and then jack up theprice. Finally, when the profit skyrockets, take ads in newspapersto claim that the profit is reasonable."Ravi Batra in his book "TheNew Golden Age", 2007"Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroupown Shell, Chevron, British Petroleum, Exxon, in tandem with DeuscheBank, Banque Paribas, Barclays and other European old money behemoths."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf""The Rothschild, Rockefellerand Warburg banking combines control Big Oil... Royal Dutch/Shellis controlled by the Rothschild, Oppenheimer, Nobel and Samuelfamilies along with the British House of Windsor and the DutchHouse of Orange."Dean Henderson from his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""Control oil and you controlnations."Henry Kissinger"If you want to know whorules the world, just think of two words: "Oil Bankers."The western financial institutions that dominate the world economycan all be traced back to fossil fuels. The House of Rockefeller,tied in with Exxon-Mobil, sucessor of Standard Oil, along withthe House of Morgan now exercise their titanic power via an entitycalled Chase Bank. HSBC Bank is closely tied to British Petroleum.The British banking dynasty known as the Rothschilds is closelytied in with Royal Dutch Shell."Caleb Maupin, 2018"The Four Horsemen of Oil[British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil]are the top four retailers of gas in the US and own every majorpipeline in the world and the vast majority of oil tankers...Today they control over half the world's uranium reserves, keyto fueling nuclear power plants... Exxon Mobil is the leadingcoal producer in the US and has the second largest coal reserves."Dean Henderson from his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""The Persian Gulf/CaspianSea area is where most of the world's remaining oil is located- approximately 70 percent of known petroleum reserves. Whoevercontrols Persian Gulf oil controls the world's economy."Michael Klare in his book "PoxAmericana""The Swedish Nobel andFrench Rothschild families discovered oil in Russia through theirFar East Trading Company, which later combined with Oppenheimerfamily interests to become Shell Oil. The Dutch House of Orangejoined forces with the British House of Windsor in the Dutch EastIndies to launch Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell)."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""Since the Bush-CheneyAdministration took office in January 2001, controlling the majoroil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary,though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy."F. William Engdahl"Drug networks are importantfactors in the politics of every continent. The United Statesreturns repeatedly to the posture of fighting wars in areas ofpetroleum reserves with the aid of drug-trafficking allies - drugproxies - with which it has a penchant to become involved."Peter Dale Scott in his book "Drugs,Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, andIndochina""Bank of America, JP MorganChase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup own Shell, Chevron, British Petroleum,Exxon, in tandem with Deusche Bank, Banque Paribas, Barclays andother European old money behemoths."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf""Since the Bush-CheneyAdministration took office in January 2001, controlling the majoroil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary,though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only theinvasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan,had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do withpipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization ofthe Middle East."F. William Engdahl"The dollar's current strengthis supported by the requirement of the Organization of the PetroleumExporting Countries (OPEC), secured originally by a secret agreementbetween the United States and Saudi Arabia, that all OPEC oilsales be denominated in dollars."Peter Dale Scott in his book "TheRoad to 9/11""Everyone knows: the Iraqwar is largely about oil."Alan Greenspan, former chairmanof the Federal Reserve, 2008"We must never make itappear as if we went into Iraq for its oil."Republican Arizona Senator JonKyl"The United States handledthe quadrupling of oil prices in the 1970s by arranging, by meansof secret agreements with the Saudis, to recycle petrodollarsback into the U.S. economy. The first of these deals assured aspecial and ongoing Saudi stake in the health of the U.S. dollar;the second secured continuing Saudi support for the pricing ofall OPEC oil in dollars. These two deals assured that the U.S.economy would not be impoverished by OPEC oil price hikes. Theheaviest burdens would be borne instead by the economies of lessdeveloped countries."Peter Dale Scott, 2003"One of the verboten topicsis oil. Do you notice how it is almost never mentioned in thepress as a real reason we went into Iraq. When is the last timeyou heard any major media outlet talking about it? Was there evera magazine cover that asked -- Was it About the Oil? Can you imagineWolf Blitzer asking this question of a government official?... Do Americans realize that the rest of the world, is absolutelyconvinced we went in for the oil?Cenk Uygur, 2008"We had virtually no economicoptions with Iraq, because the country floats on a sea of oil."Paul Wolfowitz, 2008"Only in an America dumbeddown by constant propaganda about our innate moral superioritywill anyone any longer believe that we didn't invade Iraq forthe oil."Robert Scheer, 2008"The United States is notinterested in the oil in that region from Iraq. That's just utternonsense."Donald Rumsfeld, US. Secretaryof Defense, interview with Al Jazeera TV, February 25, 2003"We're there in Iraq becausethat part of the world controls the world supply of oil, and whoevercontrols the supply of oil would have a stranglehold on the Americaneconomy and indeed on the world economy."Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney,1990"Regardless of whetherwe say so publicly, we will go to war, because Saddam sits atthe center of a region with more than 60 percent of all the world'soil reserves."Anthony H. Cordesman, senior analystat Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies"After U.S. troops capturedBaghdad in April 2003, they were ordered to protect the Oil Ministryeven as looters ransacked priceless antiquities from Iraq's nationalmuseums and stole explosives from unguarded military arsenals."Jason Leopold, Global Research,2009"The US-led war in thebroader Middle East Central Asian region consists in gaining controlover more than sixty percent of the world's reserves of oil andnatural gas. The Anglo-American oil giants also seek to gain controlover oil and gas pipeline routes out of the region. Muslim countriesincluding Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates,Qatar, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan,Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, possess between 66.2 and 75.9 percentof total oil reserves."Michel Chossudovsky, 2012"Right after World WarII ... the United States moved to dominate a global system forthe production and distribution of oil. Starting with the TrumanDoctrine in 1946, U.S. geostrategic thinking was oil based. Whatbegan as a strategy for containment of the Soviet Union has becomemore and more nakedly a determination to control the oil resourcesof the world. This pursuit has progressively deformed the domesticU.S. economy, rendering it more and more unbalanced and dependenton heavy military expenditures in remote and ungovernable areas-mostrecently Afghanistan."Peter Dale Scott, 2003"Washington and the NewYork banks had exchanged their flawed postwar Bretton Woods goldexchange system for a new, highly unstable petroleum-based dollarexchange system, which, unlike the gold exchange system, theyreckoned they could control. Henry Kissinger and the financialestablishment of London and New York had in effect replaced theold gold exchange standard of the postwar world with their own'petrodollar standard.'"William Engdahl in his book "ACentury of War""The American habit oftraining, arming, and financing its drug-trafficking allies inorder to help secure oil resources abroad has been a major factorin the huge increase in global illicit drug trafficking sinceWorld War II."Peter Dale Scott, 2003PANICS, DEPRESSIONS ANDFINANCIAL COUPSRUINING THE LITTLE PEOPLE"In early 1929, the FederalReserve board of governors called upon the member banks to reducetheir loans on stock-exchange collateral, and took other actionswith the publicly pronounced aim of reducing the amount of creditavailable for speculation. Yet, it had the reverse effect, asthe available credit went more and more to speculation and decreasinglyto productive business. On September 26, 1929, London was hitwith a financial panic, and the Bank of England raised its bankrate, causing British money to leave Wall Street, and the over-inflatedmarket commenced to sag, leading to a panic by mid-October.The BIS [Bank of International Settlements] was established toremedy the decline of London as the world's financial center byproviding a mechanism by which a world with three chief financialcenters in London, New York, and Paris could still operate asone.The BIS was founded by the central banks of Belgium, France, Germany,Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, and the United Kingdom along withthree leading commercial banks from the United States, includingJ.P. Morgan & Company, First National Bank of New York, andFirst National Bank of Chicago."Carroll Quigley, historian andGeorgetown University professor, in his book "Tragedy andHope""On August 9, 1929 thepin was inserted into the bubble. On that date, the Federal Reserveraised its discount rate to six percent and simultaneously beganto sell securities on the open market. Both actions acted to shrinkbank reserves and therefore the money supply... The market reachedits peak on September 19, then started its slide downward. OnOctober 24 the slide became a torrent, and on October 29, themarket collapsed.While the uninformed were in the process of loosing their shirts,the insiders who had sold out before the crash were now to befound, with cash at the ready, on the buying side. Companies whosestock had dropped to a fraction of their value were still basicallyviable, but their ownership, in large measure, had been shiftedfrom, to use Andrew Mellon's phrase, the "less competentpeople," who had been sucked into the speculative maelstromcreated by the Fed's easy credit, to the financial elites, whohad been made privy to the crash that was around the corner. Greatfortunes were made or added to by the latter.... Virtually all of the inner club was rescued from The Depression.There is no record of any member of the interlocking directoratebetween the Federal Reserve, the major New York banks, and theirprime customers having been caught by surprise."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island"""The depression [of 1929]was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Moneypowers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply ofcall money in the New York money market. The One World Governmentleaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full controlof the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creationof the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank."Curtis Dall, FDR's son-in-law asquoted in his book "My Exploited Father-in-Law""Having built the FederalReserve as a tool to consolidate and control wealth, the internationalbankers were now ready to make a major killing. Between 1923 and1929, the Federal Reserve expanded (inflated) the money supplyby sixty-two percent. Much of this new money was used to bid thestock market up to dizzying heights.... On February 6, 1929... the Federal Reserve Board reversedits easy money policy and began raising the discount rate. Theballoon which had been inflated constantly for nearly seven yearswas about to be exploded.... The investing public, including most stock brokers and bankers,took a horrendous blow in the [1929] crash, but not the [internationalfinancial] "Insiders". They were either out of the marketor had sold "short" so that they made enormous profitsas the Dow Jones plummeted."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""When the President signsthis act [Federal Reserve Act of 1913], the invisible governmentby the money power - proven to exist by the Monetary Trust Investigation- will be legalized. The new law will create inflation wheneverthe trusts want inflation. From now on, depressions will be scientificallycreated."Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., Congressman(R-MN), (father of famous aviator), Senate, Nov. 1912"The Depression of 1929was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence. Theinternational bankers sought to bring about a condition of despairhere [United States] so that they might emerge as rulers of usall."Louis T. McFadden, Chairman ofthe U.S. House of Representatives' Banking and Currency Committee,1932"Capital must protect itselfin every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debtsmust be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.When, through the process of law, the common people lose theirhomes, they will become more docile and more easily governed throughthe strong arm of government applied by a central power of wealthunder leading financiers. These truths are well known among ourprincipal men who are now engaged in forming an imperialism togovern the world. By dividing the voter through the politicalparty system, we can get them to expend their energies in fightingfor questions of no importance. It is thus by discreet actionwe can secure for ourselves that which has been so well plannedand so successfully accomplished."American's Banker Association,1924"In the fall of 1929 itwas time for the international bankers to push the button thatset in motion the machinery that resulted in World War II. Afterthey, their agents and friends had sold out at the crest of anartificially inflated stock market boom, the international bankerspulled the rug out from under the whole system and sent the UnitedStates plunging into what became known as the Great Depression."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""Plummeting stock prices[in 1929] ruined small investors, but not the top "insiders"on Wall Street. Paul Warburg had issued a tip in March of 1929that the Crash was coming. Before it did, John D. Rockefeller,Bernard Baruch, Joseph P. Kennedy, and other money barons gotout of the market.... Early withdrawal from the market not only preserved the fortunesof these men: it also enabled them to return later and buy upwhole companies for a song."James Perloff in his book "TheShadows of Power""The structure of financialcontrols created by the tycoons of 'Big Banking' and 'Big Business'was of extraordinary complexity, one business fief being builton another, both being allied with semi-independent associates,the whole rearing upward into two pinnacles of economic and politicalpower, of which one, centered in New York, was headed by J. P.Morgan and Company and the other, in Ohio, was headed by the Rockefellerfamily. When the two cooperated, as they generally did, they couldinfluence the economic life of the country to a large degree andcould almost control its political life, at least at the Federallevel. They caused the "panic of 1907" and the collapseof two railroads, one in 1914 and the other in 1929."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""World War I created astronomicaldebts in the nations that participated. These debts were heldby the international bankers who organized and stage-managed thewhole show from start to finish.... In the fall of 1929 it was time for the international bankersto push the button that set in motion the machinery that resultedin World War II. After they, their agents and friends had soldout at the crest of an artificially inflated stock market boom,the international bankers pulled the rug out from under the wholesystem and sent the United States plunging into what became knownas the Great Depression."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?"Central banks controlthe monetary system of the world and determine when business cyclesare going to change simply by increasing or decreasing the moneysupply in the banking system."Joan Veon"A global financial cabalengineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegallyshifted vast amounts of capital out of the US; and used 'privatization'as a form of piracy -- a pretext to move government assets toprivate investors at below-market prices and then shift privateliabilities back to government at no cost to the private liabilityholder... Clearly, there was a global financial coup d'etat underway."Catherine Austin Fitts"I know of no severe depression,in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharpdecline in the stock of money, and equally of no sharp declinein the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression."Milton Friedman"Since 97% of the moneyin the world is created from debt, any loans paid off decreasesthe amount of money in circulation. And when no further loansare given, the circulating money stock falls dramatically, adverselyaffecting businesses and the economy at large. This intentionalreduction of the money supply leads to widespread business failures,high unemployment, foreclosures on property, and severe hardshipwithin the community. On the other hand, great wealth is transferredfrom defaulting borrowers to the banksters."Gabriel DonohoePOPULATION CONTROLPRESERVING THE WORLD FOR THEPLUTOCRATS"Henry Kissinger produced,in April 1974, the classified National Security Council StudyMemorandum 200 (NSSM 200), directed to Washington high officialdom,defining a program aimed at population reduction in Third Worldcountries possessing needed raw materials, since growing populationswith aspirations for a better standard of living give rise tohigh prices for such materials. Kissinger named 13 target countriesfor population control, including Brazil, India, Egypt, Mexico,Ethiopia, Columbia, and others. [In the 1970s] most of the Third World, including the bulk ofSouth America, Africa, and the Asian underbelly, unable to affordthe oil they needed, found not only their industrial developmentstopped, but even food purchases curtailed, and starvation threatening.Far from living standards continuing the growth begun during the50's and 60's, many of these countries were being pushed backto a condition of bare subsistence."F William Engdahl in his book "ACentury of War""In 1969 the Senate ChurchCommittee discovered that the US Defense Department (DOD) hadrequested a budget of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars fora program to speed development of new viruses which target anddestroy the human immune system... Out of this research came theAIDS virus which was targeted at "undesirable elements"of the population.The first AIDS viruses were administered through a massive smallpoxvaccine campaign in central and southern Africa by the World HealthOrganization in 1977. A year later ads appeared in major US newspaperssoliciting "promiscuous gay male volunteers" to takepart in a Hepatitis B vaccine study. The program targeted malehomosexuals age 20-40 in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago,St. Louis and San Francisco. It was administered by the US Centersfor Disease Control which, under its earlier incarnation as theUS Public Health Department in Atlanta, oversaw the Tuskegee syphilisexperiments on African American males."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""The World Order programfor the future ... [includes] the gradual annihilation of thepopulations of the United States, Canada and Western Europe. Thereduction of world population from the present 4.85 billion to1 billion, the number it had attained in 1800, solving the disastrouspollution of air and water and the exhaustion of natural resources."Eustace Mullins, "The WorldOrder", 1985"We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-spermantibodies."Epicyte president Mitch Hein"The US and UK governments'relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modifiedseeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policyof the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it fundedNazi eugenics research... As some of these circles saw it, waras a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.... The Rockefeller Foundation, working with John D. RockefellerIll's Population Council, the World Bank, the UN Development Programand the Ford Foundation, and others, had been working with theWHO (World Health Organization) for 20 years to develop an anti-fertilityvaccine using tetanus, as well as with other vaccines."F. William Engdahl in his book"Seeds of Destuction""Eugenics was the racistpseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed'unfit,' preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype.... Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had itnot been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies,specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundationand the Harriman railroad fortune... The Rockefeller Foundationhelped found the German eugenics program and even funded the programthat Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.The most commonly suggested method of eugenicide in America wasa 'lethal chamber' or public locally operated gas chambers. Eugenicbreeders believed American society was not ready to implementan organized lethal solution. But many mental institutions anddoctors practiced improvised medical lethality and passive euthanasiaon their own."Edwin Black, 2003"It is necessary that theUnited States cut its population by two-thirds within the next50 years."Howard T. Odum a marine biologistat the University of Florida and a member of the Club of Rome,1980"I do not pretend thatbirth control is the only way in which population can be keptfrom increasing .... War has hitherto been disappointing in thisrespect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective.If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once inevery generation, survivors could procreate freely without makingthe world too full."Bertrand Russell"Scientists have createdthe ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn.The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San Diegobiotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have discovereda rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm. By isolating the genes that regulate the manufacture of theseantibodies, and by putting them in corn plants, the company hascreated tiny horticultural factories that make contraceptives.Contraceptive corn is based on research on the rare condition,immune infertility, in which a woman makes antibodies that attacksperm."Robin McKie, The Guardian newspaper"Population reduction andgenetically engineered crops were clearly part of a broad strategy:the drastic reduction of the world's population. It was in facta sophisticated form of what the Pentagon termed biological warfare,promulgated under the name of "solving the world hunger problem."F. William Engdahl"The Birth Control Leaguehad long trumpeted the need for eugenical births -- fewer birthsfor parents with "inferior" bloodines... The Birth ControlLeague ... chang[ed] its name to Planned Parenthood."Webster Griffin Tarpley and AntonChaitkinin their book "George Bush : The Unauthorized Biography""There is a single themebehind all our work; we must reduce population levels. Eitherthey do it our way, through nice clean methods or they will getthe kind of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran, or inBeirut... Once population is out of control it requires authoritariangovernment, even fascism, to reduce it... The professionals aren'tinterested in reducing population for humanitarian reasons...Civil wars are somewhat drawn-out ways to reduce population. Thequickest way to reduce population is through famine like in Africa.We go into a country and say, here is your goddamn developmentplan. Throw it out the window. Start looking at your population...if you don't ...then you'll have an El Salvador or an Iran,or worse, a Cambodia. ... To accomplish what the State Department deems adequate populationcontrol, the civil war (in El Salvador run by CIA) would haveto be greatly expanded. You have to pull all the males into fightingand kill significant numbers of fertile, child-bearing age females.You are killing a small number of males and not enough fertilefemales to do the job... If the war went on 30-40 years, you mightaccomplish something."United States' Latin American Officeof Population Affairs (OPA) case officer Thomas FergusonPROFIT OVER PEOPLERESOURCE EXTRACTION AND STRUCTURALADJUSTMENT: GLOBALIZED IMMISERATON OF THE POOR AND THE VULNERABLE"Somehow we find it hardto sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor."Secretary of State John FosterDulles (Eisenhower Administration)"War is inextricablylinked to the impoverishment of people at home and around theworld. Militarization and the economic crisis are intimately related.The provision of essential goods and services to meet basic humanneeds has been replaced by a profit-driven "killing machine"in support of America's "Global War on Terror". Thepoor are made to fight the poor. Yet war enriches the upper class,which controls industry, the military, oil and banking. In a wareconomy, death is good for business, poverty is good for society,and power is good for politics. Western nations, particularlythe United States, spend hundreds of billions of dollars a yearto murder innocent people in far-away impoverished nations."Michel Chossudovsky and AndrewGavin Marshall"A 2008 study from theUniversity of Massachusetts examined the capital flight from fortyAfrican countries from 1970 to 2004. Real capital flight over the 35-year period amounted to about$420 billion (in 2004 dollars) for the 40 countries as a whole.Including imputed interest earnings, the accumulated stock ofcapital flight was about $607 billion as of end-2004.... The total external debt of these countries was 'only' $227billion. So, Africa is a net creditor to the rest of the world,with its net external assets vastly exceeding its debts. Yet thereis a crucial difference between the assets and the liabilities:The subcontinent's private external assets belong to a narrow,relatively wealthy stratum of its population, while public externaldebts are borne by he people through their governments."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""Africa is extremely richin many resources, from agriculture to oil, minerals, and a hugevariety of other resources used all around the world. If Africannations were able to develop their own economies, use their ownresources, and create their own industries and businesses, theycould become self-sufficient at first, and then may become a forceof great competition for the established industries and elitesaround the world. After all, Europe does not have much to offerin terms of resources, as the continent's wealth has largely comefrom plundering the resources of regions like Africa, and in becomingcaptains of monetary manipulation. A revitalized, vibrant, economicallyindependent and successful Africa could spell the end of Westernfinancial dominance. "Andrew Gavin Marshall"Masquerading as the advocateof human rights and liberal democracy, the global economic andpolitical order being imposed in the name of globalization andfree markets seeks to establish a virtual monopoly of multinationalcorporations that are destructive to people and the physical environment."Social Justice magazine, 2000"There is no known casein which globalization has led to prosperity in any Third Worldcountry, and none of the world's twenty-four reasonably developedcapitalist nations, regardless of their ideological explanations,got where they are by following any of the prescriptions containedin globalization doctrine."Chalmers Johnson in his book"Sorrows of Empire""The rise of Third Worldlending in the 1970s and 1980s laid the foundations for a globaltax haven network that now shelters the world's most venal citizens.... In the 1970s and 1980s at least half of the money borrowedby the largest Third World debtor countries flowed right out againunder the table, usually in less than a year, and typically injust weeks. Third World public debts were matched almost exactlyby the stock of private wealth their elites had accumulated inthe US and other havens."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""Every time weaker nationshave attempted to reallocate their resources and undertake landreform to feed starving populations, powerful interests emanatingfrom the rich world and its multilateral bodies have thwartedtheir efforts."Susan George"When the World Bank andthe International Monetary Fund lend money to debtor countries,the money comes with strings attached. These strings come in theform of policy prescriptions called 'structural adjustment policies.'These policies require debtor governments to open their economiesto penetration by foreign corporations, allowing access to thecountry's workers and environment at bargain basement prices.Structural adjustment policies mean across-the-board privatizationof public utilities and publicly owned industries. They mean theslashing of government budgets, leading to cutbacks in spendingon health care and education. And, as their imposition in countryafter country in Latin America, Africa, and Asia has shown, theylead to deeper inequality and environmental destruction."Global Exchange"Corporations want tomove in and grab hold of everything, be it education, health,medical care, water supplies, electrical utilities, whatever else.Privatize and deregulate. That's their goal, the thirdworldizationof America - and everywhere else. They just want to get richerand richer and make us work harder and harder for less and less.That's what globalization and the "free market" areall about."Michael Parenti"America can't let us stayin power. We are the exception to the new globalization order.If we succeed, we are an example to all the Americas."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez'sminister Miguel Bustamante Madriz"Today corporate globalizationneeds an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritariangovernments in poorer countries to push through unpopular reformsand quell the mutinies. It needs a press that pretends to be free.It needs courts that pretend to dispense justice."Arundhati Roy in her book "WarTalk""Since the 1980s, it ismainly the Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) of the WorldBank and the IMF that act as the enforcers of neoliberalism. Theseprograms are levied against the countries of the South which canbe extorted due to their debts. Meanwhile, numerous military interventionsand wars help to take possession of the assets that still remain,secure resources, install neoliberalism as the global economicpolitics, crush resistance movements, and facilitate the lucrativebusiness of reconstruction."Claudia von Werlhof"Beginning in the late1970s, the World Bank and IMF mandated a shift away from industrializationtoward economies based solely on the export of raw materials andagricultural products. Loans were now to be used as leverage toimpose what were called Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs),that mandated slashing social spending, eliminating price subsidiesand trade tariffs, and privatizing government-owned industriesand services-all in order to pay down foreign debt."Lena Weinstein"After the brutal Nigerianpresident Sani Abacha died in 1998, it was revealed that he hadskimmed off billions of dollars of oil money. Two countries inparticular soaked up his embezzled wealth - Britain and Switzerland."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The neoliberal globalsystem never was open in practice. America never imposed on itselfthe kind of shock therapy that President Clinton's Treasury SecretaryRobert Rubin promoted in Russia and the rest of the former Sovietbloc, from the Baltic countries in the northwest to Central Asiain the southeast. Just the opposite! Despite the fact that America'sown balance of trade and payments is soaring, consumer pricesare rising and financial and property markets are plunging, thereare no calls among its power elite to let the system self-correct.The Treasury is subsidizing America's financial markets so asto save its financial class and support its asset prices. Interestrates are being lowered to re-inflate asset prices, not raisedto stabilize the dollar or slow domestic price inflation."Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers"The entire thirty-yearhistory of he Chicago School experiment has been one of mass corruptionand corporatist collusion between security states and large corporations,from Chile's piranhas, to Argentina's crony privatizations, toRussia's oligarchs, to Enron's energy shell game, to Iraq's "freefraud zone." The point of shock therapy is to open up a windowfor enormous profits to be made very quickly-not despite the lawlessnessbut precisely because of it."Naomi Klein in her book "TheShock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism""The Latin American debtcrisis ... erupted as a direct result of [US Federal Reserve ChairmanPaul] Volcker's interest rate shock therapy. In August 1982 Mexicoannounced it could no longer pay the interest on its staggeringdollar debt. Mexico, along with most of the Third World from Argentinato Brazil, from Nigeria to Congo, from Poland to Yugoslavia, hadfallen for the New York banks' debt trap."F. William Engdahl in his book"Gods of Money""Along with former FederalReserve chairman Paul Volcker; Citibank vice-chairman H. AnnoRuding, who was formerly with the IMF; and Harvard Professor JeffreySachs, George Soros had a big hand in creating the Polish modelof "shock therapy." [Sachs drew Soros's attention throughhis work in implementing IMF-style "shock therapy" inBolivia.]"Executive Intelligence Review SpecialReport, April 1997"The Communist state wassimply replaced with a corporatist one: the beneficiaries of theboom were confined to a small club of Russians, many of them formerCommunist Party apparatchiks, and a handful of Western mutualfund managers who made dizzying returns investing in newly privatizedRussian companies. A clique of nouveaux billionaires, many ofwhom were to become part of the group universally known as "theoligarchs" for their imperial levels of wealth and power,teamed up with Yeltsin's Chicago Boys and stripped the countryof nearly everything of value, moving the enormous profits offshoreat a rate of $2 billion a month. Before shock therapy, Russia!had no millionaires; by 2003, the number of Russian billionaireshad risen to seventeen, according to the Forbes list.... By 1998, more than 80 percent of Russian farms had gone bankrupt,and roughly seventy thousand state factories had closed, creatingan epidemic of unemployment. In 1989, before shock therapy, 2million people in the Russian Federation were living in poverty,on less than $4 a day. By the time the shock therapists had administeredtheir "bitter medicine" in the mid-nineties, 74 millionRussians were living below the poverty line, according to theWorld Bank. That means that Russia's "economic reforms"can claim credit for the impoverishment of 72 million people inonly eight years. By 1996, 25 percent of Russians - almost 37million people-lived in poverty described as "desperate."Russia's population is ... in dramatic decline-the country islosing roughly 700,000 people a year. Between 1992, the firstfull year of shock therapy, and 2006, Russia's population shrankby 6.6 million."Naomi Klein in her book "TheShock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism""The aim of Washington'sIMF "market reforms" in the former Soviet Union wasbrutally simple: destroy the economic ties that bound Moscow toeach part of the Soviet Union .... IMF shock therapy was intendedto create weak, unstable economies on the periphery of Russia,dependent on Western capital and on dollar inflows for their survival-- a form of neocolonialism .... The Russians were to get thestandard Third World treatment... IMF conditionalities and a plungeinto poverty for the population. A tiny elite were allowed tobecome fabulously rich in dollar terms, and manipulable by WallStreet bankers and investors."William Engdahl in his book"A Century of War""Economic hit men (EHMs)are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globeout of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the WorldBank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), andother foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers ofhuge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families whocontrol the planet's natural resources. Their tools include fraudulentfinancial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex,and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that hastaken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization."John Perkins in his book "Confessionsof Economic Hit Man""The country has been intentionallyplundered and will eventually wind up in the hands of its creditors...After a nation is successfully driven to destitution, public policydecisions are made by creditors and not by representatives ofthe people .... The catastrophe that middle class Americans faceis what these elites breezily refer to as "shock therapy";a sudden jolt, followed by fundamental changes to the system.In the near future we can expect tax reform, fiscal discipline,deregulation, free capital flows, lowered tariffs, reduced publicservices, and privatization."Mike Whitney"For over 40 years, Washingtonhad quietly supported Yugoslavia, and the Tito model of mixedsocialism, as a buffer against the Soviet Union. As Moscow's empirebegan to fall apart, Washington had no more use for a buffer -especially a nationalist buffer which was economically successful,one that might convince neighboring states in eastern Europe thata middle way, other than IMF shock therapy, was possible. TheYugoslav model had to be dismantled, for this reason alone, inthe eyes of top Washington strategists. The fact that Yugoslaviaalso lay on a critical path to the potential oil riches of centralAsia merely added to the argument."William Engdahl in his book"A Century of War""The World Bank and theInternational Monetary Fund began to tie loans to "structuraladjustment" programs, which channeled more of the debtorcountry's financial and productive resources toward debt repayment.... Structural adjustments were originally imposed on an ad hocbasis upon individual nations when it appeared that they couldnot keep up with existing debt payments. By 1985, fifteen debtornations had been subjected to SAPs, and by 1991, a quarter ofthe World Bank's total lending was tied to structural adjustmentin 54 nations. As more of the "debtor" nations' dwindlingresources went to debt service, new loans were simply used torepay previous loans, and the total debt of the low income nationsmore than quadrupled from $100 to $473 billion between 1980 and1992. World Bank and IMF "reforms" continued, and bythe mid-1990s, more than a hundred countries and 80 percent ofthe world's population had been "structurally adjusted."The average developing nation's debt payments were a third ofits gross national product.... When no more money or exports can be squeezed from the poor,selling state-owned companies to Northern corporations becomesan option... Once again, a handful of multinational corporationsare the beneficiaries.Structural adjustment proved to be such a useful tool for leveragingcorporate power that it was time to make it a permanent part ofthe global economy, and that is just what the international tradetreaties of the 1990s have done - codified the elements of structuraladjustment into international law."George Draffan in his book "TheElite Consensus""The IMF and World Bankare the chief pushers of the whole scheme of structural adjustmentsthat are designed to further open up the Third World economiesfor penetration and plunder by private monopoly corporations.We call for the abrogation of all loan agreements that providefor structural adjustment, public assumption of private debtsand the further exposure of the Third World economies to plunderby private multinational giants."Cebu Declaration, Philippine-AsiaJubilee Campaign Against the Debt, May 18, 1999, Cebu City, Philippines"The debt is used as ajustification to maintain neoliberal policies, including whatare known as structural adjustment programs, as institutionalmechanisms to perpetuate a state of dependence. Bail-out programsby creditors, with the support of the International Monetary Fundand the World Bank have only served to ensure the continuity formechanisms to keep countries deep in debt."Tegucigalpa Declaration, LatinAmerican and Caribbean Jubilee 2000 Platform, Tegucigalpa, Honduras,January 27, 1999"By the 1980s, U.S. policymakerswere rejecting the view that a more prosperous, economically independentThird World would serve the interests of U.S. capitalism. Andonce there no longer was a competing socialist world to whichThird World leaders might threaten to turn, the United Statesfelt freer than ever to undo any kind of autonomous developmentin Asia, Africa, and Latin America. One rollback weapon is thedebt. In order to meet payments and receive new credits from theUS-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF),Third World governments have had to agree to merciless "structuraladjustment programs," including reductions in social programs,cuts in wages, the elimination of import controls, the removalof restrictions on foreign investments, the privatization of stateenterprises, and the elimination of domestic food production infavor of high profit export crops."Michael Parenti"Structural adjustmentimposed by the World Bank and IMF have brought disaster to theworking poor of as many as 100 countries, forced to open theirmarkets to a flood of cheap imports while the rich refuse to abandontheir subsidies, quotas and high tariffs. The result is brutalsuppression of wages and living standards and elimination of socialprograms."Noam Chomsky in his book "Year501""The IMF imposes strictconditions on debtor nations that force them to concentrate onproducing cheap exports in order to increase foreign reservesneeded to pay interest on their debt. These structural adjustmentprograms include currency devaluation, reduced wages, cutbacksto social programs, and reliance on the market system. All ofthese programs benefit creditor nations such as the United Statesat the expense of the debtor nations."David Model in his book "Lyingfor Empire""By 1998, more than 80percent of Russian farms had gone bankrupt, and roughly seventythousand state factories had closed, creating an epidemic of unemployment.In 1989, before shock therapy, 2 million people in the RussianFederation were living in poverty, on less than $4 a day. By thetime the shock therapists had administered their "bittermedicine" in the mid-nineties, 74 million Russians were livingbelow the poverty line, according to the World Bank. That meansthat Russia's "economic reforms" can claim credit forthe impoverishment of 72 million people in only eight years. By1996, 25 percent of Russians - almost 37 million people-livedin poverty described as "desperate.""Naomi Klein in her book "TheShock Doctrine""The real axis of evil iscomposed of the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, andthe International Monetary Fund."George Katsiaficas in the book"Masters of War""The IMF, the World Bankand the WTO (World Trade Organisation) are largely controlledby the rich countries so these institutions devise and implementpolicies that those countries want."Ha-Joon Chang in his book "BadSamaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism""The World Bank, IMF,and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terrorregimes, following their displacement of democratic governments,and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positiverelationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countriesand their violations of human rights."Edward S. Herman"The IMF and World Bankare the chief pushers of the whole scheme of structural adjustmentsthat are designed to further open up the Third World economiesfor penetration and plunder by private monopoly corporations.We call for the abrogation of all loan agreements that providefor structural adjustment, public assumption of private debtsand the further exposure of the Third World economies to plunderby private multinational giants."Cebu Declaration - Philippine-AsiaJubilee Campaign Against the Debt, 1999"When the IMF and theWorld Bank force a country to cut wages, lay off workers, producefor export instead of their own people, and sell off public propertyto cronies for less than its vallue, that's called "economicreform."Robert Naiman, 1999"Mexico was the starpupil. It did everything right, and religiously followed the WorldBank and IMF's prescriptions. It was called another great economicmiracle, and it probably was - for the rich. But for most of theMexican people, it's been a complete disaster."Noam Chomsky in his book "TheCommon Good""The World Bank and theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), which represents most of themajor banks in the Western world, produced a proposal [1980s]that basically demanded that developing countries sacrifice governmentspending on health, education, and welfare in order to servicethe debt and that they increase the export of commodity or luxurygoods to earn more money."Helen Caldicott in her book "If You Love this Planet""We turned the WorldBank, the IMF, and other "multinational" institutionsinto colonizing tools. We negotiated lucrative deals for U.S.corporations, established "free" trade agreements thatblatantly served our exporters at the expense of those in theThird World, and burdened other countries with unmanageable debts.In effect, we created surrogate governments that appeared to representtheir people but in reality were our servants."John Perkins in his book "TheSecret History of the American Empire""The World Bank, theIMF, and the WTO consider the ideal country to be one in whichall assets and resources are owned by foreign corporations producingfor export to generate foreign exchange to repay internationaldebts. Their favored country has no public services. Power, water,education, health care, social security, and financial servicesare all owned and operated by foreign corporations for profiton a fee for service basis. Food and other goods for domesticconsumption are all imported from abroad and paid for with moneyborrowed from foreign banks."David Korten"Never before in historyhave the poor financed the rich on such a scale and paid so dearlyfor their servitude. During the 1980s, the Third World sent tothe West $220 billion more than was sent to them in any form.At the current rates of interest, it is a mathematical impossibilityfor most countries to pay off their debt. Many had to agree to'structural adjustment' by the World Bank and the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF). This has often meant the end of uncertainprotection for the old, young and sick and 'wage restraint' incountries where the difference between wage and peonage is slight."John Pilger in his book "DistantVoices""The World Trade Organization,the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other financialinstitutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentarylegislation. With a deadly combination of arrogance and ruthlessness,they take their sledgehammers to fragile, interdependent, historicallycomplex societies and devastate them, all under the flutteringbanner of 'reform'."Arundhati Roy"Capitalism has beenshaped by the Washington Consensus, which was formed around theneoliberal policies that had been imposed on developing countriesby Milton Friedman's Chicago Boys, and on Eastern Europe by JeffreySachs. The Shock Doctrine involves cutting back or eliminatingsocial programs, privatization, tax cuts and incentives for thewealthy, and increasing prices on strategic goods - gasoline,fuel oil which affect the poor more than any other segment ofsociety."William F. Pepper in his book"An Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King"David RockefellerROCKEFELLERSIMMENSELY WEALTHY AND POWERFUL- MADE IN AMERICA"The way to make moneyis to buy when blood is running in the streets."John D. Rockefeller, Founder, StandardOil"We are grateful to theWashington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine, and othergreat publications whose directors have attended our meetingsand respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years.It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for theworld if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity duringthose years. But the world is now more sophisticated and preparedto march towards a world government. The supra-national sovereigntyof an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferableto the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."David Rockefeller - Council onForeign Relations, June 1991"Some believe we arepart of a secret cabal working against the best interests of theUnited States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists"and of conspiring with others around the world to build a moreintegrated global political and economic structure - one world,if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proudof it."David Rockefeller in his "Memoirs""The combined wealthof the Rockefeller family in 1998 was approximately (US) $11 trillion."Gaylon Ross Sr. author of thebook "Who's Who of the Global Elite""Before World War I,the financial and business structure of the United States wasdominated by two conglomerates: Standard Oil or the Rockefellerenterprise, and the Morgan complex of industries, finance andtransportation companies. Rockefeller and Morgan trust alliancesdominated not only Wall Street but, through interlocking directorships,almost the entire economic fabric of the United States."Antony C. Sutton in his book"Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution", 1974"In 2000, J.P. Morganmerged with Chase Manhattan, leading to the integration of J.P.Morgan, Chase, Chemical and Manufacturers Hanover into a singlefinancial entity. Bear Stearns was acquired in 2008 by J.P. MorganChase following its collapse. This banking empire controlled bythe Rockefeller family has assets of more than 1.6 trillion dollars."Michel Chossudovsky"In the 1960's economistPeter Dooley identified fifteen major financial groups in theUS. The Rockefeller/Morgan group dwarfed the other fourteen. Itcontrolled five of six of the mega-banks [Bank of America wascontrolled by the Rothschilds]"Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""For the first time inits history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyedinternally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centeredaround the Rockefeller interests, which include elements fromthe Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, andother groupings as well. This junta took control of the political,financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decadesof the twentieth century."Carroll Quigley"The Rockefeller Foundation,working with John D. Rockefeller Ill's Population Council, theWorld Bank, the UN Development Program and the Ford Foundation,and others had been working with the WHO [World Health Organization]for 20 years to develop an anti-fertility vaccine using tetanusas well as with other vaccines."F. William Engdahl"In the early 1900's, theRockefeller and Carnegie families paid two men to create a deviousscheme that would forever change the construct of medical schools.The Flexner report, written by Pritchett, concluded that onlymedical schools that committed to using synthetic based medicinesand avoided plant based treatments (homeopathic and naturopathicprotocols) should be offered large grants that were created byRockefeller and Carnegie. From that point forward, only medicalschools philosophically aligned with petrochemical companies wouldbecome successful in graduating medical physicians. Presently,the same petrochemical companies have great influence and controlover most components associated with modern medicine. The Rockefellerfamily and its far-reaching tentacles, that can be traced directlyto the petrochemical and banking industries, have a great dealof influence regarding curricula as well as other important elementsembedded within the modern medical institutions of higher learning."Dr. John Reizer"The entire Rockefellerempire was financed by the Rothschilds."Eustice Mullins in his book "WorldOrder""The Rockefellers andRothschilds have been partners ever since the 1880s."David Allen Rivera in his book"Final Warning: A History of the New World Order, 2010"David Rockefeller isthe most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class,a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economyand manage the flow of its capital ... Private citizen David Rockefelleris accorded privileges of a head of state ... He is untouchedby customs or passport offices and hardly pauses for traffic lights."journalist Bill Moyers in a TVdocumentary "The Secret Government", 1980"John D. Rockefellerwas a Machiavellian who boasted that he hated competition. Wheneverhe could, Rockefeller used the government to promote his own interestsand to hinder his competitors. Monopoly capitalism is impossibleunless you have a government with the power to strangle would-becompetitors.The easiest way to control or eliminate competitors is not tobest them in the marketplace, but to use the power of governmentto exclude them from the marketplace. If you wish to control commerce,banking, transportation, and natural resources on a national level,you must control! the federal government. If you and your cliquewish to establish worldwide monopolies, you must control WorldGovernment."Gary Allen in his book "TheRockefeller File""Eugenics was the racistpseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed'unfit,' preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype.... Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had itnot been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies,specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundationand the Harriman railroad fortune... The Rockefeller Foundationhelped found the German eugenics program and even funded the programthat Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz."Edwin Black, 2003Nathan RothschildROTHSCHILDSEUROPEAN BANKING FAMILY THATOWNS THE WORLD"The House of Rothschild'sheadquarters were in Frankfurt, Germany. Through its loans tothe numerous small nations of continental Europe at extremelyhigh interest rates, it had built up what was widely consideredthe world's greatest fortune.Apparently foreseeing the trend of events, one of the sons ofthe founder was sent to England to open up a branch the year beforeNapoleon was elected one of the three consuls of France in 1799.The financing of the war in France and the transmission of thefunds to the troops on the continent was soon in the hands ofthis firm.When the conflict with France ended, the House of Rothschild wasin control of British finance and was the official banker of theBritish Government. This financial octopus was acknowledged tobe in some respects the greatest power on earth and was designatedby some writers as the "Sixth Great Power of Europe"."Edwin Charles Knuth in his bookThe Empire of the City, 1944"The Rothschilds controlthe Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, the European CentralBank, the IMF, the World Bank and the Bank of International Settlements.Also they own most of the gold in the world as well as the LondonGold Exchange, which sets the price of gold every day. It is saidthe family owns over half the wealth of the planet-estimated byCredit Suisse to be $231 trillion."Pete Papaherakles, americanfrepress.net"With the end of the Napoleonicwars and the rise of the House of Rothschild as the 'invisiblerulers' of Europe, there had to be two groupings of powers ofalmost equal strength, which represented the 'balance of power'.The reason for this was simple: the House of Rothschild had tomake sure that all the King A's could be threatened by all theKing B's. Naturally, they were all financed and largely controlledby the Rothschilds.... To ensure that the system worked as planned, there had tobe an outside power that would act as an 'insurance policy' inthe event that someone stepped out of line and appeared likelyto upset the scheme.This 'insurance policy' was Nathan Rothschild's England, whichnow reigned supreme in the Eastern Hemisphere. One could alwaysdetermine which way a war was going to go by watching which sideEngland favored... The power and wealth of the now 'invisible'House of Rothschild grew to such proportions that by 1900 it wasestimated that they controlled half the wealth of the world."Des Griffin in his book "DescentInto Slavery?""Panics and financial depressionswould ultimately result in World Government, a new order of oneworld government."Amschel Mayer Rothschild, 1774"The Rothschilds accumulatedits vast wealth issuing war bonds to Black Nobility for centuries,including the British Windsors, the French Bourbons, the Germanvon Thurn und Taxis, the Italian Savoys and the Austrian and SpanishHapsburgs."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""In a carefully developedplan to attain financial control of all Europe, Maier Amschelestablished his five sons in the leading five financial centersof Europe: Nathan in London, Solomon in Vienna, Jacob in Paris,Karl in Naples, while the eldest (Anselm Maier) remained in theGerman headquarters. Nathan had arrived in England at a very auspiciousmoment in 1798, and he soon formed the depository for the vastfortune on the continent and its refuge from taxation. The bloodystruggle between France and England for world supremacy in whatwas actually modern World War I, reduced all Europe into a vastsink of despair and bankruptcy, yet elevated the House of Rothschildto financial and political domination of all Europe and much ofthe rest of the world."Edwin Charles Knuth in his bookThe Empire of the City, 1944"For over 150 years ithas been standard operating procedure of the Rothschilds and theirallies to control both sides of every conflict. You must havean "enemy" if you are going to collect from the King."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""The Rothschild Formulais to 'propel governments into war for the profits they yield'."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""The Rothschild familyis considered to be the wealthiest family in the world, with estimatesof their wealth in the trillions of dollars."Charlie Robinson, in his book "TheOctopus of Global Control", 2017"Rothschild-controlledBarings Bank bankrolled the Chinese opium and African slave trades.It financed the Louisiana Purchase. The House of Rothschild financedthe Prussian War, the Crimean War and the British attempt to seizethe Suez Canal from the French. Nathan Rothschild made a hugefinancial bet on Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, while alsofunding the Duke of Wellington's peninsular campaign against Napoleon.Both the Mexican War and the Civil War were gold mines for thefamily."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf""The Annual Encyclopediaof 1868 records that Jacob Rothschild had been established inParis in 1812 with a capital of $ 200,000 by Maier Amschel, andthat at the time of his death in 1868, (56 years later) his fortunewas estimated at over $300,000,000, and his yearly income at about$ 40,000,000. In comparison it may be significant to note thatthere was at this time no fortune in all America that equaledonly one year's income of Jacob (Baron James de Rothschild). Thefortune of the Rothschild family in 1913 was estimated at overtwo billion dollars."Edwin Charles Knuth in his bookThe Empire of the City, 1944"The House of Rothschildmade its money in the great crashes of history and the great warsof history, the very periods when others lost their money."E. C. Knuth in his book "TheEmpire of the "City": The Secret History of BritishFinancial Power"Wars should be directedso that the nations on both sides should be further in our debt."Amschel Mayer Rothschild, 1774"Over the centuries, theRothschilds have amassed trillions of dollars worth of gold bullionin their subterranean vaults and have cornered the world's goldsupply. They own controlling interest in the world's largest oilcompany, Royal Dutch Shell. They operate phony charities and offshorebanking services where the wealth of the black nobility and theVatican is hidden in secret accounts at Rothschild Swiss banks,trusts and holding companies"www.helpfreetheearth.com/articles_2.html"By the middle of the 19thcentury, the Rothschilds were the richest family in the world,perhaps in all of history. Their five international banking housescomprised one of the first multinational corporations."Patricia Goldstone in her book"Aaronsohn's Maps""The Bank of England isin effect a sovereign world power, for this privately owned institutionis not subject to regulation or control in the slightest degreeby the British Parliament. This privately owned and controlledinstitution functions as the great balance wheel of the creditof the world, able to expand or contract credit at will; and issubject only to the orders of the City, the City dominated bythe fortune of the House of Rothschild and the policies of theHouse of Rothschild."Edwin Charles Knuth in his bookThe Empire of the City, 1944"Today the Rothschild'scontrol a far-flung financial empire, which includes majoritystakes in most world central banks. The Edmond de Rothschild clanowns the Banque Privee SA in Lugano, Switzerland and the RothschildBank AG of Zurich. The family of Jacob Lord Rothschild owns thepowerful Rothschild Italia in Milan. They are founding membersof the exclusive $10 trillion Club of the Isles - which controlscorporate giants Royal Dutch Shell, Imperial Chemical Industries,Lloyds of London, Unilever, Barclays, Lonrho, Rio Tinto Zinc,BHP Billiton and Anglo American DeBeers. It dominates the worldsupply of petroleum, gold, diamonds, and many other vital rawmaterials."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""Since the Rothschild dynastyattained control of British finance (early 1800s), every majorwar has been fought to utter collapse of British opponents andunconditional surrender, and has left international finance omnipotentand unrestrained in organizing a new power-block to enforce thepeace and to exploit the victory."Edwin Charles Knuth in his bookThe Empire of the City, 1944"Near the end of the 19thcentury, the Rothschild bank, was the biggest concentration offinancial capital in the world."Andrew Gavin Marshall, GlobalResearch"Rothschilds own Reutersand Associated Press ...They have controlling interest in ABC,CBS & NBC ...Rothschild's Swiss banks hold the wealth of theVatican and the European black nobility."David Icke"The Rothschild's controla far-flung financial empire, which includes majority stakes inmost world central banks. The Edmond de Rothschild clan owns theBanque Privee SA in Lugano, Switzerland and the Rothschild BankAG of Zurich. The family of Jacob Lord Rothschild owns the powerfulRothschild Italia in Milan. They are members of the exclusiveClub of the Isles, which provides capital for George Soros' QuantumFund NV, which made a killing in 1998-1999 destroying the currenciesof Thailand, Indonesia and Russia."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""The House of Rothschildhas controlled both Britain and France. Any French prime minister,at the end of 1935, was a creature of the financial oligarchy.This financial oligarchy was dominated by twelve regents, of whomsix were bankers, who were "hereditary regents" in theabsolute sense of the term, and were headed by Baron Edouard deRothschild."Edwin Charles Knuth in his bookThe Empire of the City, 1944TAX HAVENSOFFSHORE SECRECY JURISDICTIONS:NO TAXES, NO REGULATION, BIG PROFITS"The world contains aboutsixty secrecy jurisdictions, divided roughly into four groups.First are the European havens. Second, comes a British zone centredon the City of London, which spans the world and is loosely shapedaround Britain's former empire. Third is a zone of influence focusedon the United States."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The City of London nowstands as money launderer of the world, the capital of globalcrime. It is the heart and engine of the offshore haven, withJersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man its european collection centres,the caribbean and others hoovering up billions of dollars fromall over the globe... It has a dark and shadowy client list; terrorists,drug barons, arms dealers, politicians, corporations and companies,millionaires, billionaires - most with something to hide."Graham Vanbergen"The U.S. is effectivelythe biggest tax haven in the world."Andrew Penney, managing directorof Rothschild & Co."The most important featureof a secrecy jurisdiction is that local politics is captured byfinancial interests."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The City of London is themoney-laundering centre of the world's drug trade. In addition,due to incredibly lax financial laws by the British government,the London property market is built largely on the laundered moneyof crime from all over the world involving hidden tax havens,most of which are British."Graham Vanbergen"The City of London Isthe centre of the most important part of the global offshore system.The City's offshore network has three main layers. Two inner rings- Britain's Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isleof Man; and its Overseas Territories, such as the Cayman Islands- are substantially controlled by Britain. The outer ring is amore diverse array of havens, like Hong Kong, which are outsideBritain's direct control but nevertheless have strong historicaland current links to the country and the City of London. One authoritativeaccount estimates that this British grouping overall accountsfor well over a third of all international bank assets; add theCity of London and the total is almost a half."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""British Overseas Territoriesand Crown Dependencies make up around 25 per cent of the world'stax havens.Tax havens include Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands,the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islandsto name just a few and each is inextricably linked to the Cityof London's crime offices.The consequence of its operations is that money laundering isnow at such levels and so widespread that the authorities haverecently admitted defeat in its battle of attrition by statingopenly it has been completely overwhelmed and lost control."Graham Vanbergen"A tax haven is a state[country or territory] captured by financial interests from elsewhere."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The process of movingmassive amounts of international capital from typical tax havens,into the U.S., is being driven by a familiar name in the worldof international finance - Rothschild & Co. Rothschild, a centuries-old European financial institution, managesthe wealth of many of the world's most wealthy families and hasbeen instrumental in helping move the global elite's wealth fromtraditional tax havens like the Bahamas, Switzerland and the BritishVirgin Islands to the U.S. ... After opening a trust company in Reno, Nev., Rothschild &Co. began ushering the massive fortunes of the world's most wealthyindividuals out of typical tax havens, now subject to OECD internationaldisclosure requirements, and into the Rothschild run U.S. trusts,which are exempt from the international reporting requirements.The U.S. Treasury Department takes a very strong stand againstinternational tax evasion - unless you put that money into a U.Strust account - which coincidentally is being helmed by Rothschild& Co."Jay Syrmopoulos"More than half of worldtrade passes, at least on paper, through tax havens. Over halfof all banking assets and a third of foreign direct investmentby multinational corporations, are routed offshore. Some 85 percent of international banking and bond issuance takes place inthe so-called Euromarket, a stateless offshore zone. The IMF estimatedin 2010 that the balance sheets of small island financial centresalone added up to $18 trillion - a sum equivalent to about a thirdof the world's GDP. And that, it said, was probably an underestimate.The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in 2008that 83 of the USA's biggest 100 corporations had subsidiariesin tax havens... The Tax Justice Network discovered that ninety-nineof Europe's hundred largest companies used offshore subsidiaries.In each country, the largest user by far was a bank."Nicholas Shaxson in his book"Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and340 other international companies have secured secret deals fromLuxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax billswhile maintaining little presence in the tiny European duchy.These companies appear to have channeled hundreds of billionsof dollars through Luxembourg and saved billions of dollars intaxes.Big companies can book big tax savings by creating complicatedaccounting and legal structures that move profits to low-tax Luxembourgfrom higher-tax countries where they're headquartered or do lotsof business. In some instances, companies have enjoyed effectivetax rates of less than 1 percent on the profits they've shuffledinto Luxembourg."report from the International Consortiumof Investigative Journalists"The most important taxhaven in the world is an island. The name of the island is Manhattan.The second most-important tax haven in the world is located onan island. It is a city called London."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""Rich individuals and theirfamilies have as much as $32 trillion of hidden financial assetsin offshore tax havens."Tax Justice Network, UK [based on a 2012 study of data from the World Bank, the InternationalMonetary Fund and the United Nations]"The emergence of theUS as an offshore jurisdiction in its own right attracted vastfinancial flows into the country boosting bankers' power evenfurther. The old alliance between Wall Street and the City ofLondon, which had collapsed after the Great Depression and theSecond World War, had been resurrected."Nicholas Shaxson in his book"Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The City of London, withits own borders and police force, sits within the Isles of Britainas an international hub, the tax haven of all tax havens. Thebanks use offshore business organisations to escape regulationand the grip these organisations have over an ever weakened andcorrupt political class is utterly astounding. The Conservativeparty is literally bankrolled by bankers and hedge funds. Halfof the wealthiest hedge fund managers in the land pay millionseach year to the Tories. This is neoliberalism out of control."Graham Vanbergen"The British Virgin Islands,with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants, hosts over 800,000 companies."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""More than 170 of the Fortune500 companies have a Luxembourg branch. A total of $95 billionin profits from American corporations' overseas operations flowedthrough Luxembourg in 2012, the most current statistics from theU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show. On those profits, corporationspaid $1.04 billion in taxes to Luxembourg - just 1.1 percent."Stephen E. Shay, professor of internationaltaxation at Harvard Law School, 2014"Fourteen small Britishisland states decided not to seek independence, becoming BritishOverseas Territories, with the Queen as their head of state. Exactlyhalf of them - Anguila, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, theCayman Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicosislands, are secrecy jurisdictions, actively supported and managedfrom Britain and intimately linked with the City of London."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The Bank of England after1945 set about re-establishing the hegemony of international financialcapital. ... From the 1960s, the island semi-colonies and other assortedsatellites of London came into their own as offshore Euromarketbooking centres where the world's wealthiest individuals and corporations,especially banks, could park their money, tax free and in secrecy,and where they could grow faster than their regulated onshorecounterparts.... The umbilical, two-way relation between London and its overseassatellites has remained a defining feature of the entire offshoresystem ever since.Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""Offshore banking as a wholeis under the thumb of the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy. The British pre-eminence makes the world picture of offshore bankingand dirty money more comprehensible. If the world offshore bankingsector appears to run as a single operation under British monarchycontrol, that is because the same group of people who run it alsorun the opium traffic whose proceeds this banking sector was createdto handle."www.bibliotecapleyades.net "Howthe Drug Empire Works""Fourteen British OverseasTerritories are the last surviving outposts of Britain's formalempire. With just a quarter of a million inhabitants between themthey include some of world's top secrecy jurisdictions: the CaymanIslands, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Turks and Caicosislands and Gibraltar."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The offshore world isa set of networks of influence controlled by the world's majorpowers, notably Britain and the United States. Each network isdeeply interconnected with the others."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""With very few exceptions,offshore banking as a whole is under the thumb of the Britisholigarchy."from the book "DOPE, INC."- Executive Intelligence Review, 1992"The City [of London's]biggest role in the global offshore system is in its relationshipwith running Britain's spider's web. In the second quarter of2009 the UK received net financing of US $332.5 billion just fromits three Crown Dependencies Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle ofMan. In 2009 the web as a whole held an estimated US $3.2 trillionin offshore bank deposits, about 55 per cent of the global totalaccording to data from the Bank for International Settlements,and that is just bank deposits. The British offshore web provides the City [of London] with threethings. First, the tax havens scattered across the world capturepassing foreign business and channel it to London just as a spider'sweb catches insects; second, it is a storage mechanism for assets;and third, it is a money-laundering filter that lets the Cityget involved in dirty business while providing it with enoughdistance to maintain plausible deniability."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The Jersey-Delaware [theBritish Island of Jersey and the US State of Delaware] notionof the captured state is: a place that seeks to attract businessby offering politically stable facilities to help people or entitiesget around the rules, laws and regulations of jurisdictions elsewhere."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""Large amounts of money transitthrough the banking system, from the banks to the hedge funds,to offshore banking havens and back to the banks."Michel Chossudovsky"The parallels betweenbribery and the business of secrecy jurisdictions are no coincidence...Bribery rots and corrupts governments, and tax havens rot andcorrupt the global financial system."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""Under U.S. law, banksmust report all cash deposits of $10,000 or more. Traffickershave turned to high cash-turnover businesses - such as hotels,casinos, restaurants, and sports events-to launder their money.Since banks don't have to report deposits made by these businesses,drug profits are simply mixed in with legal cash flows.Cash is also frequently shipped out of the United States. Oftenplanes which fly cocaine into the U.S., fly back loaded with $20,$50, and $100 bills. The bills can then either be deposited directlyin offshore banking centers - where no questions are asked - orin remote bank branches in the drug-producing countries. Thesefunds are then wire-transferred out to the offshore banks, intosecret accounts where there is no government supervision."from the book "DOPE, INC."- Executive Intelligence Review, 1992"Offshore is underminingyour elected government, hollowing out its tax base and corruptingits politicians. It is sustaining a vast criminal economy andcreating a new, unaccountable aristocracy of corporate and financialpower. If we do not act together to contain and control financialsecrecy then ... a world of suave insiders, impunity, internationalcriminal complicity and desperate poverty, will become the worldwe leave to our children. A tiny few will have their boots washedin champagne while the rest of us struggle for our lives in conditionsof steepening inequality."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The global banking cartel,centered at the IMF, World Bank and Federal Reserve, have paidoff politicians and dictators the world over [Including Washington].In country after country, they have looted national economiesat the expense of local populations, consolidating wealth in unprecedentedfashion. The top economic one-tenth of one percent is currentlyholding over $40 trillion in investible wealth, not counting anequally significant amount of wealth hidden in offshore accounts."David DeGraw"Drugs smugglers, terroristsand other criminals use exactly the same offshore mechanisms andsubterfuges - shell banks, trusts, dummy corporations - that corporationsuse."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World.""Offshore banking [1960s]marked a sea change in New York banking practice that would explodein importance during the next three decades and beyond. ChaseManhattan, Citibank and other major US money center banks wereto launder hundreds of billions of dollars of illicit hot money,no questions asked, whether the funds originated from US-friendlydictators like the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos, Iran's ShahReza Pahlavi, Mexico's Rañl Salinas de Gortari, or Juárezdrug cartel money being transferred to Uruguay and Argentina,or from countless other controversial and politically sensitivetransactions."F. William Engdahl in his book"Gods of Money""Corporations hold theirprofits offshore, indefinitely, and only when they bring it backhome to pay out as dividends to shareholders does it get taxed[deferred tax]. This sharply reduces multinationals' cost of capitaland this in turn gives them a huge competitive advantage againstsmaller, locally based firms."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The second smallest statein the USA, Delaware is the home to many of the world's corporations.Over half of US publicly traded companies and nearly two-thirdsof the Fortune 500 are incorporated here."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""Monopoly capitalists arethe bitter enemies of laissez-faire entrepreneurs; and, giventhe weaknesses of socialist central planning, the totalitariansocialist state is a perfect captive market for monopoly capitalists,if an alliance can be made with the socialist powerbrokers."Antony C. Sutton in his book"Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution""What we have in [the Britishisland of] Jersey and [the US state of] Delaware is rampant uncontrolledderegulation, harnessed to the interests of a few insiders andlarge corporate players. Just as European nobles used to consolidatetheir unaccountable powers in castles, to better subjugate andextract tribute from the surrounding peasantry; so financial capitalhas coalesced in these fortified nodes of unaccountable politicaland economic power, capturing local politics and turning thesejurisdictions into fast and flexible private law-making machines,defended against outside interference and protected by establishmentconsensus and the suppression of dissent."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World""The most common jurisdictionsfor US securitisations are the Cayman Islands and the state ofDelaware. ... The most common jurisdictions for European securitisationsare Ireland, Luxembourg, Jersey, and the UK. Every last one isa major secrecy jurisdiction that uses a simple business model:ask the financial institutions exactly what they need, then shapethe laws accordingly and without democratic debate."Nicholas Shaxson in his book "TreasureIslands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World"UNITED NATIONSFUTURE CONTROL CENTER OF ANEW WORLD ORDER"The next step is the GreatMerger of all nations of the world into a dictatorial world government.This was the main reason behind the push to bring Red China intothe United Nations. If you want to control the natural resources,transportation, commerce and banking for the whole world, youmust put everybody under the same roof."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""What the Bilderberg groupintends is a global army at the disposal of the United Nations,which is to become the world government to which all nations willbe subservient.... A UN army must be able to act immediately, anywhere in theworld, without the delay involved in each country making its owndecision whether to participate, based on parochial considerations?"Henry Kissinger at a Bilderbergmeeting, Spotlight Reprint, August 1991"The five veto powers andpermanent members of the Security Council ... together manufactureand sell some 85% of military arms, including nuclear weapons,and so-called weapons of mass destruction. This is the UN of thearms dealers - the most disreputable and yet profitable businesson earth.And tragically and quite bizarrely these arms dealers are thesame Member States that the UN Charter entrusts with maintainingPeace and Security around the world ... nuclear powers and weaponssalesmen being responsible for peaceful co-existence! It's madness!"Denis Halliday, Global ResearchPublic Lecture, Montreal, Canada, December 1, 2009"The United Nations isa dictatorship from which nothing good comes, because they finda million ways to prevent anything from happening.... Within the Security Council, there are five countries thathave veto power. But without a doubt, the most influential countryin the United Nations is the United States. And it's really amazingthe most warmongering country in the history of mankind is putthere in charge to make sure that there is peace. ... The United Nations Charter tells you how you can proceed toreform it. They say you have to call a general conference andhow you have to call it and the approval that you have to havefrom the Security Council. But at the end, when all is said anddone, when you have decided what reforms you want to make, theyhave a veto power over it. So it's a farce. It's a fraud.... The United Nations is beyond reform. It's beyond patchwork.It's the most important organization in the world to help savethe human species and Mother Earth, but it has to be reinvented."former UN General Assembly PresidentMiguel d'Escoto"That the policy of genocidein Iraq was initiated and legitimized through the United Nationsis an instructive indication of the extent to which the UN hasbecome a tool of Western, and particularly Anglo-American power."Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed in his book"Behind the War on Terror""The World Trade Organizationis the third pillar of the New World Order, along with the UnitedNations and the International Monetary Fund."New York Times"The UN Security Councilis now regarded as a captive [by most of the UN membership], wherethe North secures decisions by economic intimidation, abuses thepeaceful-redress procedures inscribed in the charter and authorizesa kind of vigilantism against countries of the North's own choosing."Erskine Childers, former adviserto the UN Secretary General"The UN's Agenda 21 proposesa global regime that will monitor, oversee, and strictly regulateour planet's oceans, lakes, streams, rivers, aquifers, sea beds,coastlands, wetlands, forests, jungles, grasslands, farmland,deserts, tundra, and mountains. It even has a whole section onregulating and "protecting" the atmosphere. It proposesplans for cities, towns, suburbs, villages, and rural areas. Itenvisions a global scheme for healthcare, education, nutrition,agriculture, labor, production, and consumption - in short, everything;there is nothing on, in, over, or under the Earth that doesn'tfall within the purview of some part of Agenda 21."William Jasper in a report entitled"Your Hometown & the United Nations' Agenda 21",February 10, 2012"Not only does MONUC [UnitedNations Observers Mission for Congo] make it possible for westernmining companies to loot Congo, but MONUC contingents have alsoparticipated in illegal minerals plunder from DRC [DemocraticRepublic of Congo]."Keith Harmon Snow, 2009"The creation of an internationalbody for the Sustainability of Human Life on the Earth. This bodymust have the independence and power to facilitate agreement betweenall societal actors to support the protection of the Biosphereas the Common Interest of Humanity."Earth Charter Principle 14 - GlobalSovereignty"Sustainable developmentwas a core philosophy behind the Programme of Action called "Agenda21" at the 1992 United Nations Conference on the Environmentand Development (UNCED).... Sustainable development has continued to evolve as the protectionof the world's resources, while its true agenda is to controlthe world's resources. ... Agenda 21 sets up the global infrastructure needed to manage,count, and control all of the world's assets. Included are theforests, fresh water, agricultural lands, deserts, pastures, rangelands,farmers' fields, oceans and inland waterways, marine environment,marine life, cities, housing, sewer and solid wastes, methodsof production, air, pollution, biotechnology-every aspect of living-farming,production and manufacturing, research and medicine, etc., alongwith you and me. Today everything is sustainable: sustainablewater, sustainable forests, sustainable markets, sustainable agriculture,etc. ... Thousands of environmental NGO's support and are helping toimplement Agenda 21 worldwide. Two very powerful NGO's that werepart of the birthing of sustainable development are the InternationalUnion for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)."Joan Veon, 2004"Mankind's problems canno longer be solved by national governments. What is needed isa World Government. This can best be achieved by strengtheningthe United Nations system. In some cases, this would mean changingthe role of UN agencies from advice-giving to implementation.But some of the most important new institutions would be financial-aWorld Treasury and a World Central Bank. Just as each nation hasa system of income redistribution, so there should be a corresponding'World Financial Policy' to be implemented by the World Bank andthe World Central Bank."1994 United Nations DevelopmentReport entitled "Global Governance for the 21st Century",presented by Jan Tinbergen, the 1969 Nobel Prize for Economics"A reasonable estimatefor an industrialized world society at the present North Americanmaterial standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugalEuropean standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."United Nations, Global BiodiversityAssessment"The present vast overpopulation,now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answeredby future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception, sterilizationand abortion, but must be met in the present by the reductionof numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever meansnecessary."Initiative for the United NationsECO-92 Earth CharterVatican Coat-of-ArmsVATICANENORMOUSLY WEALTHY MONEY-LAUNDERINGHOUSE OF FAITH"The Vatican has largeinvestments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America,with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich.In the United States it has large investments with the MorganBank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of NewYork, the Bankers Trust Company, and others. The Vatican has billionsof shares in the most powerful international corporations suchas Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric,International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc. At a conservativeestimate, these amount to more than 500 million dollars in theU.S.A. alone.... In a statement published in connection with a bond prospectus,the Boston archdiocese listed its assets at Six Hundred and Thirty-fiveMillion ($635,891,004), which is 9.9 times its liabilities. Thisleaves a net worth of Five Hundred and Seventy-one million dollars($571,704,953). It is not difficult to discover the truly astonishingwealth of the church, once we add the riches of the twenty-eightarchdioceses and 122 dioceses of the U.S.A., some of which areeven wealthier than that of Boston.... Some idea of the real estate and other forms of wealth controlledby the Catholic church may be gathered by the remark of a memberof the New York Catholic Conference, namely 'that his church probablyranks second only to the United States Government in total annualpurchase.' Another statement, made by a nationally syndicatedCatholic priest, perhaps is even more telling. 'The Catholic church,'he said, 'must be the biggest corporation in the United States.We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets andreal estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T.,and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying membersmust be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.... The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together,is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican,independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientatedtowards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican'sfinancial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very oftenit sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars atone time.... The Vatican's treasure of solid gold has been estimated bythe United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billiondollars. A large bulk of this is stored in gold ingots with theU.S. Federal Reserve Bank, while banks in England and Switzerlandhold the rest. But this is just a small portion of the wealthof the Vatican, which in the U.S. alone, is greater than thatof the five wealthiest giant corporations of the country. Whento that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and sharesabroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of theCatholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rationalassessment.... The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealthaccumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greaterpossessor of material riches than any other single institution,corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the wholeglobe. The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassmentof wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentiethcentury. No one can realistically assess how much he is worthin terms of billions of dollars....The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful internationalcorporations... The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschildsof Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with theCredit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it haslarge investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank,the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company,and others."Avro Manhattan in his book "TheVatican Billions", 1983"The Vatican's secretiveOpus Dei, often referred to as the "saintly Mafia" wasbehind the ascent of Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to Pope JohnPaul II. The new Pope launched an Opus Dei/Vatican offensive toroll back Latin American liberation theology movements."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""In the U.S. Catholic Church, there are 195 dioceses and the national headquarters of boththe bishops and their "charities." The bishops control40,000 organizations, agencies and foundations each with a 501(c)(3)tax code. They pay no taxes, provide a tax deduction to theirdonors, and are under no obligation to produce financial statementswhich show where their money comes from or where it goes.While Americans fret over the Koch brothers (no. 41 on Forbe'slist), Citizens United and "dark money" SuperPACs, theCatholic Church can move unlimited funds - foreign and domestic- to think-tanks, media, voter suppression efforts, every meansthe plutocracy has found to subvert our democracy."Betty Clermont in an article "EuropeanPlutocrats Covered Up Vatican Money Laundering""In the months before the1948 Italian national election, the CIA dumped $65 million ofits black money into the Vatican Bank. Much of the cash was handdelivered in large suitcases by members of Lucky Luciano's syndicate.... Heroin, which remained the source for the black money, wassupplied to the Sicilian mob by Schiaparelli, the Italian pharmaceuticalgiant. The drugs were received by a chain of businesses that hadbeen set up in Palermo, Sicily by Lucky Luciano.... In Cuba, Santo Trafficante cut the heroin with sugar beforedelivering it to distributors in New Orleans, Miami, and New York.The CIA established protected drug routes into these ports bydeveloping close ties to the Mafia-tainted International Longshoremen'sAssociation. The movement of the product throughout the countrywas facilitated by Jimmy Hoffa and other leaders of the InternationalBrotherhood of Teamsters working with Mafia-owned trucking companies.... The CIA's black money for Mafia muscle was paid out by theVatican bank from ecclesiastical organizations, including CatholicAction. In this way, the Holy See forged an alliance with theSicilian Mafia, an alliance that would strengthen throughout thenext three decades. The force of the Mafia was now unleashed uponthe Italian electorate.... Throughout 1948, in Sicily alone, the CIA-backed terror attacksresulted in the killing of on average five people a week. "Paul L. William in his book "OperationGladio", 2015"The Institute for Worksof Religion (IOR), commonly referred to as the Vatican Bank, isa privately held financial institution located inside VaticanCity. Founded in 1942, the IOR's role is to safeguard and administerproperty intended for works of religion or charity. The bank acceptsdeposits only from top Church officials and entities, accordingto Italian legal scholar Settimio Caridi. It is run by a presidentbut overseen by five cardinals who report directly to the Vaticanand the Vatican's secretary of state. Because so little is knownabout the bank's daily operations and transactions, it has oftenbeen called "the most secret bank in the world"Ari Jorish, 2012"The Italian mafia wasfounded by Guiseppe Mazzini, the 33rd Degree Illuminati GrandMaster Mason of the P-2 Lodge. P-2 is close to the Vatican Bankand funded South America's fascist drug-ridden governments ofthe 1970's.... The Vatican's Opus Dei had strong ties to P-2 and Patria yLibertad South American fascist movements. The CIA and P-2 proppedup the narco-terrorist regime of Alberto Fujimori in Peru duringthe 1990s."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""The real value of theCatholic Church is its secret worldwide monetary network headquarteredin a sovereign state and a financial division in the Cayman Islandswith no accountability or fear of criminal prosecution.The Church has roughly 5,000 prelates around the world, each oneappointed by the Pope based on the man's demonstrated loyaltyto the Church above all else, as heads of dioceses. Each one hasthe capacity for hidden bank accounts, investments, slush fundsnamed for some phony charity or foundation. Under the guise of"freedom of religion," most can operate with littleor no governmental oversight. Since money launderers usually geta 5-10% cut, the continued wealth of the Vatican is assured."Betty Clermont in an article "EuropeanPlutocrats Covered Up Vatican Money Laundering""Created in 1942, the Istitutoper le Opere di Religione (IOR), is commonly known as the VaticanBank... The bank remains a sovereign financial agency within asovereign state. It is an entity unto itself, without corporateor ecclesiastical ties to any other agency of the Holy See. Assuch, it cannot be forced to release the source of any deposit.The bank resides under the direct jurisdiction of the pope. Heowns it; he controls it. Swiss guards are stationed to guard theentrance to the bank, and the hermetically sealed bronze doorsopen only to select members of the Roman Curia-the governing bodyof the entire Roman Catholic Church.... Because of its clandestine workings, millions can be depositedinto the IOR on a continuous basis and channeled into numberedSwiss bank accounts without the possibility of detection. It wasthe perfect place for the CIA and the Sicilian Mafia to laundertheir ill-gotten gains of the narcotics trade and for the RomanChurch to fund its political mission. And [according to Moneyvalthe anti-money-laundering committee of the Council of Europe]it remains one of the world's leading laundries for dirty cash."Paul L. William in his book "OperationGladio", 2015"By the end of this decade,we will live under the first One World Government that has everexisted in the society of nations, a government with absoluteauthority to decide the basic issues of survival. One world governmentis inevitable."Pope John Paul II, 1990"The Vatican's secretiveOpus Dei "saintly Mafia" was behind the ascent of PolishCardinal Karol Wojtyla to the Papacy. Wojtyla became Pope JohnPaul II and launched an Opus Dei/ Vatican offensive to roll backLatin American liberation theology movement... During the 1940'she was a chemical salesman for Nazi combine I. G. Farben. Wojtylasold the Nazis the cyanide they used at their Auschwitz deathcamps."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""Operation Condor is thecode name given for intelligence collection on leftists, communistsand Marxists in the Southern Cone Area. It was established betweencooperating intelligence services in South America in order toeliminate Marxist terrorist activities in member countries withChile reportedly being the center of operations. Other participatingmembers include: Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia. Membersshowing the most enthusiasm to date have been Argentina, Uruguayand Chile. ... Operation Condor, a program intended to eradicate Communistgroups and movements throughout South America, got underway inthe early 1970s, when Opus Dei elicited support from Chilean bishopsfor the overthrow of the democratically elected government ofpresident Salvador Allende.... Every phase of the operation, including the purging of theleft-wing clerics, received the tacit approval of the pope (Francis)."US Department of Defense Document,October 1, 1976"The Vatican rules overapproximately 2bn of the worlds 6.2bn people. The colossal wealthof the Vatican includes enormous investments with the Rothschildsin Britain, France, USA, with giant oil & weapons corporationslike Shell & General Electric. The Vatican solid gold bullion,worth billions is stored with the Rothschild controlled Bank ofEngland & the US Federal Reserve Bank.The Catholic Church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulatorand property owner in existence, possessing more material wealththan any bank, corporation, giant trust or government anywhereon the globe.Between 1095-1291 AD the Popes launched 7 blood baths called theChristian Crusades, torturing, murdering, beheading & massmurdering hundreds of thousands of Muslims & Jews in the nameof God. The Pope's brutal solders were called Knights Templaror Knights of the Temple of Solomon & evolved into today'ssecretive brotherhood called the Freemasons.Between 1450-1700 AD the Catholic Church followed up their holyterror with the inquisition. Based on rumours of practicing witchcraft,the Catholic Church hunted down, tortured & burned-alive 10s of 1000 s of innocent women at the stake.During WWII the Vatican was criticized for supporting Hitler &his Nazi regime. To this day, the Vatican is still under investigationfor plundering Nazi gold from the Swiss bank accounts of Jewishholocaust victims."The Hidden Empire: The VaticanCity : The City of London : The District of Columbia http://lightworkersxm.wordpress.com, August 2012"The IOR (Institute forWorks of Religion) - the Vatican Bank is a unique 'off shore'corridor for politicians around the world who want to keep theirmoney away from legal controls.The IOR is like a credit card thatensures privileges to be granted in exchange for political backing,legal provisions and business support."Gianluigi Nuzzi in his book "VaticanoS.p.A.", published January 1, 2009"The real value of theCatholic Church is its secret worldwide monetary network headquarteredin a sovereign state and a financial division in the Cayman Islandswith no accountability or fear of criminal prosecution.The Church has roughly 5,000 prelates around the world - eachone appointed by the Pope based on the man's demonstrated loyaltyto the Church above all else - as heads of dioceses. Each onehas the capacity for hidden bank accounts, investments, slushfunds named for some phony charity or foundation. Under the guiseof "freedom of religion," most can operate with littleor no governmental oversight."Avi Jorisch"Pablo Escobar and otherleading drug lords were encouraged by the CIA to deposit theirearnings in eight firms that had been set up by the Vatican asmoney laundries. By 1978, when John Paul II ascended to the papalthrone, the money coming in to these firms from the Medellin Cartelalone was enormous, since Escobar, at the height of his power,was smuggling fifteen tons of cocaine into the United States everyday. ... The money the money-laundering firms received was wired ortransported by courier, often a cleric, to the central headquartersof Banco Ambrosiano in Milan. From Milan, the money was re-routedto the IOR (Vatican Bank) which charged a processing fee of 15to 20 percent. From Vatican City, the funds were transferred tonumbered bank accounts in Switzerland. ... The funds generated from the cocaine sales were used to sponsorblack operations in South and Central America. A substantial amountof this cash was funneled into the IOR's (Vatican Bank) offshoreshells."Paul L. William in his book "OperationGladio", 2015"Operation Gladio was asecret NATO strategy implemented after WWII that advocated analliance between the mafia, CIA, Vatican and Knights of Malta."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""The Vatican rules overapproximately 2 billion of the world's 6.1 billion people. Thecolossal wealth of the Vatican includes enormous investments withthe Rothschild's in Britain, France, and the USA, and with giantoil and weapons corporations like Shell and General Electric.The Vatican solid gold bullion worth billions, is stored withthe Rothschild controlled Bank of England and the US Federal ReserveBank."Alan Lamont"The Vatican ... is thelargest single organization involved in the illegal movement ofemigrants . . . [and] the justification . . . for its participationin this illegal traffic is simply the propagation of the Faith.It is the Vatican's desire to assist any person, regardless ofnationality or political beliefs, as long as that person can provehimself to be a Catholic." The classified study confirmedthat Nazis and their collaborators were not excluded from theeffort: "[I]n those Latin American countries where the Churchis a controlling or dominating factor, the Vatican has broughtpressure to bear which has resulted in the foreign missions ofthose countries taking an attitude almost favoring the entry intotheir country of former Nazis and former Fascists or other politicalgroups, so long as they are anti-Communist. That, in fact, isthe practice in effect in the Latin American Consulates and Missionsin Rome at the present time."top secret U.S. State Departmentintelligence report of May 1947"The Vatican played a keyrole in the emergence of the cocaine trade in the 1970s by offeringthe drug cartels its money-laundering service in exchange forstiff fees. To initiate this process, the Holy See establisheda chain of shell companies in Panama and the Bahamas that transferreddeposits from the cartels to Banco Ambrosiano and other Italianbanks. From these private and parochial banks, the money flowedto the IOR (the Vatican Bank) and from the IOR to financial firmsin Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein."Paul L. William in his book "OperationGladio", 2015"The Vatican is the world'slargest owner of equities."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""Under pressure from theU.S. Treasury Department, JP Morgan Chase notified the Vaticanon March 16, 2012, that it closed the IOR account in its Milanbranch because the IOR was "unable to respond" to informationabout the provenance of the deposits. JP Morgan had been requestingthe information since 2010.JP Morgan reported ¤1.8 billion ($2,200,000,000) had beendeposited in the last 18 months in the account. At the end ofeach day, the balance was reduced to zero and the contents movedto an IOR account in Frankfurt. According to Spiegel, investigatorssuspected the account was used to launder funds from "dubioussources."Susan Pittman of the U.S. StateDepartment's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement,to Reuters, March 7, 2012"In 1982 Reagan met withPope John Paul II... At the meeting the two agreed to launch aclandestine program to tear Eastern Europe away from the Soviets.Poland, the Pope's country of origin, would be the key. Catholicpriests, the AFL-CIO, the National Endowment for Democracy, theVatican Bank and CIA would all be deployed."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""Early in the 19th centurythe Pope came to the Rothschilds to borrow money... The Rothschildsover time were entrusted with the bulk of the Vatican's wealth."Fritz Springmaier in his book "Bloodlinesof the illuminati""One week after his election,Pope John Paul received a preliminary report on the internal workingsof the Vatican Bank. The bank, which had been formed to further"religious works," was now serving a distinctly secularpurpose. Of the 11,000 accounts within its registry, fewer than1,650 served to further an ecclesiastical cause. The remaining9,350 accounts served as "slush funds" for special friendsof the Vatican ... and leading Sicilian Mafiosi, including theCorleone, Spatola, and Inzerillo families and members of the Camorraof Naples and Milan... Other accounts were held by leading Italianpoliticians and businessmen in service to Operation Gladio; andstill others for the foreign embassies of Iran, Iraq, Indonesia,Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and other countries."Paul L. William in his book "OperationGladio", 2015WALL STREETAMERICA'S FINANCIAL CENTERRULES THE WORLD "The upper spheres of WallStreet overshadow the real economy. The accumulation of largeamounts of money wealth by a handful of Wall Street conglomeratesand their associated hedge funds is reinvested in the acquisitionof real assets. Paper wealth is transformed into the ownershipand control of real productive assets, including industry, services,natural resources and infrastructure."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"No news broadcast is completewithout a summary of the day's events on Wall Street. Yet onlytwo percent of the public owns half of the country's individualstock and bond holdings."Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomonin their book "Unreliable Sources""Wall Street owns the country.It is no longer a government of the people, by the people andfor the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Streetand for Wall Street."populist orator Mary ElizabethLease of Kansas, late 1800s"Because of its dominantposition in Wall Street, the [J. P.] Morgan firm came also todominate other Wall Street powers, such as Carnegie, Whitney,Vanderbilt, Brown-Harriman, or Dillon-Reed. Close alliances weremade with Rockefeller, Mellon, and Duke interests but not nearlyso intimate ones with the great industrial powers like du Pontand Ford. [Because] ... of the great influence of this "WallStreet" alignment, an influence great enough to merit thename of the "American Establishment," this group could... control the Federal government and, in consequence, had toadjust to a good many government actions ... [which they had secretlysupported ]. The chief of these were in taxation law, beginningwith the graduated income tax in 1913, but culminating, aboveall else, in the inheritance tax. These tax laws drove the greatprivate fortunes dominated by Wall Street into tax-exempt foundations,which became a major link in the Establishment network betweenWall Street, the Ivy League, and the Federal government."Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedyand Hope""Plummeting stock prices[in 1929] ruined small investors, but not the top "insiders"on Wall Street. Paul Warburg had issued a tip in March of 1929that the Crash was coming. Before it did, John D. Rockefeller,Bernard Baruch, Joseph P. Kennedy, and other money barons gotout of the market.... Early withdrawal from the market not only preserved the fortunesof these men: it also enabled them to return later and buy upwhole companies for a song. Shares that once sold for a dollarnow cost a nickel. Joseph P. Kennedy's worth reportedly grew from$4 million in 1929 to $100 million in 1935."James Perloff in his book "TheShadows of Power""WaIl Street financed theGerman cartels in the mid-1920s which in turn proceeded to bringHitler to power. The financing for Hitler and his S. S. street thugs came in partfrom affiliates or subsidiaries of U.S. firms, including HenryFord in 1922, payments by I. G. Farben and General Electric in1933, followed by the Standard Oil of New Jersey and I.T.T. subsidiarypayments to Heinrich Himmler up to 1944. U.S. multi-nationals under the control of Wall Street profitedhandsomely from Hitler's military construction program in the1930s and at least until 1942.International bankers used political influence in the U. S. tocover up their wartime collaboration."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and the Rise of Hitler""What the Wall Street bailoutdoes is it takes troubled financial instruments off the balancesheet of the banks and puts them on the balance sheet of the taxpayerat the US Treasury. So it's a bailout of the financial institutionswhose recklessness caused the problem. The money is essentiallybeing poured into the coffers of Washington's financial donorbase."Paul Craig Roberts, 2008"New York and London...have become the world's two biggest laundries of criminal anddrug money, and offshore tax havens. Not the Cayman Islands, notthe Isle of Man or Jersey. The big laundering is right throughthe City of London and Wall Street."Martin Woods, bank money launderinginvestigator, Observer newspaper, 2011"During a period of a fewyears beginning around 2007, several thousand employees of stockbrokers, banks, mortgage companies, insurance companies, credit-ratingagencies, and other financial institutions, mainly in New York,had great fun getting obscenely rich while creating and playingwith pieces of paper known by names like derivatives, collateralizeddebt obligations, index funds, credit default swaps, structuredinvestment vehicles, subprime mortgages, and other exotic terms.The result has been a severe depression, seriously hurting hundredsof millions of lives in the United States and abroad.No employee of any of these companies has seen the inside of aprison cell for playing such games with our happiness."Wiliam Blum"Seven men in Wall Streetnow control a great share of the fundamental industry and resourcesof the United States... These powerful men were themselves answerableto a foreign power which had been steadfastly seeking to extendits control over the young republic of the United States sinceits very inception. This power was the financial power of England,centered in the London Branch of the House of Rothschild. Thefact was that in 1910, the United States was for all practicalpurposes being ruled from England, and so it is today [1911].""The Seven Men" an articleby John Moody - McClure's Magazine, August 1911"[The philosophy of WallStreet financiers was] anything but laissez-faire competition,which was the last system they envisaged. Socialism, communism,fascism or their variants were acceptable. The ideal for thesefinanciers was "cooperation," forced if necessary. Individualismwas out, and competition was immoral... compulsory cooperationwas their golden road to a legal monopoly. Under the guise ofpublic service, social objectives, and assorted do-goodism itis fundamentally "Let society go to work for Wall Street."Antony C. Sutton in his book "WallStreet and FDR""I spent thirty-three yearsin the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle manfor Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, Iwas a racketeer for capitalism."General Smedley Butler, formerUS Marine Corps Commandant, 1935"Three of Wall Street's majorfinancial consortiums, those controlled by the J.P. Morgan, Rothschild,and Rockefeller interests, agreed to split the 1912 Republicanvote by backing former President Teddy Roosevelt against the isolationistincumbent, William Howard Taft. The plan was to help Democraticnominee Woodrow Wilson. The understanding was Wilson would helpcreate a Federal Reserve bank system and an income tax after hiselection, listen to his backers in creating his cabinet, and bemindful of the importance of intervention on behalf of the UnitedKingdom in case of world war with Germany. ... Once in office, Wilson implemented each of the four Wall Streetgoals in ways that resonate through history to the present. Inessence, a Democratic presidential candidate did Wall Street'sbidding through his top aide, Colonel Edward Mandel House.Andrew Kreig"Revolution is always recordedas a spontaneous event by the politically or economically deprivedagainst an autocratic state. Never in Western textbooks will youfind the evidence that revolutions need finance and the sourceof the finance in many cases traces back to Wall Street."Antony Sutton in his book "America'sSecret Establishment", 1983WARKILLING HOPE FOR THE THIRD WORLD"The permanent possibilityof war is the foundation for stable government; it supplies thebasis for general acceptance of political authority. It has enabledsocieties to maintain necessary class distinctions, and it hasensured the subordination of the citizen to the state, by virtueof the residual war powers inherent in the concept of nationhood.No modern political ruling group has successfully controlled itsconstituency after failing to sustain the continuing credibilityof an external threat of war."from "Report from Iron Mountain""The war against a foreigncountry only happens when the moneyed classes think they are goingto profit from it."George Orwell"The Democrats, like theRepublicans, are pledged to an even bigger U.S. military. It'sgood for business, if your business is war or war-related, andit's good for votes - especially the votes, active support, andpolitical contributions of the growing group of Americans whoselivelihoods, and claim to some sort of social status, depend onthe continuation of our foreign policy of perpetual war."Justin Raimondo, 2008"The armed forces haveembedded themselves so deeply into the country that they havealmost become the country. America is little more than a fundingmechanism for what may be called the military-industrial-intelligence-media-Israelicomplex. Some of these entities belong to the military (NSA).Some depend on it (Lockheed-Martin). Some use it to their ownends (Israel), But the military is the central infection fromwhich the other symptoms flow. Congress? A storefront, a subcommitteeof the Knesset. Factories, jobs, contracts, towns depend on militaryspending. "Fred Reed, 2018"The military/industrial/governmentalcomplex is perfectly positioned to profit handsomely from boththe endless war on terror and the privatization of public resources,with nary a complaint from government officials and next to nomeaningful media coverage of the long term ramifications of such'profit centers'."Geraldine Perry, 2009"Since 1945, what you callthe military-industrial complex has been a terribly importantvehicle in American development. It has been the center of whatwe call military Keynesianism. It's the one sector where deficitfinancing was thoroughly permitted, and it was the one sectorunder Reagan that expanded immensely and has never been let goof, in spite of the end of the Cold War."David Harvey, 2009"Retired senior officerswith financial ties to the military-industrial complex teamedup with the Pentagon to sell the case for war on the major newsnetworks. Ultimately, the rottenest apples are at the top of thebarrel, and that's certainly the case in the military. The meninvolved in the military analyst program were, by and large, retiredgenerals, many of them retired four-stars. They were sending Americankids into harm's way to line their own pockets."Jeff Huber, 2009"President Dwight Eisenhowerwarned of the increasing power and influence of the military industrialcomplex and it seems his worst fears have come true. He believedin a strong national defense, but warned that the building upof permanent military and weapons industries could prove dangerousif their influence got out of hand. After all, if you make yourmoney on war, peace does you no good. With trillions of dollarsat stake, there is tremendous incentive to keep the decision makersfearful of every threat in the world, real or imagined, presentor future, no matter how ridiculous and far-fetched."Ron Paul, 2009"An evolving military-industrialcomplex, a partnership of interlocking government and corporatenetworks, has used public wealth to enrich itself. The manufacturingpart of this complex rarely produces anything people live in,wear, or eat - armaments do not meet civilian needs. In fact,there exists a dramatic gulf between a healthy economy and a socialorder based on military spending."Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdes,2010"Washington has a vestedinterest in preserving the status quo, no matter how much it costsor where it leads. For the military-industrial complex, thereare contracts to win and buckets of money to be made. For thosewho dwell in the bowels of the national security state, thereare prerogatives to protect. For elected officials, there arecampaign contributors to satisfy. For appointed officials, civilianand military, there are ambitions to be pursued."Andrew Bacevich, 2010"Because of the enormousdollar potential of the war in Vietnam to the great military-industrialcomplex of the United States and because of other threats to thepower elite, it had become absolutely necessary, for them, tobring about a coup d'etat (JFK assassination) on the streets ofDallas."L. Fletcher Prouty, JFK: The CIA,Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, 1996"The military-industrialcomplex today finances and dominates both political parties, aswell as dominating our international policy."Peter Dale Scott, 2011"President Eisenhower recognizedthat the United States was turning into a military-industrial-congressionaldominated national security state. And the Republicans have cheeredthat transmogrification. They've gained their political powerfrom helping it move in the right direction when it needs to bemoved. The Republican Party leadership live, drink, breath andsleep the military-industrial complex. They love war because itkeeps them in power."Lawrence Wilkerson"The so-called war on terrorhas been a monumental fraud from the very start. The U.S. military-industrialcomplex needs terrorists in order to necessitate neo-colonialexpansion abroad and domestic oppression at home, which is whythe U.S. government does its best to create and sustain them invirtually every corner of the Middle East and North Africa."Paul Joseph Watson, 2014"The ideology that militaryactivities may become a profitable enterprise leads to the realizationthat peace is the main enemy of the military-industrial complex.The military-industrial complex would be put out of business bylasting peaceful conditions because the development, production,marketing and use of military equipment would be not needed."Julie Lévesque, 2014"'Controlled' wars tendto safeguard the fortunes of war profiteers and beneficiariesof military spending - mainly the military-security-industrialcomplex and major banks."Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, 2014"The ability of privatemilitary companies who profit massively from war to finance elections,lobby the government and manipulate public opinion representsa dangerous evolution of the military-industrial complex."Jeremy Kuzmarov, 2014"American leadership isruthlessly pursuing immoral wars all over the world with the intentof creating outside enemies to focus public anger on, as a consciousdiversion away from the criminality happening domestically. Asan added bonus, the intelligence-military-industrial complex makesan incredible sum of money. The end result: serfs are distractedwith inane nationalistic fervor, while the "elites"earn billions."Michael Krieger, 2015"Once the Cold War ended,the ruling class sought enemies to keep their military-industrialcomplex and Wall Street financiers enriched and happy. 9/11 wasused to further that agenda, as the war on terror will never end.Perpetual conflict is a chief goal of the establishment. Bothparties continue to promote war and increase the profits of themilitary-industrial complex."blacklistednews.com, 2015"Continuing small wars(or the threat thereof) are essential for the corporate componentof the military-industrial-congressional complex. These companieshave no alternative means to survive."former Pentagon insider FranklinC. "Chuck" Spinney"The American citizenryhas no say over the military-industrial complex, which is autonomousand out of control. If the Complex wants war with Russia or China,we will have war with Russia or China.The military-industrial complex drives foreign policy, and indirections of no benefit to America or Americans.We are being forced to pay through the nose for endless wars thatdo more to fund the military industrial complex than protect us,pork barrel projects that produce little to nothing, and a policestate that serves only to imprison us within its walls."Fred Reed, 2018"The profits behind thewar industry are what drives the demand for war.Enemies are always needed, and the corporate media will tell ushow evil the new enemy is. If it's not communism it's terrorism.For those who direct the war industry, terrorism is much moreflexible than communism or other so-called enemies.The United States will always be at war because war is so profitable."Christian Sorenson"War is the consumer oflast resort. Wars can burn up excess capacity, shift global markets,generate monopoly rents, and return future labour to a state ofhelplessness and reduced."Cathal Haughian"American leadership isruthlessly pursuing immoral wars all over the world with the intentof creating outside enemies to focus public anger on, as a consciousdiversion away from the criminality happening domestically. Asan added bonus, the intelligence-military-industrial complex makesan incredible sum of money. The end result: serfs are distractedwith inane nationalistic fervor, while the "elites"earn billions."retired U.S. Major General RobertH. Scales"The United States hasbecome the largest single seller of arms and munitions on theplanet."Chris Hedges"I spent thirty-three yearsin the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle manfor Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, Iwas a racketeer for capitalism.I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking houseof Brown Brothers in 1910-1912. I helped make Mexico and especiallyTampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I brought lightto the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916.I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City[Bank] boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of halfa dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.In China in 1927 l helped to see to it that Standard Oil wentits way unmolested.I had a swell racket. l was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions.l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could dowas to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operatedon three continents."General Smedley Butler, formerUS Marine Corps Commandant, 1935"Wealth concentration isonly one aspect of our increasingly kleptocratic system. War profiteeringby corporations is another."William J. Astore"Since the keystone ofthe international banking empires has been government bonds, ithas been in the interest of international bankers to encouragegovernment debt. The higher The debt the more the interest. Nothingdrives government deeply into debt like a war; and it has notbeen an uncommon practice among international bankers to financeboth sides of the bloodiest military conflicts."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""There are factions inmany governments that crave a state of endless war because thatis when power is least constrained and profit most abundant."John Jay"I spent thirty-three yearsand four months in active service in the country's most agilemilitary force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from secondlieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent mostof my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, forWall Street and the bankers. I was a racketeer, a gangster forcapitalism.... I helped make Mexico safe for Americanoil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent placefor the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helpedin the raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for thebenefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. Ihelped purify Nicaragua for the benefit of the banking house ofBrown Brothers and Co. in 1909-1912. I brought light to the DominicanRepublic for the sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras"right" for American fruit companies in 1903. In China,in 1927, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."Major General Medley Butler"The revolving door betweengovernment defense leadership positions and leadership positionsin the defense contracting community has become a fixture of Washingtonlife.... The military defense industry's tendency toward consolidation,especially in the last quarter century, has given a few individualsgreater influence. In 2006, only a dozen or so companies aroundthe world accounted for the majority of international defenserevenues... The leaders of the largest military defense industryfirms emerged as a clique of powerful individuals, each with hisown ties to government.... These leaders play a dominant market role and assumed theresponsibility once held by public institutions for decisionsthat play a role in shaping a nation's defense doctrine. Theyare particularly active a advocates of expensive weapons systemssuch as carrier battle groups, major aircraft, and high-tech spaceweaponry, all of which are both profitable and offer maximum prestigeto service leaders. Real change and reevaluation are resisted."David Rothkopf"Capitalism requires WorldWar because Capitalism requires profit and cannot afford the unemployed."Cathal Haughian"Endless war has ruinedour economy. It benefits a handful of elites, while levying atax on the vast majority of Americans.Congress members - part of the super-elite which has made moneyhand over fist during this economic downturn - are heavily investedin the war industry, and routinely trade on inside informationperhaps even including planned military actions.No wonder the American government is making the state of war permanent,and planning to unleash new, widespread wars in the near future."www.globalresearch.ca"The arbitrary nature ofwar expenditures and of other military activities make them ideallysuited to control the essential class relationships. Obviously,if the war system were to be discarded, new political machinerywould be needed at once to serve this vital subfunction. Untilit is developed, the continuance of the war system must be assured,if for no other reason, among others, than to preserve whateverquality and degree of poverty a society requires as an incentive,as well as to maintain the stability of its internal organizationof power."from "Report from Iron Mountain""Wars are fought to controlstrategic routes, to open markets, and to gain access to naturalresources."George Draffan"Since World War II, 90percent of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians, a thirdof them children. Our victims have done nothing to us. From Palestineto Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia to wherever our next targetmay be, their murders are not collateral damage. They are thenature of modern warfare. They don't hate us because of our freedoms.They hate us because every day, we are funding and committingcrimes against humanity. The so-called 'War on Terror' is a cover for our military aggressionto gain control of the resources for Western nations. This issending the poor of this country to kill the poor of those Muslimcountries. This is trading blood for oil. This is genocide, andto most of the world, we are the terrorists.... Our soldiers don't sacrifice for duty, honor, and country.They sacrifice for Kellogg, Brown, and Root. They don't fightfor America-they fight for their lives and their buddies besidethem because we put them in a war zone. They're not defendingour freedoms-they are laying the foundations for permanent militarybases to defend the freedoms of ExxonMobil and British Petroleum.They're not establishing democracy; they're establishing the basisfor an economic occupation to continue after the military occupationhas ended."Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, in a speech tothe Congressional Progressive Caucus, April 27, 2006"The dangerous patriotis the the one who drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasmfor military actions. He is a defender of militarism and its idealsof war and glory. Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form ofpatriotism, which identifies numerous enemies who can only bedealt with through military power and which equates the nationalhonor with military victory." -American lawyer and U.S. Navy ReserveCommanderJames A. Donovan"As the Founders all recognized,nothing vests elites with power - and profit - more than a stateof war." Glenn Greenwald"Of all the enemies topublic liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, becauseit comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is theparent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies,and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing themany under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionarypower of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing outoffices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied: and all the meansof seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force,of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism maybe traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunitiesof fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracyof manners and of morals, engendered by both. No nation couldpreserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."James Madison"The Rothschilds becameincredibly wealthy during the nineteenth century by financinggovernments to fight each other."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""The war on terrorism isnot only a war against innocent people in other countries, butalso a war on the people of the United States: a war on our liberties,a war on our standard of living. The wealth of the country isbeing stolen from the people and handed over to the superrich.The lives of our young are being stolen. And the thieves are inthe White House."Howard Zinn"The global elite thriveson war and widespread human misery, on death and destruction bydesign."Prof. Mujahid Kamran"An acceptable economicsurrogate for the war system will require the expenditure of resourcesfor completely nonproductive purposes at a level comparable tothat of the military expenditures otherwise demanded by the sizeand complexity of each society... A viable political substitutefor war must posit a generalized external menace to each societyof a nature and degree sufficient to require the organizationand acceptance of political authority... A credible substitutefor war must generate an omnipresent and readily understood fearof personal destruction. This fear must be of a nature and degreesufficient to ensure adherence to societal values to the fullextent that they are acknowledged to transcend the value of individualhuman life."from "Report from Iron Mountain""The CIA manages the highlylucrative international drug smuggling business. Ever since the Iran-Contra Affair of the 1980's when CIA got caughtred-handed running drugs for guns during the Reagan years, andfinancing, arming, and training death squad commandos throughoutCentral America, the US government has always played an integraland active role in covert drug smuggling operations generatingover the decades trillions in drug money revenue laundered throughthe central banking cabal. The CIA controls and manages global drug smuggling from the Afghanpoppy fields to the coca plantations run by Central-South American-Mexicandrug cartels that supply and feed the constant demand for illicitdrugs into both North America as well as Europe. "Joachim Hagopian"The corporate economyand the military are codependent, and the military has becomean integral and permanent part of the global - and especiallythe U.S. - economy."George Draffan"Wars should be directedso that the nations on both sides should be further in our debt."Amschel Mayer Rothschild, 1774"Retired senior military officers typically line up tocash in on the kleptocratic equivalent of welfare, peddling their"expertise" in return for impressive corporate and Pentagonpayouts that supplement their six-figure pensions."William J. Astore"Nations in general willmake war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything byit."John Jay in Federalist No 4"Many countries, includingthe United States and the United Kingdom, are not signatoriesto the 1989 United Nations Mercenary Convention banning the useof mercenaries."www.special-ops.org"For financial or politicalreasons, Empires have always used external militarized cells andmercenaries to commit unsavoury acts under a flag different thanthe monarchy, nation-state, or private corporation who was directingthem behind the scenes.Ruthless and unconventional "asymmetric" enemies arenothing new to the United States."writer Patrick Henningsen"Academi is a most harmless-soundingname, but don't be fooled: The company is actually the infamousBlackwater. The company's history of atrocities runs far and deep.The name "Academi," which has been in use since 2011,marks the second time the company has attempted to whitewash itsname in a "corporate restructuring". Judging by thefact that they have already been forced to admit to at least 17federal criminal charges and pay millions of dollars in fines,it seems it's just a matter of time before they have to come upwith an even less threatening name. Though with their reputationat this point, there probably is no name that could soften theirpublic image."www.listverse.com"Without war, no governmenthas ever been able to obtain acquiescence in its 'legitimacy',or right to rule its society. The possibility of war providesthe sense of external necessity without which no government canlong remain in power."from "Report from Iron Mountain""The U.S. military haswon the ideological war. The nation sees human and social problemsas military problems. To fight terrorists Americans have becometerrorists. Peace is for the weak. War is for the strong. Hypermasculinityhas triumphed over empathy."Chris Hedges"The private military company(PMC) is the contemporary strand of the mercenary trade, providinglogistics, soldiers, military training, and other services. Thus,PMC contractors are civilians (in governmental, international,and civil organizations) authorized to accompany an army to thefield; hence, the term civilian contractor. Nevertheless, PMCsmay use armed force."www.special-ops.org"The US intentionally armedand funded terrorists in the Middle East to create a terroristmercenary army."Tony Cartalucci"One of the more terrifyingprivate militaries is Executive Outcomes. This South African companyhas been sighted in most African war zones, where it is said tohold high influence. Executive Outcomes mercenaries have beenseen in Sierra Leone, Angola, Uganda, Botswana, Zambia, Ethiopia,Namibia, Lesotho and, of course, South Africa. Although they officiallystate their only mission is bringing peace, they have been suspectedof several shady activities ranging from Sierra Leone-based oilcompany shenanigans to diamond dealings with the jewel giant DeBeers.The company is notorious for targeting the client country's mineral-richregions, often regaining and securing control of gold, oil anddiamond regions before paying attention to other matters. Somewhisper they don't always get around to returning these possessionsto the country. Executive Outcomes is said to own gold mines inUganda, oil drilling facilities in Ethiopia and a variety of otherpeacetime business ventures in the other countries it has foughtfor."www.listverse.com"The military functionof the war system serves simply to defend or advance the 'nationalinterest' by means of organized violence. It is often necessaryfor a national military establishment to create a need for itsunique powers... And a healthy military apparatus requires regular'exercise', by whatever rationale seems expedient, to preventits atrophy."from "Report from Iron Mountain""The Romans called thepeople who lived outside the Roman Empire barbarians. In the 4thcentury AD the Roman Army had considerable difficulty in stoppingthese Barbarians from entering the Roman Empire.The Romans were forced to increase the size of their army. Bythe end of the 4th century AD it had grown to 600,000 men. Emperors were forced to recruit slaves, gladiators and criminals.It was also decided to employ barbarian mercenaries. This createdlong-term problems as the barbarians did not always remain loyalto their Roman paymasters.In AD 476, Odoacer, leader of the barbarian mercenaries in theRoman army, overthrew Emperor Romulus Augustulus, and installedhimself as King of Italy. The Roman Empire in the west had cometo an end."www.spartacus-educational.com"In 2006, a U.S. congressionalreport listed a number of private military companies and otherenterprises that have signed contracts to carry out anti-narcoticsoperations and related activities as part of Plan Colombia. DynCorpwas among those contracted by the State Department, while otherssigned contracts with the Defense Department. Other companiesfrom different countries, including Israel, have also signed contractswith the Colombian Defense Ministry to carry out security or militaryactivities."www.special-ops.org"There is something peculiarlyhypocritical about the occasional condemnation of mercenary activityissued by various British Governments over the past quarter ofa century. British governments have always used mercenaries wheneverit suit their interests and indeed continue to do so even now."Anthony Mockler in his book 'TheNew Mercenaries""In February 2002, a British Foreign and Commonwealth Office(FCO) report about private military companies (PMCs) noted thatthe demands of the military service from the UN and internationalcivil organizations might mean that it is cheaper to pay PMCsthan use soldiers. "www.special-ops.org"No war ever fought bythe US military has been about freedom. The only reason an empireever fights wars is to maintain empire.... Every year, the establishment hijacks Memorial Day, IndependenceDay and Veterans Day - not only to audaciously commemorate thewar criminals that send our brothers and sisters off to needlesslydie - but to justify decades of bloodshed and militarism whilepaving the way for decades more.... People don't join the military to be called heroes, or becausethey think they're fighting evil incarnate. Most do so becausethere are no jobs and no hope.... The next time you hear someone say "Support the Troops",ask what they're doing to make sure there will be no more bloodshed,no more body bags and no more war."Abby Martin , 2013"Iraq is a money makingmachine. All you have to do is look around. All the companiesthat work over here are getting rich."Jon Coté worked for militarycontractor Crescent Security"War spending, consideredpragmatically, has been a consistently positive factor in therise of gross national product and of individual productivity...No combination of techniques for controlling employment, production,and consumption has yet been tested that can remotely compareto war in effectiveness. It is, and has been, the essential economicstabilizer of modern societies."from "Report from Iron Mountain""Weapons producers makemoney regardless of whether the Pentagon wins or loses its wars- and making money is their only objective."Gabriel Kolko"The relationship betweenglobalization and militarism should be seen as two sides of thesame coin. On one side, globalization promotes the conditionsthat lead to unrest, inequality, conflict, and, ultimately, war.On the other side, globalization fuels the means to wage war byprotecting and promoting the military industries needed to producesophisticated weaponry. This weaponry, in turn, is used or isthreatened to be used to protect the investments of transnationalcorporations and their shareholders."Steven Staples"Since 1973, 65% of USarms sales have gone to the Middle East."Dean Henderson in his book "BigOil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf""For centuries there hasbeen big money to be made by international bankers in financinggovernments and kings... Like a business, no government can borrowbig money unless that government is willing to surrender to thecreditors some of its sovereignty. Certainly, international bankerswho have loaned hundreds of billions of dollars to governmentsaround the world command considerable influence in the policiesof such governments, but the ultimate advantage that the creditorhas over a king or a President is that if the ruler gets out ofline, the banker can finance his enemy or his rival. Therefore,if you want to stay in the lucrative financing business of kingsand governments, it is wise to have an enemy or a rival waitingin the wings to unseat every king, or every President, to whomyou lend money. If the king doesn't have an enemy, you have tobe able to create one."Louis Farrakhan, 1995"The war against a foreigncountry only happens when the moneyed classes think they are goingto profit from it."George Orwell"Since World War II, 90percent of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians, a thirdof them children. Our victims have done nothing to us. From Palestineto Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia to wherever our next targetmay be, their murders are not collateral damage. They are thenature of modern warfare. They don't hate us because of our freedoms.They hate us because every day, we are funding and committingcrimes against humanity. The so-called 'War on Terror' is a cover for our military aggressionto gain control of the resources for Western nations. This issending the poor of this country to kill the poor of those Muslimcountries. This is trading blood for oil. This is genocide, andto most of the world, we are the terrorists.... Our soldiers don't sacrifice for duty, honor, and country.They sacrifice for Kellogg, Brown, and Root. They don't fightfor America-they fight for their lives and their buddies besidethem because we put them in a war zone. They're not defendingour freedoms-they are laying the foundations for permanent militarybases to defend the freedoms of ExxonMobil and British Petroleum.They're not establishing democracy; they're establishing the basisfor an economic occupation to continue after the military occupationhas ended."Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, in a speech tothe Congressional Progressive Caucus, April 27, 2006"The conjunction of animmense military establishment and a large arms industry is newin the American experience. The total influence - economic, political,even spiritual - is felt in every city, every state house, andevery office of the federal government."President Dwight Eisenhower inhis farewell address"The America of wealthand privilege is hooked on war, without regular and ever-strongerdoses of war it can no longer function properly, that is, yieldthe desired profits. The President has already pointed his fingerat those whose turn will soon come, namely, the "axis ofevil" countries: Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, North Korea,and of course that old thorn in the side of America, Cuba. Welcometo the 21st century. Welcome to the brave new era of permanentwar."Jacques R. Pauwels, 2003"What the lobbyists forthe military-industrial complex and their allies must do to makethe case for a huge peacetime military is to find wars to fightabroad even when they make no sense."Robert Scheer - The Pornographyof Power"War is largely a matterof money. Bankers lend money to foreign countries and when theycannot repay, the President sends Marines to get it."General Smedley Butler, 1931"Two classes benefit bywar - The militarists and the moneylenders... The cause of militarismis never patriotism, it is usually commercialism. The warmongersurging military preparedness in America are Wall Street bankers."Henry Ford, 1915WORLD GOVERNMENTPOLITICAL SUPREMACY OF THEPLUTOCRACY"The master plannersdevised the strategy of a merger - a Great Merger - among nations.But before such a merger can be consummated, and the United Statesbecomes just another province in a New World Order, there mustat least be the semblance of parity among the senior partnersin the deal. How does one make the nations of the world more nearlyequal? The Insiders determined that a two-prong approach was needed;use American money and know-how to build up your competitors,while at the same time use every devious strategy you can deviseto weaken and impoverish this country. The goal is not to bankruptthe United States. Rather, it is to reduce our productive might,and therefore our standard of living, to the meager subsistencelevel of the socialized nations of the world.The plan is not to bring the standard of living in less developedcountries up to our level, but to bring ours down to meet theirscoming up... It is your standard of living which must be sacrificedon the altar of the New World Order."Gary Allen in his book "TheRockefeller File""There is a transnationalruling class, a "Superclass", that agrees on establishinga world government. The middle class is targeted for elimination,because most of the world has no middle class, and to fully integrateand internationalize a middle class, would require industrializationand development in Africa, and certain places in Asia and LatinAmerica. The goal of the Superclass is not to lose their wealthand power to a transnational middle class, but rather to extinguishthe notion of a middle class, and transnationalize a lower, uneducated,labor oriented class, through which they will secure ultimatewealth and power.The global economic crisis serves these ends, as whatever remainingwealth the middle class holds is in the process of being eliminated,and as the crisis progresses, the middle classes of the worldwill suffer, while a great percentage of lower classes of theworld, poverty-stricken even prior to the crisis, will sufferthe greatest, most probably leading to a massive reduction inpopulation levels, particularly in the "underdeveloped"or "Third World" states."Andrew Gavin Marshall"What the Bilderberg Groupintends is a global army at the disposal of the United Nations,which is to become the world government to which all nations willbe subservient.... A UN army must be able to act immediately, anywhere in theworld, without the delay involved in each country making its owndecision whether to participate, based on parochial considerations?"Henry Kissinger at a Bilderbergmeeting, Spotlight Reprint, August 1991"A scientific world societycannot be stable unless there is world government .... It willbe necessary to find ways of preventing an increase in world population.If this is to be done otherwise than by wars, pestilences andfamines, it will demand a powerful international authority. Thisauthority should deal out the world's food to the various nationsin proportion to their population at the time of the establishmentsof the authority. If any nation subsequently increased its population,it should not on that account receive any more food. The motivefor not increasing population would therefore be very compelling."Bertrand Russell, British mathematician,philosopher, social critic"This Revolution we contemplatecan be defined in a very few words - It is outright world socialism;scientifically planned and directed... The term 'Internationalism'has been popularized in recent years to cover an interlockingfinancial, political, and economic world force for the purposeof establishing a World Government."British writer HG Wells (1866-1946)"A small group of dominantmen have been able to secure control of local, national, continental,and even global policy. Though the power of this network is notcomplete, they are moving inexorably in that direction. Withoutincreased awareness (and resistance), their unelected and unaccountableglobal state will become a reality. And though the illusion ofnational sovereignty might be maintained, the freedom of the world'scitizens will be controlled within very narrow alternatives."Joseph Plummer"The Rockefellers and theirallies have, for at least fifty years, been carefully followinga plan to use their economic power to gain political control offirst America, and then the rest of the world. Do I mean conspiracy?Yes, I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, internationalin scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil inintent."Congressman Larry P. McDonald,former Chairman of The John Birch Society, 1975"We are on the verge ofglobal transformation. All we need is the right major crisis andthe nations will accept the New World Order."David Rockefeller's statement tothe United Nations Business Council, 1994"The World Order programfor the future, as drawn up by the foundations, is as follows: Smallwars from 1985 to 1990. Global war from 1990-2000. The gradualannihilation of the populations of the United States, Canada andWestern Europe. The reduction of world population from the present4.85 billion to 1 billion, the number it had attained in 1800,solving the disastrous pollution of air and water and the exhaustionof natural resources."Eustace Mullins, "The WorldOrder", 1985"Ever since the days ofHenry Ford, the Economic Elite have needed a thriving US middleclass to increase growth and profits, but now, in the global economy,they view the US middle class as obsolete. They increasingly lookglobally for profits and they would rather pay cheap labor incountries like China and India."David DeGraw"All countries are basicallysocial arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances.No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any onetime, in fact they are all artificial and temporary. Through theages, there has been an overall trend toward larger units claimingsovereignty and, paradoxically, a gradual diminution of how muchtrue sovereignty any one country actually has... Nationhood aswe know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single,global authority."Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretaryof State in the Clinton administration"Government debt pavesthe way for government control. Consider: Debt leads to taxationto pay interest. Taxation leads to more economic control overthe people by the same government that ran up the debt in thefirst place. It's hardly extreme to conclude that escalating debtis part of a plan, such as a plan to establish a new world order."John F. McManus"The New World Order isa world that has supranational authority to regulate the worldcommerce and industry.; an international organization that wouldcontrol the production and consumption of oil; an internationalcurrency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fundthat would make funds available to free and Communist nationsalike; and an international police force to enforce the edictsof the New World Order."former German Chancellor WillyBrandt"The Rockefellers learnednearly a century ago that there are two standard ways for oneof their companies to absorb another corporation. If the firmto be acquired is much smaller, a "takeover" is thesimplest procedure. But if the competitor is more your equal,a "merger" must be arranged.... Recognizing this political fact of life the master plannersdevised the strategy of a merger - a Great Merger- among nations.But before such a merger can be consummated, and the United Statesbecomes just another province in a New World Order, there mustat least be the semblance of parity among the senior partnersin the deal. How does one make the nations of the world more nearlyequal? The Insiders determined that a two-prong approach was needed;use American money and know-how to build up your competitors,while at the same time use every devious strategy you can deviseto weaken and impoverish this country. The goal is not to bankruptthe United States. Rather, it is to reduce our productive might,and therefore our standard of living, to the meager subsistencelevel of the socialized nations of the world.Only a fascist-socialist dictatorship would have the power toaccomplish such a "redistribution." Notice that theplan is not to bring the standard of living in less developedcountries up to our level, but to bring ours down to meet theirscoming up.You may be assured, however, that the Rockefellers and their alliesare not talking about reducing their own quality of life. It isyour standard of living which must be sacrificed on the altarof the New World Order.The Rockefeller game plan is to use population, energy, food,and financial controls as a method of people control which willlead, steadily and deliberately, into the Great Merger."Gary Allen in his book "TheRockefeller File""Under the New World Order,the demarcation between "organized capital" and "organizedcrime" is blurred. The restructuring of global trade andfinance tends to favor the concurrent "globalization"of the criminal economy, which is intricately tied into the corporateestablishment. In turn, the state apparatus is criminalized."Michel Chossudovsky in his book" America's War on Terrorism""The society of expertswill control propaganda and education. It will teach loyalty tothe world government, and make nationalism high treason. The government,being an oligarchy, will instill submissiveness into the greatbulk of the population It is possible that it may invent ingeniousways of concealing its own power, leaving the forms of democracyintact, and allowing the plutocrats or politicians to imaginethat they are cleverly controlling these forms whatever the outwardforms may be, all real power will come to be concentrated in thehands of those who understand the art of scientific manipulation."Bertrand Russell"People, governments andeconomies of all nations must serve the needs of multinationalbanks and corporations."Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his book"Technotronic Era""Some dilution or levelingoff of the sovereignty system as it prevails in the world todaymust take place to the immediate disadvantage of those nationswhich now possess the preponderance of power... The establishmentof a common money... would deprive our government of exclusivecontrol over a national money... The United States must be preparedto make sacrifices afterward in setting up a world politico-economicorder which would level off inequalities of economic opportunitywith respect to nations."John Foster Dulles, 1939"Panics and financial depressionswould ultimately result in World Government, a new order of oneworld government."Amschel Mayer Rothschild, 1774"A threat confronts liberaldemocracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, itinvolves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directedsociety. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claimto political power would rest on allegedly superior scientificknow-how. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberalvalues, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its politicalends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing publicbehavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control.Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality,and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidencewould be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation ofthe United States into a highly controlled society.Zbigniew Brzezinski in his 1970book "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the TechnetronicEra""The global financial eliteswho wish to set up their world dictatorship recognize their mainenemy to be the great middle class of the United States, which,being made up of individuals who have acquired a little education,property, and independence, will fight strenuously to keep them.The strategy of the elites is to squeeze the middle class to deathby creating or exacerbating the major problems facing the society,including class warfare, crime, education, moral decay, etc.,and then creating in response spurious governmental programs to"cure" the problems that they just created."W. Cleon Skousen in his book "TheNaked Capitalist", 1970 - a review of Carroll Quigley's 1966book "Tragedy and Hope""In the US, Canada andGreat Britain, and also in most countries of the European Union,the legal fabric of society has been overhauled. Based on therepeal of the Rule of Law, the foundations of an authoritarianstate apparatus have emerged with little or no organized oppositionfrom the mainstay of civil society."Michel Chossudovsky in his book" America's War on Terrorism""The World Trade Organizationis the third pillar of the New World Order, along with the UnitedNations and the International Monetary Fund."a description of the World TradeOrganization (WTO) in a full-page ad in the New York Times"Behind the veil of legitimacyand humanitarian concerns can be found the same powerful peopleand organizations such as the Open Society Institute of GeorgeSoros, the Ford Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace,the National Endowment for Democracy and many more, financingand using a maze of well known NGO's such as Human Rights Watch,Amnesty International, the International Crisis Group, etc., aswell as more obscure entities.With the help of these various groups it is possible not onlyto shape but to create the news, the agenda and public opinionto further aims which are, in short, the control of the world,its natural resources and the furtherance of the uniform idealof a perfect world polity made in America."Gilles d'Aymery, 2001"The middle class is targetedfor elimination because most of the world has no middle class,and to fully integrate and internationalize a middle class, thiswould require industrialization and development in places suchas Africa, and certain places in Asia and Latin America, and wouldrepresent a massive threat to the Superclass, as it would be avalve through which much of their wealth and power would escapethem. Their goal is not to lose their wealth and power to a transnationalmiddle class, but rather to extinguish the notion of a middleclass, and transnationalize a lower, uneducated, labor orientedclass, through which they will secure ultimate wealth and power."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"The standard of livingof the average American has to decline .... I don't think youcan escape that."former Federal Reserve ChairmanPaul Volcker, 1979"The end goal is to geteverybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankersand the elite people control the world'."Nick Rockefeller to his friendproducer Aaron Russo"Whatever remaining wealththe middle class holds is in the process of being eliminated bythe economic crisis and as the crisis progresses, the middle classesof the world will suffer, while a great percentage of lower classesof the world, poverty-stricken even prior to the crisis, willsuffer the greatest, most probably leading to a massive reductionin population levels, particularly in the "underdeveloped"or "Third World" states."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"The Western military andsecurity apparatus endorses and supports dominant economic andfinancial interests - i.e. the build-up, as well as the exercise,of military might enforces "free trade... NATO coordinatesits military operations with the World Bank and the IMF's policyinterventions, and vice versa. Consistently, the security anddefense bodies of the Western military alliance, together withthe various civilian governmental and intergovernmental bureaucracies(e.g. IMF, World Bank, WTO) share a common understanding, ideologicalconsensus and commitment to the New World Order."Michel Chossudovsky in his book"The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order""The British Empire wasbuilt by colonizing other countries, seizing their natural resources,and shipping them to England to feed the British industrialists'factories. In the wake of the "red coats" invasions,local cultures were often trampled and replaced by a "moreprogressive" British way of life.The Wall Street-dominated NWO Empire is being built by colonizingother countries with foreign loans or investments. When the fishis firmly on the hook, the NWO financial terrorists pull the plug,leaving the unsuspecting victim high and dry. And begging to berescued. In comes the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Its bailoutrecipes - privatization, trade liberalization and other austerityreforms - amount to seizing the target countries' natural andother resources, and turning them over to the NWO elites justas surely as the British Empire did by using cruder methods."Bob Djurdjevic writing in the paleoconservativejournal Chronicles, 1998"This new and completeRevolution we contemplate can be defined in a very few words.It is outright world socialism; scientifically planned and directed...The term 'Internationalism' has been popularized in recent yearsto cover an interlocking financial, political, and economic worldforce for the purpose of establishing a World Government."author HG Wells"We have before us theopportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generationsa New World Order. A world where the rule of law, not the lawof the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful,and we will be, we have a real chance at this New World Order.An order in which a credible United Nations can use its peace-keepingrole to fulfil the promise and vision of the UN's founders."President George H. Bush, 1990"The warfare being wagedby the members of the World Order against the peoples and institutionsof every nation has now reached the point of critical mass. Theirdetermination to gradually weaken and destroy all the institutionsof all societies, governments, and religions, in order to wreaktheir will on the helpless peoples of the world, is meeting moreand more opposition. At the same time, because of the common goalsand close interlocking of its principal agents, the foundations,the members of the World Order incur increasing danger of beingrecognized and exposed."Eustace Mullins, "The WorldOrder", 1985"All the New World Orderis, is powerful offshore corporations and banks that combine forcesto bring in tyranny on a society-wide basis. All the New WorldOrder is, is private corporations paying off your government tosign treaties with them, granting them government power to createmonopolies and cartels, to control the free market and society."Alex Jones, 2010"It is one of the leastunderstood realities of modem history that many of America's mostprominent political and financial figures - then as now - havebeen willing to sacrifice the best interests of the United Statesin order to further their goal of creating a one-world government.The strategy has remained unchanged since the formation of CecilRhodes' society and its offspring, the Round Table Groups. Itis to merge the English-speaking nations into a single politicalentity, while at the same time creating similar groupings forother geopolitical regions. After this is accomplished, all ofthese groupings are to be amalgamated into a global government,the so-called Parliament of Man."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island""If you wanted to controlthe nation's manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportationand natural resources, you would need only to control the apex,the power pinnacle, of an all-powerful socialist government. Thenyou would have a monopoly and could squeeze out all your competitors.If you wanted a national monopoly, you must control a nationalsocialist government. If you want a worldwide monopoly, you mustcontrol a world socialist government. That is what the game is all about. "Communism" is nota movement of the downtrodden masses but is a movement created,manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order togain control over the world ... first by establishing socialistgovernments in the various nations and then consolidating themall through a "Great Merger," into an all-powerful world,socialist super-state."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""We shall have WorldGovernment, whether or not we like it. The only question is whetherWorld Government will be achieved by conquest or consent."international banker James Warburgtestifying before the United States Senate on Feb. 7, 1950"Monopoly capitalismis impossible unless you have a government with the power to stranglewould-be competitors.The easiest way to control or eliminate competitors is not tobest them in the marketplace, but to use the power of governmentto exclude them from the marketplace. If you wish to control commerce,banking, transportation, and natural resources on a national level,you must control! the federal government. If you and your cliquewish to establish worldwide monopolies, you must control WorldGovernment."Gary Allen in his book "TheRockefeller File""Without controlled conflictthis New World Order will not come about... The Internationalbankers backed the Nazis, the Soviet Union, North Korea, NorthVietnam against the United States. The "conflict" builtprofits while pushing the world ever closer to One World Government.The process continues today."Antony Sutton in his book "America'sSecret Establishment", 1983"The name of the game isthe creation of world banks, regional currencies, multinationaltrusts, giant foundations, land expropriations, and massive transfersof natural resources - the cartelization of the world's naturalresources - which will ultimately evolve into transfers of nationalsovereignty."Larry Abraham with Franklin Sandersin their book "The Greening: The Environmentalists' Drivefor Global Power""The technetronic erainvolves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society.Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained bytraditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almostcontinuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-datecomplete files containing even the most personal information aboutthe citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrievalby the authorities."Zbigniew Brzezinski in his 1970book "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the TechnetronicEra"The global financialelite of the Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations are makingthe plans [for a one world government]. The real name of the gameis 1984. We will have systematic population reduction, forcedsterilization or anything else which the planners deem necessaryto establish absolute control in their humanitarian utopia. Butto enforce these plans, you must have an all-powerful world government.You can't do this if individual nations have sovereignty. Andbefore you can facilitate the Great Merger, you must first centralizecontrol within each nation, destroy the local police and removethe guns from the hands of the citizenry. You must replace ouronce free Constitutional Republic with an all-powerful centralgovernment."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""There is a largely unrecordedhistory and it tells a story quite different than our sanitizedtextbooks. It tells a story of the deliberate creation of war,the knowing finance of revolution to change governments, and theuse of conflict to create a New World Order."Antony Sutton in his book "America'sSecret Establishment", 1983"Just as our banks andcorporations have plundered the Third World with rapacious delightover the past three decades, now they will be able to do the sameto the populations of the rich nations themselves. The state willtransform, as it did in the 'Third World', into a typically totalitarianinstitution which is responsible for protecting the super-richand controlling, oppressing, or, in extreme cases of resistance,eliminating the 'problem populations' (i.e., the people)."Jurriaan Maessen, Global Research"The next step is the GreatMerger of all nations of the world into a dictatorial world government.This was the main reason behind the push to bring Red China intothe United Nations. If you want to control the natural resources,transportation, commerce and banking for the whole world, youmust put everybody under the same roof."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""The master planners devisedthe strategy of a merger - a Great Merger - amon"The future of the global political economy is one of increasingmoves toward a global system of governance, or a world government,with a world central bank and global currency.... What we are witnessing is the creation of a New World Order,composed of a totalitarian global government structure.... The very concept of a global currency and global central bankis authoritarian in its very nature, as it removes any vestigesof oversight and accountability away from the people of the world,toward a small, increasingly interconnected group of internationalelites."Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research"With the exception ofthe U.S.S.R. as a federate-Eurasian state, all other continentswill become united in a world alliance, at whose disposal willbe an international police force. All armies will be abolished,and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nationswill build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated unionof all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Courtof Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents."David Ben-Gurion"Through the Roosevelt,Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations its ideology isconstant: That the best way to fight Communism is by a One WorldSocialist state governed by "experts" like themselves.The result has been policies which favor the growth of the superstate,gradual surrender of United States sovereignty to the United Nationsand a steady retreat in the face of Communist aggression."Kermit Roosevelt, 1961"Every step the UnitedStates takes toward political and economic entanglements withthe rest of the world is a step toward realization of the endobjective of Communism: creating a one-world socialist politicaland economic system in which we will be one of the subjugatedprovinces.... If the world government included the despotic, oligarchic,militaristic, feudalistic, and primitive systems of Asia, theMiddle East, Africa, and Latin America, it would necessarily becomethe bloodiest and most oppressive tyranny the world has ever known."Dan Smoot in his book "TheInvisible Government""The drive of the Rockefellersand their allies is to create a one-world government combiningsuper capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all undertheir control. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convincedthere is such a plot, international in scope, generations oldin planning, and incredibly evil in intent."Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald,1976"If you wish to establishnational monopolies, you must control national governments. Ifyou wish to establish international monopolies or cartels, youmust control a world government."Gary Allen in his book "NoneDare Call It Conspiracy""A purpose of the BrettonWoods system is to create a world government ruled by the bankingelites, using the United Nations as the core of a political structureand the IMF as the world central bank.... The [global banking] elites understand that they will neverbe able to consolidate and hold their power by means of a gradualistprogram unless and until they are able to make the IMF the soleissuer of the world's only important currency [the dollar]."G. Edward Griffin in his book"The Creature from Jekyll Island""Regionalization is inkeeping with the tri-lateral plan which calls for a gradual convergenceof East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of 'one worldgovernment'. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept."Zbigniew Brzezinski"George Bush has been surroundinghimself with people who believe in one-world government. Theybelieve that the Soviet system and the American system are converging,"and the manner in which they would accomplish that was throughthe United Nations."David Funderburk, a former U.S.Ambassador to Romania, 1991"A radical alternativescheme for the next century would be the creation of a commoncurrency for all the industrial democracies, with a common monetarypolicy and a joint Bank of Issue to determine that monetary policy... How can independent states accomplish that? They need to turnover the determination of monetary policy to a supranational body."Richard Cooper, Harvard professorand Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member, in Foreign Affairs,1984"The world is ... preparedto march towards a world government. The supra national sovereigntyof an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferableto the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."David Rockefeller at the June 1991Bilderberg meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany"The organized intellectualpowers of the West - the principle think tanks and banking interests- have sought to create a perfect global system of governance,one in which power does not sway from nation to nation, or Westto East, but rather that power is centralized globally... it isthrough crises - economic, political, and social - that this processof global governance can be rapidly accelerated."Andrew Gavin Marshall"The big question is whyhasn't government and the Fed tried to solve the economic situation[in the United States]? The answer is they have no intention ofdoing so, because they want the public on their knees economicallyand financially so they can impose World Government."Bob Chapman"The network of world financiersare not pro-Communist. Their motivation is profit and power. Theyare now working to bring both Russia and the United States intoa world government which they expect to control. War and threatsof war are tools to prod the masses toward the acceptance of thatgoal. It is essential, therefore, that the United States and theindustrialized nations of world have credible enemies."G. Edward Griffin in his book "TheCreature from Jekyll Island", 1994"The entities who now controlthe wealth and power will accumulate even more wealth and power.A new global reserve currency will emerge and a global centralbank will be the global governing authority where the heads ofstate report to a group of central bankers and their anonymousshareholders who control the money, power and politicians on aglobal scale."Craig Harris, 2008"The two aims of the Partyare to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguishonce and for all the possibility of independent thought.The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone elsewas their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, allthe factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them theycould throw him into prison, or they could take his job away andstarve him to death."George Orwell in his book "1984"PREPARE FOR A PLUTOCRAT-CONTROLLED NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC ORDER AND GLOBAL AUTHORITARIANISM Things are moving rapidly. Inequalityin America is extreme. Authoritarianism is increasing. Beforewe realize it, America's democratic experiment will have endedin failure, and possibly chaos. Societies with extreme inequalityhave always come to ignoble ends. The question is whether Americawill end with a whimper, or with a bang.American hubris has resulted in global economic chaos and strategicconfrontation. We are no longer the only superpower. Both Russiaand China, once great empires, want a second chance at globalprosperity and respect. As the U.S. is forced by circumstancesto abandon its role as the sole global policeman and economicpowerhouse, others are ready to take its place. But, dying empiresare known to flail about and fight viciously to preserve theirformer hegemony. And, it looks like the United States will notgo quietly into the night.U. S. power was at its peak following World War II. America ruledthe globe economically and militarily. It's influence was ubiquitousand its soft power seemingly unlimited. But, arrogance and greedhave turned the United States into a pariah. We are feared forour power, but no longer respected for our institutions. Inequality,injustice, corruption, and our projection of violence, have turnedmuch of the world against us.Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century, the UnitedStates rhetorically lauded the benefits of democracy, while underminingdemocratically-elected governments everywhere. U.S.-sponsoredcoups and "color revolutions" dressed-up as spontaneouspopular uprisings, have shown that democratic governments arenot well-suited to withstand 21st century 'realpolitik'.Developing countries, which once looked to the United States asa model for political and economic development, are re-evaluatingwhether democracy is their best political choice. As the economicand political might of Russia and China grow, so does their influence.And, as the United States repeatedlydemonstrates how easily it can manipulate elections and exploitpopular unrest, while hypocritically preaching about democracy,developing countries may conclude that authoritarian governmentmay be their best survival option.The result: democracy will be left in the dustbin of history.On the economic front, a new feudalism is emerging. As work ismade contingent and part-time, employee benefits are cut, operationsare moved offshore, unemployment increases, well-paying manufacturingjobs become minimum-wage service jobs, family debt grows, inequalityincreases and opportunities disappear, the United States is beginningto look more like a mal-developed country in the global South,than an economic giant, while American workers, once the envyof the world, struggle to compete with workers in the third world.21st century neoliberal capitalism is producing chaos, globally.Unabashed greed, absence of effective regulation of business activity,and the growth of global casino capitalism have caused untolddamage. Austerity, privatization, extreme financial risk-taking,endemic fraud and market manipulation have combined to producea perfect economic storm. Regulators have stopped regulating,plutocrats continue to accumulate wealth, and politicians grabwhat they can. Nobody trusts anybody, banks won't lend, unemploymentis high and rising, personal debt is staggering, and hardshipand immiseration are growing, while the .01% spends with abandonand economic inequality has achieved heights not seen since theGilded Age of the late 19th century.Business and political elites have shown a willingness to undermineand severely damage their own country's economy, in order to weakena populist government that refuses to support neoliberal economicpolicies that enrich the wealthy. As the economy is covertly sabotaged,the population, unaware that the source of their misery is thebusiness elite, blame the populist leaders, and remove them fromoffice. The result is that neoliberal governments replace populistgovernments, anti-worker policies are adopted and accelerated,the elites grow richer, and the working class suffers even more.In Asia, China's growing economic power is transforming globalfinance. The Chinese yuan may soon take its place as an internationalreserve currency, joining the dollar - or even replacing it. Theglobal impact of the dollar's reserve currency displacement wouldbe enormous.Banks have started restricting cash withdrawals. It is now difficultto take out more than a few thousand dollars in cash from somebanks. Soon it may be nearly impossible to withdraw cash frombank accounts.Some countries are considering becoming cashless societies, wheremoney will no longer be accepted and all monetary transactionswill be digital. The result will be the end of financial privacy.Governments will then have total control over the economic livesof their citizens.In the new "normal" financial environment, banks willprosper by taxing the deposits of savers (rather than paying intereston deposits) or by taking some of the savings of their customers(bail-ins) as needed to enhance their balance sheets.As the economic noose tightens, political turmoil, popular unrestand even global conflict may result.Kleptocratic elites, in concert with corrupt political and businessleaders, will not be the solution to the probem - they will bethe problem.Every person will have to fend for himself or herself, and fortheir loved ones, in a more chaotic, less fair, less democratic,more authoritarian world.The time to prepare is now.